February 2026 Jan 30 Written by Shane McKnight View fullsize Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Subscribe for FREE February 2026Cover StoryClay Stafford talks with Otto Penzler on “What Truly Sustains a Long-Term Writing Career” > Craft ArticlesTHE WORLD GOT WIDER by Clay Stafford >Drop the Pen! What Every Writer Should Know About Real Police Work: Garrity Warning by David Lane Williams >WORKING WITHOUT AN ECHO by Clay Stafford >MAKING IT BEFORE IT HAS A NAME by Clay Stafford >Writing Historical Fiction by James L Hill >Literary Alchemy: The Ticking Clock: by Chrissy Hicks >THE CHAIR IS STILL THERE by Clay Stafford>Between Pen and Paper: Flaneuring Through a Writer’s Mind – The API of the Human Heart, or Why Your Characters Keep Misunderstanding Each Other by Andi Kopek >This Crazy Writing Life: When Publishing Throws You A Curve Ball—Again—And The Scammers Circle Above by Steven Womack > PoetryCalvin Stowe Stands Thwarted By The Door Of Harriet’s Writing Room, 1851 by Benjamin Goluboff >THE DIMMER GLOW by John Grey >The Sound That Followed Me Home by Topher Shields >BARHOPPING by Al Baron > Short StoriesThe Canaries by Victor Kreuiter >Sisters by Elizabeth Promamore >Penalty Kick by Luke Duvergey >A Visit From the Past by Amy Denton > Flash FictionNo Thanksgiving Leave in 1950 by Dale Scherfling > View Previous Issues Shane McKnight Previous Previous March 2026 Next Next January 2026
February 2026 Jan 30 Written by Shane McKnight View fullsize Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Subscribe for FREE February 2026Cover StoryClay Stafford talks with Otto Penzler on “What Truly Sustains a Long-Term Writing Career” > Craft ArticlesTHE WORLD GOT WIDER by Clay Stafford >Drop the Pen! What Every Writer Should Know About Real Police Work: Garrity Warning by David Lane Williams >WORKING WITHOUT AN ECHO by Clay Stafford >MAKING IT BEFORE IT HAS A NAME by Clay Stafford >Writing Historical Fiction by James L Hill >Literary Alchemy: The Ticking Clock: by Chrissy Hicks >THE CHAIR IS STILL THERE by Clay Stafford>Between Pen and Paper: Flaneuring Through a Writer’s Mind – The API of the Human Heart, or Why Your Characters Keep Misunderstanding Each Other by Andi Kopek >This Crazy Writing Life: When Publishing Throws You A Curve Ball—Again—And The Scammers Circle Above by Steven Womack > PoetryCalvin Stowe Stands Thwarted By The Door Of Harriet’s Writing Room, 1851 by Benjamin Goluboff >THE DIMMER GLOW by John Grey >The Sound That Followed Me Home by Topher Shields >BARHOPPING by Al Baron > Short StoriesThe Canaries by Victor Kreuiter >Sisters by Elizabeth Promamore >Penalty Kick by Luke Duvergey >A Visit From the Past by Amy Denton > Flash FictionNo Thanksgiving Leave in 1950 by Dale Scherfling > View Previous Issues Shane McKnight
