@smokelong.bsky.social is awesome 😎

Fantastic braided essay on the writing life and the art of flash fiction by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social ✨

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams

This piece has all the feels.

Get to know @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

Join me on Zoom this weekend if you'd like to get back in journaling or build on your practice: www.writersinprogress.com/writing-work...

Loved this!

"Being a writer is not just a side thing. It is who you are — so own it." ✨ hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writ... @hippocampusmag.bsky.social

"You never jump first. You need to see someone survive." Wow, a great story. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

"People often mistake my humor for denial. They think I’m not feeling anything, when really, I’m feeling too much, just not where anyone can see it." reckonreview.com/i-think-ive-... Incredible essay 💔

Lots of food for thought in Brad David Waters' craft essay. Highly recommend you check it out and send us your creations! 🌊

Congrats to our '26 nominees and thank you everyone for your continued submissions throughout the year–you make our journal great!

We are still accepting applications through September 30th.

Looking for a fiction editor to lead a team.

Looking for folks passionate about reading creative nonfiction and working with a volunteer team.

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"Writing isn't therapy. Therapy is therapy. And I would encourage writers to do the work of taking care of yourself off the page." ~ Leah Johnson

"I need to decide what leaving means losing" 💛 beautiful piece

So excited my essay found a home with Reckon. I don't like trigger warnings and here's why if you'd like to read it: reckonreview.com/content-warn...

Psssst... www.unleashlit.com/p/psssst-are...

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I think the hardest part about writing is writing." ~ Nora Ephron

Beautiful flash essay by @wendyfontaine.bsky.social and so timely with back to school around the corner.

Join me for the last Community Writing Workshop this summer, August 3rd 9:30-12:30pm Eastern: www.writersinprogress.com/writing-work...

loved this.

We are looking for a few good creative nonfiction editors! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c...

"I learned more about myself writing [memoir] than I had learned from fiction, than I had learned from my entire life. And life presents us with moments when our world changes, and we need to keep track of what is happening, of who or what we are becoming." ~ Abigail Thomas 💛

The worst thing about being a writer theweightofaletter.com/2025/05/30/t...:

I am so thankful to have found my community. Thank you to Dinty and the Brevity team for publishing my reflection on AWP.

We are thrilled to receive two additional Pushcart nominations for jmww courtesy of the Pushcart Prize Editorial Committee! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/a...

National essay day 📖

"Writing collaboratively is much faster than writing solo." Today at jmww, Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross talk to Curtis Smith their collaborative collection, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c...

Still so honored and pleased my essay was nominated last year in Pithead Chapel. It was surreal seeing my name alongside @amorak.bsky.social, whose Bill Murray essay I have shown to students in my nonfiction workshop in the past.

This needs to have more eyes on it, it's the funniest thing I've read all week 🤣

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I look for a strong voice more than anything else. If a narrator is confident and curious, I will follow them anywhere." Behind the Scenes, featuring a jmww editorial team member. This week, get to know Sr. CNF Editor Juliet Way-Henthorne. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/g...

We’re pleased to welcome our newest Associate Flash Fiction Editors, Jacqueline Parker and Lisa Thornton! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/w...

Description in memoir and fiction is not just facts and details. Description is plot and theme. And if done well — each descriptive element contains the story itself. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/a...

Loved this flash essay!

"what is done in love is done well." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Some thoughts on publishing: Creative nonfiction comes from an incredibly vulnerable place and publishing an essay can be very exposing. Make sure the magazines where you send your work align with your moral compass. Read the the rest: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/publishing...

"Essayists are perpetually having an internal conversation among the three selves: writer, narrator, editor. The hardest part is learning how to lean into the narrator more than the writer, and to avoid eye contact with the editor." ~ Olga Katsovskiy brevity.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/t...

And here's Olga's (very short) Short Reads essay where she remembers the things left behind in search of a new beginning. www.short-reads.org/i-have-only-...