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Off Izaak Walton Road by Laura Julier was the winner of the 2023 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. We are happy to announce that her book is finally out in the world! Take a sneak peek or purchase your own copy here: www.unmpress.com/978082636771... #BookPrize #NewBookAlert

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"It wasn’t uncommon for me to return home from school to find Mom in a heap on the dirty shag carpet of our living room floor." -from "Heap," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Patti Jo Amerein Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #WritingCommunity

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📚Want to take River Teeth wherever you go? Check out Project MUSE!📚 Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. #RiverTeeth #cnf #ProjectMUSE #essaysthatmatter

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Beautiful Things, daughter magazine of River Teeth, features micro-essays that are 250 words or fewer. Within these essays, readers can find beauty and meaning in everyday things. Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1! #BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

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"Of course, you can make them yourself, these thin pancakes called naleśniki. But to really arrive in Poland, it’s best if a small woman named Pani Basia is standing at the stove." -from "Naleśniki," this week's BT essay by Jehanne Dubrow Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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❗❗April 1st is approaching fast!❗❗ Our submission deadline is approaching quickly and is a little less than a month away. Get your submissions turned in soon! Submit CNF & Micro essays through Submittable: riverteeth.submittable.com/submit #RiverTeeth #cnf #EssaysThatMatter #SubmissionDeadline

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📝In “Smoking Guns,” Laura Johnsrude tackles how a gun and fear can hold many different forms, both physical and figurative.📝 “I tried not to think about all the other guns in the other vehicles on the highway with me." You can read this essay by downloading it on Project Muse! #cnf #RiverTeeth

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"I stared at his name without blinking, my ribs tightening around my chest. Maybe he entered his name and, confronted with the ensuing screen, couldn’t honestly choose." -from "Wedding Planning," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Eryn Sunnolia Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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In “Church of the Goat Man,” Kathleen Driskell explores the town, new people, and life around her after she and her husband move into an abandoned church. You can download and read this essay through ProjectMuse! #cnf #essaysthatmatter #RiverTeeth #litmag

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Are you ready for #AWP25? Don’t forget our annual offsite event! Join us Friday night, March 28th at Bonaventure Brewing Company, just 1.5 miles from the Los Angeles Convention Center! #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #AWP2025 #LosAngeles

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(3/3) 📚Meet our River Teeth Spring 25 Interns✏️ We are so excited to have them and see what they do this semester! 😊 Check out some of their favorite Beautiful Things on our website! tinyurl.com/58352hmy #RiverTeeth #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryPublishing #BeautifulThings

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(2/3) 📚Meet our River Teeth Spring 25 Interns✏️ We are so excited to have them and see what they do this semester! 😊 Check out some of their favorite Beautiful Things on our website! tinyurl.com/58352hmy #RiverTeeth #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryPublishing #BeautifulThings

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(1/3) 📚Meet our River Teeth Spring 25 Interns✏️ We are so excited to have them and see what they do this semester! 😊 Check out some of their favorite Beautiful Things on our website! tinyurl.com/58352hmy #RiverTeeth #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryPublishing #BeautifulThings

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"After I finished washing dishes at the nursing home, I returned the goblets to the china hutch and sometimes found her in the dining room alone, “walking” from table to table in her wheelchair like Fred Flintstone. . ." To finish Jennifer Anderson's Beautiful Thing, go here: tinyurl.com/mrxpsy6x

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❤️Happy Valentine’s Day from everyone on the River Teeth Team!❤️ Spend time reading these Beautiful Things that will fill your heart this Valentine's Day. Love and friendship take the spotlight in these Beautiful Things essays. #cnf #BeautifulThings #RiverTeeth #essaysthatmatter

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💡In her essay “December 1, 2020,” Elizabeth Miki Brina tactfully explores the gray areas of domestic abuse without sacrificing the vulnerability and rawness central to literary nonfiction. It is a must-read for any essayist. "Maybe I would have seemed like the hysterical one, the irrational one."

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"Open," by Colleen Addison, is our newest Beautiful Thing: "It has been a lifetime since I have wanted: a long illness leads to a closed-off heart. Now I watch the play of muscle under her sleeves, and my nerves jangle." Keep reading: tinyurl.com/33bvc65y #riverteeth #nonfiction #microessays

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🎉Congratulations to all our Pushcart Prize nominees! Your words have inspired, challenged, and left a lasting mark on our readers! Help us celebrate these outstanding authors!🎉 #PushcartPrize #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal #WritingCommunity

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✨Big news! “Of Milk and Stars” by Anne McGrath from River Teeth issue 20.2 has been featured on The Humble Essayist as their paragraph of the week!✨ Find this piece on their website by the end of the week: www.the-humble-essayist.com #RiverTeeth #EssaysThatMatter #WritingCommunity #HumbleEssayist

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"I crack an egg against the edge of the bowl while thinking about the bistro I worked in when I was nineteen. I wore corduroy pants, Doc Marten Mary Janes, and hand-sewn peasant blouses. I wrote poems on the order pad I kept tucked in..." Read the rest of H.K. Hummel's BT here: tinyurl.com/nhbf2wnz

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The national AWP conference is quickly approaching!🤩 You can find us at corner booth #992 this year! Our team is planning some exciting things so we hope you’ll swing by our booth sometime during the conference!🌟 # RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #EssaysThatMatter #WritingCommunity #AWP

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"What on earth are you doing? she says, (my mistake was cutting the ends off first..." -from "My Sister Teaches Me How to Dice an Onion," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jessica Franken Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/.../my-siste...

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🎉 New River Teeth Revisited just dropped! Tauri Hagemann, former River Teeth Intern, breaks down places that act as more than the setting in Kathleen Driskell’s “The Church of the Goat Man” from RT 24.2. ✍️✨ riverteethjournal.com/river_revist... #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryJournal #WritingTips

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"After all that, he comes back for the curtains. The blackout curtains that helped him sleep in on so many school days—past the alarms I begged him to set, past all my fruitless shouting, past noon." -from "He Comes Back for the Curtains," by Jill Currie Read the rest: tinyurl.com/hpb29u25

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"Didn't I know that look of longing. . ."

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A beautiful Beautiful Things up today @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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We're so stoked to have "Bone by Bone" in the issue we're affectionally calling--the racoon issue!

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River Teeth 26.1 is available! The issue features essays by Richard Bausch, George Estreich, David Fowler, Stephen Haines, Heather Lanier, Will McMillan, Lindsey Pharr, Suzanne Roberts, Jennifer Taylor-Skinner, William Torrey, & Nicole Walker. Subscribe via our Submittable or enjoy on ProjectMUSE.

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@riverteeth.bsky.social editor Mark Neely bringing the poems

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@nikwalk.bsky.social on the advent! (Also: watch for Nicole in the new issue. . . 👀)

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@riverteeth.bsky.social editor @jillchristman.bsky.social up to read at St. Mary's College in South Bend next Monday: free & open to the public!

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The Kates of Minnesota!

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@katefreeborn.bsky.social: "I feel, for a moment, absolutely myself. The center of my own circle." riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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It's time, folks. @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent!

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Awww shucks. Thanks, Dan!

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"You could hear them calling, cries reverberating between black November treetops and low-hanging pewter clouds. Reedy honks, voices from the far north..." -from “November Geese," a Beautiful Things essay by Kit Carlson for this last day of November riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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Woot! It's our first Bluesky post! One more day to submit for the Spring 2025 print issue of River Teeth or publication in our online micro magazine Beautiful Things. We’ll break for the holidays–by which we mean, we’ll be reading!–& reopen for submissions on January 1, 2025. #CreativeNonfiction

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