"[Tokyo] was not the city I expected to teach me anything about Haiku." - excerpt from Silence That Teaches, non-fiction by Zary Fekete #TheMetaworker

"Her story is in progress...but she already feels connected to it. They’ve spent many hours together, after all. Her story is about a man named Walter." - excerpt from The Strings, fiction by Eliza…

"We’re ugly stepsisters, / cutting off parts of ourselves to fit into glass slippers." - excerpt from Horse-Drawn Miscarriage by Molly Rose Strugatz #TheMetaworker

"I used to walk beside it, / hand in hand, fed it / scraps from my plate..." - excerpt from I don’t know if I fear death Itself, poetry by Waverly Vernon #TheMetaworker

Melissa Reynolds continues The Metaworker's series celebrating ten years by reflecting on her role as editor.

"braiding corn silk, / tethering dragonflies, / air thick / with the scent / of bulbous apricots..." - excerpt from I am losing the names for things, poetry by Saba Zahoor

Four Microfictions by Ken Poyner #TheMetaworker

"But there is this constant compulsion, this itch to articulate, knowing it will be misread..." - excerpt from Forewords, fiction by Isabella Lai

"I’ve boxed myself in / a bunker of glass-thin concrete..." - excerpt from Ionising Shelter, poetry by Robbie Barlow #TheMetaworker

"Our history is brutal and unjust. So why do we insist on memorializing these injustices?" - excerpt from Monuments and What They Stand For, non-fiction by Toma Zbrizher #TheMetaworker

"A Fourth of July reflection on friendship, memory, and what stays with us." - Whisper of Lightning, nonfiction by Jonathan Michael Saucedo #TheMetaworker

"this is a transcript of a video game / which is an adaptation from a movie / which is a download from a divine source" - excerpt from The Leash of Tartarus Squeezes up the Spine to Besiege the Head,…

Three micro fiction pieces by Angelo Bariga Allito #TheMetaworker

Ice Cream, Porch, & Audacity, micro poetry by K Spicka #TheMetaworker

Read three experiences from the AWP conference by M.R. Lehman Wiens, Caitlin O’Halloran, and Elena Lucia Perez

"I steal cats for money. That’s right. I select a satisfactory feline, wait for night to fall, and pick it up like other people pick up a penny they find on the street." - excerpt from Lost and,…