"All my life, I wish someone would wrap me like a bread loaf to keep my arms from losing themselves and then tuck me into a space not so bright, not so loud, and rub my feet." "And So We Walk" is our featured essay this week on Sunlight. bit.ly/4o2t2Pl

This one's not sappy, for a change. Frustrated, more like it. Major thanks to the folks at the gorgeous @bicoastalreview.bsky.social for an amazing editing experience with this piece. www.bicoastalreview.com/alinazollfrank

Big feelings upon having this published. backchannelsjournal.net/edition-no-1... #Backchannels #poetry #childbirth #parenting #love

New creative nonfiction today at Reckon. Come visit and read "Mothering, 21st Century Edition" by Alina Zollfrank @zollizen.bsky.social

Thanks to @wayfarermagazine for letting a couple of my more somber pieces land. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/making-it and www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/beach-trea...

Making It

A Poem by Alina Zollfrank

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And this one is for all of you. Because we hold on. amethystmagazine.org/2026/01/09/i...

I Sit Like Mary Oliver – a poem by Alina Zollfrank

I Sit Like Mary OliverThis book of poetry nestled into my chest. Hold there, I tell my thoughts. If Mary did then I can. Hold that glossy stone in your palm. Let it speak with lilting tongues. Hold…

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Dedicated to our immigrant friends and neighbors. And to my people, the ones that made me. burningword.com?s=zollfrank #immigration #legal #regime #identity

The 2025 DIAJ Award Winners: The Bee by Emily Molinari Tuulikki Bakes a Cake by September Woods Garland Sweating Like a Mother by Alina Zollfrank Buddy's Picasso by Komal Sharma TOWER TOUR by Brian C. Billings A Review of Larks by Han VanderHart by Eleanor Ball www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards

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Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.

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Ahhh, I'm excited about the timing of this December publication to include one of my earliest childhood memories. Halfway Down the Stairs's Intuition issue is gorgeous and a good place to sink your near-end-of-year brain into. halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/b...

Bump, by Alina Zollfrank

The first time I remember she was bent over me with serious pupils popping out of her face, and I kept asking the nice lady who she was. “I’m your Mama,” she said, and the winter sun shone through …

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This is needed, crucial, and vitally timed. literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...

Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts | Literary Arts Fund

New York, NY (October 28, 2025) – Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations—the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mell...

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www.chollaneedles.com published a rather candid essay I wrote in edition 106, AND the full-page black-and-white photography throughout and the popping cover page are courtesy of my sharp-eyed artistic firstborn. The editor is attentive and caring - a delightful experience!

🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟 Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)

That's how I feel most of these days: NOPE. Thank you to Writers Resist for shouting what is true and urgent and uncomfortable into the world, and for publishing my www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n... (Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)

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So excited about Tint Journal choosing to work with me! I felt called to highlight some of the profound learning that happens when we invite foreign exchange and refugee students into communities.This was a formative period in my life. #ESL #ELL #exchange #school #culture #memoir

New Words, New Worlds

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The latest issue of Tint Journal, the magazine for English as a Second Language (ESL) writers, just launched today! Find all 24 texts online and for free at tintjournal.com. We hope you enjoy reading this new issue and find something that resonates with you! Artwork: Vanesa Erjavec

Let me do you a favor. If you're over, say, 45, and you have brought children to adulthood or near adulthood, and if you have parents or memories of parents, and if you've had love and loss and sand between your toes, your heart wants to read this book. #sandwich #catherine_newman

The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period) Alina Zollfrank Unmentionable www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank

Alina Zollfrank — Corporeal

The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period)

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Thanks, anotherchicagomag.bsky.social, for helping me give a voice to something that needs one. "You get how this system is an entity that assumes people exist to serve it in perpetuity, instead of the system serving the people." anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r... #insurance #menstruation

Ha! This one is outside of my usual repertoire but a pretty accurate description of %$^& that's happened to us. oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-alin... Thanks to all of you making the art, speaking the words, and supporting the things and people who need supporting. #poetry #wordplay #doom #oddball

Poem by Alina Zollfrank - oddball magazine

Artwork by Mark Blickley

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Excited that HOOT chose me for their July postcard. And yes, you can order postcards by subscribing to www.hootreview.com/and supporting a small, independent platform for the arts! www.hootreview.com/.../hoot-pos...

I'm mulling over a new writing project and could use the friendly hive mind. (Responses will be used anonymously). Define what you consider a "bad person" or "bad people." Ready? Go! #bad #labels #writing #survey

Read this. I mean it. It is GORGEOUS and CLAIRVOYANT. Racial issues? Check. Book bans? Check. Power grabs? Check. History rewritten? Check. Borders & wars? Check. Bodily autonomy? Check. And so much beauty. And yes, sizzle 🙂. Read this. #Laurie_Forest #The_Black_Witch #fantasy #novel #resistance

Unreasonably proud that my piece "(Tongue)Eaters" is in SAND Journal's Issue 8. A gorgeous publication that couldn't have come at a better time when we worry about our people, all species, and the planet. #environmentalism #nonfiction #resistance #renewal

This is a first. My firstborn has two pieces of photography in this, and I a poem. We love, love Last Leaves Literary Magazine. Please support small presses & journals. Free download for this **Issue 10** at www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-.... Print copies available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

So glad this piece landed at Full House Literary. Reality is what we make of it. www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

We’re All Just Tourists Here by Alina Zollfrank — Full House Literary

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"The threat of collapse and utter loss can provoke a deeper sense of wholeness, where nothing but total involvement and whole-heartedness will work." - quote of the day from Michael Meade's nourishing book "Why the World Doesn't End"

Good book for all women to ready today. Loss comes in all shapes and forms. So do clarity, and empowerment. And: it's beautifully written. Grab those tissues.

NPR wants to know how people are doing with the whole free-speech thing. www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g...

Do you feel you can exercise your right to free speech? NPR wants to hear from you

NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loose more under President Trump or are you holding back?

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