Brad Snyder resides in San Francisco with his husband, daughter, and son. His writing has appeared in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Sweet Lit, Hippocampus Magazine, and elsewhere. In our Q&A with him, he shared influences and insights about writing and life. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/11/19/a...

"It was May 2012 and I was in the back, nestled next to precious cargo: a daughter we’d named Emma, three days old, born on a foreign coast to our surrogate Samantha, who had carried our future for nine months..." From Short CNF, Rearview Mirror, by Brad Snyder thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

2025 is quickly tumbling toward the end. As we wrap prize nom season, we are eager to read fresh new work to feature in 2026! We pay $25 for Micro prose and poetry and it's free to submit. Guidelines and the link to send work are at thegoodlifereview.submittable.com/submit

Marlene Olin was born in Brooklyn, raised in Miami, and educated at the University of Michigan. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of The Net, and Best Small Fictions. Our brief Q&A with Marlene is available on The Buzz. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/11/12/a...

"I’m like one of those teapots, said Marg. Some days the pressure builds and builds, and I feel like I’m gonna explode..." From a flash cnf essay, The Percolator, by Marlene Olin, available in our Autumn Issue. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty... Stay tuned for our Q&A with Marlene coming soon!

"There was someone on a plane when the doctor pulled the twins into this world. A metal seat frame shapes my skeleton while the window shows me glowing lights of unknown cities that perhaps will be my home..." Poetry by Reva Elise Johnson thegoodlifereview.com/2025/11/10/w... Photo by Eva Darron

In case you missed it, our autumn issue features two poems by Author, Poet, and Dialogist Rodrigo Toscano who participated in a brief Q&A with us. Read to learn what he shared about his approach to writing sonnets and what influences his practice. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/11/05/a...

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of twelve books of poetry and we're thrilled to feature two sonnets by Rodrigo in our autumn issue. "Routines" and "Novella 14" are two of 100 sonnets that deal with the epic tension between conceptions of Cosmos and Mundus. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

A tumultuous start to a wonderfully wild ride that captivates from start to finish. "Layover" by Simon Ashton is available now in our Autumn Issue. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

"In transit, you reflect on the city and observe how nothing has changed. The roads still sunken with potholes..." Today's Micro Monday Feature is a beautifully written, visceral depiction of experience: "Return" by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/10/27/r...

It's dark and rainy here in Nebraska and slightly cooler than it has been - the perfect weather to usher in our Autumn edition. We’re honored to promote the writers in this bountiful collection! The full announcement includes links to all the goodies! thegoodlifereview.com/2025/10/17/i...

"You want to get right to it – run straight into the waves, do cartwheels at the water’s foamy edge, bury yourself in the sand – but Mom says Sunblock first. Standing side by side, both looking out over the water..." The Summer He Left is available in Issue #20. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

The cure to all the maladies that ail us won’t be scooped from a ballot box, nor delivered on the wings of a dodo. You may ask yourself why seek what’s extinct?... Read the rest of this poem by Jonathan Greenhause on The Buzz ~ Micro Monday. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/10/13/t...

In case you missed it, we've got free subs! We want to read your wild and wonderful writing!! Guidelines and forms at: thegoodlifereview.submittable.com/submit

"This is how the night unravels the coiled mesh of the mind. It’s cold and blue as the center of a flame. In certain seasons the evening can take your knees clean out—crawl you towards some bright, unsteady dawn..." Poetry by Ellie Gold Laabs in Issue #20. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

Calling all Nebraska writers! The NWC's Kate Sommer Memorial Poetry Prize is open and this year's guest judge is Saddiq Dzukogi. First prize is $1000 and a feature spot in our winter issue! Details and a link to submit are at www.newriters.org/kate-sommer-... Deadline is 10/19! 🍂

"Peaches hung heavy, their skins splitting, cherries darkened to a blood-red gloss. The June strawberry moon swelled on the solstice...." Poetry by Sara Shea, available in Issue #20. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty... Artwork by Britnie Walston

This week's Micro Monday Feature is new cnf, Golden Hour in the District of Columbia, by Noah Lane Browne thegoodlifereview.com/2025/09/29/g... Noah writes about family, memory, and survival and lives in Washington DC with his badass wife and their intemperate cat. Photo by Simon Fitall

This lovely piece, "Impressions of Waking Cranes," by Nebraska author and artist, Kim McNealy Sosin is one of three pieces of art we nominated for "Best of the Net" this year. The other nominations for writing and art were announced yesterday on The Buzz... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/09/25/2...

This week we are pleased to highlight Tom Ziemer and his short fiction story "Take Me Through the Finish." This piece about a single dad and his neurodivergent son captured the hearts of our editorial team and is available now in Issue #20. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

"Tastes good, he says, tastes good. Who let sin into the world? Why is love so full of shadows? What were Okigbo’s last words? I don’t care for such anxieties anymore. There is a gun to be put down..." thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete... Accompanying artwork by Ellen June Wright

"what belongs where – an arrowhead of geese, the nesting of spoons and the pinhole in Newton’s window shade, pitching a blade of blond light onto wall, the ricochet of refraction…" Poetry by Lucinda Trew: "Isaac Newton reorders the rainbow" thegoodlifereview.com/2025/09/01/i...

This collection of poems is a generous embodiment, an evocation, and an invitation. Through the examples of family we experience in his poems, we are invited to consider our place in society.... Cid Galicia Reviews “All the Possible Bodies” on The Buzz thegoodlifereview.com/2025/08/26/c...

"she has a plan. she parks her bike and buys a bag of potato chips. she gets back on, crosses down to main street, to the ice cream place. it’s a jumble of fenced-in water pumps now, but…" This week's Micro feature is prose poem, "yes, she did" by Ashlie Hyer thegoodlifereview.com/2025/08/18/y...

"before Hamlet’s father was a ghost, he was all of the leaves around Denmark, he was red and he was yellow. He was on Hamlet’s roof, fallen from the trees..." New poetry by Dolapo Demuren, available in our summer issue: thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty... Artwork by Britnie Walston

Keira Deer is a writer and poet based in Southern California. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University and her poem, “if,” is featured in Issue #19. Check out the Q&A Keira did with us to learn about her poem and writing... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/08/11/a...

Alayna Powell is a biracial Black writer with roots along the Southern East Coast and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In our Q&A with her, she shared about her grandmother, whom she has never met as well as love, loss, and hybrid writing. Check it out on The Buzz... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/08/06/a...

This week we're honored to highlight this year's winner of The Honeybee Prize in Flash CNF... I Conjure My Great-Grandmother In a Dream; She Gives Me a Lesson on Revision by Alayna Powell Available now in our Summer Issue at thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty... Artwork by Nataliia Burmaka

This week we have a spotlight on @slptampa.bsky.social and her story, When Mr. Boppo Joined the Cohort, which won this year's Honeybee Prize in Short Fiction. Read our Q&A with her to learn what she shared about her life and writing... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/07/30/a...

"He looked exactly the same, as if he slept in his costume and makeup, as if they were not in fact applied but rather a part of him – or more specifically, him, himself..." Winner of the 2025 Honeybee Prize in short fiction by Sharon Lee Snow. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty... Art by Mary Amato

This week we are excited to put a spotlight on Jim Parisi and the story that won this year's Honeybee Prize in Flash Fiction! The story, judge's endorsement, plus audio of @jpariseye.bsky.social reading his work are available in Issue #20. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty... Photo by Mark Duffel

Welcome to the sweltering heart of summer. Today we are excited to celebrate one of our most glorious collections to date! Issue #20 ~ Summer 2025 includes the winners of our annual Honeybee Prize and other select finalists... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/07/15/i... Cover art: “Zephyr” by Mary Amato

"the steel ride is painted blue over rust, its many arms symbolic of family. If we still have people to love, does it matter the ones fled or stolen? Somewhere near the Wheel of Fortune lies an idea of fairness undone…" From Florida Fairgrounds by Liz Robbins thegoodlifereview.com/2025/07/14/f...

This autumn, we will begin featuring spoken word pieces alongside written work. The team is excited to see/hear poems, prose pieces, and mini monologues delivered with passion and flair! It's fun, we pay $60 per piece, and it's FREE to submit. Details at... thegoodlifereview.submittable.com/submit

In addition to the compelling short fiction, Tbilisi, available in our spring issue from Sara Maria Hasbun, we also have a Q&A with her that touches on curiosity, accountability, and leaning into uncertainty. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/07/09/a...

"I want to learn this without learning, through blind seeing: no books or lessons, no regimentation—but I want your strokes on my page, the impressions of your fingertips and knuckles..." From Drawing from Life by Miles Parnegg on The Buzz ~ Micro Monday thegoodlifereview.com/2025/06/30/d...

"hunter is deadly quiet when he comes home after seven twelves on the rig eyes in the defilade between brow and cheek nothing’s bad enough to hold sway like what he saw in the desert a girl..." thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete... "ephemera 31" by Chris Lisieski Art by Ellen June Wright

"I want to keep the story there, in the sunlight that fell across your sweat-dappled forehead in the aftermath of our love. In the damp white sheet we turned into a tent and swore we’d never leave..." from new micro fiction by Mea Cohen. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/06/16/o... Photo by Artem Stoliar

"The wailing ambulance and winding red siren would not bend through the streets of New York to find him there..." From "if" by Keira Deer available in Issue #19: thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete... Accompanying photo by Erin Song

We're excited to share a fabulous new micro fiction piece by Autumn Bettinger: A Haunted House at the End of the World Available now on TGLR Buzz (link in bio). thegoodlifereview.com/2025/06/02/a... Photo by Ján Jakub Naništa on Unsplash

"These notarized letters are written in oak gall ink, itself a burnished brown eating the paper, they bear wax sigils, but sometimes the notary has no stamp..." From Enumeration by Katharine Jager Accompanying artwork by Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete...

We are offering free subs today and through the end of May. Why? Well... find out by reading our silly announcement on the buzz blog. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/05/21/f... Oh, and links to the guidelines and forms to submit are there too, plus info about what we pay and prizes we nominate for.

In Siobhan Ring’s essay, “Space / Time,” she tethers her journey caring for her dying mother to a story from her family history to show no matter the time or the distance, losing a family member truly means, “nothing will ever be the same.” thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete...

In his review of Jamie Smith's book, The Flightless Years, Editor Cid Galicia stated, "It's an incredibly well-constructed catastrophe. When we deem those around us godlike, be they family or friends, darker realities are revealed." Full review at: thegoodlifereview.com/2025/05/16/c...

"your mother is a myth ordinary, chews her food like any other you hear her high heels walking around the house toast on the plate, coffee in the cup, no one is home..." From "Ode to the Wet Towel on the Floor" by Alicia Elkort. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete... Artwork by Ellen June Wright

"He lingered too long with my dollar in his hand, “You don’t need these,” he said, “They’re really bad for you.” It was as if time stopped. I was frozen, unsure what to do..." This week's Micro Monday Feature: The Cashier by Trish Cantillon only on The Buzz. thegoodlifereview.com/2025/05/05/t...

This week we've got a spotlight on Rose Marie Torres and her fab flash essay appearing in our spring issue. Check out this brief Q&A we did with Rose to learn what she shared about her essay and her writing life... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/04/30/a...

A native of South Texas, Rose Marie Torres is an MFA candidate at LSU and is the Creative Writing Program Assistant for the LSU English Department. Read (and listen to) a new flash essay by Rose in our Spring Issue... thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete... Accompanying artwork by Ellen June Wright

In case you missed it, we've got a new Q&A with Ezra Fox. Read to learn what they shared about exploring queerness and spirituality, and embracing vulnerability in Poetry... thegoodlifereview.com/2025/04/23/a...

Today's spotlight is on Ezra Fox and their poem, Don’t Ask Me About the Hymns. Ezra lives and writes in San Francisco and their writing explores impermanence and non-duality as it pertains to their subjects of lineage, queerness, and spirituality... thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete...