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Taco Bell Quarterly
Quirky online lit mag publishes writing and art that reference the fast-food chain
The BitterSweet Review
London-based LGBTQ literary journal
Travesties: A Queer Journal of Uncanny Arts
Queer online literary journal publishes poetry and art
After You Self-Medicate with Roethke’s “The Waking” Read by Text-to-Speech App
By Roberta Beary
PocketMFA
A 12-week creative writing program providing graduate-level cohorts, focused on your area of interest, for a fraction of the cost of a traditional MFA
The “Coming Home” Poetry Contest from Oprelle
What does home look like to you?
92NY: Discovery Poetry Contest
For over 60 years 92NY’s Discovery Contest has launched the careers of major poets like John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Mark Strand, Larry Levis, Mary Jo Bang, Solmaz Sharif and Diana Khoi Nguyen
Turkey City Lexicon
Witty and informative list of bad prose habits, geared for sci-fi writers but useful for all
Subscriber News: November 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Everything Is Going to Be OK
By Dani Jones
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By Da’Shaun Harrison
The Mountain in the Sea
By Ray Nayler
Paweł Zagawa
Paweł Zagawa is an editorial assistant with responsibilities in contest administration, judging the North Street Book Prize, marketing research, and critiques. Paweł lives in Poland and has a master’s degree in English Literature. In his academic journey, he has written cultural criticisms of contemporary issues and analyzed literature, especially in…
Who Pays Writers?
Links to a wide variety of commercial and literary journals, with pay rates for each
Until We Meet Again
By Richard Eric Johnson
Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
Free online archive at the University of Florida offers 7,000 children’s books to download
CB Anderson and Elizabeth Becker Win the 30th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
CB Anderson of Maine and Massachusetts won first prize in fiction and $3,000 for her story, “Blood Ties”. Elizabeth Becker of Charlottesville, Virginia won first prize in nonfiction and $3,000 for her essay, “Manny”. 2,441 entries were received from around the world. Mina Manchester judged. $8,000 was awarded in all.…
CB Anderson and Elizabeth Becker Win the 30th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
The winners of our 2022 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
BOMB Magazine
Arts journal publishes creative writing, interdisciplinary conversations, and lists of fellowships and residencies
A Gatekeeper’s Vigil
By Helen Leslie Sokolsky
Charlotte Lit Annual Lit/South Awards
Open to current and past residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Three categories: poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Vestal Review’s Food-Writing Flash Fiction Contest
Submit a food-theme story of up to 500 words
Roundtable by 92nd Street Y
Explore great books with great minds
Writing Battle - Join Today!
Writing Battle is a supportive and growing community that holds a quarterly competition for writers, by writers
Subscriber News: October 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Letter Review
Online lit mag with contests, publishing opportunities, and articles about the craft and business of writing
Immigrant
By Gary Beck
Preventing Plagiarism: A Guide for Students and Educators
Overview of fair use and plagiarism-detection from the Adobe software website
IBPA’s Best Practices for Hybrid Publishers
Independent Book Publishers Association proposes ethical criteria for hybrid publishers
Laundry Day
There is blood leaking out of my washing machine. For the last eight months, my mother has had bullous pemphigoid. “Bullous” means blistering; “pemphigoid” means bubble-like. Together it means that her immune system is attacking her skin, causing outbreaks of blisters all over her body. There are dozens of them…
A Garden in the Desert
The summer desert prickled with the anticipation of rain. Inside the living room, the dog slept like a comma on the rug. Afternoon sun forced its way through the blinds, casting the dog in ribbons of hot white and shadows. She resembled a fox, feathered tail and paws twitching. Occasionally…
The Lizard Girl and the Alligator King
An alligator's stomach is acidic enough to dissolve a child's bones in 13 days. We stand in the side yard of the grand new house in Palm River. The house where cockroaches no longer skitter across the floor at night, where Cricket and I finally get our own rooms, and…
A Final Deployment
I regret I never served my country, but war, ever insidious, plays out on many fronts. Walking into the ICU, I noticed frenetic activity in one room. It always felt lonely to be assigned a patient there, because the room sat at the end of the hall, near the supply…
Subscriber News: September 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Public Domain Poetry
Online archive of classic and lesser-known poets, searchable by author and title
Pencilhouse
Writers’ resource site offers free critiques and publishes the process-oriented journal Zero Readers
Searching for the Clear
I couldn't bring myself to go into his barracks room and view the body. I stood outside the door, one in the endless row of identical doors on the second deck of my company's barracks. The NCIS agent described to me the scene. “Go straight back into the bedroom, button…
Marshmallows
Slogan and I tiptoed around the kitchen. I watched him filch some doughnuts for our trip; he wanted coffee but wanted to get going just as much. We could easily stop along the way. We were the first ones up. The house stood silent in the August dawn, the last…
Fitting In
As a boy, I longed to speak like the other boys I met when we moved to Georgia. My parents divorced when I was 4, and my earliest memories are blissful and dreamlike days and nights on my grandparents' farm in Iowa, early dawn hours of sweet air laced with…
Balance
They think Jimmy did it on purpose. Even now, every time one of them comes back to town for a wedding or a shower or a funeral, they get around to Jimmy eventually. They stop me in front of the Post Office or in the freezer aisle at the Independent…
In Lieu of Flowers
It must have been twenty years ago: my joints aching as I carried the groceries home. Two baguettes—their long bodies rubbing against each other. I remember now. It was back when I would eat a loaf of bread over the course of a few days, barefoot in the kitchen, sort…
We Go Way Back
I was digging in the dirt with Sarah when we were both seven years old. We were digging for dinosaur bones in the space between our houses, under a bush neither of our parents claimed as their own, which had become a no man's land prone to excavations like this.…
Manny
Illustration by Clara Longo de Freitas January 2015 At just past three in the morning, the seventh floor was quiet, its cramped patient rooms dark save for the cool blue lights of pumps and monitors. Children dozed in unfamiliar hospital beds, their limbs wrapped in delicate tangles of wires and…
Blood Ties
Illustration by Carina Guevara Jade would have chosen the diner, but her mother insisted on Red Lobster—the fanciest place around, even if highway noise overtakes Kelly Clarkson every time the door opens. The host sets down menus laminated with outsized images of shrimp: skewered, cocktailed, stuffed. AC pools around Jade's…
Jeffrey Weinstock
Jeffrey Weinstock was born in New York and holds degrees from Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His writing has been featured in Tablet, NPR's The Story, Hippocampus Magazine, The Examined Life, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, and Lip Service, among others. He lives in Miami.
P.L. Watts
P.L. Watts escaped the Florida foster care system and worked her way through college and graduate school. She earned a Lambda Literary Fellowship for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and was runner up for Ruminate's Vandermey Nonfiction Award this year. Her essays have been shortlisted for the DisQuiet Prize and the Speculative…
Cynthia Stock
Cynthia Stock retired after 43 years in Critical Care Nursing. During her career she pursued creative writing through various institutions and mentors. She enjoys being a 71-year-old who writes fiction and nonfiction gleaned from fragments of an ordinary life. Short works have appeared in Memoryhouse, Shark Reef, The Manifest-Station, Lunch…
Sandra Sidi and Lauren Serrano
Sandra Sidi worked as a DOD analyst for the US Military in Iraq (2007, 2008). She was a Fellow for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, where she studied with the Israeli Defense Forces during the height of the Israel-Hezbollah crisis of 2006. She studied…
Byron Spooner
Byron Spooner is the author of Rounding Up a Bison: Stories (Andover Street Archives Press, 2021). He retired as the Literary Director of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library after 21 years. There, in addition to selling $1.5 million in used books annually to benefit the library, he…
Ronald McGuire
Ronald McGuire is a novelist, essayist, scriptwriter, and journalist. His work has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Dillydoun Review, Drunk Monkeys, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, the Queer as Hell! horror anthology, Screen Door Review, and on CNN.com. Since he began writing full time in 2020, Ronald…
