https://rowanglassworks.org 📖 a publication of the Master of Arts in Writing at Rowan University • Pushcart Prize winning lit mag publishing poetry, fiction, CNF, artwork, flash • CLMP memberhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mvpsupxsn42y"I will find hunger lazing at the onset of sleep/ that word between us that passed from tongue to tongue/ the one we left soaking in the gravel-specked rain." “Things That Disappear" by Megan Merchant #Artwork: “Midnight” by Janelle Rainer Issue 12 #TBT #LitMag #Poetry 17 Sep 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpsupxsn42yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mvkryfkcu527Submissions for our 2026 reading period are officially open! Check out the link in our bio to read our guidelines and find out how to submit your work today. #LitMag #GetPublished #WritingKicksGlass #Fiction #Poetry #CreativeNonfiction15 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkryfkcu527https://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mvibjralpq2m“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ― Maya Angelou What makes you feel like you're thriving, writers? #MotivationMonday #QuotesToLiveBy #WriterlyQuotes #MayaAngelou 14 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvibjralpq2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mvaq3j2hav2dToday's #MustRead from Assoc. Ed. Erin Roca is a collection of essays (originally lectures), "To Save and To Destroy" by Viet Nguyen, who considers "the outsider" in a political and literary sense, with compassion. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067429817011 Sep 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvaq3j2hav2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mv5yvl57dg2dAnyone else missing summer beach days?? ☀️🏖️ #BeachReads #LitMag #SummerReading10 Sep 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5yvl57dg2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3muwoafblwn23#flashglass presents "Dear Future Overlords" by Lisa Zerkle, a prose #poem social commentary on Artificial Intelligence. "I’m afraid, Overlords, that excludes you. Bodiless. Out of time." Read it now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/Dear-Future-Overlords-by-Liza-Zerkle 07 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwoafblwn23https://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3muu2erthr52fIt's #NationalReadABookDay! Time to cancel your plans and settle into your coziest chair with a favorite book. What are you reading right now? Comment below. #ReadABook #Reading #Literacy #YourNextRead #TBR06 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3muu2erthr52fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3muk3vydmfo25Associate Editor Desirae Mack reviews Terra Oliveira's newest poetry collection, "Itinerant Songs" (Recenter Press), saying she invokes "...challenging tones of rawness, pain, and tension..." on every page. Visit the full review: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/review-itinerant-songs02 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk3vydmfo25https://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3muhndwfi3q2yWe're back on campus! Glassworks is published by Rowan University's MA in Writing program with student editors under the guidance of our faculty EIC. We have a new batch of editors starting - keep an eye out for their intros to come! 🙃 #BackToSchool #LitMag 01 Sep 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhndwfi3q2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mteh6nuve22oGlassworks is thrilled to announce our Best of the Net Nominations, all published in our online feature #flashglass ⚡️Read them all at rowanglassworks.org #LiteraryAward #LitMag #BestOfTheNet @fadingbetty.bsky.social @colettepjd.bsky.social @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social @ktamrine.bsky.social18 Aug 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mteh6nuve22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mqru5zywm22k"Instantaneous. The witness / was a local saloon keeper. / I put my head out / an opened window. / There are some things / a person can't get out of the way of.” #Poetry - "Grand Union": Heather Cousins #Artwork - "Loophole" by Amber Carpenter Issue 7 #TBT #LitMag #AmReading16 Jul 2026 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqru5zywm22khttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mptaaj7mic25Reflecting on #America250  and all our complicated history. "The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 1852 https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/nations-story-what-slave-fourth-july04 Jul 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptaaj7mic25https://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mpoljpn2ls2o#flashglass presents “Cadaver,” a #prosepoem by Betty Stanton (@fadingbetty.bsky.social)with a fresh twist on religious imagery. “We washed our wounds in holy water until the pain began to sing. Each scar became a psalm we could not ever stop reciting.” https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/cadaver-by-betty-stanton02 Jul 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpoljpn2ls2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mphjbhbvhc2dNonfiction Editor Erica Rose reviews Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s (@sfmontgomery.bsky.social)“Abbreviate” from Small Harbor Press. Read the full review on our website! rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r… #BookReview #SarahFawnMontgomery #HarborEditions #CNF29 Jun 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphjbhbvhc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mot2ngci4k25Happy First Day of #Summer! “So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’...until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’” - Virginia Woolf21 Jun 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mot2ngci4k25https://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3moky6bebos2k#flashglass presents "Sunset is a Strange Name for a Dying Day" by Nas Jolaade (@nasjolaade ), a piece that reflects on unbroken cycles and lost souls. 🌇 Read the full prose poem on our website! 🔗 https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/sunset-is-a-strange-name-for-a-dying-day-by-nas-jolaade #LitMag #FlashGlass #Grief #ProsePoetry18 Jun 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3moky6bebos2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3moiifyh73s2ySummer is upon us this #WritersWednesday! We invite you to start thinking about the inspiration of the summer and have some tips to keep you writing! #LitMag #KeepWriting #WritingTips17 Jun 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3moiifyh73s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mnmq4resks2t#flashglass presents "What Remains" by Jenn Martinez-Stefaniak, a sentimental essay about grief, family, and the legacy our loved ones leave behind. 🔗 Read the full essay now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/what-remains-by-jenn-martinez-stefaniak #CNF #MicroEssay #Flash #LitMag06 Jun 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmq4resks2thttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mnmpvqejf22tRead Laura Del Viscio's op-ed "Fragmented Essays, Fragmented Minds: Writing in the Digital Age" on our website today! https://www.rowanglassworks.org/opinion/fragmented-essays-fragmented-minds-writing-in-the-digital-age #Opinion #FragmentedEssay #Essays #CNF06 Jun 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmpvqejf22thttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mnhs6dvqws2bHappy 15 years of Glassworks! Read more about what our past contributors have to say about Glassworks in the upcoming weeks! You can read Allen's poetry in Issues 18 and 29 on our website: rowanglassworks.org/read-and-order… #LitMag #Glassworks #Writing #Poetry04 Jun 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhs6dvqws2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mn5nxk7wo22n#flashglass presents "Water Beast" by Nikoletta Gjoni @nikigjoni.bsky.social - a dark, intense look inside the mind of a young swimmer and what the sport has done to them. 🔗 Read the full story now: rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-20… #FlashFiction #Flash #LitMag #AmReading31 May 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5nxk7wo22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mn5nu2rhpk2n#flashglass presents "Boiling Point" by Bethany Bruno, a tense moment in time that leaves the reader hungry Read the full story at: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/boiling-point-by-bethany-bruno #FlashFiction #AmReading #Flash #LitMag #ShortReads31 May 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5nu2rhpk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mlqjsbv6kc2hCongratulations to all of the recent Glassworks editors who are graduating today! 🎓 MA in Writing: Jordan, Bella, Alexia, John, Cecilia, Laura, Alexa, Sam, Sammi, Caitlin, Kelli, Erica, Sophia, Bethaney, Janaye, Austin, Shannon BA in Writing Arts: Adam, Samantha13 May 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqjsbv6kc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mlnwpkd5vc2lRead more about what our past contributors have to say about Glassworks, and read Paul's flash "Deaf-Blind Convention" in our 2015 Flashglass anthology! ✏️ #Writing #LitMag #Poetry #Flash12 May 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnwpkd5vc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mlm6fedwa22cThe graphic, distinct work of Zahra Zoghi is some of the most eye-catching Glassworks has ever featured. See the work of Zahra Zoghi as well as that of or other talented contributors in issue 32, available at rowanglassworks.org 🎨 #GWIssue32 #Artwork #ArtistsOfBluesky #LitMag11 May 2026 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlm6fedwa22chttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3mlm67z42r22c"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." — Anais Nin #MotivationMonday #AnaisNin #Writing #RiskTaking11 May 2026 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlm67z42r22chttps://bsky.app/profile/rowanglassworks.bsky.social/post/3ml6qknoqv22mToday we are showcasing some amazing poetry from Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi and Rita Rouvalis Chapman! You can find the full poems in Issue 32, available now! rowanglassworks.org #Glassworks #GWIssue32 #Poetry06 May 2026 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:5pcwnsoeldyxqb3pheqdpthq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6qknoqv22m