“As with Joyce’s Dublin, place isn’t simply geographical–it is inherent in the working-class culture in which characters live. The tension remains across stories because it is, at root, based in economics and class status.” —Donna Wojnar Dzurilla. beltmag.com/author-josep...
“As with Joyce’s Dublin, place isn’t simply geographical–it is inherent in the working-class culture in which characters live. The tension remains across stories because it is, at root, based in economics and class status.” —Donna Wojnar Dzurilla. beltmag.com/author-josep...
“We must remain a kind, resilient people who are not afraid to be vocal and broadcast empathy. We are never too old to learn and embrace new information.”
Read “Martin Luther King in Dayton” by Janyce Denise Glasper.
beltmag.com/martin-luthe...
Given the recent news of the @post-gazette.com's impending demise, it seems like a good time to revisit this story I wrote for @beltmagazine.bsky.social in 2022. beltmag.com/on-the-post-...
The match applies to all gifts made by the end of the day! Thanks to all who have read and shared our stories this year.
I got published by a dream publication of mine talking about the sandwich that is named after my family and how food can heal familial trauma @beltmagazine.bsky.social
This month, we're sharing a selection of stories with a regional connection originally published at the Pittsburgh Review of Books! @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social. beltmag.com/december-2025
For so many of us, the holidays wouldn't be the holidays without the food. From the archive, a piece on one family's Wigilia, the epic Polish Christmas Eve feast. beltmag.com/wigilia-feas...
Our #NewsMatch fund drive continues! Did you know memberships cover nearly all of our operating expenses? All new gifts are matched thru 12/31: your $5/mo gift unlocks $60 in matching funds – which goes straight to paying writers for their work! Can we count on your support? beltmag.com/membership/
Through 12/31, #NewsMatch matches all new monthly and one-time gifts, up to $1,000, and recurring monthly gifts are matched 12 times! Your $5/month gift unlocks $60 in matching funds – which goes straight to paying writers for their work! Can we count on you?
Give today: beltmag.com/membership/
This month, we're sharing a group of Rust Belt-oriented pieces recently published at our newly-launched publication, the Pittsburgh Review of Books (PRoB).
PRoB isn't only focused on our region, but part of our mission is to introduce this region to the world (and vice versa).
www.beltmag.com
"The iceberg shuddered, a deep crack split the surface, wide as a shoe, closer now, spiderwebbing toward the three of them. The ship hull strained against the ice, an ancient, animal shriek."
Read "Endure" by Anthony Swofford, based on a photo by Huck Beard. beltmag.com/endure/
A group of Pittsburgh writers recently convened in the historic Pump House in Munhall to share pieces created in response to the evocative photographs of Huck Beard. We’ll be sharing them this week, back from our hiatus, now publishing as Rust Belt Magazine.
beltmag.com/october-2025/
“More than in the subject matter we publish, or literally where we’re headquartered, the 'Pittsburgh' in The Pittsburgh Review of Books is a matter of mentality, of perspective...”
We're live! Read a message from our founder and Editor-in-Chief, Ed Simon.
pghrev.com/the-foundry-...
A sit-down strike is not an obsolete tactic. It’s a blueprint for better working conditions, and for a revival of the middle class. The tumultuous Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 at General Motors is proof of that. #LaborDay @beltmagazine.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary humanities periodical housed in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and published by @cmuenglish.bsky.social, PRoB will feature essays, reviews, interviews, and excerpts engaging with salient and pressing issues. Launching Sept. 3!
A new hub for literature! The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be both in Pittsburgh (and the Rust Belt) and of the wider world; a means of introducing the region’s vibrant literary community into national conversations as well as bringing those conversations here.
beltmag.com/introducing-...
"I know people tend to hunt and peck in short story collections, but I think of it more like a record album. I present it as a whole."
Thanks to @beltmagazine.bsky.social for this interview with AHP Author @sherrieflick.bsky.social!
A new hub for literature! The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be both in Pittsburgh (and the Rust Belt) and of the wider world; a means of introducing the region’s vibrant literary community into national conversations as well as bringing those conversations here.
beltmag.com/introducing-...
I had a great talk with the amazing Bill Lychack about my new story collection 🐻 Up at the also amazing Belt Magazine
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
A conversation between Bill Lychack and @sherrieflick.bsky.social, in which the latter discusses the mystery of bears, the art of joy in writing and life, and her new collection of stories, “I Have Not Considered Consequences” (Autumn House Press, 2025)
beltmag.com/considering-...
“That’s how they mark the restroom doors here,
Hymns and Hers. When I was a kid this bar
was a funeral home. Prior that a foundry.”
Read “Hymns & Hers” and three other poems by Kristofer Collins.
beltmag.com/four-poems-b...
“That’s how they mark the restroom doors here,
Hymns and Hers. When I was a kid this bar
was a funeral home. Prior that a foundry.”
Read “Hymns & Hers” and three other poems by Kristofer Collins.
beltmag.com/four-poems-b...
“Keweenaw County, Michigan, once the heart of America’s copper mining industry, now stands as a quiet testament to the rise and fall of an industrial empire.”
Read “Keweenaw County’s Echoes of Copper Mining” by Paul Gordon.
beltmag.com/keweenaw-cou...
"The film was a proper history lesson for me, the piano, a tangible symbol of a not-so-distant time when people were auctioned and enslaved, sold and sent away from their families in exchange for an instrument."
Michael Bennett on the work of August Wilson.
beltmag.com/relearning-t...
