How long should we expect to wait to hear from @clmporg.bsky.social after paying the fee and completing the membership application? Tomorrow makes a week, and I'm just curious about what happens next, and there has been no communication other than the receipt email.

Hey litmag editors/publishers/creators!

Hey litmag editors/publishers/creators!

Our March issue will feature @adeniro.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @saraheldot.bsky.social @anderscrawford.bsky.social, Vesper, Ryan Farrell, Audrey Kim, Julio Cesar Villegas, R James Sennett Jr, and Zebo Zukhriddinova. Thanks to all who submitted! Our most difficult selection season yet!

Just a note that I publish +doc, a little lit mag for longer poems, and I'm still looking for work for the next couple issues. I usually put up a call on Chill Subs, and I might eventually anyway, but I thought I'd hold off this year to give people more time to submit, if they're interested.

Our official position on submissions using generative AI: We will only publish original poetry written without the use of generative AI including, but not limited to, ChatGPT. If we discover during the reading process any plagiarism or AI, we will discard the submission.

So it occurred to @dusti.bsky.social in the shower that we have never stated our official generative AI position. We’ll be adding it everywhere later today. Next post will contain it and be pinned for a bit.

85% of submissions for the upcoming issue of @delicatezine.bsky.social came from @chillsubs.bsky.social users. And my MFA program recently partnered with them, too. They’re responsive and always working on doing better stuff. Happy with them as both a writer AND an editor.

Also, in the next couple days we will be announcing our poets for the March issue!

Ramadan has started, and the World Central Kitchen has a program to distribute food aid to people in Gaza. Each kit for Ramadan contains nearly 30 pounds of halal—enough for up to 70 meals. If you have spare funds, please consider a donation of $60 to assist the people still struggling in Gaza.

We have a limited number of back issues available in our Ko-Fi shop, including a copy of the very first issue (the last one that is not for our archives). Check it out at ko-fi.com/delicateemis.... Each issue is $2.50 including postage right now!

Becoming a CLMP member was first on our goal sheet this year.

Notes from the editor on getting a record number of submissions, trying to stay intentionally small, etc. Any other editors of small-team publications wanna talk about this kind of stuff?

We had a *spectacular* response to our call for poems for the spring issue! Reading and selections will begin tonight, and all who submitted should receive an email decision by Monday, 2/23 at 6 pm Central Standard Time.

Hi there, poets. So we had a discrepancy in dates, and the submission form itself says submissions are open through 11:59 PM CST on Wednesday, 2/18, which is tomorrow. Dusti just reactivated the form. You have another day and a quarter to submit if you haven't done so yet!

Well, we traveled and forgot to close the form until about fifteen seconds ago, so how lucky are you if you got to submit past the deadline?!?

We are so excited to read your submissions next week! YOU STILL HAVE TIME!

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social @wtevs.bsky.social @teamziller.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com @thelogantrent.bsky.social @thaumatropia.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658118

We're accepting submissions through 11:59 Pacific Standard Time pm on Sunday, February 15! Click the link in our bio to see what we do, read our guidelines, and complete the submission form!

We're accepting submissions through 11:59 Pacific Standard Time pm on Sunday, February 15! Click the link in our bio to see what we do, read our guidelines, and complete the submission form!

We had some friends come through for our December issue and their generous donations covered half the cost of printing! Anyone can donate, make a purchase, or join as a monthly member on our Ko-Fi page — find it on our LinkTree in our bio here! Someday we’d like to PAY OUR POETS!

Solid policy 💗

☆ SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN ☆ Our theme for Issue 06 is MAGIC, and we encourage you to think outside the box. Examine the magic of the everyday, or consider the practice of magic. What does magic mean to you? Is it a human quality, or does it defy explanation? Submit here: forms.gle/DB8v9PzWiajp...

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On our submission form, we let poets know up front that we will not include links to their X profiles or their Substacks. We understand that some have not yet been able to give up the platform & still want full promotion. We’re sure those poets will find a publication without the same restrictions.

"Four Poems" by Dusti RW Levy “If I am made in the image of god, then god / has been set on a pedestal, glared at, stared at, spit on…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/levy-...

Here's the plan: get back to posting and promoting our poets here; keep the Tumblr going and increase engagement there; keep collecting public domain art to use in our online spaces; keep being worthy of donations to keep us going in print; collect our posts from Instagram and eventually post here.

Is there a hidden (from me) way to schedule posts on BlueSky yet? Yes, I get that connection is the point -- and agree, that's what I like about this place -- but also it would be helpful for a full-time grad student / grad teaching assistant to be able to line up posts on the weekend.

Oh, no! We didn't get enough submissions for a full issue. So, we're leaving submissions open until Feb 25. Send us your work on the theme of "repair." Open to racially and ethnically marginalized, gender variant, and disabled creatives only. Guidelines: www.globalmajoritypress.org/guidelines/

You know our philosophy on FREE SUBMISSIONS here. If you have 5-10 poems ready, go submit to ONLY POEMS!

Good morning to the poets and to the people who love poets. That should cover everyone. 🌞

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for Spring 2026! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Have you (writer, poet, zine-runner, litmag editor) checked out @chillsubs.bsky.social yet?

Read "Utility Bill with Ants" by Sean Wang from Volume IV, Issue 4 of delicate emissions poetry zine.

Let's break up the monotony of midweek with some #whimsy. Read "Into a Cloud", the latest Breath + Seal poem published on Tiny Prophecies. "I look at the clouds and want to believe they’re pillows, something I could curl into..." mercurialsilver.com/blogs/tiny-p... #breathseal #poetry #writing

New micro-poem today in the newest issue of The Odd Magazine. theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity31/odd... #poem #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting

💊 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💊 Feeling sick and tired of being sick and tired? Pill Bottle Press is looking for your work! Submit #poetry, #prose, #art, and #photography submissions until March 7th! Visit PBP's website for details: pillbottlepress.com Submit via email to [email protected]

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #FalseCrowns. Not royalty — rot. Don’t post before Friday. That shine? That reverence? That’s the problem. Tag it. Use Alt Text.

"There is so little time to teach you about the wild. I still have to show you how to grin, for the world. How to make it obey, how to remove it from its axis and bounce it the July street. Slap it, balance it, make it only spin for you." - Kristen Reece mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I tell myself he’s okay—until I catch him out there in the withering dusk, spraying the hose into the air like warning shots. Keep back, he shouts. Keep back from my tomatoes." -Rachel Weinhaus mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Submissions are open for issue 6 of Metachrosis Magazine. We are accepting submissions of all forms of art and writing through Duosuma and Curatorspace, with all information and links available via metachrosislitmag.com/submission-g... . #opencall #subsopen #litmag #artmag #opencall

Here's @audreyhowitt.bsky.social 's "Ikigai in a Fascist World" from Volume IV, Issue 4 (December 2025) of Delicate Emissions.

Note: if you're a contributor who wants to get your copy but didn't send us your address, please check your email!

Contributor copies of the December 25 issue are ready to drop in the mail, and anyone can now purchase a copy from our Ko-Fi store! ko-fi.com/s/4869d8f0e8

Excellent response to @thecwa.bsky.social announcing they will no longer use X as a platform. We agree! Every day is the perfect day to leave X.

Rick is a delicate emissions poet!

We're taking submissions through February 18. Check out all our past issues on our Linktree (in bio!) and find our guidelines on the submission form. We'd love to read your poems!

Here's the poem "confession, too late" by @theonlyjohnsweet.bsky.social . Hit up the Linktree in our bio here to see this on Tumblr and in our online issue.

We've updated out Ko-Fi with a new set of membership tiers and a new fundraising goal. ko-fi.com/delicateemis...

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...