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We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five:
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In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity
#poetry
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Kathryn Rw Reese
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I have a CNF here in
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
. Content note for parenting & mental health care (or lack thereof).
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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now!
3 days ago
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
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Feeling so much excitement about our next issue 💕 love collaboration, love poetry. Y’all are amazing.
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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon
10 days ago
This is so exciting y’all!!! My poetry chapbook Hippie Speedball is now available for preorder! Shout it from the rooftops please and thank you 😊
www.querenciapress.com/hippie-speed...
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Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk — Querencia Press
Let the dulcet poetry of Ly Faulk alter your brain chemistry. A little bit up, a little bit down, until it’s smooth and steady. In this short collection, Faulk explores grief and quietude, depression ...
https://www.querenciapress.com/hippie-speedball-by-ly-faulk
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Split Lip Magazine
18 days ago
We know you'll love Mingyu Brian Chan's stunning poem, HAIKU WHERE I LAY / WITH OCD, OBSESSING / OVER SYLLABLES, from our OCTOBER ISSUE ✨:
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Kathryn Rw Reese
22 days ago
Thanks to Midway Journal for giving this 🏳️🌈 collab-write a home. We hope you read & enjoy! “You have come to me for chaste conversation, your hands steepled like a church. It is what women do after all, talk and pray.”
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Wow 💕 Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
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22 days ago
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Tom Snarsky
25 days ago
it’s getting close to third Thursday, and you know what that means…a Night Light event with some amazing poets!! sign up below to hear these inimitable readers do their thing in just a couple days’ time :) 💡
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Thank you to everyone who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this next issue 😎
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D.W. Baker
29 days ago
huge thanks to
@genrepunkmag.bsky.social
for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬
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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon
about 1 month ago
Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.
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Stanchion
29 days ago
Last book of '25 is by
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
+ a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou. Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £!
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D.W. Baker
about 1 month ago
couldn't be happier to see this poem land in
@bruisermag.com
, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision
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Less than 10 days to get your collaborative poems and/or sparks in, for consideration in our Issue Six!! Come be part of this next issue 🔥
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Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
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Michael Kellichner
about 2 months ago
It's aalways an amazing experience writing something for
@s2fjournal.bsky.social
- definitely somewhere I recommend looking into.
#poetry
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Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼
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Kathryn Rw Reese
2 months ago
Need a wild tale of the underworld set to an epic soundtrack? Queue up Underworld’s Born Slippy and open the latest issue of Gone Lawn. It was so much fun to write this with
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
who is actually the best. Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)
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3 months ago
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Happy Sunday! What a wonderful day to call up a friend and co-write a poem ☀️
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3 months ago
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Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025. What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎 Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!
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Spark to Flame
A Journal of Collaborative Poetry
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Lori D'Angelo
3 months ago
This was such a fun poem to co-write.
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Eve Castle
4 months ago
A wonderful concept… this
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publication publishes collaboration
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. “Spark” poet and “Flame” poet. Worth your time to read.
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Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and
@mithalanis.bsky.social
(Spark). Check it out, page 14:
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“Draught” by
@giadapesce.bsky.social
(Flame) and Jake Williams (Spark) is surprising yet alluring. “It is a vast, vibrating land / Of scorching red.” Check it out, page 13:
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“Mother Memory” by Jaydn Hayes (Flame) and
@giadapesce.bsky.social
(Spark) is so potent--evoking memory, ancestors, and generational ties. Check it out, page 12:
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“We know what happens to a dream / deferred / but what about / a love led awry?” Love “Fleeting” by Mahailey Oliver (Flame) and @angelaheiser.bksy.social (Spark). Check it out, page 11:
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The use of the form in “Adultery Pantoum” by
@carriganak.bsky.social
(Flame) and Mahailey Oliver (Spark) makes this piece so potent! Check it out, page 10:
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Love love love “Pour one out for my unreliable narrator” by
@lowermelody.bsky.social
(Flame) and
@weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social
(Spark): “...//use your skin as a puppet//who are you if not here//…” Check it out, page 9:
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“The radio songs all distilled the same sweetsick shit / about the shaky meatblood heart.” The journey “Threshold” by Elizabeth Wing (Flame) and Karina Lin Jones (Spark) takes readers on is wonderful and wild. Check it out, page 8:
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“...& maybe there is a world that doesn’t rotate at the pace of mass death…” “fire” by
@lowermelody.bsky.social
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
is a poem that burns. Check it out, page 7:
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D.W. Baker
5 months ago
This will be my third public reading in as many years. I plan to share a mix of old and new favorites before returning to my regularly scheduled avoidance of the camera. Would love to see you there
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Michael Kellichner
5 months ago
I'm so grateful to
@s2fjournal.bsky.social
for including my poem in their newest issue ~ I'm also indebted to @savfvofragments.bsky.social for providing the foundation upon which this poem is built. Never would have tried to write about mushrooms otherwise, I think.
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I love “The Truth About Mushrooms” by
@mithalanis.bsky.social
(Flame) and
@savvofragments.bsky.social
(Spark): “Grief, then, the hidden mycelium / linking us all together.” Check it out! Page 6:
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First up from Issue Five is “Outside the Garden” by Allison Burris (Flame) and Elizabeth Wing (Spark): “this love you’re looking for / is like giving butterfly kisses” Check it out, page 5:
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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
5 months ago
Friends, I have a flash, a poem (😲 - it's all
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
and Nikki Giovanni's fault) and an interview in this amazing new litmag alongside so many friends. Hope you'll give it a read. the whole issue is 🔥. HUGE thanks to
@eireneeleni.bsky.social
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templeinacity.com/category/roo...
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Giada Pesce
5 months ago
I’m extremely happy that my poem “Draught” is part of the Spark to Flame
@s2fjournal.bsky.social
issue 5. It’s been a pleasure having been part of this gem of a journal! Each poem is exquisite so I highly recommend it! If you want you can check it out:
www.s2fjournal.com
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Stanchion
5 months ago
Excited to reveal the cover of & open up pre-sales for the final book of 2025,
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
's groundbreaking collaborative craft writing book, An Honour & A Privilege f/ a Handmaid's Tale screenwriter, Sunday Times bestseller & more amazing talents!
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D.W. Baker
5 months ago
I am grateful to my collaborators for the poems we made in this issue of
@s2fjournal.bsky.social
: "Pour one out for my unreliable narrator," with Angela Gonzalez, and "fire," from a series with
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
. Both texts combine prose blocks with verse fragments
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Michael Kellichner
5 months ago
Spark to Flame has just released Issue 5 - hope everyone can take a moment to give it a read. They put together a mighty fine magazine each time.
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We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five:
www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity
#poetry
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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
5 months ago
Here’s my piece in
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
inspired by someone suggesting I watch their colonoscopy video 😂. Enjoy. Or possibly not 💩
flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-f...
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'On Family Movie Nights We Watch The Video of My Father’s Colonoscopy' by Sumitra Singam
Ma shrugs, it’s how he was – intrusive, shaming . To me, the stippled mucosa telescoping into view is like veined marble, unknowable beauty....
https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-family-movie-nights-we-watch-video.html?m=1
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D.W. Baker
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Out today in
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
is "We Stitch Ourselves Like Bridges," a series of linked golden shovels all sourced from Danielle McMahon's chapbook, COLD RAIN IN PITTSBURGH. (my birthplace.) Here is the final of five sections, "Bridges"
www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/five-...
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As we get ready for Issue Five’s publication in a week we want to hype up the cover artist, Maria Taibo! Maria is a painter who lives in New Jersey. She is from the Canary Islands and enjoys painting still lifes, nature scenes, and working with oil paint and watercolor.
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Happy Pride Month! (& also the month of our fifth issue’s publication!) 🔥
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Loving seeing the flames rolling in 💕🔥 Excited for Issue Five!!
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Andrew Bertaina
6 months ago
Last push for @nightginkgo press. If you’re a DMV area writer you should submit to this anthology of poetry, fiction, and CNF!! Details below.
nightginkgo.com/submit/
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SUBMIT to NIGHT GINKGO Deadline: Midnight 5/15/2025 New Deadline: Midnight 5/31/2025! Detailed instructions are included in the submission form itself, but a few notes before submitting: Simultaneo…
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