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Subscriber News: May 2023
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
The Essay as Experiment
Memoirist Christine Imperial shares the benefits of “disarrangement” and uncertainty in essay-writing
Apogee Journal
Online literary journal that engages with identity and its intersections
When Do I Earn Out?
Free online program calculates the book sales you’ll need to earn out your advance
The Dial
Online journal of essays on international politics, culture, and ideas
Lighthouse Poem
By Eva Tortora
Largehearted Boy
Long-running literary blog pairs new books with authors’ music playlists
Because Everything Here is a Brightness
By John Sibley Williams
Maurya Kerr and Tamara Panici Win the 20th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Sponsored by Winning Writers
Winning Writers awarded $8,000 in prizes for poems in any style and poems that rhyme or have a traditional style
Subscriber News: April 2023
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
From Mormon to Mermaid by Lorelei
Winner of the 2022 North Street Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. Lorelei chronicles her journey into the heart of the Mormon faith, and out of it.
Paisley Invasion by Alicia Czechowski
Why have Paisleys come to Earth, and what will be the outcome of their peculiarly strange visitation?
The Blessed by Kyle Derek McDonald
Ambitiously composed in Sesta Rima—rhyming six-line stanzas—and with a compelling cast of unique characters, The Blessed offers a galloping fantasy epic experience unlike anything else.
The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database
Split This Rock searchable database of over 600 poems by contemporary socially engaged poets
Tania Pryputniewicz: Author, Teacher, Tarot Muse
Workshops combining Tarot, art, and poetry critique
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Dare Williams
Dare Williams, assistant judge of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, is a Queer HIV-positive poet and literary worker rooted in Southern California. A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, he has received support/fellowships for his work from the Ashbery Home School, The Frost Place, Brooklyn Poets, Breadloaf, Tin House,…
Knowing When
By Mark Fleisher
Briana Grogan
Briana Grogan (she/they), assistant judge of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, is a Black queer femme from Southern California. Her poetry found form in San Francisco, where they currently live and work as a bookstore clerk. She received her MFA in Poetry from Mills College. Their writing explores the…
The Fight Journal
By John W. Evans
Subscriber News: March 2023
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Poetry Masters 2023 sponsored by Oprelle
The 2023 Poetry Masters Contest has a special twist…published and awarded poets may enter AND emerging and unpublished poets may enter
Sunspot Literary Journal: Geminga Contest for Tiny Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Art
Sunspot Lit honors the power of the small
Electric Lit’s 10 Tips for Applying to Writing Residencies
Nonfiction writer Alex Park shares what he learned from being on a residency application committee
Helen in Trouble by Wendy Sibbison
A sheltered teen girl discovers her inner resources after an unplanned pregnancy. Winner of the 2022 North Street Book Prize for mainstream/literary fiction.
The Art of Symeon Shimin by Tonia Shimin
The Art of Symeon Shimin presents a striking collection of the fine art of this exceptional Russian born Jewish artist
The Geography of Absence by Gayle Lauradunn
The Geography of Absence is the third poetry collection from Gayle Lauradunn, winner of the 2022 North Street Book Prize for poetry for All the Wild and Holy
One More Day by Diane Chiddister
Winner of the Grand Prize, 2022 North Street Book Prize Competition sponsored by Winning Writers
Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too
What is not soft here: a boy spilling with glitter and gun oil moon child moves like his mother's tides a body that is all awkward and legs we teach them to dance then tell them it's not natural to move their hips what an image to be both a…
thirteen ways of looking at the faggot
nineteen-eighty-six: 28,712 cases reported, 24,599 deaths (after stevens) i. rising from the sea blond mane sequined with buds of algae and salt, beautiful guilty as an orchid ii. two razors at the sink rabid with foam iii. a flying dutchman who never comes to port, a tern exiled to a…
Abandoned Sestina
I found God in an abandoned laundromat. I carved the history of coldness on the cold linoleum floors. Wanted to crawl in the washer. I said a prayer about the history of laundromats. The way, when I pray in daylight, God feels cold and I feel like an unwanted daughter.…
California
After Jericho Brown In the dream, I buried my father Then ran toward the mountain set on fire. Running back to the mountain set on fire Meant returning home to where I was raised. I returned to the small blue home, raised Dust searching for boots that belonged to me.…
Orion
Illustration by James Lee Chiahan My boy came into the room and said, Mom, you are the hound, Dad is the hunter, and I am the— but he couldn't remember, so stood there, silent. I wanted to know, but forgot how to speak, form my lips into language, started to…
Children from the Coast
We went hunting for shells a decade ago, when we were still so small we had baby teeth wiggling within our pink gums. Coarse was the sand beneath our soles, coarse was the way in which we touched each other. When we crawled out of the ocean which was our…
Cento for Women Who Are Not Believed
When we are silent we are still afraid, grown women, well traveled in our time. These hips have never been enslaved. Name them, name them all, light of our own time, high over these robed men who curse me and the ground spinning beneath us. Now you are a voice…
After the Final Skin Graft
I awakened on my belly—my back a raw field from nape to heels. New lawn the kids couldn't play on, thickening Jello which mustn't be moved. Even the sheets kept away, draped on a wire Quonset, a heat lamp curing me like wheat. The burn unit was suddenly explicit: the…
Blues for the Fathers
The fathers keep on disappearing into the sun. Every morning a father flies east. In the afternoon one'll drive west. And midday, look at the man bend at his knees to kiss a girl's cheek then rise to ride invisible escalators up the floors of the sky. In the night…
Places I Could Not Reach
After showering, You used to rub lotion On my back. Places I could not reach. I did the same for you. Now you are in a place I cannot reach. My back never stops Itching.
Last Kiss
First, in your seventies and alone, you read that those who count such things say an average person kisses for a total of two weeks in a lifetime. And you realize your two weeks was up some time ago. Suddenly there is kissing everywhere you look. And you learn that…
Elegy for Childhood Written in a Language I Did Not Yet Speak, Addressed to the God I Once Knew
Illustration by Melissa Chalhoub I tremble with solitude much greater than my own —Robert Șerban wehn the frsit saporrw flel from the haeenvs / did it fly psat you / or did it flal trhugoh you? / did you frcoe it to fele? / to mkae a new hmoe out…
Dion O’Reilly
Dion O'Reilly, a graduate of Pacific University's low-residency MFA program, splits her time between a family compound in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington. When she was nineteen, she survived a house fire, losing most of her backside skin as well as pieces of hand and…
Richard Haney-Jardine
Born and raised in Venezuela, Richard Haney-Jardine León (aka Jardine) grew up speaking and writing in Spanish, English, and French. At 15 he came to the US for boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he had the extraordinary opportunity of working individually (albeit briefly) with Gwendolyn Brooks, Jorge Luis…
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is an Arab-American journalist and poet/writer who currently resides in New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Narrative, Rattle, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She was a 2020 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg finalist, winner of the 2020 Palette Emerging Poet Contest, and the winner…
Alfredo Aguilar
Alfredo Aguilar is the author of On This Side of the Desert (Kent State University Press, 2020) selected by Natalie Diaz for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. He is a recipient of 92Y's Discovery Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,…
Liz Schroeder
Liz Schroeder is a Connecticut-based poet studying Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Connecticut. Their goal is to develop strategies to fight climate change with sustainable food systems by returning to local production. They graduated from the Educational Center for the Arts in 2021 and have always been…
James Evans
J. T. Evans is a native of St. Louis, MO. He has lived in Nashville, New York, Houston, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, and currently resides in Richmond, VA. He holds degrees in French literature from Vanderbilt University and Indiana University. After a 30-year career as a speechwriter, Evans now writes poetry, essays,…
Jane Ebihara
Jane Ebihara took 26 years to get out of middle school where she taught literature until retirement in 2006. She has since authored three poetry chapbooks: A Little Piece of Mourning, A Reminder of Hunger and Wings, and This Edge of Rain. Ebihara's work has also been published in numerous…
jason b. crawford
jason b. crawford (They/Them) was born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut full-length poetry collection, Year of the Unicorn Kidz, is out from Sundress Publications. They are currently a poetry MFA candidate at The New School.
Tamara Panici
Tamara Panici was born in Waco, Texas to Romanian refugee parents. She has worked as a personal trainer and chef, but is currently a stay-at-home mother who reads and writes at odd hours. Her poetry is interested in historical and familial memory, and questions the ways in which these types…
