Open: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Blended & Beyond, Poetry, Flash Fiction

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A creative reset is release from constructs & constrictions of the production/valuation/acceptance mindset. From the sticky infection of the systemic & academic. I want to invite unmoored wildness. First, the non-doing, non-making. Observe & let it sneak up & seep in. There’s no “block” in wildness.

Blended & Beyond: Objected-Oriented Programming Giorgio Agamben’s Language and Death: The Place of Negativity by summa iru Exceprt from summa iru's genre-bending work Click here to view the full piece. PDF best viewed on a larger screen. summa iru happened when the poet came across Rilke's Book of…

My first pieces of ‘26 in the new Diagram

Book mail from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social via @asterismbooks.bsky.social Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!

Submissions Are Now Open! We are reading Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction, and Poetry now through January 15th. Send us your best!

The 'self’ that I learned through childhood to present to the world was lost… I am always aware from moment to moment that behind the mask there is nothing and that very silence is the most wonderful, the most perfect, thing there is. Marc Hamer

and by “journaling” I mean never actually journaling

Little Tokyo Los Angeles Short Story Contest

“When eating in public, choose foods that don’t fall off your utensils and do fit in your mouth. Or take a truly surprising approach.” —me

“You have to have time to feel sorry for yourself if you’re going to be a good abstract expressionist—and I think I always considered that a waste.” -Robert Rauschenberg

Tired. Will adopt “That’s what I was thinking” and “My thoughts exactly” and “I’m more interested in what you have to say”

Happening now, 10:45am PST, Monday Dec 8 #losangeles #icewatch

Thank you, Clam

What an honor to be Nine Mile. Alongside Henri Carlile! Denise Duhamel! Mine is about going to bed angry… and that’s okay.

My micro dada contribution is free here and subscribing is good too exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...

Eyebrows are so weird. Two hedges planted in the forehead. Wiggling around because for some reason emotions are stationed in there. We don’t have them on our wrists, yet we talk with our hands.

One of your turkeys will contain an Epstein thumb drive, the key to Elton John’s house in Reseda, and Martha Stewart’s secret mashed potato recipe. Go deep.

"when they sew up the tattered fabric of my life i hope that they tell tales not just of living death but of feeling the rich golden silk of being born in the seas of love" Blended & Beyond: karna, critical condition by Arya Vishin jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/b...

👏 Three fab nDada pieces by Maudie Bryant today at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

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glue pennies everywhere

Still about a dozen submission opportunities open between now and the new year. My free list for poetry or hybrid, full-length or chapbook (all of my substack content is free) bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

Outdoor reading of “Bore Report Part Fore” from @exactingclam.bsky.social #17, Summer 2025

JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15 jmww.submittable.com/submit

Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW. For our first, Keith Woodruff writes about Dead Baby.

Gosh, Sally. Our balloon is swell, but that bear’s balloon doesn’t look so well!

Classic children’s whimsy. Back when every bedtime was Halloween.

www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.

Th headlines I’m not seeing: Katie Porter and the typical double standard of being a woman who speaks truth, demands better, & doesn’t sit politely while bullshit happens to & around her Dear Katie: Everybody gets pissed. Stay in it Mens gotcha hot mic leaks get them elected with rallying cries

Hoping this was a wrong number

10 poetry & hybrid manuscript submission opportunities closing this week. Free list on Substack open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Books are beautiful, let them be aesthetic. We wear jewelry, so hold books Books are bodies. Keep hands & opinions off others’ unless invited Books are safety nets & support devices. Objects we hide behind, cloak within, flirt from. Good. Snobbery & elitism are performative. They ban things.

Do Not Thump Moray Eels For Ripeness

No amount of pepper, anywhere ever, has come out of this style shaker. Go ahead and pound on it.

I’m The Beatles of just sitting here waiting.

Corner lashes really tangling today. Every blink a tousle. Odds on lowers which is surprising but I love an underdog story.

Poems are dangerous. If that sounds hyperbolic, take a stab at writing the one that scares you. Worse yet, where will you put it?

Writers are inhaling their turbulence and repackaging it as arrows. How neatly defiant. Language has them looking so tired & fragile. Soggy flannel scarecrows with spilling straw guts. You can put lipstick on them. We are the scary lot. Writers, steady on.

Currently 22 manuscript submission opportunities on my activity updated list. October has the most. Know of others? Comment below. List is only for full-length and chapbook poetry or hybrid. Open now or upcoming. bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

👀 …seeking a creative and curious person who can also write accurate, persuasive prose while thinking imaginatively interest in conservation; and have a background in environmental topics and a passion for nature, conservation, and birds. recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

JMWW is now open for free submissions of poetry, cnf/essay, flash, and hybrid/beyond-genre. Closes Oct 15 jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

JMWW opens tomorrow 10/1 for hybrid & beyond-genre submissions. Here’s my craft essay on the subject

another Walter Pavlich excerpt “…eyes that don't go through a person but go in and stay there, feeling their way unobtrusively around a sadness, or, recognizing pain, glancing it like two ants interrupted by each other.”

Who’s still accepting poetry subs for autumn melancholia synced with autocracy-induced dysthymia?