Congrats to our 2025 Best Spiritual Literature nominees!

We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com

We are honored to present some of the work that was read that night. For more, see you in Baltimore! @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social pbqmag.org/issues-110-1...

My debut poetry collection, April and Back Again, is coming Feb 24th, 2026, from @pubgen.bsky.social! You can get a peek at the vibes by reading "October (After My Hysterectomy)" in the Fall issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. www.whaleroadreview.com/taylor-5/

throwback thursday to that time @jenniferfliss.bsky.social interviewed me about HORSE SHOW for @whaleroadreview.bsky.social ! www.whaleroadreview.com/jess-bowers/

We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com We can’t wait to read your work!! #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit

“The beauty was unrelenting. / I don’t miss it. Look at this chipped mug, / there’s coffee stains inside.” I’ve been randomly thinking of this poem “After the Fall We Sit in a Dingy Kitchen” by Rita Tiwari on @whaleroadreview.bsky.social again late last night. www.whaleroadreview.com/tiwari/

Delighted to hear that my poem 'Moeritherium' has received a Best of the Net nomination! Published by the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, it was inspired by this model in the Natural History Museum 💙

Thank you @whaleroadreview.bsky.social !! 🩵🩵

“I recalled enough of the prayer to whisper it to the newts the next day, holding my hands over the plastic dollhouse like some kind of enormous god.” 🦎💛🙏🏼 Such a banger opening to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social’s Fall Issue.

“This Castle is a Creature,” aka one of my favorite poems we’ve published in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! “Will I ever stop being so childish. Sometimes I sharpen / my lead and sometimes I watch as much television as I / want and it’s glorious, shrimp’s eye of color.” 🏰 🌈 🦐 📺

And this year's Best of the Net nominees are... www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/ Congrats to all, and fingers crossed for you! :)

We have a very belated announcement: while working on this year's award nominations, we discovered that we'd neglected to announce last year's nominees for The Nina Riggs Poetry Award! www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/

My review of ODYSSEUS' DAUGHTER by Cammy Thomas has washed up in the perfect journal, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Thank you, @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social ! www.whaleroadreview.com/cammy-thomas/

I'm deeply grateful to Whale Road Review for publishing a conversation about occult fiction between me and the insightful novelist Ellen Birkett Morris. @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social

Aww, thanks for reading them, Nate. I love your poem in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social: www.whaleroadreview.com/fako/

Delighted to be included in the new issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for giving “UnNamed” a good home.

hey friends, i have a poem about how weird it is to have a body in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and I hope you'll visit the issue here: www.whaleroadreview.com/bolden/

Check out the latest short prose from our Program Director & UA faculty, @marybid.bsky.social, up at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 🐳 www.whaleroadreview.com/biddinger/

Thanks much for sharing, and gratitude to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social ✨

I want to thank the journals who published poems from my new book: @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @kenyonreview.bsky.social @oneart.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @laurelreview.bsky.social @nimrodjournal.bsky.social @newversenews.bsky.social @sixthfinch.bsky.social @versedaily.bsky.social ...

Excited & grateful for my poem “Every Poem About This Season Now Becomes a Lie” to appear in this outstanding new issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

New issue of Whale Road Review just dropped!!! 🍂 🎃 Grab your teas and pumpkin spice lattes and indulge some poems, prose, and pedagogy as a treat!

@whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social thank you for publishing Dad Calls her Gazelle www.whaleroadreview.com/harvey/

Happy to have a poem in the current WRR :)

I‘ve wanted to have a poem in Whale Road Review for a long time & now I finally do! Woohoo!! Thanks @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social! www.whaleroadreview.com/taylor-5/

Incredibly proud to be included in this issue!

Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

Finished proofreading @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Issue 40! (How are we on 40 already??) Prepare for some beautiful poetry and flash this fall. 🎃📚⛈️☕️ You’ll find God, or ashes, or tree bones, or the occult, chipped mugs after the Fall, jack o’lanterns & wombs, movies in DNA, paper bags & rosaries.

Stoked to be refilling tea and reading proofs for this fall’s issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! I don’t just say this about anything, I’m sincerely in awe at the poems and flash prose we get the honor of publishing every time. 🔥

Get ready for more Whale Road Review prose & poetry & pedagogy bangers dropping VERY SOON. 🐳 @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

So pleased to have a review of UK writer James Roderick Burns' chapbook, Salamander Street, in this fine publication - @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @davidbridie.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social

Congrats to Molly Bolton for being a Best of the Net finalist! Read her "Cosmic Slip" in Issue 33 of Whale Road Review. www.whaleroadreview.com/bolton/

New Issue of Whale Road is here💙

Been traveling for three weeks and absent from here, but I wanted to share this new piece in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, a hybrid piece that features grief, Ophelia, and the weather. I'd be grateful if you read it... This one is special to me. www.whaleroadreview.com/vorreyer-4/

“bless me, Father for I am imaginative and the desert is long” ❤️ 📦 🌅 🌈 Chelsea Catherine’s “an atheist’s prayer” is a wonderful opening to the newly dropped Issue 39 of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/catherine/

" I didn’t work on a poem for a boss or for a salary, but I worked on my poem because it was an intellectual challenge." from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/hirt

I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poems

Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).

Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire": www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/

Just donated. ❤️ Please help in any little way.

I remember this! This hits different now that I’ve finally read Flannery O’Connor through a grad school lit seminar.

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed through an entire interview before, but @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social made it happen. Thanks to Aaron and Dave for the hilarious conversation about my old poems! www.mybadpoetry.com/a-prayer-cou...

One of our contributors has cancer. Please join us in giving Chad Gusler some support. ❤️ gofund.me/124918ba

#FF It’s National Walnut Day! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these folks in the lit community beginning with the letter “W”: @westchesterreview.bsky.social @westofcanon.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @whiptailjournal.bsky.social @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

2. "Grubb Run Sonnet" considers Abraham/Issaac and me/my own children at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social.

We're so sad to learn that Martha Silano has passed. It was an honor to publish her work. "Because solving’s just another word for letting go." - from "Why I'd Make a Great Chemist" by Martha Silano www.whaleroadreview.com/silano-2/

What a joy to celebrate 10 years of Whale Road Review at AWP last week! We had sparkling cider toasts, nonstop author signings, and a fantastic off-site event with @swwim.bsky.social, @merliterary.bsky, @perugiapress.bsky.social, and Cultivating Voices Live Poetry!

The amazing AWP pix keep rolling in! Here’s board member Shoshana Olidort w/ Editor/Director Rebecca Olander & poet Melody S. Gee at our offsite & w/ some of the other co-organizers, Catherine Esposito Prescott & Mary Block from @swwim.bsky.social & Katie Manning from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social ♥️

So many beautiful moments at AWP—The amazing poets and writers who read at our two off site events, Off site.On purpose. with our colleagues from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social and @cultivatingvoiceslive