“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

✨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

“My father pushed his bowl of chicken soup aside, sent the hospice nurse home, and set out on his scooter into the city in search of a hot dog.” -from "Hot Dog,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by Ellen Blum Barish Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨ Travel back this Tuesday to River Teeth 6.2 and check out Rosemary McGuire’s essay, “After Eden.” ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

It Seemed Like Everything Was Before Us "While students loitered over their books at the cafe tables, a boy named Adam taught me how to spin the batter on the griddle." -from this week's Beautiful Things essay by H. K. Hummel riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

If you are working on your course calendar and want some suggested readings, we have plenty of ideas for you. Visit our River Teeth Revisited page (tinyurl.com/ye237kjn) and check out the PDF to inspire your teaching or accommodate your own writing.

✨ A glimpse into the pages of River Teeth 14.2 essay, “Teeth on Bone,” by Amy A. Whitcomb. ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

Autobiography on the Eve of My Thirtieth Birthday "I think about God a lot because I think all ex-Catholics do. That means I think a lot about sin, and also about death." This week's Beautiful Things essay by Melanie Ritzenthaler Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨ A glimpse into the pages of, “Women Who Cry.” An essay by Amy Peterson from River Teeth 19.1 ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

My Sister Teaches Me How to Dice an Onion "What on earth are you doing? she says, (my mistake was cutting the ends off first..." -from "My Sister Teaches Me How to Dice an Onion," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jessica Franken Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨ Take a break this Tuesday to read “Earthquakes and Angels,” by Sydney Lea, an essay from River Teeth 20.1. ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

He Comes Back for the Curtains "After all that, he comes back for the curtains. The blackout curtains that helped him sleep in on so many school days—past the alarms I begged him to set, past all my fruitless shouting, past noon." -from Jill Currie's essay riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

"After all that, he comes back for the curtains. The blackout curtains that helped him sleep in on so many school days..." -from "He Comes Back for the Curtains," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jill Currie Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

If you're not a subscriber to Beautiful Things, my goodness, what are you waiting for?! I mean, we're making beauty and giving it away over here. For free. Every Monday.

✨ Take some time to relax this Tuesday and check out Nicholas Dighiera’s essay from River Teeth 19.1, “Anchorage, Alaska.” ✨ Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

✨ This July begins the summer series for Beautiful Things, our weekly online magazine featuring micro–essays of 250 words or fewer. ✨ Subscribe for free and start your week with Beautiful Things, delivered to your inbox every Monday. #BeautifulThings #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction

"This phase of recovery is luxurious mornings on the porch, sipping tea through a straw and reading on a propped-up Kindle, birds chirping and sunlight flickering down through rustling leaves." - “Two weeks post-top surgery," essay by Ash Trebisacci riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

"This phase of recovery is luxurious mornings on the porch, sipping tea through a straw and reading on a propped-up Kindle, birds chirping..." -from “Two Weeks Post-Top Surgery," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Ash Trebisacci Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

A glimpse into the pages from Lucy McBee’s essay, “We Are Made of Numbers.” Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

Take some time for yourself this Tuesday and read Jessica Franken’s essay, “The Hayflick Limit.” Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

"I carry my dog to the lake and we sit in the grass. He closes his eyes against sunlight that tosses itself like spare change through the trees."-from “The End," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jax Connelly Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

“The Grasshopper Mouse Fails to Serve as a Metaphor,” an essay from RT 26.2 by Sharman Apt Russel. Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

Take some time for yourself this Tuesday and read Leslie Stonebraker’s short essay, “The Proclivities of Witches,” from RT 24.1. Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity

"I imagined clumsy cubs gorging on berries, their proud pappa watching, as he scratched his back against a nearby tree. And the mamma. A lovely, furry, solid mass of strength, safety, devotion." -from "Mondegreen," Beautiful Things essay by Diane Gottlieb riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...