We are seeking cover art for our winter issue! Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium. Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart

Get those poems, graphic narratives, and flash prose pieces ready! The Commuter will be open for submissions from 9/15 - 9/21, or until our submission cap is reached ⚡ 💡 We can't wait to read your work!

📢 Call for Readers! Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If you’re connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, we’d love to hear from you. Interested? Send a brief application to [email protected]

This weekend is the last chance to get your work in. Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT). Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

Even linkedin gets it

"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social   brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...

It's not too late to send us your manuscript! We're still accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, chapbooks, anthologies, and more. Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work! blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...

SUBMIT TODAY at the link in our bio!

Lee Cole recalls being a working class writer attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class perspectives in our literary institutions.

An actual summer reading list of real books compiled by real critics! I'm in here singing praises of Alice Bolin's new collection: www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Mark your calendars: Shō Poetry Journal opens for submissions on June 1! We’ll be reading for our winter issue, Shō No. 8.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Free shipping at @bookshop.org until midnight!

We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !

It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...

As an author, the last thing I need is for AI to engage with my book. I hope for real readers and critics to connect with it, and do respond to it as humans. And as a freelance critic, I want media outlets to invest in substantive reviews and essays, and to pay critics for our labor appropriately.

Family vloggers Ruby Franke and the Stauffers invited viewers into their children’s most personal moments and profited. Then, they behaved unspeakably. Two new docs track their downfalls and yet again turn kids into content. My essay for the @nytimes.com mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/m...

The latest issue of @readlux.bsky.social is now avail online as well as in print! I wrote about the worst book I have ever read—Colleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US—juxtaposing it against a far more nuanced and compelling DV story, Chelsea Bieker's MADWOMAN. Gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/dome...

Submissions are open for 3 more days! • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet • We respond to all submissions within 30 days

Can confirm—this book is full of juicy morsels, as is its review by @kristiosorio.bsky.social in @therumpus.net this week 💫

Don’t suppose this book by @nglipson.bsky.social reviewed by versatile smart @kristiosorio.bsky.social is niche motherhood — its exploration is fresh-take expansive— pls read if you have the bandwidth. Thanks also to @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social

Folks heading to #AWP2025 this week! I’m moderating a nonfiction panel about blending personal narrative with research and reporting, and our lineup is truly stellar: @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @sashabonet.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, and Heather Radke! Come through on Saturday.

“...an absorbing memoir of a life permanently altered by the burden and beauty of motherhood.” @kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism). ➡️ buff.ly/Tn7Wwiu

It was a joy reading and writing about @nglipson.bsky.social’s stunning new memoir-in-essays for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/25/g...

This piece blew me away. One of the best things I’ve read on the internet recently.

Today's Featured Poet: Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

One of my favorite poems in Querida!

Today's Featured Poem: "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social), from Querida, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (@upittpress.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/how-to-...

Five years ago today, the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. @kwistent.bsky.social talks with @ednabonhomme.bsky.social about how diseases spread in ways that both reflect and reproduce social divisions that are born out of how we define who is deserving of health and care.

It's #submissionsaturday! Send us your nonfiction scholarship, craft papers, informal analysis, pedagogy--we're looking for it all! buff.ly/GysGePq

Today’s Featured Poem: “Memo to the Man Who Spat on Me” by Cara Dees, from the Summer 2024 Issue of the Georgia Review. Read here: poems.com/poem/memo-to...

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.

🚨 1 more day to submit! The inaugural Rumpus Prize Nonfiction closes on March 2!🚨 All submissions will be read by The Rumpus's editorial team, and our final judges are Kaveh Akbar (Poetry), Rachel Khong (Fiction), and @meganstielstra.bsky.social (Creative Nonfiction). ➡️ buff.ly/4blQsZo

There's still time to apply to our Residential Young Writers Workshop! kenyonreview.org/event/young-...

The Sita Martin Prize is named after our founding editor, who started Shō to promote unheralded poets in her immediate writing community. This is not a contest. All accepted poems are considered for the prize, contingent on the poet's eligibility. Details: shopoetryjournal.com/the-sita-martin-prize

An incredible flash nonfiction piece by @kristiosorio.bsky.social on The Palisades Review. Don't miss this one!

I interviewed @pagankennedy.bsky.social about her wonderful book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/the-secret...

Here's a cathartic little micro nonfiction piece I wrote about the ways we flatten and stereotype families who have been harmed by violence. How we reduce them to headlines, take away their identities, constantly ask for more more more. (trigger warning) www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...

💙⛅THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW⛅💙 is out TODAY and I am thrilled and honored by this perceptive review in @washingtonpost.com by @gretchensisson.bsky.social wapo.st/3PLsDjG (gift link)

"These are things you can’t see. They’re only measured by visceral reactions: by sweat, touch, some sort of illness even." @nxo.bsky.social interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola about Strange Beach (@catapultbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ https://buff.ly/42akIUL

⛅💙 I'm going on a little book tour in January to launch THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW! Looking forward to being in convo with brilliant writer-friends in Philly, D.C., and Brooklyn. More info and RSVP links here: www.kristenmartin.net/events

Hachette is offering 30% off my book (and all their books!) with code CYBER2024 through Tuesday! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist...

Praise for Look Look Look by Callista Buchen "This is a book about mothering like no book about mothering that has ever been mothered forth." —Diane Seuss Learn more about Look Look Look - blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-l...

I wrote about why documentaries are the way they are now www.documentary.org/online-featu...

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Last call for submissions to our Gasher Press Book Award. $1,000 + 20 author copies

Overjoyed to announce that my debut collection of poems, Querida, has been selected by Shara McCallum for the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize! My book of poems will be joining the Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press, in September 2024! 🙌🏽🍾🥳🪅 upittpress.org/nathan-osori...