Afterglow by Emily Littlewood My dog sits right next to me. He’s a fourteen-almost-fifteen year old soft-coated wheaton terrier. He’s recovering from another bout of pneumonia, onl […]

When Writing Isn't Fun Anymore by Lauren Sapala I was working with a new client who had come to me because she said she hated her writing life. As I sat with her on Zoom and asked her questions […]

Collateral Damage: 48 Stories, the title of Nancy Ludmerer’s debut collection of captivating short stories, invites threat and suspense, but her sterling craft and literary sensibilities upend all e […]

Every year, hundreds of new books on productivity are published on Amazon. Out of all these books, a significant slice is dedicated to productivity for writers. Many of the titles promise to teach us how to write […]

STREETLIGHT’S 2022 SUMMER FLASH FICTION CONTEST
Send us your shorts by July 11!
1st Prize — $125
2nd — $75
3rd — $50
Entry Fee: $10

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Up to 500 of your best, previou […]

STREETLIGHT’S 2022 SUMMER FLASH FICTION CONTEST
Send us your shorts by July 11!
1st Prize — $125
2nd — $75
3rd — $50
Entry Fee: $10

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Up to 500 of your best, previou […]

STREETLIGHT’S 2022 POETRY CONTEST
August 15 to October 31
1st Prize — $125
2nd — $75
3rd — $50
Entry Fee: $10 FOR UP TO 3 POEMS

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Up to three of your best, previously unpubli […]

Cottonmouth
As the boat eased out on
the pond, there was just enough
light to see pale ribbons of sky
rippling in the water. Dad
paddled ahead with slow, heavy
strokes, but the lives watching
from trees, […]

Hello Book Lovers!
I’m happy to share that my novel, The Book Lovers, will be published in October 2023 by Regal House Publishing, a small, highly congenial press that specializes in literary fiction. Set in G […]

Sarah and Anna by Emily Littlewood My sister and I have always loved each other, but we really didn’t like each other until I moved out of the house. During a few of the rare o […]

I’ve published five books (three nonfiction and two fiction) and there’s so much I wish I would have known before publishing, that I now know through the long, hard road of experience. Whether you’re going the […]

Do you constantly compare yourself to other writers?

Do you set goals for yourself as a writer and then somehow fall short of them every time?

Do you start new writing practices full of enthusiasm, but then […]

A proposed 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project introduced in the House of Representatives last month is gaining broad support from literary and writers’ organizations hard hit by the Covid pandemic.

The bil […]

There are silhouettes of dogs cavorting on the cover, barking and begging, and a misspelled title. Was it so foolish to assume that the first-person narrator at the start of Alice Kaltman’s beguiling new novel D […]

I get emails and messages from aspiring writers all the time asking me for the one thing they should know, or the one thing they should do, in order to be a successful writer. Well, there’s never just “one thi […]

“A vegetarian walked into a bar. . . . I only know because he told everyone within two minutes.” That joke perfectly encapsulates why I never tell anyone that I am a vegetarian. I either hypocritically write a blo […]

Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · The Murmuration by S.W. Gordon
 

Podcast: The Murmuration is story about bad choices.

A fictional story performed by Jennifer Sims.

Read the story on […]

It was late December, and I was heading to downtown Vienna during a pandemic. As I reflected on the task ahead of me, buying Christmas presents for my mother and grandmother, the mayhem inherent in completing that […]