A weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews (or a close approximation).

jmww is a weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews (or a close approximation). Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, Best of Net, and the VERA.

Blended & Beyond

Jen Michalski

CarlaJean Valluzzi

Curtis Smith

Michael B. Tager

Margaret Adams

Bradley David

Ashlie Kauffman

Hannah Grieco

Juliet Way-Henthorne

Maryam Shadmehr

Kristin Bonilla

Jolene McIlwain

Lyndsie Manusos

Lauren Woods

Robin Bissett

Charlie Hope-D’Anieri

Rachel Farber

Madison Krchnavy

Julieanne Larick

Maxwell Suzuki 

Robert Herbst

Chiyeung Lau 

Melissa Ren 

Shareen K. Murayama

Guillermo Rebollo Gil 

Imani Cauthen-Robinson 

Olga Katsovskiy

JMWW Journal

No previously published work, please.

General call

BIO: Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – MFA

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss living and working in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read her latest work in The Disappointed Housewife, Subnivean, The Woolf, and forthcoming in Across the Margin and The Vincent Brothers Review. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an award-winning and anthologized American-Swiss writer who lives in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her long-form fiction in publications including As You Were, Collateral, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Litbreak Magazine, Longleaf Review, Subnivean, New World Writing, and upstreet. Her flash fiction has appeared in publications including The Woolf, The Disappointed Housewife, Bandit Fiction, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Flash Boulevard, Fudoki Magazine, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, Lunate, Reflex Fiction, and Orca Lit. Her monthly musings about life and her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her short stories in a variety of publications, including As You Were: The Military Review, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Longleaf Review, New World Writing, Subnivean, and upstreet. Her flash fiction appears in Bandit Fiction, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, and Orca Lit. She’s at work on a collection of short stories, a collection of flash fiction, and a campus novel involving misogyny and plagiarism. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – at work on . . . 

The Air Looks Green Today...

"My parents have always said they will die on the farm / even as my father makes plans for a wheelchair ramp from house to barn / so that my mother can take care of the ewes when her own hips quit"

Killing In The Name Of

but still, it knocks
on the bricks with its splintered fists
as if to say
let me in let me in let me in

raspy confessions of the bodies buried beneath the floorboards

He is leaving the station, behind you, after you, and where is he looking? Are his eyes fixed ahead, or on his phone, one of however many hookup apps open and pulsing, or on your ass?

This Body Does Not Belong to You

My kid won’t stop screaming on this airplane

Flight 

Amy and Ghost

I rent a room in an old man’s house. In his language, my name is Nah!-talie, embedded with that sound reserved for discovery. He plays guitar across the wall. I clap in the quiet intervals.

...

Slight

One day, a few dark fibers appeared in one of Basia’s glossy white fleeces. Over time, dark fibers tainted several staples. The birth year of Luka’s youngest son, an ewe produced a dark-fleeced lamb. Perhaps it’d come with a sullied pedigree?



"We See Whose Mother Is Spinning Black Wool. (Croatian: Da vidimo čija majka crnu vunu prede)" and "To Have a Stick in One’s Ear (Danish: At Have en Pind i Øret)"

"Your husband is in the garage with two dead coyotes. He’s laid them back-to-back in a sticky puddle of their own blood—a morbid Rorschach image on the concrete floor."

The Little Details

The Overlook off Red Hills Parkway

"Stiff paper barks and snaps, twisting under finger there
in your closet, I unfurl Mount Desert Island’s map—
a French cartographer’s version, not dawn-land
Wabanaki vision nor echoes I seek
tide-bound coves where waves sound lurid thunderclap..."

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