The Lit Nerds

Hopeful, enjoyable fiction in any genre, including contemporary, historical, or speculative settings; no word-count limit, with a preferred range of 700–3,000 words. One piece at a time.

Five-Star Reviews combine personal experience, informational facts, and cultural relevance, focusing on hope, humor, heart, or some combination; no word-count limit, with a preferred range of 700–2,000 words.

Love Letters are wholesome, well-crafted poetic-prose essays addressed to a person, place, pet, object, or other subject; ideal length is 300–500 words.

Culture, Craft & Criticism seeks well-thought-out, well-researched essays on writing craft and the relationship between literature or other media, culture, and humanity; essays should be positive, hopeful, uplifting, and encouraging.

Hopeful, uplifting poems celebrating beauty, wonder, love, and everyday life; poems may be short or long, though pieces over two pages are unlikely unless phenomenal. Complex formatting is generally unsuitable.