Recommended Reading

Below are a few recent publications from past authors.

Previous Burningword Literary Journal contributors are encouraged to share updates, news, and press releases.

Cover of book Current Disasters by Jen McConnell

Current Disasters
by Jen McConnell
(Magical Jeep Distributing)

CURRENT DISASTERS consists of 22 flash and short stories. The characters and predicaments in CURRENT DISASTERS offer insight into the ways we attempt to connect with others and the larger world around us. The stories explore false starts and unresolved endings, as well as the agonizing moments in between.

Jen McConnell has published prose and poetry in more than forty literary magazines, and her work has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Recent short stories and flash fiction can be found in The Good Life Review, Burningword, Does it Have Pockets?, Bridge Eight, and more. Her first story collection, Welcome, Anybody, was published by Press 53. She holds an MFA from Goddard College. A California native, she’s lived in the Midwest long enough that she should be used to the winters by now.

Big Time: Contemporary Stories of the American South
by James William Gardner
(jameswilliamgardner.com)

Busted Flat
A new Novella by Michael Loyd Gray
(Blue Cedar Press)

Born With
Poems by Michael Daley
(Dos Madres Press)

On The Badlands Of New Times
poems by Paul Bamberger
(Deerbrook Editions)

Selling The Farm
nonfiction by Debra Di Blasi
(C&R Press)

Cocktails with a Dead Man
poems by Joe Albanese
(Cyberwit.net)

Crafting Wings
poetry by Joseph Murphy
(Scars Publications)

Fraying Edge of Sky
poems by Danielle Hanson
(Codhill Press, Poetry Award Winner 2017)

Spokes of an Uneven Wheel
poems by Colin Dodds
(Main Street Rag)

Epoch
poetry by Paul Fauteux
(FinishingLine Press)

Ambushing Water
poetry by Danielle Hanson
(Brick Road Poetry Press)

Watershed
a novel by Colin Dodds
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing)


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