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2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees
January House Literary Journal is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, published since 1976, has become “the most honored literary project in America”. Winners are expected to be announced around April of 2026. Congratulations and good luck to our nominees! Bindweed by M F Drummy… Continue reading
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Artwork by Mallory Caloca
Mallory Caloca passion is to share the little details, simultaneously bold and delicate, and create an imagined image for others to perceive something beyond conventional understanding. Combined sources that are both organic or natural and geometric shapes and forms create a fantastical blueprint of possibilities. Watercolor is an immediate and mostly unforgiving tool that has… Continue reading
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Dry
by Chila Woychik It was the farthest north they had ever been. And time was all Maddie and Saul had left. Hours awash in Maddie’s own thoughts, the strangest memories crept in at even the hint of a connection: an oak tree with a split trunk reminded her of climbing a tree in her back… Continue reading
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What they don’t say about recovery
by Kathy Pon beyond a bunch of discomfort and the slogtowards some sort of body restoration is the delicious act of napping. For ushigh-strung overachievers better suited as boundless Springer Spaniels that flushfulfillment from fields or boardrooms, the notion of turning into a daytime zombieis terrifying. Who allows the brain to surrender its powered thought,… Continue reading
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Artwork by Reena
Reena’s artworks have been published in several print and online publications, including Magazine-The Perch Magazine (mental health and substance), The Climate Art Collection, Aunt Lute, Judy Magazine, Farm Girl Magazine and Art Axis Project Organizing Committee and won Silver Medal in India Art Contest (Khula Aasmaan). Continue reading
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The Effects of an Erosion Lesson on a Public Educator and her Students
by Ash Maielle T I T L Eis erosion a good thing?I N T R O D U C T I O N & B A C K G R O U N D● she tumbled into the question.● after tiny hands filled with recyclables and hope scurried with severity. ○ how we depend on… Continue reading
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Seen
by Eugene Datta The olive grove next to Hotel Karavostási is full of fruit. I didn’t know how bitter fresh olives taste until I ate one the other day. It took the sharp sourness of a half-ripe mandarin to tame the riot of tannins on my tongue. Two mandarin trees in front of the hotel… Continue reading
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Untitled by Sabyasachi Roy
Sabyasachi Roy is an Academic writer, poet, artist, and photographer. He regularly contributes craft essays to Authors Publish as a guest writer. His poetry has been published in The Broken Spine, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dicey Brown, The Potomac, and other print and online magazines. His photograph has appeared on the cover of Sanctuary Asia.… Continue reading
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Gursha
by JK Miller We played with our fingers over the surface of thespongy, moon-like sourdough, rovers dippinginto the Misir Wot, the Kik Wot, and the Shiro Wot,roaming around the teff mons, and it wasn’t longbefore, in Lalibela’s on Fairfax, sitting across from each other at the small, square table,with the moon in front of us,… Continue reading
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Ode to My New Fence
by Cecil Morris Seven-foot high redwood, board-on-board, the usual gaps overlapped, every view blocked by new wood gloriously bright in shades of red and blond, the fine fur of splinters waiting on ungloved hands, for skin as bare as the boards and ready, the gentle open arcs of rings, giant fingerprints fragmented, divided, and the… Continue reading
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