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This week’s #MustRead comes from Associate Editor Erin Roca. Sumitra Martin details the stress of leaving her child for a writing residency abroad and how her mother stepped in to help.
#OpenSecrets #WritersResidency #CNF
https://opensecretsmagazine.com/p/mother-daughter-relationship-silent-retreat
Perambulating the Labyrinth by Sarah Boon
It was January of 2024. I was in a deep bipolar low and struggled just with getting out of the house. But I knew I had to get outdoors....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/4jMLWcA
Lots of great opportunities for writers in this month's submission calls roundup
#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
This week's Substack is a call to action in defense of the Roadless Rule and Roadless Area Conservation Act.
The Geography of a Flat Hand: Life After a Stroke by Sabith Khan
Though I am naturally right-handed, being a stroke survivor meant I had to learn to do daily mundane tasks with my left hand....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/3Vsy4KH
│ Later, they tried to remember the words, tried to remember the last sounds their mother ever made.
🥀 My new piece, "Queen Charlotte Died in Her Bedroom," is live today on Chewers.
#WritingCommunity #CreativeNonfiction #CNF #History #BookSky
Send us prose and poetry inspired by a real news story reported since October 2025. FIT TO PRINT closes 10/15/26! #amwriting #flashfiction #poetry #cnf www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/oc...
Opportunities for Writers in October
ko-fi.com/forthosewhoa...
#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
Mrs. Concealment by Iman Vanzetti
I am Mrs. Concealment. I give them only a glimpse of my dissatisfaction so they know I’m not a phony, merely a hypocrite....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/4AWYvbI
At the Dock by Richard Hurst
So I went back outside. The same table. The same heat. The same engines and voices at the dock....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/4xQViaV
Opportunities for Writers in October
#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
A tribute to a beloved #butterfly in this week's Substack.
Where to Submit | Opportunities for Writers
katelouisepoetry.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/w...
#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
What have I been up to the past 3+ years? Here's a peak as I currently polish sample chapters and #book proposal for #querying #CNF #agents and #publishers. (The phrase 'my brain darkening' is borrowed from verses in 'Bog Queen' by Seamus Heaney.) #Booksky📚
Dirk van Nouhuys is back at Unlikely with his creative non-fiction essay, “Isfahan,” on one American’s passion for Iranian architecture at www.unlikelystories.org/content/isfa... #cnf #creativenonfiction #litmag #smallpress
"Before the knowledge that feminism and craft coffee both share many waves..."
My Husband, the High Priest of Caffeine by Arielle Blackburn medium.com/lit-up/my-hu... #creativenonfiction #narrativenonfiction #cnf in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
Where to Submit | Opportunities for Writers
katelouisepoetry.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/w...
#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
Excited to share my Edvard Munch-inspired CNF piece ‘Skrik’ with you all!
rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-issu...
Read RAWHEAD Issue 03 (Fall 2026) here:
rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-issue-three
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This week, a tribute to #Hymenoptera for #WorldWaspWeek! With a little help from Scottish poet William Sharp aka Fiona Macleod.