"Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. It does not feed us or clothe us or, unless you get very lucky, enrich us. But literature is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor of humankind has ever been." Gerald Howard www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Poetry feat. @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @bigscorelit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Late-breaking update from a litmag now open for submissions (no fee to submit; pays for published work): bsky.app/profile/bigs...

We are currently open for poetry subs for our spring '26 issue & will remain so until Dec. 15th or the moment, nay the very second, we hit 300 subs... bigscorelit.net/2025/12/03/p...

New publisher listing for: Big Score Lit @bigscorelit.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays sometimes). #WritingCommunity