Category: literature
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Contest Update
The American First Magazine summer poetry contest is now closed. We will announce the winners on July 14th. But until then, our nonfiction writing competition is now open through July 31st. We seek conservative and apolitical content only. No woke garbage will be considered. We don’t do communism. To enter, see details below: Annual Nonfiction…
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“California Conquered What the Krauts Couldn’t” by Todd Anderson
Boot camp was a bitch in heat. The young man with interrupted college had matriculated enough units while at Rutgers, and more importantly, had stripped down and reassembled his M1 under immediate duress from his D.I. in impressive enough time so that he entered the war a second lieutenant. Suddenly, he found himself a second-wave…
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19 Minutes by Michael E. Theroux with Artwork by Pamela Theroux-Hanief
Image © Pamelia Theroux-Hanief, NY 2023“… Let’s see if the world is still there…” and our bedroom TV world-window complies with an image straight out of Hollywood: smoke, uniforms everywhere, something about a 747 …Six or seven channel switches later, same scene: a glass and steel pillar, billowing black smokeits twin standing so close by,…
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Summer Contest Info
American First Magazine is launching its first round of annual summer writing contests. Starting in June, conservative writers can compete for prizes in the poetry, nonfiction, and fiction category. Each month will highlight a different writing art. June=Poetry July=Nonfiction August=Fiction June Annual Poetry Competition Move us. Make us laugh or cry, smile or sigh. The…



