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Writers, don’t stress! I’ll never decline your submission because you got my name wrong in a cover letter, or because it has typos, or because it’s somewhat over the word count. Submitting is laborious. People make mistakes. I get it. I only care if the work is a good fit.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—"I protested against going / due to my intense fear of heights, / I could hear / my heart Taiko drumming in my ears, / and we kept climbing up and up and up— / step after step ..." Read “86 Levels Up” by Vevna Forrow scrawlplace.com/2026/02/26/86-…

BENTONG, Malaysia—"After that, well all I can say is that my breath was taken / away, I felt like a time traveling ant in the 16th century / I felt like I never wanted to leave" Read "Colmar Tropicale Trail" by Vevna Forrow scrawlplace.com/2026/02/19/col…

LEBANON, Kan.—"A one story cinderblock building sits on a low rise just beyond the park. The row of numbered doors is nearly obscured by overgrown shrubbery and prairie grass grows patchy over the parking lot." Read "The Center" by Evan Harris scrawlplace.com/2026/02/17/the…

Where to find me at @awpwriter in Baltimore!! Let’s gooooooo!!! @SFWP @SmokeLong @MoonCityReview @ScrawlPlace

GENEVA—"I would like to go on and on and tell you all about all the mysteries of the cosmos before you start getting sleepy. But then there are an infinite number of things I would like to do ..." Read "Soulmate Particles" by Preetha Devi scrawlplace.com/2026/02/14/sou…

CLEVELAND, Wis.—"On another too-long country daytrip, the father flapped jaws with the farmer, taking on his accent and mannerisms. Even at four, the girl found this silly." Read "Shoveling Manure" by Goldie Peacock scrawlplace.com/2026/02/10/sho…

Especially if you're going to #AWP26

Scrawl Place presents "Writer In Sites," a new series of travelogues where writers capture their day in a city. If you love #Baltimore, you have to check out this one from Annie Marhefka. writerinsites.com/visit-baltimore

SAN FRANCISCO—"Nani and I do the tourist thing: drink / with Beat ghosts at Vesuvio bar, glance / lovingly at one of many book-lover / Meccas, and try to read in the loud ... Read "With a bag full of books from City Lights" by Christian Hanz Lozada scrawlplace.com/2025/12/03/wit…

SAN FRANCISCO—"The post-modern painting forced into this context of high-key low-brow art again greets you as you begin your shift ..." Read "Empty" by Chase Anderson scrawlplace.com/2025/12/01/emp…

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—"Red, yellow, blue — houses by the edge of the northern sea / I flip through my notes from ages ago / ships, mast to mast / courtyards with stairs and lanterns ..." Read "Copenhagen" by Elena Shakhnovsky scrawlplace.com/2025/11/27/cop…

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—"It’s deserted as we take the backstreets to Nyhavn, and we stare more at the colorful townhouses’ reflection on the canal than the buildings themselves. " Read "Swimmers in Copenhagen" by Leili Najmabadi scrawlplace.com/2025/11/25/swi…

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA—"I am trying to be a fly / on the wall of this city — / attracted to light but staying / in shadow." Read "Ghost of Buenos Aires" by Maya Walker scrawlplace.com/2025/11/20/gho…

MADRID—"The green gates of Velintonia had greeted me many summers before, lying just out of reach behind a crop of overgrown branches." Read "An Invitation to Velintonia, Half a Century Late" by Angela Acosta scrawlplace.com/2025/11/18/an-…

COMING SOON ON SCRAWL PLACE, JOURNEYS TO » Madrid w/ Angela Acosta (11/18) » Buenos Aires w/ Maya Walker (11/20) » Copenhagen w/ Leili Najmabadi (11/25) » Copenhagen w/ Elena Shakhnovskaya (11/27) And more!

I'm going to #awp26 in #baltimore. I'm hoping to have enough submissions to make a not-so-definitive-but-really-awesome guide of where to go and what to see while I'm there.

Baltimoreans! Send me your writing about places in #Baltimore. It will get my immediate attention. This is not a drill. Spread the word. scrawlplace.submittable.com/submit

GLOUCESTER, Mass. — "... the creature moves at a quick clip, travels much faster than whales or (other) fish; the creature bends like a staple, body folding over onto itself ..." Read "Serpent Hurled to Sea" by @faith__palermo scrawlplace.com/2025/09/23/ser…

CHANIÁ, Greece — "Greece was all very well and good, colorful as all get-out, she’d be the first to agree—but she’d left it too long. Or maybe even back then she had been all wrong for it." Read "Greek Orthodox" by Christie Cochrell scrawlplace.com/2025/09/18/gre…

📸Photo: TheWhitePelican via Wikimedia Commons.

CATOOSA, Okla. — "Her eyes scanned the whale, starting with its thick, bottle shaped head, looking past the slide hanging limply out beneath the eye like a harpoon, and down to the narrow body ..." Read "The Blue Whale of Catoosa" by Harold Hoss scrawlplace.com/2025/09/16/the…