Have Novels by John Steinbeck Influenced Your Writing?
Share your new writing based on characters, scenes, and themes in novels by John Steinbeck with our international community. We publish new poetry and new short stories not yet in print, as well as play and screenplay scripts that haven’t been filmed or staged. Submit your poem, story, sketch, or script.
Poems
Hospital Memory: Christmas, 1955
Nosferatu in “The Grapes of Wrath”
James Dean Kissing Julie Harris in East of Eden
Of Mice and Men: After Robert Burns
Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix Perform “Summertime”
Snorkling in Waimea Bay in August
They Don’t Hate You Because You’re Different, They Hate You Because They’re Not
President Harry Truman’s Eldest Grandson
George Reeves Contemplates the Hollywood Sign
Fitzgerald and Zelda, February 1921
The Year I Shouted Myself Hoarse Every Saturday
After a Death in the World of Dying
Jehovah’s Witnesses Descend on South Bloomfield, Ohio
A Woman Hanging Out Her Washing During the Harsh Winter in Eastern Kentucky
What the Lead Guitars Say and Do Not Say in Hotel California
The Velocity of a Bullet Is Absolute
Jose Clemente Orozco in New York
Stealing Men’s Magazines at 11
Ace Hotel, Downtown LA Exterior, Jesus Saves Reverse
Steinbeck’s Boat, Port Townsend Washington
Mourning What We Thought We Were in Trump’s America
The Bright and Unforgettable Scent of the Fruit
Homeless Man Reports Dead Body
The Victorian Belief That a Train Ride Could Cause Instant Insanity
Ku Klux Klan at the Carnival in Canon City, 1925
Stories
The War of Northern Aggression
The War of Northern Aggression audio
