NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY began life as Mississippi Review Online. We invite submissions the first two weeks of January, April, July and October, and publish in those same months. Read more at https://newworldwriting.net/
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Three stories from Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in our Spring 2026 issue!
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Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for taking these three conjunctions of health food stores, spank socks, and fetal pigs from Fingerling Lakes! newworldwriting.net/simeon-berry...
Maisie Fails to Anticipate the Ordinary As her body began to break down, first one joint at a time—knees, hips, shoulders, then the discs in her spine, then
Three new poems from Scott Coykendall!
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New stories from Chris Cottom!
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New story from Tammy Peacy!
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Three new stories from Glen Pourciau!
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Two new stories from Peter Beynon
@akapeterbeynon.bsky.social!
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Up now in our Spring 2026 issue, new work from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!
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from Fingerling Lakes Lab The Bio teacher’s stepped out for a cigarette when Fen recoils from the tarnished tray and says she won’t dissect the fetal pig This
A new story from Didem Arslanoglu in our Spring 2026 issue!
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We're so pleased to congratulate Michelle Ross! Her story, "People in Elevators," published in our Fall 2025 issue, has won a Pushcart Prize!!
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I’m a decorative throw pillow, I’m a pair of memory foam house slippers After Eric Scot Tryon I work the afternoon shift at the TJ Maxx Homegoods. I eat yogurt
No one forced me into silence No one forced me into silence. I practiced for it on my own, always confusing being tired for being done. In America, what
After They Ban Flowers We hold a women-only wake in the community hall, weeping for our snapdragons and hollyhocks, our alchemilla mollis and love-in-a-mist.
So pay attention, will you? ~ The philodendron will live for some time after Daniel dies. Plants don’t think, survival their only concern. A yearning towards
Breakfast I’m at my favorite breakfast place, Monday morning, hoping I can eat in peace, when I see Muldoon enter, just as I’d dreaded. I’ve already ordered,
The Oasis Borschewski tugs at the bedspread and pillows until they lie just so. Not that he gives a shit about pillows, really, or that Nina does. The street
People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also
I didn’t realize how sticky human blood was until I slipped in my kitchen last August and fell into the mouth of my pried-open dishwasher with a butter knife
