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a quarterly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, nonfiction, and art (or a close approximation) every april, july, october, and january (or thereabouts)

NEW!!! jmww Seminars


Our online individual and group sessions in fiction, nonfiction, flash, and poetry, taught by jmww editors, begin in May 2012! To sign up for the seminars, click [[[[here]]]]

jmww anthology VI is here!



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jmww.spring.2012

Interview

Kristine Ong Muslim
by Gretchen Hodgin

Fiction

This Isn't Who We Are
by Barry Graham

In Service
by Julie Wakeman-Linn

Up on Old Gaither Road
by Christopher Valentine

Safe
by Rachel Demma

Maximum Love
by Noelle Adams

Vacant
by J. R. Angelella

Poetry

Transient
by Liz N. Clift

Gathering
by Rebecca Cook

Early On
by Karen Neuberg

13 Ways of Deconstructing a Blackbird
by Scott Owens

Daughterson
by S. J. Sindu

Flash Fiction

Hands
by Cezarija Abartis

Music Box Detective
by Ian Sanquist

The Inheritance of Radishes
by Michael Seidel

May I Pleased be Excused from Reality
by Meg Tuite

Nonfiction

For All or Nothing: The 162nd Game of the Baltimore Orioles 2011 Season
by Faith Hayden

MFA My Way

Get Conflicted
by Christine Stewart

Book Reviews

Shut Up/Look Pretty by Lauren Becker, Erin Fitzgerald, Kristy Logan, Michelle Reale, & Amber Sparks
(Reviewed by Melanie Page)

The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso
(Reviewed by Patrick Trotti)

Three Ways of the Saw by Matt Mullins
(Reviewed by Melanie Page)

Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell
(Reviewed by Patrick Trotti)

Night Fish by Kristine Ong Muslim
(Reviewed by Gretchen Hodgin)

The Poet's Zodiac by Mary Meriam
(Reviewed by Maria Dontas)

Fame & Madness in America by Garrett Socol
(Reviewed by Melanie Page)

Alone in the Terrible Universe by Alan Britt
(Reviewed by Barrett Warner)

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