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SPOTLIGHT: Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, author of The Go Button, which won our Summer 2025 Poetry Prize, and Punk Music, has some great news to share this month: The Timberline Review has announced his piece “The Borderline Jaguar” as the winner of the 2025 Kay Snow Award! To learn more about the award or the journal, click the…
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SPOTLIGHT: Tom Misuraca
Over in Southern California, one of our community members — Tom Misuraca, author of Stage Kiss — will proudly be presenting not one, but TWO shows for the stage later this year! IFs (Imaginary Friends) is a whimsical and touching comedy about childhood companions, growing up and finding connection in unexpected places. It will be presented…
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SPOTLIGHT: Matthew James Babcock
Eleventh Hour Literary wishes to extend a heartfelt congratulations to one of our contributors, Matthew James Babcock, author of The Golden Age of Distraction and Then The Summer. It was recently announced that Avalon Park Press has named him the winner of their inaugural 2025 Forsberg Prize for Fiction for his collection, Future Perfect. These short…
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Eleventh Hour Literary featured on Sapling
Thank you to Sapling, Black Lawerence Press and Yvonne Garrett for featuring our journal, and editor-in-chief, Rhonda Branca, on a wonderful resource for writers! Click here to learn more about Sapling and register for it to come directly to your inbox: https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sapling/ Click here to see the entire e-newsletter: https://eleventhhourliterary.org/sapling-interview/
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Eleventh Hour Literary featured on Bing Alum Podcast
Rhonda Branca, MA ’05, PhD ’10, director of Lyceum, and Ethan Knox ’20, internal communications specialist at Binghamton University, discuss their new project Eleventh Hour Literary ― a biannual journal accepting prose from anyone. The catch is that the pieces of writing must have been rejected at least 10 times. The editorial mission is to create…
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Around the Tiers
By Thomas Medlarz and Avery Copeland, Published: Oct. 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM EDT Eleventh Hour Literary extends thanks to the team at WBNG and Around the Tiers for their coverage of the 2025 Inagural Prose Contest!
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How we read your pieces…
The idea of waiting around for a rejection isn’t on anyone’s “Favorite Things” list. As we gear up to send back our first batch of submissions (rest assured that we ARE reading your work and getting ready to publish our first issue by January!), we’re thinking a lot about the process of what should “make…
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Breadcrumbs
I took a class. And started writing (again). And got an email that I would fail… many times. But the email also reminded me that I could fail up. And if I was lucky, I could fail like some of my most beloved authors. Back in the day, I kept a Peanuts cartoon stuck to…
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THIS IS A BLOG.
Hello! We are Eleventh Hour Literary. We’re still getting ready to accept submissions and work on the editorial side of things. In the meantime, we’re glad you’re here! Take a peak around at our offerings — we can’t wait to read your work!
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