MER will celebrate the publication of Volume 23 with two online launch parties on Sunday, April 27th, and Sunday, May 4th, both at 5:30 PM Eastern time. These will be quick, lightning-style readings of one poem or prose excerpt per…
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MER 23 will launch on April 15th! Get a print copy! ($18) Get a PDF copy ($5, direct to your inbox) Editor-in-Chief Marjorie Tesser Poetry Editors Jennifer Martelli Cindy Veach Prose Co-Editor J.L. Scott The…
Please join us for an off-site reading featuring authors from WTAW imprint Betty Books and MER. Friday, March 28 5:30 – 7 PM Shoo Shoo Baby 717 W. 7th St. Los Angeles, CA 90017 Featuring: M.P. Carver, Bradel France de…
SWWIM, MER, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, & Cultivating Voices present: Off site. On purpose. Thursday, March 27, 2025, 7:00 PM MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St., Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Free Admission – Doors Open at 6:30) SWWIM,…
We’re on the list again! Pleased to have been selected as #3 (we got Bronze!!!) in Poetry! Thanks for the votes and the kind words and thanks to Chill Subs!
Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart Prize nominees: POETRY Doralee Brooks, “Hips” Carolina Hotchandani, “Chiaroscuro” Hilary King, “Investigations” Natalie Solmer, “I Am a Great Lake” FICTION Cheryl J. Fish, “A Seven-Year-Old Left Alone Shivering” NONFICTION Cheliss Thayer, “Co-Sleeper”
Congrats to our nominees! POETRY Anna Abraham Gasaway – The Kenmore Refrigerator Elinor Ann Walker – I will hunger Nicole Greaves – Scars R. Erica Doyle – Wander Caridad Moro-Gronlier – For My 21-Year-Old Son, Who Cals Me on The…
MER vol. 22 Ages/Stages Issue Launch Reading Sunday June 9th, 6 PM EDT Watch the reading on our @merliterary YouTube channel Get the print issue here Get the PDF issue here Hosted by Cindy Veach, Jennifer Martelli, and Marjorie Tesser…
Chill Subs showed Mom some love this week! We’ve been named as one of the top 25 Literary Magazines for 2023, a community favorite. Thanks to our editors, Jennifer Martelli, Cindy Veach, JP Howard, JL Scott, Ana CH Silva and…
See you in KC! MER NELLE SWWIM Whale Road Review Present Off site. On purpose. The Bauer, 115 W. 18 St. KC Reading at 7. Doors 6:30. A cash bar is available. Featured Readers