Burningword Literary Journal

Burningword Literary Journal Established in 2000, Burningword Literary Journal publishes poetry, flash nonfiction, flash fiction, The journal is available in print, e-book, and online.

Burningword Literary Journal (ISSN 2161-8992 print / ISSN 2157-7366 online) is a quarterly publication that seeks to discover and showcase the most exciting new voices in literature. It features an eclectic mix of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art. Burningword has been published continuously by Burrdowning Media, LLC, since June 2000. Submit your work at http://burningword.com/submissions/.

Dawson Steeber April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal
06/15/2026

Dawson Steeber April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Dawson Steeber April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments Are You Coming Back Last night I tossed and turned, the night torn mad with slamming doors and clanging radiators. I threw pillows and covers all over the room, woke in a terrible cold sweat. I walked to the kitchen gingerly, feeling the swollen, sore....

M. Brooke Wiese April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal
06/03/2026

M. Brooke Wiese April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

M. Brooke Wiese April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments Unfavorable Weather Over the Bay   All week the wind pushed rough water up over the bulkhead, wave on wave as far as you could see to the other side of the bay. Buffleheads and gulls, unfazed,   bobbed up and down like surfers calmly waiting for the...

Josje Weusten April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal
06/02/2026

Josje Weusten April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Josje Weusten April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments Cardboard Car Hanger   Its needle-sharp smell penetrates the cheap shop, the type where people riffle through racks, thoughtlessly throwing underpriced things into carts. Intended purchases left behind in places different from where they were picked up...

Daniel Thompson April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal
06/02/2026

Daniel Thompson April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Daniel Thompson April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments Bettor in the Giant’s Den   The heart of the stone sweats In the foothills of some place or another (I forgot where now in Nevada). The wet stone, moldy-in-sweat, Moss drenched, marinated in Fungus-warmth, red-splotched.   The casino is a lichen (...

Dawson Steeber https://burningword.com/2026/04/dawson-steeber-2 April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal ...
05/31/2026

Dawson Steeber https://burningword.com/2026/04/dawson-steeber-2 April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Dawson Steeber April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments Are You Coming Back   Last night I tossed and turned, the night torn mad with slamming doors and clanging radiators. I threw pillows and covers all over the room, woke in a terrible cold sweat. I walked to the kitchen gingerly, feeling the swollen, so...

Travis Stephens https://burningword.com/2026/04/travis-stephens April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal ...
05/30/2026

Travis Stephens https://burningword.com/2026/04/travis-stephens April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Travis Stephens April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments Angels in the Architecture Suppose there are angels in every room, sometimes seen, at times confused with ghosts, but no, ghosts are impatient wanderers, quick to put on boots & stomp through the hedges. Angels, half-asleep, thinking of cellos & the f...

Mia Sitterson https://burningword.com/2026/04/mia-sitterson April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal ...
05/30/2026

Mia Sitterson https://burningword.com/2026/04/mia-sitterson April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Mia Sitterson April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments what will I do until then?   buy seven white nectarines at the farmer’s market, eat one each day, do this over and over as the nectarines become pears, the pears become   winter, the leaves will turn to eggshells underfoot, and I won’t remember wh...

R James Sennett Jr https://burningword.com/2026/04/r-james-sennett-jr April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal ...
05/29/2026

R James Sennett Jr https://burningword.com/2026/04/r-james-sennett-jr April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

R James Sennett Jr April 2026 | poetry | 0 comments With Barely a Smack on the keister, our young brother was sent back down home to till his soil solo, Vesuvius bile vomited out of bitter lips – even still! Venom unabated, poison spittle distorting the crops we consume: hell, it’s in our clothi...

Jim Ross https://burningword.com/2026/04/jim-ross-13 April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal ...
05/29/2026

Jim Ross https://burningword.com/2026/04/jim-ross-13 April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Jim Ross April 2026 | visual art | 0 comments C Fred Johnson Park Fred Johnson Carousel, Johnson City, New York, one of six old carved carousels in the Binghamton metro area, known as the “carousel capital of the world.”   Jim Ross Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewardin...

Rina Park https://burningword.com/2026/04/rina-park April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal ...
05/28/2026

Rina Park https://burningword.com/2026/04/rina-park April 2026 Burningword Literary Journal

Rina Park April 2026 | visual art | 0 comments The Shape of Absence   Rina Park She is a sophomore at Chadwick International School in Incheon, South Korea. She has a deep interest in photography as a means of capturing the essence of society through everyday events and human relationships. She use...

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