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Atmosphere Press: The Write Atmosphere - A Podcast for Writers
This weekly show brings you behind the scenes of publishing
R.J.
Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series
Submit 24-36 pages of poetry to win publication and 100 copies
Gatekeeper Press: Independent Publishing Without Compromise
Gatekeeper Press is a full-service, independent publishing company
The Tell by Linda I. Meyers
The Tell won the Grand Prize in the 2024 North Street Book Prize competition
Subscriber News: June 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Write More Than One Book—Your Current Draft Will Thank You
Managing Editor’s blog: Refocus your manuscript by saving some material for other projects
Sontag Mag
Online literary journal of original and translated poetry
Knees
By E. Laura Golberg
CraveBooks: Author Marketing Tools You Need To Succeed
The world of book marketing
Subscriber News: May 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Stone Butch Blues
By Leslie Feinberg
The Best of Michael Swanwick
By Michael Swanwick
State of Grass
By Janet MacFadyen
Enter Ghost
By Isabella Hammad
Cheryl J. Fish
Cheryl J. Fish, PhD, critiques works of poetry and prose. Raised in Flushing, NY, she is a poet, fiction writer, and environmental justice scholar. Her recent books of poetry include Crater & Tower , on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of…
Invisible Histories
Archive and educational resources about queer history in the Deep South
Marketing Basics on a Budget: An Interview with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter
Managing Editor’s blog: Indie authors often assume that marketing will cost an arm and a leg. Or they’re embarrassed to promote themselves at all. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter, shares advice for bold and effective marketing on a budget.
D.T. Christensen and Serrina Zou Win the 22nd Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
D.T. Christensen of Stow, Massachusetts won the Tom Howard Prize of $3,500 for a poem in any style or genre, for “Shoulder Season” . Serrina Zou of New York City won the Margaret Reid Prize of $3,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style, for “Ars Poetica”…
D.T. Christensen and Serrina Zou Win the 22nd Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Sponsored by Winning Writers
Winning Writers awarded $10,000 in prizes for poems in any style and poems that rhyme or have a traditional style
Raised Ranch by Lauren Singer
The debut poetry collection by Lauren Singer, published by Game Over Books
Press Pause Press Presents The Beautiful Pause Prize
The Beautiful Pause Prize is a yearly prize of $1,000 and the print publication of a full-length poetry manuscript
Nadia Colburn, Founder of Align Your Story School
Write your best work and use the power of literature for transformative, compassionate change—individually and collectively
The Autism Parent Memoir I’d Love to Read
Managing Editor’s blog: Best practices for writing about your neurodivergent child
The Faller by Michael Demaray
Winner of the 2024 North Street Book Prize for Literary Fiction
nighthawks
By Tobey Kaplan
Subscriber News: April 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Tertulia
Simple, affordable tool for building an author website
Michelle Mae
Book Covers, Marketing, and Authenticity: An Interview with Laura Duffy of Laura Duffy Design
A handsome book cover that’s right for your genre can increase sales by a factor of two or more. But does working with a professional designer have to feel like a trust fall? Designer Laura Duffy doesn’t think so.
Exits by Stephen C. Pollock
Exits won First Prize for Poetry in the 2024 North Street competition
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2025
The best contemporary writing from around the web
Subscriber News: March 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Sonnet in Triptych
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A Catalogue of Hurricanes
I’m Done with Birds
After a week away to bury my mother, we found robins nesting above our front door. Was this a cosmic joke, one mother laid to rest, a new mother bivouacking on the porch? But what to do, move future chirps to a nearby spruce, toss out five beating hearts? In…
My Mother Used Her Kohl’s Cash to Buy Her Husband’s Urn
What I remember most from the nights is how they were the same as his mornings. What I remember most from his mornings is that they were still coming. There is no remembrance without pain. Pain from either the wish of re-living it or the memory itself. Sometimes when I…
Ars Poetica
Illustration by Rowan Fridley after Chris Colfer / after Chelsea Dingman / after Rachel Mennies Dear Poem—witness yourself: a crumpled tissue knotted with tear stains dipped in ink. In my dreams, I threw a penny in the only wishing well for miles & you returned, swimming with liquid moons. You…
Shoulder Season
Illustration by Helen Bar-Lev Who are we to decide when traffic to the orchard should peak? Or how to name the first apple that falls and smashes into seconds, into a thing half-wrecked, swelling worthy of cider or apple butter, the ritual my great grandmother presented with her hands until…
Sestina (A Ghost Story)
It's been a while since I've been up to the lake, but I remember well how its surface can look so different, murky-dark or green-slate glass. Its stillness is deceptive unless you stare a while. Then you'll see how much rises up, the signs beneath the surface, minnows, rings of…
Daily Life in Gaza
Only makeshift tents and broken pieces of ground to rest upon. No tombstones. When the rains continue all winter and then stop, sewers still spill over coughing children, who can only mimic play try to sell homemade foods for pocket change. All land crossings closed border gates never entered— not…
Trifecta of Sonnets, New Year’s Day
“We cannot know his legendary head…” —Rilke i. Heaven grays, the river storms. A buck, sculling at the center crest of dusk— his rack, a nest of silver twigs— slashes river-green from river-black. He carves upstream. His wake, a froth of yellow lace. I feel his lease on time, this…
Entering the Mine
In 1923 Diego Rivera began painting 124 frescoes on three floors of the Ministry of Education building in Mexico City. These murals reflect the Mexican people at work, their land, struggles, triumphs, and festivals. Rivera longed for a day when everyone would exist in harmony, without class distinctions. A rooster's…
Elegy for Uncle Ron
You of the acid-blue Palm Springs skies, you Warhol Soup Can collector, you star-spangled tax evader, making America bankrupt again, you UFO-abduction believer, zapped up into one of those intergalactic, metallic wombs during a drug-swathed segment of the seventies, survived by no one, which is to say everyone, let me…
Shelly Cato
Shelly Cato is a 2024 Iron Horse Literary Review NaPoMo winner . Her writing has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, and TriQuarterly Review. She lived much of her life in the Mississippi Delta and now lives and writes on Mulberry Fork in Walker County, Alabama. When she…
Em McCoy
Em McCoy is a writer and mechanical engineer. She currently resides in the California Bay Area with her husband and two cats.
Lance Larsen
Lance Larsen grew up in Idaho mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and dreaming of catching Bigfoot on film. He has published six poetry collections, most recently Making a Kingdom of It (Tampa, 2024). His awards include a Pushcart Prize and first-place honors in contests sponsored by The Tampa Review, the Missouri…
The Eyes Go
“To see takes time. Like a friend takes time.” Georgia O'Keefe To see takes time. When I lost you did my eyes go? Are they still in that closet in the dark where everything was clear so long as we were together? There is the fear that won't leave. Not…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024
Congratulations to the winners of the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Elinor Ann Walker
Elinor Ann Walker (she/her/hers) holds a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, lives in the Appalachian foothills, and is the author of Fugitive but Gorgeous , winner of the 2024 Sheila-Na-Gig First Chapbook Prize, and Give Sorrow (Whittle Micro-Press), both forthcoming. Featured on Verse Daily and…
