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Ghazal for the Bumps on My Spine
They appeared overnight, two knobs flowered on bone and tendon. Lumps kissing like petals on a flower. The doctor's cool hands traced across my back like a box turtle swimming through algae and flower. Medical bills, deserts we've left, your mother calling home. I always bring her flowers. I imagine…
Morning in the YMCA Pool
This seems to be the time for old women— in the shower room we stand exposed, our drooping bodies unsightly but well-used, and in that perhaps a kind of beauty. In sensible suits we swim cautiously or bounce on one leg and then the next, for a few minutes defying…
The Poem of the World
The poem of the world reveals itself like a doe's hoof tapping ice till she can drink. Startles like the rust of purple on this fall's forsythia leaves, though it may have used that small voice every year, unheard. Blinks like red and blue potatoes, dug this morning, drying in…
Aria
O half moon— Half-brain, luminosity— Negro, masked like a white… —Sylvia Plath, “Thalidomide” There is not enough light inside this poem to Lie to you. All my poems are in whiteface. Which makes me clean, bearable. Is my life viable. This poem Is not mine. Every morning I carry it…
portrait of mother as nüwa
mother sculpts me out of yellow river clay, kneads my ribcage into shape, leaves me in the afternoon sun to dry. by evening, there is already a lump in her mouth. she reaches in, finds my name tucked beneath her tongue. breathes life into my still clay hands. when I…
Room in the Bag of Stars
Golden Shovel Sestina on a Line by Ursula K. Le Guin We're all under ten and run from room to room and up the front stairs, down the back, in the pantry and out, taking measure of the whole house. It's ours now, a cornucopia, a bag we open and…
for
for Tommy, accidentally shot and killed by the neighbor boy while hunting squirrels for prep. 1 a — indicating purpose: His father and uncles taught him that hunting was for sport and for fun, but the first time he killed a squirrel sorrow snuck up his pant leg, into his…
Nikon Coolpix, S210
Once, I wanted a camera, another set of eyes to magnify the small black semicolons marching up the backyard gate. To see the ants the way prey would see them moments before their feast. I wanted to magnify the small black semicolons marching up my legs—that dark prickling of first…
Laura Villareal
Laura Villareal is the author of Girl's Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) and The Cartography of Sleep (Nostrovia! Press, 2018). She has also received fellowships from the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and the National Book Critics Circle. Villareal earned an MFA in Creative Writing…
Athena Kildegaard
Athena Kildegaard lives and teaches in Morris, Minnesota, in prairie pothole country. Her sixth book of poems, Prairie Midden, has just appeared from Tinderbox Editions. She is the co-editor, with Margaret Hasse, of the anthology Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood, which won the Midwest Book Award for best…
Taylor Byas
Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is now a third-year PhD student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She is the first-place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest, the 2020…
Edythe Rodriguez
Edythe Rodriguez is a Philly-based poet who studied Africology and creative writing at Temple University. She loves neo-soul, battle rap, and long walks through old poetry journals. Her research focuses are Africana Womanist theory, Ebonics languages, and traditional African poetry. Edythe writes in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole and her…
Peaco Todd
Peaco Todd is an award-winning cartoonist, journalist, author, and illustrator, as well as a relatively newly-minted poet. For several years she served as an assistant professor of humanities, management, and liberal studies for Lesley University and the Union Institute and University. Her current projects include her poetry practice and a…
Scudder Parker
Scudder Parker grew up on a family farm in North Danville, VT. He's been a Protestant minister, state senator, utility regulator, candidate for Governor, consultant on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and is now a full-time poet and writer. He's a passionate gardener and proud grandfather of four. He and…
Tawanda Mulalu
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of Nearness (The New Delta Review, 2022) and Please make me pretty, I don't want to die (Princeton University Press, 2022). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris…
Fiona Lu
Fiona Lu is a high school junior from the Bay Area. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Princeton University, and Ringling College, and has appeared in Kissing Dynamite and Sine Theta Magazine, among others. She is an alumni of the California State Summer School…
Maurya Kerr
Maurya Kerr is a Bay Area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya's poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in multiple journals, including Magma Poetry, Poet Lore, Southern Humanities Review, and an anthology, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Much of her artistic work,…
Qin Qin
Qin Qin (Xavier Qin Youngdale) is a Chinese-American adoptee currently studying towards their bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College. Being queer, trans/nonbinary, and disabled, the arts have been the only constant that has allowed Qin Qin to synthesize and imagine different ways of being.…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Ode to the Forty Year Patient
By Andrew Mercado (writing as Chris Smith)
Two Gifts from Tom Sheehan, winner of the 2021 North Street Book Prize for Poetry
Read “A secondhand wagon for Christmas, and a gift that came later”, and download an award-winning book for free.
BLR Literary Prizes
Bellevue Literary Review’s annual prizes recognize exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind.
The Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award
MoonPath Press, an imprint of Concrete Wolf, will award $2,500 and publication to a poet who lives in Alaska, Oregon, or Washington.
The Masters Review Anthology XII Seeks Emerging Writers
Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories and essays written by the best emerging authors.
The Herd by Ryan Poirier
First Prize, Graphic Novel & Memoir, 2021 North Street Book Prize
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Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
Michal 'MJ' Jones (they/he), final judge of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, is an award-winning poet, parent, and editor living in Oakland, CA. Their poetry has appeared in the American Academy of Poets, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Review, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Their debut collection of poetry,…
Publications That Pay Freelancers for Book Reviews and Interviews
Writer and editor Adam Morgan compiled this list of paying markets in 2022
Sunspot Literary Journal
Lit mag that appreciates longform pieces, translations, and diverse voices
I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams
By Jessica Young, illustrated by Rafael López
The Little Mermaid
By Jerry Pinkney
My First Book of Haiku Poems
Translated by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, illustrated by Tracy Gallup
The Book Rescuer
By Sue Macy, illustrated by Stacy Innerst
Comma
By Harris Gardner
Tinnitus
By Barbara Regenspan
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C. Vargas McPherson Wins the $5,000 Grand Prize in Our Seventh Annual North Street Book Prize Competition for Self-Published Books
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its seventh annual North Street Book Prize competition. C. Vargas McPherson of Portland, Oregon won the Grand Prize and $5,000 for her memoir Inheriting Our Names: An Imagined True Memoir of Spain's Pact of Forgetting. These category winners received $1,000 each:…
C. Vargas McPherson Wins the $5,000 Grand Prize in Our Seventh Annual North Street Book Prize Competition for Self-Published Books
Results of our seventh annual competition for self-published books
Subscriber News: February 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Subnivean Awards
If your poetry is madly ablaze or your fiction is weird, wild and wonderful—or both—consider entering the Subnivean Awards
Weird Old Book Finder
Quirky search engine pulls up the full text of public-domain books from the 18th century to the 1920s
Rhyme Zone
Free online rhyme-generator
The Table Read Magazine—FREE Promotion for Writers, Artists, and Creatives
We want to offer a platform to creatives around the world to share their work with our audience, and excite our readers with their stories.
My Pants by Nicole Kohr
First Prize for Children’s Picture Book in the 2021 North Street Book Prize competition
Inheriting Our Names by C. Vargas McPherson
Winner of the Grand Prize in the 2021 North Street Book Prize competition
Special District: Harbin
Critique by Jendi Reiter Murder mysteries and police procedurals are some of my favorite genres to read for pleasure. At last, in Tim Stickel's historical mystery Special District: Harbin, we've found one worthy of a North Street Book Prize. Set in 1929, in a Chinese border city that's a crossroads…
The Poser
Critique by Jendi Reiter The COVID lockdown of 2020 felt like a throwback to an era of home-based artisanry. To balance our sudden overdependence on screens, and make up for the lack of professional public entertainment, people baked sourdough bread, landscaped their yards, and shifted from being consumers to creators…
#porchportraits
Critique by Jendi Reiter In the pandemic's first months, when we were suddenly deprived of everyday encounters with our communities, a new genre of documentary photography sprang up. Local photographers in neighborhoods across the country posed families outdoors for socially distanced portraits, a morale-building effort to re-create our sense of…
As Waters Gone By
Critique by Jendi Reiter Natural disasters undermine not only our physical infrastructure but our structures of meaning. Why were some spared when their loved ones died? Does it help or harm the victims to analyze how they may have put themselves in danger? Dr. Asome Bide's memoir As Waters Gone…
Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima
Critique by Jendi Reiter Leslie A. Sussan probes questions of historical memory and propaganda in her illuminating memoir Choosing Life: My Father's Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima. Now an appellate judge, Sussan has been a U.S. Department of Justice attorney and an advocate for migrant workers and abused…
