Summer Updates
Announcement: We will publish twice a week on Mondays and Fridays at noon PT during July and August! #TheMetaworker #ForgeFridays
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Announcement: We will publish twice a week on Mondays and Fridays at noon PT during July and August! #TheMetaworker #ForgeFridays
Introducing our new slush readers, intern, and Pushcart Prize nominees! @dannyjbrennan @coopd88 @mlmcguinness #TheMetaworker #ForgeFriday #PushcartPrize
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
…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 …
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 …
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 …
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!!! …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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? …