River Teeth Journal
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River Teeth is a biannual journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays and memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers. The journal is recognized as a national leader in publishing quality essays, memoir, and literary journalism.
River Teeth Journal
4M ago
When Steven Harvey was eleven, his mother died by suicide. Three weeks later, his father married a woman with whom he’d been having an affair. The family never spoke of her death, and for much of his life, Harvey blocked this and other bad memories of his childhood ..read more
River Teeth Journal
4M ago
We are delighted to announce that acclaimed author, Megan Stielstra will judge the 2020 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize ..read more
River Teeth Journal
5M ago
Part bird book, part Native Great Plains history, part meditation on the author’s mixed Irish American and Lakota background, and part exploration of how cultures conceive the relationship between humans and other sentient beings, Birding While Indian ..read more
River Teeth Journal
6M ago
On Massachusetts General Hospital Reaching Out to Schedule Your COVID-19 Vaccine ..read more
River Teeth Journal
6M ago
Alyssa Graybeal begins her memoir with a list of acronyms for a host of medical conditions, the central one of which is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome ..read more
River Teeth Journal
7M ago
Blackwood’s homage to early black music begins and ends in an imagistic but unlikely fashion ..read more
River Teeth Journal
1y ago
Anne Pinkerton’s Were You Close? explores the complexities of grief after the death of her adult sibling, her older brother, David ..read more
River Teeth Journal
1y ago
We are delighted to announce that Sarah Capdeville has won the 2022 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. Her manuscript, Aligning the Glacier's Ghost, will be published by the University of New Mexico Press in spring 2024 ..read more