The Writing Disorder – A Literary Journal

The Writing Disorder
Fall 2026 Issue

FICTION
The Bliss of the Daffodil by William D. Baker
Anabasis by Robert Earle
Happy Together by Laura Zinn Fromm 
The Sofa Empire by Tabitha Crow Grimsbane
Where Ashes Lay by Katherine Haun
A Good Edge by Mary Lewis 
The Bump by Drew Merryman
Where to Bella! by PJ Steinholtz
The Price for Peace of Mind by Anna Vecellio 

POETRY
Emma Atkins
Paul Dickey
Robert P. Hansen
Ellena Kappos
Jim Murdoch
Diane Webster

NONFICTION
Your Bus, My Bus, Arbus by K.B. Dixon
Fiction After Forty by James W. Morris
Just a Touch of OCD by Terry Riccardi
BOOK REVIEW: Oppression by Judith Skillman, Review by Kurt Olsson 

ART
The Photography of K.B. Dixon

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The Writing Disorder
Summer 2026

FICTION

The Last Breath of August by MG Allan	A Man with Great Taste by Miles Efron
Beyond the Water’s Edge by Mary Ann McGuigan	The Cabinet of Kimber Lee by Jennifer Robbins Mullen
Textbook Case by Meg D. Newman	Taking the Bull by Margaret Parker
How to Murder Your Neighbor by Salem Withington	Bee Bot by Makenna Grace

POETRY

Paula Appling	Paul Bavister
Sally Butler	Edward Johnson
Mark Katrinak	A.J. Moss

NONFICTION

Jackie, Jesus, and King Charles by Leslie Armstrong	It’s Not Your Fault by Alexandria Gomes
Los Alamos: Complicit by Julie Piehler	BOOK REVIEW: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar by Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed
A 21st-Century Vision for an Age-Old Problem by Mark Richert and Pris Rogers

ART

The Art of Jeff Bliumis

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The Writing Disorder
Spring 2026

FICTION

Jasper by Sharon L. Dean	Alessandria Vignettes by Rongili Biswas
Jump and Yell by Jeanne-Marie Fleming	Productive Struggle by Lynn McGee
Kent by Bernard Martoia	Hop by Roberto Ontiveros
All About the Green by David Lightfoot	Haptic by Nicholas Godec

POETRY

Ayoung Kim	John Ronan
David Saap	Kevin Daniel Scheepers
Anne Powell Stone	Ken Wuetcher

NONFICTION

That’s My Line by Barbara Krasner	Disco Desperados by Ann Levin
The Problems with Writing an Autobiographical Novel by Kurt Schmidt	BOOK REVIEW:On Rapture And Death by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu

ART

Jacqueline Hen – The Art of Light

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The Writing Disorder
Winter 2025/26

FICTION

Motion to Table       by James Joaquin Brewer	Cherry Blossom Dreams       by Adrienne Clarke
Way to Wyrd       by Danyl A. Doyle	Untethered       by Joceline Eickert
Lotus       by Jonathan Jay	Woes of a Hopeless Secretary       by Adrianna Procida
Children of the Dying Sun       by Plamen Vasilev	Accommodating Negatives       by Bill Vernon

POETRY

Suzette Bishop	Richard Dinges, Jr.
Peycho Kanev	Jennifer Lagier
Jim Murdoch	Michael Penny
Tammy Smith

NONFICTION

A Man with a Promising Past       by Kevin Brown	Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco: Or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation       by Caitlin Garvey
An Interview with author, Diana Josefowicz       by Geri Lipschultz	Book Review: Crush by Ada Calhoun       by Hugh Blanton

ART

The Fantastic Art of Dan May