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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…
Shannon Hancock
Shannon Hancock was raised in Durham Region, Ontario, where she still lives with her wife and their two children. Her love of reading as a child lead to an early passion for creative writing. Her stories have appeared in several literary journals, most recently The Antigonish Review. Shannon is a…
Michael Foote
Michael Foote (he/him) is a writer and an immigration attorney for the ACLU, Safe Passage Project, and Southern Poverty Law Center. He is at work on his first novel, a comedy about a peeping Tom plaguing a small town, and the group of wayward high schoolers that are forced to…
Ryan Collett
Ryan Collett is a writer, knitter, and animator. His first novel, The Disassembly of Doreen Durand, was published by Sandstone Press in 2021 and hailed as “genuinely original and stylishly written” by NB Magazine. He grew up in Oregon and now lives in London where he works as an editor.…
Elizabeth Becker
Elizabeth Jewett Becker is a writer and registered nurse. Her Pushcart Prize–nominated essay, “Report”, was awarded the 2018 Crazyhorse Prize in Nonfiction, and she was also a nonfiction finalist for the Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize in 2019. She is a columnist for Richmond Magazine and has worked…
CB Anderson
CB Anderson is a writer, journalist, and teacher. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Pangyrus, Hayden's Ferry, Indiana Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. Prizes include the New Millennium Award and the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. Anderson's narrative nonfiction book Home Now received honorable…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
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Leila Murton Poole Wins the 21st Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Leila Murton Poole of Queenstown, New Zealand won the 21st annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. Her entry, “Minnie and Dick's Gender Reveal—Take Two”, bested those of 5,186 other poets to receive the $2,000 prize. The Second Prize of $500 was awarded…
Leila Murton Poole Wins the 21st Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Leila Murton Poole of Queenstown, New Zealand won the 21st annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2022
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Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
Digital archive of LGBTQ zines is free to browse
How to Read to Children
Teacher Phillip Done on fostering good writing and reading skills in students of all ages
Hillary Smith
Hillary Smith's poems and stories have appeared in various small publications with fun names. When she isn't writing, she enjoys frolicking in the outdoors, riding trains, and playing musical instruments at a moderately fine level. She has had many bosses, though none of them named Delilah.
Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom
(a pantoum composed of lines from right-wing radio personality Joe Rogan's Spotify transcripts) Imagine capitalism with good ethics rejected by a girl that you're in love with and what takes away their agency is the beautiful thing about business. You learn what makes you laugh, what makes you homosexual rejected…
Call for Manuscripts
A $1000 prize will be awarded to a writer who is living above the 40th parallel. Only poets with an even numbered birthday need apply. All entrants must own a dog, cat, or goldfish, and furnish a photo with the pet's name on the back. Manuscripts can be of any…
One Morning When Stalin Was on Network Television
And, before we forget, a birthday shout-out to Denise Duhamel, one of our and I'm sure one of your favorite poets. Happy Birthday, Denise! Awwww, she's awesome. We absolutely love her. Yes, we love her. We really do. She's so, so Poetic? Yes! Poetic. I love that. It's awesome. Well,…
Baal Downloads Tinder
At last, a site debaucherous enough to render quittance for these anchoritic years passed in a wasteland that bills itself the capital of pleasure, yet ornaments its trade in flesh with neon lights overcompensating, Baal snorts, for its primordial incognizance of carnality's roots in worship. 6'6…because apparently it matters, Baal…
Emily Dickinson Sits Down to Write the Morning After Watching “The Godfather” on Late Night Cable
Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The roadster held but just Ourselves— And Clemenza in the back seat with a Wire. We slowly drove—He knew no haste And I had put away Two Extra Helpings of Spaghetti, And who knows how many Glasses of…
Ni Hao Isn’t the Way to My Vagina
met a stranger. on the street. he said, “you good?” well, he actually said “ni hao?” which we all know is “hello” but (he didn't know) really means “you good.” asked it anyway, “you good… in bed?” he told me, “I love your country” which we all know is his…
I Don’t Think Virgins Deserve Spotify Premium
because music is for the romanticization of sin and Virgins never do until they do and because I don't think it will hurt them to listen to an ad or two and Because I heard God worships Virgins on Sundays They don't need anything else They're Spoiled Rotten I really…
That One Sounded Like…
Slapping a raw steak. Tapping in Morse code on a jelly sandwich. Squeezing the neck of a balloon while letting just a little bit of air out. If an old woman turned into a creaky door. A duck sneezing. When a cartoon character blows a trumpet and their tongue comes…
Why So Many Penises (or Should I Say Pee-ni?)
Dicks drawn in cement on the still-wet tar. Dicks drawn in the snow on the hood of my car. Dicks drawn on lockers, dicks decking the hall! Dicks watching me pee in the bar bathroom stall. The boys made a habit of drawing dicks— big dicks, little dicks, flirting dicks,…
Snickering on the Fringe of Debauchery
Doubts kick in at the manor house gates, arguing whether we've found the right place when the security guard's flashlight floods the car. As instructed by my dentist, Doctor Ketamine, who recruited us into this sleazy affair, we blink the hazards once in Doggers' Morse, registering our interest in the…
Not Coming
So, we're having outdoor sex, me bent over the picnic table in the country park, naked, the night air kissing my skin, thrilling at first, but then a bit nippy, even though it's supposed to be summer, al fresco fuck, your car parked down the lane under the trees, (were…
Catalog Capers
“Commercial bandits from the old USSR have made a base in Budapest, and I've been told to send my cleverest agent, Case.” “Equipped with clever equipment, sir?” “Indeed. We're going the whole hog for you, Case. Here's the literature: The Ideal Home Shopping Catalog. “This wrist blood pressure monitor shows…
Delilah, My Boss
Please enjoy this recording of the author reading “Delilah, My Boss” (MP3) Delilah, my boss, calls in from the dog park and tells us it's time. We must shed our stretch, she says. Slap ourselves out of our lethargy. Embrace the hum of new promise because the world is fun…
Minnie and Dick’s Gender Reveal—Take Two
Illustration by Wren Chavers Please enjoy this recording of the author reading “Minnie and Dick’s Gender Reveal—Take Two” (MP3) It's gender reveal day for Minnie and Dick, To see if their baby's a dude or a chick. Truthfully speaking, it's their second go, The first put Dick's father, John, six…
Daniel Waters
Daniel James Waters was born in Philadelphia, PA and grew up in Southern New Jersey. He published his first story as a medical student in 1981. An award-winning novelist, he has also authored short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, op-eds, several poems, and one play along with two books of surgical…
Wendy Tooth
Wendy Tooth is an unregenerate recluse. She is independently indigent and probably the ghost of I.A. Richards, just a poem in a bottle washing up on shore. You can find more of her work in Minola Review and at her site, Hysterical Millennial.
Mark Thalman
Mark Thalman is the author of Stronger Than the Current, The Peasant Dance, and Catching the Limit. His poetry has been widely published for four and a half decades and has appeared in CutBank, Paterson Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among others. Thalman received his MFA in…
Maria Picone
Maria S. Picone/수영 is a queer Korean American adoptee whose debut chapbook, Sky Sea Edict, will be published in late 2022. She won the 2020 Cream City Review Summer Poetry Prize. She has been published in Tahoma Literary Review, The Seventh Wave, and Best Small Fictions 2021. She has received…
Enchi
Enchi is a current student at Johns Hopkins University studying Writing Seminars and Computer Science. She enjoys all things horror, dystopian, queer, Hispanic, and female, and her writing has been published online in the Blue Mountain Arts Review.
Amanda Kelly
Amanda Kelly is a comedy and video game writer reluctantly based out of New Jersey. She graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, excelled in her studies of improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, and has received accolades for her half-hour…
John Paul Davies
John was born in Birkenhead, UK, and has lived in Ireland since 2013. He's a former winner of the RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Award, and the Letheon Poetry Prize. He has placed in the Waterford Poetry Prize, TU Dublin Short Story Prize, and Cheshire Prize for Literature. His work…
Noah Berlatsky
Noah Berlatsky tried to be a poet 20 years ago and failed, so he is trying again. In the middle there he wrote a book about the original Wonder Woman comics for Rutgers University Press. You can support his poetry writing on Patreon and follow him on Twitter.
Jane Ayres
Jane is a UK-based neurodivergent writer who re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. In 2020, she was longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets' Prize. In 2021, she was nominated for…
Alex Barr
Alex's poetry has appeared recently in Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, The Dark Horse, and Orbis. His light verse has appeared at www.lightenup-online.co.uk and his poetry collections are Letting in the Carnival from Peterloo Poets and Henry's Bridge from Starborn Books. He lives in Wales in the quaintly-named harbor town of…
Leila Murton Poole
Leila's poem was her first try at verse, It's proved to be both a blessing and curse. Now, she communicates only in rhyme, Which makes life difficult most of the time. Besides a penchant for sarcastic quips, Leila likes making films and writing scripts. She often writes satire, well, it's…
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022
Congratulations to the winners of our 2022 humor poetry contest!
The Unsealed
Community website where members post open letters about heartfelt topics
Oxbow Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets, sponsored by Oprelle
Oprelle Publications aims to bring attention to emerging poets featured in fewer than three national publications
Choosing Life by Leslie Sussan
A North Street Book Prize winner. Author Leslie Sussan followed her father’s footsteps to Hiroshima to try to understand his last wish that his ashes be scattered there.
Literature and History Podcast
Accessible deep dive into the foundational works of Anglophone literature
To Hull and Back Humorous Short Story Competition
This biennial short story competition celebrates humorous writing and offers 40 prizes
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Whose Voice Is This?
By David Dragone
CTRL + WALT + DELETE
Smith College Poetry Center’s collage/erasure project of “Leaves of Grass”
