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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

✨ Join us in throwing it back to RT 25.1, where we featured "Trailer Trash" by Justin St. Germain. ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse and don't forget to submit to River Teeth and Beautiful Things by December 1st! #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨ River Teeth’s 2026 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize deadline is approaching! Submit by Oct. 31. Final Judge: Sue William Silverman. Winner receives $1,000 + publication. riverteethjournal.com/book-prize/

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✨️ "Watering Can" "There’s a spider at the bottom of the watering can. I’m in the yard, tending to the seedling milkweed my husband planted to attract monarchs. It’s morning before work, and I’m rushing." from "Watering Can," by Katie Bannon Read it here: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨🗣️ New Book Review! Phong Nguyen reviews Kyle Minor’s How to Disappear and Why, calling it “the perfect antidote for the glossy AI era” and a deeply honest collection of essays. ✨ Read the full review on our website!

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looking for an essay that blends Palm Springs imagery with societal commentary and a little bit of humor? Then join us in reading “Marilyn Monroe’s Mailbox and the House of Tomorrow" by Julia Nagele, published in Mount Hope Magazine! ✨ Read the full essay at www.mounthopemagazine.com

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

✨️ "Chiaroscuro" "In my Freon-chilled bedroom, cocooned in a Holly Hobbie blanket, I hear the rumble-hum of my parents’ conversation." from "Chiaroscuro," by Kim Kankiewicz Read the rest here: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings #RiverTeeth #MicroEssays #OnlineLitMag #CNF

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🌀This Saturday (9/19), River Teeth editors Jill Christman and Mark Neely will be at the Indiana Humanities Gathering of Writers! Register for a full day of classes on writing at the Indiana State Library! #RiverTeeth #OnlineLitMag

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What is creative nonfiction? It’s a question always worth asking, as Eric LeMay explores in this classic essay. ✨ River Teeth Classics hopes to give new life to essays that were once published elsewhere and have been lost to obscurity. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #MicroEssays

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

✨️ "At 101" "My grandma has just been to the doctor’s office. She has an infection, probably an ingrown hair that led to an abscess, my mom explains over the phone. . ." from "At 101" by Rebecca Turkewitz Read the rest here: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings #RiverTeeth #CNF

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🌀Reading Recs with River Teeth 🌀 Celebrate Throwback Thursday by checking out “Something About Shoes,” an essay by Diane Gottlieb from RT Issue 24.2 🌀Read this essay digitally through Project Muse 🌀Submissions are open! They close December 1st. #RiverTeeth

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🌀Looking for some great nonfiction to read while you wait for the next issue of River Teeth? 🌀🌀Read essays digitally through Project Muse! 🌀🌀🌀Click the link in our bio to explore countless essays! #CreativeNonfiction #OnlineLitMag #RiverTeeth

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

✨️ "The Caballeros Are Coming" "I am ten, too old to be put to bed by my father, but I climb into my bed and wait for him to come upstairs to put me to bed anyway." from "The Caballeros Are Coming," a Beautiful Things essay by Judy Sandler Read the rest here: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🌀Subscribe to River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays today! 🌀Check out the LinkTree in our bio for easy access! 🌀If you’re looking for amazing nonfiction work by talented authors to enjoy, this is the place to be! #Riverteeth

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🌀Submissions are open NOW! 🌀Submit your creative nonfiction work via Submittable to River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays. 🌀Check out the LinkTree in our bio for easy access to Submittable. #BeautifulThings #RiverTeeth

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

✨️ "Kissed by a Jaguar" "The ink from my waiver is still wet when the padlock clicks, securing us in a ten-by-ten-foot chain link cage inside the animal’s sanctuary." - from "Kissed by a Jaguar" this week's Beautiful Things by Casey Harkleroad. Read here: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

✨Something to See on a City Street “Last summer, in this same spot there was a bird haven. Honeysuckle, robins, hummers, bleeding heart, roses tended by an older man with suspenders, cane, and a straw hat.” -from “Something to See on a City Street,” this week’s Beautiful Things by Thomasin LaMay

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

✨ Need a writing exercise? Check out Isabel Vazquez-Rowe’s River Teeth Revisited essay: "A Migrant Haunting: Tracing Spectral Memory in 'Los Perdidos'" from RT issue 20.1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryJournal #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Travel back this Tuesday and check out, “Burial Cloth Removed,” an essay by Jill Noel Kandel from RT Issue 12.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #GetPublished #Reading

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

✨“Behind the grocery store, where the alley narrows and the dumpsters sweat rust, a fox stands in the cone of the security light as if she’s been waiting for someone to come around the corner.” -from “The Fox at the Loading Dock,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by J.M.C. Kane #BeautifulThings

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Here is a glimpse into the pages of, “When Nostalgia Is the Scent We Follow,” an essay by Bruce Ballenger from RT Issue 12.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

✨“Yesterday, my artist friend stopped by with eggs still warm from her hens—pink, olive, green, brown.” -from “Basil in the Afternoon,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Helaine Fiedler Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings #MicroEssay #GetPublished #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

✨ Need a writing exercise? Check out Jake Demer’s River Teeth Revisited essay: “‘Terrible Sanity’ and the Art of Narrative,” from RT issue 13.2 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryJournal #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Travel back this Tuesday and check out, “How Long Before You Go Dry,” an essay by Alex Lemon from RT Issue 18.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit #GetPublished

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“The first blackberries appear in July, the earliest ones an anomaly, a harbinger of what’s to come.” -from “Wild Harvest,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anna Levy Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Here is a glimpse into the pages of, “Four Memories: The South,” an essay by J. David Stevens from RT Issue 20.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit #GetPublished

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

✨Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. We end the month with “Full Moon and Baked Beans.” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

✨ Need a summer writing exercise? Check out Lydia Wilhelm’s River Teeth Revisited essay “Comfort Food: Food as Cushioning in Seth Sawyer’s ‘Fried Eggs,’” from River Teeth issue 5.1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Take some time this Tuesday and check out, “The Launch,” an essay by Jessica Peterson from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

✨Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. Today we come back to “Dottie & Coco & Me.” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

✨🗣️New Book Review! Heidi Czerwiec reviews Chaun Webster’s “Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu on our website. #RiverTeeth #Booklover #Writer #WritingCommunity #BookRecs #BookReview

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Permission to Stop Pretending,” an essay by Manoj Kumar H V from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

✨Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. This week, we take a second look at “How Was Your Summer?” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

✨ Need a summer writing exercise? Check out Katie Mathew’s River Teeth Revisited essay: “Complicating Chronology: Non-linear Narrative in ‘The Deer I Shot,” from RT issue 13.2 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Boy Who Fell Through the Ice,” an essay by Gregory Martin from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

✨ Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. This week, we kick off with “The Art of Submersion.” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Sussex,” an essay by Ana Maria Spagna from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #WritingCommunity #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“‘I need gas,’ a man’s sign says. In the open hatch of his car, two children and their mother sit beside a plastic jerry can, a symbol transcending language. They’ve been here two hours, waiting.” -from “Rite,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Jennifer Browne #BeautifulThings #GetPublished

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

✨ Need a summer writing exercise? Check out Valerie Weingart’s River Teeth Revisited essay for a special look into Beautiful Things: “Pacing & Tempo Possibilities for Micro Essays: A Beautiful Things Analysis” #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Take a break this Tuesday and check out, “The Body I Am Trying to Outrun,” an essay by Shannon McCarthy from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #ReadingRecommendations #GetPublished

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“Mike carries snacks. And water. Are you cold? He’s got an extra scarf. He has tissues. He has mosquito wipes for summer months and hand warmers for winter.” -from “The Things He Carries,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Katie Donlevie Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

✨🗣️New Book Review! Bob Cowser Jr. reviews Julija Šukys’s “Artifact: Encounters With Campus Shooting Archives” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu on our website. #Booklover #Writer #WritingCommunity #BookRecs #BookReview

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Wind Sprints,” an essay by Ann Guy from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Bookstagram #ReadingRecommendations #Submit #GetPublished

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“I watch the cranes on morning walks, mated pairs in springtime growing to families of three by autumn.” -from “Sandhill Cranes,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Sarah Barbo Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #BeautifulThings #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are honored to share that we are one of the 2026 finalists for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Awards in the Magazines/General Excellence. #CLMP #WritingAwards #FirecrackerAwards #LiteraryJournal #RiverTeeth #GetPublished #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Travel back this Tuesday and check out, “Kith, in the Aftermath,” an essay by Julie Marie Wade from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“Someone small has placed a sock on my desk. I know why it’s there: a hole in the heel or the big toe.” -from “Mending,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Jung Lee Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #OnlineLitMag #WritingCommunity #GetPublished #Submit

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

✨️ 🗣️ In news of literary goodness, we are thrilled to announce that contributor, Mariana Peñaloza Morales, won a Pushcart Prize for her essay, "The Book of Scimitar." Her essay was published in River Teeth issue 26.2 and is available to read online through Project Muse. #Pushcart #PushcartPrize

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✨Tune in this week for Beautiful Things, "On Sam Mountain," by Mary Lane Potter, on IPR’s Pop of Culture at 12 p.m. ET today (Friday 6/5) and Saturday (6/6). 🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122... 🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Check out Jay Kibble & Ian Roesler’s River Teeth Revisited essay: “Research and Trust in Renata Golden’s ‘Hammer Test’” from RT 24.2 ✨Here, we hope for students, teachers, writers, and readers, to have a jumping off point, to try their own hands at putting life on a page. #WritingExercises

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