Glassworks Magazine

Just one week until Halloween! 🎃 What's your favorite spooky story or poem to read this time of year? Reply to let us know! ⬇️ #Halloween #SpookyStories #Horror

For this week’s #MustRead, Assistant Editor Chris Corroda recommends Jamie Mullins’s flash piece, The Talking Dog, recently featured by Craft Literary. https://www.craftliterary.com/2026/10/16/talking-dog-jamie-mullins/ #FlashFiction #TalkingDog #AttentionEconomy

Lovely to come home to my contributor copy of @rowanglassworks.bsky.social, Fall 2026 issue 🍂 Honoured to see 'Queerness of Our Species' in print. Such a beautifully produced magazine. Thank you to EIC Katie Budris for including me alongside such stellar writers and artists from the US and abroad.

Annual reading is today! Join us tonight at 6:30 for some yummy pastries, delicious lattes, and amazing work at High Grounds in Glassboro! #GWIssue33 #SJAuthors #Reading #Poetry #Fiction

Today's Issue 33 feature comes from CNF piece "Searching for Change" by Ashley Haines! You can read all of the spectacular pieces from our latest issue, this one included, here: https://issuu.com/glassworksmagazine/docs/glassworks_fall_2026 #CreativeNonfiction #CNF #LitMag

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe Does daydreaming help your writing process? #QuotesToLiveBy #EdgarAllanPoe #LitMag #AmWriting #WriterlyQuotes

We're just four days away from our annual reading! We can't wait to hear these amazing pieces, so join us this Thursday! #Poetry #Fiction #GWIssue33 #AnnualReading #Writing

Our fiction and poetry submissions have reached their cap and are now closed, but there's still time to send in your other pieces! Check out the link to learn more & submit your work. https://www.rowanglassworks.org/submission-guidelines.html #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #CNF #Artwork #FlashFiction

This week’s #MustRead comes from Assistant Editor Julia D’Orazio. In Kayla Poyer's Substack piece “An Open Letter,” she describes her experience in being a writer and the trials and tribulations that come along with it. #KayPoyer #Substack #Glassworks https://ow.ly/IPQV50ZWGIv

We are so excited for our first poetry feature of Issue 33. These wonderful poems are by Kristen Park, J. Alan Nelson, and Matthew Perry. Read their full poems in Issue 33 here! https://issuu.com/glassworksmagazine/docs/glassworks_fall_2026 #GWIssue33 #Poetry #LitMag #Features #Writing

This #WriterWednesday, we bring you a cozy autumn This or That, Writer edition 🍂 Let us know your answers in the comments! #WriterLife #LitMeg #Autumn #ThisorThat

This week’s #MustRead comes from Associate Editor Erin Roca. Sumitra Martin details the stress of leaving her child for a writing residency abroad and how her mother stepped in to help. #OpenSecrets #WritersResidency #CNF https://opensecretsmagazine.com/p/mother-daughter-relationship-silent-retreat

The Issue 33 reading is just a couple weeks away! We can't wait to see you there! #Issue33 #Poetry #Fiction #Coffee #Reading

Want to see more of Maria Pianelli Blair's stunning and vivid artwork? Check out Issue 33 at the link in our bio! #Art #ArtistsofBluesky #LitMag

This week’s #MustRead comes from Assistant Editor Allison Passalacqua. Author Devon Halliday’s Substack article, “Why You’re Not Writing” offers a series of diagnoses and prescriptions to common writing struggles! https://devonhalliday.substack.com/p/how-to-sit-down-and-write?r=94ookp&utm_medium=ios

New issue out today! 🍁📖 #LitMag #GWIssue33 #AmReading ⬇️ Read or order a copy: www.rowanglassworks.org

What's a writer to do when their work sprouts a mind of its own? Associate editor Erica Rose discusses how and when to let the characters take the wheel in her op-ed "Let Your Characters Grow: Why Writers Should Allow Their Creations to Change the Story." Read all our editors' op-eds on our website!

This week’s #MustRead comes from Associate Editor Meg Nielsen: the first chapter of The Writing Life, by the late Annie Dillard. https://www.scribd.com/document/1003198450/Excerpt-From-the-Writing-Life-Annie-Dillard #AnnieDillard #TheWritingLife #Inspiration

Join us on October 22nd at 6:30pm for our Annual Reading! Kristen Park and Shannon Frost Greenstein will be reading their featured work from Issue 33 at High Grounds in Glassboro! #AnnualReading #glassworks #LitMag

#flashglass presents, "If you invest, you won't need 40 acres and a mule" a #ProsePoem by @ellenjunewrites.bsky.social on the past and future. "we're not supposed to win · supposed to stay silent soulless · cogs in the machine." Read the full poem now! https://ow.ly/XpE450ZHw7M

This week’s #MustRead comes from Ed. in Chief Katie Budris, a Substack post by tech journalist Emily Caddy on the dangers of cognitive surrender with AI use. https://thefuturehunter.substack.com/p/the-best-time-to-learn-about-cognitive-surrender-is-now #AI #CognitiveOffloading #CognitiveSurrender

"I will find hunger lazing at the onset of sleep/ that word between us that passed from tongue to tongue/ the one we left soaking in the gravel-specked rain." “Things That Disappear" by Megan Merchant #Artwork: “Midnight” by Janelle Rainer Issue 12 #TBT #LitMag #Poetry

Submissions for our 2026 reading period are officially open! Check out the link in our bio to read our guidelines and find out how to submit your work today. #LitMag #GetPublished #WritingKicksGlass #Fiction #Poetry #CreativeNonfiction

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ― Maya Angelou What makes you feel like you're thriving, writers? #MotivationMonday #QuotesToLiveBy #WriterlyQuotes #MayaAngelou

Today's #MustRead from Assoc. Ed. Erin Roca is a collection of essays (originally lectures), "To Save and To Destroy" by Viet Nguyen, who considers "the outsider" in a political and literary sense, with compassion. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298170

Anyone else missing summer beach days?? ☀️🏖️ #BeachReads #LitMag #SummerReading

#flashglass presents "Dear Future Overlords" by Lisa Zerkle, a prose #poem social commentary on Artificial Intelligence. "I’m afraid, Overlords, that excludes you. Bodiless. Out of time." Read it now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/Dear-Future-Overlords-by-Liza-Zerkle

It's #NationalReadABookDay! Time to cancel your plans and settle into your coziest chair with a favorite book. What are you reading right now? Comment below. #ReadABook #Reading #Literacy #YourNextRead #TBR

Associate Editor Desirae Mack reviews Terra Oliveira's newest poetry collection, "Itinerant Songs" (Recenter Press), saying she invokes "...challenging tones of rawness, pain, and tension..." on every page. Visit the full review: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/review-itinerant-songs

We're back on campus! Glassworks is published by Rowan University's MA in Writing program with student editors under the guidance of our faculty EIC. We have a new batch of editors starting - keep an eye out for their intros to come! 🙃 #BackToSchool #LitMag

Glassworks is thrilled to announce our Best of the Net Nominations, all published in our online feature #flashglass ⚡️Read them all at rowanglassworks.org #LiteraryAward #LitMag #BestOfTheNet @fadingbetty.bsky.social @colettepjd.bsky.social @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social @ktamrine.bsky.social

I took a break from posting here because months have been insane in good and bad ways, but I recently learned my poem in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social was nominated for Best of the Net! Guess I'm back! www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-... #poem #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting

Don’t miss @cavankerrypress.bsky.social’s open submission period! The editors seek poetry collections, nonfiction essay collections, and memoirs through July 31. www.clmp.org/members/open...

"Instantaneous. The witness / was a local saloon keeper. / I put my head out / an opened window. / There are some things / a person can't get out of the way of.” #Poetry - "Grand Union": Heather Cousins #Artwork - "Loophole" by Amber Carpenter Issue 7 #TBT #LitMag #AmReading

Reflecting on #America250  and all our complicated history. "The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 1852 nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

#flashglass presents “Cadaver,” a #prosepoem by Betty Stanton (@fadingbetty.bsky.social)with a fresh twist on religious imagery. “We washed our wounds in holy water until the pain began to sing. Each scar became a psalm we could not ever stop reciting.” www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...

Nonfiction Editor Erica Rose reviews Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s (@sfmontgomery.bsky.social)“Abbreviate” from Small Harbor Press. Read the full review on our website! rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r… #BookReview #SarahFawnMontgomery #HarborEditions #CNF

Happy First Day of #Summer! “So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’...until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’” - Virginia Woolf

#flashglass presents "Sunset is a Strange Name for a Dying Day" by Nas Jolaade (@nasjolaade ), a piece that reflects on unbroken cycles and lost souls. 🌇 Read the full prose poem on our website! 🔗 www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-... #LitMag #FlashGlass #Grief #ProsePoetry

Summer is upon us this #WritersWednesday! We invite you to start thinking about the inspiration of the summer and have some tips to keep you writing! #LitMag #KeepWriting #WritingTips

#flashglass presents "What Remains" by Jenn Martinez-Stefaniak, a sentimental essay about grief, family, and the legacy our loved ones leave behind. 🔗 Read the full essay now: www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-... #CNF #MicroEssay #Flash #LitMag

Read Laura Del Viscio's op-ed "Fragmented Essays, Fragmented Minds: Writing in the Digital Age" on our website today! www.rowanglassworks.org/opinion/frag... #Opinion #FragmentedEssay #Essays #CNF

Happy 15 years of Glassworks! Read more about what our past contributors have to say about Glassworks in the upcoming weeks! You can read Allen's poetry in Issues 18 and 29 on our website: rowanglassworks.org/read-and-order… #LitMag #Glassworks #Writing #Poetry

For the first day of Pride month @rowanglassworks.bsky.social reviewed my collection of queer girlhood essays ABBREVIATE! "Abbreviate is not merely a collection of essays; it is an act of reclamation." www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews...

#flashglass presents "Water Beast" by Nikoletta Gjoni @nikigjoni.bsky.social - a dark, intense look inside the mind of a young swimmer and what the sport has done to them. 🔗 Read the full story now: rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-20… #FlashFiction #Flash #LitMag #AmReading

#flashglass presents "Boiling Point" by Bethany Bruno, a tense moment in time that leaves the reader hungry Read the full story at: www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-... #FlashFiction #AmReading #Flash #LitMag #ShortReads

Congratulations to all of the recent Glassworks editors who are graduating today! 🎓 MA in Writing: Jordan, Bella, Alexia, John, Cecilia, Laura, Alexa, Sam, Sammi, Caitlin, Kelli, Erica, Sophia, Bethaney, Janaye, Austin, Shannon BA in Writing Arts: Adam, Samantha

Read more about what our past contributors have to say about Glassworks, and read Paul's flash "Deaf-Blind Convention" in our 2015 Flashglass anthology! ✏️ #Writing #LitMag #Poetry #Flash