ADDRESS: San Francisco-ish ECKELBURG MEMBERSHIP NO.: 1178345 I, Trevor J. Houser, hereby certify that my story, Malta, is correct and perhaps true to some degree, and that the rules as set out by The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review for claiming a publication have been complied with in full. ORIGIN OF MALTA: World War II …
A Survivor’s Guide was born from trauma. The world broke and what I was able to sweep up dwells in this story: a bunker sheltering the ugly knot of grief and the desperate need for security and knowledge in the presence of horror. When I wrote this story, I had only a memory of trust …
A Case of the Puncs started with the simple idea of attributing personality types to punctuation marks. Here is my cast of characters: ”(.,.)”…!:;!…? I sat with a list of punctuation marks and tried to marry their characteristics with those of the people around me. Loud confident people became Exclamation Marks whilst ponderous thinkers turned …
In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke called childhood as “that precious, kingly possession, that treasure house of memories.” The God of Knickknacks draws on my childhood. My childhood gave me the gift of being able to write poetry, but not because I came from a family who read poems. My parents never …
Like many writers, I often find myself wanting to tell stories of usual encounters or new perspectives. While much of my fiction is the product of my imagination, my flash fiction story, Macroscopic Sacred Puzzles, is largely autobiographical. During the first weeks of my husband’s graduate school career, he was prescribed his first pair of …
When I was a kid, I had a recurring vision of the meteorite that would, at any moment, come crashing through the window to annihilate me in my bed. I could feel it approaching. It exerted a force, which I imagined to be some kind of reverse gravity, pressing me into the mattress, preventing my …
Arthur Rimbaud wrote: ”There shall be poets! When woman’s unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man—hitherto detestable—having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we …
Some people believe in dogma, some believe in karma. John Lennon said he believed in faeries, but I believe in fiction. In its hypocrisy – its epic tug of war between truth and tale – fiction gives us all the comfort and anxiety that comes with faith in something. “The Aviary Adventures of a Part-Time Bastard” may as well be a memoir. After all, it is the truth: my husband’s grandfather is a bluebird on the fence. Sure, it may be difficult to present hard evidence to support such a theory, but like all intuitions –love, loneliness, and familial relations to bluebirds – they exist whether they present themselves in a sealed plastic baggy or not.
Teesha Noelle Murphy is a Los Angeles native currently residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is nearing the completion of her first novel and 19th nervous breakdown. Her fiction has been published by Scissors and Spackle, Forty Ounce Bachelors, Milk Sugar, Matchbookstory.com, and now the Dr. T.J. Eckleberg Review. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from California State University, Northridge and is the Co-founder/Senior Copywriter for The Easy Writers (www.theeasywriters.com).
My work has always been about trash. This didn’t start out of inspiration, but from a reaction to sheer poverty. Back in 2003, after moving to LA from a couple of other places, I didn’t have the money to afford real materials for my art. It wasn’t really my intention, but using these found objects …
Like most writers, I find myself very intrigued by opposing desires. I like to explore how several emotions, needs, or ideas can exist inside the human body and mind at once, and what reaction that may cause; or how one need impedes on another. The alcohol, specifically a bottle of vodka, became a metaphor for …
Essay and Other Nonfiction Workshops at Eckleburg
Personal Essay
Lyric Essay
Body Narrative
Modern Memoir
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We accept polished creative nonfiction/essays up to 8,000 words year round, unless announced otherwise. Preferences veer toward shorter works under 1500 words with an arts and culture focus. If you wish to include a bio, keep it short, under 200 words. Submit your nonfiction.
Essay Collections and Memoir Manuscripts
We publish short works at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. At this time, we do not publish novel, long memoir, essay collections, story collections or poetry collections at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. We do offer manuscript workshops at The Eckleburg Workshops. If you are looking to place a manuscript, we can suggest several excellent small and large presses whose excellent books are promoted through our Eckleburg Book Club — i.e., Random House, Graywolf Press, Coffeehouse, Tinhouse, St. Martins Press and more.