So honored to be included in the inaugural issue of a journal that uplifts flash nonfiction and receive the recognition from Best American Essays. Thanks, In Short!

Long journey with this one. Thrilled it found a home at Cutleaf Journal

Raptor by Penny Guisinger | A roadside dilemma.

Putting in a plug for @short-reads.org, a flash nonfiction lit mag founded by former Creative Nonfiction staffers. I’m so glad @hattiefletcher.bsky.social & co. are continuing their great work & helping to keep the CNF community together. Help them reach 2K subscribers by 2025. The latest issue here

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Winter-themed border of blue snowflakes on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions January 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Rilke on Winter as the Season for Tending to Your Inner Garden “What does living come down to but bringing about those changes in ourselves … which can free us to enjoy a richness and closeness with everyone?”

The season for tending to your inner garden – Rilke on winter:

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2024. Best of luck & pls share!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

My heart is not peripheral to me.

—June Jordan

A sunset skyline with a few bare trees. Power lines stretch along a row of utility poles receding from the viewer; between two of the lines, a there is a fingernail-sliver of crescent moon, and above them, one star.

Found poem

Artwork featuring a bird in silhouette flying in the centre foreground and a group of winter bare trees to the top left all against a bleak greenish cream background

#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami