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)

❤️

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

💕

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

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 🧡 templeinacity.com/category/roo...

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 #poetry #s2fjournal

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

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

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. #poetry #writing #booksky #writingcommunity

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 📝

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...

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-...

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.

Happy Pride Month! (& also the month of our fifth issue’s publication!) 🔥

🔥

Loving seeing the flames rolling in 💕🔥 Excited for Issue Five!!

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/

What a beautiful day ☀️ to write some collaborative poetry 🕶️

DMV area readers and writers, mark your calendars for the launch of our first book vending machine that will carry DMV area writers!

Tomorrow! RSVP for free: workshop.transtexas.org Hope to see y'all there!

So what? The literary world is always in the first detonation blast zone. Run towards the searing light. You don't want to live in the world without the arts. Become a writer.

Kerry Trautman & I have two collaborative contoured villanelles in Reedy Branch Review. Read the entire issue here: www.calameo.com/pcc-continui.... #Poetrysky #Poetrynews #Poems #poetry

The answer is write more, unfortunately

So excited to see what our flame-writers create from their spark! Love witnessing and fostering collaboration 🔥

"🎉 #IndieBookstoreDay is almost here—Saturday, April 26 www.indiebound.org/independent-... This year, over 1,600 bookstores across all 50 states are joining the celebration! Find a participating indie near you with our searchable map and get ready for a bookish adventure (or two..or three... 😉).

On April 26, 2025, The Potter’s House is celebrating our 65th birthday with free cake all day, community events, and a homecoming gathering to share our vision for the future. April 26 is also Independent Bookstore Day - if you were looking for an excuse to stop by.

I am looking to blow so much money on a mid life crisis hobby. We pay $150. We have big dreams of it existing in print! The meaning of life is to do dumb projects. Who cares if you fail who cares if you die who cares if it was pointless? Tell them you were a Literary Writer

I’ve got a poem in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social! Many thanks to the editors for giving it a home! www.ballastjournal.com/elena-zhang

All responses are sent out! Thank you to everyone who submitted 💕 love to see all the excitement around collaboration!

Thank you to everyone who submitted to be part of Issue Five! Responses to go out soon 💕

Last day to submit!!! Submissions will close tomorrow April 13th around 3 pm EST. #writingcommunity

We open 420, here's the call tacobellquarterly.org/tbq8-call-br...

On Thursday I’ll be in Sydney reading at the Heroine’s Anthology book launch! Come along if you can. The anthology is full of fabulous writing & I can’t wait to hear some of it aloud. www.writingtheheroine.com/events