July 2026
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Craft Articles
Between Pen and Paper: Flaneuring Through a Writer’s Mind, On Technonoetophobia or Why the Chicken Does Not Cross the Algorithm by Andi Kopek
Literary Alchemy: Ingredients of the Story, Tension in Dialogue by Chrissy Hicks
Inserting Natural Action into a Scene by Clay Stafford >
Foreshadowing That Pays Off: How to Plant What Matters Without Giving It Away by Clay Stafford >
The Dream and Its Price by Clay Stafford >
Define What is Sacred to the Characters by Clay Stafford >
The Necessary Shape of a Story by Clay Stafford >
*NEW* Focus on What’s Important to You by Clay Stafford >
Drop the Pen!: What Every Writer Needs to Know About Real Police Work, Deadly Force From a Cop’s Perspective by David Lane Williams
The Infamous Info Dump and How to Avoid the Scrap Heap by Donalee Moulton
To Age or Not to Age, That is the Question by Lois Winston
Sell Your Book Like a Pro: A Sales Vet’s Crash Course by Stephen G. Eoannou
This Crazy Writing Life: On Getting the IANAA Discount by Steven Womack
Short Stories
*NEW* The Sheriff’s Last Drink by D.J. Brooks >
Impact by Kai Lovelace
The Collector by Marie Avis
The Woman in the Doorway by Sarah Collins
Creative Nonfiction
Aliases: Finding the Murderer Next Door by Avram Lavinsky
In Whom Do We Trust by Cam Torrens
Flash Fiction
The Scratching by Laura Shell
Poetry
Welcome to Our City by Al Baron
A Widower on the Eve of His Nuptials by John Grey
Excerpt
The Day of the Great Fog on Hunnicot Lake by Alexa Rayburn
