2023 Poetry Contest Winners by Fred Wilbur It is our pleasure to announce the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the annual Streetlight Magazine Poetry Contest. How did we arrive at our […]

A Map Of Her Mind By Benjamin Roque Suddenly Emery stopped walking. He just stood there, a still-life in the afternoon, on a busy sidewalk. The crowd parted around him—one b […]

Considering Volcanoes: What Lies Beneath by Mary Alice Hostetter Mary Alice Hostetter has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest   There was no real reason for volcanoes and […]

Elegy for a Soldier by Will Hemmer In the pulsing heat, in the black cathedral of war, the amber-tinted silver of infra-red illuminates a man. Nimble in the moment between the […]

The Best Piece of Writing Advice Most Writers Don’t Listen To by Lauren Sapala For most writers, writing is a strong inner calling. It feels like a passion that they can’t ignore, a destiny they must fulfill. And for writers w […]

Bloodroot in March by Gary D. Grossman 1. Regardless of the year, it’s the first flower seen on my daily hikes, pushing through every November’s abandoned duvet of tan and umb […]

The Closet Full of Darlings by Erika Raskin Lots of people have gotten credit for the literary adage advising writers to kill their darlings. In fact it was Arthur […]

Joshua Number Eight by E. Hume Covey     If you could sit totally still for long enough on the big rock by the sycamore, the catfish would peek out tentatively from the hollow u […]

Interview by J Brooke of Hotel Cuba's author Aaron Hamburger I first met Aaron Hamburger at a cocktail party during grad school. I was a writing student focusing on nonfiction and poetry and Hamburger was part […]

a cricket's delight by IIma Quereshi one tree- with its small hands and another with its star-laced fingers brush against the sky the sky that looks like a sea drained of […]

Writers' Joy by Fred Wilbur Writers or bloggers who write about writing often express the difficulties of practicing the craft in romantic terms of justification. Maybe not […]

Cockatiel not you by Sean Lause Cockatiel, not you, a yellow and orange assertion. Bright with her own meanings, clatters round the outside of her cage, without […]

The Hibiscus by Amy Boyes Amy Boyes has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest   The hibiscuses arrived in six-inch grower pots. Packed for […]

The Cat Goddess of Apartment 15B by Alex Barr The back of Bill’s neck smells for some reason of peach and is delightfully warm to my lips. He murmurs something I don’t catch but sounds lik […]

The Paintings of Jeannine Regan     Art runs in my family. My great grandfather was an architect in Germany before they immigrated to the U.S. before WWI. His daughter, m […]

Laundry by Charlie Brice Fat Auntie Ursal with her coffee-breath, baggy pink house dress, and worried rosary beads would haul a basket of linen to the backyard, pick […]

The Importance Of Interior Design In Writing by Erika Raskin The way someone curates their personal space conveys who they are. For a writer, that’s hugely important. “Show, don’t tell” is a guiding […]

God by Mel Kenne God must be, I dare now to say, like a cat, with His / Her / Its impertinence and delays in ordering our lives, loves and ways of being […]

Why I Loved the 8-Track by Karen Weyant Today, we stream any song we can find, google obscure one-hit wonders, and watch anyone make their own music videos on TikTok, but back before they […]

The Bus Was Late: a Stamford Memory by Jeffrey Coughter Jeffrey Coughter has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest   On a sunny, breezy late October morning in 1959, I […]