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The Metaworker Podcast | 019 Pushcart Prize Nominees, Part 2
In this two-part series, we celebrate our Pushcart Prize nominees. This episode features @coopd88, @FrankNjugi, and Linda Lacey. #TheMetaworker #PushcartPrize …
Creative Non-Fiction Micros by Kevin Browne
Creative Non-Fiction Micros by Kevin Browne #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday …
The Metaworker Podcast | 018 Pushcart Prize Nominees, Part 1
In this two-part series, we celebrate our Pushcart Prize nominees. This episode features Amita Basu, Daniel Brennan, and Marie-Louise McGuinness. #TheMetaworker #PushcartPrize …
Mars Sunglasses by James Reade Venable
Photo by James Reade Venable #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday …
“Skate Country” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
The color of the rink is almost the same—Barney the Dinosaur purple—but the carpeting has changed. Back against her septum and then back onto the …
Microfiction by Kathryn Gossow
Precarious When they were married, he took her to a city where houses gripped the steephillsides, their fists slick with mud, knuckles white as they …
“Big, Blue Watery Eye” by Joe Ducato
They stood at the edge. Sticks (a name she gave herself) was so taken by it, she fell forward on her arm crutches. Nicknaming herself …
“typoem” by Michael Betancourt
Artist’s note: I am a Cuban-American artist who is better known from my work with digital video and Glitch Art …
“In the Mood” by Lucia Owen
On that late cranky winter afternoonyou sat downstairs with a cup of coffeeon the tray of your walker while Irummaged …
Micro Poetry by David Capps
RibbonIn stillness before daybreak, train tracks beat alongside my heart,my heart, do you remember the winter wheat field, unfinishedrails we …
Podcast
The Metaworker Podcast | 019 Pushcart Prize Nominees, Part 2
In this two-part series, we celebrate our Pushcart Prize nominees. This episode features @coopd88, @FrankNjugi, and Linda Lacey. #TheMetaworker #PushcartPrize …
The Metaworker Podcast | 018 Pushcart Prize Nominees, Part 1
In this two-part series, we celebrate our Pushcart Prize nominees. This episode features Amita Basu, Daniel Brennan, and Marie-Louise McGuinness. #TheMetaworker #PushcartPrize …
The Metaworker Podcast | 017 A Writer’s Life For Me: Catchup with Matthew Maichen, Part 2
Elena, Mel, and Cerid talk with former Metaworker Editor in Chief Matthew Maichen about their writing rituals, how they create characters, and the benefits and …
The Metaworker Podcast | 016 A Writer’s Life For Me: Catchup with Matthew Maichen, Part 1
Elena, Mel, and Cerid talk with former Metaworker Editor in Chief Matthew Maichen about his writing and publishing journey since he stepped away from leading …
Micro
Micro Poetry by Michał Zieliński
Micro Poetry by Michał Zieliński #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday …
Micro Poetry by Sam Alec
“It’s Not You, It’s Us” and “The Procedure” – Micro Poetry by Sam Alec #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday …
Rubies by Carol E. Anderson
Remember that night in the basement of Draper Hall when you wrestled me to the floor? The sweet smell of musk oil on your neck …
“Clockwork” by Paul Rabinowitz
I was sipping a Côte du Rhône in a French cafe somewhere near Grand Street in North Brooklyn, finishing up my revisions when I looked …
Lives of Dust and Ashes by Marie-Louise McGuinness
The dust never settled for years. It probably still sits in the fine cracks of aged roof tiles and within the chipping layers of magnolia …
Mars Sunglasses by James Reade Venable
Photo shot on iPhone 8 Plus. Artist’s note: I was being taken on a tour of an old mine turned …
Magic Tricks for the Homeless by Kevin Charles
Artist’s Note: “Magic Tricks For The Homeless” was created with Clipstudio Paint. It depicts the often rabid responses we receive …
“typoem” by Michael Betancourt
Artist’s note: I am a Cuban-American artist who is better known from my work with digital video and Glitch Art …
Interviews
Looking Back to Forge Forward: A Catchup Series by Lena Bramsen
“An interview compilation with some of The Metaworker’s first contributors, reflecting upon the past and updating us on their careers.” …
Profile: Jeremy Bock
Jeremy Bock is a West Virginia native and technologist currently expatting Bangkok with his wife and daughter. His novel, Caroline, …
Meet Melissa Reynolds!
Hey everyone! We told you that we have big plans for this publication and here’s one of them. We took …