Love poems, like love, can be complicated. Nuanced. Exuberant. Cautious. Lustful. Tender. Broken. Fierce. Full of regret. Full of gratitude. And so much more. We need love poems. Like we need to think and talk about love. Like we need to love and feel loved. There is so much to say about…
Read more » 0 CommentsA huge thanks to all the Winter 2021 issue contributors! There is so much to love in this writing. And congratulations to the winners of our flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction contests, Basmah Sakrani for “Intersection” and Emily James for “The Reckoning.” The issue launched on…
Read more » 0 CommentsAs 2020 comes to a close, we'd like to share good news about some of our contributors' recently published and forthcoming books. I hope that you will support our contributors, and other wonderful writers, by purchasing their books—and the literary journals in which their work appears—in the…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe want to see Maryland in your poems. A street in Baltimore. The Ocean City Boardwalk. Eating at the Korean BBQ place in Remington. Climbing the steps in the Hooper Strait Lighthouse at St. Michaels. That time you played the slots at the Rocky Gap Casino. What happened on the Light Rail…
Read more » 0 CommentsOur fall issue launched on October 31. Ghosts. A head on a stretcher. The virus. A flood. Voices of dead people in a wardrobe. But—we're live! Also songs, birds, and ice cream. Take some time to sit with the works in this issue. Read the notes that some of the writers have provided. If they…
Read more » 0 CommentsAre there rules? No. Sorry. But there are many questions you can ask yourself while writing flash fiction and during your revision process. There are aspects of craft you can consider when reading the flash fiction stories of other writers, too. There is a joy in deciphering their mysteries, in…
Read more » 0 CommentsBaltimore-area students at various stages in their programs—as well as recent writing program alumni—have served as volunteers over the years, and we are grateful for their contributions. The students have devoted time to voting and commenting on submissions, proofreading issues, writing blog…
Read more » 0 CommentsDelighted that is Diana Spechler will serve the final judge for this contest! All entries should be submitted through our Submit page. We look forward to reading your work!
Read more » 0 CommentsWelcome to Our Summer 2020 Issue! We hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue as much as we do. Please spend some time with them. A number of our contributors provide comments on their work. Recordings, too! Congratulations to our summer contest winners,…
Read more » 0 CommentsGreetings from Baltimore! Our Spring 2020 issue launched May 21. The Spring issue features poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction by: John Blair Shevaun Brannigan Naomi Cohn Jeannine Hall Gailey Katherine Gekker Matthew Henry R. Dean Johnson Yume…
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