our gift to you today: your thursday #AWP26 plans i am FERAL waiting to announce this lineup; you're welcome in advance

Today we are highlighting "Aurora" by Sarah Watkins (Flame) and @louisehurrell.bsky.social (Spark). I love the interplay between the internal and external in this piece. Check it out-page 6: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity #poetry

Really appreciate the care that @s2fjournal.bsky.social put into cultivating such a unique mag and the love they've given Neal and I. Neal sent me a line and a concept and together we kept drafting and adding more til we had this where we wanted. Our most collaborative yet, hope youll read the work

First up from Issue Six is the collaboratively written poem, "We Write What We Know" by @nathanthegreathan.bsky.social and Neal Allen Shipley. I love how it grapples with knowing and non-knowing, tension, shame, and identity. Page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity #poetry

I had so much fun creating a poem based on Sam’s spark and now I can’t wait to dive in and read everyone else’s work

My friend Neal and I were looking for a home for our collaborative poems - imagine our delight when we found a magazine that specialized specifically in that?? Thanks so much to @s2fjournal.bsky.social, excited to dig through the rest of the issue

It's always a pleasure being part of @s2fjournal.bsky.social - I'm happy they're not tired of me sending them stuff yet 😆 Each issue is always full of good and interesting poems - definitely worth having a look!

We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Six: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... In this issue, we have two co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. Thank you to our contributors, who connected with others' words and shared their joy and pain.

Tomorrow is release day for Issue Six, and we are so excited! In advance, we want to shout out the cover artist, Sophia May, who created the cover for the issue! sophiamay.carrd.co

i love our contributors so much- deeply grateful for this community which continues to invite me to learn learn learn and grow grow grow 💕

pssssssssst our 2025 print anth is available for preorder ahead of its 12/17 release 👀 fifthwheelpress.shop/products/fwp...

New surreal prose poetry by me! “Torrential” lyfaulk.com/2025/11/24/t...

I love many things about what @lindzmcleod.bsky.social did with An Honour & a Privilege, but best of all is that it's a book that can be enjoyed by readers (thanks to 11 remarkable pieces of original fiction) AND writers, because the authors discuss process in paired nonfiction conversation pieces!

I have a CNF here in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social . Content note for parenting & mental health care (or lack thereof).

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."

Feeling so much excitement about our next issue 💕 love collaboration, love poetry. Y’all are amazing.

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...

We know you'll love Mingyu Brian Chan's stunning poem, HAIKU WHERE I LAY / WITH OCD, OBSESSING / OVER SYLLABLES, from our OCTOBER ISSUE ✨: buff.ly/An9Kgaq

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 💕

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 :) 💡

Thank you to everyone who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this next issue 😎

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. 🌬 genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.

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 £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

couldn't be happier to see this poem land in @bruisermag.com, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision

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 🔥 #creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity

Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!

It's aalways an amazing experience writing something for @s2fjournal.bsky.social - definitely somewhere I recommend looking into. #poetry #litjournal #collaboration

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!!) 💃🏼 #writingcommunity

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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Happy Sunday! What a wonderful day to call up a friend and co-write a poem ☀️ #writingcommunity #poetry

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! #poetry #writingcommunity www.s2fjournal.com/submit/

This was such a fun poem to co-write. #poetry #writing

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A wonderful concept… this #poetry publication publishes collaboration #poems. “Spark” poet and “Flame” poet. Worth your time to read. #poetry

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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity #poetry 📝

“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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

“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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity 📝

“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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity 📝

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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity 📝

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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity 📝

“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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #WritingCommunity

“...& 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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #writingcommunity

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

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. #poetry #mushrooms #writing

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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #WritingCommunity 📝 #poetry

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: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #Writingcommunity 📝 #poetry