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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · 7d

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Sullivan’s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay “The Perfect Height for Kissing” won Columbia University’s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

My Deal by Ellen Davis Sullivan

“You’re not breathing,” my mother said. A voice coach who teaches Suits and Baby MBAs how to speak in public, she’s an expert on the way nerves shut down air intake. I couldn’t tell her that at that m...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · 14d

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A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · 23d

jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Untitled Xerox Cut-Out (Squeaky Fromme/Gerald Ford) 1993-94 by Stephen Gibson

Printed paper with paper clips and Pencil on paper in artist’s frame Cady Noland American, born 1956 The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Squeaky said she was serious but also having fun...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.

things you should know by Kathleen Hellen

I should throw it away. Nubbed and frayed from all the cycles. The thrashing and the tumbling. This shabby robe that robs the dignity of my undressing. This effigy that hangs on tatty sleeves. These ...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.

Past Life by Billie Pritchett

Before my mother, there had been another woman, Britannia, whom my father loved and married when they were both in their twenties. After a brief courthouse ceremony with three friends as witnesses, th...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.

Smoke Break by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

So I left Lady for good then got off the bus. It felt right, leaving Lady Prananda. Plus I thought no way sadness is not not not going to happen to this girl right here so I dropped her for good, my s...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

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J. E. Robinson's poem “Panaetius” appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a “Best of the Net” nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.

Wilding by J.E. Robinson

wine why my tastes tonight run more for rye or whisky my throat demands that burn fire water which helps me forget my world wines for therapy not for forgetting a night from wine put this mark upon me...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Jul 3

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A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).

Customer Review of Half-Day Lajes Air Base Historic Sightseeing Tour by Ryan Clark

Five Stars—Excellent Tour and driver/guide The road took us into the island where we came across Victory. He held a pointed staff and left footprints long and vehicular. Victory spoke very good Englis...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Café Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.

The Barber Shop by Amrita De

Every day, at nine in the morning, Mr. Ghosh got his mustache trimmed while waiting for things to happen. Betel juice dripped from one side of his paan-stained lips, his backside comfortably lodged on...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Jun 12

www.jjournal.org/post/new-ter... Nina Ellis’s short stories have appeared in Granta, American Chordata, Carve Magazine, The London Magazine, Ambit, 3:AM, the Mays anthology and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Oxford Review of Books and elsewhere.

New Territories by Nina Ellis

Callie landed just after eleven o’clock in the morning. Immigration was easy—the guy glanced at her picture and grinned. Her bag came out third. She had nothing to declare...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · May 27

www.jjournal.org/current-issue The cartoon voice saying, "I am what I am," sounds simplistic. But we are what we are and like. We like low-to-the ground, less-is-more, tangential routes to justice. Still, in new issue #35, more than real seems possible; possible enough to move toward the fantastic.

Current Issue | J Journal

J Journal is a literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry and personal narrative, all quietly justice-themed. Support the literary arts and purchase the latest issue.

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · May 19

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Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.

Murmuration of Mind and Tongue by Laurie Lamon

how can it be as the mind moves the tongue moves somewhere near the flock a falcon is (the flock loses no information) How can it be...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · May 12

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Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.

I, Labor by Irene Cooper

“Death Sentence: Poetry Consolation II” is a poem constructed by artificial intelligence algorithms based on the prison writings...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · May 5

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Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.

The Last Will by Joshua Brorby

It came to pass that I was asked to assist the executor of a modest last will and testament. The problem was that I had become intimately...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Horror by Tim Raymond

Our first night in the new house, we hear creaking that sounds a lot like footsteps, but that vanishes before we can really worry...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Apr 22

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A Song for the Putting Away of Childish Things

We have packed it away in the dark of the messiest closet of mind to be lost in the wrack of remembrance...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Apr 8

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to bury a curious girl by Amirah Al Wassif

When I was younger, I stood on a mountain of pillows with a brave decision to swallow a whole finger. My father insulted me because...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.

Where Catfish Once Stood by Paul Stapleton

Everyone was antsy, sitting on the front porch, the kids picking at the chipped paint with the toes of their sneakers...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Mar 24

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Mike Piero, Ph.D. (he/him) is a bisexual writer and professor in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, the humanities, and game studies. www.mikepiero.org.

The Keeper of Numbers by Mike Piero

Tucked away in the university’s bowels, he toils away in thermal paper dreams masquerading as headstones of campus dining events...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Mar 14

www.jjournal.org/post/in-reve... Christina Simon, is the former nonfiction editor for Angels Flight Literary West. Her essays have been published in Salon, The Offing, Cleaver Magazine, Slag Glass City, Columbia Journal (winner of the 2020 Black History Month Contest for Nonfiction).

jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Heather Jessen has poems appearing or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere and is a finalist for the Charles Simic poetry prize.

In English Words Don’t Exist by Heather Jessen

for the sounds of ordinary things manhandled with too much force. Relentless, yet sporadic thwok bumf sclitch drundun percussion of...

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Feb 22

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Sam Feldman is a graduate of the MFA Fiction Program at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The Catamaran Reader, The Dillydoun Review, The Journal of Wild Culture, and elsewhere. He grew up in Wyoming

jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Feb 13

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jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social · Feb 6

JJournal will be featuring a piece from the current issue each week.