Glassworks Magazine
@rowanglassworks.bsky.social
https://rowanglassworks.org 📖 a publication of the Master of Arts in Writing at Rowan University • Pushcart Prize winning lit mag publishing poetry, fiction, CNF, artwork, flash • CLMP member
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
An Open Letter
on lions, bitches, and wanting people to fuck off
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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
Show Me the Love by Leaving Me Alone
How my mother’s nine-month silence inspired my own retreat
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"I don't think we should ever exist beyond a point of self-discovery and self-realization. We're always learning and growing." Read the full interview with Xio Axelrod on our website. Link in bio! #Interview #Fiction #AmReading #LitMag #PhillyAuthors
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
Why You're Not Writing
Writer's block is a symptom, not a disease
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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
The best time to learn about cognitive surrender was 4 years ago, the second best time is now
Or, why AI is not “just like a calculator”
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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
#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
Cadaver by Betty Stanton
We built our temples out of what was left of the body. Skin turned to plaster, ribs into arches, the hollow of the mouth a place to echo prayer. Blood dries faster when it believes in something and...
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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...
