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Thank you to Angela Voras-Hills for sharing the origin of "Zack Morris is a Grade-A Douchebag" (which wins best poetry title of the year award) published in @passagesnorth.bsky.social & check out the picture of her getting off the bus in kindergarten!

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Photo of bath bubbles.

Photo of bath bubbles.

Good morning on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🌞 If you like short pieces with a lotta ❤️ then catch Memoir Editor @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social's "Top Surgery Triptych" in Issue 47 of @passagesnorth.bsky.social: buff.ly/8PSGCLj

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A Flock of Scallops by Zebulon Huset — Passages North Poetry reader Frankie Spring on today’s poem: The wheel spider lives in the desert. It is named for its ability to use its legs like spokes and roll as fast as 44 turns per second down sand-dune hill...

🦪 NEW bonus content just dropped!! Check out today’s poem, “A Flock of Scallops” by Zebulon Huset!!

Link to read: www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

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obsessed with the new @passagesnorth.bsky.social, my road trip story (possibly my favorite vehicle, pun intended, for conflict — let me lock those characters up!!), & the incredible work of my issuemates, including @ericscottryon.bsky.social, @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social & @liamhegarty.bsky.social

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At My Elementary School... by Emily Hall — Passages North

Many thanks to @passagesnorth.bsky.social for sharing my short piece, “At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base,” online! Read the full piece here! #flashprose #flashcnf #writersky #micro #booksky

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Issue 47 — Passages North

💫 Issue 47 is now live on our website!! Select pieces are available to read online!! Check them out and support our awesome contributors!!

www.passagesnorth.com/issue-47

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💫 CONTESTS CLOSING SOON! 💫

More information (submission guidelines, interviews with our lovely judges) available on our website!

Link to the Submission Page: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/

2 weeks ago 9 6 0 1
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🌭 NEW BONUS CONTENT!! Check out Paula Brancato’s “Chuffalo Buffalo” now live on our website!

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My issue of the magazine, propped up near my daffodiles

My issue of the magazine, propped up near my daffodiles

@passagesnorth.bsky.social is a dream pub for me because it's one of, like, three lit mags I'd actually heard of before I started doing all this. And here it is: "I Don't Need Your Whole Life Story," a piece about a guy who fakes his own death and it works so great he just keeps doing it.

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Cover of Passages North issue 47

Cover of Passages North issue 47

List of short stories in magazine including my story “American Robins”

List of short stories in magazine including my story “American Robins”

oh look who has a short story in the latest @passagesnorth.bsky.social 👀

if you like light erotomania and/or heteropessimism, this one is for you!

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Our free submission option is now available!!

Link: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/16393...

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It’s been a long wait, but just got my beautiful issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social 😍 And someone drew me a mango 🥹🥭

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💫 CONTESTS CLOSING SOON! 💫

More information (submission guidelines, interviews with our lovely judges) available on our website!

Link to the Submission Page: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/

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Copy of @passagesnorth.bsky.social with a poem of mine showed up recently. Thought I'd share.

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The Dog on the Stairs by Lys Granier — Passages North Short-shorts editor Adam Nesbit on today’s short: Winter has a warmth around its edges. But maybe not. Maybe winter is cold around its edges and warm in its middle. Is it more like sipping a hot drin...

Check out Lys Grainer’s “The Dog on the Stairs” now live on our website!!

@lysgranier.bsky.social thank you for this wonderful short!

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A picture of my flash hybrid piece, “At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base”

A picture of my flash hybrid piece, “At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base”

A picture of a purple book. The book is the 47th edition of Passages North

A picture of a purple book. The book is the 47th edition of Passages North

Beyond proud to have my flash hybrid piece, At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base,” out at @passagesnorth.bsky.social. This piece was a tribute to my fellow military brat classmates. ♥️ #writersky #writesky #cnf #flashprose

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American Molten by James D'Agostino — Passages North Poetry editor Nicolette Ashley Visciano on today’s poem: What are you left with when tender ballad and commanding poeticism are melded? Within this coalescence, James D'Agostino presents the reader w...

🦢 Check out James D’Agostino’s “American Molten” up now on our website!

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cover of Passages North No. 47

cover of Passages North No. 47

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I'm pleased that my short story "Sheepskin" is in the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social. It's about frustration, dogs, and paint colors! Check out the print copy!

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Thrilled to hold the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social with my piece “Your Gods” published alongside the words of some brilliant writers.
#amwriting #literaryjournals

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Longevity and Thin God by Elena Zhang — Passages North Poetry editor Ellen K. Fee on today’s poems: Elena Zhang’s poems are tight blocks of prose with a surprising porousness—how else could the star have gotten in there? Through spaces like the “crack in...

Tomorrow, two new pieces will be available on the website (one being a comic strip), but before then, don’t miss these two amazing prose poems by The Bulb Region writer Elena Zhang (@ezhang77.bsky.social), recently published in @passagesnorth.bsky.social.

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Against Soulmates by David Eileen — Passages North Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display. Nothing can separate us from its biblically accurate angel...

Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display...

Check it out on the passages website!

www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

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Self-Portrait as Love Island Closed Captions by Amanda Gaines — Passages North Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why. In “Self-Portrait as Love Island...

Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why.

Read it now on our website!

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murmurations | yesyesbooks Distributed by YesYes Books and IngramCover & Interior Design: Alex BruceCover Art & Photography: Savannah Lauren$22 | 142 pages | ISBN: 978-1-946303-03-5Poetry l Perfectbound | June ...

Hey you! You should go pre-order Anthony Thomas Lombardi's debut "murmurations"! Anthony was a contributor for our 43 issue.

Preorder here:
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On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel by Justin Lacour — Passages North Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “ On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel” is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the gen...

Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “'On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel' is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the genre so enticing."

Check it out below!

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Today's the day! I know you've been procrastinating on getting those poems/essays/short-shorts submission ready, but speak now or forever hold your peace!

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Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!

Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests

1 year ago 11 7 0 0
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Fig Cartography by Jane Flett — Passages North Associate Poetry Editor Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: Toeing an often unseen line between violence and romance, Jane Flett’s “Fig Cartography” is wonderfully bittersweet. Try as we might “not t...

Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."

Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett

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Act fast! Only 5 days left to submit to our poetry and CNF contests!

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1 year ago 3 1 0 0
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Back by popular demand! Show off your exquisite taste in literary magazines this summer! Snag a Passages North t-shirt or baseball cap today!

We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!

Check out the link in our bio to find the store!

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An Interview with Sarah Minor, Judge of the 2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize — Passages North Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She's the author of Carousel , forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026, Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press ...

Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury.

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