Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson We write for a target audience. Readers differ in their demographics as well as their literary tastes. When my novel, Never, was published, I began […]

What Horses Say and Stains, 2 poems by Rita Quillen What Horses Say What’s to be made of the field of buttercups, a saffron sea at the bend of the road, with the three h […]

Blindsided by Jeanne Malmgren Jeanne Malmgren is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   This should be a quick in-and-out, I’m thinking. As we wa […]

Writing Through Autocracy by Karol Lagodzki   The one and only time I put a knife in my pocket heading out to church was on Sunday, December 13, 1981. My mother, a single parent, was […]

A Stone by Debbie Bennett It was a flat grey stone, the kind you found in tourist shops, with pre-set words. What a strange gift from Andrea, I’d thought, and plunked it into m […]

Moonlight by Ronald Stottlemyer This is the light of stillness after everything has been said and thought, after the day has been brought to its knees once more, after the […]

The Sculpted Paintings of Brooke Major   At three, Brooke Major picked up a paint brush and rode her first horse. Her path was set. “My grandfather had riding stables and I fell in lo […]

The Dying Art of Silence? by Fred Wilbur   If ‘silence is golden,’ why do we squander it so foolishly? If you try finding ‘peace and quiet’ in contemporary life, you will be gob-smac […]

Heaven Spot by Mark Belair In a dark subway tunnel between stations, a concave safety niche holds a grotto of graffiti unseen unless you happen to glance out when the […]

Once Upon A Memoir by Trudy Hale I am in an abusive relationship again. This morning was the first time it occurred to me to label it as such. Not a lover or husband, or friend, but […]

Birthday Boys by Will Underland   When he woke it was with awareness that it was his birthday and thus with an ebullience lacking on most other days when waking and rising were […]

Cursed by Tess Matukonis For your birth, metal instruments sing you and your fluorescent halo into being. At your baptism you are pressed by the hands of power into […]

Cristina's Pop Art   Cristina is an artist with an eye to humor, the ironic and social commentary. She started creating art for fun at the age of six, painting […]

Trails by Will Hemmer We walked down this dusty canyon, where the rains have worn gashes in the gray banks like the creases that run from your cheek bones to your jaw […]

Stop Shivering by Avery Roche Avery Roche is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   Pain. This is a word I am intimately familiar with. In fact, it […]

My Sister's Breakfast by Jonathon Chibuike Ukah Jonathon Chibuike Uka is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest My Sister’s Breakfast The things my sister eats for […]

The Land Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel's Story by Olivia Lee Stogner Olivia Lee Stogner is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel’s Story Today I went to […]

Mandarinas by Linda Laino The night was so quiet I could almost hear the stars, that place laden with pines. Your eyes hard to read across the air between us, air you […]

In The River of Poetry: Contest Winners Frankly, readers, Sharon and I were flabbergasted and at the same time gratified that Streetlight Magazine received one-hundred and nine entries to […]