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Poet, posts about writing, subs, craft. Latest poetry collections: Midnight Sunrise (2024) & Mirror Box (2020), both from Main St. Rag Press. Poetry staff for The Flying Island Journal. Noms: Pushcart, BoTN, Lilly. More: www.thirstyocean.com
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Been undergoing a bit of a socials detox the last few weeks. Popping in to see how everyone is doing. Hopefully well.

Our submissions portal is now open! That's right, we're accepting direct submissions of innovative literary fiction, poetry, & narrative nonfiction until March 15, 2025. Interested in submitting to Book*hug Press? Read our submission guidelines here: bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-sub...

Poets, SHINE's 2025 calendar is filling up fast, but there's still room for you! Subs are FREE and open. www.shinepoetry.com #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Friends! 📣📣📣 We're open until the end of the month for short fiction (500-3500 words) and poetry! Make it weird, make it grotesque, make it cozy, just make us FEEL something. We want all your SFF words that focus on long-term relationships. www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

BLUESTEM submissions are OPEN ✨ Submit your CNF, fiction, poetry, or comics and join the extraordinary artists to find a home at BLUESTEM. Deadline: March 1st Submit here: bluestem.submittable.com/submit

Submissions are open! We're looking for short #fiction, #poetry and articles for our 2nd issue. Theme: Lines We're #writers too. We know it can be scary to submit your work but don't be shy. We love to encourage new and established writers. 🙂 Full submission guidelines: penstricken.com/submissions

SUBMISSION CALL! submissions are open for (s)crawl literary magazine's inaugural fall 2025 issue. see submission guidelines & submit your work on our website: scrawlmag.com know someone who would be interested? tag them and share this post to spread the word! #litmag #horrorlitmag #horrorwriters

We're in the FINAL WEEK of open submissions!! Send in your full length poetry manuscripts!! Submission guidelines: riotinyourthroat.com/contact-subm...

We are OPEN for the next 10 days! Tell your poetry pals! atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Spring! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, and submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline March 1st

I can't be the first person to endorse the double feature of "The Substance" and "A Different Man." Very different films but they share some strands of thematic DNA.

SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT!

A few poems from "The Trees The Trees." These poems flip the world upside down and then put it back together. By @heatherchristle.bsky.social

Need a solid book on poetic craft? This might be what you're looking for. If you're thinking, you know enough about line breaks, you probably don't. There is always more to learn.

This is the poetry magazine I edit. Submissions are now open for issue 4 Find out more here: clarionpoetry.com/submissions Poetry for a world on fire...

Your 2025 poetry publishing spreadsheet (173 reading periods this year!) and trend report is here. Now I go collapse on the couch with my dog, thank you, love you, happy new year, submit with care! submit in solidarity! it matters, really! poetrybulletin.substack.com/p/2025-poetr...

Always open for submissions gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

I tried to like the new version of The Crow. But it really insisted that I dislike it.

Just read "irritable bowel syndrome" as "irresistible bowl syndrome"

New year, new submissions! We’re open until January 7 for your short fiction, flash fiction, and poetry! You can find more info on SleyHouse.com. We hope you’ll join us for our annual tales!

Submissions are open till January 31st for Issue Fourteen! We’d love to read your short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose poems, & hybrid work on the themes of home, place, and memory 🏠✨

Hey! I’m a #poetry reader for them! Submit by February 15 and give me something to read (I can wait, but that doesn’t mean you should). psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

70 Calls for Submissions in January 2025 - Paying markets. (No submission fees!) Every genre, style, and form is wanted, from short stories to poetry to essays. #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2024/12/67-c...

Open for submissions 2nd - 24th Jan 2025. Send your prose, poetry, hybrid, art and photo pieces. All the details you need should be here: fullhouseliterary.com/submissions

An archive in progress, en*gendered centres works that speak to gender and gendered embodiment. We are open to poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, and visual or any other visually representable art. Submissions, inquiries, and comments to: [email protected]

Submissions are open for Steel Jackdaw Edition 16 It's FREE to submit uncurated your poetry, flash, short story, creative writing & art www.steeljackdaw.com/submissions #poetrycommunity #creativewriting #poetrysubmissions #writingsubmissions #artsubmissions #writingcommunity #litmags #callforsubs

icefloepress.net/contact/ News at our website Open for Subs Jan 10-28 for NEW WORKS FEB & Experimental Essays (a new series). Send orig. unpublished work to [email protected] #poetry #prose #essays #video #art #hybrid #vispo #collab up to 2500 words NEW WORKS/Ex reviews.

Merry Saturday, #writingcommunity. What are you all writing today? Anything for us? 👉👈 Our theme for this issue is Lines. Full submission guidelines: penstricken.com/submissions #fiction #poetry

Looking for new submission opportunities to get 2025 off on the right foot? Here you go. I look forward to reading your wonderful work.

New Year, new submissions! We're hungry and eager to get reading! Submit: buff.ly/3OYTRme

Using a Google Form, I'll soon open submissions for Stanchion's Online Weekly Features. Each month, I'll accept 40 subs, select 4 to publish & pay each writer $5. You'll have lots of heads-up before these tiny windows open & I'll stagger them monthly for time zone considerations.

If you need some inspiration during this strange week, this interview with @chasetwichell.bsky.social and @timothygreen.bsky.social will do the trick. Loved it. pca.st/episode/e585...

The Wild Robot was likely my favorite film of the year. My daughter and I love the book series and I knew it would be good on screen. But I was blown away. I was truly moved. This film is a work of art in every way.

A little bit from Russell Edson

This made me laugh. Had to share. Poetry: Know the signs.

Revisiting another recent favorite this weekend. Have you all read this? Well, you should. Go on now, you know what to do. Thanks for the amazing work, @emmabolden.bsky.social

OK poets, do your thing. I want to see all of your poems called "Party City is Closing." Let's go. www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

Wow! How have I missed... ALL of these collections? Guess I have some catching up to do! Where should I start?

Calling all poets! Have a new batch of poems ready to soar? The Flying Island Journal is open for submissions! Let's go, let's go, let's go. Send your good stuff. You know what to do. indianawriters.submittable.com/submit

Need a last-minute bookish gift that doesn't line the pockets of billionaires? A 2025 Stanchion Book Club Membership will deliver great books & exclusive gifts all year long. And I'll send an older Stanchion book with a gift message that you can wrap now! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

On a rainy Sunday morning, diving back into this beauty by @sarahali.bsky.social

This one of the best performances of one of the best songs from one of the best records ever. True magic and poetry through and through. youtu.be/KJqL1yIm9e0?...

A reminder that we are very much open for your previously published fiction, poetry, and CNF! Full guidelines here: www.bulbculturecollective.com/submission-g...

🛎️ 🦌 🎅 Our poetry submission window is open from today for next year’s anthology. 📖 Read the guidelines closely & send the full three poems for the best chance. Pick up this year’s anthology to make your Christmas poetic! 💫 ❄️ 🔥 ⛄️ 🎁 www.blackboughpoetry.com/events

Here is an illuminating interview with Anne Sexton. Of course, it's interesting as a whole. But I love that she reads new poems from her manuscript in progress that would eventually become "Live or Die." And, let's bring back the series USA: Poetry as well. youtu.be/ONIpxRPFv3k?...

Ludo wants your tastiest work...make a pupper happy and submit to Third Coast's contest, won't you? $1000 prize/$10 entry fee, judged by Misha Rai and Jamaal May. #writingcontest #submissions #fiction #poetry