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Proud to announce 2 winners of the Pushcart Prize!! Elizabeth Childs' Sinkholes, Strawberries from Pinch Issue 45.1 Spring 2025 and Justin Gibson's Rasputin Loses Employee of the Month from Pinch Issue 45.2 Fall 2025!! Congratulations to everyone!!
Read Terena Elizabeth Bell’s incredible piece about Ella Jackson, who is the subject of the Dateline episode The Bluegrass Mystery
Read Terena Elizabeth Bell’s incredible piece about Ella Jackson, who is the subject of the Dateline episode The Bluegrass Mystery
Interview up now with the Pinch Journal Online Read it here and now. Chrissy Martin!
Calling All Nonfiction Submissions! The Pinch is now accepting and open for nonfiction subs.
Author Jody Hobbs Hesler speaks through her impactful fiction on a day in this life. "O Say Can You See", has made it's brilliant way into an anthology!! New Stories from the South 2026!! Read now on Pinch Journal Online (PJO). Let freedom ring, Hesler has something to say.
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The Obscure Historical Sorrows of Canines, Read Here! By the illuminating, Nikoletta Gjoni at the Pinch Online Journal (PJO) LIVE Now ---> www.pinchjournal.com...
Check out the latest interview with the inspiring Schyler Butler. Here at the Pinch Journal Online. >>> www.pinchjournal.com... cavankerrypress.org/...
New Poetry by Seth Amos, Dung Beetle and Emily Post. Now on Pinch Journal Online (PJO). Read it here >>>www.pinchjournal.com...
Join us, Tomorrow for a conversation with New York Times best-selling author, Lauren Hough & Courtney Miller Santo, 6 p.m. at Novel. Brilliant minds combine on class and sexuality, as Hough surveys MONSTER OF A LAND, her new memoir.
Don’t miss our latest fiction piece on PJO, “Ten Minutes Into the Roast” by Darlene Eliot 🎤
Check out the latest PJO piece, “Anchovy Ghosts” by Brooke Spalding. Up Now! “We are afraid of dying/ but we cannot wait to sleep.”
🚨PJO has a new poem🚨 Be sure to check out the latest poem, “A Recipe for Sapodilla Milkshakes” by Amelia Badri up on PJO now! “Mix the milk of your choice with your father’s Dairy Queen heart, the one off 441 where only three cars at most can park…”
Check out our latest post on PJO! “Lieb”, a poem by William Bonfiglio, paints a striking image of the Heidelberg patient Marie Lieb’s artwork. “What is known is unimportant. It fades/ into sepia against what/ will be remembered…”
“Dust and flaws become less noticeable in moonlight” Don’t miss our newest author, Liz Marlow! Her Three Poems peek into the life of Rosa in early 1900s Buenos Aires. The first two poems are available to read on PJO now, and the third poem will be posted Friday, February 6th
"The Summer My Blood Flowed for The First Time" by Rivka Clifton is up on our website. Go to pinchjournal.com to check it out.
This week, we published "50/50 Custody Contrapuntal" by Sarah Mark. Go to www.pinchjournal.com to read the poem.
This week, we’re proud to share “A Brief Relationship with My Father” by Tom Busillo. Read it now on PJO!
This week, we’re proud to share “A Brief Relationship with My Father” by Tom Busillo. Read it now on PJO!
Up on PJO today, the poem "Heartwood" by Eric Roy. Go to pinchjournal.com to read it.