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/.

Myfanwy Williams https://burningword.com/2025/10/myfanwy-williams October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/28/2025

Myfanwy Williams https://burningword.com/2025/10/myfanwy-williams October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Myfanwy Williams October 2025 | poetry | 0 comments The Women Who Carry   I. A woman carries her uterus in a plastic grocery bag floating in formaldehyde, stoppered in a bell jar: inside her, the void sewn tight to stop her organs from migrating, where the blue whales churning in that black hole of...

VA Wiswell https://burningword.com/2025/10/va-wiswell October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/27/2025

VA Wiswell https://burningword.com/2025/10/va-wiswell October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

VA Wiswell October 2025 | visual art | 0 comments Headless Patrons Black & White Beach   VA Wiswell VA lives outside Seattle, WA, with her human and animal family. When not writing, she enjoys ice skating, reading, and working on her photography and her art projects. Her work has appeared in Litera...

Frederick Wilbur https://burningword.com/2025/10/frederick-wilbur October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/27/2025

Frederick Wilbur https://burningword.com/2025/10/frederick-wilbur October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Frederick Wilbur October 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Aubade for Aurora   Before that late hour of blue cheese and ruddy-skinned pears, white wine,   she asks me questions I cannot answer simply: forget night’s history, the weight of excuse?   I cannot ignore her briberies of pink and gold. Will ...

Stephen Curtis Wilson https://burningword.com/2025/10/stephen-curtis-wilson-10 October 2025 Burningword Literary Journ...
11/26/2025

Stephen Curtis Wilson https://burningword.com/2025/10/stephen-curtis-wilson-10 October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Stephen Curtis Wilson October 2025 | visual art | 0 comments Annabelle   Stephen Curtis Wilson Wilson is a designer and photographer. His deeply personal view of this quintessentially Midwestern region, central Illinois, highlights and celebrates its visual textures and curiosities. He was a medica...

JL Smith https://burningword.com/2025/10/jl-smith October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/26/2025

JL Smith https://burningword.com/2025/10/jl-smith October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

JL Smith October 2025 | visual art | 0 comments Incendiary Paper Cities B   JL Smith Since visiting Hiroshima, Smith has been reflecting on power: what overpowers, what empowers us to rebuild, and the ruptures that continue across generations following cruelty. What remains in the wake of disaster?...

Jim Tilley https://burningword.com/2025/10/jim-tilley October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/25/2025

Jim Tilley https://burningword.com/2025/10/jim-tilley October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Jim Tilley October 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Shadow of a Doubt   Light falling against a solid, upright object casts a shadow, the sun setting behind mountains putting the valley fully in shade, no doubt. In the morning, standing against the railing   on the balcony of your forest home, the valle...

Sarp Sozdinler https://burningword.com/2025/10/sarp-sozdinler October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/25/2025

Sarp Sozdinler https://burningword.com/2025/10/sarp-sozdinler October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Sarp Sozdinler October 2025 | fiction | 0 comments Carcinisation When we were little, my half-brother named all his pets after different animals, which our mom initially thought was a vocabulary issue. His goldfish was called Butterfly. His hamster was named Lizard. The family dog responded to “Rh...

Carlin Steere https://burningword.com/2025/10/carlin-steere October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/24/2025

Carlin Steere https://burningword.com/2025/10/carlin-steere October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Carlin Steere October 2025 | nonfiction | 0 comments I stole your handwriting:   Dear Elsie, I know it’s been a while since we last connected. It’s been at least 12 years now, bar the occasional Instagram like or Christmas card from your mother. I have something to confess. You might have caugh...

Hannah Voteur https://burningword.com/2025/10/hannah-voteur October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/24/2025

Hannah Voteur https://burningword.com/2025/10/hannah-voteur October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Hannah Voteur October 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Snail Funeral   Between tulip and ryegrass there is a freshly dug grave I might be five, or four black soil beneath my fingernails loss in the hollows of my footprints   Its viscous body is buried in a bottle cap coffin offered to the earth under fl...

P. J. Szemanczky https://burningword.com/2025/10/p-j-szemanczky October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/23/2025

P. J. Szemanczky https://burningword.com/2025/10/p-j-szemanczky October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

P. J. Szemanczky October 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Returning Home, Teachers   Dying swamp trees are irregularly spaced by lynx’s cry answered indifferently well, resigning itself to a natural Providence: self-satisfied. It filled a belly with wild mice several times more vigilant than dying tree...

Sayantani Roy https://burningword.com/2025/10/sayantani-roy October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/23/2025

Sayantani Roy https://burningword.com/2025/10/sayantani-roy October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Sayantani Roy October 2025 | visual art | 0 comments The edges of the day Goan winter Cormorants at dusk   Sayantani Roy Sayantani Roy works out of the Seattle area. Her photography and haiga appear in Rappahannock Review and Contemporary Haibun Online. Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Shyla Shehan https://burningword.com/2025/10/shyla-shehan October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
11/22/2025

Shyla Shehan https://burningword.com/2025/10/shyla-shehan October 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Shyla Shehan October 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Because the moon is moving away   from Earth 1.5 inches each year I know someday this will all be over.   The churning of the tide will soften as her reliable waxing and waning   disappears. Infinite gravity governs absolutely. Each action yields eq...

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Burningword Literary Journal (ISSN 2161-8992 print / ISSN 2157-7366 online) is a quarterly publication focusing on emerging and established writers of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, and photographic artists. Burningword has been published continuously since June 2000. Submit your work at http://burningword.com/submissions/.