River Teeth
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✨A new River Teeth Revisited is online today!
This week, Ashleigh Cochran brings to us:
Centering Concrete Images in Laura Johnsrude’s “Smoking Guns” from RT 25.1
✨You can read Johnsrude’s essay on Project Muse and find this River Teeth Revisited on our website
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This week, Ashleigh Cochran brings to us:
Centering Concrete Images in Laura Johnsrude’s “Smoking Guns” from RT 25.1
✨You can read Johnsrude’s essay on Project Muse and find this River Teeth Revisited on our website
#LitMag #RiverTeethRevisited
February 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
✨A new River Teeth Revisited is online today!
This week, Ashleigh Cochran brings to us:
Centering Concrete Images in Laura Johnsrude’s “Smoking Guns” from RT 25.1
✨You can read Johnsrude’s essay on Project Muse and find this River Teeth Revisited on our website
#LitMag #RiverTeethRevisited
This week, Ashleigh Cochran brings to us:
Centering Concrete Images in Laura Johnsrude’s “Smoking Guns” from RT 25.1
✨You can read Johnsrude’s essay on Project Muse and find this River Teeth Revisited on our website
#LitMag #RiverTeethRevisited
✨A glimpse into the pages of, “The Other Side of the River,” an essay by Chelsea B. DesAutels from River Teeth 27.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
✨A glimpse into the pages of, “The Other Side of the River,” an essay by Chelsea B. DesAutels from River Teeth 27.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
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✨Sturdy
“Mom sits on her deck, a cedar perch newly attached to the room she’s chosen to be her last. It’s where we talk this summer, her ninety-first.”
-from “Sturdy,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Ann Stinson
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“Mom sits on her deck, a cedar perch newly attached to the room she’s chosen to be her last. It’s where we talk this summer, her ninety-first.”
-from “Sturdy,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Ann Stinson
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
✨Sturdy
“Mom sits on her deck, a cedar perch newly attached to the room she’s chosen to be her last. It’s where we talk this summer, her ninety-first.”
-from “Sturdy,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Ann Stinson
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
“Mom sits on her deck, a cedar perch newly attached to the room she’s chosen to be her last. It’s where we talk this summer, her ninety-first.”
-from “Sturdy,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Ann Stinson
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
A beauty ⬇️
For today's Throwback we're taking lessons from Brian Doyle's uncertainty and Ana Maria Spagna's astute observations in "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are' from Assay 4.1. 🫀
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#AssayJournal #ThrowbackThursday #Nonfiction #analysis #craft
February 8, 2026 at 3:33 AM
A beauty ⬇️
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“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” ~ Anton Chekhov
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 PM
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” ~ Anton Chekhov
✨Take some time this Thursday to read “London, When We,” an essay by Katherine Robb from River Teeth issue 17.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Essay
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Essay
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
✨Take some time this Thursday to read “London, When We,” an essay by Katherine Robb from River Teeth issue 17.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Essay
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Submit #GetPublished #Essay
✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Homage to the Champ,” an essay by Stephen D. Gutierrez from River Teeth 7.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal
February 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Homage to the Champ,” an essay by Stephen D. Gutierrez from River Teeth 7.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LiteraryJournal
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
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“The last of her kind, as far as she knows. A gentle apocalypse.”
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February 3, 2026 at 3:35 AM
“The last of her kind, as far as she knows. A gentle apocalypse.”
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Exquisite read in River Teeth today. This one hit home for me. I look forward to these micro-essays every Monday.
✨“I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him.”
-from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Exquisite read in River Teeth today. This one hit home for me. I look forward to these micro-essays every Monday.
✨“I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him.”
-from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
February 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
✨“I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him.”
-from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from “Tom’s Left Hand,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
Check this out from RT and BT author, the wonderful @jilltalbot.bsky.social
I'm teaching #writingcraft in the personal essay! Reading packet included with each seminar & #writingprompts Questions? Reply or DM!
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February 1, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Check this out from RT and BT author, the wonderful @jilltalbot.bsky.social
✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Who Are We Missing?” by L.C. Killingsworth, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week.
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #CNF
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #CNF
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Who Are We Missing?” by L.C. Killingsworth, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week.
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #CNF
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #CNF
A message from Jill ❤️🎉📖
A dear, kind, brilliant former student sent me this photo of my recently arrived shiny new memoir THE HEART FOLDS EARLY sitting happily on a super cute couch with her sister books--so I guess if you pre-order you won't have to wait long?! *SAVE 40% with code 6AS26 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
January 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM
A message from Jill ❤️🎉📖
We are so here for the chicken years, Dawn--& thrilled to have published this beautiful thing!
I have a very special essay up in Beautiful Things. For me, it's a shift in energy from all the despair. Also, a precious moment of my chicken years captured.
Fun little anecdote: When I fed them this morning (chilly!) i gave them warm scrambled egg to celebrate, and I told them they’re famous now.
Fun little anecdote: When I fed them this morning (chilly!) i gave them warm scrambled egg to celebrate, and I told them they’re famous now.
✨“I’ve always felt a sisterhood with my hens, though my lifetime of monthly bleeding and a mere three babies never compared to their daily need to squat and squeeze the equivalent of a watermelon from their poultry vaginas.”
-from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
-from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
January 29, 2026 at 8:05 PM
We are so here for the chicken years, Dawn--& thrilled to have published this beautiful thing!
✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Selling Out in the Writing of Memoir,” an essay by Lee Martin from River Teeth 14.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
January 29, 2026 at 3:05 PM
✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Selling Out in the Writing of Memoir,” an essay by Lee Martin from River Teeth 14.1
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Take some time this Tuesday to read “Ten Things to Save from a Fire,” an essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval from River Teeth issue 27.1
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
January 27, 2026 at 3:04 PM
✨Take some time this Tuesday to read “Ten Things to Save from a Fire,” an essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval from River Teeth issue 27.1
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨“I’ve always felt a sisterhood with my hens, though my lifetime of monthly bleeding and a mere three babies never compared to their daily need to squat and squeeze the equivalent of a watermelon from their poultry vaginas.”
-from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
-from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
✨“I’ve always felt a sisterhood with my hens, though my lifetime of monthly bleeding and a mere three babies never compared to their daily need to squat and squeeze the equivalent of a watermelon from their poultry vaginas.”
-from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
-from “Dottie & Coco & Me,” this week’s essay by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Harvey” by Lynda Rushing, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week.
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
January 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Harvey” by Lynda Rushing, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week.
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
✨🗣️ This week, revisit Beautiful Things, "In the Delivery Room," by Jeannine Pitas, on IPR’s Pop of Culture at 12 p.m. ET tomorrow (Friday 1/23) and Saturday (1/24).
🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...
🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...
🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...
🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
✨🗣️ This week, revisit Beautiful Things, "In the Delivery Room," by Jeannine Pitas, on IPR’s Pop of Culture at 12 p.m. ET tomorrow (Friday 1/23) and Saturday (1/24).
🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...
🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...
🎧Listen here on NPR’s website: www.npr.org/podcasts/122...
🎧Listen here on spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMf...
✨Take some time this Thursday to read “Don’t Wait,” an essay by Amanda Bestor-Siegal from River Teeth issue 18.2
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
January 22, 2026 at 3:04 PM
✨Take some time this Thursday to read “Don’t Wait,” an essay by Amanda Bestor-Siegal from River Teeth issue 18.2
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨A glimpse into the pages of “Emily Dickinson Alone in Her Room,” an essay by MaryKatherine Ramsey from River Teeth 13.2
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
✨A glimpse into the pages of “Emily Dickinson Alone in Her Room,” an essay by MaryKatherine Ramsey from River Teeth 13.2
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse.
✨Submissions to River Teeth are open until April 1.
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
✨“Our plan was to hike, climb and adventure our way through Maui during our first vacation since lockdown, yet I managed to hurt my knee on day one.”
-from “Breach,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
#BeautifulThings
-from “Breach,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
#BeautifulThings
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
✨“Our plan was to hike, climb and adventure our way through Maui during our first vacation since lockdown, yet I managed to hurt my knee on day one.”
-from “Breach,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
#BeautifulThings
-from “Breach,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
#BeautifulThings
✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Best Pals” by Rachel Cline, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week.
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
✨We are honored to share that The Humble Essayist has featured “Best Pals” by Rachel Cline, an essay from River Teeth 27.1 this week.
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
Check out his commentary on this “Paragraph of the Week” at www.the-humble-essayist.com
#RiverTeeth #TheHumbleEssayist #LiteraryCommentary #PersonalEssay
✨Raise your hand if you’re reading River Teeth! Now raise both hands if you’ve submitted or are working on something to submit to River Teeth!
✨From now until April 1, you can submit to River Teeth and Beautiful Things via Submittable.
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#SubmissionsOpen
✨From now until April 1, you can submit to River Teeth and Beautiful Things via Submittable.
✨We cannot wait to read your work!
#SubmissionsOpen
January 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM
✨Raise your hand if you’re reading River Teeth! Now raise both hands if you’ve submitted or are working on something to submit to River Teeth!
✨From now until April 1, you can submit to River Teeth and Beautiful Things via Submittable.
✨We cannot wait to read your work!
#SubmissionsOpen
✨From now until April 1, you can submit to River Teeth and Beautiful Things via Submittable.
✨We cannot wait to read your work!
#SubmissionsOpen
✨We are looking back at 2025 with notable essays from The Best American Essays, edited by guest editor Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman, and published by HarperCollins. We are so honored to have made an appearance, please help us in celebrating all of these wonderful authors.
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
✨We are looking back at 2025 with notable essays from The Best American Essays, edited by guest editor Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman, and published by HarperCollins. We are so honored to have made an appearance, please help us in celebrating all of these wonderful authors.