COMING SOON ON SCRAWL PLACE, JOURNEYS TO » Poughkeepsie, N.Y. w/ Angela Townsend (11/5) » Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis w/ Kristin Gifford (11/7) » White River, Ark. w/ Brian Benson (11/12) And more ! Show more

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — "Dawn in Poughkeepsie should not be underestimated. When you come from a place that is no place in particular, you don’t own the pen that writes towns off ..." Read "Off Campus" by Angela Townsend scrawlplace.com/2024/11/05/off…

Poughkeepsie will always be a jewel to me. On this day when our hearts are stretched across every zip code, I'm grateful to share "Off Campus" in one of my favorite journals. Thank you, Scrawl Place, for honoring the little and large places we love. 💙💙 scrawlplace.com/2024/11/05/off…

MINNEAPOLIS — "... as though the dead were pregnant / with life and the living pregnant with death, / both bursting and trapped in hard, rounded / shells, floating against the lily pads ... " Read "Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis" by Kristin Gifford scrawlplace.com/2024/11/07/lak…

WHITE RIVER, Ark. — "In Arkansas, we came into possession of a bag of mushrooms. I had never eaten mushrooms before, but I wanted to. Reid and Galen both had eaten them, several times ... " Read "Wishing Well" by Brian Benson scrawlplace.com/2024/11/12/wis…

ANNOUNCEMENTS: • New batch of stories and poems coming soon. Stay tuned. • Submissions will close from Mar. 31 and reopen on June 1. • Submissions will have updated guidelines starting June 1. • The new guidelines will be posted on the website around Apr. 15.

COMING SOON ON SCRAWL PLACE, JOURNEYS TO » Mumbai and other locales w/ Jiji Lubis (3/4) » York, Maine w/ Annamaria Formichella (3/6) » Annapolis, Md. w/ Noreen Campo (3/11) » Tawas Point State Park, Mich. w/ Kyle E. Miller (3/13) And more!

MUMBAI, India — "... their story was retold in a Hollywood box office /I would never watch, / for the sake of this beautiful memory." Read "Travelogue of a homebody Indonesian who will never travel on her own accord" by Jiji Lubis scrawlplace.com/2025/03/04/tra…

YORK, Maine — "She had put me in charge of organizing our beach vacation, as she often did, and I completely screwed it up." Read "Last Resort" by Annamaria Formichella scrawlplace.com/2025/03/06/las…

COMING SOON ON SCRAWL PLACE, JOURNEYS TO » Annapolis, Md. w/ Noreen Campo (3/11) » Tawas Point State Park, Mich. w/ Kyle E. Miller (3/13) » Omaha w/ Shyla Shehan (3/18) » Heraklion, Crete w/ Eric M. Witchey (3/20) And more!

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — "Sour, but not sharp enough. Still gentle like the oysters’ cool flesh, dancing one last dance beneath lemony rain." Read "Chesapeake Bay Haibun" by Noreen Campo scrawlplace.com/2025/03/11/che…

TAWAS POINT STATE PARK, Mich. — "These days, my eyes gather light and don’t know what to do with it. They’re forgetting how to be eyes." Read "Mixed State" by Kyle E. Miller scrawlplace.com/2025/03/13/mix…

I'm grateful to Scrawl Place for taking on this hybrid piece, which incorporates erasure poetry into the prose. Inspired by true and false events.

OMAHA, Neb. — "I’ve been here at this time of day and know that the crowd will thin considerably as evening approaches. By 8 PM it will be deserted. Did I mention I’m alone?" Read "Party of One at the Wine Bar" by Shyla Shehan scrawlplace.com/2025/03/18/par…

HERAKLION, Greece — "They say the mountain people on the island of Crete still measure the walking distance from village to village in the number of cigarettes a man smokes while walking. I don’t smoke." Read "Three Tales to Heraklion by Eric M. Witchey scrawlplace.com/2025/03/20/thr…

REMINDER : Submissions will close from April 1 and reopen June 1 with updated guidelines.

Writers! Scrawl Place has updated submission guidelines. Check them out: scrawlplace.com/submit/ Nothing significant has changed, but there's a handy checklist to consider when preparing your submission.

SEOUL — "I am the ultimate pivoter: my crumbling castle turned wedding studio / Come pay to watch me fall apart" scrawlplace.com/2025/08/12/yon… Read "Yongma Land Insists" by Meg Eden Kuyatt

Next: illness and mystery in prosimetrum, “Mixed State” in Scrawl Place. My interest in hybridity begins to mature. scrawlplace.com/2025/03/13/mix…

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA — "He took me to Big Sur by way of Monterey, where we stayed in Carmel-by-the-Sea, tucked away in separate motel rooms because I was unsure of his capacity for control ..." Read "Big Sir" by Maxwell Deyo scrawlplace.com/2025/08/14/big…