River Teeth, a journal long associated with the craft of creative nonfiction, extends its editorial vision through Beautiful Things, a weekly online magazine devoted to the micro-essay. The form is exacting: 250 words or fewer, one beautiful thing at a time. This is not a venue for the sprawling personal essay or the reported feature, but for the concentrated act of attention—a single moment, object, or observation rendered with precision and restraint. The magazine's stated purpose is to look closely, and the constraint is the point. The call is open to writers at any stage, with an explicit invitation to underrepresented voices, including but not limited to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers. Incarcerated writers may submit by mail. Submissions are accepted September 1 through December 1 and January 1 through April 1; the current deadline is December 1, 2026. A $3 processing fee applies. The journal requests first North American serial rights and cannot consider previously published work. Response time is typically three to six months. What the writer receives is publication in a weekly online magazine with an established literary readership, editorial curation, and the discipline of the form itself. There is no prize and no payment indicated in the guidelines; the transaction is editorial rather than financial. The curatorial vision is one of discernment and generosity: beauty is not assumed to be grand or exotic, but found in the ordinary, and the writer's task is to make that finding legible to a reader in a very small space.