Chuck Strange ~ First Kicks the Bucket - New World Writing Quarterly All the Christmas lights around town were coming down, stars and trees and the blinking yellow strings gone street by street and in the morning I was leaving.

New work from Chuck Strange, up now!
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Julie Benesh ~ Three Poems - New World Writing Quarterly Flyover Girl A wild onion in a red dress on the Blue Line, en route to a party where I wallflowered in place for three hours, while the whole room revolved

New work from Julie Benesh in our Spring 2026 issue!
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And thank you for giving us these great micros!

Lizzie Jones ~ Ordinary Days - New World Writing Quarterly People will tell you that anniversaries are hard, as are the “firsts”—the first Christmas, the first concert, the first holiday. You can brace yourself for

New work from Lizzie Jones in our Spring 2026 issue! newworldwriting.net/lizzie-jones...

Kip Knott ~ Three Stories - New World Writing Quarterly The Flower Monger The local news informs me this morning that they found his lifeless body curled beneath a multi-colored blanket of flowers lying atop a

New work from Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social! Up now in our Spring 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

Just a note that our submissions will close tonight, 4/13, at 11:59 PM.

Thank you to everyone at @newworldwriting.bsky.social for kicking off their new issue with three microfiction stories by me. Here’s the first story. Click this link to check out the other two:
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Close-up picture of a green and yellow hardcover book with the text "The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose edited by Phillip Schultz and Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize Editors." The book is on a dark wooden table.

Congratulations to our brilliant and intrepid @kimchinquee.bsky.social, whose work is included in the new Pushcart anthology! Much love to you Kim ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@duotrope.com Thanks for featuring us!

And a reminder that our submissions open April 1st: newworldwriting.net/submissions/

Billy O’Callaghan ~ A Kind of Music - New World Writing Quarterly Four years ago, following a a fairly brutal two-year battle with cancer, my mother died; a relief, in the end, though it still doesn't feel so. Some deep-lying

A gorgeous piece from Billy O'Callaghan @billythescribe.bsky.social: newworldwriting.net/billy-ocalla...

Roberta Allen ~ Two Wise Women Talk About Lying - New World Writing Quarterly 1 The Wise Woman of Elety was taking her young grandson along on a boat trip to Joramca, the island of flowers. This was the peak season for the rarest blooms.

Two wonderful pieces from Roberta Allen: newworldwriting.net/roberta-alle...

Maceo Nightingale ~ Three Poems - New World Writing Quarterly FORGOTTEN WHEELS Abandoned shopping carts roll like patients in a hospital. Wheels frozen, spinning in puddles, carrying the bags of midnight customers,

Three lovely poems from Maceo Nightingale: newworldwriting.net/maceo-nighti...

Jerry Dennis ~ Three Prose Pieces - New World Writing Quarterly LATE NIGHT, WYOMING, 1972 Ten days out of high school I was on a Greyhound headed west with John K. It was his idea to ride buses and hitchhike to California

Three beautiful prose pieces from Jerry Dennis: newworldwriting.net/jerry-dennis...

Wanying Zhang ~ The Things She Found in Time - New World Writing Quarterly 1. Elastic Band She found a thick blue elastic band, frayed and crumbling around the edges, wrapped around a jar of hairclips. It had once wound around the

A lovely, evocative piece from Wanying Zhang in our Winter 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/wanying-zhan...

Phebe Jewell ~ The Young Man Who Will Kill Me - New World Writing Quarterly The first day of fall quarter I meet the young man who will kill me. Dressed in black, the stone-faced boy stomps past me to the back of the classroom. He

Here's a powerful, haunting piece from Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social in our Winter 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/phebe-jewell...

David Ebenbach ~ Three Poems - New World Writing Quarterly The AI Wishes It Was a Plough or a screwdriver, a toothbrush, a spatula—anything without electricity or moving parts. Even a stapler would be too much. Even a

Three poems we love from David Ebenbach in our Winter 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/david-ebenba...

David Raskin ~Three Untitled Ekphrastic Poems on Sugimoto, Rubins, and Dashper - New World Writing Quarterly Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photograph, Sea of Japan, Hokkaido, frames the horizon dead center – wisps of gray clouds above slate and onyx ripples. It’s neither night

❤️Three ekphrastic poems by David Raskin: newworldwriting.net/david-raskin...

Hilary Harper ~ Three Micro Memoirs - New World Writing Quarterly The Stream I am four years old, walking barefoot in a cold, clear, flowing stream. My mom holds my hand as we step around rocks, our feet sinking into the soft

Please enjoy these three micro memoirs from Hilary Harper in our Winter 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/hilary-harpe...

Gary Fincke ~ Two Flash Fictions - New World Writing Quarterly Messes Jason’s mother opens the door to his room to tell him she has a new boyfriend. He is staying overnight now and Jason should know. “Roy doesn't want to

New work from Gary Fincke @gary79.bsky.social, up now in our Winter 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/gary-fincke-...

Wilson Koewing ~ Mill Valley - New World Writing Quarterly They drove from San Anselmo to Mill Valley for a Christmas celebration in the town center.  Both towns were in Marin County, just north of San Francisco,

We're finishing up our Winter 2026 issue!

Here's a new piece we love from Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social:

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Thanks for featuring us, @duotrope.com!

Just a reminder that we are open for submissions through the end of the day tomorrow, Tuesday, 1/13. We look forward to reading your work!

Mikki Aronoff ~ Three Stories - New World Writing Quarterly The Prodigy Maker The man with no eyes and ears who tunes pianos tap-tap-taps at our door at the creaky-crack of dawn and plunks his satchel of tools down next

Mikki Aronoff's story, “I Keep Asking My Doctor What to Do About My Problem,” will be included in the 2026 Best Microfiction anthology: www.bestmicrofiction.com. You can read the story, from our October 2025 issue, here: newworldwriting.net/mikki-aronof.... Congratulations, Mikki!

Happy new year! We are open for submissions.

We are also thrilled!

Gary Young ~ Three Poems - New World Writing Quarterly Last night, my brother’s heart stopped beating. My brother will be dead for the rest of my life. He will be dead forever. I shuffle up the drive, stop and kick

Three lovely poems from Gary Young, in our October 2025 issue: newworldwriting.net/gary-young-t...

Glen Pourciau ~ Two Flash Fictions - New World Writing Quarterly Emanate I’d had a good week. I’d gone about my business without running into anyone I knew. No one had spoken to me or stared at me. When I returned home from

Please enjoy these new pieces from Glen Pourciau, in our October 2025 issue:
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Mary Grimm ~ Mother Does Not Go Gentle - New World Writing Quarterly Under the pressure of age and illness she lost her happiness, dragging herself from room to room, the house a prison now, hers and ours. One of us had to be

New work from Mary Grimm in our October 2025 issue!
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Thanks for sharing this, Christine! We're also excited about this story! ❤️

Judith Baumel ~ This Moment - New World Writing Quarterly This Moment for the Piperno family 1. Blessed Is. There is no future without memory. There is no future without feeling fully the moment in which we live. At

82 years ago today German SS rounded up 1,200+ Roman Jews. Here’s a new poem about part of that story. Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for publishing on this painful anniversary and thanks to @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social for the inspiration and support. newworldwriting.net/judith-baume...