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An Interview with Mina Manchester, Judge of the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Winning Writers managing editor Annie Mydla speaks with Mina Manchester about what it’s like to judge the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Too Much Horror Fiction
Pulp horror collector Will Errickson’s blog reviews his favorites from the 1960s-90s
Trespass Point
Nothing was broken. She'd gone down to the dock to see the heron. The rocks were slick with algae and morning dew, and her feet in her worn hiking boots had bolted out from under her with astonishing force. Leaning on a stick, she'd made it back up the hill,…
Juliana Delany
Juliana Delany has worked for more than three decades as a freelance marketing writer and editor. A manic reader of fiction from early childhood, she began writing her own stories during the pandemic of 2020 as a way to quell anxiety, quiet demons, and honor family. Juliana holds a Bachelor's…
Exchanges
Online journal of literary translation, published by the University of Iowa
Pride Book Tours
Cost-effective social media book tours for LGBTQ literature
Subscriber News: September 2024
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
What makes a winning humor poem? An interview with Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest judge Lauren Singer
Managing editor Annie Mydla asks Wergle Flomp judge Lauren Singer about the poems that make her laugh
The Novelry
Online courses, coaching, and matchmaking with literary agents
Literary Journals That Publish Poetry That Rhymes
Reputable journals with a traditional aesthetic
Milk Candy Review
Online journal of “beautifully weird, lyrical” flash fiction
Pink Matter
I have been told many things by men. Most slide through my brain, painful but fleeting. Others etch themselves deep into the pink matter like a brand: “I usually only go for black women, but I'd make an exception for you. I ain't ever seen a white woman with all…
I Don’t Know What Possessed Me
“My first reaction to most things is, 'Fuck this, fuck you, this is bullshit,'” I said. My therapist blinked. “You don't seem like an angry person to me,” she said. You don't seem like a good therapist to me , I thought, but instead said, “Oh?” I don't get angry,…
For All the Birthdays
Lydia hasn't seen Paul in five years. He is behind her in the queue, holding a can of baked beans, a pint of skimmed milk and a loaf of gluten-free bread. It is a moment of recognition that suspends them both. She tries to say his name, but the man…
Memory in Tibet
Illustration by Connie Chang Tibetan Plateau The sky was high and blue. White clouds floated by like the shed feathers of some enormous bird. This was the typical picturesque scenery here—the Tibetan plateau, high above sea level, pure and uncontaminated like some heavenly realm hidden from the prying eyes of…
I Am No Beekeeper
My housemate sleeps all day, makes art all night, and paints giant bees. “I want people to feel my paintings,” she says, stroking the palm of her hand against a still dripping head-to-toe canvas. I keep my hands in pockets. We've only been at the art residency for a week,…
Washing Light
Say: Have ye thought: If (all) your water were to disappear into the earth, who then could bring you gushing water? —The Noble Quran: Surah Al-Mulk (The Sovereignty) 67:30 I will treasure bathing my son. Placing him in his tub. Little hands tapping the water. A plump, tiny pilgrim enjoying…
Bottle Girl
At 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning I found myself running east on 33rd Street from Madison Avenue. I didn't know how I'd gotten there or where exactly I was going. It was July and the New York air was dewy. I could feel the strings of my bikini—tied too…
Sea Changes
My grandfather slipped quietly beneath the waves one day shy of his 70th birthday. His modest fishing craft, the pea-green Minato-Maru , was found bobbing peacefully on the ocean a little way from shore. As per local tradition, the boat had its anchor down but was otherwise unmoored, allowing for…
The Demulcent of Shame
I'm sitting by the edge of a lake, waiting for my husband to come and tell me we're over, that I've bamboozled him into our marriage, and he can't stay in a relationship with a fraud. He's about ten feet away, inside our little lake house, lying on the floor…
Robert Garnham Wins the 23rd Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Robert Garnham of Paignton, Devon (UK) won the 23rd annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. His entry, “Torquay, 2 - The Other Team, 2” , bested those of 6,845 other poets to receive the $2,000 prize. The Second Prize of $500 was…
Robert Garnham Wins the 23rd Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Winners of our 23rd annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Tinderbox Poetry Journal Sponsors the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize and the Majda Gama Editors’ Prize
Tinderbox announces its poetry prizes, the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize and the Majda Gama Editors’ Prize
WriterAdvice’s Scintillating Starts Contest
Everyone who submits will receive advice from B. Lynn Goodwin, a professional editor and writer
Subscriber News: August 2024
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Classism in Literature
Managing Editor’s Blog: How to get better at writing about social class
The Golem Mother of the Catskills
None of us will forget the sight of Elisheva Bornstein walking up the dirt path from the lake that day in 1984. Her hair was exposed, grey roots blending into the blonde it threatened to overtake. Her head scarf, the color of which some of us still argue over, pink…
Cryptozoology
Illustration by Magnus van der Marel My spine is hooked on an invisible line, and every few minutes I feel a sharp yank on the barb. “Yanked by what?” says Josh, rolling tobacco muck between his gums. “A cloud-dwelling fisherman. Or Earth's magnetic fields. Or my ex-wife's voodoo dolls. Take…
Arya Samuelson
Arya Samuelson is a writer, editor, and teacher currently based in Northampton, MA. Her essay, “I Am No Beekeeper”, was awarded New Ohio Review's 2023 Non-Fiction Prize and was chosen as Notable in Best American Essays 2024 . Arya was awarded CutBank's Montana Prize in Non-Fiction, judged by Cheryl Strayed,…
Zoe Hiemstra
Zoe Hiemstra is a student first and foremost, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an eager learner about whatever topic or book has recently caught her attention. She plans to finish her double major in Creative Writing and Human and Organizational Leadership Development in…
Sarah Cadorette
Sarah Rose Cadorette is an Oakland-based writer whose work has won prizes from The Southampton Review, Sonora Review, Blood Orange Review, and Emerson College. Their writing has appeared in Meridian, The Massachusetts Review, Barrelhouse, Desert Companion, and Abandon Journal. Sarah is co-host of the Oakland reading series Secret Nook ,…
Clea Bierman
Clea Bierman is an emerging memoirist and a fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle journalist from San Diego, CA. For many years, she worked as a red carpet and nightlife reporter for Bauer Media, contributing to In Touch, Life & Style, and Closer Weekly magazines. In this position, Clea attended exclusive events…
Jennie Stevenson
Jennie Stevenson tried a dazzling range of jobs including professional catering, teaching antenatal yoga, and almost becoming a lawyer, before remembering that she always wanted to be a writer when she grew up. She currently works as a freelance content writer. Born and brought up in the north of England,…
Jason Prokowiew
Jason Prokowiew received the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys , his braided memoir about his Russian father's adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing…
Rebekah McDermott
Rebekah McDermott is a writer and social worker based in London. Her work has been published by Bandit Fiction, Swoop Books, and Bedford Square Anthology, and in 2018 she won the national Children's Society short story competition in partnership with Viking, Penguin Random House UK. Her short stories have recently…
Talya Jankovits
Talya Jankovits' work has been featured in numerous literary magazines. Her fiction and poetry have received Pushcart Prize nominations, Best of the Net nominations, Editor's Choice awards, as well as Honorable Mentions. Her poetry collection, girl woman wife mother , is published by Kelsay Books. She holds her MFA in…
Lanfu Liu
Lanfu Liu is a passionate student writer and researcher with a global perspective, having spent ten years studying abroad in various parts of the world. His love for travel has taken him to over 70 countries, where he has immersed himself in diverse cultures, histories, and landscapes. This extensive travel…
Kathleen McNamara
Kathleen McNamara's short fiction and essays have appeared in the North American Review, Witness, Reed, Nimrod, The Pinch, and other journals. Her fiction is also featured in the anthology This Side of the Divide (Vol. 2): New Lore of the American West from Baobab Press. Her writing has won Columbia…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2024
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
The Hunt
There are times in a man's life Where he must sigh With exasperation And simply declare With authority That we are having Thai food for dinner And during the protests From his girlfriend He must remind her That she did not At any point Suggest even a single alternative Additionally…
Funeral, a Musical
Nan was perturbed, her whole schedule disturbed by the reading of her late brother's will. But despite their old rift, Phil had left her a gift, with a promise she had to fulfill. “A clause both conditional and non-traditional, exists that I must enforce.” “Get on with it!” Nan said…
Ode to Better Writers
You write real good sometimes the stuff you write is so good I feel kind of weird when the stuff you write gets stuck in my head and I lose my words like whatever Sometimes I feel like Nicolas Cage in Face/Off about to unleash Hell when my worst enemy…
1976
The one time my mother spanked me, she stopped almost immediately because she'd hurt her hand. Face cast downward, she held her right hand out like an injured jay, cradled in her left. A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the window and fell to the white shag…
This Is Why I Don’t Go to Parties
I'm in a room where laughter dances and balloons cling to the ceiling like limpets. I'm in an ocean of people, and a mighty sailor beckons me to her. She bears puppets as if long-lost treasure. She smiles, opening her mouth to say something. Something ridiculous. Something bonkers. Something that…
I’m Living Laughing and Loving
it's what I say to the chorus of internet moms. We've gathered to share our joy, that Susan found a good deal on felt carrots to place into her repurposed bowl or that Annie finally found the right cardigan to wear to the ice cream social or that Sandy finished…
Sonnet Ending in Response of a Four-Year-Old Told to Stop Banging His Fork on the Table
O, I am a mad deed-doer, I am. I fuss for a drama, foam for a dram. I diss maids, use mud, reaffirm murder, I rudder Mafias, fraud reformers. I'm rum for amour, adore more of me, defer desire for mirrors I see. Am I rid of id, do I…
The Daring Escape (and Return) of the Three Muscatels
Three aunties resided at Leisurely Day, two of them sisters, Lenore and Renee. Althea they met at the Happy Hour mixers indulging in all sorts of boozy elixirs. Speaking of which, the three were inclined to tipple with ripple (that's fortified wine). “The Three Muscatels,” as people would whisper, though…
This Is a Test
As I sit in the soundproof booth I wonder why I am here staring at the oddly situated statue of Minnie Mouse on the ledge in the corner which sparks the question, was Minnie deaf? You'll hear ascending tones the audiologist said handing me the clicker Click when the sound…
So Good
Hard to know what to do on this late summer night with the windows wide open and the neighbors next door making love. Ignore it, I suppose, zip our lips, turn the lock, throw away the key, holding it in like strangers not speaking in a slow elevator in the…
The Ghost Writer
Ghost writing is a thankless job, Your ego kept at bay. The “Author's” name is safely kept, Behind an NDA. My books top the Bestseller List, Each cozy mystery Has all my heart and soul in it, But no one knows it's me. For the right price, my words are…
