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/.

Stephen Curtis Wilson https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/stephen-curtis-wilson-9 July 2025 Burningword Literary Journ...
10/03/2025

Stephen Curtis Wilson https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/stephen-curtis-wilson-9 July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Stephen Curtis Wilson July 2025 | visual art | 0 comments Last Dance at the Chicken Ranch   Stephen Curtis Wilson Wilson is a designer and photographer. Central Illinois has been his frame of reference for a lifetime. His well-considered perspective provides him with an intimate, unique understandi...

Jean Wolff https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/jean-wolff-5 July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
10/03/2025

Jean Wolff https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/jean-wolff-5 July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Jean Wolff July 2025 | visual art | 0 comments MultiLozenge   Jean Wolff Jean Wolff has had group and solo exhibits in various galleries in New York City and internationally. In addition, she has published 154 works in 105 issues of 61 magazines. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she studied fine arts at ...

Jessie Wingate https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/jessie-wingate July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
10/02/2025

Jessie Wingate https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/jessie-wingate July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Jessie Wingate July 2025 | poetry | 0 comments My Body, Your Choice Chromatic prism, ultraviolet light waves toward my flat black pupil a record shuffling the same few songs. Isn’t that what womanness has been about? Repeated scenes: the bonnet-donned bonnie forking at the hay bail the fish wife c...

VA Smith https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/va-smith July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
10/02/2025

VA Smith https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/va-smith July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

VA Smith July 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Wheels It began in our bodies, parts of us craving release, the Let It Go of Elsa’s icy power, the freedom of her frozen solitude. You, car-seated chanteuse, fresh from Montessori Pre-K, I, your chauffeur grandmother joining you in a ramped-up CD sing along...

Dylan Willoughby https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/dylan-willoughby July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
10/01/2025

Dylan Willoughby https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/dylan-willoughby July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Dylan Willoughby July 2025 | visual art | 0 comments Marriage and Casanovas Dylan Willoughby Dylan Willoughby’s photography has appeared in On the Seawall (10-photograph feature), Wrongdoing, Rejection Letters, and many other venues. Dylan has been a residency fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell and hol...

Lucinda Trew https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/lucinda-trew July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
10/01/2025

Lucinda Trew https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/lucinda-trew July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Lucinda Trew July 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Huck at the altar of drainage culverts twice a day he leans into concrete tunnels that run beneath driveways, trusting in what waits amid wet leaves, grass clippings, the effluent of suburbia – he is a true believer, a witness who recalls a raddled tabb...

Lisa Lopez Smith https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/lisa-lopez-smith July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
09/30/2025

Lisa Lopez Smith https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/lisa-lopez-smith July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Lisa Lopez Smith July 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Exhalations untethered from my daydreams my husband says ¿Que te pasa? ¿Por que tanto suspiro? it’s even a joke now—my fictional characters respond to every line of dialogue with sighs. Like me. We’re illegible, scrawling out the only possible...

Dana Stamps, II https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/dana-stamps-ii July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
09/30/2025

Dana Stamps, II https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/dana-stamps-ii July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Dana Stamps, II July 2025 | nonfiction | 0 comments Why I Hate to Read Trimming a bonsai tree is probably better entertainment. Listening to good music, from classical to jazz to rock-n-roll, is so much better that I cannot overestimate the difference. Watching television is even more addictive nowa...

Thomas Vogt https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/thomas-vogt July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
09/29/2025

Thomas Vogt https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/thomas-vogt July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Thomas Vogt July 2025 | visual art | 0 comments Locke Boarding House   Thomas Vogt Thomas Vogt is an aspiring poet, photographer, and city planner in Sacramento, California. He enjoys capturing the ‘every day’ through a pen, a lens, or behind a mug at your local coffee shop. His work has been p...

Dave Sims https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/dave-sims-6 July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
09/29/2025

Dave Sims https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/dave-sims-6 July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Dave Sims July 2025 | visual art | 0 comments even the moon was wicked pi**ed Dave Sims After decades of teaching writing and literature, Dave Sims now makes art and music in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. His paintings, comix, stories, and poems appear in nearly one hundred tangible and dig...

Susan Shea https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/susan-shea July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
09/28/2025

Susan Shea https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/susan-shea July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Susan Shea July 2025 | poetry | 0 comments Zigzags If I knew Socrates told us to question everything I would have been better equipped to tell my mother why I disagreed with her why I lacked her enthusiasm for being born with curly hair that went in every direction off the top of my head like a fiel...

Juan Pablo Mobili https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/juan-pablo-mobili July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal ...
09/28/2025

Juan Pablo Mobili https://www.burningword.com/2025/07/juan-pablo-mobili July 2025 Burningword Literary Journal

Juan Pablo Mobili July 2025 | poetry | 0 comments The Pilosity of Memory Although mindful to remember but unwilling to commemorate, during our nation’s holidays,   during grade school, I carried our flag, hoping it would end my parents’ wars.   That might be why I still gaze at armies with sus...

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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/.