World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...

I could use all of the jokes, silly videos, and pet pictures while parenting a kiddo recovering from a serious trauma. Our silly contortionist kitten is helping when she can:

So deeply moved to see this news on my brief emergence from retreat — I’m honoured & thrilled to see THE RIVER HAS ROOTS is a finalist for the World Fantasy Award! Congratulations to everyone else on the ballot! & now back to the woods!

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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We are seeking submissions of poetry and art! Check out our guidelines here: www.upthestaircase.org/submit.html

Up the Staircase Quarterly

a journal of poetry and art

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Thank you @readalittlepoem.bsky.social for sharing my poem first published in Memorius.

Read A Little Poetry@readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 2w ago

"It must not feel the weight of the all-blue sky, but I do. / It kicks its claws in the sand, shouts out falcon sounds." — Majda Gama (@majda.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Memorius Issue 33, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Issue 7 is here! Poems from @adamg.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @carolee.bsky.social Jill Crammond @fakeourway.bsky.social & AJ Wright. Art from @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social and featured artist @thaddevassie.bsky.social asteralesjournal.com

“four bewildered faces from our past”—and that ending! This beautiful poem by @maureenlangloss.bsky.social in @sixthfinch.bsky.social.💙

Maureen Langloss@maureenlangloss.bsky.social · last mo.

Thrilled to have a poem in this fantastic new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social alongside so many poets & artists I admire. Many thanks to Rob MacDonald for all the work that went into making this issue so special! Please give the whole thing a read!

i go to poems not for morals or lessons or Knowledge—i go to poems for music and pleasure, texture and disturbance, lust and color, risk and provocation, tenderness and jokes, questions and rage, dream and gorgeousness, love and hate, love and what is it, what’s that

Congrats @jillkitchen.bsky.social !!

Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters@asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are pleased to announce our Best of the Net nominees! First two categories... Poetry: @jillkitchen.bsky.social @mfitejohnson.bsky.social @johnpauldavis.org @mrmack88.bsky.social Allison Blevins Kerry Trautman Nonfiction: @charlesjensen.bsky.social @creakyvoice.bsky.social

I dreamed that we accepted a modern dance at Split Lip Magazine. I'm not sure how we would publish a dance, but it was really cool and now I wish lit mags could publish dances.

We are pleased to announce our Best of the Net nominees! First two categories... Poetry: @jillkitchen.bsky.social @mfitejohnson.bsky.social @johnpauldavis.org @mrmack88.bsky.social Allison Blevins Kerry Trautman Nonfiction: @charlesjensen.bsky.social @creakyvoice.bsky.social

We have been BLOWN AWAY by all the submissions so far... and there's one day left! Subs close tomorrow at 11:59pm Central so don't miss your chance! forget.cool/submissions/

Starting at 8pm central tonight via my Twitch channel - twitch.tv/djjakerudh, I spotlight the year 1994 through music videos. I invite you to tune in and join hundreds of us live for 5+ hours of punk, post-punk, synth-pop, college rock, dream pop, shoegaze, indie and more. 📺 / 💻/📱

sometimes I make a meme that really captures who I am as a person too

I didn't know when I was flying kites over my neighbor's air space on the other side of his privacy fence that I would one day put so many hearts on so many strangers' thoughts-dead pets & Sunday pot pies colonoscopies & origami lotus flowers Stunning@maureenlangloss.bsky.social

Maureen Langloss@maureenlangloss.bsky.social · last mo.

Here's a link to my poem, "@maureenlangloss.bsky.social floats by seeding selfies": sixthfinch.com/langloss1.html

Thrilled to have a poem in this fantastic new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social alongside so many poets & artists I admire. Many thanks to Rob MacDonald for all the work that went into making this issue so special! Please give the whole thing a read!

Sixth Finch@sixthfinch.bsky.social · last mo.

The summer issue is now live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @anandalima.bsky.social @jordanstempleman.bsky.social @kyanderson.bsky.social @mbrrray.bsky.social @marina-kappos.bsky.social @osagewriter.bsky.social @blindfish1.bsky.social and more

Stream, creek, brook, crick. California.

"How beautiful were those documents that organized the learning we would do in a class. I still love to look at them." Today on the site, 2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award-winner Jessica Cuello shares some of the documents that inspired her prize-winning essay. Link in thread.

Here's our hot new summer issue! Lots of literary goodness! Stay cool and read good lit!

WestchesterReview@westchesterreview.bsky.social · last mo.

We welcome summer and our seasonal issue here: westchesterreview.com/#/summer-2026/ ...The stories are bittersweet, offering hope and resolution even in the most troubled situations. Sky arches over many of the poems in this issue—at the edges, as a character, as light... #creativewriting

I am so happy to see my Marquez homage poem "What Was Found Inside the Whale" published with @swiftslitmag.bsky.social swiftslitmag.com/jared-beloff

jared beloff — s w i f t s: a literary magazine

swifts literary magazine

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Saw a double rainbow! July is gay now, sorry, it’s official.

I received an acceptance this morning for a poem that has been rejected 53 times. Keep sending out those pieces that are close to your heart!

Princess Bride: Inconceivable!

Alt: Princess Bride: Inconceivable!

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Friends, my 50th‼️birthday is tomorrow and I’m hosting this birthday-eve poetry party. Please give me, and our fabulous readers, the present of your presence tonight at 7:00 EST! 🥳

Nicole Tallman@natallman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, please join me two weeks from today for the July installment of A Very Gay Literary Happy Hour, featuring the magical Caridad Moro-Gronlier, @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social & @ritamookerjee.bsky.social & hosted by yours truly for @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🥂

A good way to start the week, by finding that my little story from @thecitronreview.bsky.social made it into the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50! 🧁

Ahh! Just a couple of days ago, our Summer Issue dropped! Please join us for wonderfully brief creative writing. We are so thankful to have an amazing lineup of writers for you. citronreview.com

Hark. 'Tis a free craft chapbook from @sundresspub.bsky.social! You can download Stine An’s "On Managing Oneself: Poetry Lessons from a Former B-School Basement Research Goblin" at the link www.sundresspublications.com/wp-content/u...

Is anyone still accepting summer-themed poems or prose poems?

Already my new lit mag @forgetcool.bsky.social (with @allisonwrites.bsky.social, who I met through @marchxness.bsky.social) is so much fun! We’re open (through July 15) for poetry and CNF about the pop culture that has shaped you. Submit and be part of our first issue!

Forget Cool@forgetcool.bsky.social · last mo.

When we say "Forget Cool" - we mean it, because we sure did! 👀

Congrats on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🎊 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social's poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was a finalist in the Ohio Book Awards 💗 buff.ly/YjTCom1