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Lace 'em up! Muleskinner Journal submissions are open for one more week! Our theme is Sabotage. Visit our website and see the great work published so far on this theme.
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17 days ago
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Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! from Muleskinner Journal!
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28 days ago
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Life's a batch. Here's ten on Sabotage from Muleskinner Journal. Just in time for the holiday.
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On the bright side, it's one extra hour to send in your submission. Journal 16, "Sabotage," is open until December 15. Time is complicit. Do your worst!
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about 2 months ago
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Muleskinner Journal is excited to open submissions for Journal 16. Our theme is Sabotage! Do your worst.
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2 months ago
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Submissions for Journal 16 open on October 15. Our theme? Sabotage! Do your worst.
2 months ago
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Muleskinner Journal Presents TENSION, our fifteenth journal
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3 months ago
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Muleskinner closes out our meditations on Tension with a remarkable story from Maryah Converse. Please afford it the space and honor it deserves. We’ll see you soon.
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3 months ago
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Nick Di Carlo takes us on another wild ride. Our patience is wearing thin. Our tension is running out.
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3 months ago
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Scott Ruescher’s new poem, gracing Muleskinner today, swims upstream with piranha and crocodile, and all sorts of tense and wonderful things.
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3 months ago
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Writer Atma Frans brings us a tension-filled short story about gardening. And a few other matters, as well.
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3 months ago
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Today, a short poem from the acclaimed Paul Hostovsky. Back Door 1973. Includes a tetherball.
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3 months ago
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Poet David Kirby returns to Muleskinner with forgotten history, a story for the ages to make your day
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3 months ago
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Muleskinner presents a poem with pain and wonder. Father in the Next Room is a room with and without a view.
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3 months ago
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Margot Wizansky’s remarkable poem To Love in that Insane Tortured Way will make you think twice – a good thing.
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3 months ago
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A.Z. Foreman brings us a sonnet cut short, for our time. This poem brings it all home.
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4 months ago
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From poet Callie Crouch, a poem you can’t quite quit.
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4 months ago
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Annie Weeks brings us an excerpt from her upcoming novel. It’s set in the Netherlands, a long time ago, today.
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4 months ago
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Today in MSJ: Poet Joel Bush offers insight on roads taken, not taken, and lived on. Not a beginner’s course. A collision course.
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4 months ago
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From MSJ today, flash fiction that moves: “The Bus Driver’s Routine” and the road to redemption.
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4 months ago
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Poet Shannon Cates sings a song for what’s been lost, but not forgotten
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4 months ago
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Today, on the eve of Labor Day, an amazing poem. Briana Naseer takes us on a journey of acceptance
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4 months ago
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Diane Gottlieb lines things up in just the right way. Did you hear it too?
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4 months ago
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Today in MSJ: Ken Foxe takes us on a wild ride – without ever leaving the house.
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4 months ago
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Today in MSJ, a short piece of family history. Heather Pegas reminds us that there’s no tension like generational tension.
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4 months ago
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A Muleskinner request: Please read this poem from David J.S. Pickering.
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4 months ago
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MSJ today presents a new poem from Sarah Dickenson Snyder. The Beekeeper will stay with you.
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5 months ago
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Buenos Aires-based writer Calla Smith presents a tense, powerful, thought-provoking flash fiction story that comes to stay.
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5 months ago
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Rev up your engine. Poet Marisa P. Clark was born to ride. And so is our collection on Tension.
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5 months ago
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Submissions for Journal 15 will open on July 17. Our theme is Tension. See our Submission Guidelines for all the dirt. We can’t wait to read your work. Enjoy the flower.
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6 months ago
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Muleskinner Journal announces Journal Fourteen. Thanks to everyone who submitted work. What you'll find is what we selected. Memorable work, agonizingly selected over other great work. We are proud and lucky. See here.
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6 months ago
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Do you have some time this weekend? We have an amazing treat for you. We close our Handle & Spout meditations with a handful of new pieces of transformative work from five writers you should know.
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6 months ago
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Rough road behind. Open Road ahead. See our pages today for the newest work from writer M F Drummy, whose debut collection is upcoming from Main Street Rag Press.
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6 months ago
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Second Hand, from poet Marisa P. Clark, remembers the light, the smoke, and the fire. Especially the smoke.
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6 months ago
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Down by the river, where the water runs cold, you’ll find Town by Rachel Pearsall
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6 months ago
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In her wonderful poem, She Feeds the Storm, poet Kathleen Kimball-Baker reminds us that everything is everything, including the weather.
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6 months ago
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Famously, every ending heralds a beginning, and every beginning touches an ending. In Commencement Speech, poet Amalie Kwassman offers your grad less traditional advice and reflection. It’s time to get real.
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7 months ago
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Today, we offer a wild short story from Allison Bradley. Tango will change the way you play board games.
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7 months ago
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Trash Day is Monday for me. What about you? Today's poem, from Michael Lauchlan, should be saved.
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7 months ago
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This poem will fit. This poem will keep you warm.
7 months ago
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Set aside a few minutes today for a poem that challenges the sense in sensibility.
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7 months ago
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What do we do about Carthage? A question for the ages.
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7 months ago
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In today’s short story, Hero Once, Marco Etheridge reminds us that we can’t hide forever.
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8 months ago
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We have for you today two portraits, connected. Park it here, and enjoy On the In-Law.
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8 months ago
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Today’s Journal entry is a flash fiction gem, The Perfect House. It’s perfect for your coffee break today.
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8 months ago
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Welcome to our 14th journal! Our theme this time around is Handle and Spout because, sometimes, you just have to sing. We kick these journal entries off with Marion Goldstein’s wonderful poem, Visiting Rita.
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8 months ago
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Journal 14 is open for submissions. Our theme is Handle and Spout. Read all about it on our Submissions Guidelines page.
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8 months ago
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MSJ releases Journal Thirteen, empty : FULL. Read, download, or print. It's chock full of great writing, writing that will fill you up.
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9 months ago
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Frederick Barrows brings us a story that tries to make privilege pay, tries to fill up the emptiness it leaves behind.
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9 months ago
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Wendy Dolber with a short reflection that hits all the right notes.
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