📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Travel back this Tuesday and check out, “How Long Before You Go Dry,” an essay by Alex Lemon from RT Issue 18.1 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit #GetPublished

“The first blackberries appear in July, the earliest ones an anomaly, a harbinger of what’s to come.” -from “Wild Harvest,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anna Levy Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Here is a glimpse into the pages of, “Four Memories: The South,” an essay by J. David Stevens from RT Issue 20.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #Submit #GetPublished

✨Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. We end the month with “Full Moon and Baked Beans.” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag

✨ Need a summer writing exercise? Check out Lydia Wilhelm’s River Teeth Revisited essay “Comfort Food: Food as Cushioning in Seth Sawyer’s ‘Fried Eggs,’” from River Teeth issue 5.1 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Take some time this Tuesday and check out, “The Launch,” an essay by Jessica Peterson from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. Today we come back to “Dottie & Coco & Me.” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag #Submit

✨🗣️New Book Review! Heidi Czerwiec reviews Chaun Webster’s “Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu on our website. #RiverTeeth #Booklover #Writer #WritingCommunity #BookRecs #BookReview

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Permission to Stop Pretending,” an essay by Manoj Kumar H V from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. This week, we take a second look at “How Was Your Summer?” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #Submit

✨ Need a summer writing exercise? Check out Katie Mathew’s River Teeth Revisited essay: “Complicating Chronology: Non-linear Narrative in ‘The Deer I Shot,” from RT issue 13.2 #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Boy Who Fell Through the Ice,” an essay by Gregory Martin from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

✨ Every year, during the month of July, we revisit some of our favorite Beautiful Things essays. This week, we kick off with “The Art of Submersion.” Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... ✨Submissions to Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #MicroEssay #OnlineLitMag

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Sussex,” an essay by Ana Maria Spagna from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #WritingCommunity #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

“‘I need gas,’ a man’s sign says. In the open hatch of his car, two children and their mother sit beside a plastic jerry can, a symbol transcending language. They’ve been here two hours, waiting.” -from “Rite,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Jennifer Browne #BeautifulThings #GetPublished

✨ Need a summer writing exercise? Check out Valerie Weingart’s River Teeth Revisited essay for a special look into Beautiful Things: “Pacing & Tempo Possibilities for Micro Essays: A Beautiful Things Analysis” #WritingPrompts #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingTips #WritingExercises

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Take a break this Tuesday and check out, “The Body I Am Trying to Outrun,” an essay by Shannon McCarthy from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #ReadingRecommendations #GetPublished

“Mike carries snacks. And water. Are you cold? He’s got an extra scarf. He has tissues. He has mosquito wipes for summer months and hand warmers for winter.” -from “The Things He Carries,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Katie Donlevie Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

✨🗣️New Book Review! Bob Cowser Jr. reviews Julija Šukys’s “Artifact: Encounters With Campus Shooting Archives” ✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop-down menu on our website. #Booklover #Writer #WritingCommunity #BookRecs #BookReview

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Wind Sprints,” an essay by Ann Guy from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Bookstagram #ReadingRecommendations #Submit #GetPublished

“I watch the cranes on morning walks, mated pairs in springtime growing to families of three by autumn.” -from “Sandhill Cranes,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Sarah Barbo Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #BeautifulThings #Submit

We are honored to share that we are one of the 2026 finalists for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Awards in the Magazines/General Excellence. #CLMP #WritingAwards #FirecrackerAwards #LiteraryJournal #RiverTeeth #GetPublished #Submit

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 Travel back this Tuesday and check out, “Kith, in the Aftermath,” an essay by Julie Marie Wade from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth

“Someone small has placed a sock on my desk. I know why it’s there: a hole in the heel or the big toe.” -from “Mending,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Jung Lee Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th... #OnlineLitMag #WritingCommunity #GetPublished #Submit

✨️ 🗣️ In news of literary goodness, we are thrilled to announce that contributor, Mariana Peñaloza Morales, won a Pushcart Prize for her essay, "The Book of Scimitar." Her essay was published in River Teeth issue 26.2 and is available to read online through Project Muse. #Pushcart #PushcartPrize

✨Tune in this week for Beautiful Things, "On Sam Mountain," by Mary Lane Potter, on IPR’s Pop of Culture at 12 p.m. ET today (Friday 6/5) and Saturday (6/6). 🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122... 🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...

Check out Jay Kibble & Ian Roesler’s River Teeth Revisited essay: “Research and Trust in Renata Golden’s ‘Hammer Test’” from RT 24.2 ✨Here, we hope for students, teachers, writers, and readers, to have a jumping off point, to try their own hands at putting life on a page. #WritingExercises

📚Reading Recs with River Teeth📚 A glimpse into the pages of, “Hell Hollow, No Possessive," an essay by Julia Nagele from latest RT Issue 27.2 ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things will open again September 1. #RiverTeeth #ReadingRecommendations #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

“On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast of Japan. The sea entered the town. Mr. Takamatsu’s wife, Yoko, never came back.” -from “The Diver: A Story from the 2011 Tsunami,” Beautiful Things essay by Mayumi Hamano Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

River Teeth’s Spring 2026 interns! ✨Thank you all for the work you did and continue to do to help keep this journal alive. ✨And thank you, Nicole, for visiting the class this past semester and sharing such insightful advice and conversation with all of us. #RiverTeeth #internships #Writing