I just love “girl, possessed!” by Tara Labovich in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social — here’s the first part of it. dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-18-25/poss...

Wonderful, bittersweet, funny piece up today. Look in the mirror or bite an apricot and read "Paul From the Future" from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-19-26

Force out 200 words, you'll feel better

Thank you thank you to the lovely @dishsoapquart.bsky.social for homing “blue body.” This is a special poem for me and needed to find a special place 🫶

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous poem up this week!!! Go to the beach, or sit by a stream, or maybe even submerge yourself in a pool and read "blue body" from @kmhanslik.bsky.social!!! Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-12-26

Hilarious, funny, all-too-real piece up this week. Enjoy "Limerence Dingus" from Gretchen Uhrinek Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-5-26

Incredibly lovely piece up this week that captures the little things so well. Lean back and enjoy "Scenery" from Rachel Sherman Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-28-26

Presenting our wonderful Best New Poets 2026 Nominees! Congratulations to @ashleyvarela.bsky.social and @m-demarco-words.bsky.social! You should go check out these incredible pieces & poets :)

Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: cyclicality, abduction, maple syrup, the job market, flowers, Bullet Train, goodbyes, long titles, houses, bugs, dystopia, medication, indie games, the color blue, stations of all kinds, graffiti, and D&D

Lovely, spiraling, a-little-too-real piece up this week. Put on your tinfoil hat and read "The Girlfriends Of The Propeller Plane Disappearance Victims" from @dallonwrites.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-21-26

🚨 e(i #9 CALL FOR SUBS! 🚨 Our 9th issue is all about 🌈 CO-LLAB-OR-ATIONS!! There's NO THEME / subject restrictions. The only rule is that the work submitted must be a collaborative effort! 🚨 Fill out our Google form IF YOU NEED A PARTNER: buff.ly/OtPlTWY Deadline April 30 engineidling.net

Super-hyped to be part of the flood, with a Barcelona piece that bookends a story I published in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social. It's called "Orderings" and it will be part of the flood at 6:50 am BST.

"she’s luring uglyhot girls into long philosophies and knotting knees on stranger’s couches, she’s latemorning lurking in bed, she’s sinking her teeth into into the flesh of the mountain to taste those rivers of iron" —Tara Labovich anmly.org/ap42/tara-la...

“A late wind on the bus biting / the rutilant horizon, the city ahead glistens with an untouched / temerity, and the grass knows that we—even the popular / ones—will come to die.” (2014, reframed // Michelle Li) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-21-25

Reminder to give this a read if u missed it earlier this week!

Lovely doozy of a prose poem up this week. Find a cat, hold it, and read "Juno" by Trinity Richardson together. Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-14-26

I really love this poem "after midnight my friend & i sat in the dark car, doing the linger, streetlit. i was saying something about the way the universe talks, i was saying, i want to protect ur desire when we saw the fox."

"girl, what r u summoning from the henceforth? from the future? from your guts?" (@taralabovich.bsky.social // girl, possessed!) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-18-25/poss...

ALOCASIA is now seeking new unpublished queer creative writing for our upcoming EcoFutures issue, to be published December 2026. Deadline: 11/11. Pays $50. Absolutely no AI. www.ALOCASIA.org

ANMLY is looking to add new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff w/ us! Roles = 1-3 hrs/wk - Translation Co-Editor - Translation Readers - Fiction Readers - Poetry Readers Email [email protected] w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply Deadline: 5/1

🌼2 more days to submit to Buds & Blooms: Volume 2🌸 Check out our website for more information: cosmic-daffodil.squarespace.com

“just before that, as a theremin warbles a dramatic theme, there’s a left turn that leaves the boat in perfect darkness.  That’s where the trans people sneak off.” (Tomorrow // @lilliekoi.bsky.social) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-13-25/tomo...

If u missed this earlier this week make sure to give it a read!!!

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Poems feat. @dishsoapquart.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Read latest issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with 12 amazing stories by @lucindakempe.bsky.social Mikki Aronoff @jekwriter.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social Jeff Friedman @pleomorphic2.bsky.social Don’t forget to submit to our writing comp. Details inside.

"There are two ways we can end this, my therapist says. The first is by putting your brain in a pasta jar. The second is by lying down on a bed that no longer exists." (Closure // Ashley Varela) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-10-26

Excited to announce that our team has grown even more!!! So thrilled to welcome M. J. Young, Lillie E. Franks, and Cameron Vernali to the small but mighty Dishsoap family :)

3 days! left!

"We couldn’t forget the milk or the eggs or the sugar because we would have to go all the way back or do without. We had to strategize because between work and life, we could only do laundry on weekends in the basement." (Kijiji Couch / @lindsaymcdonald.bsky.social) dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-3-26

Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: grass, 17776, witch hat atelier, frogs, snow in april, running, appliances, thrift stores, found forms, run-on sentences, fruit, evenings, anxiety, city life, outer space, storms, and conversations

Wonderful, meandering piece that coasts at a nice speed limit groove up for y'all this week. Strap in and enjoy "Things I thought about while driving across the country" from Nick van Osdol Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-7-26

“That's what I keep telling myself.” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-26

Very grateful to have this one up at @dishsoapquart.bsky.social ! 👇🏻

Poem up this week that's fresh like a breath of outdoor air. Take a moment and read "Slow it Down" from @jackbedell.bsky.social Find it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-26

"I stare / at the back of your head—framed by pleats of plum-honeyed clouds, / framed by the door jamb, framed by the limits of my periphery." (Mulbery // Adam Gianforcaro) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-12-2024/m...

Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: carrots, fathers, doorways, chronotopes, apocalypse, long drives, ink, baked goods, seasons, habits, magical realism, appointments, poems from fiction writers (and vice versa), ekphrasis, and origin stories.

Piece with a whole lot of energy and buckets of heart up for y'all this week. Enjoy "My Father Bought a Generator in 1997 and It Is Still Running" from Oluwanifemi Bakare Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-24-26

"I am bareback on a dirt road picking out the planes from meteors & fighting / time right there in the garage & he is picking up my childhood bike" (ode to lucy dacus & whatever is in the streetlights // Noralee Zwick) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-29-2024/o...

"You open the door. Inside is a lake, or a fire, or the edge of a cliff. Inside is the girl who kissed you and laughed when you cried. Inside is the car you rolled into a ditch and never told anyone about." (Portrait of a Skeleton // Ziqr Peehu) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-18-25/skel...

"You open the door. Inside is a lake, or a fire, or the edge of a cliff. Inside is the girl who kissed you and laughed when you cried. Inside is the car you rolled into a ditch and never told anyone about." (Portrait of a Skeleton // Ziqr Peehu) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-18-25/skel...

Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: fish, paradoxes, chalk, weird weather, malls, loneliness, fun facts, the sublime, hybridity, video games, cnf, grass, spices, heliocentricity, movies, spun sugar, and warmth.

Our 9th issue is all about 🌈 CO-LLAB-OR-ATION!! There's NO THEME / subject restrictions. The only rule is that the work submitted must be a collaborative effort! 🚨 Fill out our Google form IF YOU NEED A PARTNER: buff.ly/OtPlTWY Deadline April 30 engineidling.net

"If I’m being honest surviving a plane crash and working together to survive in a remote wooded location is the ultimate group experience" (We Strangers // @shaylafrandsen.bsky.social) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-26-25/stra...

Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: fish, paradoxes, chalk, weird weather, malls, loneliness, fun facts, the sublime, hybridity, video games, cnf, grass, spices, heliocentricity, movies, spun sugar, and warmth.

"& when you all step outside you are something /greater than before. those street lights / are lit & the sky’s still holding onto a little / brightness, a little blue still" (ode to the silver screen // Grace Sleeman) Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/8-19-25/ode/

"Just this week I told a woman on a first date I was terrible at keeping houseplants alive. She liked me. There was no need to lie. It’s true, last autumn many friends left my life..." —Tara Labovich :: "Liar" alocasia.org/2026/02/15/t...

Writers -- where are the cool kids submitting their work these days? Comment your favorite lit mags below and we might feature your pick on a list, who knows ;)

Give this a read if you missed it!

Funky and wonderful flash up this week. Don't sleep on "The Master: some considerations..." from Simon Firth Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-17-26