We had an enormous number of excellent submissions for our Fall Poetry 2016 Contest, which gave us the delightful opportunity to name several Honorable Mentions. We are excited to present one of these Honorable Mentions, which are in no particular order. Please enjoy! Seismology cannot predict the whys that certain chasms open … Continue reading Fall Poetry 2016: Honorable Mention, “Seismology” by Marian Shapiro
We had an enormous number of excellent submissions for our Fall Poetry 2016 Contest, which gave us the delightful opportunity to name several Honorable Mentions. We are excited to present one of these Honorable Mentions, which are in no particular order. Please enjoy! Left Alone I doubled back across the dirt-brown water to join … Continue reading Fall Poetry 2016: Honorable Mention, “Left Alone” by M. Drew Williams
We had an enormous number of excellent submissions for our Fall Poetry 2016 Contest, which gave us the delightful opportunity to name several Honorable Mentions. We are excited to present one of these Honorable Mentions, which are in no particular order. Please enjoy! Overrun Elya Braden My body was a highway interchange. … Continue reading Fall Poetry 2016: Honorable Mention, “Overrun” by Elya Braden
"Probed" by Ellyn Gelman is the second place winner of our Fall Non-Fiction Contest. I hit the snooze button on top of the digital clock. 6:30 AM. My husband, Dan, reached around my belly and pulled me up against him and we spooned in silence until the snooze alarm sounded. Married for ten years, together … Continue reading “Probed” by Ellyn Gelman
"Lessons" by Karen Chen is the winner of our Fall 2016 Non-Fiction Contest. It was 7 A.M. August morning. My mother called home. She spoke too loudly, the way she always did over the phone, as if I couldn’t hear her over the U.S.-Canadian border between us. “Hello?” “Hey, Mom.” She was quiet for a … Continue reading “Lessons” by Karen Chen
by ERIC MAYRHOFER, fiction reader I had to attend a new employee orientation recently. Having started almost nine months ago, though, I’m not new to the job. That would be like a pregnant lady with her big balloon belly and a whole nursery painted and furnished going to her partner, as if for the first time, and … Continue reading Am I in the Kool-Aid?
Today, we have the pleasure of announcing the winner of our first-ever fiction contest. For weeks our team of sparkling and voracious readers sorted through almost one hundred submissions. In the end, we selected "Suddenly on Air," by Edward Raso."Suddenly on Air" is a classic coming of age tale about a kid who starts work at the radio station … Continue reading Summer 2016 Fiction Award: Why We Picked “Suddenly On Air”
We at Causeway Lit are happy to present the very first winner of our fiction contest. We're so very excited to add Ed Raso's work to our collection and look forward to many more contests and great writers to come! Enjoy! by EDWARD RASO When I was seventeen and ready for a well-deserved summer break … Continue reading Suddenly On Air by Edward Raso
by Muddy Kinzer Karen Osborn is an award-winning novelist and writer of short stories. Booklist regards her writing as “…lyrical, focused, enchanting,” and Jodi Picoult admires how, “With grace and poetry, Osborn explores how the biggest emotions are sometimes found in the smallest seconds…” It’s true: “There was a small light over the phone booth, but … Continue reading How Poetry Helps Prose Writers
For me, writer’s block is the boogeyman, and he is one frightening creature. I say, “I am going to write a poem today.” He approaches me with a stern, “No,” and snatches my pencil out of my hand.
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