We just published a really excellent feature on this with some sample answers depending on how snarky you want to be 🙂‍↕️

Ask our editors anything through November 30! We'll round up their answers for our January newsletter. 💬 Submit questions: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZzXqs7 Subscribe to our newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com

This is awesome.

"The news says that the bees are leaving but I'm still getting stung by things." "Notes Toward the Month After May" by Penny Wei, new poetry out today at OKD:

ICYMI: "Bed Rot," flash fiction by Sarah Chin:

Hi again! The app closes FOR REAL on Sunday, November 16, but we wanted to give you all one last weekend to apply. 😇

"I want to be lovely, but my eyelids are heavy with exhaustion and SuperMax XXL Lash Wow! Mascara. In other words, I want to be unconscious." "Bed Rot" by Sarah Chin, new flash fiction out today at OKD:

ICYMI: "Decomposing at Bathhouse, FiDi," poetry by Grace Dilger:

Have you ever wondered how... • a literary magazine is run? • decisions are made on submissions? • to improve your chances of getting published by an established literary magazine? Ask our editors (almost) anything by 11/30: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZ... Answers coming in our January newsletter! 🫏

Okay Donkey is looking for a Social Media Associate focused on graphic design! This role pays a small honorarium (read: "independent lit mag"-sized). Apply with our super short form by Friday, November 14 for first consideration. More details: forms.gle/E9MCaKzEAE1x...

"Don't draw me when I'm this supple. Sketch me croissanted slow crumbling." "Decomposing at Bathhouse, FiDi" by Grace Dilger, new poetry out today at OKD:

ICYMI: "Spirals," flash fiction by @narwhallington.bsky.social:

Did you catch this tidbit in our newsletter? We're looking for someone to help us with our social media (graphics specifically)! Details within. ✨

Happy November from Okay Donkey! 🦃 In our latest newsletter, Lead Fiction Reader Jeanette broaches what can be a tricky topic: What happens when your family asks about your writing this holiday season? Read on for more from OKD:

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In personal writing news, I have a flash fiction story up today in @okaydonkeymag.com! It's not scary as much as... spooky? okaydonkeymag.com/2025/10/31/s...

Love this haunting piece so much. For fans of Junji Ito, Charles Burns, and doubling down.

It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions

"I start drawing the spiral on the back of my hand in crusty ballpoint pen, refreshing it whenever it fades, so when the aliens come back they'll know right away who to trust." "Spirals" by @narwhallington.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:

to find and to touch beauty in this life. beauty alone. it’s a sustenance. it’s here ⬇️

ICYMI: "There was a meaning," poetry by Amelia Averis:

Our plans for November are here! 🔥$15 Basic memberships! 🔥Chats with residency directors & @1demerith.bsky.social! 🔥A monthlong Write-More challenge led by @okaydonkeymag.com associate fiction editor @heidimarjamaki.bsky.social! And more👇 litmatchcollective.beehiiv.com/p/november-p...

"I will not die on this hill but I am freezing beautiful to an accidental death." "There was a meaning" by Amelia Averis, new poetry out now at OKD:

ICYMI: "You Be the Flotsam, I'll Be the Jetsam," flash fiction by @melissarudick.bsky.social:

I’m so excited to have this little story up today at Okay Donkey. It was a fun story to write and then later it was even more fun to work with the @okaydonkeymag.com team to polish it and make it even better 🐋💙

"When they asked me what it was like inside the whale, I forced a laugh, said, 'Dark and smelly!' To tell the truth of it was impossible." "You Be the Flotsam, I'll Be the Jetsam" by Melissa Rudick, new flash fiction out today at OKD:

ICYMI: "onwards and without delay," poetry by Alexandra Nwigwe:

I have a new poem out today at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social called “#latergram” about social media, growing up on the internet, and the expectations of ~*being online*~

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions. My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

"Much later, she tells me she was also scared, that she has gotten more scared with age. This does not bode well for me." "onwards and without delay" by Alexandra Nwigwe, new poetry out today at OKD:

The Shortlist for Oct 10: Look busy at work reading great writing. Links to nonfiction from: Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social & fiction from: Ashton Russell in @turnandwork.com Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com (...cont'd)

"Much later, she tells me she was also scared, that she has gotten more scared with age. This does not bode well for me." "onwards and without delay" by Alexandra Nwigwe, new poetry out today at OKD:

Check us out!

ICYMI: "Door in the Woods," flash fiction by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social:

We're excited to announce Amanda Parrack as our nominee for the 2026 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! We published Amanda's story "I Found a Stone Under My Skin" in January: okaydonkeymag.com/2025/01/10/i...

You guys still like starter packs, right? Be sure to browse our regularly updated guide of all our contributors and staff — it's writers all the way down! 💫 (Don't forget to reach out if you've ever appeared in OKD and you're not on here, and we'll add you)

New newsletter! 🫏 October at Okay Donkey brings a feature from @rinapalumbo.bsky.social on rejection (and…acceptance?!), our recent award nominees, and a few highlights from what our awesome contributors and staff are up to lately:

New newsletter! 🫏 October at Okay Donkey brings a feature from @rinapalumbo.bsky.social on rejection (and…acceptance?!), our recent award nominees, and a few highlights from what our awesome contributors and staff are up to lately:

Our October newsletter hits inboxes tomorrow! 🍂 Make sure you're subscribed so you can enjoy our own @rinapalumbo.bsky.social's feature on attempting to rack up 100 rejections in one year:

Walking through the woods convinced that @iamchrisscott.bsky.social’s Door in the Woods will appear around the next corner. 😂

This flash is so good. Man.

@iamchrisscott.bsky.social is so good. This one might be my favorite yet.

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through." "Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

ICYMI: "Hot-Desking," poetry by @maxminckler.bsky.social:

It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap! Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

I've found it, the perfect Monday poem

Absolutely chuffed that one of my favorite lit mags Okay Donkey have published my poem Hot-Desking! OKD is hilarious and wonderfully off-the-wall, have a read if you fancy a chortle or two. Huge thanks to the whole editorial team! #poetry

"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it. This desk is in a lion's mouth. This desk is made of something called wood, I think." "Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝