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Strange Pilgrims, Meg Pokrass, Joel Cuthbertson, Hannah Eve Levy, Jill Kolongowski, Shannan Mann, Karan Kapoor, Liza Katz Duncan, Aimee Wai, Caroline Beuley, Charlie Ericson, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, JoAnna Novak, brandon brown, Angie EllisReal, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported
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Fragments of Adele by Fleming Meeks
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, below we share a flash nonfiction piece that could well be a prose poem or a series of handwritten letters torn at seemingly random places and yet it binds together into a delicate, cohesive whole full of long...
We Need To Tell Better Stories About Science by Liza Katz Duncan
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today we present you a beautifully argued essay. I especially love the way Liza weaves reportage, personal reflection, and poetic engagement with grace and humility throughout the piece. I encourage you to exp...
Original Ideas by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I remember first encountering Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s work when I read his award-winning short story “Taylor Swift” as a class assignment. I’ve probably never had as much fun analyzing fiction as I did with this...
Lit Theory 101 | Voice, Consciousness & Distance
Welcome back to our crash course on the lit theory we wish we had actually learned in our MFA.
Okay, first off, here’s part 1:
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Writing Exercises to Practice the 3 Types of Focalization & Learn About Narrative Voice
Lit Theory 101 | Part 2.1: Voice, Consciousness & Distance, Lesson #1: Narrator & Focalizer
Below the paywall are three detailed writing exercises to deepen your understanding of our second installment of Lit Theory 101 as well as practica...
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Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing \ud83d\udc26⬛ Fiction & Nonfiction \ud83d\udc26⬛ Free submissions \ud83d\udc26⬛ Pays $200/long-form & $50/flash \ud83d\udc26⬛
Meg Pokrass’ is the author of 9 flash collections. She is the Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series and teaches online flash fiction workshops here: https://megpokrass.substack.com/
Joel Cuthbertson is a writer and librarian from Denver. His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Lit, Joyland Magazine, New England Review, the LARB, LitHub, and more.
writer • poet • founder of The Rebis, an annual tarot-themed print anthology
Jill Kolongowski is an award-winning writer with work in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Jill is a professor, professional worrier, and writes the only flash essay newsletter on Substack.
Creative Director @ ONLY POEMS & Strange Pilgrims | Executive Editor @ Sub Club | Writing a horror magic-realist novel | Reading classics & poetry | Researching literary publishing
“They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world — the fools, they locked up the wrong man.”
Liza Katz Duncan is the author of two collections of poetry. She lives in New Jersey, where she teaches multilingual learners.
I write whatever spills out of my gut.
Writer, teacher, editor, fairy tale enthusiast
I write poems, stories, novels, and essays about poems, stories, and novels. Sometimes I write music, at which moments I decide to write essays about music; I have not written a play, but I have certainly written essays about plays.
Former editor of Eleven Eleven. Most recent book is Animal Children (Nomadic/Black Lawrence Press). Lives in Barcelona. https://linktr.ee/hughsteinberg
Author of CONTRADICTION DAYS: AN ARTIST ON THE VERGE OF MOTHERHOOD, DOMESTIREXIA: POEMS, MEANINGFUL WORK: STORIES, I MUST HAVE YOU: A NOVEL, and a few more. Writer, mom, obsessive.
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