Reviewing ISSUE SEVEN submissions and so in love with this community. Yall are amazing ✌️🔥

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Submission Calls Food systems anthology submission callopen September 1st through 14th OverviewAn anthology of food systems horror and Weird fiction. Food systems include all infrastructure involved in the growth, …

Whoops! Just accidentally posted a call for our food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology, open to submissions this September. 👀
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Two more days to get submissions in for our Issue Seven!!

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Good morning and happy April! 11 days left to submit something for our seventh issue!

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A black screen with white text reading “The Blake Poetry Prize Longlist The Transcendentalist Gershon Maller Invisible but Potent Josephine Shevchenko Ad honorem Patti Smith Julie Watts Giornata Jo Gardiner Post Vespers Kathryn Reese Why would you drive on a day like this, unless for good reason Kerrie Nelson St. Mary and the Hula Dancer Kimberly Williams There are logos for WestWords, Liverpool Powerhouse and a round colourful graphic that looks a bit like a stained glass window.

So…I have news.
My poem Post-Vespers, has been longlisted for The Blake Poetry Prize.

The Blake is a fancy-pants Aussie poetry prize for poetry wirh themes of faith, religion or spirituality. I’m very honoured to have made the longlist!

complete list: www.westwords.com.au/the-69th-bla...

Congrats!!

Flyer advertising Spark to Flame’s submissions are open for issue seven on a community board.

Flyers up in various cities thanks to friends ~ here’s one in Austin, Texas!

Submissions open until April 12 for Issue Seven!

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A grid of nine of our titles by authors who are trans, featuring trans characters. From the top left, to right, going down: BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES, by Never Angeline North (transfemme experimental/hybrid poetry) DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr (high seas t4t dark fantasy) CORRUPTED VESSELS by Briar Ripley Page (Southern Gothic decay lit) LOVE/AGGRESSION by June Martin (transfemme absurd modern) WAKE UP! by R Merey (t4t gambling noir) MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME by Tucker Lieberman, (transmasculine autofic(ish) philosophy) SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT, by yves. (flash fic gender grab-bag) DARKNESSES by Lachelle Seville (genderfluid sapphic Dracula) H, by R Merey (fem transmasc sex work picaresque)

The Trans Rights Readathon is just around the corner, and I'm so proud of this range?! We've got:
+ transfemme hybrid poetry
+ t4t sea fantasy
+ t4t cult decay
+ transfemme absurd
+ t4t gambling noir
+ transmasc roadtrip
+ gendermix flash fic
+ genderfluid neo-Dracula
+ fem transmasc picaresque

Good morning all! Our submissions are open for Issue Seven!

Less than one month to get something in. Still time, though, to call up a friend to collaborately write a poem 😎

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Photo of (e)laments by nat raum and D.W. Baker.

oh. yeah. 🔥

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @lowermelody.bsky.social

Love That For Us by Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein

yesssssss @chenchenwrites.bsky.social & Sam Herschel Wein’s poetry book “Love That For Us”

oh yeahhhh 🔥

EIC @ktonbsky.bsky.social will be at some AWP off-sites 👀

excited to connect with the literary community, meet new people, and reconnect with others! 💕

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Punajaranam by Sumitra Singam this Fibonacci in my pocket is destroyed, some symbol of cycles being remade and broken,

In a wonderful synchronicity @pleomorphic2.bsky.social also has a gorgeous poem in this issue of WTR about mothers, mothering and past lives

www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...

What I might know if I let myself by Kathryn Reese Desire without ever aspiring to the darkness of tangled roots, drying mud and what we look like in drought. It’s high tide. The moon drags a fullly salted tide over us both. What started as a...

I have a poem in West Trestle Review.

“What I might know if I let myself” is a golden shovel after a @pleomorphic2.bsky.social flash.

My poem is about queer identity, falling in love and finding yourself loved. I hope you’ll give it a read.

www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...

Peep our issue seven flyer at @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social 💕

Spark to Flame A Journal of Collaborative Poetry

Happy March 1! Our submissions are open for ISSUE SEVEN (!!)

Now is a great time to call up a friend and collaborate on a poem, shoot your shot with a stranger, or get some fragments ready 🔥

More info on our submit page: www.s2fjournal.com/submit

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the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."

FRUITCAKE: Baltimore's quarterly queer reading series, in collaboration with fifth wheel press especially for AWP 2026. The Palm Room at The Belvedere. March 5, 6:30pm (6:00 doors) Featuring Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, nat raum A caked-up pear is also featured

a reminder to all #AWP26 attendees: we have TWO offsites!!! each with absolutely stellar lineups! support local literature while u are in baltimore or i will secretly think you are uncool!!!!!

Black and white roses and thorns. Text reads: THORNS. Presented by ALOCASIA. Deadline: April 10th, 2026.

ALOCASIA seeks work for an upcoming themed issue, THORNS, which will examine and reflect on lived experiences of queer domestic violence and intimate partner violence through the lens of horticulture and plant life.

Published writers to receive $50.
Deadline: April 10.

Find out more: ALOCASIA.org

Redux I watch myself miss the bus and stop running, stomp my feet in a comical, cartoon fashion. I was too far away. Such a simple mistake to make, one of many one might make every day. How did this lead…

Hey hey! New flash fiction by me!

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cheers to collaboration!!

Yessssss 💕

And we’re LIVE! @ballastpoetryjournal issue 4.1 OUT NOW!

We are reading now for issue 4.2: OUR SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL ALWAYS FREE AND ALWAYS OPEN.

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cover letter the only thing certain in life is death and taxes and submitting to HAD but i don’t pay my taxes and i will never die

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Spark to Flame A Journal of Collaborative Poetry

Legend has it our submissions for ISSUE SEVEN are open! Get your collaborative poems in / sign up to take part in our collaborative process! More info on our submit page: www.s2fjournal.com/submit/

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Submit — Pulley Press The traditional path to publishing beautiful poetry is a long one, usually leading to an MFA and a tangle of contests and submissions with reading fees and on to publications. From there, poets publis...

Attn: #collaborativepoetry #writingcommunity - Pulley Press is looking for poets who would like to create a collection of poetry based on interviews and collaboration with people in their communities. See their submit page for more info! www.pulleypress.com/submit