Word Riot: Recent Episodes
Word Riot Press
Word Riot is a monthly online literary magazine celebrating the forceful voices of up-and-coming writers. Authors and poets read from works published in the magazine.
[My Mother Reads an Experimental Poem I Once Wrote about Her in English] by Mihir Vatsa
Brief Reflections on the Post-Apocalyptic Moment when We Will Have to Love Robots by Matthew Yasuoka
Author: Lauren Hewitt
Title: Billy Pilgrim’s Father Was an Optometrist
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: January 2010
Author: Ryan Dilbert
Title: Eyes Turned Skywards
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: January 2010
Author: Shane Cohn
Title: “Não há Antídoto para Esse Veneno.”
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: January 2010
Author: Patrick Allen Carberry
Title: A Happier Tree
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: January 2010
Author: Mark Reep
Title: Blue Pinto
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Idris Goodwin
Title: Death to the mystical muse
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: December 2009
Author: David Fishkind
Title: I stole you a book today
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Tom Fillion
Title: Immortality and Tow Trucks
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Lena Judith Drake
Title: A Reading
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Lena Judith Drake
Title: bloodless new year's
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Drew DeGennaro
Title: Yellow Dots
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Drew DeGennaro
Title: I'd Love To . . .
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Melanie Browne
Title: Love in The Time of Valkyries
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Rhoads Stevens
Title: The Closed Door Has a Glass Handle That's as Blue as the Hope Diamond
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: December 2009
Author: Karen Sosnoski
Title: Kickass
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
Publication date: November 2009
Author: Aletheia Plankiw
Title: The Black Ox
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: November 2009
Author: Alexandra Seidel
Title: Grandmamma's Axe
Genre: Poetry
Publication date: November 2009
Author: Megan Martin
Title: From "Postcards From New Life"
Genre: Stretching Forms
Publication date: November 2009
Author: Ryan Ridge
Title: After Fall
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: November 2009
Author: Nik Perring
Title: Say My Name
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: November 2009
Author: Ryan W. Bradley
Title: The Long Grass
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: October 2009
Author: Chidi Asoluka
Title: A Little Expensive
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: September 2009
Author: Jake Christie
Title: Firstborn
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: September 2009
Author: Sylvia Martinez
Title: Crossing Borders
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: September 2009
Author: Rowdy Geirsson
Title: Welcome to the Mead Hall
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: September 2009
Author: Joe Stracci
Title: My Bike Shorts Are Not Yours, Or My Bulge
Genre: Novel Excerpt
Publication date: September 2009
Author: m. pinchuk
Title: The Science Library
Genre: Stretching Forms
Publication date: September 2009
Author: Jessica Maybury
Title: Scarlet Carson
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: September 2009
Author: Andrée Pagès
Title: Rhode Island Gothic
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: August 2009
Author: Thomas Sullivan
Title: The Invisible Hand Around Your Child's Throat
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
Publication date: August 2009
Author: Lori D'Angelo
Title: My friend, Steven, the Magician
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: August 2009
Author: Wyatt Bonikowski
Title: The Teacher
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: July 2009
Author: Victoria Melekian
Title: Fallen Oranges
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: July 2009
Author: Kristopher Monroe
Title: Wait Till the Bogeyman Comes for You
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: July 2009
Author: Jennifer Shumate
Title: Christmas In Mexico
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: July 2009
Author: J.A. Tyler
Title: in the cold, when the night changes with Jimmy
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: July 2009
Author: Yaara Sumeruk
Title: This Time, With Feeling.
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: June 2009
Author: Richard Thomas
Title: Three Mistakes
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: May 2009
Author: Joe Winter
Title: The Displacement of Salvatore
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: May 2009
Author: Kirsty Logan
Title: Three Variations on Susan
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Publication date: May 2009
Author: Jarrett Haley
Title: The Famous Never Freeze
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: May 2009
Author: Harley Ferris
Title: spring summer fall winter spring
Genre: Experimental
Publication date: May 2009
Many of you might have noticed our podcasting feature. Since September 2008, Word Riot has presented recording of authors reading work that has appeared on the site.
We'd like to offer the same opportunity to our past contributors.
If you have the ability to record yourself and would like to have your past Word Riot piece in our podcasts, please check out the guidelines below and send yours in.
1) Files must be in MP3 format
2) If your piece was over 3,500 words, send only an excerpt
3) File must be under 15 MB
4) Email files to wr.submissions AT gmail DOT com
5) Subject of email should be PODCASTING, PAST CONTRIBUTOR
6) In email body, include your name, your piece's title, the issue date in which your piece appeared and the direct link to your piece.
MP3s will be published as space permits after the current issue's MP3s have been published.
MP3s will be published on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Author: Nick Stokes
Title: After Life
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: April 2009
Author: Tamara Linse
Title: A Dangerous Shine
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: April 2009
Author: Mel Bosworth
Title: Ugly Woman as Elixir
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
Publication date: April 2009
Author: Ruibo Qian
Title: Reasons Not to Live in a Castle
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: March 2009
Author: J.R. Angelella
Title: You Wake Up And The Virgin Mary Statue On Your Dresser Is Crying Blood
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: March 2009
Author: Roland Goity
Title: Cheval Noir
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: March 2009
Author: Chloe Lunn
Title: Panties
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
Publication date: March 2009
Author: Ethel Rohan
Title: Iron for the Soul
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: February 2009
Author: Luke Bartolomeo
Title: Another Ohio
Genre: Novular
Publication date: February 2009
Author: Tom Johns
Title: Casual Cake and Eat It, Too
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: February 2009
Author: Lee Future
Title: Maybe Things Don't Go That Way for Us
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: February 2009
Author: Dan Tracy
Title: A Good Plan
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: February 2009
Author: Ann Tinkham
Title: Two Strings Short
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Aletheia Plankiw Title: Two Strangers
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Christine Gentry Title: May 9, 1973
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: January 2009
Author: David Licata
Title: Sundowning
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Dylan Gilbert
Title: Rules of the Game
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Mike Florian
Title: Springtime, North Dakota
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Tobias Carroll
Title: Twenty Minutes' Road
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Rebecca Berg
Title: Sarah's Memoir
Genre: Novular
Publication date: January 2009
Author: Jane Hertenstein
Title: Freeze Dance
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: December 2008
Author: Josh Indar
Title: Relativity
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Publication date: December 2008
Author: Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Title: Transubstantia
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: December 2008
Author: Simon Barker
Title: The Brothers
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: December 2008
Author: Jared Ward
Title: Spilt Milk
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: November 2008
Author: Susana Mai
Title: Hoyt-Schermerhorn
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: November 2008
Author: Charles du Preez
Title: The Metamorphoses
Genre: Stretching Forms
Publication date: November 2008
Author: Joy Lanzendorfer
Title: Open Secrets
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: November 2008
Author: Benjamin Henry DeVries
Title: Basinkingship
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Paul Vidich
Title: Home Theater
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Molly Tolsky
Title: The Next Carrie Beth
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Patrick Howell O'Neill
Title: That's a Strange Mistake to Make
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Destanie McAllister
Title: American Psycho Club
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Katherine Hill
Title: Seven Brides
Genre: Stretching Forms
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Mark Dow
Title: Water and Light
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: October 2008
Author: Ron D'Alena
Title: Let's Stop Talking
Genre: Short Story
Publication date: September 2008
Author: Charlie DeVore
Title: The Mustaches in the Springtime
Genre: Flash Fiction
Publication date: September 2008
Author: Grace Andreacchi
Title: Voices From the Palace of Illusions
Genre: Stretching Forms
Publication date: September 2008