I was born, Mom says, dollhouse-
ready, pre-Barbie hair a field
of curls, the early bird that... [+]
Poetry
Contemporary
1 min
Hark! A new category of short pieces has now opened! Please welcome the Creative Nonfiction section where texts selected from our previous writing contests, such as America: colour it in and Long Story Short Award, are reunited with works from Creative Nonfiction magazine’s Sunday Short Reads serie. Creative writing has indeed a rosy future!
Hark! A new category of short pieces has now opened! Please welcome the Creative Nonfiction section where texts selected from our previous writing contests, such as America: colour it in and Long Story Short Award, are reunited with works from Creative Nonfiction magazine’s Sunday Short Reads serie. Creative writing has indeed a rosy future!
And it’s out there! We’re so pleased to share with you Short Circuit #05. Our latest collection of poetry, stories, and children’s works, now circulating around the world via our Short Story Dispensers. In this issue, you’ll find bitter honesty and bare vulnerability; love and courage; connection and isolation. We hope you enjoy these tales as much as we do.
And it’s out there! We’re so pleased to share with you Short Circuit #05. Our latest collection of poetry, stories, and children’s works, now circulating around the world via our Short Story Dispensers. In this issue, you’ll find bitter honesty and bare vulnerability; love and courage; connection and isolation. We hope you enjoy these tales as much as we do.
Attn: all Philadelphians, we've got a new project going just for you! If you don't know already, Short Edition is proud to call Philadelphia our American home as of January 2020. To celebrate, we've launched a city-wide literary project to publish locally written works throughout the city via our Philly Dispensers, one new traveling Dispenser, and online at philly.short-edition.com.
Attn: all Philadelphians, we've got a new project going just for you! If you don't know already, Short Edition is proud to call Philadelphia our American home as of January 2020. To celebrate, we've launched a city-wide literary project to publish locally written works throughout the city via our Philly Dispensers, one new traveling Dispenser, and online at philly.short-edition.com.
I was born, Mom says, dollhouse-
ready, pre-Barbie hair a field
of curls, the early bird that... [+]
The rain had dried up –
every drip, every puddle –
but Hillie couldn’t go out
while her room was a muddle.
Mom had been clear, and
her dad had agreed,
“First... [+]
There is a story and it goes like this. There is a tower of brick and stone, raised up like a mountain. Its peak puts holes in the bottoms of clouds. A princess sits by the window at the top, and... [+]