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teniemi.bsky.social
Writer of poems (https://bottlecap.press/products/atnight), screenplays (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4661531/) and stories.
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March 31 is the deadline to submit unpublished poetry collections to Trio House Press @triohousepress.bsky.social Trio Award for a First or second Book & The Louise Bogan Award. $25 fee. Winners receive $1,000, publication, & 20 copies. #poets #poetrycontest

Deadline May 1: Win $3,500 for a story or essay in our annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Submit published or unpublished work. $12,000 in prizes. Final judge: Mina Manchester. Fee: $25. winningwriters.com/our-contests... with Submittable and @duotrope.com

A Frank O’Hara morning.

A little over a week ago we got together to celebrate the launch of my debut poetry collection, Another Life! If you missed the reading, you can catch it here on my website: www.frances-klein.com You'll see readings by @toddedillard.bsky.social , @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and myself

We're thrilled to announce the launch this beautiful chapbook by Tim Moder! inkfishmag.com/the-angel-of... "The Angel of Coincidence invites readers to yearn and grieve in equal measure, with poems that can’t be forgotten." @fklein907.bsky.social author of Text Messages From The Angel Gabriel

Thank you to Alan McCormick and Everybody's Reviewing for this thoughtful and insightful review of Precipitation: everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/02/revi...

I ordered a copy of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social the other day and was thrilled when I received it. What a stunning journal! I promptly ordered the two other issues that are available. I invite all to thoroughly explore it with me: thebelfastreview.wixsite.com/home.

My chap, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel, has a second printing….so signed copies are available again. I always prefer book swaps.

Looking for poetry book swaps, especially chapbooks. If yours is newish, I may review it. DM if you’re up for it.

Consider us launched! Issue 3 now available in our shop, or at the links below. Feel free to screenshot & share your work, and help promote others. Tag us so we can like & repost 🍀

Sightings by David Bevan, with photographs by Maya Sharp, is the sixth in our series of collaborations between authors and artists. Published on 22nd May, it can be pre-ordered for the special price of £6 + p&p from our online shop. www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

Our latest issue has arrived! Issue 98.1 features a portfolio of editor's picks selected by Kwame Dawes, celebrating 12 years of published work under his editorship. Read more about the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho... Order a copy here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

Hi! This is our first post on Bluesky, so we wanted to introduce ourselves. Follow us for updates on our next issue (coming this spring!), submission windows, events, and general musings on literature and art📚

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award $300 total prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

Calling all poets! How does The Great Gatsby resonate today? Wealth, excess, identity, longing—what still lingers, and what needs reimagining? We're seeking bold, contemporary takes on Fitzgerald’s themes for Beautiful Little Fools: 100 Years of Gatsby. Submit your poetry now! #PoetryCall

The Sita Martin Prize is named after our founding editor, who started Shō to promote unheralded poets in her immediate writing community. This is not a contest. All accepted poems are considered for the prize, contingent on the poet's eligibility. Details: shopoetryjournal.com/the-sita-martin-prize

I've received another batch of chapbooks. If you'd like to acquire a signed copy, please let me know.

Another great Boris Dralyuk translation from the Russian. This time, “Winter” by Julia Nemirovskaya (in Plough, via New Verse Review roundup)

Issue #68 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is now live! Check it out here: www.upthestaircase.org

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12806 Domestic Gothic Stories where the sinister behind the everyday is centre stage Paul Anthony Knowles Reviews Ailsa Cox's Precipitations @ailsacox.bsky.social

Deadline Mar 30: Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry; win $1,000 and an invitation, with honorarium, to read in June 2018 as part of The @HylaBrookPoets Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm | http://ow.ly/aLG630iZmGK with @submittable HT @frugalpoet

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT. Sightings by David Bevan, with photographs by Maya Sharp, will be published on 22 May. It can be pre-ordered for the special price of £6 + p&p from our online shop. www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

Friends, I'm thrilled to announce The Last Song of the World will be an audiobook, read by yours truly, with thanks to BOA, the NEA, and Nashville Audio Productions. I can't wait to share my poems with you, in my own voice.

'... the tales are so brooding, lashed by the British weather' - Bookmunch (Jackie Law) reviews Precipitation by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell. bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/l...

See & hear the poets from Issue 36 on Fri Feb 7th @ 7:30 PM EST registration info at www.soflopojo.com

CWC doors are open through 2/5! Join a community of nearly 200 writers from all over the world. ✨ Join Poetry: consciouswriterscollective.circle.so/checkout/yea... Join Fiction: conscious-writers-collective-fiction.circle.so/checkout/cwc...

It's never too early to pre-order my new collection forthcoming in July. www.amazon.com/Other-Love-P...

We’re open for submissions! If you’re spending your night editing that poem or short story, why not send it our way? We’d love to give your work a home. 📖

Confingo is recruiting three emerging writers - one each from Rochdale, Blackpool, Middlesbrough - for a new book, Brutalist Ghost Stories, an anthology of short, uncanny fiction. We have also commissioned 13 stories from professional authors. Last date for submissions: 31 Jan. More on our website.

✨ Inspired by The Great Gatsby? We’re looking for poetry that captures the glamour, obsession, and chaos of the Gilded Age. Submissions open Feb 1. Info: shorturl.at/xipDH #BeautifulLittleFools #SubmissionWindow #PoetryCommunity

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award $150 each for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet • Average response time is 2 weeks

Confingo is recruiting three emerging writers - one each from Rochdale, Blackpool, Middlesbrough - for a new book, Brutalist Ghost Stories, an anthology of short, uncanny fiction. We have also commissioned 13 stories from professional authors. Last date for submissions: 31 Jan. More on our website.

A new poem out today with the lovely New Orleans based Trampoline Poetry. Thank you to Editor Justin Lacour for selecting "Mother of Pearl" – placed alongside such great company too 🙏🤍 #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #poetry www.trampolinepoetry.com/?s=09

Excited to have my new chapbook, "Fabrication" published by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & Nightjar Press. I'm delighted that it's been paired with @arthurmandal.bsky.social's"Old Tutor, New Tutor". Now available to order online here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/fabrication.... pic.x.com/Smq9DtGXU7

At long last, the January 2025 issue of Ghost City Review is now up online! Thank you so much to our contributors for all this beautiful work. Hope you enjoy! ghostcitypress.com/january-2025-1

For anyone who has not been able to attend in person, I am now offering access to a video recording of my 2-hour poetry class, which you can watch at your convenience and keep forever. For access, email me at [email protected].

Our inaugural issue includes an incredible lineup of contributors! Coming January 29! 🖤✨

Love Spinoza? 💙📚 My favorite philosopher has a lit mag in his honor—Spinozablue. My poem “Spinoza at the Grinding Lathe” was published there today. spinozablue.com/new-poetry-b... Hope you’ll take a peek, and read other work there, too. Like great poetry by @silicasun.bsky.social #spinoza #poetry

Thank you to the folks who make @thedodgemag.bsky.social for giving this poem a spot in their winter issue. And thank you to John Steinbeck for the title.

REMINDER: We are open for submissions! All genres (including book reviews!) and always free. Send us your work between now and Feb 15! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

🚨we're looking for an art editor!🚨 If you're interested, fill in the form in the post under the ostrich...who you'll definitely get to work with! 👇