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Subs for the September issue will close on 8/21, so shine ur goodies & send em to the goodie shack (it's us, we're the goodie shack). Ye hath been notified, mwah ❤️

Results are in & will drop in the September issue! Congrats to the winners, and big love to all who submitted <3 <3 <3

"He was a completely ordinary man, with a dark secret"

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"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

Poetry Contest closes Friday. Shine ur similes, finger-count ur meter, perform the Wiggle of Inspiration (u know the one). Show us what u got u beautiful misfits ❤️❤️❤️

2026 Poetry Contest closes Friday, judged by the inimitable Emily Van Kley! 1st Prize is $500, publication, & VENGEANCE on naysayers of ur choice. Get ur money & satisfaction while the getting's good

🚨22.2 NOW LIVE 🚨 feat. Kate Brennan, Jackson Burgess, Rick Bursky, Sarah Carson, John Leh, Shem Lim, @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social, Peter Munro, Carl Page, Simone Reid & Isabela Sanderson Girlhood, Godhood, gossip, graveyards. Get thee hence

New issue drops on Friday. As the poet wrote, Hold on to ur butts

You now have officially just a smidge more than 1.5 hours to get your work in! Closing at midnight ET! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

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Selections for the May issue are in the can & seem to thematically diverge as follows: Prose: Girlhood Poetry: I HATE GOD Poets as usual not beating the allegations

Subs for the May issue close FRIDAY, & if u miss us this time around that is OK and we forgive u, but it will 100% impact our parasocial relationship w/u & landfills are not ready for the number of body pillows we're gonna throw out in our grief. Do it for Mother Earth 🌍🌎🌏

Hello, good morning, *enthusiastic hand gestures*. Subs for the May issue will close 4/24 so: if u have general POETRY + FICTION + CNF u want us to publish & pay for, become SPEED & get it in to us real real soon. Poetry Contest subs will remain open! Love y'all mwah 👍🫵🤌👏

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Reminder to all u beautiful goblins that the sub deadline for our May ed. is coming up fast. What we want: ur best poems, fiction, & CNF. What we offer: publication, money, & glory. Link in the comments, holla at ya boys girls & none of the aboves

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Love seeing everyone's pics from AWP, you're all rock stars & it warms our hearts seeing so many ppl who still believe in words

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The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Fiction feat. @pacificalit.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com et al. https://duotrope.com...

Smart Search List of the Day

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Fiction feat. @pacificalit.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/general-fiction-5q51l3u2

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Ope, just wanted to scooch by ya there, and oh hey, we're havin a poetry contest dontcha know. Judge Emily Van Kley, author of The Cold and the Rust + Arrhythmia, can you believe it? Winner gets five hundred smackers so keep ur stick on the ice and send us somethin nice whydontcha

Ahem OUR DONUTS ARE BETTER OUR COFFEE IS BETTER OUR OCEAN IS BETTER OUR LIT SCENE IS BETTER OUR FOOTBALL IS BETTER

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2026 Poetry Contest, judged by Emily Van Kley, now live for subs! Winner gets $500, publication, & bragging rights forever over the teachers, lovers, & fam who doubted you. Know who never doubted you? Us. www.pacificareview.com

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💥Issue 22.1 is HERE💥 Fiction/CNF world tour: El Salvador, Gainesville, the Palouse, the betweens, & the past. Richard Breyer, Michael Fitzer, Jesse Jing, Yolanda Kwadey, Emily Lewandowski, Rho Weber Mack, & Jefferson Navicky will be ur captains speaking ✈️ www.pacificareview.com/issue-22-1/

News-type substance, delivered by orphan in pageboy cap: Issue 22.1 will be out this week, feat. our first ever OOPS! ALL PROSE collection. Killer fiction & CNF, 110% RDA protein Submissions are open again for 22.2 so if ur a big hoss biscuit eater who loves palindromes this is your moment

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We'll be accepting subs til 11:59 PM Tupac Standard Time tonight, & then it's see y'all in 2026. Much love to everyone who grew as an artist this year, & everyone who became one for the first time. Keep the faith, hold the line, burn your local data center <3 <3 <3

Subs will close on 12/15 & believe it or not we really really wanna publish ur writing but Step 1 of that process is u gotta send us ur writing. Pretty please 🍒 on top mwah

Oh shit it's giving Tuesday? Why don't u give uhhhhh DEEZ NUTS lmao gottem

Announcing our noms for 2026 Pushcarts w/questionable graphic from our MS Paint dept. In no particular order, congratulations to: Edidiong Uzoma Essien David Borofka Tara Labovich Lillian Emerick Valentine J.P. Kemmick Aliza Haskal We remain proud & awed, & thank you for trusting us w/ur work ❤️🍾🔥🫅

Thankful for all your poems, stories, and CNF, especially now. It's awesome to be in possession of so much evidence that art and artists will lead us through this bullshit. Our gratitude is immeasurable, and our day is un-ruined

Timeline: fucked since 2016 Cause: Chicago Cubs winning World Series Theory: fight poison with poison Antidote: Seattle Mariners win World Series Do the right thing, America

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It's true, we are! So, uh....send us stuff? 👉🥵👈

@spaldingwriting.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@pacificalit.bsky.social is seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our upcoming issue. If you haven't heard, PLR is an independent mag based in Seattle. For guidelines on how to submit, check out their submissions page: www.pacificareview.com/submissions/