keep calling them. @5calls.org makes it easy to call your senators, they’ll connect you & provide a script (extra helps when you’re too angry to come up with words)
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Cover of The Southern Review winter 2026 issue featuring a figure with long white hair facing away, framed by dark blue curtains.
Our winter 2026 issue, out now, features three poems from Sharon Olds; fiction from Ladee Hubbard; artwork from Gabriel Isak; a short story from Miroslav Penkov, who published his debut in The Southern Review twenty years ago; and much more. Explore the issue here: https://bit.ly/tsrwinter26
From Editor Jenny Molberg's introduction of Winter 2025-26 issue of @pshares.bsky.social: "These writers remind us of language’s power to confront despair, challenge apathy, and craft beauty from fracture..."
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The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit
We're sharing our favorite #longreads of 2025 over the next two weeks.
Bookmark our Best of 2025 page to catch up on the latest year-end essays and lists of notable editors' picks:
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Subscribe or submit to Ploughshares! Or both! The Emerging Writers' Contest Bundle is a lasting gift for yourself or a fave reader/writer.
My experience as a contributor to Fall 2025 and past winner of the Emerging Writer's Contest was personal and literary joy. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social!
In celebration of our upcoming Winter 2025-26 issue, we're having a release reading! Join us at Trident Booksellers in Boston on January 21st, at 6 pm, for a reading from Winter 2025-26 contributors Alice Hoffman, Maggie Dietz, Shara McCallum, and Bridget Lowe. Register here: https://bit.ly/45p2CPn
"But over Patrick's shoulder and beyond the beam of the headlights was the blackest night Yvonne had ever known, and the great and lonely wilderness."
Read Mary Winsor's story, "Dasvidaniya," from the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/4933aeY
It was a joy to work with the editorial team at @pshares.bsky.social. Close readers, mindful editors, and all-around lovely humans, all. Thank you again, Ploughshares!
Thrilled to be in the company of these poets and writers and translators whose work I so admire. Might've been late to a couple classes or missed a call or two while I read cover to cover. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social
Surprise, surprise...
GIFT A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me. In my body I felt no pain. When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails. Berkeley, 1971
czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971
Excerpt of 2025 grant letter from Elizabeth George Foundation
Amidst all the ugly today, a reason to hope. I'm deeply grateful to the Elizabeth George Foundation for this generous gift. A special thank you to my recommenders whose support included guidance, encouragement, and signed, hard-copy letters directly snail-mailed! Time to get back to the desk!
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
