"The scene runs like a video loop in my head, three seconds long." Creative Nonfiction: My Earliest Memory, but Not Really by John Janelle Backman jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/c...

Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Keene Short! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/w...

"I tell my students that the poet’s mind is never happy with just one thing—it has to be ready to see 18 things in every one thing." The Ebb and Flow: An Interview with Grant Clausner by Curtis Smith jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/t...

"something is shifting and I don’t know if it is that point or those moments or that line after which we are no longer amused by our stumbling and become concerned" Poetry: we time travel all the time and it isn’t great by Nathaniel Calhoun jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/p...

"I stared at the thunderstorm rolling in and wondered if that was the last time I would get to speak to my mother." Creative Nonfiction: Is This Abuse? by Ashton Russell jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/c...

"I use the writing to help me figure it out, to come to some understanding, and perhaps some resolution." One Poem at a Time: An Interview with Bill Hollands by Diane Gottlieb jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/o...

jmww is looking for a Senior Fiction Editor!  jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...

Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...

"Because even the alarm clock felt like a cage. It didn’t wake me up. It caught me." Creative Nonfiction: Sign With Love, Not Fear by Xavion Davis jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/c...

'“I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.” ~ Anne Truitt, Prospect (1996)" Editorial Team Announcements jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/e...

Introducing Newest Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor, Heather Harris! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/w...

"Uncle Henry. His obsession with Elvis and bowling and twinkies." Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/c...

We are thrilled to welcome our newest Associate Flash Fiction Editor, Jason Lee Norman! Jason Lee Norman is the co-founder of Funicular Magazine. He lives, writes, and eats in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/w...

"I think of Percussing the Thinking Jar as having more of a sprawling, all-over feel." Thinking Outside the Box: A Conversation with Maw Shein Win by Swetha Amit jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

We can feel unseen in our experiences if we don’t see them represented in popular culture, which is so often saturated with simplified or sanitized versions of female life. Woman of the Hour: An Interview with Claire Polders by Claire Ibarra jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/w...

Introducing Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor Charlotte Van Schaack! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...

We need a few good folks! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/w...

"I like characters whose perspective is cracked in this way, who have no sense of belonging." Detonation: An Interview with Peter Mountford by Jamey Baumgardt jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/i...

We're looking for a few good candidates! Come volunteer with an amazing team of flash readers! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/w...

"Where you stand amidst the brand-new bedding and the unpacked textbooks and wrap your arms around her" Creative Nonfiction: This Is the Part Where You Leave Her by Wendy Fontaine jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/c...

"The more I listened, the more the drumming made sense. Glued together by a few steady beats, pleasing, ever-shifting patterns formed in the chaos." Flash Fiction: Drum Circle by Laura Remington jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/f...

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

"I walk down the stairs – concrete, the edges smoothed away by time and the march of many mothers." Flash Fiction: Baby Change by Sumitra Singam jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/f...

"Thirteen will be new like a galaxy, gigantic and unraveling." Creative Nonfiction: Confessions of a Summer Star Gazer by Melina Papadopoulos jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/c...

"Playing at change Or falling for it" Poetry: Snow is by Jami Macarty jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/p...

I don’t know why you walked onto those tracks. But I do believe you did not want to die. Creative Nonfiction: Dear Young Man Who Lived Near Naples by Marcy Darin jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/c...

"When I’m approached about starting a mag my default is—Are you out of your mind?" Interview: The End of an Era: An Interview with Richard Peabody by Curtis Smith jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/i...

"At 2:30 a.m. the sea counts minutes." Poetry: Fish by Tamara MC jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p...

"When a girl forgives she forgives with her everything. When a woman forgives, she forgives with the reconstruction of her past." Creative Nonfiction: Kin by Kiana Govoni jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/c...

"Dating is something you do when you’re free and young and meeting someone presents a possibility. But right now, I cannot be open to the possible. I’m drifting, but quickly and in a specific direction." Fiction: Afterparty by Kelly Castriotta jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/f...

“The smoke helps the pineapples grow the same size,” he says, “but first they have to bring them to within an inch of their lives.” And I roll my eyes because he’s not really talking about pineapples anymore. Flash Fiction: Pineapples by Kelly Pedro jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/f...

"Today, I feel like Optimus Prime after the big fight in Act 3." Poetry: Poem 4/1. Optimus Prime, You April Fool! by Kyle Solomon jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/p...

"Were you haunted by the voice of the woman who never nurtured you, who stated loudly that you were the least favorite of her four children?" Creative Nonfiction: When Imagination Runs Wild by Melissa Witcher jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/c...

"Making toast becomes the one thing in her day that she single-tasks, even though, living alone now, she doesn’t need to multi-task anymore." Flash Fiction: David as Toaster by Dawn Tasaka Steffler jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/f...

"The promise that what once lived can gleam in daylight again." Poetry: Cretaceous by Kendra Whitfield jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/p...

1. Watching her leave is like watching your life walk away from you.  Creative Nonfiction: Notes on Various Entanglements by Marissa Kenney jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/c...

"Like this, like this Benny instructs them as he whirls his green chalk in the air like a magic wand to summon the Blacktop King." Flash Fiction: Benny of The First Grade by Kate Faigen jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/f...

"A shorter answer would be that for the past twenty years or so, my work has become more meditative." The Necessity of Gary Fincke: An Interview by Curtis Smith jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/t...

"on the corner is cash only." Poetry: The Inconvenience Store by K. Degala-Kayla Degala-Paraíso jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/p...

"tell yourself you didn’t care about your appearance as you rushed to a hairdresser after twenty hours and forty thousand feet above the ground..." Creative Nonfiction: greys or no greys by Andrea Damic jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/c...

"Check your ex’s Instagram account." Excerpted From First Kicking, Then Not by Hannah Grieco, forthcoming from Stanchion in August of 2025.  jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/e...

"People will turn to this genre to explore the biggest questions we face, searching for answers and ways to communicate our fears." Today at jmww, novelists Tara Campbell and K.E. Semmel sat down recently to consider speculative fiction. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/s...

"How do we hang on?" Poetry: Bucket by Thomas Kniffin jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/p...

"When people ask me what I do, sometimes I say I’m a stay-at-home dad. Sometimes I say I’m self-employed. If interrogated further, I say I’m a writer." Creative Nonfiction: Odometers by Aaron Rabinowitz jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/c...

"Let me be a little girl again." Excerpt: Snatch by Hillary Leftwich jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/e...

"I think I gradually moved towards unveiling myself, so to speak, in nonfiction." Fine Young Cannibals: An Interview with Jennifer Spiegel by Jen Michalski jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/f...

"There is a hush in the hallway where thoughts walk barefoot." Poetry: Somewhere Between Silence and Song by Richard Lee Granvold jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/p...

“… and then you remember that you don’t actually belong, that you and your family are not actually safe…” Creative Nonfiction: Notes on an Incident: Sister & Notes on an Incident: Flight by Maw Shein Win jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/c...