2019-06-11 02:05
Threadbare
– Fierce Fiction by Christine Heuner –
I’m shivering in a hospital gown and
Hanes underwear. A nurse brings me another blanket, crisp with hot starch. I
w… Read More
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2019-06-07 01:24
Pretty Like Me
– Non-Fiction by Rim Chon –
I sat in the dark movie theater watching Crazy Rich Asians and found myself crying. Crying is not
unusual for me, especially whil… Read More
2019-06-04 20:20
The Miracle of Joey Ramone
– Non-Fiction by Lee Gabay –
U2 – Paul David Hewson – “The Miracle of Joey Ramone”After
the unconventional release of the… Read More
2019-05-31 13:48
6 Reasons Why an Exotic Writing Retreat Should Be Your Next Dream VacationPlus – Our Top Picks for Your Stay
Exotic Writing Retreats, an article by Rochelle Angyal
For the majori… Read More
2019-05-29 13:17
A New Dawn
– Fierce Fiction by Nikki McKenzie –
Don was awoken early by a familiar pain in
his left knee. He rubbed the swollen joint as he sat upright in bed. Sighing,
he… Read More
2019-05-27 14:14
The CFO
– Fierce Fiction by Len Fried –
The objective of the meeting with Knowles Sanderson was to present the fourth quarter financial outlook for the General Disc C… Read More
2019-05-24 01:40
Grand Design
– Non-Fiction by Steve Markusen –
An insistent voice
brought me out of the void and darkness.
“What is your name? Where
are you?”
My eyes o… Read More
2019-05-20 13:53
The Downside, The Upside, The Dark Side
– Non-Fiction by Barbara Caceres –
According to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) One in five adults live with a mental hea… Read More
2019-05-19 22:48
Emerging Igbo Mythology, Godlings, and Dissociative Identities: The Autobiography and Fiction within Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Novel
– Book Review by C.M. Nwanna –… Read More
2019-05-19 22:48
Emerging Igbo Mythology, Godlings, and Dissociative Identities: The Autobiography and Fiction within Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Novel
– Book Review by C. Melvina Nwanna &ndash&hell…Read More
2019-05-16 14:22
Do You Love Your Reader?
– Article by Phyliss Merion Shanken, a Lover of Writing and Psychology –
Writing and love making have much
in common. Through your imagination, you… Read More
2019-05-16 13:59
Mother Knows Best
– Non-Fiction by Suzanne O’Brien –
The
call I was expecting came just after two o’clock on a blustery March afternoon.
Instead of going home a… Read More
2019-05-12 18:47
Obsession
– Non-Fiction by Andrea Bedoya –
Addiction is an obsession. It takes over mind, body, and soul. It seeps into your pores, hides between your toes, collects in the… Read More
2019-05-11 17:24
Bachelor Party
– Fierce Fiction by Derek Dubois –
Sometimes
it comes in fits and starts and sometimes all at once in a deluge, but when
you’re edging thirty years old… Read More
2019-05-07 15:06
The Sunporch
– Non-Fiction by Stephen Beaumont –
“Your garden is like a park,” my mother-in-law would say when she came to visit us in Wisconsin from her home i… Read More
2019-05-07 14:46
Bipolar, Diagnosis
– Poetry by Catherine Carson –
Bipolar
I. The doctor adjusts his glasses, tells me the news. There isn’t much else. I leave the muted-colored o… Read More
2019-05-03 13:34
The Other Eleven Months of the Year
-Non-Fiction by Andrea Rosenhaft –
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 1991 at thirty years-old, following my second… Read More
2019-05-02 22:03
Book Review of Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
– Book Review by Catherine Lanser –
A few months back I had an opportunity to see Anne Lamott spea… Read More
2019-04-30 01:37
The Worst Drunk Poem I’ve Ever Written
– Poetry by Laura Mota –
I found in the pocket of the jeans I wore last night a yellow note: from the triple g&ta… Read More
2019-04-30 01:28
Annie
– Non-Fiction by Ellen Black –
Caleb was a
sweet boy, with black hair and freckles, whose left leg was in a brace, causing
the other kids to taunt him without mercy… Read More
2019-04-22 21:07
Little Stars
– Fierce Fiction by Julie Paul –
David and I were still awake at 3 am. The moon wasn’t
full, that wasn’t the reason, but the Perseids were doing t… Read More
2019-04-22 19:51
The Oppressor and the Oppressed Within
– Non-Fiction by Connie Pertuz-Meza –
Days shy of my fortieth birthday, I attended a class with master writing teacher Laleh Khadivi… Read More
2019-04-18 21:13
The Grey House Didn’t Speak
– Non-Fiction by Rain Wright –
No people remain to lift their hands in
farewell. Home does not speak. It does not call out our names a… Read More
2019-04-18 20:19
Catalpa TreeWelda, Kansas
– Poem by Julie Martin –
Go down the gravel roadpast the farm where a family lived in a boxcar,past the field with longhorn cattleWhen you he… Read More
2019-04-15 00:11
How to Leave
/ After Elizabeth Bishop
– Poetry by Alaina Bainbridge –
I I have a piece of turquoise beach glass. The second rarest color, … Read More
2019-04-13 00:09
Baby Make Like a Tree
– Poetry by Joanna Kurimsky –
–
About the Author – Joanna Kurimsky
Joanna Kurimsky is originally from New Jersey, where… Read More
2019-04-12 23:42
Bread Knife
– Non-Fiction by Kay Kramer –
Mama and Barry mashed lumpy boiled potatoes into furrows with their forks, spread sour cream on top. I hated it. Mama cooked this… Read More
2019-04-07 18:21
Relation Ship and Other Poems
– Poetry by Jack Donahue –
RELATION SHIP
Relation
ship
of fools, the two of us
set adrift
squared to the sea,
no rudder, no captain,
no sails to se… Read More
2019-04-04 22:16
An Interview with Angie Abdou
An interview with Canadian author, Angie Abdou, featuring writing from the heart, writing as an act of radical empathy, and writing without urgency.
ANGI… Read More
2019-04-02 16:42
Neon
– Fierce Fiction by Jack Orleans –
Dave looked at the neon sign in the corner of the bar window: ‘DEAD END.’ Even though the name of the bar didn’t s… Read More
2019-03-29 13:51
Writing Myself Alive: An Episodic Poem
– Poetry by Ann Rosenthal –
I. Writing to keep calm Haiku in the seminar Villanelle at dusk Desperation firmly anc… Read More
2019-03-26 21:34
Prayer
– Non-Fiction by Terry Engel –
Lisa worried her way through the second round of in vitro and the resulting pregnancy with Stella and Jackson. Our first in vitro pre… Read More
2019-03-24 20:57
Slowing Down
– Fierce Fiction by Andrew Hughes –
Dr. Mica Monroe crossed the kitchen with four clicks of her six inch heels and opened the refrigerator door. Twenty one neatly s… Read More
2019-03-22 23:06
The Crash
– Poetry by Kellie Dougal –
My father liked to work
with his hands
So much so that
it created calluses on his palms
and he survived solely on manual labor
after the cr… Read More
2019-03-20 19:40
The Hard Way, Kid
– Non-Fiction by Jerry Il’Giovine –
DEAR OLD WEST TECH, WE’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. It’s the opening line of my high school alma mater… Read More
2019-03-19 00:42
Against Ruins, in Praise of Pink
– Fiction by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub –
“Yes, yes. Over there is fine. Just under the middle window. Thank you so much,” Braynah said, d… Read More
2019-03-12 21:19
Maybe a Mango, Recovery, Yearly Physical
– Poetry by Jan Ball –
Maybe a Mango
Peach halves wobble in pineapple jello
on the tray across her hospital bed,
a kitchen accustomed to… Read More
2019-03-07 23:36
Results of
the 2019 Dreamers Writing Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home.
In the United States, D… Read More
2019-03-07 23:10
Drowning Manifesto
– Poetry by Tala Abu Rahmeh –
Winner of the Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home.
Do not tempt the sharks. Do… Read More
2019-03-07 23:07
Hail Mary
– Story by Mubanga Kalimamukwento –
Honourable Mention in the Dreamers Creative Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home
I’m cra… Read More
2019-03-07 22:59
I Don’t Speak Icelandic
– Nonfiction by Jenny-Lynn Ellis –
Runner-up in the Dreamers Creative Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home… Read More
2019-03-07 22:45
Peace, Order and Pretty Good Normal
– Nonfiction by Lis Jakobsen –
Runner-up in the Dreamers Creative Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home… Read More
2019-03-07 22:22
Desert Spirits
– Nonfiction by Rebecca Walling – Runner-up in the Dreamers Creative Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home
My… Read More
2019-03-07 21:40
Home, Alone
– Non-Fiction by Rebecca Wickens – Runner-up in the Dreamers Creative Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home
Early
December 2018
Tuc… Read More
2019-03-07 21:19
Houston
– Poetry by Isabella Neblett – Runner-up in the Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home
“I look at you and I would rat… Read More
2019-03-05 02:24
Chew it Over: Alex Nedvetsky’s 7 Steps 2 a Lean U Diets the Diet
– Book Review by Will Bahr –
$5.30 CND 111 pages Amazon.ca, 2011
An ounce of prevention is… Read More
2019-02-28 16:33
Announcing Dreamers Magazine Issue 2!
I’m pleased to announce the release of Issue 2 of the Dreamers Magazine.
In this
issue you’ll find an exclusive interview with St… Read More
2019-02-25 20:39
Announcing the Dreamers Year 1 Anthology
I’m pleased to announce the launch of the first ever Dreamers anthology. The Dreamers anthology contains all 119 poems, stories and essa… Read More
2019-02-22 15:45
Writing to Deal with Grief
by Marco Muzzi
The Memory
I’m a boy.
I take tentative, soundless steps across the oak floor towards him. My muscles feel limp. My gaze finds everything &ndas&hell…Read More
2019-02-21 19:24
The Burning Times
– Fierce Fiction by Caroline Misner –
Adele had known the man whose body was found nestled among the bags of expired bread behind the 7-11. H… Read More
2019-02-17 14:28
Idea of the North in Adagio for the Horizon
– Book Review by Carole Mertz –
Signature Editions, 2018, $17.95
The Idea of North came to mind when I began reading Laurelyn Whi… Read More
2019-02-14 22:18
Pieces of You
– Fierce Fiction by Rebecca Wickens –
“I am so broken,” you say.
Raising my head, I am struck by this new look in your eyes. Mesmerized, I don’t… Read More
2019-02-08 16:56
Writing is Dangerous
– Nonfiction by Rachel Pintarelli –
Writing is dangerous. It’s a broken bone mended wrong. A healing scab you pick until it bleeds. It opens wounds a… Read More
2019-02-08 01:04
This Is What Death Does
– Poetry by Kate Solovieva –
That time you are eight, and you trip crossing the road, and almost get hit by the oncoming traffic. Your mother yells… Read More
2019-02-07 16:31
“Early Blossoms” and “Ontario Thaw”
– Poetry by Greg Stidham –
EARLY BLOSSOMS
Alone on a mesa, a pink crabapple tree
embraces the wind, its branche… Read More
2019-02-04 01:14
Vertical Girl
– Non Fiction by Christie Munson Muller –
My outdoorsy boyfriend lived for the feeling of shoving his feet into one-size- too-small rock climber shoes and dangling… Read More
2019-01-31 20:08
Finally, the Right Size
– Non-Fiction by Jody Forrester –
Already 5’9” at twelve years old, I never knew where my hands were until I bumped into a doorway or where m… Read More
2019-01-29 03:31
Day of the Frying Pan
– Non-Fiction by Rebecca May Hope –
Whenever my siblings mention the frying pan incident, I laugh along with them, even though I find it tragic and f… Read More
2019-01-26 19:50
The Spider and the Bookcase
– Non-Fiction by Amanda Bloodgood –
A Spiny Orb Weaver spider has taken up residence in the potted plants next to my back door. It is an odd looking… Read More
2019-01-24 03:19
Stilettos by a Gravestone
– Fiction by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub –
“Aargh, these weeds. And I was just here,” Shifrah Fogel Bernstein thought, as she got to her kne… Read More
2019-01-21 02:22
Remember that time?
– Poetry by Kevin Carlisle –
I Remember
I remember.
Finding you, there
seeing you lay
so still
The air itself
dared not to disturb.
your frail body,
S… Read More
2019-01-18 03:07
Fight in the Goodwill
– Fierce Fiction by Lane Mullin –
The window display in the Goodwill relied on an imaginative employee. Sometimes washed, occasionally smokey, and al… Read More
2019-01-14 00:28
Wanderlust
– Feirce Fiction by Habib Mohana –
Awais had a great thirst for adventure.
During his college days he toured several places with his classmates in a college bus. On t… Read More
2019-01-09 02:14
The Comfort of Strangers
-Fierce Fiction by Caroline Misner-
It was me who dropped the box of Band-Aids into the toilet. None of us wanted to admit it, but Ben and Jimmy had nothing to conf… Read More
2019-01-04 03:07
Prepared
– Fierce Fiction by Isabella Mori –
Outside, the hot August sun branded everything in its path, seeking out every cleft and angle. But not here. Room 263 of the Samarita… Read More
2018-12-30 03:54
I See You
– Poetry by Linda Lauder –
Bearing Witness
Ex-husband with new woman;
This one counts.
Words of admiration
Roll off his well-kissed lips.
He gushes her accomplis… Read More
2018-12-27 10:01
Swallowed
– Fierce Fiction by George Ayliffe
When we made love, I thought of nothing but the parakeets. They were four floors below in Samantha’s study. I feared they were starv… Read More
2018-12-24 16:34
Courage and Choice
—Fierce Fiction by Lance Mason —
A wise old art dealer in Amsterdam liked to tell a particular story, over appelflappen and coffee, of when he was not so old… Read More
2018-12-23 01:09
Smallwood Offers Style and Intriguing Content
– Book Review by Carole Mertz – December 22, 2018 –
Poetic Matrix Press, 2018, $17.00 USD
Carol Smallwood offers a captivating… Read More
2018-12-21 15:31
DR. NO RKVRY?
– Poetry by Gerard Sarnat –
Hardcore Dys-Orthopod
Writer works to get under skin, doc rushes through gore he bathes within…
Shrieking from som… Read More
2018-12-19 14:39
“In Her Garden” and “Fresh News”
– Poetry by Annette Gagliardi –
In Her Garden
Big mama said she’s plum gone
there’s no more chunky, cop… Read More
2018-12-15 04:00
The Years
-Non-fiction by Julia Anne Miller –
May 2015
I am sitting on an exercise bike, slowly moving my feet, circling, circling, pushing just enough to barely move the pedals… Read More
2018-12-12 16:10
Guide Him Through
-Poetry by Nancy Levinson –
GRAVE SITE VISIT
Between lush manicured lawns
and dense sheared hedges I walk
slowly  &hell…Read More
2018-12-10 15:00
Madonnas
-Non-fiction by Christine Beck –
Teacher. Nurse. Secretary. Three acceptable careers for a young woman when my mother was a girl. I became a high-powered corporate lawy… Read More
2018-12-07 16:22
2019 Dreamers Pushcart Prize Nominations
…we’re pleased to announce our 2019 Pushcart Prize nominations!
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses honours the best poems, fi… Read More
2018-12-02 02:14
Through, Not Around
Stories of Infertility and Pregnancy Loss
– Article by Ariel Ng Bourbonnais –
Anyone going through infertility treatments, or who has experienced pregna… Read More
2018-12-01 01:15
Things I’ve Learned on the Road
– Poetry by Liz Stewart – November 30, 2018
I remember the fire trucks
with all the lights flashing
and the noise
and the woman screaming… Read More
2018-11-28 23:20
Quantum Solidarity: Making Hajj at Bear Lodge
– Essay by Kevin James – November 28, 2018
The mind-numbing atrocities at home and abroad dare me to respond. It’s as if world… Read More
2018-11-25 14:43
TWO HUNGERS
– Poetry by Maggie Thistle –
Poem 1
My breasts once wept at the first musings of a strangers hunger-
smacking lips, a pursed, round strawberry
and wet with the… Read More
2018-11-23 01:11
Dog Men (A Prison Story)
– Poem by Cody Marsh –
On edge of a razor-guarded campus,
Marigolds tower to meet drooping pines.
Though unaware as cheerful children,
Dry Te… Read More
2018-11-16 21:36
Black Haven
– Poetry by Patricia Rossi – November 16, 2018
The Shadow Box
Displayed within, life’s moments extrapolated, tangible anguish, remnants of sorrow.
With haphazar… Read More
2018-11-13 01:46
The Yellow Bird
– Fierce Fiction by Kat McNichol – November 12, 2018
He guides his 1950 Massey-Harris tractor out the battered grey doors of the old barn. The rusted hinges of t… Read More
2018-11-09 21:00
Marshmallows and Wood-Ear Mushrooms
– Non-fiction by Carla Myers – November 9, 2018
Today is the first day of my last period. I know because in three weeks, when my body prepare… Read More
2018-11-01 20:15
Celebrate
– Fierce Fiction by William Cass –
Marcia chose the little photography shop in North Park because one of her work colleagues had recommended it. She’d called the… Read More
2018-10-26 19:43
The School Inspector
– Fierce Fiction by Habib Mohana – October 26, 2018
A newly-appointed primary school teacher got off the rattletrap at the pukka road and headed on foo… Read More
2018-10-21 18:41
Working the Fire Line
– Fierce Fiction by Alan MacLeod – October 21, 2018
The first time I saw her we were on the fire line digging a ditch to contain the blaze. “There&rs&hell…Read More
2018-10-19 20:03
The Red Jeep
– Non-fiction by Roberta Faith Levine – October 19, 2018
For a month a red Jeep has sat in front of our house, its red boxy body catching my eye every t… Read More
2018-10-14 19:53
Cookies for Breakfast
– Non-fiction by Elaine Stevens – October 14, 2018
“Today we will live in the moment.
Unless it’s unpleasant, in which case we will eat a cookie… Read More
2018-10-05 20:28
Hank
– Non-Fiction by Edward Cloney – October 5, 2018
“You’re making an awful lot of dust!”
“Can’t be helped.”
“Christ – look at… Read More
2018-10-02 21:33
Integrative Ancestors, redux: A Child’s Story from the past to the future
– By Gregory Stephens – October 2, 2018
Fall 2018
When my daughter Sela was three, she invented a… Read More
2018-09-26 22:47
What is a Plot?
If you are currently wondering, “WHAT IS A PLOT?” we’ve got the answer!
Plot as a literary term is defined as the structure of events that make… Read More
2018-09-22 14:04
Target Practice
– Fierce Fiction by Alexander Jones – September 22, 2018
My mother saw the raccoon first.
She was chopping veggies in front of an open window, hoping for a breez… Read More
2018-09-12 19:54
Shanghai Dumplings
– Fierce Fiction by Susan M. Breall –
I sat alone at the Shanghai Dumpling King on 34th Avenue in the same seat she always sat in. I came on a Thu… Read More
2018-09-09 02:12
Moshe
– Fierce Fiction by Heidi Schwartz – September 8, 2018
I am six years old and I go to Yeshiva and my name is Moshe.
In summer there is an old woman who lives in the radiat… Read More
2018-09-02 15:33
Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home
–
Dreamers as a term has come to represent undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children. Although D… Read More
2018-09-02 13:13
We grew up on fear and became heroes…
– Poetry by David Magill –
Seven and Dying
Fifty feet of nylon line and a milk jug
stretched across the bay.
Twenty hooks, most… Read More
2018-08-31 13:37
A Drop Like Wet Shellac
– Poetry by Susan Zenker –
Shrine to Frida Kahlo &n&hell…Read More
2018-08-26 12:49
Recipe for Saying Goodbye
– Nonfiction by Lisa Sims Harrison –
–
Ingredients:
1¼ cup white self-rising corn meal
Buttermilk (only the kind in the dark green Barber… Read More
2018-08-24 17:51
Trip Advisor:
Take a Dose of Michael Pollan’s Latest Batch,How to Change Your Mind
– Book Review by Will Bahr – August 24, 2018 –
Penguin, 2018, $28.00 US, $37.00 CA… Read More
2018-08-22 01:37
What I Remember from 5th & San Pedro
– Fierce Fiction by Elly Kugler –
The place I saw you. How you were walking, squinting, through the slowly-becoming-blinding dawn l… Read More
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