MockingHeart Friends! Happy Labor Day!

Submissions to the Fall 2025 issue closed at midnight—and now is the time for celebrating all the good work you and your fellow writers do. We’re so proud of you for your steadfast dedication to the writing life, and to the work you do in the other areas of your life as well. It’s inspiring!

Be sure to thank those around you for their own good work, and take the time to savor the excellence that you and they have cultivated. The world is a better place for you being in it, and Labor Day is the perfect occasion to celebrate that resounding truth.

Incidentally, in exactly two weeks (on September 15th), MockingHeart Review will celebrate its ten-year anniversary! That’s rewarding work worth celebrating too. Thanks for making it possible, dear friends.

Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief