Issue 32 is LIVE NOW! We can’t get over this amazing lineup! Mikki Aronoff Amy Bates Andrew Bertaina Andy Bodinger Wendy BooydeGraaff Claire Breslow Chelsea Hanna Cohen Elina Kumra Tali Libenstein Elaine Maguire O’Connor Cheryl Pappas Fergus Sinnott Francine Witte Elena Zhang leonliteraryreview.com

Excellent interview with @cincinnatireview.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Love it when poems reference #kidlit such as this one by Emily Dressler in @okaydonkeymag.com okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/12/p...

"placing unfinished or untested writing in front of the eyes of other experienced and respected writers actually takes courage...takes trust to believe, never mind accept, another writer’s critique of one’s own work. We’re all such guardians of our words." -Beverly Gologorsky shorturl.at/0Oe0Z

Happy to see my very short fiction "Laconic" up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social -- a beautiful issue! leonliteraryreview.com

I love this one so much

Don’t let them take your books! - www.bookbanpetition.us

Look at this beautiful cover!

I’m Going to Cover My Heart and Open My Mouth blackbird.vcu.edu/im-going-to-... Beautiful poem by Adam Grabowski in Blackbird

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

“you cannot control the response to your work, and so you must weather the criticism, the rejection, and even the praise, and just keep on with the writing” thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Excellent episode connecting us to nature—“nothing is single in this universe“ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

I've got an ask, but please only respond if you can answer it as I'm asking. I'd love to look at *zines* that target *teen readers*. They can be written by teens or adults, and I need to either access them online or find 'em via libraries. Any topic is cool. But ZINES for TEENS is the ask.

This week's featured story in our summer flash fiction series is "On the Corner of Eastern Avenue and Emerald" by @onlybooyskies.bsky.social‬. necessaryfiction.com/stories/on-t...

Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers — including lots of national forests that, if you live in the West, you probably know and love. @grist.org grist.org/politics/pub...

Check out this beautiful issue -- thoughtful and gorgeous

Poems up today at Novus Literary novusliterary.com/faith-in-fly...

Two poems up today in the lovely Elevation Review www.theelevationreview.com/wendy-booyde...

this 100 word micro by Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social is a masterclass of concision – one of those stories u will immediately reread after finishing the last sentence. ‘Fishing For Kat’ is about a dad who is in & out of his daughter’s life xraylitmag.com/fishing-for-...

Hope you're having a poetic weekend. If you have any poetry in your heart, why not put it to the page and send it to us? zoeticpress.com/submit

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

BIG NEWS! The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social effective May 1. This change is an opportunity for a more sustainable future and meaningful growth. 🎉 Read the full announcement from our publisher, Alyson Sinclair. buff.ly/aFeXcEE

Fiction up at LIT! www.litmagazine.org/woman-46/

A beautiful issue!

Contributor copy arrived today! Thanks Randy Brown and @middlewestpress.bsky.social

Three poems up today in Litmosphere! litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2025s...

A healing episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Why the World Needs an Empathy Revolution greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Friendly reminder: Submit poems and micro-prose (300-word fictions and/or non-fictions) by Mar. 3, 2025! Monsters "set in (or against) the context, landscape, environment, and character of the 21st century American Midwest." www.middlewestpress.com/2024/10/anth...

Am very excited about this www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Thank you @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @bulbculture.bsky.social

The light is on for Wendy BooydeGraaff! 💡 @onlybooyskies.bsky.social “Full Moon” is a spectacularly eerie micro that demands to be read and reread! Check it out!

open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe... Poem up today!

“…the reason that kind of banal movies are made is because they’re trying to speak to a huge number of people. And so if you get real specific with the kind of person that you want to focus on …more-idiosyncratic stories with more-idiosyncratic types of characters…” Fabulous!

Thank you, Harpur Palate, for including this story in your Winter issue harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/booydegraaff...

New fiction up in Thirteen Bridges www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/february-25-...

“…the pursuit of success is inexhaustible, which makes pursuing success as a need—as a constant source of gratification and validation—an exercise in unsustainability.” -Benjamin Schaefer in @electriclit.bsky.social electricliterature.com/all-of-my-ac...

Donate $50 to Pasadena for All (www.instagram.com/pasadenaforall), an organization that’s supporting houseless people in LA during the wildfires (& beyond). Send your receipt and mailing address to [email protected]; I'll mail you an original, one-of-a-kind bird postcard hand-drawn by me.

Good article about YA/teen lit. I learned a few things bookriot.com/ya-is-not-a-...

"Then one day, the snow. Not the regular kind, but heaped so high, it choked the branches and froze all the lemons till they looked like empty light bulbs." - Francine Witte, Lemons in ELJ emergeliteraryjournal.com/lemons/

To change how we think about our urban and suburban areas. Wouldn’t that be something www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fabulous poem

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

New fiction up today in Maudlin House maudlinhouse.net/fireside-chat/

Can't wait to visit this one Detroit River refuge’s ancient forest gets national recognition www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit...

Just found this podcast & loved this episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Happy to have this flash fiction up today in Welter, alongside original art (Adapt & Overcome) by Rob Cook blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/ficti...

Louise Glück.