✨🗣️ New Book Review! David McGlynn reviews Margot Singer’s “Secret Agent Man.” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu on our website.

✨Travel back this Thursday and read, “Fiction,” an essay by Michelle Bliss from River Teeth issue 11.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Essay

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Something Like Joy” an essay by Sonja Livingston from River Teeth issue 14.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #GetPublished #Essay

✨“He tells me he has “eagle eyes,” able to see far, to notice what others miss. He spots two wasps weaving around the swing set, a red-tailed hawk slicing across the sky above the playground.” -from “Eagle Eyes,” by Abigail Wasserman Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨Travel back this Thursday and read, “The Deer Wouldn’t Burn,” an essay by James Ellenberger from River Teeth issue 21.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “And Then We Are Leaving” an essay by Tim Hillegonds from River Teeth issue 17.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨“My daughter’s body tenses in the bath chair. Fists tight, knees drawn, chin tucked, the full clench she gives anything she hasn’t decided about yet.” -from “Ten Minutes,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Robin Koczerginski Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #RiverTeeth

✨🗣️ New Book Review! Brooke Champagne, a treasured member of the RT team and our Book Reviews Editor, has reviewed Sue William Silverman’s “Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader.” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu.

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Hawkes and Other Flying Things” an essay by Suzanne Roberts from River Teeth issue 19.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨We've been working on something new! River Teeth Classics will be a subset of craft and pedagogy essays found under the River Teeth Revisited section of our website. ✨Jill Christman’s lost (and now found) essay, “Three Takes on a Jump,” first published in the Mississippi Review Online in 2006.

✨Travel back this Tuesday and read, “On Dusk” an essay by Desirae Matherly from River Teeth issue 9.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal

✨“Grandad was trying to button his shirt. His vision had mostly gone and his hands shook now. Still, he pressed at the fabric.” -from “The Shirt Stays Crooked,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Grady Johnson Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #GetPublished #Submit

✨️ 🗣️ Congratulations to Anne Goldman, the winner of the 2025 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize! Her collection "House of Fragile Things" will be published through the University of New Mexico Press in 2027. #BookPrize #NewBooks #RiverTeeth #NewMexicoPress #Writing #BookRecs

✨Take some time this Thursday to read, “The Unreliable History of Sparkles the Bear/Dog,” an essay by Jim Daniels from River Teeth issue 27.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #LitMag

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Before We Were Human,” an essay by Wendy Bone from River Teeth issue 19.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again on September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag

✨“When brittle leaves begin to fade and fall, my four-year-old son and I go out to plant hyacinth bulbs.” -from “Planting Hyacinth Bulbs,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Orah Dawn Levin-Minder Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #GetPublished #Submit

✨️ A huge THANK YOU to everyone that donated to the River Teeth Learning Lab on One Ball State Day yesterday. Your contribution helps support our amazing interns and all of the bright minds on their way to us. #Gratitude #RiverTeeth #SupportingInterns #BallStateUniversity #LiteraryCommunity

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Blood Trails,” an essay by Bill Milligan from River Teeth issue 9.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨One Ball State Day is coming to a close! ✨You can still make donations to the link in our bio until 11:59 PM tonight. ✨All donations to our fund will be used to help our interns continue their work at River Teeth. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Interns #LitMag #GradStudents #OBSD

✨Happy One Ball State Day! ✨You can make donations to our fund until 11:59 P.M. tonight by scanning the QR code on the second slide or going to the link in our bio. ✨All donations to our fund will be used to help our interns continue their work at River Teeth. #RiverTeeth #GradStudents #OBSD

✨Travel back this Tuesday and read, “Souvenirs from Ganymede” an essay by Juan Martinez from River Teeth issue 8.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨“Two-year-old George zooms his handheld toy bicycle up a ramp, through the air, and down another ramp. ‘Grandma, can you do that?’” -from “Aspirations,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Nancy Jorgensen Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #GetPublished #Submit

✨Meet one of our River Teeth interns, Lydia Wilhelm! ✨Lydia reads Beautiful Things submissions and assists with developmental editing. ✨All donations to our One Ball State Day fund will be used to help interns like Lydia continue their work at River Teeth! #RiverTeeth #Intern #GradStudents #OBSD

✨Dive into the past this Thursday and read, “Wonder Woman” an essay by Constance Adler from River Teeth issue 23.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨In our immersive learning course (River Teeth Learning Lab), we aid students in developing skills such as proofreading, developmental editing, social media design, and more. ✨All donations to our One Ball State Day fund will go towards the River Teeth Learning Lab. #RiverTeeth #OBSD #BallState

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “A Grave on the High Plains” an essay by Stephan Benz from River Teeth issue 17.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨“Just as Matt Damon in The Martian cleared out the extraneous from the lightweight rocket, tossing all non-essential parts and replacing the airlock with a tarp, my father-in-law is also preparing for a journey.” -from “Just as Matt Damon,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Debbie Feit

✨🗣️River Teeth wants to say a huge congratulations to contributor Angela Pelster on her forthcoming book release –– The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming –– this April with Milkweed Editions. Congratulations Angela! #Essays #BookRelease #BookRecs

✨Take some time this Thursday to read, “What You Know Is Real” an essay by Beth Ann Miller from River Teeth issue 21.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Submit #GetPublished #ReadingRecs

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Eating the Dead: A Guided Tour,” an essay by Angela Pelster from River Teeth 18.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #GetPublished #Submit

✨How Was Your Summer? “I played a lot of pool. I had near-constant epiphanies. Colors melted in my mouth and I ran in the dark.” -from “How Was Your Summer?”, this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Jo Rzepiejewski Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #BeautifulThings #MicroEssay

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Till Moons Shall Wax and Wane No More,” an essay by Lisa Ohlen Harris from River Teeth 9.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #GetPublished

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Riding in the Dark” an essay by Angela Morales from River Teeth issue 12.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #LitMag #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Submit #GetPublished

✨At the Interview “My heart fell like a stone at the threshold of my career, during an open-house in 1990. Everyone around me appeared impossibly polished—shoes gleaming, silk ties flowing neatly against pressed shirts, handbags sleek as river-worn stone.” - “At the Interview” by Jamal Ali Hussein

Tonight!

Tonight is RT editor @jillchristman.bsky.social book launch with RT contributor @nikwalk.bsky.social and others! #awp26

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Liver Lady and Anything Man” an essay by Aaron Landsman from River Teeth issue 23.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse. ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

✨Gift “One day, we were exploring a lake outside the city, lush with wildlife we didn’t usually see: kingfishers, a blue-tailed lizard, a family of turtles sunning themselves on a wet log.” -from “Gift,” today's BT essay by Heather Holliger Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Someone’s having a book birthday! Get the scoop on RT editor’s new book at jillchristman.com

✨️ Hello AWP and hello Baltimore! As you’re planning which conference sessions you will be attending, consider placing some of these River Teeth events on your schedule as well. #AWP26 #AWP2026 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #WritingCommunity #Baltimore

✨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