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Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen
What is the landscape of my life these days? Mudflat sounds about right—the mud part and the flat part, messy, shoe-sucking,...
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- May 24, 2021
- 2 min
ESL Writers Needed for Local Anthology
We are seeking short stories and personal essays (150 to 2,000 words) from ESL writers in the Tampa Bay area. The theme is a sense of...
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- May 19, 2021
- 6 min
I Have Always Relied on the Kindness of Strangers, by Jillian Damiani
Between New York and Connecticut: March 11, 2020 With a CVS-manufactured cane covered in cheap florals and two bags worth of case folders...
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- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
805 Contributor Wins Literary Award
Congratulations to 805 contributor Laurette Folk for recently winning a literary award! Her novel, The End of Aphrodite (Bordighera...
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- May 12, 2021
- 3 min
Collisions, by Ben Kassoy
I spent so many days wandering the wreckage and possibility of the space between the buildings and reverberating from the shock of you,...
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- May 7, 2021
- 2 min
My Home Library, by Bobby Miller
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Apr 28, 2021
- 7 min
Hibakujumoku, by Maxwell Suzuki
Hibakujumoku is a Japanese term for trees that have survived the blast of an atomic bomb. The same blast that vaporized men, women, and...
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- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
Drowning in Books, by Valerie Lute
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Apr 21, 2021
- 1 min
Bruised Mother, by Ashley Kirkland
topless in the grey light of the master bath, accompanied by store-bought seashells and soaps, a painting of dune grass, remember how we...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 1 min
Editors Speak: The Dos and Don'ts of Submitting to Literary Journals
Thank you to everyone who attended our "Editors Speak" event where we answered your burning questions about submitting your writing to...
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- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
Free, Virtual Writing Workshops!
Editor Julieanna Blackwell will present multiple writing workshop series throughout the spring and summer. All classes are free, virtual,...
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- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
Asian American Translations, by Molly Zhu
I only know Power from the other side of my mother’s eyes when she asks me, what does it mean, my only job is to dress the slur in...
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- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Shells and Shelves, by Freesia McKee and Jade Kastel
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Apr 7, 2021
- 4 min
Carousel, by Megan Hayes
Growing feels a lot more like incessantly turning, wondering which memory from your past will take a new form in the future. Feel the...
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- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Bilingual Post by Sarah Van Arsdale
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Dorothy Was Right, by Amy Nicholson
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
How My Favorite Books Helped Me Cope When I Was Sick, by M. L. Lanzillotta
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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805lit
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
The Queen’s Eyes, by Kim Allouche
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a lovely, young queen with black locks who lived high up in a castle with an angry,...
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- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
On Tuesday, by Sudeepta Sanyal
Shanti rolls the loose end of the sari and ties it tightly around her waist. She sits down on the inverted tin and dusts the stone on...
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- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Books As Portals, by Brian Jewell
Books can be many things to many people and can take on many forms, both metaphorically and quite literally. They come in hardbacks and pape
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