Ron Torrence

Ron Torrence published his first short story at age 50 and his first poem at age 80. Even so his fiction, non-fiction and poetry are widely published.

Life’s a Play
elegy in america’s graveyard

SUMMER 2026 SUBMISSION PERIOD POSTPONED TO JULY!

We’re still going through past submissions and reorganizing our publishing schedule, so we’ve decided to push back our summer 2026 open submission period to July 1st! We hope that’s okay! Please see our Submittable page for our guidelines/categories, and we can’t wait to see your work and share it with the world

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PRINT ANTHOLOGIES!

We’ve released several print anthologies! Please check it out (as well our previous ones) and maybe even spread the word and/or purchase some? We’d be very grateful and humbled 😁

Give and Receive!

We still have leftover stock from AWP, so if you hit the support us! button below and donate $20 or more, you’ll receive a free 2014, 2015, or 2016 print anthology (your choice, obviously) and a free magnet (upon request)!! What are you waiting for? 😁