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"Buildings take care and precision. They obey the laws of symmetry, the margins of space. I could never be an architect."

Find C. Zhang's gorgeous memoir ARTFUL: HOW TO NAVIGATE 1591.7 CENTIMETERS in our APRIL ISSUE ✨: buff.ly/WjevEeM

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Book: The Full Catastrophe. "All I ever wanted...everything I feared." A memoir. Casey Mulligan Walsh. "A searingly beautiful testament to all the ways loss yields to love." Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Conscious Grieving.

"Walsh shows us that we can control how we hold our grief, so grief won’t keep hold of us."

This time last year, we published @dianegotauthor.bsky.social's review of @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social's THE FULL CATASTROPHE. Find it in the archives: buff.ly/7ybJrib

We've got more poems to share this National Poetry Month. ✏️ Fiction reader @kplumhoff.bsky.social loves ON THIS THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC, WE RECONSIDER THE BUOYANCY OF THE HUMAN HEART. 💕

A double win to start the week! 🙌 @toddedillard.bsky.social and @sabrinahicks.bsky.social were published in Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine! buff.ly/rpoHEev

Sign reading: ICE OUT! Community open mic and fundraiser. Hosted by: Epiphany Magazine, Eckleburg, and Split Lip Magazine. Thursday, May 14. 6-9 PM. Starr Bar. 214 Starr St. Brooklyn, NY 11237. $5 tickets for Immigrant Defense Project.

We're thrilled to be teaming up with @epiphanylit.bsky.social and the Eckleburg Review for a reading to benefit the Immigrant Defense Project. ❤️

Join us on May 14th, and RSVP right here: buff.ly/5jqPpBG

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"I’m not surviving. I’m outlasting. Not in fragments but as a mosaic."

Don't miss @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social's review of @megpillow.bsky.social's essay ON PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN from our new APRIL ISSUE. 💕 buff.ly/lAXJxZ5

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We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n

There's just nothing like a book review on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🥰 Former flash editor @meginj.bsky.social reviewed “The Oyster Diaries” by Nancy Lemann for @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 💗 Give it a read: buff.ly/STag47S

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Aww, you’re the best 😁

Book cover of Coyote Girl by Sabrina Hicks. A sketch of a coyote howling.

Need a good book on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @sabrinahicks.bsky.social’s fiction collection COYOTE GIRL is available now from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social 🥳

Get your copy here: buff.ly/D4ANuPp or here: buff.ly/80xqDus

We're wishing you a lovely ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 As lovely as Contributor @alinaetc.bsky.social's essay in the new issue of Guernica: Check it out here: buff.ly/xKbxFIP

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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

"How can I concentrate when my left / hip is an unattended campfire?"

This time last year, we published Amy Thatcher's MY THERAPIST TELLS ME TO TRY MEDITATION. ✨️ Find it in the archives! buff.ly/On7dr6A

Sounds amazing!!

Lots to enjoy!!

Wishing you all the best with your writing!

Love it!

Fun!!

It's the weekend, fam, and we've got to know what you're reading! 📚️ 📖

We're all about poetry this National Poetry Month. 💕 Poetry reader Carson Sandell has been "positively haunted" by Paisley Rekdal's THE CRY: buff.ly/2JrPabc

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ICYMI: Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social's poem EMILY AS THE TUMBLING PLACE was published in the White Wall Review! 👏 🔥 buff.ly/d5aDR7K

"Everyone has a high tolerance for pain until pain
comes along.

Then you’re flopped in the pasta aisle."

Check out Quinn Franzen's GUAVA JELLY from our new APRIL ISSUE. 🌸 💕 buff.ly/Bd4Gbqv

"We decided to decouple. That was what people were calling it when you didn’t scream or cry, or when you only did those things in the shower or your car." This time last year, we published COLLABORATION by Vincent Perrone. Find it in the archive: buff.ly/DBuWZKF

You’re very welcome 💙

We're working hard & getting through the queue, fam! What are you working on today?

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"When she called me in 2024, my sister was illegally driving a car that didn’t belong to her. Its cremated owners were sitting on a shelf in her condo."

Contributing editor @rebb003.bsky.social has a piece on the horrors of the probate process in TalkDeath 👻 buff.ly/yGvzo8y

"after all what is the difference between predictive text and a Ouija board" You're so gonna 💗I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING by @graythebruce.bsky.social in our APRIL ISSUE ✨ buff.ly/QRNp45B