We have new nominations to announce! Congrats to our amazing contributors.

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, including @rawheadjournal.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @darrencdemaree.bsky.social @lisasticepoet.bsky.social @turningleafjournal.bsky.social @mudseasonreview.bsky.social and more!

In this podcast episode, we learn about Marybeth Holleman's new novel, Bloom Again, and we get into the central themes of the book: climate anxiety, changing ecosystems, and the question of how to navigate it all. youtu.be/1IsuB-yzWbk?...

This time, our poetry excerpt lands in the fragility of the ecosystem with ‘Weight of the Vine’ by Aaron Lelito @aaronlelito.bsky.social You can read the poem in full, as well as the whole Biophilia issue, here: wingedmoon.com/biophilia Please let us know what resonates #poetrycommunity #poetry

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-anythi... Today, I have the pleasure of sharing an interview with Rachel Becker (Asst. Poetry Editor) & Judy McClure (Asst. CNF Editor), who share their insights about Porcupine Literary, a publication by and for teachers.

Plant People: An Anthology of Environmental Artists, Vol. 5 Thanks to the editors for including my haiku series "corporeal kin" in this collection. Well done! It is available to view online, as well as PDF & print versions for purchase at plantsandpoetry.org.

Evening reruns

Thanks to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for publishing my flash fiction story Bonus Land in their Fall 2025 issue today. If you like dark comedy about the absurdities of modern economic life, find the full story in the issue.

Awesome news, friends! Issue 31 of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social of live today: wildroofjournal.com with great art & writing by lots of very cool people, including me. Find my poem, "Rewilding," in Gallery 1 but make sure to check out the rest of the journal as well! #poetry

This week’s Substack feature is a preview of WRJ contributor Jennifer Handy's book DIRT: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/a-cautiona... "When I wrote DIRT, I had been camping and living outdoors on undeveloped land for several years. During that time, dirt, dust, and mud became a constant..."

It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31 #poetry #creativecommunity #litmag

Awesome new edition from @santafereview.bsky.social - digital copy available at www.sfcc.edu/santa-fe-lit...

Read our new book review: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/navigating... Organic Matter paints a luminous portrait of the rural ecosystem that feeds the city and explores one perceptive young woman’s relationship with faith, labor, love, family, the body, and the ground. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

WRJ contributors Nico Gargiulo and @ejoylevinson.bsky.social joined @aaronlelito.bsky.social to read some poems.

In our new podcast episode, we learn about Marybeth Holleman's diverse background that bridges the arts and sciences, as well as her new novel, Bloom Again. Watch the full episode: youtu.be/1IsuB-yzWbk?... #litmag #books #writers

From Summer 2025 issue | Read the full story: wildroofjournal.com/issue-30-gal...

NEW Wild Roof Podcast: youtu.be/1IsuB-yzWbk?... WRJ contributor Marybeth Holleman returns to talk about her new novel Bloom Again. We get into the central themes of the book: climate anxiety, changing ecosystems, and the question of how to navigate it all.

Here's a clip of the August episode with Fr. Isaac Slater, author of "Do Not Judge Anyone": Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World. Listen to the full episode on any podcast app or watch on YouTube (youtu.be/Ev8fGCidTL4?...)

Wonderful new piece up on the WRJ Substack. Check it out here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-wisdom... @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social #thehobbit #tolkien #books

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Experimental Short Stories feat. @epochliterary.com @wildroofjournal.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Our lit mag features are great ways to learn more about the publication process and editors behind the scenes. Our new post is an interview with @redbranchreview.bsky.social out of Knoxville, TN. @noahsoltau.bsky.social Read here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/kaleidosco...

Some snippets of an interview I did with Tiny Spoon for their Issue 13 release. See the full piece here: tinyspoon.org/2025/08/12/t... #litmags #interview #art

~2025 Best of the Net Nominations~ Congratulations to the nominees! We appreciate that you are a part of WRJ. 🌿📖👏 @sundresspub.bsky.social @msatris.bsky.social @chelcampbell.bsky.social

Thanks @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social & @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for facilitating this collab!

From Summer Issue | wildroofjournal.com/issue-30 #poetrycommunity #PoemOfTheDay

Here's a clip from the new Wild Roof Podcast. Isaac Slater shares a little story passed down from the Desert Fathers . . . It involves a monk getting caught with a woman(!) and the lesson that follows. Get the full episode here: youtu.be/Ev8fGCidTL4?... #podcast #litmag #books

New Wild Roof Podcast | Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1FDf...

Check out the new guest post by @chelseatikotskyart.bsky.social : wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/breaking-f... Chelsea is one of the artists featured in our Summer issue.

From Summer 2025 issue | wildroofjournal.com/issue-30 #poetry #litmag #summer

From Summer 2025 issue | photo by @rachelturney.bsky.social | poem by Devorah Levy-Pearlman | wildroofjournal.com/issue-30

If you're a writer and want to explore the role of nature in your creative journey, check out our podcast with Gabriela Blandy, founder of the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize. Learn more here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/39-wild-ro... #nature #wild #creativity

Recent/current reads... As usual, it's a mix of thift store pick-ups (Faulkner) and used book shop finds (Carver, Snyder singed copy)... plus a review copy from Issac Slater, who will be a guest on an upcoming podcast episode for @wildroofjournal.bsky.social #books #reading #summerreads

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Poems feat. @diodeeditions.bsky.social @wildroofjournal.bsky.social @thenewmonuments.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

A great new guest post is up on the WRJ Substack! This one is from @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social and offers personal insight into the depths of the one and only Moby-Dick: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/no-kings-o... #classiclit #mobydick

Haiku feud: When nature seems to be watching 👀

New piece up at Wild Roof Journal’s Substack. Big thank you to @aaronlelito.bsky.social for all he does for writers. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/getting-aw...

My micro-chapbook Secret Meetings is available as a free download: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-... This is an excellent series, so please check out all the great collections!

Thanks for series editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & Gabrielle Grace Hogan and Ghost City publisher @kevinbertolero.bsky.social for putting out so much awesome work this summer. Glad to be a part of it!

Glad to be a part of the @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Summer reading.... and what's an extra "a" among friends ;) The poems "Room Tone" and "Myna Birds" appear in Issue 35 of Door Is A Jar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mma...

Check out some selections from the new issue: open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...

Also included: @psupress.bsky.social @zoeticpress.bsky.social @echepoetry.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social

the coolest thing I’ve ever done was interviewing Ross Gay for the @therumpus.net 🌱 therumpus.net/2019/02/06/t...

I think Aaron's approach, to ask a contributor to write the intro to the issue, is so beautifully collaborative. And what a gift to spend time with all the poems and pieces of artwork here!

Lots of amazing work in the new issue of Wild Roof Journal wildroofjournal.com/issue-30/

SO happy to share that my poem "On Agate," which was much improved by my friend JiaJing's suggestion to put more ocean in & by finding that ocean in my father's archive of poems, has been published in the summer 2025 issue of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social literary journal! wildroofjournal.com

I am incredibly grateful to @aaronlelito.bsky.social and @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for including my essay “Fear Is a Rabbit” in their summer issue. I’m so proud of this piece, which explores the way we (humans) dispense hurt & what we mean by it. wildroofjournal.com/issue-30-gal...

Check us out on YouTube. Here's a clip of Colleen Sabaka talking about the creation of Opt West Magazine: youtube.com/clip/UgkxnyH...

New Substack Post: Sara Kay wrote a new piece called "Revisiting Kafka's The Metamorphosis (After My Own): How personal transformation reshapes the stories we carry." wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/revisiting... #writing #books #Kafka

Buzzing to start the day joining @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social @carriganak.bsky.social @taralabovich.bsky.social @cb99videos.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @hayleyshucker.bsky.social @saybar12.bsky.social @aaronlelito.bsky.social & others to read from the new Door Is A Jar issue!