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This week’s Poem of the Week is “Alecto” by Maya Phillips! Maya Phillips was born and raised in New York. Maya received her BFA in writing, literature, and publishing with…    read more

Jillian Weiss is the author of our featured nonfiction prose piece “Awakening to Jake.”  You can find the essay here.  We recently had the pleasure of talking with Jillian about the…    read more

Instagram, mom blogs, and the theme of the artist’s relationship to her art come together in Bradley Bazzle’s funny, strange fiction from TMR 41:4 (winter 2018).  Bazzle says of his…    read more

Bradley Bazzle is the talented author of Trash Mountain, as well as our featured short story “Relatable Influence.” You can read the story here. This past week, we were able…    read more

  On behalf of our final judge, Cher Vincent, we are pleased to announce the winner and runner-up in each category: DOCUMENTARY Winner: “How to Make an American Pi Quilt,”…    read more

BLAST, TMR‘s new online-only prose “anthology,” features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. Our second selection, new nonfiction by Ron Tanner, speculates…    read more

This week we present “Master Tremor” by Glenn Shaheen! Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the flash fiction collection Carnivalia (Gold Wake Press, 2018).   MASTER…    read more

This week we are delighted to present “Grace,” a new poem by Orlando Ricardo Menes. Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American poet, translator, editor and fiction writer who teaches in…    read more

This week we are delighted to present “Contrapuntal with Gladys Knight and Infidelity,” a new poem by Ashley M. Jones. Ashley M. Jones is a poet, organizer, and educator from…    read more

Nostalgia and science converge in Gulchin A. Ergun’s “Afternoon with a Corpse,” her memoir about learning anatomy on a cadaver in an anatomy lab.  The essay begins with a question:…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Prom Queen(s)” by Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan! Alicia Elkort’s poetry has appeared in AGNI, Black Lawrence Press, Califragile, Georgia Review, Heron Tree,…    read more

Our guest judge this year, Cher Vincent (she/her), is an audio producer based in Chicago. She is currently Lead Audio Producer for One Illinois, a nonprofit news outlet, covering statewide news and producing…    read more

Tyler Keevil’s moving and beautiful essay “Owl” is about the vulnerability of all creatures in the face of both natural and human-caused calamities. It first appeared in Volume 40, number…    read more

Eric Tran is the winner of the 2019 Autumn House Press Rising Writer Contest and his debut, the Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, is forthcoming 2020. He is the author…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is Komal Mathew’s “After A Long Walk, My Daughter Asks Why We Can’t Just Die Together.” Komal Mathew is a graduate of Georgia Institute…    read more

“Awakening to Jake” by Jillian Weiss is a nonfiction piece that portrays the relationship between a brother and sister, and how each of their lives is affected by societal issues…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Poet Wrestling with Why the Heart Feels So Bad” by Rosebud Ben-Oni! Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award…    read more

Jonny Diamond is the editor in chief of Literary Hub and founding editor of The L Magazine and Brooklyn Magazine. He lives in the Hudson Valley. “Deadwood Soldiers Take a Cruise!” appeared in TMR…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Not Your Bernini’s Daphne” by Stella Wong! Stella Wong is a recent graduate of the M.F.A program at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She…    read more