Thank you everyone who came out to the launch party, it was a huge success!

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It’s officially launch day! We’re so excited to bring you another edition of Short Vine.

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We’re very excited to reveal the cover for the upcoming edition of Short Vine! The journal releases April 21st. Stay tuned for more updates.

We want to thank everyone who submitted to Short Vine in the past few weeks. Submissions are now closed, and we are making editorial decisions to bring you a wonderful edition of our journal. Short Vine Spring 2025 goes live April 21st on our website. #Writing #Publishing

"Reflections" by Ibrahim Mohammed, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Art

"On Being a Bird" by Elliot Briar, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Nonfiction

"Space Boots" by Tyler McDonald, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Poetry

"Aspirations" by Virginia Smith, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Fiction

"Black Girl Reflection" by Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Art

"Scene" by Natalia Lui, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Nonfiction

I’d like to get back to posting about literature and our upcoming edition, but our university just sent another email about what bathroom people are allowed to use. Anyways, submit your work down below— angry, anti-establishment pieces are encouraged shortvinejournal.com/submissions/

A protestor at a rally on the University of Cincinnati's campus on Feb. 24, 2025 holds a sign that reads "University of Cowards”, Zack Carreon, WVXU.

Just so we are clear the Short Vine Literary Journal will continue to publish diverse voices, empower equity, and promote inclusivity. Regardless of what our University Administrators decide is worth supporting, we will not abandon our community and principles. We will not comply in advance.

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'Submissions for Issue 27 of The Manchester Review are now open. The submission window will be open from 24th Feb to 24th March 2025.

Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.

Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating DEI-related grants The judge found the administration's mandate that grant recipients not engage in "equity-related" programs was too broad.

There are still leaders in this country standing up for what’s right. Use this as an example—when people in power want to push you out of the way and erase you, plant your feet and tell them “I’m not going anywhere.”

PJ Seminar: A Master Class on the Art of the Opening with Crystal Hana Kim - StoryStudio Chicago In this generative class, we will consider how to write an opening line, and then an opening paragraph, that is memorable, specific, and urgent.

Writing an opening that’s unforgettable, urgent, memorable & specific all at once seems…impossible? Somehow people do it, & in @crystalhanak.bsky.social’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class, she'll teach you how. One class, March 4, Zoom!
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Hey neighbors! Please keep an eye on this list, and if you feel compelled, call your senators and representatives to voice your opinion.

Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

Billy-Ray Belcourt.

If you cannot even barely move forward in fractional fucking increments, how does anyone ever accomplish anything in this nightmare, you're doing it right. The feeling is just that excruciating. Creative writing is pain. And if you ever get to feel actual joy in it for like one moment, live más

How do you get an agent? Is there money in this? Is there a God? Is this a projection of my fear that I will die alone and in panic so my plan is just to scream as loud as I can and call it Art?

This is wonderful!

9-line poem "Ice Skating in January" with a blue abstract image

❄️⛸️Pleased to share my Horror Nonet published now! ❄️⛸️
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3 Questions for Lionel Richie | The Saturday Evening Post At 75 years old, the singer-songwriter continues to fill the world with music.

Lionel Richie talks about where he gets his energy at 75, what he thinks of American Idol, and the what makes the essential cornerstone of one's existence.

“Poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot ever aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection.”

-- June Jordan

#WritingTips #writer #WriterSupport #writerhelp #writerlife

Be a better writer by empowering your reader When you empower your reader, you become a better writer.To empower your reader means respecting his intelligence. You don’t need to explain what was just obviously said in the dialogue or to …

#CreativeWriting #AuthorLife #Storytellers #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerreality

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
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