Thank you everyone who came out to the launch party, it was a huge success!

It’s officially launch day! We’re so excited to bring you another edition of Short Vine. online.pubhtml5.com/jsglw/lawf/

We’re very excited to reveal the cover for the upcoming edition of Short Vine! The journal releases April 21st. Stay tuned for more updates.

We want to thank everyone who submitted to Short Vine in the past few weeks. Submissions are now closed, and we are making editorial decisions to bring you a wonderful edition of our journal. Short Vine Spring 2025 goes live April 21st on our website. #Writing #Publishing

"Reflections" by Ibrahim Mohammed, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Art

"On Being a Bird" by Elliot Briar, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Nonfiction

"Space Boots" by Tyler McDonald, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Poetry

"Aspirations" by Virginia Smith, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Fiction

"Black Girl Reflection" by Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Art

"Scene" by Natalia Lui, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Nonfiction

I’d like to get back to posting about literature and our upcoming edition, but our university just sent another email about what bathroom people are allowed to use. Anyways, submit your work down below— angry, anti-establishment pieces are encouraged shortvinejournal.com/submissions/

Just so we are clear the Short Vine Literary Journal will continue to publish diverse voices, empower equity, and promote inclusivity. Regardless of what our University Administrators decide is worth supporting, we will not abandon our community and principles. We will not comply in advance.

The University Of Cincinnati is replacing all of it's restroom signs with ones that designate use to only biological sex.

'Submissions for Issue 27 of The Manchester Review are now open. The submission window will be open from 24th Feb to 24th March 2025. Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.

There are still leaders in this country standing up for what’s right. Use this as an example—when people in power want to push you out of the way and erase you, plant your feet and tell them “I’m not going anywhere.”

Writing an opening that’s unforgettable, urgent, memorable & specific all at once seems…impossible? Somehow people do it, & in @crystalhanak.bsky.social’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class, she'll teach you how. One class, March 4, Zoom! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Hey neighbors! Please keep an eye on this list, and if you feel compelled, call your senators and representatives to voice your opinion.

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

Billy-Ray Belcourt.

If you cannot even barely move forward in fractional fucking increments, how does anyone ever accomplish anything in this nightmare, you're doing it right. The feeling is just that excruciating. Creative writing is pain. And if you ever get to feel actual joy in it for like one moment, live más

How do you get an agent? Is there money in this? Is there a God? Is this a projection of my fear that I will die alone and in panic so my plan is just to scream as loud as I can and call it Art?

❄️⛸️Pleased to share my Horror Nonet published now! ❄️⛸️ @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social @amygrech.bsky.social @charlesbarouch.bsky.social @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social @trishcwilson.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social @the-engine-idling.bsky.social

Lionel Richie talks about where he gets his energy at 75, what he thinks of American Idol, and the what makes the essential cornerstone of one's existence.

“Poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot ever aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection.” -- June Jordan

#WritingTips #writer #WriterSupport #writerhelp #writerlife

#CreativeWriting #AuthorLife #Storytellers #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerreality

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

We love to see poets experimenting with form. #poetry

APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW! Applications for our Summer Editorial Fellowship are due February 15. The program offers intensive training in editing and producing long-form, ideas-driven magazine writing for a general audience. Pay is $20/hr. For more details, visit:

As citizens of Cincinnati, we at Short Vine are so proud our neighbors who bravely stood up to a group of Nazis last week. White Supremacists have no place in the world, and will not be tolerated. Please be safe out there, protect each other, and LOUDLY call out hate when you see it.

From our Spring 2024 edition, a beautiful poem by Lillian Tzanev. #poetry #writing

The first submissions are coming in! Everyone on the team is excited to read your work.

Maybe the Cheifs are distracted by the downfall of democracy.

Gather round children, and let me tell you the tale of how when I was a child, eggs were so cheap we chucked them at cars and houses

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

A news segment about Urban Sketchers Cincinnati from a few years back. I believe this was our first in-person outing after the pandemic lockdown, which is why all the masks and references to social distance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXl...

Greetings puny mortals, it is I, TOTO! I want to let you know that my summer reading list was likely vastly superior to yours bc I read #LocusMag, and therefore have a team of humans to select books from the best of the best. Curses! I let the secret out. locusmag.com?utm_sou...

“If enough of them kill you, they’re innocent.” from Percival Everett’s “James” #sundaysentence

For Sunday a review of A Record Of Our Meeting With The Grand Faerie Lord Of Vast Space And It's Great Mysteries, Revised by A T Greenblatt in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social a story of being trapped in time and space nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-re...

Short Vine is now accepting submissions for Spring 2025! The theme is Perseverance and Permanence. What endures in the face of change. We are accepting both themed and general submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art&Photography. Learn more at ShortVineJournal.com

Great theme! I’ve added you to my lit mag starter pack: go.bsky.app/6exghcc

ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "Happily Ever After Comes Round" by Sarah Rees Brennan! (@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/happily-ever-after-comes-round/

“…at sixty-eight years old, I am no longer as worried about reception, so that means my work can be more honest and filled with personal integrity. I am doing what I want to do and how I want to do it.” —Benjamin Green Read the full interview with featured artist Benjamin Green (link in comments)

Read the full interview with featured artist Benjamin Green here: https://www.rfr.bz/b0aa39e

"I am a Great Team Player, Perfect for Your Open Position at the Children’s Workhouse"

Short Vine is now accepting submissions for Spring 2025! The theme is Perseverance and Permanence. What endures in the face of change. We are accepting both themed and general submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art&Photography. Learn more at ShortVineJournal.com