Open 7/1-7/15 Submission guidelines: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

Open 7/1-7/15 Submission guidelines: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

Our latest selection is wonderfully strange, poignant, human, beyond-human.

New hybrid/micro at Raw Lit. On dog grief; and still in it. rawlit.weebly.com/9_2.html

So honored to have my little tissue paper ant reappear to accompany Angela Ji's beautiful Necrophoresis in JMWW's latest #Blended&Beyond 🥰🐜🐜🐜 Thank you @bradley-david.com & @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🙏💙💙💙

Blended & Beyond: Mr. Yellow Bathrobe by Karen Walker Tonight's life drawing model appears in a yellow bathrobe. I recognise it. Then I recognise him.     The man is my neighbour.

Editors, you have an open invitation to suggest I delete the last line or stanza. Most of us panic & get in our heads there. When I don’t see it and you do and together we get rid of it, it’s exhilarating.

Submissions Open We are reading Poetry, Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction through June 15th (CNF and Flash Fiction will cap at 40 submissions)

Last day to submit to Blended & Beyond. Submissions are rolling in and we’d love to see yours. Specifically, hybrid, blended-genre, and genre-defying works. Magical works that don’t fit our categories of fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, or poetry.

Blended & Beyond: What’s a personality trait you’d like to explore? by Sharon Wahl  What do you call it when your brother-in-law hits your rental car, a Volvo station wagon parked in his driveway, backing into it with his car, and everyone in the family knows who did it, but no one tells you? 

New Substack -Silva rerum -Could the Miyawaki Method translate to a literary method? -My out-of-place garden (pics) -Homemade dog food and its 19-year-old consumer (pic) -Me & Dusty (pic) -complaint poem about birds bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/silva-reru...

7pm Pacific and out goes my Substack. All in the timing. open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

What I can say about the 40s age bracket is that you give fewer Fs but not few enough. And you are ineligible for "younger poets series" and “golden poets series." Next year is a new ball of wax and I can get the shingles vaccine. Wrote a poem about it. Laser is covered by Blue Cross

to-do dadadada

JMWW Blended & Beyond is getting more visual submissions this month. Loving those blends & the surprise of opening every submission Overwhelm me with May volume! Don’t be shy, send anything hybrid or off-genre. Love to see more absurd/surreal/intense/intuitive. Colorful images jmww.submittable.com

Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for placing four of my poems in a stunning double-issue of @annulet.bsky.social that includes some of my favorite poets' poems as well as my favorite poets' writing on other poets.

Submissions Open We are reading Poetry, Blended & Beyond, Fiction and Flash Fiction through May 15th. (Creative Nonfiction will reopen in June)

My new poem “Outstanding” in Anacapa Review via Gunpowder Press anacapareview.com/bradley-davi...

I know someone from undergrad whose title is Director of Condiments. Like, relish and mustards. Imagine? Meanwhile she looks at my LinkedIn and thinks, aww, he’s trying a little something.

Doctors, veterinarians, any office large or small, I get lost in the back halls. I have driven across country 5 times but I can’t find my way back to a front desk. I am currently at the vet and sure to exit to the dumpsters.

Fuckery by Hayan Charara via @agnimagazine.bsky.social

The constant low key fear I have a traveling clot. It’s not so absurd

Judges in Summer poem by Barry Spacks

Interesting things happening at Prudence Dispatch Poem by Steven Horton

I must be pretty bad to get unfollowed on Bluesky. Okay. So here’s this snippet from my thing at Boudin/Mcneese Review www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...

Wow, reading @passagesnorth.bsky.social # 47 & came across my friend Molly Bain’s cnf piece. I know all these wonderful places. She’s a treasure & this won honorable mention for Ray Ventre Prize. Molly where are you? Go to Hannahs & call me passagesnorth.com/crashbang-a-word-problem-by-molly-bain

The Death Star of pastries

Know of any lit mags or anthologies seeking poetry about war current events?

One more bump for the cnf Substack about the magic field and the man with 3 fingers.

Thanks a bunch for checking out my new Substack bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/electric

Submissions Open We are reading all genres through April 15th. Send us your best!

On a lighter note, I’m gluing stuff. Hiding poetry behind the paint. Infusions.

Pains me to say it, but here are 2 literary ways in which Google’s AI worked: I was solicited by a library, seemingly, to include my prose poem in their upcoming book club discussion. Being not a book, but sounding like a professional request, I asked AI to verify legitimacy. AI said fake…

Might write a story just to use the name Leonard Benadryl. Not much happens.

Speaking of @tacobellquarterly.org previous post, and fake-it-til-you-make-it headlong into vulnerability, here’s my vintage 2022 Taco Butt Quarterly. Represent me.

Engaging vulnerable essay for better understanding navigation. How we slog the discomforts of life, yes, but how we may offer the consciousness of deeper consideration to those in our orbit.

Can you guess how the former owner created this faded pattern on the shed siding?

Everything I’ve ever submitted has been simultaneously overwrought and too early. So just be cool with your stuff okay

Prose poetry isnt short story. The narrative is vehicle for impression & mood; how reader leaves with question or contemplation, not conclusion. If the surface is story, it’s secondary to poetics that carried writer to its inception. All the more interesting for reader to ask “Why is this poetics?”

‘Twas brillig… until it wasn’t

Read this beautiful new piece in our Blended and Beyond genre. Artwork by our Sr. B&B Editor, @bradley-david.com ✨

Work in progress for a mixed media triptych. Pre-glue arranging stage.

Submit to jmww this week Hybrid, blended, & genre-defying works. If you’re working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. Something magical that doesn’t fit other lit categories? We’d be honored to read it. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

Subs open now til 3/15 @jmwwjournal.bsky.social Hybrid, blended, & genre-defying works. If you’re working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. Something magical that doesn’t fit other lit categories? We’d be honored to read it. jmww.submittable.com/submit

well, huh.

New messy Substack. Play spot-the-typos 🖤 open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Big news! Not only is Issue 20 out today, but from here on in you can create your own account on the website, where all issues will soon be available in their entirety. Some already are. Plus digital-only subscriptions at a much, much lower price! https://www.exactingclam.com/subscribe/

Send us your hybrid, experimental, blended-genre, beyond-genre, genre-defying work. Free submissions, two weeks, please read our refreshed guidelines

Repost from @mayorofla: Applications are now open for the City of Los Angeles Poet Laureate. This role calls for a visionary storyteller who can reflect Los Angeles as it is, imagine what it can become, and inspire emerging writers. Apply today www.lapl.org/los-angeles-poet-laureate-submissions