Submissions are open for the Fall 2020 Examined Life Journal
We are now accepting submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry for the fall 2020 issue of The Examined Life Journal: The Literary …
Blind Spot
Claire Castaneda Dear Xxx, When I was six and you were ten I told you all I wanted was to fly …
Not Yet
Patricia Foster It snowed today, subtly blending what’s underneath together again. Even if it won’t last. * It doesn’t seem possible. …
Coda
Debra Rienstra I’ve played dozens of symphonies over the years, and they’re all exhausting, even for us violists. Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, …
Brain Cutting
J. Stephen Nix Her eyes slid over the surface like fields of muddy snow with the bare skeleton branches of winter twisted …
Love-in-a-Mist
Lynn Gordon Len Kozumplik always stuck to a certain type of old-time English mystery novel—Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie—because the murderer was …
Paracosm With Biomedical Material
Leslie Adrienne Miller In my paracosm the mother has died and heaven is closed until further notice. She’s going to sit …
Through the High Grass
John Sibley Williams My mother says fox while gesturing toward an old red wagon abandoned in our yard for decades. A word …
Submissions are open for The Examined Life Journal
Submissions of fiction and non-fiction are open through 6/30/18 for the fall 2018 issue of The Examined Life Journal: The Literary Journal …
The Future of The Examined Life Journal
The Examined Life Journal has been on hiatus while reorganizing staff and production methods. With the overwhelming response to our most recent …