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The deadline for the Surrealist Poetry Prize has been extended to October 15th, 2025! $15 for 3 poems. Submit here!

Submission Details: Opens Feb 1st- Oct 1st 2025 $15 fee for 3 poems Submit here!

Poetry “We Eat Ugly Lion Fish” by Georgia San Li “Glass Eggs or They Like to Eat the Same as You” by Carol Potter “The Cat is Missing, Day Eight” by Kathleen Flenniken Fiction “Stricken” by Matthew Baker “Remembering Lou Martello” by Wynne Hungerford Nonfiction “Danaë” by Albert Goldbarth

ZOOM LINK Willow Springs is hosting a virtual reading to celebrate the release of Issue no. 94! This reading will take place via Zoom, and will start at 5:30 P.M. PST. This event will be open to the public. We hope to see you there! FEATURING . . . Lisa Bass, Annika Holland, Randall Watson, … Read more

Congratulations Alexis Treads on a feature in Colossal! View her featured oil paintings here. Alexis Treads created the cover art for Willow Springs Issues 87, 88, 89, and 90.

Poetry “Mississippi Snow” by Kerry James Evans “The Future of Nostalgia” by Randall Watson “War Poem” by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel “Sexy Fish” by Sara Burge Fiction “A Tour of the Mural at the Merari Public Library” by Madison Jozefiak “If You Only Knew” by Bill Gaythwaite

WTAW will be at AWP January has been flying by, and AWP is now only two short weeks away. If you plan to be at AWP in Kansas City from February 7th-10th, you can connect with WTAW in two ways. You can find us every day at the bookfair, at T1422, where copies of our latest titles will be … Read more

Congratulations to Eastern Washington University Alum Jennifer Pullen for receiving tenure at Ohio Northern University! Her textbook Fantasy Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology is out from Bloomsbury Academic.

Meet Kerry James Evans: Evans is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University, an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a BA in English from Missouri State University. The recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship and a Walter … Read more