Former 805 contributor Vivian McInerny reminiscences about filling her new home with books before anything else. This post is part of...

Umberto’s cooks the juiciest veal cutlet in the entire city. You know this because you’ve eaten veal cutlet at every Italian restaurant...

You ripped us from Mother’s arms, and Father tried to fight you. He didn’t have a gun, and your team had many. Uniformed men forced us...

Good luck to the five writers we nominated to the Sonder Press' Best Small Fictions 2021 Anthology. The anthology was founded by Tara L....

NewPages, a popular resource for writers, featured 805 contributor Laurette Folk's second novel on their book review site. Folk's book,...

Joseon, August 1961. She stood at the crossroad, crying. Not weeping, just a constant stream of tears. Dust from a passing car covered...

Submit Your Work To celebrate Pride Month in June 2021, 805 Lit + Art will publish a special issue of writing and art by LGBTQ+ creators....

We shredded books on the library floor. I felt like committing an awful sin. I wanted something I couldn’t ask for and tore the...

On the morning of May 23rd, I dwindle down my outfits to two; neither one overly flashy, and both terrifically practical for a photo...

How one exhausting year has planted me back in America and in the necessary company of English literature. The hardest thing about living...

Junot tells me how to lose her. He skins a mango I light with Chile. You won't like this. Otravida. Otravez. Those "you" keep me awake....

The year 2020 has been a harsh one to say the least. This year was the first year I experienced unbelievable grief. One of my dearest...

Flustered, I call my mother— “Ma, how many spoons of Ginger-Garlic paste do I put?” First, I spent 19 years longing To leave home, and...

Writing is a tough profession. Sometimes writers have to deal with rejection. There is also a hidden bureaucracy associated with the...

It starts with a first kiss kind of flush you see in the movies. A tingling vibration in your fingers and toes. It expands into a warmth...

Here, hope lays in dirt and often gets caught in between toes belonging to small bare feet running on hot sandy cobblestones. These feet...

We are excited to send out our nominations for the Pushcart Prize Anthology. The Pushcart Prize has been celebrating small publishers...

We nominated six stories for Best Microfiction ,an anthology that celebrates short stories up to 400 words. Good luck to our writers!...

Psalm With Passing Train, by Despy Boutris Hair, by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland Despy Boutris is published or forthcoming in American...

Check out our nominations for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. This award celebrates writers' debut fiction...