#AWP2025 wrapped. Was so great to make so many connections and meet Yellow Arrow contributors irl!! Any presses/lit orgs beginning to plan for 2026, I’m happy to share recommendations for venues etc in my home city - dm me! #AWP2026 #charmcity
Annie Marhefka
@anniemarhefka.bsky.social
Writer. Exec Director @ Yellow Arrow Publishing. HR Consultant @ The Vivi Group. MFA candidate at UBalt.
Is it literary festival season?! Here’s where you can find me March… #baltimorewriters #smallpress #awp #writingcommunity #writers #supportlocal #indiepress
I’ve just now in life occasionally started buying used books instead of new and… my goodness am I becoming obsessed with how intimately bonded I feel to a prior reader by observing the things they underlined or noted in the margins. New type of pen pal exchange? You just swap books with commentary.
Delighted to be serving as a Managing Editor of Welter Journal for Spring 2025. We're open to submissions of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and visual art through March 3rd. Send us all your gorgeous art & words to devour (DM me with any questions!). welter.submittable.com/submit
Welter at University of Baltimore Submission Manager
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Check out my blog on the 2025 yearly value selected by the Yellow Arrow Publishing team for my thoughts on what BLAZE means to me, and what’s to come for our small press this year. 💛🔥➡️ www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/blaze-y... #writingcommunity #smallpress #womenwriters #womenownedbusiness
Yellow Arrow Publishing’s 2025 Yearly Value: Blazing the Trail Forward — Yellow Arrow Publishing
Board and staff at Yellow Arrow Publishing would like to share with you our recently voted 2025 yearly value: BLAZE.
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A few things to commemorate my mama’s birthday: a poem, a solo hike, a flower offering.
My feelings are a work in progress. I have a lot to say. I have nothing to say. It’s helped me to hear about other people’s feelings. So maybe hearing mine can help someone, too. <3 aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/today
Today
They hate us, but they need us.
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My 1st publication of the year is out in Booth: A Journal. It’s impossible to explain how close I was to the brother I lost to those who didn’t have the fortune to know him. This piece is a vignette of a moment, but I hope it shares a glimmer of what that bond was to me, what it is to me still.
My Brother and I Keep Our Stolen Cigarettes in a (Not Heart-Shaped) Box in the Closet and Stare at a...
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Yellow Arrow Publishing’s Poetry is Life workshop series begins in January! Ann Quinn will lead writers of all levels through monthly workshops from Jan - June. Set your 2024 writing intentions with Yellow Arrow! #poetry #poetryworkshop Enroll here: www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sig...
My latest in Atlas + Alice on making friends as an adult (and a child): atlasandalice.com/2023/10/05/n...
Nonfiction from Annie Marhefka
Photo: Joanna Huang How to make friends There are two mothers watching the entrance when the little girls disappear into the hay maze. There are two mothers with sleeping babies strapped to their ches...
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Tonight! $25 for this generative writing workshop with Kerry Graham. www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sig...