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A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis. All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social www.trampset.org
Paul Chuks's latest column is up. Give it a read! www.trampset.org/post/olamide...
Olamide: The Argument for Being Nigeria’s King of Pop | trampset
by Paul Chuks...Any artist who stays back and refuses Western audience or does not collaborate with a Western star or is not affiliated with any Western label is seen as unambitious and a local champi...
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July stats: 634 received 10 accepted 1.58% acceptance rate We're open. We pay. Guidelines > www.trampset.org/submissions
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Submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal.
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"if anyone accuses you of being a liar, astral-kick the shit out of them, then deny anything happened." @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's "Which Starseed Are You?" www.trampset.org/post/which-s...
Which Starseed Are You? | trampset
by Sarp Sozdinler...First: remove all the mirrors in your home. Hide them in the crawl space, bury them in your landlord’s garden, shove them in the backseat of a stranger’s car.
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"An Internet search pulls an AI overview that says it is a subsidiary of a conglomerate and holding company with support from angel investors and a top private equity firm" @thaddevassie.bsky.social's "Meat-Flavored Water" www.trampset.org/post/meat-fl...
Meat-Flavored Water | trampset
by Thad DeVassie...They say it comes with electrolytes. Even the chosen typeface for the word electrolytes! looks exciting and exuberant, and the sound of it rolling off the tongue conjures up images ...
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"When Grandma’s water burst, it baptized her feet as a sacrament & scourged her like a saint." Lorrie Ness's "The Decision Not to Breastfeed" www.trampset.org/post/the-dec...
The Decision Not To Breastfeed | trampset
by Lorrie Ness...She spread newspapers atop the bed & let the ads bleed onto her damp thighs until a Liquidation Sale tattoo blazed across her skin.
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"Pravin Vemuri has had many near-death experiences. He’s got no chill. Or a six pack." Pravin Vemuri's "Author Bio" www.trampset.org/post/author-...
Author Bio | trampset
by Pravin Vemuri...Unsurprisingly, also unwittingly, he turned to atheism by seven. To existentialism by sixteen. To hard drugs soon after.
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"Brother is not the moon, and has never been asked to be. He licks ice cream slowly, uncaring of the way it drips down" Claire Lee's "Brother Dates a White Girl" www.trampset.org/post/brother...
Brother dates a white girl | trampset
by Claire Lee...The word bubbles under his skin, then pops, dissipating into his blood like soap, air. Brother’s tongue is dry as desert, doesn’t feel the slow, heavy heartbeat need to wet it.
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"It’s my pleasure I would say to the women who came into the shop to buy expensive ugly pillows for their expensive sofas for their expensive day rooms" Jason Davidson's "Sweet Tooth" www.trampset.org/post/sweet-t...
Sweet Tooth | trampset
by Jason Davidson...and I thought I heard glass breaking and wondered if I would ever eat chocolate again and wondered if I would remember the language of this compromise
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"I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone." @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's "The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City" www.trampset.org/post/the-nig...
The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City | trampset
by Emily Rinkema...The Mongols don’t notice me right away. I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone.
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"burying sleep deep inside pockets fast asleep, tucked away like the hand-painted nesting dolls my grandmother brought with her" Ben Starr's "narcolepsy can be a gift if you remember not to care" www.trampset.org/post/narcole...
narcolepsy can be a gift if you remember not to care | trampset
by Ben Starr...Until he could fall asleep while he was already sleeping, burying sleep deep inside pockets fast asleep, tucked away like the hand-painted nesting dolls my grandmother brought with her ...
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"my six year old is either a great poet or six years old" @ewenglass.bsky.social's "The Beck and Boy" www.trampset.org/post/the-bec...
The Beck and Boy | trampset
by Ewen Glass...is not a pub, it’s a stream, meandering black circles halved by footbridge. Kids rhyme their way past skulking little duckies
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"You really aren’t made of flesh and guts and bones; all ground to dust. No. You are of twigs and autumn leaves" @mitchellny.com's "A Jar of Dirt" www.trampset.org/post/a-jar-o...
A Jar of Dirt | trampset
by Mitchell Ny...We lie on the switchback, you atop my chest, and become immovable—like my nerves had been pulled gently from my navel. I am denervated meat and cooked clay.
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Our 1st issue back after break is 🔥. Featuring @mitchkates.bsky.social @ewenglass.bsky.social Ben Starr @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Jason Davidson, Claire Lee, Pravin Vemuri, Lorrie Ness @thaddevassie.bsky.social & @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social! www.trampset.org
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This Friday!
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 3w ago1st issue in a very long time arrives July 31st. Featuring @mitchellny.com @ewenglass.bsky.social Ben Starr, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Jason Davidson, Claire Lee, Pravin Vemuri, Lorri Ness, @thaddevassie.bsky.social & @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social. It feels so good to be back!
@mandirapattnaik.bsky.social interviews contributor @abhii106.bsky.social! www.trampset.org/post/macro-m...
Macro Minds, Micro Talks with Mandira: Writer and Poet Abhinav | trampset
Interview by Mandira Pattnaik... "I like poems that feel like a fever dream, and I like poems that feel like a snapshot of eternity."
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Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our returning contributor aka house favorite Mallory Smart's (@mallorysmart.bsky.social) delightfully bonkers piece, "I'll Be Right Back," published last year in the wonderful @trampset.bsky.social 🔗 ⬇️
1st issue in a very long time arrives July 31st. Featuring @mitchellny.com @ewenglass.bsky.social Ben Starr, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Jason Davidson, Claire Lee, Pravin Vemuri, Lorri Ness, @thaddevassie.bsky.social & @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social. It feels so good to be back!
Emailing contributors this summer with new URLs on the new site. Just finished 2018 emails. We got a ways to go. As writers, we know what it’s like for a mag to go dark with no notice. We will not do that. If you’ve already found your new url, we’ll still email, but let us know of any issues. Scott
We reopened to subs after a very long hiatus on June 18th. Here are our June stats for the partial month: 407 received 6 accepted 1.47% acceptance rate We're open. Free sub option always. We pay $30/piece. www.trampset.org/submissions
submit to trampset | literary journal submissions
Submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal.
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Submissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissions
submit to trampset | literary journal submissions
Submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal.
trampset.org
Grateful to @trampset.bsky.social for publishing this prose poem a couple years ago: www.trampset.org/post/doughnu...
Doughnuts After the Sermon
by Zachary KocandaAfter Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) by Paul Gauguin (1888)Our great aunt was a nun, but she never told us this story. Gauguin lays it out best, the angel’s...
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trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe connected our new site this morning: www.trampset.org The old site is at medium.com/trampset, which we’ll delete. Contributors can search the new site to find their work. We’ll be contacting individuals this summer. Look for subs reopening soon. 👀
The first in a series (that I'm still working on -- more to come soon...), two of which appeared in @trampset.bsky.social, who just updated their website, so go check it out: www.trampset.org/post/left-on...
Left on Prospect
by Adrian Dallas FrandleNothing converts one to an augur faster than an abdominal ultrasound on Valentine’s Day. Anointed into the priesthood of interpretation with one swipe of warm gel to the belly....
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Why not celebrate the return of the wonderful Trampset by reading my story which they published a year and a half ago? (or, really, any story over there. They're all so good). www.trampset.org/post/margare...
Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces
by Cuyler MeadeI met a man last night. He had one of those faces you think you’ve seen before, but you just can’t place. We laughed and talked all evening. Oh, heavens, he was lovely. He asked many qu...
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trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe connected our new site this morning: www.trampset.org The old site is at medium.com/trampset, which we’ll delete. Contributors can search the new site to find their work. We’ll be contacting individuals this summer. Look for subs reopening soon. 👀
We connected our new site this morning: www.trampset.org The old site is at medium.com/trampset, which we’ll delete. Contributors can search the new site to find their work. We’ll be contacting individuals this summer. Look for subs reopening soon. 👀
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Site update: we have about 250 posts left to set of about 1,000 stories, poems, essays, reviews, & columns. The new site is designed; we are backfilling. Thanks for your patience. It’s a better site. We hope to relaunch early summer. We’ll be contacting each contributor with their piece(s).
Our past contributor Michael Emerald has been accepted into an MFA program & needs help coming to the US for their studies if you're so inclined.
Donate to SUPPORT MICHAEL EMERALD'S MFA DREAMS, organized by Olajide Badmus
Hello everyone, my name is Oladosu Michael Emerald, and I am a poet from Nigeria. … Olajide Badmus needs your support for SUPPORT MICHAEL EMERALD'S MFA DREAMS
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To keep everyone up to date: We're still working hard behind the scenes to transfer the archives over before we go live again. We can't wait to reopen to subs. We've missed you all.
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 7mo agoA message from the @trampset.bsky.social team:
From "Keep Your Visions to Yourself" in Trampset Journal: "I sank down behind my twin bed, winding the phone cord around my wrist, you sat on your bed, doing your nails, rolling your eyes." @trampset.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social freilly2020.substack.com/p/keep-your-...
"Keep Your Visions to Yourself" by Kathryn Kulpa / Trampset Literary Journal
Don't give them 4, give them 2 + 2.
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These are poems of the times, and thus they reflect that. Radical. Revolutionary. Real. These are the MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social 🙏🏽 Poems previously appeared in @luckyjefferson.com @trampset.bsky.social @havehashad.com & more. Link in comments.
