This Sunday, Oct 19 at 8PM ET! We'll be chatting with our favorite fabulist @benloory.bsky.social about clarity, craft, and caring in our members-only Discord server. Not a member? Not a problem. Just subscribe to our newsletter for a 1-month trial 🔥 litmatchcollective.beehiiv.com

thank you @sageciggs.bsky.social for my first ever BotN nomination 💙

new chapbooks out now with two key customs! find me in a split with 5 other rad authors: poetry and viz art!

www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-... ‘s autopsy of desire makes me feel like my head will fall off if i pull at the scarf wrapped around my neck, and i’m greedily pulling at the scarf

@sageciggs.bsky.social gave my poem its home in their stargazer issue when i was feeling like the only person in the universe who believed in it... after years of no's they said YES 💛🙏✨

💥ANNOUNCING💥Rules of Verse--Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground Subs Open @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social on October 1st w/ Guest Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

it’s about to go down….

this might be the first event in yeeeeears to get me back up to bk 🚲💙

#sealeychallange i kinda tried and i’ll keep kinda trying til the end of everything 🎬

Open for subs until September 15, and we're light on prose and art. We love short and long stories and all types of visuals. Send us your best!

should i get bangs?

Did I mention Jordan's book is up at @roadsidepress.bsky.social for all yous doing the OG Sealey? 🚨ONLY ONE COPY LEFT of "These Are The People In Your Neighbourhood" www.magicaljeep.com/product/neig...

does genre ever really matter? i wrote about the utility of genre solely for publication goals— agree or disagree? let’s duke it out 🥊🥊 pop pop

it’s August 🌻 start #sealeychallenge version jess 🌻 read 1 poem per day from 31 different lit mags 🌻 @okaydonkeymag.com day 1 then @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social day 2 then day 3 ???? 🌻 suggestions welcome 🌻

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth! Pick your next reads from our 2025 reading list—and bookmark it for year-round recommendations from indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Today marks the start of Disability Pride Month and I’m thrilled my @sundresspub.bsky.social NERVE is included in this @clmporg.bsky.social reading list along with so many disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent favorites!

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There is only 4 days left of the HyphenPunk Kickstarter, and we're still 80$ shy of our goal to get things going. Please help out, even if it's just by sharing this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyp...

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Happy Monday — our June newsletter is out now! Take a look back as we mark our seventh anniversary, plus our own @rinapalumbo.bsky.social explores how printing out your writing can help you see it in a new light. Give it a read, and don't forget to subscribe!

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“We left our countries afraid we might die there, and now we might die here.” ❤️‍🔥

Same day pitch response? Same day pitch response. Send them now!

how do i recover? no i mean how do WE recover? no no - i mean how do i recover. from the 👀 | from the 🌀 | from the 💘

Follow Jethro’s Daughter’s search for self and agency, as she grapples with the sacred and the profane, exploring overarching themes of spirituality, sexuality, and identity in her little corner of the world. Take a stroll. New installment coming 5/15. www.bloodhoneylit.com/jethros-daug...

thank you @sageciggs.bsky.social 🌸

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we've launched and i'm screaming like katy perry and the girls: www.bloodhoneylit.com 👅have a taste...

Saturday April 26 at 2 pm EST. Register here for zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reminder! We promote OKD alums' publications, awards, projects, and life updates in our newsletter every month! If we've ever published you and you'd like us to boost something of yours, reach out: okaydonkeymag (at) gmail (dot) com.

the human experience as it was, is, and will be in 250 words is a FEAT ,plus, reverse haibun 🥹 my day is complete thank you Lei Wang goodnight i’m done

Lots of REALLY cool art and artists here on Bluesky. How amazing would it be if some of them ended up in our inaugural issue to kick things off? Send us your strange, surreal, and disturbingly beautiful! See submission guidelines on our website. www.bloodhoneylit.com/submissions

Niagara (1953) // Editor: Barbara McLean // technicolor noir

today’s task is to sign up for my Latvian library card 🫨 is this real life?

fierce competition for most quotable movie of all time — damn the man, save the empire 💗 Happy Rex Manning Day to all who observe 💗

YOU BROKE HIS BRAIN YOU BLOODY BABOON!!! IT’S A MADHOUSE!!! hbd most quotable film of all time 🗽

what are writerly investigations? why, the lifeblood of your literary life! give love to get love 💞

do say hi 👋 find me on ig @signature_trash as well 💛

Next up on How-To Tuesday: Learn how to generate a buttload of story ideas in one sitting w/ our essays editor Steph Auteri, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. ET (or watch recording later). https://hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-finding-story-inspiration-when-youre-all-tapped-out-with-steph-auteri/

Niagara (1953) Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald // technicolor

You LOVE Blood+Honey...You LOVE Blood+Honey...You LOVE Blood+Honey...

when @feversof.bsky.social called for Asbury Park/Bruce stories i knew i had to write something-i’d hung out in Asbury since i was a kid, lived on Heck St. as an adult-but then this CNF popped outta my head-a fun little shorty called ‘Bruce Smuce’-Thank you David! feversofthemind.com/2025/03/27/t...

well i can’t quote the entirety of ‘Sever’ bc that’s just silly but i want to 🔪 “here are my best bones” 🔪 “I promise not to howl my heart across the dining table like some foolish lamb” ❤️‍🔥

searched my name even though i don’t have books or papers out there & looks like there’s another jessica heron interested in bipolarity lmfao @ the odds 🛸

Niagara (1953) Dir. Henry Hathaway // colorized : technicolor

hold in your hands and breathe in the pages of gorgeous issue 4 of @the.champagneroom.journal -- available for pre-order now -- you'll want to carry this one with you for a while 💝 go to www.thechampagneroomjournal.com/product-page...

🐣 be good little birdies + tell your friends sage cigarettes magazine's cycle-themed volume 3 issue 1 is out now --enjoy 30 pieces of art, prose, & poetry at www.sagecigarettes.com --i love me some cycles but this honeybee meditation is a rare form for me + i might even be enjoying spring this year🌼

all other plans are canceled until further notice/completion of watchlist #horrorsky 💙

@okaydonkey.bsky.social is still looking for fiction readers, you’re gonna wanna get in on this — i did 🙃 apply by March 21