Short personal essays in flash nonfiction form, each a few hundred words, drawing on memoir, family history and small sensory moments. The writing is literary and reflective, mixing close observation with wry self-awareness.
Website: https://www.short-reads.org/
Open Secrets publishes first-person personal essays about topics people are usually taught to keep private, such as grief, mental health and difficult relationships. Issues include a mix of humorous and emotional essays, plus a recurring series on objects with personal meaning.
A literary journal publishing poetry, short stories, essays and serialized novellas by familiar and emerging Southern writers. Issues also carry editor's notes, prize announcements and news of the journal's print books.
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