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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?

1. When JMWW opens for submissions on Oct. 1st, Blended & Beyond will now be a regular feature alongside our other categories. B&B is our space for hybrid and beyond-genre works. 2. My new craft essay on the subject is out today: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/c... @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Walter Pavlich @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

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Congrats to JMWW’s Best of the Net nominees @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction gooseberry-pie.com/open-for-sub...

We have officially opened our submissions for video essays and sound-based literature! Click "Submit to Blackbird" in our bio to read the full guidelines. We want your work!

My long hair breaks at the end like Lisa Murkowski. Falls apart like a Manhattan prosecutor’s case. Splits like Ted Cruz. What are your recommendations for a daily leave-in defense/repair/conditioner? Something that can withstand heat like Donald’s wrist spackle. Truly tho I need a spray.

My micro-garble on friendship for @exactingclam.bsky.social upcoming Dada issue contains 18 hyphens. Here’s a sneak peek: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Cauliflower strikes me as an impeccably clean vegetable but who knows what’s really going on.

Prepping a knock-off of Portland's plant-based Mississippi bowls. Rice, not-beef, coleslaw, green onions, ranch, bbq, @ranchogordo.bsky.social yellow eye beans, side of garden amaranth. I remember 2010 food trucks & miserable midnight shift at crisis call center. I ❤️ PDX #recoveringsocialworker

Previously loved book mail: The late husband & wife poetry powerhouse of Sandra McPherson and Walter Pavlich. “a little drug of paint won’t hurt.”

Elizabeth Bishop Letters “You tell me to watch out for unpleasant phrases like "meditate your own wet" —when I have watched out for them and put them in deliberately.”

My clear coat nail strengthening protein told me “not prettier, but stronger” can be my anthem today. Straining to hear the voices.

Favorite stick just broke. Too rough unclogging feathers from a spigot. Now what?

Morning notes and then I’ll get that craft article submitted for deadline I promise open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Looking for folks passionate about reading creative nonfiction and working with a volunteer team.

New Substack: absurdism, photo set, apple machine bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/make-me-pr...

Red Delicious. Like eating a Glade Plug-In dipped in nail polish. I’d rather chew on Washington’s dentures. Can’t wait to chop this down and replace it with free Palestine and impeach Frump.

Crispy Gravenstein rings. If it looks infinite that’s only because it feels that way and please send cortisone injection

We have a little free library & I add books from writers I follow. A busy little spot w/ eclectic readers. If youd like to send a copy of your book I’ll add to library. Promise this isn’t a scam to forego paying! I still buy from writers PO Box on my site, library in Northern CA bradley-david.com

Still going with this frequently updated calendar of manuscript submission opportunities for poetry and hybrid full-length and chapbooks open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...

Ordered. Lake of Urine is brilliant.