✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Made Holy,” an essay by Michael Downs from River Teeth 24.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag

✨🗣️New Book Review! This month, Matthew Frye-Castillo reviews Jeannie Vanasco’s, “A Silent Treatment: A Memoir.” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu on our website. #RiverTeeth #LiteraryJournal #Booklover #Writer #BookReview

New book out from @riverteeth.bsky.social contributor @nikwalk.bsky.social!

"I bought some yard art: a small plastic-resin fox statue. I like to move him around our front yard every few days—"—Steven Church @riverteeth.bsky.social Beautiful Things #essay riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨The Neighborhood Fox “I bought some yard art: a small plastic-resin fox statue. I like to move him around our front yard every few days—peeking out from a pile of leaves or gazing up at a tree or hidden beneath some shrubs.” -from “The Neighborhood Fox,” this week’s BT essay by Steven Church

Can't wait until March 1st? Read an excerpt from THE HEART FOLDS EARLY in THE WRITER'S CHRONICLE. Thank you, @awpwriter.org! This is getting real, isn't it?! awpwriter.org/TWC/2026-feb...

✨Take some time this Thursday to read, “The Year You Learn about Happiness,” an essay by Jane Armstrong from River Teeth issue 7.2 ✨Read the essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “On Enchanted Rock,” an essay by Vivé Griffith from River Teeth 20.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag

✨Pedal Fast, Eyes Up “Training wheels off, my midnight blue two-wheeler wobbled underneath me. Balance seemed impossible.” -from “Pedal Fast, Eyes Up,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Tanya E. Friedman Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨A new River Teeth Revisited is online today! This week, Ashleigh Cochran brings to us: Centering Concrete Images in Laura Johnsrude’s “Smoking Guns” from RT 25.1 ✨You can read Johnsrude’s essay on Project Muse and find this River Teeth Revisited on our website #LitMag #RiverTeethRevisited

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “The Other Side of the River,” an essay by Chelsea B. DesAutels from River Teeth 27.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag

✨Sturdy “Mom sits on her deck, a cedar perch newly attached to the room she’s chosen to be her last. It’s where we talk this summer, her ninety-first.” -from “Sturdy,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Ann Stinson Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” ~ Anton Chekhov

✨Take some time this Thursday to read “London, When We,” an essay by Katherine Robb from River Teeth issue 17.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Essay

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Homage to the Champ,” an essay by Stephen D. Gutierrez from River Teeth 7.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal

“The last of her kind, as far as she knows. A gentle apocalypse.” @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Exquisite read in River Teeth today. This one hit home for me. I look forward to these micro-essays every Monday.

✨“I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him.” -from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Check this out from RT and BT author, the wonderful @jilltalbot.bsky.social

✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Who Are We Missing?” by L.C. Killingsworth, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week. Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com #RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #CNF

A message from Jill ❤️🎉📖

We are so here for the chicken years, Dawn--& thrilled to have published this beautiful thing!

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Selling Out in the Writing of Memoir,” an essay by Lee Martin from River Teeth 14.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read “Ten Things to Save from a Fire,” an essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval from River Teeth issue 27.1 ✨Read this essay through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨“I’ve always felt a sisterhood with my hens, though my lifetime of monthly bleeding and a mere three babies never compared to their daily need to squat and squeeze the equivalent of a watermelon from their poultry vaginas.” -from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler

✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Harvey” by Lynda Rushing, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week. Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com #RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay

✨🗣️ This week, revisit Beautiful Things, "In the Delivery Room," by Jeannine Pitas, on IPR’s Pop of Culture at 12 p.m. ET tomorrow (Friday 1/23) and Saturday (1/24). 🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122... 🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...

✨Take some time this Thursday to read “Don’t Wait,” an essay by Amanda Bestor-Siegal from River Teeth issue 18.2 ✨Read this essay through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨A glimpse into the pages of “Emily Dickinson Alone in Her Room,” an essay by MaryKatherine Ramsey from River Teeth 13.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨“Our plan was to hike, climb and adventure our way through Maui during our first vacation since lockdown, yet I managed to hurt my knee on day one.” -from “Breach,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings

✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Best Pals” by Rachel Cline, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week. Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com #RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay

✨Raise your hand if you’re reading River Teeth! Now raise both hands if you’ve submitted or are working on something to submit to River Teeth! ✨From now until April 1, you can submit to River Teeth and Beautiful Things via Submittable. ✨We cannot wait to read your work! #SubmissionsOpen

✨We are looking back at 2025 with notable essays from The Best American Essays, edited by guest editor Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman, and published by HarperCollins. We are so honored to have made an appearance, please help us in celebrating all of these wonderful authors.

✨“To write while buried in a human warehouse you must free your monkey brain and swing from forgetting to imagining.” -from “Convict Crónicas: {branch},” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Leo Cardez Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings #MicroEssay #Submit

✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Admit the Gravity” by Emma Bolden, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week. Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com #RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay

✨This week, revisit Beautiful Things, "Mondegreen," by Diane Gottlieb, on IPR’s Pop of Culture at 12 p.m. ET today (Friday 1/9) and tomorrow (Saturday 1/10). 🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122... 🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...

✨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. ✨Submissions will be open from January 1 to April 1. #GetPublished #Submit #Publishing #Writing

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “What Matters in Matters of Love.” An essay by Abriana Jettà from River Teeth issue 16.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨“My father’s face, covered in foam, grimaces with concentration. The eight-year-old me prattles on while he removes his beard with surgical precision.” -from “Second Pass,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Andreea Boboc Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Heart Sounds.” An essay by Lee Martin from River Teeth 16.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Because We Are Born Again.” An essay by Feagin Jones from River Teeth issue 18.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity =#Submit #GetPublished #Essay

✨“We keep looking, find a small hummingbird in mid-flight, hinged wings extended. There’s no color other than granite, but we know it is a ruby-throated, that it will thrum above her in perpetual flight.” -from “Ruby-Throated,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Beth Richards

✨🗣️New Book Review! This month, Patricia Martin reviews Melissa Fraterrigo’s, “The Perils of Girlhood” #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #Bookstagram #Booklover #Writer #WritingCommunity #ReadMoreBooks #BookReview

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Naloxone, Syringes, and Pipes.” An essay by Melody Glenn from River Teeth 25.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse (found easily through the link tree in our bio). #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag

✨“The kitchen table sits like an altar. I’m on a stool while my grandmother stands with a rolling pin in her hand.” -from “Legerdemain,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Vicky Mayk Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #CreativeNonfiction #BeautifulThings #MicroEssay #Submit

✨This week, revisit Beautiful Things, "Reason Enough," by Sherrie Weller, aired 11/14 (Beautiful Things segment starts at 24:00) on IPR’s Pop of Culture episode 41: “We’re Visionaries” 🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...

✨🗣️Upcoming book release from RT Editor, Jill Christman. Jill has a new memoir coming out March 1 & the University of Nebraska Press is offering 50% off ALL books (even pre-orders!) until December 31st: use code 6HLW25 & give your future self a gift. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Undertaking.” An essay by Ellen Rogers from River Teeth issue 24.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse (found easily through the link tree in our bio). #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag #Submit #GetPublished #Reading

✨“The part of recovery no one tells you about is the somatic score your body keeps.” -from “You Have Such Nice Veins,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Colin Katchmar Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #BeautifulThings #GetPublished #Submit