Glassworks Magazine
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https://rowanglassworks.org 📖 a publication of the Master of Arts in Writing at Rowan University • Pushcart Prize winning lit mag publishing poetry, fiction, CNF, artwork, flash • CLMP member
This week’s #MustRead comes from Ed. in Chief Katie Budris, a Substack post by tech journalist Emily Caddy on the dangers of cognitive surrender with AI use.
https://thefuturehunter.substack.com/p/the-best-time-to-learn-about-cognitive-surrender-is-now
#AI #CognitiveOffloading #CognitiveSurrender
https://thefuturehunter.substack.com/p/the-best-time-to-learn-about-cognitive-surrender-is-now
#AI #CognitiveOffloading #CognitiveSurrender
The best time to learn about cognitive surrender was 4 years ago, the second best time is now
Or, why AI is not “just like a calculator”
thefuturehunter.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
This week’s #MustRead comes from Ed. in Chief Katie Budris, a Substack post by tech journalist Emily Caddy on the dangers of cognitive surrender with AI use.
https://thefuturehunter.substack.com/p/the-best-time-to-learn-about-cognitive-surrender-is-now
#AI #CognitiveOffloading #CognitiveSurrender
https://thefuturehunter.substack.com/p/the-best-time-to-learn-about-cognitive-surrender-is-now
#AI #CognitiveOffloading #CognitiveSurrender
Submissions for our 2026 reading period are officially open! Check out the link in our bio to read our guidelines and find out how to submit your work today.
#LitMag #GetPublished #WritingKicksGlass #Fiction #Poetry #CreativeNonfiction
#LitMag #GetPublished #WritingKicksGlass #Fiction #Poetry #CreativeNonfiction
September 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Submissions for our 2026 reading period are officially open! Check out the link in our bio to read our guidelines and find out how to submit your work today.
#LitMag #GetPublished #WritingKicksGlass #Fiction #Poetry #CreativeNonfiction
#LitMag #GetPublished #WritingKicksGlass #Fiction #Poetry #CreativeNonfiction
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ― Maya Angelou
What makes you feel like you're thriving, writers?
#MotivationMonday #QuotesToLiveBy #WriterlyQuotes #MayaAngelou
What makes you feel like you're thriving, writers?
#MotivationMonday #QuotesToLiveBy #WriterlyQuotes #MayaAngelou
September 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ― Maya Angelou
What makes you feel like you're thriving, writers?
#MotivationMonday #QuotesToLiveBy #WriterlyQuotes #MayaAngelou
What makes you feel like you're thriving, writers?
#MotivationMonday #QuotesToLiveBy #WriterlyQuotes #MayaAngelou
Today's #MustRead from Assoc. Ed. Erin Roca is a collection of essays (originally lectures), "To Save and To Destroy" by Viet Nguyen, who considers "the outsider" in a political and literary sense, with compassion. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298170
September 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Today's #MustRead from Assoc. Ed. Erin Roca is a collection of essays (originally lectures), "To Save and To Destroy" by Viet Nguyen, who considers "the outsider" in a political and literary sense, with compassion. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298170
September 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
#flashglass presents "Dear Future Overlords" by Lisa Zerkle, a prose #poem social commentary on Artificial Intelligence. "I’m afraid, Overlords, that excludes you. Bodiless. Out of time."
Read it now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/Dear-Future-Overlords-by-Liza-Zerkle
Read it now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/Dear-Future-Overlords-by-Liza-Zerkle
September 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
#flashglass presents "Dear Future Overlords" by Lisa Zerkle, a prose #poem social commentary on Artificial Intelligence. "I’m afraid, Overlords, that excludes you. Bodiless. Out of time."
Read it now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/Dear-Future-Overlords-by-Liza-Zerkle
Read it now: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2026/Dear-Future-Overlords-by-Liza-Zerkle
It's #NationalReadABookDay! Time to cancel your plans and settle into your coziest chair with a favorite book. What are you reading right now? Comment below.
#ReadABook #Reading #Literacy #YourNextRead #TBR
#ReadABook #Reading #Literacy #YourNextRead #TBR
September 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's #NationalReadABookDay! Time to cancel your plans and settle into your coziest chair with a favorite book. What are you reading right now? Comment below.
#ReadABook #Reading #Literacy #YourNextRead #TBR
#ReadABook #Reading #Literacy #YourNextRead #TBR
Associate Editor Desirae Mack reviews Terra Oliveira's newest poetry collection, "Itinerant Songs" (Recenter Press), saying she invokes "...challenging tones of rawness, pain, and tension..." on every page.
Visit the full review: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/review-itinerant-songs
Visit the full review: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/review-itinerant-songs
September 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Associate Editor Desirae Mack reviews Terra Oliveira's newest poetry collection, "Itinerant Songs" (Recenter Press), saying she invokes "...challenging tones of rawness, pain, and tension..." on every page.
Visit the full review: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/review-itinerant-songs
Visit the full review: https://www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/review-itinerant-songs
We're back on campus! Glassworks is published by Rowan University's MA in Writing program with student editors under the guidance of our faculty EIC. We have a new batch of editors starting - keep an eye out for their intros to come! 🙃
#BackToSchool #LitMag
#BackToSchool #LitMag
September 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
We're back on campus! Glassworks is published by Rowan University's MA in Writing program with student editors under the guidance of our faculty EIC. We have a new batch of editors starting - keep an eye out for their intros to come! 🙃
#BackToSchool #LitMag
#BackToSchool #LitMag
Glassworks is thrilled to announce our Best of the Net Nominations, all published in our online feature #flashglass ⚡️Read them all at rowanglassworks.org
#LiteraryAward #LitMag #BestOfTheNet @fadingbetty.bsky.social @colettepjd.bsky.social @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social @ktamrine.bsky.social
#LiteraryAward #LitMag #BestOfTheNet @fadingbetty.bsky.social @colettepjd.bsky.social @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social @ktamrine.bsky.social
August 18, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Glassworks is thrilled to announce our Best of the Net Nominations, all published in our online feature #flashglass ⚡️Read them all at rowanglassworks.org
#LiteraryAward #LitMag #BestOfTheNet @fadingbetty.bsky.social @colettepjd.bsky.social @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social @ktamrine.bsky.social
#LiteraryAward #LitMag #BestOfTheNet @fadingbetty.bsky.social @colettepjd.bsky.social @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social @ktamrine.bsky.social
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I took a break from posting here because months have been insane in good and bad ways, but I recently learned my poem in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social was nominated for Best of the Net! Guess I'm back! www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-... #poem #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
Cadaver by Betty Stanton
We built our temples out of what was left of the body. Skin turned to plaster, ribs into arches, the hollow of the mouth a place to echo prayer. Blood dries faster when it believes in something and...
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August 1, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I took a break from posting here because months have been insane in good and bad ways, but I recently learned my poem in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social was nominated for Best of the Net! Guess I'm back! www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-... #poem #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Don’t miss @cavankerrypress.bsky.social’s open submission period! The editors seek poetry collections, nonfiction essay collections, and memoirs through July 31. www.clmp.org/members/open...
July 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Don’t miss @cavankerrypress.bsky.social’s open submission period! The editors seek poetry collections, nonfiction essay collections, and memoirs through July 31. www.clmp.org/members/open...
"Instantaneous. The witness / was a local saloon keeper. / I put my head out / an opened window. / There are some things / a person can't get out of the way of.”
#Poetry - "Grand Union": Heather Cousins
#Artwork - "Loophole" by Amber Carpenter
Issue 7
#TBT #LitMag #AmReading
#Poetry - "Grand Union": Heather Cousins
#Artwork - "Loophole" by Amber Carpenter
Issue 7
#TBT #LitMag #AmReading
July 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"Instantaneous. The witness / was a local saloon keeper. / I put my head out / an opened window. / There are some things / a person can't get out of the way of.”
#Poetry - "Grand Union": Heather Cousins
#Artwork - "Loophole" by Amber Carpenter
Issue 7
#TBT #LitMag #AmReading
#Poetry - "Grand Union": Heather Cousins
#Artwork - "Loophole" by Amber Carpenter
Issue 7
#TBT #LitMag #AmReading
Reflecting on #America250 and all our complicated history.
"The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 1852
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
"The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 1852
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
July 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Reflecting on #America250 and all our complicated history.
"The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 1852
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
"The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 1852
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
#flashglass presents “Cadaver,” a #prosepoem by Betty Stanton (@fadingbetty.bsky.social)with a fresh twist on religious imagery.
“We washed our wounds in holy water until the pain began to sing. Each scar became a psalm we could not ever stop reciting.”
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
“We washed our wounds in holy water until the pain began to sing. Each scar became a psalm we could not ever stop reciting.”
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
July 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#flashglass presents “Cadaver,” a #prosepoem by Betty Stanton (@fadingbetty.bsky.social)with a fresh twist on religious imagery.
“We washed our wounds in holy water until the pain began to sing. Each scar became a psalm we could not ever stop reciting.”
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
“We washed our wounds in holy water until the pain began to sing. Each scar became a psalm we could not ever stop reciting.”
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
Nonfiction Editor Erica Rose reviews Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s (@sfmontgomery.bsky.social)“Abbreviate” from Small Harbor Press.
Read the full review on our website!
rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r…#BookReviewe#SarahFawnMontgomeryr#HarborEditionsn#CNFNF
Read the full review on our website!
rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r…#BookReviewe#SarahFawnMontgomeryr#HarborEditionsn#CNFNF
June 29, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Nonfiction Editor Erica Rose reviews Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s (@sfmontgomery.bsky.social)“Abbreviate” from Small Harbor Press.
Read the full review on our website!
rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r…#BookReviewe#SarahFawnMontgomeryr#HarborEditionsn#CNFNF
Read the full review on our website!
rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews/r…#BookReviewe#SarahFawnMontgomeryr#HarborEditionsn#CNFNF
Happy First Day of #Summer!
“So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’...until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’” - Virginia Woolf
“So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’...until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’” - Virginia Woolf
June 21, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Happy First Day of #Summer!
“So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’...until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’” - Virginia Woolf
“So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’...until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’” - Virginia Woolf
#flashglass presents "Sunset is a Strange Name for a Dying Day" by Nas Jolaade (@nasjolaade ), a piece that reflects on unbroken cycles and lost souls. 🌇
Read the full prose poem on our website! 🔗 www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#LitMag #FlashGlass #Grief #ProsePoetry
Read the full prose poem on our website! 🔗 www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#LitMag #FlashGlass #Grief #ProsePoetry
June 18, 2026 at 1:55 PM
#flashglass presents "Sunset is a Strange Name for a Dying Day" by Nas Jolaade (@nasjolaade ), a piece that reflects on unbroken cycles and lost souls. 🌇
Read the full prose poem on our website! 🔗 www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#LitMag #FlashGlass #Grief #ProsePoetry
Read the full prose poem on our website! 🔗 www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#LitMag #FlashGlass #Grief #ProsePoetry
Summer is upon us this #WritersWednesday! We invite you to start thinking about the inspiration of the summer and have some tips to keep you writing!
#LitMag #KeepWriting #WritingTips
#LitMag #KeepWriting #WritingTips
June 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Summer is upon us this #WritersWednesday! We invite you to start thinking about the inspiration of the summer and have some tips to keep you writing!
#LitMag #KeepWriting #WritingTips
#LitMag #KeepWriting #WritingTips
#flashglass presents "What Remains" by Jenn Martinez-Stefaniak, a sentimental essay about grief, family, and the legacy our loved ones leave behind.
🔗 Read the full essay now:
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#CNF #MicroEssay #Flash #LitMag
🔗 Read the full essay now:
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#CNF #MicroEssay #Flash #LitMag
June 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
#flashglass presents "What Remains" by Jenn Martinez-Stefaniak, a sentimental essay about grief, family, and the legacy our loved ones leave behind.
🔗 Read the full essay now:
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#CNF #MicroEssay #Flash #LitMag
🔗 Read the full essay now:
www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...
#CNF #MicroEssay #Flash #LitMag
Read Laura Del Viscio's op-ed "Fragmented Essays, Fragmented Minds: Writing in the Digital Age" on our website today!
www.rowanglassworks.org/opinion/frag...
#Opinion #FragmentedEssay #Essays #CNF
www.rowanglassworks.org/opinion/frag...
#Opinion #FragmentedEssay #Essays #CNF
June 6, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Read Laura Del Viscio's op-ed "Fragmented Essays, Fragmented Minds: Writing in the Digital Age" on our website today!
www.rowanglassworks.org/opinion/frag...
#Opinion #FragmentedEssay #Essays #CNF
www.rowanglassworks.org/opinion/frag...
#Opinion #FragmentedEssay #Essays #CNF
Happy 15 years of Glassworks! Read more about what our past contributors have to say about Glassworks in the upcoming weeks!
You can read Allen's poetry in Issues 18 and 29 on our website:
rowanglassworks.org/read-and-order…#LitMaga#Glassworksk#Writingn#Poetryry
You can read Allen's poetry in Issues 18 and 29 on our website:
rowanglassworks.org/read-and-order…#LitMaga#Glassworksk#Writingn#Poetryry
June 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Happy 15 years of Glassworks! Read more about what our past contributors have to say about Glassworks in the upcoming weeks!
You can read Allen's poetry in Issues 18 and 29 on our website:
rowanglassworks.org/read-and-order…#LitMaga#Glassworksk#Writingn#Poetryry
You can read Allen's poetry in Issues 18 and 29 on our website:
rowanglassworks.org/read-and-order…#LitMaga#Glassworksk#Writingn#Poetryry
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For the first day of Pride month @rowanglassworks.bsky.social reviewed my collection of queer girlhood essays ABBREVIATE!
"Abbreviate is not merely a collection of essays; it is an act of reclamation."
www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews...
"Abbreviate is not merely a collection of essays; it is an act of reclamation."
www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews...
Review: Abbreviate
The Strength in Womanhood Review : Abbreviate by Erica Rose Sarah Fawn Montgomery Essays Small Harbor Publishing pp. 82 Cost: $18.00
www.rowanglassworks.org
June 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
For the first day of Pride month @rowanglassworks.bsky.social reviewed my collection of queer girlhood essays ABBREVIATE!
"Abbreviate is not merely a collection of essays; it is an act of reclamation."
www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews...
"Abbreviate is not merely a collection of essays; it is an act of reclamation."
www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews...
#flashglass presents "Water Beast" by Nikoletta Gjoni @nikigjoni.bsky.social - a dark, intense look inside the mind of a young swimmer and what the sport has done to them.
🔗 Read the full story now: rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-20…#FlashFictiono#Flashs#LitMaga#AmReadingng
🔗 Read the full story now: rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-20…#FlashFictiono#Flashs#LitMaga#AmReadingng
May 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM
#flashglass presents "Water Beast" by Nikoletta Gjoni @nikigjoni.bsky.social - a dark, intense look inside the mind of a young swimmer and what the sport has done to them.
🔗 Read the full story now: rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-20…#FlashFictiono#Flashs#LitMaga#AmReadingng
🔗 Read the full story now: rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-20…#FlashFictiono#Flashs#LitMaga#AmReadingng