Writing is a solitary act. It can also often be a lonely pursuit. That is why the Guild has regional chapters around the country, with the aim of connecting a broad array of authors on the local level...

Who could have guessed I’d have two books so late in my career?

Genevieve Plunkett is the author of Prepare Her: Stories . A recipient of an O. Henry Award, her short fiction can also be found in journal...

Ghazal for the Late, Great America Gold leaf will not liberate you, America, from this ten-year migraine. The hour is late, America. The “shining city upon a hill” has doused its lights to dusky. N…

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Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

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by Heather Truett “I could / steal my own Bob’s Big Boy, but the fiberglass / of desire shredding my skin is aflame.”

The Writer's Regimen is your one-stop source of writing inspiration. For the whole month of June 2026, you will receive: 30 days of emailed writing advice, prompts, and other great resources. You wil...

Cerridwen the crone whispers in little winds, seedsstarlings between my teeth. Flowers grow under my tongue, herbs we all might need. She potions me to breathe beneath the mother-tree – break the b…

Southeast Review offers four annual contests: the Gearhart Poetry Contest, the World's Best Short-Short Story Contest, the Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest, and the Southeast Review Art Contest. ...

The Egg Baby Lena was late, and unconcerned by this fact until she reached the conference room, laptop and phones stacked precariously in her arms, and saw that every other woman in the office had man...

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph Whiteby Xanthippe Pack-BrownThere is more to the eye than bubbling creeks and stretching mountains in Twist Creek County, West Virginia. If you squint just right to ...

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph Whiteby Xanthippe Pack-BrownThere is more to the eye than bubbling creeks and stretching mountains in Twist Creek County, West Virginia. If you squint just right to ...

The Filipino Dragon My father is loud. He announces his presence. He talks deeper when we are around strange men, he chews loudly, he sneezes at Volume 11. He works. He says he’s doing it for me. He…