ICYMI we're open for subs! Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines

It’s the first Thursday of a release month! Please read and enjoy the first publication of our December issue: “I will never meet Robert Redford,” a poem by Lyndie Blevins. Read Here: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/i-will-nev...

Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k! Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects. This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!

Volume II from The Long and The Short of It drops this week! Our Fiction and CNF editor, Mary, addresses our December publications and exciting news for upcoming issues! Read at the link below, and please subscribe to our Substack! longandshortlit.substack.com/p/letter-fro...

Thrilled to have my contributor’s copies of @foglifterpress.bsky.social arrive yesterday!! Much love to Chad Koch & the editors—I couldn’t dream of a better home for these poems that are so dear to me. 💙💙

🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

If anyone rejects me today, shame on them, but I’ll be thankful

When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.

Strong wind—

from A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish

Let me tell you, I am working this chair…

Well shit the new Florence GOT me

Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!

🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

GREAT NEWS! We’re extending our submissions for the upcoming December issue, Sweater in the Attic! Deadline extended to 11/10–next Monday! Send us your work! open.substack.com/pub/longands...

***thinks very hard about death***

Tooooootally reworking the manuscript again… working on some new poems. Rethinking the core of the collection. Ready to get those papers EVERYWHERE

Lovely little poem dropped today in a lovely little issue of Anacapa Review from @gunpowderpress.bsky.social Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!… anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...

I want a man who’s at least 6’ tall. Just thinking about that. A really tall man.

New round of MS revision almost done—the longer I spend on this thing, the more I can taste it.

I cannot—I repeat canNOT—overstate how amazing the new Brandi Carlile is my God save our hearts from the lesbian singer songwriters this is CRUEL

Hello my pretties 💙

Hippie Speedball will be available for preorder tomorrow!!!

Yes—some really great work in here!! *wink wink* Read it & share it & get some free swag!

I have a new inspirational mug for my morning tea at work

Our third publication for Playlist for the Apocalypse is live! A flash fiction piece, "Somewhere in the Dirt," by Jackie Reilly. Read at the link below! longandshortlit.substack.com/p/somewhere-... PS - Submissions for Sweater in the Attic close October 31st! Send us your work!

The Long & The Short of It presents the final piece in our October issue, Playlist for the Apocalypse, long-form creative nonfiction by Matty Weaver called, “Gainesville.” longandshortlit.substack.com/p/gainesville Please read and share and remember to submit your work by 10/31!

TWO today from Stefanie Kirby!! Here's the first. Click through for a bonus! https://www.havehashad.com/4nmfe

Read The Urge here: engineidling.net/current #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #indielit #indiepublishing #litmag #litmags #indiemag #indiepress

Two new poems featured this week on @dialogist.bsky.social—read “Transition Diary II” & “Transition Diary IV” here: dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

So excited for this: new poem of mine in issue 7 "The Urge" of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social . So many great contributions here; read them all! #poetry #poems #booksky #sacramento www.engineidling.net/current

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨 💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP Appetite! Impulse! Desire! 🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

New poem in the engine(idling—“Dry”

I have a pimple on my ass.

No one should ever have to feel hesitation about coming out unless you’re cayenne powder. In that case, a little more hesitation would be nice.

Submissions are OPEN now!!! Submit to issue two of @longandshortlit.bsky.social: The Sweater in the Attic!!!

A few pics from this weekend—

Idk how much spin is historically normal in White House briefings, like I’m sure this isn’t totally new, but the extent to which Karoline Leavitt is just straight up propagandizing with false talking points is deeply terrifying

My latest poem “Things the Blind Man Never Saw Coming” is live today on Hawai’i Pacific Review! Big love to Tyler McMahon and the editors for believing in this one— hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/10/06/t...

I had one job this morning—to grab a shirt that fits from the pile of shirts that fit. Instead I grabbed a shirt that does not fit from the pile of shirts that do not fit.

What are the odds I’ll ever direct a show this special again? Probably about an Ann Jillian gazillion to one. Now. Here. This.

A prism, a dreamscape, and a river… RA 127 is here! Featuring poetry by Barbara Daniels, Valarie Hastings, Elizabeth Sochko Hussain, @mkpoet.bsky.social Susan Milchman, Emily Patterson, Sabyasachi Roy, Miriam Sagan, Julie Wong, and @thejayestofzees.bsky.social // rogueagentjournal.com/issue127

“anyway if all my life were a year // I’d’ve wasted the whole year, minus some picosecond / here or there where I was getting kissed, truly kissed, / kissed out of my shoes then kissed out of my pants” Read my thirsty little Scafidi-esque poem in Rogue Agent 127! www.rogueagentjournal.com/jzeitler

Submissions are OPEN for our second issue—“The Sweater in the Attic!” Stay tuned for the pieces selected for “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” starting this Thursday!

Opening night is under the belt! Directing Now. Here. This. has been easily in the top 5 experiences of my life. I’m so proud of all the work on every level, & how beautifully, hilariously, poignantly it’s all come together.

Up on The Shore now, “Transition Diary I,” a poem about naming, about the difficulty of relating to the world when my relation to myself was off-kilter. Check out issue 27 for more excellent poems from Jane Zwart, Jacob J Billingsley, Natalie Eleanor Patterson, & many more!

Transgender for everyone.

Just in today—my contributor’s copy of the new @giganticsequins.bsky.social! Order issue 16 today to read “My gender is an open border” and so much more exciting, beautifully crafted work!

Live today in wildness—“Transition Diary III”—check out all the wondrous work in issue 39!! readwildness.com/39/zeitler-d...

Two new poems today, live on Boomer Lit Mag! boomerlitmag.com/joshua-zeitl...