"In the distance, three or four grey blurs may be cranes or mirages of cranes or simply, because I want them so much, dreams." "Three Fields" by Lola Haskins 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social

The folks at Susurrus magazine are out with their latest issue and it's a doozy! Be sure to check it out at susurrusthemagazine.com

"Wings blinked silver in the thick air, then went still. The sound was not music, but machinery— old and bone-deep—buzzing like some mechanical beast abandoned among the trees." "All That Lives" by Hali Sofala-Jones 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social

The latest edition of Susurrus is out! Go have a look at the Spring 2026 issue for great writing, pretty and some amazing photography! @susurrusmag.bsky.social

"About daybreak-fresh first love when everything awkward is feeling and upside-down heartbreak world falling away and you without ego..." "Love's Precarity" by GTimothy Gordon 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social

"January, I sip my tea and read my books, and the cat enjoys the pale sun on the sidewalk. February gestates like a new lamb like a birdsong like the Brigid flame in oakwood." "Light in February" by @wrendonovan.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social

I'm so honored to be part of this stellar group of writers at one of my favorite journals. Thank you to @tylermalone.bsky.social for my fitting artwork too! I've written very little in the last 18 months. This story bears more weight than usual. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/potemkins-bo...

I have lots of photos published in an incredible lit zine called Susurrus. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It's one hell of an experience. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-fourteen #poetry #writing #photography #photos #fiction

A little something else I done wrote, this time a chronicle of my family’s misadventures with ESP. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/sentinel-days

Thanks to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my story "Graveyard of the Atlantic" in their recent issue. It's about shipwrecks and best practices in the motel business. Read it, if you want: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/graveyard-of...

🐴Welcome to Issue Fourteen! We hope you find something that makes you feel right at home.🐴 View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-fourteen 📸: Tyler Malone

🎉 Congratulations to our 2026 #BestNewPoets Nominations: "Owl Splinters" by Tyler Jagt "Don't Empty Houses Ring?" by Claire Nelson

Be sure to purchase your copy of @altcurrent.bsky.social's #BestSmallFictions 2025, which features @susurrusmag.bsky.social contributor Faithna Geffrard's award-winning story "No Ponyboy"!

Dear Susurrus family, It is with heavy hearts that we share with you that writer Deborah-Zenha Adams recently passed away.

🎉Congratulations to @susurrusmag.bsky.social contributor Matt Thomas on his latest book of poetry, Cicada, Dog, & Song! "In the tradition of Robert Frost and Ted Hughes, [Thomas] writes about animals and rural life with compassion but an unflinching, critical hand..." - William Miller

"There is so much to forgive, and I don’t even know if I am capable of forgiveness yet. Forgiveness has always felt to me like climbing a mountain by fingernail with no mountaintop photo." "Forgiveness is the cash you need" by Alma Vargas 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

🔔 Today's the final day! Submit your work to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for our Spring 2026 issue, Issue Fourteen! #OpenForSubs #WritingCommunity

"They would sit down to Sunday dinner and praise their good fortune in pious displays. The ritual was lost on Tom Stackwood; he did not see it in his future." "Frenchman’s Ferry" by D Bedell 📸: Scott Craig

Incredibly honored to be judging Mercer University’s inaugural Anya Krugovoy Silver @poetsorg.bsky.social Poetry Prize. She once wrote in my copy of I Watched You Disappear that she thought I would do great things. What greater thing than to remember you always, in everything I do? 💜

"Every love I have ever known ended because of my excessive examination of it. To me, it was like some small insect underneath a microscope." "Mind Reading" by Savannah Bell 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

I don't write every day, but I worry about my writing every day, and in this economy I think that's pretty solid.

"You and I now are something warm but never again urgent. In another life, where things have lives and inside jokes and regrets and maybe even jobs, a curtain might dream of being a blanket." "Vita Nuova" by @gregfreed.bsky.social 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Hope y'all had some fun at @awpwriter.org! Don't forget @susurrusmag.bsky.social closes for submissions in one week!

Here's another shameless plug for my photography in the latest edition of Susurrus magazine. Thank you, @susurrusmag.bsky.social

"There were people, sitting on plastic food court chairs, standing by the YOU ARE HERE mall map; the little girl could have belonged to anyone here but no one seemed to be looking for her." "Have You Seen This Child?" by Roberto Ontiveros 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

"A hummingbird dances among yellow honeysuckle, quick enough to evade your speedy camera clicks. I ask you how fast it moves. You left before high school, before you got to see my handwriting straighten from chicken scratch." "State Bird" by Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

"The buck knew no God. Looking at it, Clay thought it might even be God. Maybe Mr. Fuller killed God and brought him into his father's garage. Maybe they were cursed now." "Carcass" by Richie Kurt 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

⏰Two weeks remain! Submit today through March 15th!

"Everything I say or hear, I hear in my head. Most of the time I’m quiet. I’ve learned to mask. To be normal. But nothing is normal. Normal people are ruthless and busy. I just want to step back." "Faster Than Your Arms" by Laton Carter 📸: Scott Craig

"The Black Mountains ring the little valley where we stand. Razor wire meets a deepening sky. They can’t decide whether it blushes more plum or nectarine." Yoga at Western Correctional" by Paige Gilchrist 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Ohhhh goodness I want to curl up in this one. Or bundle it up and cradle it. Can't decide.

"I consider my toes in red water & fingers of complaints. The speculum & my love in the waiting room." "Nat Geo poster on the exam room ceiling" by Madison Lazenby 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Please share; my photos accompany the wonderful literature in this publication. It's free! #susurrus

"we mumble sentences as bodies fade into voices voices get carried through satellites satellites irradiate our parametric hesitations" "Geostationary: Marfa, Texas" by Jan Elaine Harris 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

"I pick up my pen, blend words into textures. A fawn’s furred spots, jagged bark, leaves veined like wings. Bodies of slick fish, bendy and alive.." "Weekend in Pleasant Shade, Tennessee" by Annette Sisson 📸: Scott Craig

"Progress in America takes its time, like a leisurely home-run trot, And the only thing to do is to keep working at it, like honing a good swing." "Chasing After Henry Aaron" by Matthew Johnson 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

"I would have made a great camp counselor. I would finally learn to play the ukulele. I would renew my CPR certification. I would save my cedarwood cabin of pre-teen girls from hell. There is no hell, I’ll tell them." "Luke 1:26-38" by Madison Lazenby 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

"In every thought I am a girl & in every moment I am the adult that carries her..." "Three Six Five" by Emilee Wigglesworth 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

More great writing from the current issue of Susurrus magazine, which features some of my photography. #Susurrus

"I wake up I take off the moss covered deer skull and listen to you whistle in the dark I follow you into the house and take your place in the bed..." "Understory" by @noahsoltau.bsky.social 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Thanks to Susurrus for featuring my poem “Moon In My Bourbon” today from their Winter issue. #poem #poetry #writing #BookSky

"The depth of the bourbon is the height of the moon, pines and aspens reaching for each other, breeze shared back and forth in silver shiver..." "Moon in My Bourbon" by @edbrickell.bsky.social 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

"Pasture ripples with cabbage whites, crocus moths, mockingbirds. They frisk the air, shuttle from fencepost to chickweed." "Evening Pastoral with Bobwhite" by Annette Sisson 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Calling all writers!

"I’ll leave you alone, if you’ll stay put—and maybe you hear me and maybe you don’t, but from the time I turn the water on..." "To the Roach I Share a Bathroom with When Attending a Funeral" by Karen Luke Jackson 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

📝 #SubsOpen for our Spring 2026 issue, Issue 14! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit

"I name my bird chicken-in-a-coop, sitter-on-the-fence, forager-on-line, unless she becomes hummingbird, beguiling, mean, voracious, compassionless at a plastic feeder’s red slash." "In A Gospel According to Hunters, /You Name Your Bird" by Wendy Taylor Carlisle 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

Here's another item from Susurrus magazine featuring my photography. Please visit the site at susurrusthemagazine.com

"Am I selfish to want a line of my own? What I was to him would fit between commas, white font in white space; and he to me, a past that’s always present." "A Funny Kind of Grief" by @dianemelby.bsky.social 📸: @saintbridge.bsky.social

My photo accompanies this poem in the current issue of Susurrus magazine. Check it now literature and more of my images in the Winter issue! #susurrus #literature #poem #photography