The Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction

I'm so excited to announce our The Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winners. Thank you to all the talented writers who submitted and their incredible patience as we, our families and literary community recovered from the COVID pandemic. It is always a difficult task choosing among so many fine stories and it is truly the talents within our Eckleburg community that often kept us going. Much love to all. We look forward to reading more from you.

Announcing the Winners of The Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction by The Editors | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Eckleburg is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winners. Thank you to all the talented writers who submitted and their incredible patience as we, our families and literary community recovered from the COVID pandemic....

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How to Seduce Your Pediatrician

How to Seduce Your Pediatrician by Laurie Foos | Eckleburg How to Seduce Your Pediatrician by Laurie Foos | You must choose. Once the baby makes its way out—and he will make his way out in a splash of fluid after the kind of crowning you won’t soon forget—the moments that make up your life will cease to be ones you choose. It is August . . . .

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Birthday Cake by Marjorie Maddox | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Birthday Cake by Marjorie Maddox | Marjorie Maddox is a Sage Graduate Fellow of Cornell University (MFA) and Director of Creative Writing....

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I Am Not Damian Lewis by Michael Nye | Eckleburg I Am Not Damian Lewis by Michael Nye | Michael Nye is the author of the story collection Strategies Against Extinction (Queen’s Ferry....

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My Father in the Attic

My Father in the Attic by Walter Cummins | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review Walter Cummins has published seven short story collections—Witness, Where We Live, Local Music, The End of the Circle, The Lost Ones, Habitat: stories of bent realism, Telling Stories: Old and New. He also has a collection of essays and reviews called Knowing Writers...

The Night He Went Crazy Onstage

The Night He Went Crazy Onstage by Joseph Eastern | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review I lived fourteen years in New York City, where my parents met onstage at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1941. Working as an actor/singer...

After Being Asked to Write a Villanelle by David Wagoner — eBook

After Being Asked to Write a Villanelle by David Wagoner — eBook by David Wagoner | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review David Wagoner has published 18 books of poems, most recently A Map of the Night (U. of Illinois Press, 2008), and Copper Canyon Press will publish; his 19th, After the Point of No Return, in 2112. He has also published ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis For...

Sonata

Sonata | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review Lisbeth Davidow was recently awarded second place in Event Magazine's 2017 Nonfiction Contest. She has been a finalist in Alligator Juniper's National Creative Nonfiction contest, The Southeast Review's Narrative Nonfiction Contest, Iron Horse Literary Review's Nonfiction Trifecta...

Writing Linguistics

Writing Linguistics by The Editors | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review The scientific study of language. It is concerned with the description, comparison, or history of languages. Linguistics studies phonology....

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The Purist's Rain by Melodie J. Rodgers | Eckleburg The Purist's Rain by Melodie J. Rodgers | Melodie J. Rodgers is a Black southern writer who lives in Stone Mountain, Ga with her two-year....

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Sulfur Steam by Dawn Sperber | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Dawn Sperber‘s stories have appeared in Annalemma, flashquake, Hunger Mountain, The Pedestal, and Rosebud. She has work forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, Third Wednesday, and Witches and Pagans. She lives in New Mexico, where she is at work on a collection of short stories and pursuing an MFA at U...

As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies by Justin Bond | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Justin Bond’s work has appeared most recently in Lost In Thought and OCHO: A Journal of Q***r Arts, with new work forthcoming in Heavy Feather Review and The No BS Review. His chapbook, Going Native, was released by Red Bird Chapbooks in Spring 2014. A contributing editor for The Found Poetry Revi...

SELFIE INTERVIEW | Amy Soscia

SELFIE INTERVIEW | Amy Soscia by Amy Paloski | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Amy Soscia earned her MFA in Writing from Albertus Magnus College. She has been published in Chicken Soup For The Soul: Recovering From Brain Injuries, 898 (literary journal), The Westie Imprint, Down In The Dirt Magazine, and One Hundred Voices Vol. II. She received an honorable mention in the 2015...

Writing Nonfiction

Nonfiction | The Eckleburg Workshops: Literary Terms Nonfiction is a work or genre of prose works that describe actual, as opposed to imaginary or fictional, characters and events....

Conspiracy

Conspiracy by Caleb Powell | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review Caleb Powell has work in Pleiades, The Sun Magazine, and The Superstition Review. The Seneca Review published an excerpt from his nonfiction book, Love and Happiness and Suffering in Sialkot, Pakistan. He lives just north of Seattle with his wife and three daughters, and he coaches girls basketball.

Introduction to Literature in Germany: A Beginner’s Course

Introduction to Literature in Germany: A Beginner's Course by Melissa Knox | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review Melissa Knox's book, Divorcing Mom: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis, is forthcoming from Cynren Press (Winter, 2019). Her recent essays have appeared or is forthcoming in The Santa Ana River Review, The Clarion Project, Concho River Review, The Other Journal, The Wax Paper, and elsewhere...

Taking Shape

Taking Shape by Wendy Ralph | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Though the birthday party was still weeks away, Mom sat sprawled on the hardwood floor with her legs splayed, a giant paper outline of the number four between them. Beside her were scraps of crepe paper and a small pot of glue, into which she dipped the eraser end of her paper-tipped pencil. She add...

Announcing the Gertrude Stein Award Finalists

Announcing the Gertrude Stein Award Finalists by The Editors | The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review Eckleburg is a print and online literary journal that offers original fiction, poetry, essays, music, art, writing workshops and more.

It Is/It Was/It Will

It Is/It Was/It Will by Danielle Harms | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review Danielle Harms writes from Denver, Colorado, where she works in higher education. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Offing, New South Journal, and The Baltimore Review. She has called Wisconsin, D.C., Hungary, and South Korea home.

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Dream Thief by Nathan Tavares Dream Thief by Nathan Tavares | Weird dreams are Angie’s favorites. Dreams about eggs jumping off frying pans and skating around kitchens....