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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 1d

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Italian Lessons.” An essay by Sue Allison from River Teeth 7.1

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 3d

✨Travel back this Tuesday to read, “A Good Weapon.” An essay by Jackson Connor from River Teeth issue 14.2

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 4d

“Even when cancer tethered her to her couch, she didn’t want anyone tethered with her.”
-from “On the Manly Art of Quilting,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Eric K. Taylor
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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 8d

✨ 🗣️ Introducing River Teeth's 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Judge, Ander Monson! We are ecstatic to have Monson working with us as the final judge. His interview with our Assistant Managing Editor, Natasia Verdel, is live on our website, which you access through the link in our bio.

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 10d

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Polaroid Baby and the Shape of Time.” An essay by Jessica Johnson from River Teeth issue 23.1

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 15d

✨ Meet our River Teeth Fall 2025 interns! At Ball State, graduate students have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with every aspect of magazine publishing through our literary editing course. We are excited to have such a great team working for the magazine!

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 15d

✨Meet our River Teeth Fall 2025 interns! At Ball State, graduate students have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with every aspect of magazine publishing through our literary editing course. We are excited to have such a great team working for the magazine!

#RiverTeeth #LiteraryPublishing

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 17d

✨Treat yourself this Tuesday to River Teeth 21.2 and check out Hope Henderson’s essay, “Star Tables.”

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 18d

“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.”
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 22d

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “A Meditation on Pain.” An essay by Ira Sukrungruang from River Teeth 16.1

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 24d

✨Take a trip to the past and check out River Teeth 18.2 and check out Reg Darling’s essay, “The Stones I Carry.”

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 25d

“We were driven small-town kids who had glimpsed enough of the world to know we wanted more.”
-from “Full Moon and Baked Beans,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anne Jacobson
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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 28d

River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things” is coming to IPR’s Pop of Culture programming tomorrow!

This collaboration will feature Robert Barham and his Beautiful Thing “For My Students”

🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...

🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2phyWpN...

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 29d

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Taste Your Lips of Wine: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 1950s.” An essay by Roger Conant Cranse from River Teeth 26.2

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Sep 9

✨Treat yourself this Tuesday to River Teeth 26.2 and check out Hope Henderson’s essay, “How to Survive a Plague.”

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Sep 8

“The flowers had just started blooming, so my mom gathered yellow daffodils and pink azaleas from her yard for your bridal bouquet.”
-from “No Ugly Crying,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Allison Kirkland
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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Thursday’s Child.” An essay by Catherine Humikowski from River Teeth 26.2

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Sep 2

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Wedding of the Foxes: A Lyric Essay” by Katherine Larson from River Teeth issue 26.2

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize are open!!

✨ Submissions are open until:

River Teeth: September 01 – December 01
Beautiful Things: September 01 – December 01
Book Prize: September 01 – October 31

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Sep 1

“I’ll wait in a grown-up chair in the main office with my bigger-than-me backpack, my legs swinging in anticipation of what the rest of the day could bring.”
-from "Sick Day,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jackie Domenus
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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Aug 31

📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize all open tomorrow.

✨ Please submit your creative nonfiction essays, books, and micro essays via our Submittable page through our website.

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Aug 28

✨From the latest issue of River Teeth (26.2). Here is a glimpse into the first essay, “Counterclockwise” by Margot Singer.

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Third Eye of the Oyster.” An essay by Sonya Huber from River Teeth issue 25.1

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize all open September 01

✨ Submit your creative nonfiction essays, books, and micro essays via our Submittable page through our website riverteethjournal.com

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River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · Aug 25

“We named Ellwood Bluff after the elementary school across the street, spending our afternoons among the mustard flower, wild fennel, and eucalyptus forests.”
-from "Bluffs,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by James T. Morrison
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