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SUBMISSIONS OPEN! online lit space ○ light bulb bunch ○ send us your previously published writing Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda www.bulbculturecollective.com
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The light is on for Tracie Adams! 💡 Tracie’s “A Story for Another Day” is a moving and heartfelt piece of nonfiction that leads the reader through life’s many storms. Head on over to the site to check it out!

Just belatedly putting this one up here. Many thanks to L.M. and Jared @bulbculture.bsky.social for republishing a favourite story and some associated thoughts. www.bulbculturecollective.com/shine-a-ligh...

I have a little interview up @bulbculture.bsky.social today about my short story Les Soeurs Jumelles (aka The Twin Sisters) - the link to which is in the post below the interview. Many thanks to Jared and L.M. for their support and enthusiasm and to you guys for checking it out!

We're thrilled to Shine A Light on the incredible Fiona J. Mackintosh! @fionajanemack.bsky.social Fiona's "Les Soeurs Jumelles" is an impeccable story, and now you can learn a lot more about its creation over at the site!

Love that this story is being given a second chance to shine by @bulbculture.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it!

The light is on for Jane Broughton! @janeb.bsky.social! 💡 Jane’s “It was the Autumn” captures the bittersweet reality of changing seasons, of girls emerging into womanhood, of a specific liminality where anything feels possible. Read this incredible flash fiction right now!

I have finally opened a bluesky account and what a lovely way to start my time here. Thanks @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving this poem a new home. It fits my social media brand to make my first post a plug of a creative project ❤️.

My poem "If She Could Speak" is up on Bulb Culture Collective today! Thank you to @bulbculture.bsky.social for bringing this poem into the light

The light is on for Auden Eagerton! 💡 Auden's "If She Could Speak" is a powerful and searing poem that doesn't shy away from the reality of the world's darkness. Discover this incredible poem today! (This poem deals with heavy topics, so make sure you heed the content warnings before reading.)

Happy Sunday! We're thrilled to Shine A Light on Mike Fox. Read all about the process behind his amazing short story "The Subtext of Skin" over at the site!

Happy Valentine's Day! Thank you to @bulbculture.bsky.social for reprinting my love poem "Sanctuary" today! The poem references where I was raised (WV) and where we live now (Pittsburgh). It's also part of my collection that was just released: LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER!

Happy Valentine’s Day! The light is on for Bethany Jarmul! 💡 @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social “Sanctuary” is tender and romantic and beautifully composed. It’s an incredible poem, and you can read it right now!

Thank you @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @bulbculture.bsky.social

The light is on for Wendy BooydeGraaff! 💡 @onlybooyskies.bsky.social “Full Moon” is a spectacularly eerie micro that demands to be read and reread! Check it out!

Happy Sunday! We're thrilled to Shine A Light on Michelle R. Brady! @bradymicheller.bsky.social To find out more about Michelle's writing process, and to go behind the scenes of her incredible "Flossing Her Legs" head over to the site!

The light is on for Lucy Magrath! 💡 “forever twenty-eight” is a heartbreaking poem about the enormity of grief and losing someone far too soon. Head to the site to read Lucy’s incredible poem!

Excellent flash piece by alisonwassell.bsky.social

Thank you so much @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving my story a wonderful new home!

The light is on for Alison Wassell! Alison's "The Contents Of Miss Cathcart's Classroom Cupboard" is a beautiful and wrenching flash fiction. An exploration of an entire life through, you guessed it, the contents of a classroom cupboard. Unique and powerful, you need to give this one a read!

Happy Sunday! We're thrilled to Shine A Light on Karen Rigby! Read all about the inspiration behind Karen's incredible "Love Notes from the Firefly Spanish/English Visual Dictionary" over at the site!

Delighted to say that my story 'Hillman's Imp', originally shortlisted in the HG Wells competition, now has its first online publication thanks to the good people at @bulbculture.bsky.social #shortstory 👇

L.M. and I have made the decision to pull our account from The Other Site. We're very sorry to disappoint any writers or readers who still frequent that space, but we're very excited to keep building our community on BlueSky! Thank you for your support!

The light is on for Ian Critchley! 💡 @iancritchley.bsky.social! Ian's "Hillman's Imp" is a gorgeously eerie story where the past definitely comes back to haunt. Sink into this short story right now!

"No flutter of pigeons’ wings, not the scratching of a cat in the rubble, a dog bark, a car horn; not even the sound of the wind." A powerful piece of writing by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @bulbculture.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Originally published by Spelk in 2020 this piece has a new outing thanks to Bulb Culture Collective. It's about a town in #Syria but sadly it could also be a town today in Ukraine or Gaza

The light is on for Bronwen Griffiths! 💡 "Kafranbel" is a powerful and searing flash fiction delving into the ramifications of war and human greed. It's timely and timeless. Read now!

Y'all! It's me! Find links to this, "Genesis," and my other published stories and poems at allisonwaltersluther.com!

Happy Sunday! We're thrilled to Shine A Light on the incredible Allison Walters Luther! @allisonluther.bsky.social! Read all about Allison's inspiration behind "Genesis," her superb post-apocalyptic story!

L.M. and I have pulled our accounts from That Other Site, and now only our @bulbculture.bsky.social account remains. We know that a lot of our readers/writers still use that site, and still find us, and writing they love, over on That Other Site. We're worried about reaching our contributors.

Grateful to @bulbculture.bsky.social for accepting a reprint of a short near-future sf story about parenting and many other things. It will run in March. 💚

The light is on for Heain Joung! 💡 "Amour" is an intense and moving story by an incredible storytelling voice! Check it out!