Congratulations to the 10:4:Tenn winners for 2026! 1st Place, The Hand You're Dealt by Tracey Zerwig Ford 2nd Place, Turn of the Tider by Rex McGregor 3rd Place, Going to Meet the Man by James Bruns

We had a great time at #AWP6. Here's a recap, a call for submissions, and a discount! open.substack.com/pub/ponderre...

Stop by our table T984 at #AWP26 and pick up some of our swag! We love to meet former and future contributors.

We're halfway through our submission window. Now is a great time to send us your work and avoid the mad rush at the deadline! #submissionsopen ponderreview.submittable.com

Celebrating #writers and other creatives in Mississippi (and everwhere) this year!

We're starting our 10th year! Won't you join us? Send us your best #fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, #plays, #art, and #newmedia. Reading 12/15-3/15. #callforsubmissions #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

Ponder Review 9.2 is here! We're proud to showcase these fine writers! #litmag #newissue

Bluesky is finally back in Mississippi! No longer will we have to hitch up the mule and head over to Alabama to post. We did have to verify our age, though. Great for us, but not so great for the mule, who will probably get fat eating all those oats.

Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees! Fiction David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1 Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1 CNF Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1 Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2 Poetry Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2 Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2

For a closer look, here is each panel of the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium with 12 Southern writers and 5 Ephemera Prize Winners. Each session is free to attend and will be live-streamed on our WeltySymposium Youtube channel. #readings #writerscommunity #mississippi #southernwriters

Two weeks from today, we begin the 37th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. Here's our complete schedule! #writers #southernauthors #readings #bookfestival #TheW

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

Our MFA student editors are back in classes, and there's less than a month to send us your work. Don't miss your chance to submit to issue 9.2! #submissioncall #fiction #poetry #CNF #plays #art #digitallit

Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway." poets.org/poem/lauren-...

I may have forgotten to tell you (and shame on me!) that @ponderreview.bsky.social 9.1, which includes an essay of mine on Oscar Wilde, is available now. You can also submit work for PR 9.2 now. And you should because the folks over there are wonderful.

Ponder Review 9.1 is here! Isn't it lovely? Order your copy today! We'll even give you a discount with the link below. #litmag #new #discount ponderreview.submittable.com/submit/f223e...

With all the news of funding cuts affecting lit mags, we just want to reassure everyone, we're not going anywhere. Issue 9.1 comes out next month, and this article has a discount link! #litmag #defunding #discount open.substack.com/pub/ponderre...

ChillSubs' analysis of social media at Lit Mag News made us feel better: they call a 10:1 follower/following ratio healthy. Ours is about 2:1. We're still looking for cool people to follow, but glad to feel less pressure to follow back. @chillsubs.bsky.social litmagnews.substack.com/p/social-med...

Exiting the #awp25 Book Fair after another exhausting yet exhilarating three days! See you in Baltimore for #AWP26!

Wow! 8 years ago I got my very 1st acceptance. Many thanks @ponderreview.bsky.social for setting me down the path. Hard to believe I'm now at over 100 published stories! It only takes one "yes" to get the ball rolling. #amwriting #publishing #shortstories

Contributor Julia Philipp stopped by our table at #AWP25 this afternoon. She was one of our Pushcart nominees. Great to meet her in person!

Happy Friday #AWP25! We’re already having a great day after our conversation with Mario, a poet from Iowa who stopped by the table in the first minutes of the Book Fair.

Before and after Day 1 of #AWP25

We're heading to #AWP25 see us at T1133! open.substack.com/pub/ponderre...

📢 Call for Submissions! ✍️ Ponder Review seeks Creative Nonfiction for our next issue! ✨ We’re Looking For: ✅ Engaging personal narratives ✅ Thought-provoking essays ✅ Lyrical and experimental nonfiction 📝 Deadline: March 15, 2025 📩 www.muw.edu/ponderreview... #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

Glad to be on this list of magazines with issues in December! It's not too late to order your copy. And we're reading #submissions right now!

River Hill: Part 1 Every #Southern town worth its salt has a ghost story. Will this be one? You’ll decide. Follow the story of Sarah, Rose, and Marcus. This #story was originally written on Twitter in 2019, and I'm recreating it here with minor changes. #rvrhl #twitlit #twitterature #fiction

Are you late making your New Year’s resolutions? Here’s one to add: send us your #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #plays #art and #media in 2025! Open now thru the Ides of March! (And again June 15 - Sept 15!) #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

#SubmissionCall And our next reading period has begun! Send us your #fiction #poetry #CNF #plays #art #newmedia December 15-March 15 ponderreview.submittable.com

Ponder Review 8.2 is here! Can’t wait to send you yours next week. #litmags #cover #newrelease

Only two days left for the 10:4 Tenn Playwriting Contest. Deadline, December 14! 10 minute plays, inspired by Tennessee Williams, the South, or the Southern experience loosely defined. #playwriting #contest #playwrights #submissioncall www.muw.edu/ponderreview...

Ponder Review 8.2 is arriving this week. Order your copy! www.ponderreview.com

The world is diminished by this loss. Such an inspiring poet and a life well led. Rest in peace Nikki Giovanni. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

It's not too late to submit your play to our 10:4 Tenn Playwriting contest. This year's final judge will be Gary Garrison, author of "Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play." Deadline: Dec. 14! #10minuteplays #playwriting #contest ponderreview.com

Vote for Ponder Review! (Why not...) You can always read our back issues online for free at www.ponderreview.com and judge for yourselves. Or order your copy of our new issue, coming this month.

Excited to share that “Last Rites” will be published in the upcoming @ponderreview.bsky.social! Developed during a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop, I’m so happy this one found a loving home! #writing

Now that our newest issue is at the printer, you can read the previous issue, Volume 8, Issue 1, in our archives for free. Order Volume 8, Issue 2 now or wait six months to read online... www.muw.edu/ponderreview...

Who else is going to #AWP25? We'll be there, find us in the #BookFair at T1133! @ponderreview.bsky.social @poetrysouth.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce our #Pushcart Prize nominees for this year.

We needed some good news this morning, and can't think of a better person to win the National Book Award in Fiction than Percival Everett! (Apologies to everyone who should be on the short list. I'm sure we'd be happy for you, too.) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/b...

We've been seeing more followers since the latest X-odus, so we thought we should re-introduce ourselves. We're a little magazine published by the MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi for Women. #Writers, #poets, #playwrights, and #artists watch for our next call for submissions Dec. 15.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and we were #2,892,827!

#Playwrights, we just heard the winning plays from last year's 10:4 Tenn contest performed at the Tennessee Williams Tribute in Columbus Mississippi. Today we opened submissions for our fifth annual ten-minute play contest. See our website for full details. ponderreview.com

Our submission window for Ponder Review 8.2 ended yesterday. Thanks to all who sent us their work! We're busy reading, trying to find the pieces that will combine to make another great issue. Read free back issues or order the next or the last issue on our website ponderreview.com #writingcommunity

With just one more week in our reading period, we'd love to see more CNF, short plays, and new media (though we're also always looking for poetry, fiction, and flash)! ponderreview.submittable.com
 #submissions #SubmissionSunday

Only 10 days until our Sept. 15 deadline! Send us your #CNF, #Fiction, #Poetry, #Plays, #Art, or #NewMedia writing. #callforsubmission ponderreview.submittable.com

We want to publish #newmedia /#digitallit like this. If you do this kind of work submit by Sept. 15 ponderreview.submittable.com

#Writers you have one more month to #submit to @PonderReview #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction #drama #digitallit #art ponderreview.submittable.com

Ponder Review is open for #submissions! With seven more weeks in our reading period, now is a great time to send us your #fiction #poetry #CNF #playscripts #art & #DigitalWriting #callforsubmissions ponderreview.submittable.com