A.G. Valentine @agvalentine.bsky.social has his debut novella now…do you? THE APOPTOTIC ERA is coming out very soon. thirtywestph.com/shop/theapoptoticera

Deadline Oct 1: 35th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize $5,000 Fiction | $5,000 Nonfiction | $5,000 Poetry Submit unpublished work. Winners published. Standard fee: $25. https://missourireview.com/submissions/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/

Joseph Payne Brennan

We're half way there. Remember, we encourage general submissions alongside any work that might fit in with our four themed folios. When submitting you can specify where your work lines up. We're excited to see what you've got for us! kenyonreview.org/submit

Circulaire has made it to The Waitākere Ranges, New Zealand! 🇳🇿 If you live outside of the UK and would like a signed copy, please do drop a comment! (£10 via PayPal, I'll cover p&p) 💛☕️

Time to send us your new poems! We have a special interest in environmental poems this time around, but we're always eager for whatever you write. We can't wait to read your work! atlantareview.submittable.com.

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13028 Ian Pople reviews Henri Cole's The Other Love

Answer the call! Submit to The Urge! We'd especially love more subs from women! engineidling.net #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #litmag #litmags #indiepublishing #authorscommunity #writers #artists

This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...

🔥 Now available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social 🔥 IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - A hybrid collaboration – my poems with stunning visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Exploring origins, heritage, ecologies & love amid our current crises. icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

Do you have a prose or graphic narrative chapbook you want published? Then enter our annual contest for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award. #flreview

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/NXnmpYX #writingcommunity

My Street Cats & Where to Find Them book tour continues today at the Barnes & Noble in Devon/Valley Forge, PA. Come say hi, get a book, bookmark, and a button when you join the Street Cat Appreciation Society! 😻

© Mary Oliver.

NVR has nominated six poems for this year's Best of the Net. Congratulations to Midge Goldberg, Alice Allan, @stevensearcy.bsky.social, Jenna Le, @tyndallbrandon.bsky.social, and @sallythomasnc.bsky.social! Read their poems 👇.

I haven't sold a single Stanchion issue or book in weeks. And during that time had one person cancel their magazine subscription. Oof. Tough sledding at the end of summer.

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/NXnmpYX #writingcommunity

This is a reminder that NVR opens for submissions to its Halloween mini-issue tomorrow, September 1. Prepare your skeleton sonnets and pumpkin spice pantoums!

Last call for submissions for Shō No. 8! We're still seeking work for our winter issue. Submissions close on August 31 at 11.59pm PT. We respond to submissions in 30 days or less.

BIG CONGRATS to BCP poet LA Johnson! Look for Johnson's debut full-length coming from Milkweed Editions in 2027!! In the meantime, get your copy of Johnson's LITTLE CLIMATES here: buff.ly/b1xCdrC

Writers, mark your calendars! New England Review reopens for submissions in all genres on September 1. We pay our contributors $20 per page, $50 minimum. Learn more about our submissions guidelines here: nereview.com/ner-submissi... We look forward to reading your work!

Stanley Kunitz

I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

pinballs on the table of heaven— Linda Pastan

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/d6DUV3r #writingcommunity

Happy to receive this book by @bdralyuk.bsky.social today. I’m expecting to thoroughly enjoy it.

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.

📣 Submissions open for the 2025 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from The Missouri Review! 🏆 $5000 + publication in Spring 2026 📝 Fiction, poetry, & nonfiction 📅 Deadline: Oct 1 💻 $25 entry includes 1-year digital subscription + bonus e-book #writers #litmag #writingcontest

Over the moon to find my short story in such incredible company. All thanks to Salt Publishing and @nicholasroyle.bsky.social , I can't believe my luck! @saltpublishing.com Best British Short Stories 2025, is available to pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/best-br...

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

Excited to be teaching a class entirely on book reviewing. September 18, 4-5:30 PM EST. Replays available. Spots are limited. See you soon. x mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...

Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are free and open all year long. Send us your best today! Link to guidelines: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #indiepress #litmag #doorisajar

NVR opens for subs to its Halloween mini-issue on Sept 1. Send up to 5 creepy, gothic, and/or autumnal poems. Poems can also be about the fall season and its holidays: Halloween, All Saints, Día de los Muertos. Here's last year's cover. Tell us which poems you like best! Link to the issue below.

James Merrill

Deadline extended! You can still submit your fiction or poetry to our Summer contest until 11:59pm, Sunday 8/3! creamcityreview.submittable.com/submit

At my usual five a.m. wake-up time, it's dark now; the summer is starting to wind down--especially for the many teachers among my regular readers. Time for Elinor Wylie's celebration of summer richness in "Wild Peaches." www.poemtree.com/poems/WildPe...

jump into the Sealey Challenge w $10 poetry chapbooks, on sale now: buff.ly/7O24PIK

Soon as it’s midnight wherever you are, we’re officially OPEN for submissions Send us something brilliant 🍀 Link below

A new story by David Gaffney is always something to celebrate. Flight Paths, published by @nightjarpress.bsky.social‬, is one of his most intriguing – tautly edgy, deftly organised. nightjarpress.weebly.com/flight-paths.html

NEW POEM #255: "Tracings" by Annette Sisson "Sharp as a pen, as an ink-tipped tongue, a horntail snail leaks iridescence in soil" stonecirclereview.com/tracings/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

Broken Chain by Jennifer L Freed in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/02/b...

My book will be published this month! Pre-orders are MASSIVE for authors, so I kindly ask that if you love cats & travel, or will be buying a birthday/holiday gift for someone who does, please consider Street Cats & Where to Find Them 🐈 Pre-order now from @bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/stre...

So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿 To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/

James Merrill

Our Summer 2025 issue is available! A striking cover by Rob McDonald and poems by @angelaodonnellpoet.bsky.social, @carlasarett.bsky.social, @victoriamoul.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @azforeman.bsky.social, @akasomeguy.bsky.social, and more!

Only one week left to submit your work to our Spring Story Contest! Your work deserves a wider audience, and we can’t wait to read it. www.narrativemagazine.com/spring-2025-...

Reed Magazine is looking for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction and Art to be featured in Issue 159! Submissions are completely free! Want to win a prize? Come see our contest opportunities! Open June 1 a October 1, with Contest Submissions closing on November 1st!!

🔔🔔 Calling all creatives: 🔔🔔Submissions for our Winter issue are officially open! Send us your best poetry, flash fiction, prose, and artwork starting now through September 30th. We can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on!