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Subs for the May issue close FRIDAY, & if u miss us this time around that is OK and we forgive u, but it will 100% impact our parasocial relationship w/u & landfills are not ready for the number of body pillows we're gonna throw out in our grief. Do it for Mother Earth 🌍🌎🌏

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Hello, good morning, *enthusiastic hand gestures*. Subs for the May issue will close 4/24 so: if u have general POETRY + FICTION + CNF u want us to publish & pay for, become SPEED & get it in to us real real soon.

Poetry Contest subs will remain open! Love y'all mwah 👍🫵🤌👏

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Reminder to all u beautiful goblins that the sub deadline for our May ed. is coming up fast. What we want: ur best poems, fiction, & CNF. What we offer: publication, money, & glory. Link in the comments, holla at ya boys girls & none of the aboves

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Love seeing everyone's pics from AWP, you're all rock stars & it warms our hearts seeing so many ppl who still believe in words

Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Fiction feat. @pacificalit.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/general-fiction-5q51l3u2

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Fiction feat. @pacificalit.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com et al. https://duotrope.com

Ope, just wanted to scooch by ya there, and oh hey, we're havin a poetry contest dontcha know. Judge Emily Van Kley, author of The Cold and the Rust + Arrhythmia, can you believe it? Winner gets five hundred smackers so keep ur stick on the ice and send us somethin nice whydontcha

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Ahem

OUR DONUTS ARE BETTER OUR COFFEE IS BETTER OUR OCEAN IS BETTER OUR LIT SCENE IS BETTER OUR FOOTBALL IS BETTER

2026 Poetry Contest, judged by Emily Van Kley, now live for subs! Winner gets $500, publication, & bragging rights forever over the teachers, lovers, & fam who doubted you. Know who never doubted you? Us.

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Seattle currently

💥Issue 22.1 is HERE💥

Fiction/CNF world tour: El Salvador, Gainesville, the Palouse, the betweens, & the past. Richard Breyer, Michael Fitzer, Jesse Jing, Yolanda Kwadey, Emily Lewandowski, Rho Weber Mack, & Jefferson Navicky will be ur captains speaking ✈️

www.pacificareview.com/issue-22-1/

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News-type substance, delivered by orphan in pageboy cap:

Issue 22.1 will be out this week, feat. our first ever OOPS! ALL PROSE collection. Killer fiction & CNF, 110% RDA protein

Submissions are open again for 22.2 so if ur a big hoss biscuit eater who loves palindromes this is your moment

www.pacificareview.com/submissions/

We'll be accepting subs til 11:59 PM Tupac Standard Time tonight, & then it's see y'all in 2026. Much love to everyone who grew as an artist this year, & everyone who became one for the first time. Keep the faith, hold the line, burn your local data center <3 <3 <3

Subs will close on 12/15 & believe it or not we really really wanna publish ur writing but Step 1 of that process is u gotta send us ur writing. Pretty please 🍒 on top mwah

Oh shit it's giving Tuesday? Why don't u give uhhhhh DEEZ NUTS lmao gottem

Honestly, they should be

Announcing our noms for 2026 Pushcarts w/questionable graphic from our MS Paint dept. In no particular order, congratulations to:

Edidiong Uzoma Essien
David Borofka
Tara Labovich
Lillian Emerick Valentine
J.P. Kemmick
Aliza Haskal

We remain proud & awed, & thank you for trusting us w/ur work ❤️🍾🔥🫅

Thankful for all your poems, stories, and CNF, especially now. It's awesome to be in possession of so much evidence that art and artists will lead us through this bullshit. Our gratitude is immeasurable, and our day is un-ruined

Looks like we got it covered already

Ohio should be burned, salted, scraped up, and then shot into the sun guess which side of the rivalry I'm on

Throw in a Bills/Lions SB and we got a stew going

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Timeline: fucked since 2016
Cause: Chicago Cubs winning World Series
Theory: fight poison with poison
Antidote: Seattle Mariners win World Series

Do the right thing, America

It's true, we are! So, uh....send us stuff? 👉🥵👈

We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing.

Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs

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Pacifica Literary Review Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.

⏰ISSUE 21.3 IS LIVE⏰ feat. Jason Allen, David Borofka, Gary Duehr, Edidiong Uzoma Essien, @hggilham.bsky.social, Aliza Haskal, Joi Haskins, @taralabovich.bsky.social, Patrick Meeds, John A. Nieves, Joey Wańczyk, & @severinwiggenhorn.bsky.social. Behold & be held:

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Subs for January issue will open tomorrow. Subs we're after: poetry, cheese steaks, fiction, CNF, chicken parm, & those 6 foot party subs. Extra oil & vinegar b/c we don't fukk w/dry things over here

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.