It's spring and we're blossoming.

Today we're grateful for libraries 📚️ They provide more than just books, you know! You can get movies, music, classes, community help, & more! It all depends on your library ☺️ What are your favorite library services?

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Nothing like great art!

Fund the public libraries. Just do it.

At the end of the day, AI bros are selling you the idea that you can get rid of all the friction—but the friction is where the magic happens.

PSA: KTQ submissions close in three days.

Send your work to these awesome mags, and send your work to us, too! We're open through April 1!

This is so important! We have acceptance rates as a very generalized marker, but reading the specific guidelines + the magazine itself will give you a better shot every time

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If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.

Is Your Child Suffering from Brain Rot or Quoting Finnegans Wake? 1. “She’s lowkenuinely sheesh.” 2. “Relaxmaxxing in languidoily.” 3. “Twosday to Whensday, I’m mogging moids.” 4. “That chopped chud.” 5. “FAHH.” 6...

- “Hoppy on akkant of his joyicity.”

- “The referee amogus uncanny.”

- “My salty shmlawg.”

Almost national poetry month!

Huge congrats to Dani Janae, KTQ contributor and Pushcart nominee! Read her collection!

Saturday Shout-Out ~ March 7, 2026 Check out new submission listings from established & up-and-coming literary publications

Check out our new batch of lit mag submission opportunities, including Gulf Stream Magazine, @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social, @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social, @unborderedmag.bsky.social, @crowkeys.bsky.social, and more!

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We're not at AWP (bummer), but we're both still cool and open for submissions!

Subs are open!!

We're so grateful to have a beautiful piece by Elzbieta Zdunek as the cover of our Winter issue and are happy to point you to more of her work over at Red Ogre Review!

Over here, we love the histories of objects, and we love this prompt!

Elzbieta Zdunek | The Love Song | Red Ogre Review, Issue Twenty-Four, June 2024

Artist showcase time!

From the Red Ogre Review art collection:

Elzbieta Zdunek
The Love Song
Issue Twenty-Four, June 2024
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(Courtesy of the ROR art bot.)

New issue, who's this?

Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®

It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

We are delighted to be able to showcase all of these incredible Pushcart Nominees. If you haven't read these pieces yet, you can find them in our archive. Do it!

It's that time again! We love Chill Subs, so go tell Chill Subs how much you love us! (www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...)

Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!

Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed monument to her private suffering from its noxious and stifling stem.

Today's Featured Poem:

"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social

Read here:
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Best of the Net Noms are here! Go read them if you haven't already. Or maybe read them again!

7 Debut Collections About Knowing a Place Across Generations - Electric Literature These authors capture the power and privilege of staying

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These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)