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River Teeth:

A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative

Publisher’s description: River Teeth is a biannual creative nonfiction journal co-edited by Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman with the assistance of students in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University. 

Founded in 1999, River Teeth combines the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that examine the genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.

River Teeth is looking for good writing. That’s all. We publish the best-of-the-best, which includes names you’d recognize in a second as well as writers who are making their first appearance in print. If it’s good writing, it’s good for us.  Please don’t send us poetry or fiction - there are plenty of good journals publishing these genres, so why waste your time sending to a place that doesn’t?

River Teeth is published by Ashland University. The annual River Teeth Book Prize competition is published by University of Nebraska Press; the winner receives $1,000. Submission fee is $25. Deadline for submissions is December 1 each year. Visit the website www.riverteethjournal.com for complete contest guidelines.

Recent issues:

The pages of River Teeth Volume 13, Number 1 are filled with movement—through time and space and tales spun, from home to home to home, in and out of baths, back and forth through identities, from one country to another. Contributing authors: Sydney Lea, Kim Dana Kupperman, Lisa Ohlen Harris, Philip Gerard, Cynthia Anne Brandon, Richard Hoffman, Michelle Herman, Mary Haug, Rosa del Duca, Steven Harvey, Bethany Maile.

The current issue of River Teeth (12.2, 2011))features an interview with and two essays by Sam Pickering, a craft essay on place and an excerpt from Bob Cowser's newest book, GREEN FIELDS, and more from Angela Morales, Bruce Ballenger, Lori Jakiela, Tom Lassiter, Maggie Messitt, Gabriel Urza, and Jason Tucker.

Robert McGowan's first sentence in "Owl" captures the mood of most of River Teeth 12.1: "I have a sad story about brave death." In this fall's issue, authors consider many forms of death: Navajo life among abandoned uranium mines, insomnia, a father's death, bullies, Libertyland, what happens on the day of a death, the murder of a husband, the death of a young girl in Zambia, and the crisis in Haiti. There are pieces by Kathryn Winograd, Phillip Lopate, Maureen Stanton, Will Jennings, Kurt Caswell, Greg Bottoms, Eric Dean Wilson, Brad Modlin, K. Emily Bond, Jill Noel Kandel, and J. Malcolm Garcia.