A Table for Two in the Sweet Place Bakery

Frances Park is the author or co-author of ten novels, memoirs, and children’s books highly praised by The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, NPR, Radio Free Asia, and Voice of America. Her titles include To Swim Across the World (Hyperion), My Freedom Trip: A Child’s Escape from North Korea (Boyds Mills Press) and Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong (National Geographic Books). Her forthcoming memoir That Lonely Spell: Stories of Family, Friends & Love (Heliotrope Books 2022) deals with love and loss against the backdrop of her unique Korean American experience.

And I’d Just Gotten My Life Together

Willow Barnosky lives in Northern California. Her fiction appears in Severine, The Honest Ulsterman, Spelk, Ellipsis, The Write Launch, and elsewhere. She works as a Virtual English Language Fellow, teaching and training language teachers in Poland. She can be found on Twitter at onomatopoesia and at willowbarnosky.com.

Issue Delayed

Hi all, unfortunately we’re delayed in reading and responding to your work, and putting together the issue. As such, we’ll be postponing issue 4 until the Fall 2020. If you sent us your work, expect to hear from us by the end of August. We hope you are having a wonderful summer!

Final day to Send us Your work

Today is the last day to send us your poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories and visual media. It’s also the last day to enter for our cover photo contest and your chance to win 50 big ones. See our Submission guidelines for more details, and send your work to submissions@foreignlit.com.

Now available on Kindle

Featuring 24 authors and poets writing on far flung places around the globe. Check out Foreign Literary now available on Kindle.

Open Call for Submissions

We are now seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and–a new addition–visual media (art and photography) for our summer 2020 issue. We are also open to photo stories and mixed media. Please query us at submissions@foreignlit.com. Please send us your work by June 15th. Also, we are now offering a (small) payment. As always, the theme […]

Concorde

By Lucy Ferriss

Day of Rock

by Mark Halpern

The First Place Where the End of the World Began

Then again came the voice that could silence me. The American professor who was the director of the expedition, Irene Demas. She had my left upper incisor in her shorts pocket.

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Foreign Literary Journal is a compilation of poetry and prose related to the theme of life away from home.