We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com We can’t wait to read your work!! #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit

The event also featuring amazing readings by @poetrybyemma.bsky.social, @ellahachee.bsky.social, @alan-fox-parmeter.bsky.social, and @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social. Grateful to OB Beans for hosting!

The fabulous author François Bereaud, whose play was published in Last Syllable Issue 3, visits our table at AWP! We hope more friends of Last Syllable stop by booth #946 to say hello.

BIG NEWS! The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social effective May 1. This change is an opportunity for a more sustainable future and meaningful growth. 🎉 Read the full announcement from our publisher, Alyson Sinclair. buff.ly/aFeXcEE

So excited to see this started and even more excited to read some wonderful submissions! Open now!!

You can read my poem "A bildungsroman" along with some really stellar work in @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social today!! Sooooo excited and honored to be in such good company. Can't thank the editors and readers at Last Syllable enough 💖💖💖

I'm honored to be included in the gorgeous @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social's latest issue! Many thanks to them for publishing this long poem that took me forever to write as I wrestled with what it means to be the descendent of a long line of white Southerners. lastsyllablelit.com/heres-a-trut...

Thanks Last Syllable Lit for publishing an essay that is either about: sleep, intensity, acting, my stroke, my OCD, procedural television, a moment of kindness on social media, or @vincentdonofrio.bsky.social. I hope it’s the latter, but most likely all of the above. lastsyllablelit.com/procedural

It’s here! I’m so excited for you to see it.

🚀 Exciting news! Last Syllable Issue 4 is dropping tomorrow! 🎉 Get ready for a powerful collection of poetry, prose, and art that will stay with you long after the last syllable. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! #LastSyllable #NewIssue #ComingSoon

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 The wait is almost over—"Last Syllable" Issue 4 is dropping in just ONE week! Get ready for a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger long after the last word. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! 🔥📖 #LastSyllable #Issue4 #ComingSoon

Writing a thesis proposal is great. Blissful. Remembering that I will actually need to write this project, not just talk about writing it is less great.

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

Thinking about when I read Huck Finn in high school and we didn’t discuss race or racism at all, just the spirit of adventure in the book?? Talk about an elephant in the room

Reading this instead of working on my thesis proposal!

Loads of spelling mistakes in this.

Went to the optometrist to find out I have two astigmatisms so it’s been pretty memento mori around here

Spending my last proper day of winter break at home reverting to my 15 year old self, as God intended

There should be a Shazam but for movies your parents are watching over the holidays that tells you a.) what movie it is, b.) what has happened up to this point, c.) which important actors they’ll expect you to recognize

Happy New Year from “Last Syllable!”

But with all this, I would not be telling you the city’s true essence; for while the description of Anastasia awakens desires one at a time only to force you to stifle them, when you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your desires waken all at once and surround you. Calvino, Invisible Cities

I made a gingerbread panopticon

Honored to have read alongside @kevinmkearney.bsky.social, Daniela Sow, Marco Wilkinson, and my awesome grad cohort this week to celebrate finishing @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social’s Across the Genres class. Cathartic to have a crowd laugh at my used car buying saga that inspired my fiction reading :)

Looking for an essay about spirituality and feeling betrayed by your own body? Look no further than Abi Newhouse's "On Crying" in our latest edition of Last Syllable!

A must read!

Everyone should go read the Mathematician in Issue 3 out now!

Also coming up: another free SoCal event? What a holiday bonus! ✨☃️ 🍪 📚 Get this Poetry and Nonfiction reading on your calendars for THURS 12/19! Verbatim Books hosting. Kazim Ali and @mcrane12.bsky.social headlining. verbatimbooks.com/events/#even... Grad student readers tagged below!

It's here! Issue 3 of @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social is live, and it's amazing. 😊 lastsyllablelit.com

Check out the gorgeous new issue of @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social that my grad students just published!!! lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iii

You if you don’t listen to our lovely Emma Grace!

@lastsyllablelit.bsky.social issue III is out!! Make sure to check out our poets: @johnmfitzgerald.bsky.social, @davidmilley.com, Sara Lynne Puotinen, M. Benjamin Thorne, and Marc Frazier!

read @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social issue 3? please? 🥺 👉👈 lastsyllablelit.com

We <3 all our editors!!! The nonfic pieces in this issue are so incredible. Go Sarah!

It’s EPIC!

Issue 3 out now!! So excited for these pieces to be out in the world!

Issue III of @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social is live!! It’s been such a privilege to serve as one of the nonfiction editors this semester. I’m so thrilled about the pieces we selected + hope these words read far + wide! lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iii

LAST SYLLABLE ISSUE 3 JUST WENT LIVE !!! check it out on lastsyllablelit.com

Construction on the way to work all week so I had to take a time sucking detour: bad. Getting to see a house I would normally skip’s giant Ralphie from a Christmas Story in a pink bunny suit: the only thing holding me together.

Welcome to our Winter 2024 issue! This marks the 9-year anniversary of Whale Road Review, and publishing the fantastic work in this issue on a Friday the 13th feels like a scarily good way to celebrate! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-37

It’s happening y’all. My first reading!!

Grad readers: @alexisbullock.bsky.social, @ellahachee.bsky.social, Rebecca Li, @nadeenmaida.bsky.social, @janenaranjo.bsky.social, @allisinez.bsky.social, @alan-fox-parmeter.bsky.social, @sarahsouthern.bsky.social, @annawangyuan.bsky.social, & @emmagraceweber.bsky.social. I'm so excited for this!

"You know those songs you like? I make shitty imitations using an ancient Pro Tools installation, a guitar once owned by a deceased former contestant, and smartphone vocal recordings from our longtime production assistant."

My novelette Unbound will be included in this issue!! The day she finally ascends to the Inner Circle, the heir to a powerful forest coven learns they must travel beyond their forest to defeat a rogue wizard who endangers the entire world by the way he practices magic: unbound.

the five stages of a first draft: this is beautiful, these words are the worst, I’m basically a genius, I should never write again, time to revise

new year, new lineup featuring @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social, cora lee, @anniejowrites.bsky.social, and @adamdeutsch.com

I’m obsessed with Issue 3!! Get ready!!!

Listening to audiobooks at their normal speed may reset my nervous system for good but at what cost?? I miss 2.7x

Grad readers: @alexisbullock.bsky.social, @ellahachee.bsky.social, Rebecca Li, @nadeenmaida.bsky.social, @janenaranjo.bsky.social, @allisinez.bsky.social, @alan-fox-parmeter.bsky.social, @sarahsouthern.bsky.social, @annawangyuan.bsky.social, and @emmagraceweber.bsky.social. It's going to be 🔥🔥🔥!!!