I had an unbelievably enjoyable time working with the editor at @moocat.net . The journal is accepting submissions through June 30, and I am thrilled to have a piece coming out with them this fall🥰Check out the journal if you have a moment!! #writingcommunity

@lunegrimm.bsky.social How much would you charge for a literary magazine cover?

The collection of poetry for the Fall issue has shaped up nicely -- 10 new poems, by 6 poets, including 5 new contributors to moocat.net and one big O.G.!

The donation call-to-action is now surrounded by the words, “Your kind donations fund our writers,” because it’s true and we need to ensure enough donations come in to keep the magazine self-sustaining.

Just added a new subsystem to handle curated reader responses to individual pieces, replacing the large, “Tell Us What You Think” button with calmer “Leave a Response” button. All the plumbing is in place to display reader comments, once they start coming in.

Wordle 1,810 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A Starry Night

I wonder… did homo sapiens’ kinship with dogs influence us toward omnivorousness from herbivorousness? And are those really nouns? And was it homo sapiens who tamed the wolves, or a farther-back ancestor? I want names!

Last week I learned that the Republic of Venice was the longest known continuous democracy in human history, lasting 1,100 years. Plus, with the canals & whatnot.

I met this lady who was living on the roof of the Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome. She looked thirsty. #rome #seagull #thirsty #heatwave

Little bit of spiral effect looking up at the Pantheon dome.

I don’t want to Google the history of The Spanish Steps in Rome; I want an old Italian man to slowly reveal the story, over a waning campfire.

We’re told a lot about this masterpiece that is not true, that all its parts are perfectly proportioned. only a few seconds viewing it & u see: both hands far too large for the arms, R hand monstrously larger than L, neck too big, but all for good reasons.

Just a few from Firenza

Quintessential Milano.

The Moocat is currently in Pompeii, but we will be back in business in a few days

Lemoncello, fresh fish from the Mediterranean, and pizza made from cow-to-table, all while surrounded by an uncountable number of lemon and olive trees. Capri, Sorrento, Italia

“Go ahead—toss your sabots into the gears! The Industrial Revolution will still happen, but you will have to buy new shoes.”

see Y’all soon, Moocatters; we are off to Italy! So, Moocattinis? (but back in plenty of time to field new submissions for the August relaunch).

Soon, Italia.

Hey, nobody has found the Very Special Easter Egg on the new site yet. First to find it and to correctly identify it gets the big, $12.37 prize! (Just send your answer to me via Chat).

We need travel narratives. Not “travel writing,” but literary memoir that takes place while traveling, the combined inner and outer journey, in which place and narrator are both key characters. Submit your work on DuoTrope or on the site: moocat.net/travelogs/su...

Y’all may use this one, gratis: “That’s all water under the bus… as it.. weren’t.”

Submissions are coming in at a very healthy pace now. It’s a lot of work, but it means we’ll have substantial new content for the Aug. 30 issue.

Rip Torn should be a word. "He struggled with the latch, his shirt, Rip Torn. #metaphor #silliness #wordplay #shirts

Duosuma, wow! I was concerned re: getting sparse submissions, but what a burst--5 since Thurs! Was working on a local submission form ("Submit on DuoTrope" -OR- "Submit on Moocat.net") , but if submissions keeps up @ this rate, that may be moot, and the Fall issue will be freaking glorious!

Working in earnest on finalizing our own submissions system that will export to spreadsheet, send email, and accept image uploads. We’re getting there, but Earnest hates being worked in.

Just recently created this account, to get word out re: the relaunch, and getting quite a few obviously fake, probably AI-generated accounts follow and ask to be followed back (like 1.7k followers but 0 are less than 3 posts, completely generic images with obv. AI-gen text). It’s rough out there!

There’s such a concern about use of AI in image generation; are any online publications hosting some kind of “Artistic Sources” page showing the creative credits for every (non-chrome) image on the site, and for any that are AI, disclosing it there?

man, you know you’re getting old when you hear another artist cover a song that you thought was still relatively new!

I've heard about some literary magazine sites with a one-click "Print this issue" feature that instantly creates a coherent PDF of all the articles in an issue. Do any of y'all do that?

Testing one’s new submission forms for hours on end spawns unusual entries: My Submission: “It was a dark & stormy night. Stormy Daniels and Daniel Pinkwater were storming the Bastille. Pinkwater bellowed as he stabbed the fortress walls again and again with his plastic bayonette.”

Claude Code really fought me on this, but the session had run far too long. Was trying for an improved divider flourish. Finally got it right.

Nota Bene: This image is generated via Nano Banana AI, based on my prompt. It's part of a silly series portraying Jesus as a young man struggling with the realities of life today. Just for kicks: "The young Nazarene applying for his first job out of high school."

Here's a little unofficial contest: Who can find the easter egg on the currently live moocat.net?

Web-crawlers can now index the site, in view of the upcoming Soft Launch on April 30! Meanwhile, if you want the support the writers and the tech behind moocat, you can do that here: ko-fi.com/moocatlemeaux

Submissions are starting to come in! Still tweaking the Submission pages, and may be moving to the DuoTrope-hosted submission-tracking too, Duosoma.

Received our first submission for the relaunch issue! And it's short fiction! (who knew?)

We are on Duotrope now! duotrope.com/magazine/moo...

Gemini tells me I need to record a silent, Windows-native video of me clicking around the site, something about "Proof of Life" something-something. I'm not gonna argue; she'll be my boss someday.

Just submitted submission links to Chillsubs, Duotrope, and The Submission Grinder. Some of these are reviewed by human editors and so may not be live yet.

About Us Gentle Moos From Round the Globe We want creative content mostly from not-yet-famous writers, poets, artists, cartoonists, and comedians. If a person happens to get famous, they can be forgiven for that. Moocat.net is an independent online literary magazine.

Call for Submissions! On August 30, 2026, moocat.net will relaunch to mark 25 years of independent digital publishing. Submissions are now open for the inaugural issue centered on the theme: Starving the Beast: Avoid Evil/Stay Online.