And our Best Microfiction nominees are... www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/

Thanks to my friend, @beekaekae.bsky.social, for breaking my heart in such a beautiful way. More of this, please! www.whaleroadreview.com/kanter/

I approached teaching as a self-reflective practice of re-imagining, co-creating, learning from each other. You too can carry out my FINAL ASSIGNMENT from those wondrous decades of teaching at Cornell! (Thank you for the reprint, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social) www.whaleroadreview.com/gilliland/

This 10-year anniversary reading for Whale Road Review was amazing! I spent most of the time teared up (in the best way). <3

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social

Happy 10th anniversary to the wonderful Whale Road Review!!🎉🎉🎉 I’m very thrilled to be a part of this issue with my review of ‘Down River with Li Po’ by the multi-talented creative whirlwind @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social! Please check it out! www.whaleroadreview.com/karen-pierce...

The latest issue of Whale Road Review is so tenderly curated. Each piece is a coin of beach glass. I especially loved Brian Delaney's "The Garage."

My review of Rosa Castellano’s striking #poetry collection, All is the Telling, is now up. Thanks to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for welcoming it! www.whaleroadreview.com/rosa-castell... @diodeeditions.bsky.social

i am in issue 41 of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and so is gordon ramsey: www.whaleroadreview.com/plumhoff/

Wow, what a review! By one of my favorite poet/writers @jenwithwords.bsky.social Her scope of view, of understanding, captures beautifully the #DownRiverWithLiPo journey. @blackcatpress.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social #LiPo #poetry #PoetsofBlueSky bsky.app/profile/jenw...

"Mists slowroll through starless three a.m. air, moistening the omnipresent chill." Such atmospheric writing from @totheverso.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. The build of fear is so tangible: www.whaleroadreview.com/rundquist/

"I said I didn’t like things to be strong and fragile at the same time. The man who would become my husband laughed." Love the looping nature of this poem from @janezwart.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/zwart-2/

"I’ve become a ghost of myself. The quiet was nice at first, proof we were comfortable I thought. Interesting— how you get used to anything" Wonderful weaving for intimate story and wider context in this poem from @mafigg.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

"When your snoozed alarm goes off again, our faces are pressed together and the air between us is hot enough to steam shrimp." Read this story from @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!!!!!

Our 10-Year Anniversary Reading this morning was so moving and wonderful! Thanks to all who celebrated with us! You can watch this incredible reading on YouTube: youtu.be/I0qfia3Ahr8?...

Better than AI any damn day of the week.

Tomorrow! 🎉

I'll be reading at this!

My journal is 10 years old! ❤️🎉 I hope you enjoy our new winter issue!

thrilled to have a poem in her with so many great writers: www.whaleroadreview.com/figg/

Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41

Lit mag readers, it’s time to nominate your fave for a Chill Subs award!!🥇 ✨

but I’m still here still whispering the million names of God by day a woman at night a dove — @maudmci.bsky.social from “Dove Woman” 🕊️ @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/mcinerney/

subs open! 🐳 🐋

Better than Saturday morning cartoons back in the day. I'll be reading with others for this. Hope you can make it!

And we're open again! Send us work for our Summer and Fall issues! www.whaleroadreview.com/submission-g...

Congratulations nominees!!! 🐳 🐋

I am happy to share that a piece of prose of mine, "Once, We Were Under the Sea," a musing on hunting for shark teeth in rural central Florida, has been nominated by @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social

We're delighted to share our nominations for the Pushcart Prize and The Nina Riggs Poetry Award! Congrats to our nominees! www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/

"they never taught in history class how to hold massacre in the same hand as home" my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/

Today's voter comment shoutout goes to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! And as always, vote for our Best Lit Mag Awards here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Finished reading the @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Issue 41 proof and it’s beautiful, crisp, contemplative as always. Once again, there’s poetry, pedagogy, and prose that will linger with me long after. Excited for everyone to be able to read it soon. I’m truly proud to read for Whale Road Review. 🐳

Good news! You are invited to WRR's 10-Year Anniversary Reading! Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time Register in advance: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hello, friends! In case you'd like to vote for us and/or some of your other favorite lit mags, here's the link for this year's Chill Subs awards. Voting ends on Dec. 7. :) www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Coming soon: Our 10th anniversary winter issue and our December reading period!

psst.... go vote for the @chillsubs.bsky.social's Best Lit Mag awards. You *can* vote for us, or for an actually great mag like @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, @asteralesjournal.bsky.social, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, etc... 😁 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Because I try not to revel but I revel Poem by Martha Silano #poetry @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

Here's the 3rd and last poetry video from Temporary Shelters. The poem, Gunpowder Homestead, was first published by @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. I hope you like it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSoQ...

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/