Issue 40 Fall 2026 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is now live! This will be the final issue of our publication. Thank you for 11 wonderful years. #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...
jen-bryant.bsky.social
@jen-bryant.bsky.social
Writer, runner, stray cat whisperer. Midwestern transplant with Southern roots. Words in The Sun, Ms., Cleaver, JMWW, Matter News, & more. 2025 Ucross Fellow. Senior editor @muthamagazine, book reviewer @publisherswkly, & CNF reader @mudseasonreview.
Come hang with MUTHA next month at our Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event! #BKBF2026
MUTHA Magazine@muthamagazine.bsky.social · 4w agoJoin MUTHA Magazine and the awesome Pen Parentis on September 24th for our upcoming BKBF Bookend Event featuring Emily Flake, Emi Nietfeld, and Cat Willett! 🔗 THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2026 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT. #BKBF2026 @bkbookfest.bsky.social www.muthamagazine.com/2026/08/lost...
Local folks: If you’re going to Franklinton Fridays tomorrow, stop by Wild Goose and check out the Speak Easy community exhibition! A few of my photography pieces will be included (I’m a total amateur, but it was fun).
This essay got me all nostalgic, remembering parenting in that liminal space at the end of childhood.
MUTHA Magazine@muthamagazine.bsky.social · last mo.“And that’s what Wyoming is for, a pocket of time. One of our last summers, one week where nobody is rushing off to meet anyone else.” Jamie Wagman on vacationing with teens. www.muthamagazine.com/2026/08/wyom...
what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
“I felt thrust into another world—and it wasn’t just money, it was milieu. It was a certain register they could hit when they talked or wrote that I just couldn’t. And they had a confidence that comes from having few material concerns, this idea that the ground would always be there to meet them.”
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow writers without financial privilege or connections navigate the literary world’s unacknowledged class system.
July Submissions Spotlight: @muthamagazine.bsky.social, which publishes nonfiction on the topic of “the journey to becoming a parent (or determining a different path).”
Parasites in the produce, wildfire smoke in the air…what a time to be an outdoor runner & vegetarian
Very happy to announce that I received a 2026 Funds for Artists grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to support my writing! #GCACGrants #ArtMakesCbus
eating the lettuce on my sandwich these days carries the same death-drive-type thrill as shooting heroin
Who amongst us, etc “Too Many Books? Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
Too Many Books? (Gift Article)
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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I’ve got a new micro CNF piece at Blood+Honey today! This one was born in the @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon. Many thanks to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for giving it a home! www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/the-dance
the dance — Blood+Honey
by Jen Bryant “We pucker up to bathroom mirrors after showering, leaving ghostly lip prints in the steam. We French kiss the insides of our elbows because Kristi’s cousin swears it’s just like the r...
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We're looking for poetry, art, fiction, and nonfiction for our next issue! Submissions are open until 7/31 or until our cap is reached. Learn more at mudseasonreview.com/submit. #callforsubmissions
Whoa - what an honor to see that my essay “Artificial Light,” published in sneaker wave magazine, made it into Memoir Land’s Memoir Monday roundup (and in great company, too)! #memoirmonday @www.sneakerwavemag.org @memoirland.bsky.social
"Memoir Monday" Personal Essay Roundup 6/22/26
PLUS: Scroll down to the bottom for so many great workshops and calls for submissions...
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Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3mo agoOne reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Friends—here are about 55 literary journals opening for submissions in July—some are open now or will close soon in June or July. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative & all these should be no-fee submissions. There are more resources out there, including on here. Wish y’all well.
We're so thrilled to publish this story from @jen-bryant.bsky.social ! For anyone who's ever worked a soul-sucking job, and also for those who have managed to avoid them. Read it now at sneakerwavemag [dot] org.
jen-bryant.bsky.social@jen-bryant.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote a little something about my time working in a call center, and now it’s out in the world! This one means a lot to me; many thanks to @www.sneakerwavemag.org for giving it a home.
I felt this one. I was back in that credit card call center, remembering how one night I sent someone to the escalated line just because I knew the wait was long and I needed a break from it all. Read this.
jen-bryant.bsky.social@jen-bryant.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote a little something about my time working in a call center, and now it’s out in the world! This one means a lot to me; many thanks to @www.sneakerwavemag.org for giving it a home.
I wrote a little something about my time working in a call center, and now it’s out in the world! This one means a lot to me; many thanks to @www.sneakerwavemag.org for giving it a home.
artificial light
by Jen Bryant
sneakerwavemag.org
"Plus One" by @jen-bryant.bsky.social, a Southerner living in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in Ms., BUST, The Sun, Matter News, and elsewhere.
I mostly share publishing wins in this space, so to balance it out: My work was just rejected by a certain lit mag for the SIXTH time in the past few years. (That’s what I get for checking email on the weekend, heh)
As season 10 of Summer House comes to its pre-reunion close, one moment of the season brought up a lot of emotions for me. I talk about losing loved ones to alcohol, how it hangs over you decades later and the nearly daily struggle. More life. thomascostellowrites.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/a...
An Alcohol Struggle and Summer House
Trauma and internal strife through the eyes of reality television.
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Feeling a bit better about my recent Granta rejection, heh
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4mo agoGranta AI scandal has me speechless. She had. The Kind. Of Walking. That Made. Benches Become. Men.
I loved speaking with Sarah Hanson about storytelling, survival, and memoir. Read our interview here: www.muthamagazine.com/2026/05/on-s...
On Survival, Storytelling, and Saving Your Own Life: An Interview with Sarah Hanson
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MUTHA Magazine@muthamagazine.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew at MUTHA: A pair of poems by Sarah Hanson and an interview on her new memoir-in-verse, CONJURING THE HURRICANE. Links in comments! 🔗
I had the good fortune to interview Barrett Bowlin about his powerhouse of an essay, “Pugilism,” for Mud Season Review. Link below!
Barrett Bowlin@barrettbowlin.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe world is bleak, but I'm so thankful for mags like @mudseasonreview.bsky.social that publish amazing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Speaking of, I got the chance to talk with the awesome @jen-bryant.bsky.social recently about my essay, "Pugilism." mudseasonreview.com/2026/05/fill...
American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century
This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.
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High Fives to contributors Julia Clebsch @jen-bryant.bsky.social Richard LeBlond @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social & @beekaekae.bsky.social. Head to our Substack 5minutes100words to find out what they published, and where!
