Have always found this amazing.

An Ode to Acknowledgements I have heard that some people turn to the last page of a book before they begin reading, in order to assure themselves that everything turns out well in the end. I myself can handle an uncertain ou…

"If authors are rock stars, which in my mind they are, the acknowledgements are the part of the concert where they take a moment to shout out the names of the band members."

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"It's like anything in life, you just gotta walk into it", I heard someone say the other day. Just putting that down for whoever needs to hear it the way I needed to hear it. Submissions close in less than a week. What are you walking into these days? heroinchic.weebly.com

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Adrienne Rich, from "What Kind of Times Are These"

Adrienne Rich, from "What Kind of Times Are These"

Photo of an Aparajita flower (purple-ish blue with light yellow) with branches and leaves and a box railing in the background

A small reminder of the beauty around us

The theme for this anthology is “A Long Way From Home”. The theme can be taken literally or metaphorically. The forced migration and displacement of people, but also voluntary migration for work reasons, for love. Why some people are called expats and others migrants. The migration of birds. A person that feels like home. A country, a place, a language, a body that doesn´t. Submissions are open from 10th April until 10th May, midnight CET.

We`re looking forward to reading your work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/...

If anyone has tips on:
1. Living with older parents you have moved in with you;
2. Living with a person with dementia;

I am all ears.

Gooday Nagar Inhabiting the weirdly wonderful world of Gooday Nagar are disillusioned playwrights and their trysts with soan papdi, vacuum-cleaner salesmen, armless ghosts and erstwhile revolutionaries with a fear...

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Ringa Ringa Roses - The Bombay Literary Magazine | TBLM

Read ‘Ringa Ringa Roses’ from @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s short story collection Gooday Nagar in The Bombay Literary Magazine.

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Lemon Tea and Lost Biscuits – Free Flash Fiction Ramesh still lived in his family’s old house in Gangarampur of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal, where the bamboo groves bent low in every season, and neighbours remembered everyone’s childhoo...

Lemon Tea and Lost Biscuits
by
Dr Goutam Bhattacharyya

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction

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Human disaster is contagious, so I’m left alone, like I thought I wanted. Self-pity says no one wants a sinking ship of a woman, rafting on hate for how much what she knows she keeps taking. No heartbreak or inspiration to sell as end goal, rarely beauty. Instead, indictment and unrelenting grief, pain and identifying purpose, blame and sour shame—all wounds that won’t heal. World won’t let the stitches set before landing another blow—no entertaining real solutions. Outside the self the reckoning bulks up like a recurrent tumor. Or a monstera

"I can’t help how my brain wires / catastrophic knowing. What happens when alchemy fails / all the way?"

A poem by @khadijahqueen.com in the Spring issue

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#poetry #poetrycommunity

“You can’t remember how or when it started—and perhaps it has always surrounded you, but until now, you’ve chosen to ignore it,”

—Jeff Friedman

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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome (Official Video) YouTube video by Luaka Bop

good middle-of-the-night...

orchestre poly-rythmo de cotonou
MINSATO LE, MI DAYIHOME

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If poetry’s ever meant anything to you, don’t sit this one out.
Rooms like this don’t build themselves.
#PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return

Memories seem to us like messages from the past whose author isn’t quite the self we know.

-- Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

I'm so honored to be part of this stellar group of writers at one of my favorite journals. Thank you to @tylermalone.bsky.social for my fitting artwork too!

I've written very little in the last 18 months. This story bears more weight than usual.

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This is absolutely incredible.

Pictorial textile artwork featuring an interior with a standing Black woman next to a child in a chair near a table in a room with white walls and tiled floor

Malawi artist Billie Zangewa, Mother and child, 2015, silk tapestry #WomensArt

The door is open for submissions of poetry—like this open pair of French doors looking out on a gentle green landscape with far away blue hills.

Poets, it’s that time again. I’m poetry editor at @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social, and I am considering work for our Summer and Fall/Winter 2026 issues. Please send 4 to 5 poems in a single Word doc or Google Docs link (no PDFs, please) to dana.cablestreet@gmail.com 💙📚 #poetry

Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, & experimental writing in under 405 words, 5 lines, or 4 pages for your chance to win cash prizes & publication & join the #ExpoFam.

Submissions are open for Ashley C. Lanuza’s Flash 405: “Saudade” thru 5/10: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade

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The new poetry co-editor introduces herself AS A new poetry co-editor on the Morning Star, I’m interested in poems that examine the personal and the political in a way that engages the emotions as well as the logical mind. There are several wor...

Poetry, poetry, poetry - please send it my way. I'd love to fill a spot in a June issue of the Morning Star with some original words that say something about the world we're creating. 🌿

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Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (1966) YouTube video by Hasan450

And the sign said “The words of the prophets
Are written on subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence."

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THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so: