Reading for writing Widen your reading circle

Writers who don’t read. I just don’t get it. How can you be a writer if you don’t? That’s like saying, I’m a composer but I don’t listen to music, or a painter who doesn’t have time or care to look at art. Read more: writingincurves.substack.com/p/reading-fo...

Spring 2026 Classes Zoom and in-person classes I am teaching this season

I'm teaching an 8-week Zoom workshop on flash essay beginning April 15th. Still a couple spots open if you want to join: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Revision: A Literary Remodeling by Olga Katsovskiy Revision is not the same as editing. That’s not to say every finished work needs to be gutted to the studs, but we must be willing to look at our own work objectively for it to be good.

Revision: A Literary Remodeling by Olga Katsovskiy

Revision is not the same as editing. That’s not to say every finished work needs to be gutted to the studs, but we must be willing to look at our own work objectively for it to be good.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Art of Fiction No. 262 “I seldom know where I’m headed, but if the story is meant to be, you cross over to the other side—you’re inside it, and there’s an engine.”

“Someone asked me, ‘Who do you write for?’ And I stood on that stage, this incredibly green writer, and said, ‘I write for myself.’ There was total silence.” —Jhumpa Lahiri

Read this beautiful new piece in our Blended and Beyond genre. Artwork by our Sr. B&B Editor, @bradley-david.com ✨

Fantastic piece ✨

Guidelines Please go to our Submittable site for specific category guidelines and to submit work. jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.…

Submit it to us at JMWW, we are open 1-15th every month. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

Send us something outside the box ✨

What I Did Instead of Going to AWP Who says you have to take a week off work and pay an exorbitant amount of money to fly somewhere for a literary experience?

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Barlow Adams has a beautiful new essay out in the world: www.whaleroadreview.com/adams-3/

That means so much! Thank you, Barlow. I'm a huge fan of your work and have shown your craft essay to my CNF students over the years, which are super empowering for us all.

Such a vulnerable and beautiful essay, congrats!

An excellent freight train sentence essay.

"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Such a great braided piece. I love how we know more as readers than the narrator, right up until the end.

Check out my interview with @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social who offers lots of great writing advice if you're looking to write flash. 📝

I Saved This Postcard to Send to My Grandma by Hattie Jean Hayes I forgot. I tucked it into a book, and forgot, and put it on the table so I'd see it, and forgot, and sent a different card for her birthday and forgot, and meant to send it before Christmas and forgo...

Hattie's postcard piece:

2025 was a hard year. I can't bring myself to make a list of achievements and heartaches. There were goodbyes and hellos to a new kind of quiet I'm still learning how to live in. Subscribe to my free newsletter to read more: theweightofaletter.com/2026/01/21/m...

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resist it

What a fun Domino Effect essay by @halliepritts.bsky.social Sometimes saying Yes to everything can lead to good things.

Fantastic!

Have something weird and unusual? It might be right at home at JMWW journal. Send us your writing via Submittable.

Thank you for submitting your work and keeping the written word alive. See you in the new year.

I kind of can't believe that libraries exist. We get to go get all the books we want. For free.

Join us for our kick-off new year reading in January! You'll hear from 5 JMWW editors and we will have time for questions and answers. Register here for the Zoom link: ccae-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So deserved and excited to see you in the role! Thank you for your dedication ✨

Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.

Do you love @jmwwjournal.bsky.social? Vote for us at the Chill Subs: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Fantastic braided essay on the writing life and the art of flash fiction by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social ✨

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams