DEADLINE EXTENSION! We've had several folks reach out who'd appreciate a little more time to get their applications together. So we're extending the application window through 11:59pm CT on January 18th. Use your holiday weekend wisely! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

the damn shame of it is how hard it is to find a man who can spell

THE BULB REGION is now online! 🚀🚀🚀 Make sure to read our four inaugural pieces at: www.bulbregion.com —

why isn’t it hopeful romantic

Subs are open until Jan 12! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

"I’m having an affair with distance. The morning house is settled and known. I sip coffee, listen to the lonely call of the 4am freight train,...." My lord. I love, love this piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social so much. In @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...

said i love you to a stranger outside the thrift store the other day

how am I supposed to take a year seriously when it starts on a Thursday

maybe they call it yearning because it persists year after year after year

start the new year off with this little poem of heartbreak & beauty & hope Bre D'Alessio South https://www.havehashad.com/0kwmp

✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

i’m sorting through old fragments of texts + ephemera & am thoughtful about this bit by Sarah Manguso: “I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.” i’m not there yet. endless love to all of you ruminating on + reveling in another ending 🤎

just over here reading old love letters and listening to sad songs and crashing coffee cups to the ground as the year is about to turn

Michael, NYC 1986 📸 Ebet Roberts @michaelstipe.bsky.social

after submitting & publishing only one or zero stories per year since my book four years ago, I am proud to say I had 9 new stories (+1 reprint) published in some very wonderful journals in 2025. thanks so much to the editors & readers. you can find links at my website: annavangalajones.com/writing/

Submissions for the 2026 Noemi Press Book Award open on January 2nd Get those manuscripts ready, poets!

A reminder from Charles Olson, who was born on this day in 1910

"Every day, I drive by the tattoo parlor I don't go in for the tattoo I'll never get." Read @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. And don't forget to read the Author's Note. matchbooklitmag.com

“How madly I will love any faraway thing” made me stop reading, look out the window, and dream of a life where I wrote such killer lines. An incredible piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. www.matchbooklitmag.com

i wrote this piece long ago + @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social was kind enough to give it new life, which somehow suits all this year-end wistfulness. grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍

i don’t know who i am if i’m not falling in love

crow & aaron doing a last call of the year. open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.) especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings" all genre 500 word max havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...

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i love how the diner is always open

pirates, but pronounced like pilates

Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!! My gratitude is so deep this morning. lithub.com/100-notable-...

“Many years ago, I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)” “If you ask me about love, I’ll..” @dinalrelles.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/de...

always sit at the bar

I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...

“The moment we are living in may be lovely, but if we ‘can’t wait’ for some other time, do we miss it?” — Naomi Shihab Nye

lovely prominent placement for @ambersparks.bsky.social at @strandbookstore.bsky.social UWS!

If you want a _very_ brief poem this morning, @havehashad.com and I can provide. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/in-...

got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!! https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk

This @literaryhub.bsky.social glory days of Literary Twitter bracket is very amusing if you, like me, were way too online in a very specific book nerd way back in the day - if the words bad art friend, shitty media men & cat person mean anything to you, go vote! 😊 lithub.com/what-was-lit...

i love you like the first snow of the season

"Many years ago, I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)" Another stunner for a Sunday morning. Love the fracturing of time in this piece, how all these departures echo against each other

tonight’s moon 🤍

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

i would like to save daylight and nightdark and all the hours really, i would like to save them all

collage postcards with aphorism from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

Excited and humbled to be heading to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts next week for a two-week residency, made super possible by the generous support of the Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship!!!

are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years

Couple of love poems in the new issue of Waxwing -- waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

Come support @ladiwoods.bsky.social this week as she launches her debut collection in DC themillions.com/2025/10/the-...

i have two poems (w/audio!) in the new issue of blush, ft. so many great poets! been thinking about “productivity” & “achievement”, referring to poems as “work”, artist statements, lexicon i often saw when working at an art school, how to stay loose & silly, etc 🎡 www.blush-lit.com/alina-plesko...

had 3 poems published in blush the other day. AnD here they ArE. will read em tonight at molly's books & records alongside @alinapleskova.bsky.social for the launch of rachelle toarmino's HELL YEAH. these are my updates at this time! www.blush-lit.com/journal#/sad...

AppleCare but for the heart

This made me want to write my own version. From the author’s note: “Maybe it’s like this: if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return.”