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And @januaryhouselit.bsky.social

Saturday Shout-Out ~ April 18, 2026 Check out new releases from established & up-and-coming literary publications

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Here's a new batch of lit mag poetry, small press books, and writer interviews! Featuring @funfunfunicular.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @elyabraden.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @jessicaballen.bsky.social

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Fiction’s Role in Mental Health: Storytelling as a Key to Happiness A guest post from Christy Umberger

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Read our new guest essay here!

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Checking out all the litmags that want subs with eco themes...

Two Flash Pieces by Beth Sherman Flash Fiction

Which litmags want eco themes? Appreciate your suggestions. Have a river lament & a few others to sub.

Know about @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social

"Observe the tie dye pattern of the sky, the way caterpillars cling to the underside of vines."
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Read 2 poems from Maria Giesbrecht's forthcoming collection, A Little Feral.

Thanks to @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @selenamercuri.bsky.social

Saturday Shout-Out ~ April 4, 2026 Check out new submission listings from established & up-and-coming literary publications

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We have 8 new submission opportunities up on our Substack, including @ciderpressreview.bsky.social @willowswept.com @driftanddribble.bsky.social & more.

From WRJ Issue 32

Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Fiction feat. @alwayscrashing.bsky.social @wildroofjournal.bsky.social @ergot.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/experimental-fiction-A5eTq4gZ

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Fiction feat. @alwayscrashing.bsky.social @wildroofjournal.bsky.social @ergot.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com

Read the new Spring issue (and color-coded introductory note) here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-33 / @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social

poem called not a perfect person that goes like: i have been ashamed. for the way i crave a little violence. how even now, surrounded by prayer plant, thriving, i worry what i'll miss when i'm gone. i worry that i worry just to prove that i care, that i want, knowing what i do about wanting—its making & deliberate dissatisfaction—nearly nothing, enough to know better by now. still i want quiet. kindness. an end that comes gently. call me a clown, i’d like to be loved. just not too much. lord, let me never be needed. i’d like my first rodeo back— the day i learned about mutton-busting, inhaled deep sweet shit & earth, corn ground & fried, watched sideways, through sun-struck braid of breathing bodies, mothers whose lives i know nothing about gripping their children how a child grips small fistfuls of wool, told to hold on—always, in the end, helplessly. & i, too, helpless but to marvel a minute at the man who first built a fence around horses. forgive me. i laughed when they fell.

another poem called poem with possibilities (incomplete): say—the angels were vengeful, also accurate. i hot-hand my psalms. kneel at the antler & the antler were a room. a body would listen, my enemy might speak. i knew what to yodle & you dreamt what you mean. say we heard a thinking buffalo. your thoughts were loudly read aloud. you slept through the week & changed your heart, i changed my middle name. the better were the devil, yet i know a softer nail. different loved to gamble. grace was just a word. every whisper box gets emptied & i haven’t any tea. say i could have a moment to gather my particles while the road runs out to kill you. say i wore the weather & the weather turned mean. say i said if i’m tired— you told me you’re tired. say i believe you.

heard a few of you guys like poems

(thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social i love you)

I have a new baseball + existential crisis poem up at Wild Roof Journal! Please read it! {Links in thread.}

My thanks to
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It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-33

So honored to have a new poem out in the lovely @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! In an age where technology and algorithms are robbing people of their sense of self, here is a piece to remind you of your humanity. 🫀

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Saturday Shout-Out ~ March 21, 2026 Check out new releases from established & up-and-coming literary publications

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This edition of lit mag and small press publications includes @swwim.bsky.social @gyroscopereview.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @doorisajarmag.bsky.social @noahsoltau.bsky.social & more

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Bravery Is for Everyone: My Return to Writing Through Memoir Coaching A guest post from Anna Schechter

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Our new guest post is from Anna Schechter, who explores her work with Megan Farison’s award-winning memoir, Dissonance, which became an Amazon Bestseller in multiple categories upon its release in November 2024.

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Calling It Back to Me: New poetry by Laurie D. Graham Preview Calling It Back to Me, a clear-eyed witnessing of familial history from two-time Trillium Book Award finalist Laurie D. Graham

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Check out our new Substack post to preview Laurie D. Graham's forthcoming collection, Calling It Back to Me.

In these searching, spare, and resonant poems trace the story of Graham's great-grandmothers’ lives before and after they left their homelands.

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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Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town.

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In the new Notebook Navigation, we dive into the opening paragraphs of Don DeLillo's 1985 classic White Noise, emphasizing the precise use of language—a deep attentiveness that we can, perhaps, carry into our own writing.

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Saturday Shout-Out ~ February 21, 2026 Check out new submission listings from established & up-and-coming literary publications

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings. This edition features @wennieevans.bsky.social @rachelturney.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @colleen-harris.bsky.social & more:

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Thanks to @unearthedjournal.bsky.social for including this poem in their "Nourish" issue. See more at unearthedesf.com

Poem on the Last Day of my Thirties, by Jessica Whipple. Found online here: https://wildroofjournal.com/issue-31-gallery-3/

Did you know you can gift yourself a poem on your birthday? This one is from last year at @wildroofjournal.bsky.social (thanks, @aaronlelito.bsky.social)