Hey folks! It’s the editor-in-chief Matthew Maichen. This won’t be a long post. We’ve had a great 2022, and everything that we’ve published has been something that I have personally […]
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Profile: Jeremy Bock
Jeremy Bock is a West Virginia native and technologist currently expatting Bangkok with his wife and daughter. His novel, Caroline, is independently published and available on Amazon and Apple Books. […]
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Nominations and Internships
Hello folks! It’s Matthew. It’s been a while since I’ve made an announcement, I know. You may have noticed that we put Searching for The Cottingley Fairies on our banner. […]
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Call for Micro Pieces!
Short update for you all this Wednesday. The observant among us will have already noticed that something changed at our Submissions Guidelines. If you haven’t, go ahead and check it […]
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2021 announcements!
…Even though it is still, technically, 2020! Hey all, sorry for shutting down as long as we did, but we had a boatload of submissions to get through. Starting on […]
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Nettle Fringed Earth by Melissa Reynolds
This month we’ve got a creative non-fiction piece from Mel, our editorial intern. Here’s what she’s got to say about it: Nettle Fringed Earth was born of my attempt to […]
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Meet Melissa Reynolds!
Hey everyone! We told you that we have big plans for this publication and here’s one of them. We took on an intern! For the next few months, Melissa Reynolds […]
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Our Fifth Birthday!
Hello everyone! It’s Matthew. Happy birthday to us, I suppose. I just want to announce here that we have been around for HALF A DECADE!!! Thank you to everyone who […]
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Time in a Coronavirus World by Elena Lucia Perez
“Time is an illusion.” – Hue, from Avatar: The Last Airbender, “The Swamp” I don’t know about you, but I feel like the days this past month have been going […]
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Welcome to The Forge
We’ve got a new thing for you all: a newsletter! We’ve been wanting to start this for a while because there’s so much awesome content we want to share, including […]
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“Writing the Believable” by Alex Clare
Hey everyone! Matthew here, we have a special Friday post for you! You may remember Alex Clare as the author of He’s Gone, a mystery novel starring the transgender detective Robyn […]
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June Hiatus – A Message from the Editor in Chief
I’ll start with what we most want you to hear: We’re still taking submissions. You’ll recall that a little over a year ago now, we went on hiatus from regular […]
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Happy Birthday to The Metaworker!
Too bad there’s no internet cake. It’s a year later, and we didn’t think we’d last a year. Q: You didn’t? A: No. We really didn’t. I had a big, […]
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And…We’re Back!
Well it’s about damn time, and here we are. We, at the Metaworker, hope you were impatiently waiting. Because we, at the Metaworker, were impatiently waiting to unveil our brand […]
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Interview with Your Editors
What sort of subjects/genres do you like to write about and why? MARINA: I’m a big proponent of mixing genres, so everything and anything is fair game in terms of […]
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The Good Break – An Update from the Editor in Chief
Happy Leap Year, everyone. And I have an announcement for you all. I wanted to start with: I can’t believe we’re still a thing. Literary magazines aren’t easy. Usually, they’re […]
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Beating a Dead Horse (Or Good Prose Writing) by Matthew Maichen
I want to address something that, in hindsight, should have been brought up before. We’ve posted a few editorials about the process of writing, but it occurs to me that […]
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Hump Day Update from the Editor in Chief
Wait, it isn’t Monday! Yeah, well I’m about to drop some news on you suckas. It fits pretty solidly into the good news/bad news/okay news category. Let’s go in the […]
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“How to become a Professional Writer (And Get Paid Too)” by Nicole Mormann
How to Become a Professional Writer (And Get Paid Too) It sounds like a headline too good to be true, right? Finding a good writing gig is already difficult, not […]
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The Cycle of Writing by Nicole Mormann
The first time I tried to ride a two wheel bike, I remember my dad running alongside my six-year-old self as I swerved down the street, nearly sideswiping multiple parked […]
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On Art – An Update from the Editor in Chief
Hey guys, happy hump day (or at least it was when I started this). I just wanted to take this opportunity to talk about art. ART CAN BASICALLY BE DEFINED […]
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Maichen Nation Here
Please never call me that. Why did I call myself that? As of now, there is no deadline for when we’re going to start publishing your beautiful works. There’s a […]
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We’re Doing What Scares the Sh*t Out of Us and We Love It
No one ever said it would be easy being writers. Instead, we heard things like, “So what do you plan to do with your degree? Teach?” or “A liberal arts […]
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