It’s 2024 y’all! I’m proud to kick the NEW YEAR off with this fantastic issue. I can’t wait to share the submissions selected for this month’s WELL DONE! section. Congratulations to Carolyn Haines, Angela Patera, Kimberly Parish Davis, Michael Spake, Jennifer Smith, and Ken Gosse for their submissions!
HELLO READERS!
In this month’s issue Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Tom Vellner, CLAIRE CONSIDERS Kissing the Sky by Lisa Patton, Susan Beckham Zurenda shares some pages with guest author Zachary Steele at THE WRITER’S EYE, Annie Mondesir spotlights book reviewer Phyllis Jones Pisanelli, and Ray shares a fantastic essay inspired by the late, great, O. Henry at OFF THE PAGE WITH RAYMOND ATKINS.
We have another fantastic round of submissions you don’t want to miss. Congratulations Heather Adel, Ashley Tunnell, Robin Prince Monroe, Souad Zakarani, Judge Santiago Burdon, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, and John Grey – WELL DONE!
THE NIGHT I ALMOST LET GO by Heather Adel
PRETENDERS by Ashley Tunnell
QUIT by Robin Prince Monroe
A STRANGER by Souad Zakarani
LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE by Judge Santiago Burdon
REMEMBERED LOVE by LaVern Spencer McCarthy
ODE TO THE FIRST WARM DAYS by John Grey
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THEY’RE HERE – WELL READ MAGAZINE’S BEST OF 2025!
WELL READ Magazine’s
Best of 2025 Volume One
Contributors in Volume One include: J. B. Hogan, Steve Putnam, Gregg Norman, Deborah-Zenha Adams , Rita Welty Bourke, B.A. Brittingham, Mike Turner, Leslie Zemeckis, Micah Ward, John Drudge, Jennifer Susan Smith, DeLane Phillips, Julie Green, Ann Hite, Mary Kendall, John M. Williams, Alaina Hammond, Jake Sheff, JoyAnne O’Donnell, Aaron Goodman, Dawn Major, Souad Zakarani, Zoé Mahfouz, Don Edwards, Celia Miles, Malcolm Glass, Neth Williams, Hubert Blair Bonds, Rickie Zayne Ashby, Francine Rodriguez, Rachid Toumi, Mike Ross, James Garrison, Mike Nemeth, and Robin Prince Monroe. Cover art, photography by Malcolm Glass
WELL READ Magazine’s
Best of 2025 Volume Two
Contributors in Volume Two include: Janet Clare, Mike Ross, Mike Nemeth, Patricia Feinberg Stoner, Colette Lynch, Karen Miller, Linda C. Rehkopf, Jeff Clemmons, Mike Coleman, Micah Ward, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, J. B. Hogan, Fhen M., Ken Gosse, Celia Miles, Cindy Sams, Robin Prince Monroe, Beverly Fisher, Rickie Zayne Ashby, Maria Mackas, Jim Cherry, Martha Ellen Johnson, Michael Lee Johnson, Donald Edwards, Alex Poppe, Janet Oakley, John M. Williams, Hubert Blair Bonds, Ellen Notbohm, Steve Putnam, Souad Zakarani, Mike Turner, Nancy Dillingham, and Saeed Ibrahim. Cover art, photography by Malcolm Glass
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