Fiction: Generational by Jeff Bakkensen
All my life, everything had happened with the beginning wrapped in the shroud of its own end.
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The Maid-Up Vocabulary of Abby Frucht: An Interview by Curtis Smith
I felt hemmed in by prose and by the apparent obligation of things like syntax and punctuation to make sense of things, to construct hierarchies of thought and utterances.
The Taste: December 3, 2019
Ursula Le Guin on art, storytelling, and language’s power to transform and redeem The library card, your constant friend An interview with Mary Gaitskill Margaret Atwood and the legacy of […]
Pushcart Prize and Best Microfictions Nominees!
We are honored to nominate the following authors/stories for this year’s Pushcart Prize and Best Microfictions!
The Taste: November 26, 2019 (Thanksgiving Edition)
Thanksgiving in literature. More books about Thanksgiving in literature. Thanksgiving book lists. Thanksgiving book recommendations from Bustle. Thanksgiving stories from the New Yorker (subscription required).
The Taste: November 19, 2019
The life cycle of a library book Six powerful books by disabled authors What happens when a Russian experiment to clone elite ballerinos goes awry? A story by Diane Cook […]
ORIGINS: “Sunblock” by Tom Lakin
For me, typically, story ideas are like rainbow trout: elusive, finicky, difficult to find and even harder to bring in once you’ve found them.
Meet Our Newest Flash Editors!
We’re please to welcome to our Flash Fiction team Briana Wingate and Laura Huey Chamberlain!
Meet Our New Poetry Team!
We’re excited to introduce CarlaJean Valluzzi,Jessica Lynn Dotson, and Fitz Fitzgerald to jmww as our new poetry editors
Flash Fiction: Ruthlessly, Denying by Tommy Dean
This was the difference for a mother, every goddamn thing reminded you of your children.
