Writing Alina
@zollizen.bsky.social
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Presence-seeker, hope-writer.
https://artisttrust.org/artists/alina-zollfrank/
Current frame of mind.
about 1 month ago
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Reckon Review
about 1 month ago
New creative nonfiction today at Reckon. Come visit and read "Mothering, 21st Century Edition" by Alina Zollfrank
@zollizen.bsky.social
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Thanks to @wayfarermagazine for letting a couple of my more somber pieces land.
www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/making-it
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www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/beach-trea...
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Making It
A Poem by Alina Zollfrank
https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/making-it
about 2 months ago
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Burningword Literary Journal
about 2 months ago
Alina Zollfrank
burningword.com/2026/01/alin...
#nonfiction
January 2026 Burningword Literary Journal
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And this one is for all of you. Because we hold on.
amethystmagazine.org/2026/01/09/i...
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I Sit Like Mary Oliver – a poem by Alina Zollfrank
I Sit Like Mary OliverThis book of poetry nestled into my chest. Hold there, I tell my thoughts. If Mary did then I can. Hold that glossy stone in your palm. Let it speak with lilting tongues. Hold…
https://amethystmagazine.org/2026/01/09/i-sit-like-mary-oliver-a-poem-by-alina-zollfrank/
3 months ago
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Dedicated to our immigrant friends and neighbors. And to my people, the ones that made me.
burningword.com?s=zollfrank
#immigration
#legal
#regime
#identity
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Search results for "zollfrank" | Burningword Literary Journal
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3 months ago
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
3 months ago
The 2025 DIAJ Award Winners: The Bee by Emily Molinari Tuulikki Bakes a Cake by September Woods Garland Sweating Like a Mother by Alina Zollfrank Buddy's Picasso by Komal Sharma TOWER TOUR by Brian C. Billings A Review of Larks by Han VanderHart by Eleanor Ball
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards
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DIAJ Awards
Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards
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Ahhh, I'm excited about the timing of this December publication to include one of my earliest childhood memories. Halfway Down the Stairs's Intuition issue is gorgeous and a good place to sink your near-end-of-year brain into.
halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/b...
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Bump, by Alina Zollfrank
The first time I remember she was bent over me with serious pupils popping out of her face, and I kept asking the nice lady who she was. “I’m your Mama,” she said, and the winter sun shone through …
https://halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/bump-by-alina-zollfrank/
4 months ago
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This is needed, crucial, and vitally timed.
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Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts | Literary Arts Fund
New York, NY (October 28, 2025) – Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations—the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mell...
https://literaryartsfund.org/announcing-literary-arts-fund/
5 months ago
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www.chollaneedles.com
published a rather candid essay I wrote in edition 106, AND the full-page black-and-white photography throughout and the popping cover page are courtesy of my sharp-eyed artistic firstborn. The editor is attentive and caring - a delightful experience!
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Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library
a non-profit literary corporation<p><em> <i>Our publications are available locally at Rainbow Stew, Space Cowboy, and Raven's Book Shoppe.</i><p> send your poetry/short stories/photos/art/essays to ed...
https://www.chollaneedles.com/
6 months ago
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Full House Literary
6 months ago
🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟 Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
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That's how I feel most of these days: NOPE. Thank you to Writers Resist for shouting what is true and urgent and uncomfortable into the world, and for publishing my
www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
(Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)
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NOPE – Writers Resist
https://www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/nope/
6 months ago
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So, whatcha readin'?
6 months ago
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So excited about Tint Journal choosing to work with me! I felt called to highlight some of the profound learning that happens when we invite foreign exchange and refugee students into communities.This was a formative period in my life.
#ESL
#ELL
#exchange
#school
#culture
#memoir
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7 months ago
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Let me do you a favor. If you're over, say, 45, and you have brought children to adulthood or near adulthood, and if you have parents or memories of parents, and if you've had love and loss and sand between your toes, your heart wants to read this book.
#sandwich
#catherine_newman
7 months ago
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Corporeal lit mag
8 months ago
The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period) Alina Zollfrank Unmentionable
www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
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Alina Zollfrank — Corporeal
The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period)
https://www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
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Thanks,
anotherchicagomag.bsky.social
, for helping me give a voice to something that needs one. "You get how this system is an entity that assumes people exist to serve it in perpetuity, instead of the system serving the people."
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r...
#insurance
#menstruation
8 months ago
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Ha! This one is outside of my usual repertoire but a pretty accurate description of %$^& that's happened to us.
oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-alin...
Thanks to all of you making the art, speaking the words, and supporting the things and people who need supporting.
#poetry
#wordplay
#doom
#oddball
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Poem by Alina Zollfrank - oddball magazine
Artwork by Mark Blickley
https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-alina-zollfrank/
9 months ago
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Excited that HOOT chose me for their July postcard. And yes, you can order postcards by subscribing to
www.hootreview.com/and
supporting a small, independent platform for the arts!
www.hootreview.com/.../hoot-pos...
9 months ago
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I'm mulling over a new writing project and could use the friendly hive mind. (Responses will be used anonymously). Define what you consider a "bad person" or "bad people." Ready? Go!
#bad
#labels
#writing
#survey
9 months ago
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Read this. I mean it. It is GORGEOUS and CLAIRVOYANT. Racial issues? Check. Book bans? Check. Power grabs? Check. History rewritten? Check. Borders & wars? Check. Bodily autonomy? Check. And so much beauty. And yes, sizzle 🙂. Read this.
#Laurie_Forest
#The_Black_Witch
#fantasy
#novel
#resistance
10 months ago
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Unreasonably proud that my piece "(Tongue)Eaters" is in SAND Journal's Issue 8. A gorgeous publication that couldn't have come at a better time when we worry about our people, all species, and the planet.
#environmentalism
#nonfiction
#resistance
#renewal
10 months ago
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This is a first. My firstborn has two pieces of photography in this, and I a poem. We love, love Last Leaves Literary Magazine. Please support small presses & journals. Free download for this **Issue 10** at
www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-...
. Print copies available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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Last Leaves Issues | Last Leaves Mag
Literary magazine accepting art and poetry submissions.
https://www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-issues
10 months ago
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So glad this piece landed at Full House Literary. Reality is what we make of it.
www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...
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We’re All Just Tourists Here by Alina Zollfrank — Full House Literary
https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script/were-all-just-tourists-here-by-alina-zollfrank
11 months ago
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12 months ago
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"The threat of collapse and utter loss can provoke a deeper sense of wholeness, where nothing but total involvement and whole-heartedness will work." - quote of the day from Michael Meade's nourishing book "Why the World Doesn't End"
12 months ago
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Good book for all women to ready today. Loss comes in all shapes and forms. So do clarity, and empowerment. And: it's beautifully written. Grab those tissues.
about 1 year ago
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NPR wants to know how people are doing with the whole free-speech thing.
www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g...
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Do you feel you can exercise your right to free speech? NPR wants to hear from you
NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loose more under President Trump or are you holding back?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54640/trump-free-speech-democracy
about 1 year ago
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Musings on guns and birds and cancer and, well, peace. My gratitude to Sierra Nevada Review for the care and editorial guidance. To all of you reading: pretend you're birds today.
www.sierranevadareview.com/alina-zollfr...
#poetry
#piece
#guns
#cancer
#evolution
#technology
#peace
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Skin and Feathers | Alina Zollfrank — Sierra Nevada Review
https://www.sierranevadareview.com/alina-zollfrank
about 1 year ago
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What I'm reading right now. Why? Humanity. Shared truth. Feelings, feelings, feelings. Where to donate?
poemsnotbombs.org
#poetry
#Ukraine
#dictator
#war
#deafness
#suffering
#peace
#children
about 1 year ago
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I was so glad to get this in the mail this week from
comstockreview.org
. I am now, more than ever, channeling my grandparents' generation who faced total destruction and hardship beyond belief. Yet, they rebuilt.
about 1 year ago
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You AND your friends and relatives in "otherwise oriented" states need to contact elected officials to protect Medicaid. If this program is slashed or tied to certain loopholes, access barriers, etc, innocent people *will* suffer and die. More info at
5calls.org/issue/protec...
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Protect Medicaid Funding â‘ 5 Calls
Medicaid is a health insurance program serving 72 million low-income and disabled Americans that is jointly funded and administered by …
https://5calls.org/issue/protect-medicaid-funding-cuts/
about 1 year ago
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Brian Tyler Cohen
about 1 year ago
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
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Grateful to the deep, caring people at Braided Way Magazine for accepting another one of my pieces. If you're reading this - much love to you and the women in your life.
braidedway.org/stories-told...
#grief
#women
#empowerment
#spirituality
#ancestors
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Stories Told in the Cemetery - Braided Way Magazine
I dive into the peace and greet all of these women, those before me, those now, and those to come.
https://braidedway.org/stories-told-in-the-cemetery/
about 1 year ago
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Perfect timing. Big shout out to the marvelous people at Eastern Iowa Review for letting this solemn piece land safely.
www.portyonderpress.com/alina-zollfr...
#evolution
#dictators
#nature
#philosophy
#CNF
#hopelessness
#species
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Alina Zollfrank - A Couple of Things
CREATIVE NONFICTION ALINA ZOLLFRANK ​
http://www.portyonderpress.com/alina-zollfrank---a-couple-of-things.html
about 1 year ago
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"The President’s remarks today suggesting the deadly crash of Flight 5342 may have been the fault of public servants with disabilities are irresponsible, disparaging, and wrong. "https://www.ndrn.org/resource/dca-crash/ Spread truth, people, spread truth.
#disabilities
#truth
#FAA
about 1 year ago
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You CAN do this today: Go to
www.thearc.org/action
to explain to legislators that Medicaid is a lifeline. **Share this with anyone and everyone you know in other states, too.** Remember: There is strength in numbers, and there a a lot of good people.
#disability
#Medicaid
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The Arc Action Center
Action Center
https://www.thearc.org/action
about 1 year ago
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The poem I wish I'd written. I hope this one will make it into history books down the road ... unless books become a hoax. Sending hugs to all of you who need them.
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Yes. This.
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Red Wine & Blue
about 1 year ago
Sunday’s Zoom with
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
was full of wisdom on how to navigate 2025—focus on what you can control, find your people, and never stop learning. So, what’s your game plan to make it through the year?
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We can't cave. That's what they want. So we fight back with what we have. I have words. "I hold my heart outside my chest and use it as a megaphone."
zollizen.medium.com/courage-is-c...
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Courage Is Contagious
“We are the apocalypse” -
https://zollizen.medium.com/courage-is-contagious-40a9c7cce7cd
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Thanks to Tipton Poetry Journal for giving my angry-exhausted "Choices" a home.
issuu.com/tiptonpoetry...
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tpj62
Tipton Poetry Journal, located in the heartland of the Midwest, publishes quality poetry from Indiana and around the world. Statistics: This issue features 32 poets from the United States (20 unique ...
https://issuu.com/tiptonpoetryjournal/docs/tpj62
over 1 year ago
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Reckon Review
over 1 year ago
My heart needed this today. New Wind and Root from columnist Barlow Adams and Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick:
reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...
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By the talented
www.jeannetteencinias.com/about
Work The work now is to keep the heart open, strong, and alive no matter what happens. This is hard work. The tallest order. The deepest prayer. I wake in the morning...
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About | Jeannette Encinias
Home
https://www.jeannetteencinias.com/about
over 1 year ago
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Full House Literary
over 1 year ago
What better way to come back than with Pushcart nominations woohoo. Best Microfiction to follow this post. A huge congrats to
@noranadj.bsky.social
,
@zollizen.bsky.social
,
@michaelimossan.bsky.social
, DC Restaino,
@rushikawick.bsky.social
and Ally Fowler! 🎉
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Looks like this place is where the brains, the hearts, the guts, the giggles, grins, and hugs have ended up. Thanks for making me feel sane. I share this with you out of love. Just got published, thanks to
@heimatreview.bsky.social
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www.heimatreview.com/a-list-of-th...
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By Alina Zollfrank November 15, 2024
https://www.heimatreview.com/a-list-of-those-things.html
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