Moonlight Diner, Denver, CO

“—the em-dash is the music of disruption.” / more punctuation love

TONIGHT!

I like to think of the semicolon as saying "wait, I'm not done yet!" I hear them all the time when people speak.

I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...

a Linda Gregg poem for late summer

a late august morning

seeking someone who gets close enough to know the scar along my chin

If anyone guesses the exact* number of submissions we'll get, we'll let you guest edit a call. * we reserve the right to possibly reward who gets closest ** pls only guess once

5 year anniversary sub call on Thursday! Five (5!!) hour submission window, 8/21, 7am - noon ET Theme: "5" (What does that mean? Up to you!) Thx. We (heart) (and (skull)) you. -Aaron & Crow

“I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death.” — Annie Ernaux

Schmucker’s Diner, Toledo Ohio

I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! so grateful as always to wonderful editor @aaronburch.bsky.social + all of you who read this one 🤍💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/may...

august + endings 🧡

love my terrible first draft. grateful that it at least exists

Every edition of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social has something that breaks & mends me. It is a thrill to share something of mine there. Now go get a subscription!

Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Nonfiction Prize: I Am Mostly Bad Blood by Starr Davis, selected by May-lee Chai! We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026. #nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir

Still taking book pitches for @barrelhouse.bsky.social, through Aug. 9. Looking for short books (25K-30K words) that combine criticism and memoir, exploring some pop-cultural artifact that's played an outsized role in your life, or that connects in some unique/interesting way to your own story.

Open rn for a real quick call. Any genre, any length, any anything. Only one piece. Only taking 60. Send now or miss out. havehashad.submittable.com/submit/33185...

Chet’la, every single time! poets.org/poem/end-4

"Bets is falling apart. I guess maybe I am too. But somehow, for now, we both hold on." Here is a piece from our latest issue by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social we keep revisiting. Read it at the link in our bio. kenyonreview.org/piece/drivin...

Steve Edwards (@the-big-quiet.bsky.social) on Hopper, the heart, and trying to hold on…tinyurl.com/ybh9sesa 🤍

Thanks so much to our amazing intern Evangeline Lim for putting together these summer beauties for your reading pleasure! Featuring @dinalrelles.bsky.social @chloechun.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @joshmccolough.bsky.social Eli Kourtis, Ajay Makan, Aurielle Marie, Juliana Lamy, & more!

Book pitches (for short books!) are open, full details here

**Submissions open for matchbook June 23!**

the body is 70% water and 30% longing

stay tender somehow old postcard-collage-collab with @dinalrelles.bsky.social

I have lots of favorites in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. "Diner" by @dinalrelles.bsky.social is one I think of a lot: www.matchbooklitmag.com/relles3

june + december are similar seasons—so full of endings

"I once was so many things: June street corners and cigarettes and bare feet in creek water." We published this gorgeous, aching micro memoir by @dinalrelles.bsky.social‬ in our Tenth Anniversary postcards issue a few years ago & we think you should revisit it today! buff.ly/AjWQ9CZ

Alice Notley, you were so honest and real

EXHIBIT is out in paperback today!, with an updated cover 🖤 & here’s a banned-books fundraiser & lottery to mark this novel’s one-year birthday + www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635517/exhibit-by-r-o-kwon

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you feel so inclined, you can post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by me, originally published in @havehashad.com — it’s also the shortest poem collected in A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems 💌⛰️

6 of @anniejowrites.bsky.social’s favorite short stories from this century (so far & in no particular order):

i 🤍 Judith Kitchen

took some favorite people to a favorite place 💚

Applications are open for my next Essay Collection Incubator—an intensive 10-session class designed to help you complete & revise a full manuscript. There will be workshops, generative- & revision-focused assignments, & class visits w/ authors, agents, & editors. Apply by 6/4! bit.ly/4iYMEj3

We are deeply saddened by the news that our dear contributor Martha Silano has died. We loved her unique poetic voice & appreciated her kind spirit. We will miss her. Please take a moment to read her poem, "You can't trust," which hits a little different now: buff.ly/0XG54mL

Call for submissions! 🗣️ The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today! theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit

this favorite by Lydia Copeland Gwyn 🖤

MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US COMES OUT TOMORROW! bookshop.org/info/magic-c...

“Forgive us all for trying to find in this small & violent miracle of life just a little joy.” a Devin Kelly poem for your Sunday morning 🤍

I have absolutely no idea how many submissions this call and time window is gonna pull in, but I'm curious to find out!

#bingsphotos #photography #PhotographersUnited #believeinfilm #instantphotography #polaroid 📷 Polaroid Now Gen.2 🎞️ Polaroid i-Type color 'Wood In Winter'

open in JUST under an hour. link will be live AT noon ET. I imagine call will be full and closed and the link dead within minutes... if that long. see y'all soon! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/32513...

i love this little andrea cohen poem 🩶

🎉 Happy Anniversary Murmur! The band’s debut album was released 42 years ago this weekend in 1983… as always, share your favorite track in the comments.

For the first time in 18+ months, we (finally) have a call for open submissions again (for one month)! autofocuslit.submittable.com/submit

Linda Gregg 🖤

Solitude constructed a small ship. * (one of the few erasures that I literally erased)