Check out Brad Shurmantine’s first book of poetry, Tramp, coming out June 27. Shurmantine, a Chestnut Review Mexico ’25 alum, is a retired English teacher who now writes full time. You can pre-order Tramp on the Finishing Line Press website by May 2. Find Shurmantine at bradshurmantine.com

Beltaine, also known as May Day (1st May), marks the beginning of summer in pagan & Gaelic calendars. It's marked with Maypole dancing, bonfires, fertility rituals (👀) & by making posies & leaving them at the doors of those you love. Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:

Testimonials from our January 2025 writing retreat will give you an inside feel for Chestnut Review retreats. Swipe ➡️. We are offering ONE scholarship spot for our next retreat in Riga, Latvia. chestnutreviewauxiliary.submittable.com/submit

People can make beautiful things. We don’t have to bomb and shoot. Let’s make beautiful things.

Translators -- we are putting together the next issue of Cable Street (cablestreet.org), and would love to feature your work. We especially love short excerpts of longer work to give a little taste of what's to come like a spoonful of stew (apologies, that was a bit much).

We’re busy working on our jam-packed Spring issue, dropping on April 1st. Go, go, go editors @hardygriffin.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social and @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social 💙📚

If Stephen King says something is horrible, you can bet it really, truly is.

View from the top of Ek Balam, in the Yucatan Peninsula. Magical place!

The print issue of @commonweal.bsky.social just dropped and Wow!—my book, Sweet Hunter, has a 2-page review by Sharon Mesmer. Delighted, honored, and grateful. Take a look: www.commonwealmagazine.org/mesmer-teres... 💙📚 Thank you @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social

Powerful! 💙📚 Translations from Turkish by @hardygriffin.bsky.social of novel excerpts by Ayfer Tunç in the new Cable Street: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl... Photo by Abdullah Al Mallah at Unsplash #Booksky #fiction #translation

Check out the amazing writers and visual artists in our current issue—like Ayfer Tunç translated by @hardygriffin.bsky.social. Prose at: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...

The latest issue is out! Awesome writing...

"...a dove leaving behind a hollow within two fists not meant for war..." 'Where They Move Like Angels' by Vikki C. Sharing my 2nd poem in the latest issue of Cable Street. With thanks again to Editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social ❤️ #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...

🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports. The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.

Hope you will join us—it’s going to be a great conversation and reading with @djvorreyer.bsky.social 💙📚 To join, you’ll need to register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...