✨ A new River Teeth Revisited is online today! This week, Roman Hughes brings to us: The Power of Extended Metaphor in Sophie Ezzell’s “While You Are Walking With a Boy You Find a Duck” from RT 23.2 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Tree.” An essay by Nicholas Dighiera from River Teeth issue 24.1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨ 🗣️ Exciting News! River Teeth has teamed up with IPR to bring to listeners a new series called “Beautiful Things” as part of their Pop of Culture programming. ✨ This week, Beautiful Things is revisiting, "Jumping in Leaves," by Joseph Gross, aired 10/17 on Pop of Culture.

✨🗣️Seasons are changing and River Teeth 27.1 is now available! ✨Subscribe via our Submittable page, or enjoy it via ProjectMUSE. Happy reading! #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #GetPublished #Reading #Submit

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Koi.” An essay by Helen Wallace from River Teeth 15.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse (found easily through the link tree in our bio). #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Out of Place.” An essay by Nicole Walker from River Teeth issue 15.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse (found easily through the link tree in our bio). #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag

✨“I go back to that fateful day in mid-September. Was the morning air swollen with heat? Did you slip through the hospital doors unnoticed?” -from “Toward Love,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Karen Skalitzky Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨🗣️New Book Review! This month, James T. Morrison reviews Jason McCall’s, “Razed By TV Sets.” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop down menu on our website. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal

✨Travel back this Tuesday to River Teeth 20.2 and read, “Grass-covered Chest” by Fleda Brown. ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨“In the lake on summer evenings at dusk, after the lifeguards have blown their last shrill decree and the children have trudged home with floaties nipping at their heels, I go for a swim.” -from “The Art of Submersion,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Courtney Langdell #MicroEssay #Submit

✨ 🗣️This week, an interview featuring Laura Julier, River Teeth’s 2023 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize winner is live on our website. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #BookPrize #AuthorInterview

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Some Notes on Rambling.” An essay by Sydney Lea from River Teeth issue 6.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“He thinks every question has an answer. A map, an explanation, a truth from millions of years ago. Delivered before bedtime.” -from “Nobody Knows,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Rachel M. Hollis Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨There is one more week left to submit to River Teeth’s 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize! The deadline is October 31, 2025. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #BeautifulThings #BookPrize #OnlineLitMag #WritingCommunity #GetPublished #Submit

✨ A new River Teeth Revisited is online today! This week, Mikayla Galgerud brings to us: A Gallery of Moments: Finding New Forms in Angela Pelster’s “Eating the Dead: A Guided Tour” from RT 18.1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips

✨Travel back this Tuesday to River Teeth 7.1 and read, “The Vulture Tree,” by Katie Fallon. ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“Twirling tiptoe, I am light as satin and tulle, a ballerina dancing under the kitchen spotlights, assisted and lifted by my duet partner, waltzing...” -from “Dancing Shoes,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Sarah Fawn Montgomery Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨Submissions for Beautiful Things are still open! ✨Want to challenge yourself this weekend? Write a Beautiful Thing and submit through the Submittable portal. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #BeautifulThings #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag #WritingCommunity #GetPublished #Submit

Exciting News! This week Pop of Culture will feature, "Jumping in Leaves," by Joseph Gross. 🎧Catch them in real time by tuning into IPR Muncie 92.1 FM at 12pm on Friday (10/17) or Saturday (10/18)

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Dear Jack, Ted, Jim or Some Other One-Syllable Name.” An essay by Cynthia Anne Brandon from River Teeth issue 13.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #WritingCommunity

"Jimmy Buffett’s 'Volcano' blared from the lanai speakers, steel drums skipping over sun-soaked chaos. Kids doing cannonballs, adults sloshing bourbon in plastic cups..." -from “Volcano,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Bethany Bruno Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Italian Lessons.” An essay by Sue Allison from River Teeth 7.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨Travel back this Tuesday to read, “A Good Weapon.” An essay by Jackson Connor from River Teeth issue 14.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“Even when cancer tethered her to her couch, she didn’t want anyone tethered with her.” -from “On the Manly Art of Quilting,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Eric K. Taylor Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨ 🗣️ Introducing River Teeth's 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Judge, Ander Monson! We are ecstatic to have Monson working with us as the final judge. His interview with our Assistant Managing Editor, Natasia Verdel, is live on our website, which you access through the link in our bio.

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Polaroid Baby and the Shape of Time.” An essay by Jessica Johnson from River Teeth issue 23.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨ Meet our River Teeth Fall 2025 interns! At Ball State, graduate students have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with every aspect of magazine publishing through our literary editing course. We are excited to have such a great team working for the magazine! #RiverTeeth #LiteraryPublishing

✨Treat yourself this Tuesday to River Teeth 21.2 and check out Hope Henderson’s essay, “Star Tables.” ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.” -from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “A Meditation on Pain.” An essay by Ira Sukrungruang from River Teeth 16.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨Take a trip to the past and check out River Teeth 18.2 and check out Reg Darling’s essay, “The Stones I Carry.” ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“We were driven small-town kids who had glimpsed enough of the world to know we wanted more.” -from “Full Moon and Baked Beans,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anne Jacobson Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things” is coming to IPR’s Pop of Culture programming tomorrow! This collaboration will feature Robert Barham and his Beautiful Thing “For My Students” 🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122... 🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2phyWpN...

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Taste Your Lips of Wine: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 1950s.” An essay by Roger Conant Cranse from River Teeth 26.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity

✨Treat yourself this Tuesday to River Teeth 26.2 and check out Hope Henderson’s essay, “How to Survive a Plague.” ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“The flowers had just started blooming, so my mom gathered yellow daffodils and pink azaleas from her yard for your bridal bouquet.” -from “No Ugly Crying,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Allison Kirkland Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Thursday’s Child.” An essay by Catherine Humikowski from River Teeth 26.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Wedding of the Foxes: A Lyric Essay” by Katherine Larson from River Teeth issue 26.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize are open!! ✨ Submissions are open until: River Teeth: September 01 – December 01 Beautiful Things: September 01 – December 01 Book Prize: September 01 – October 31

“I’ll wait in a grown-up chair in the main office with my bigger-than-me backpack, my legs swinging in anticipation of what the rest of the day could bring.” -from "Sick Day,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jackie Domenus Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize all open tomorrow. ✨ Please submit your creative nonfiction essays, books, and micro essays via our Submittable page through our website.

✨From the latest issue of River Teeth (26.2). Here is a glimpse into the first essay, “Counterclockwise” by Margot Singer. ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Third Eye of the Oyster.” An essay by Sonya Huber from River Teeth issue 25.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize all open September 01 ✨ Submit your creative nonfiction essays, books, and micro essays via our Submittable page through our website riverteethjournal.com

“We named Ellwood Bluff after the elementary school across the street, spending our afternoons among the mustard flower, wild fennel, and eucalyptus forests.” -from "Bluffs,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by James T. Morrison Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Dark Secrets of Mother Trees.” An essay by Gina Williams from River Teeth 17.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨ Travel back this Tuesday to River Teeth 19.1 and check out Sarah Curtis Graziano’s essay, “Daughter of a Gun.” ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

“We didn’t go to see the stars. The clouds had already draped themselves over the city, and I was grateful.” -from "Clouded Night at Griffith Observatory,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by Lindsey Trout Hughes Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨ A glimpse into the pages of River Teeth 21.2 essay, “Astrophobia,” by Kelly Fordon. ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨ A snippet from River Teeth 5.2 essay, “What the Scorpions Know,” by Siân B. Griffiths. ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity