We’re excited to share 5 new pieces now live: 📖 Finally, Something — Kate Tell ✍️ Knives — Eric Chiles 📖 Comrades — Rose Shrader ✍️ Lost or Stolen or Strayed — Deb Blenkhorn ✍️ As You Are About to Find Out — R. Gerry Fabian Read them here 👉 thebrokenspinejournal.com

🌿 New work just published in The Broken Spine Journal! ✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words ✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project ✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree ✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973 Discover fresh voices + powerful stories: 🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com

✨ New on The Broken Spine Journal ✨ Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience. 📖 Read: thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t... thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m... #Poetry

New at The Broken Spine Journal: • “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t... • “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m... • “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...

📢 The Broken Spine Journal is seeking poetry, short fiction, prose & multimedia that’s raw, real & unfiltered — straight from lived experience. Submit: thebrokenspinejournal.com 📩 [email protected] 📬 P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339 📱 860-323-3671

Taking on the plight of angels with black halos— one foot in the grave, but I still have two hands to pray. From I Won’t Paint You Flowers by Scott Jordan Frink— a chapbook for those who've lived through the silence. 🛒

The Broken Spine Journal is live. We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth. Check out the site, share the mission, help us amplify unheard voices. 🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com

🖤 My chapbook is out now. I Won’t Paint You Flowers isn’t pretty—it’s real. It’s pain, survival, and truth. 🛒 bottlecap.press/products/iwo... #PoetryThatHurts #BottlecapPress #DebutChapbook #TheBrokenSpineJournal #LivedExperience #Zinesky

🖤 The Broken Spine Journal Raw work from the unheard—poetry, essays, art, truth. No gatekeeping. Just voice. Submit / Support / Share: 📎 thebrokenspinejournal.com 📬 PO Box 101, Ledyard CT 📱 Text: 860-323-3671 #TheBrokenSpineJournal #RawVoices #IndieLit

🖤 Grateful to have three poems featured in Red Rose Thorns Journal: — Rosemary’s Baby — Broken Bike — Web of the Storm Read them here: 🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/rosemary-s-baby 🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/broken-bike 🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/web-of-the-storm #Poetry #RedRoseThorns #PublishedPoet

We’re thrilled to share the first three pieces in our new Voices section! 🎉 ✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie 🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley 💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.

📬 New Submission Methods! 📱 We’ve added more ways to share your voice. ✉️ Mail submissions to: The Broken Spine Journal P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339 (Handwritten or typed welcome!) 📞 Call or Text: 860-323-3671 Send poems or prose by text, or leave a voicemail with your name for follow-up.

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My debut chapbook I Won’t Paint You Flowers is out now via Bottlecap Press. Proceeds help fund @BrokenSpineJrnl—a journal for raw, unfiltered voices from recovery, shelters, and the unheard. Support the mission: bottlecap.press/products/iwo... #poetry #mentalhealth #chapbook #recovery

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Welcome to The Broken Spine Journal. We publish raw voices, unfiltered truth, and poetry that bleeds. If you’ve lived it, write it. Submissions are open. 🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com #poetry #litjournal #rawvoices #indielit #submissionopen