Congrats to Ren Cedar Fuller, whose "Naming My Father" contest judge Sue Silverman calls "a brilliant essay" & chose as this year's Summer Writing Contest winner! Publication forthcoming in 2023! ☀️

Happy September! 🌞🍂We're open for submissions in CNF & Art/Photography and can't wait to read/see/savor your work! Complete guidelines on our website: underthesunonline.com/wordpress/2022… #litmag #CNF #CNFcommunity #submissions

Fresno friends, if you're in the area, we have two UtS contributors reading at this year's Fresno LitHop ~ 2020 contributor and assistant editor Phyllis Brotherton & 2023 contributor @StevenWChurch. Schedule & info: lithopfresno.org

A must read from Ethan Chatagnier

"Get out into the world and ask yourself what you think. Cultivate opinions. Take things personally. Enter the conversation!" ~ Dinah Lenney

T H R I L L E D to learn that TWO After the Art essays have made the Best American Essay Notable list! @HeidiCzerwiec's "A Digression" from 2021 and @DanaDelibovi's "Heavy Is the Root of Light" from 2020. You can read them here: aftertheart.com/2020/06/18/hea… aftertheart.com/2021/06/15/a-d… 🎉

Congratulations to @svenbirkerts whose Brevity essay "the Voice of Things" is listed as a 2022 Notable in Best American Essays.

One of my favorite ways to write an essay is through collage. Here's how! Pick a central theme. Time, for example. 1/

A beautiful and powerful book. Congrats, SarahFawn Montgomery

It is fitting that I am having a bad pain day when this Catapult piece goes live. I’m eager to share this craft essay a/b where I write as a disabled writer, unlearning ableist writing advice, and how I wrote my @splitlippress HALFWAY FROM HOME. ♿️ catapult.co/dont-write-alo…

Writing Lessons from a Glorious Glutes Class | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog brevity.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/glo…

This guy’s going to win.

“I don’t think that if I live to be eighty, I’m going to wish I’d spent more hours in the gym or kept my house a lot cleaner. I’m going to wish I had swum more unashamedly, made more mistakes, spaced out more, rested….So this informs how I live now.” ~ANNE LAMOTT

We're thrilled to announce our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations, including @StevenWChurch, Ren Cedar Fuller, @MarkLiebenow2, Wes Lee, Kathleen Melin, and Elaine Palencia. Congrats all! You can read their fabulous words here: underthesunonline.com/wordpress/2023…

Happy to have an essay "On Difficulty" in this grand 10th Anniversary Issue. Lovely readings all.

You will love this incredible essay by Cindy Bradley published by The Missouri Review, invoking an earlier, very different time in Southern California. Congrats!

Julia Roberts and George Clooney, co-chairs of the big Biden fundraiser in LA, with Presidents Biden and Obama.

Check out Cindy Bradley’s interview @SugarSugarSalt_

Thrilled to once again open our submissions portal. Send us your freshest, most vivid, "not one word wasted" flash nonfiction. We love distinctive voice and carefully-crafted language. brevitymag.com

Many thanks to Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh and South Dakota Review for publishing my poem about the protections we build to keep us safe from rocky relationships and rising tides. Honored to share pages with some of my favorites.