It's true! We're open for subs 🚘

Also, very excited about the amazing new team #25 🚘 You can check all their bios here: headlightanthology.ca/team/ May Headlight shine even brighter this year ahead!

So proud of our team #24 @headlightant.bsky.social! We were invited to the Forces AVENIR Gala yesterday & somehow won the Art, Lettres et Culture prize 2023! There's even a trophy involved ✨ Check the multimedia issue #24 at headlightanthology.ca/archive/n24/

We can't wait for GLYPHÖRIA! 🚘

#FF H @headlightant.bsky.social I @iambapoet.com F @farthertrees.bsky.social R @redogrereview.bsky.social I @innerworlds.bsky.social E @ellipsiszine.bsky.social N @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social D @deadmallpress.bsky.social S @s2fjournal.bsky.social ! Please share the lit friends you found below!

hey hey! we’re doing a 24-hour response event from 12 am EST to 11:59 EST on SEPTEMBER 15. get those subs in for a speedyquick response! www.underscoremag.com/submit

ALHS @alhs.bsky.social transported us from our relaunch into timelessness, reading the mythic & mystic "notes on simultaneity"—published in Headlight 24 🚘 headlightanthology.ca/archive/n24/...

Things have been busy at Headlight—so busy we haven't shared photos from our relaunch at the 4TH SPACE! Here's special guest @manahil.bsky.social closing our event & the opening of Manahil's piece, "Turning Twenty-Four on the Rise of the Sturgeon Moon." Read/listen to the full piece on out site 🚘

Very excited to introduce QUEER ENVIRONMENT—the new special issue of @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ! 🌱✨ The care & tenderness of these poems—a wonder. Guest editor Alejandro Wilson read his heart out! Couldn’t have asked for a better collaborator. 💚 Enjoy!

Abode is excited to present...Para la Cultura taught by Sofía Aguilar🥳 Please join us online for this generative open genre workshop on 10/8 at 1 PM CST. Learn to identify and use writing strategies to explore culture and identity. Tickets here: www.abodepress.com/events-1/par...

#FIYAHLitMag is accepting portfolio subs from Black artists for consideration until September 30th. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with Art Director Christian Ivey on a future cover. We pay $400.00 USD! #drawingwhileblack #BlackArtist #digitalart fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

We have a one-week free window for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Disabled Writers happening now. Send us your work! atlantareview.submittable.com

We're here! The most Literary magazine of all time. People don't even think this thing is real and can't even acknowledge it in this insular ass community where we are all tightly interconnected within one or two degrees of each other! Open the gates. We need some breathing room!

We can't wait! 💙

#FF Give some ❤️ and a follow to these indie presses and lit mags! @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @filthyloot.bsky.social @flippedeye.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @fullmoodmag.bsky.social @glteditor.bsky.social @headlightant.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social

So far we’ve accepted 46 poems by 30 poets for Shō No. 4. We’re looking for more work for this issue! Please spread the word. Submissions remain open until September 30th. shopoetryjournal.submittable.com/submit

Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?

We are OPEN for submissions! 💌 From now until October 31st, send us your best, your weirdest, your genre-less-est, or even your genre-fullest, for consideration in Issue 2, which drops on November 15th. Full submission guidelines available on our website below: manyworlds.place/submit

We reopen in one week and one day! ⚡️

Hello friends, I made a feed of literary magazines, small presses, and publishers on Bluesky! Feel free to follow and give it a like. Also, if you'd like to be added, you have recommendations for the list, or you're here by mistake and want to be removed, please @ me. 📚 #authors #poetry

We’re getting ready for our relaunch! Join us—online, in person, or spiritually by flashing your headlights to the beat of a poem 🚘

Today, 3pm ET, online & at 4TH SPACE: Warming up for tomorrow's relaunch, join us for a conversation about the challenges & opportunities of editing Headlight before, during, & "after" the pandemic. With editors Misha Solomon, Sherine Elbanhawy, @pittella.bsky.social, & Penelope Kerr.

When? Thu Aug 31, 2pm ET Who? ALHS, Nadia Trudel, Kim Poirier, Lauren Smith, Malaea Ergina, Paz O'Farrell—& special guest @manahil.bsky.social Where? 4TH SPACE / hybrid: www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...

We are so excited to host our first ever POETRY LAUNCH for River River Books authors Lauren Camp and Jennifer A Sutherland on Fridays, Sept 1, 7pm EDT! There will be door prizes! And poems! It’s a party! Email your RSVP to us at [email protected] to receive a link and code. #poetry

To know more about Headlight as a multimedia print/sound/html lit journal, check out the latest episode of the SpokenWeb podcast! It chronicles the relaunch of @headlightant.bsky.social post-pandemic, featuring contributor readings, live recordings, & a roundtable with the current ed team 🚘

This week's #SubmissionSunday opens with two chapbook contests from Gold Line Press and Palette with calls from Fifty Grande, Defunct, De Los, Chestnut Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and MacDowell. Sign up below to get the next newsletter in your inbox! https://submissionsunday.substack.com/p/081323

We are following all the community-building poetry journals/mags/reviews we can find in this sky! If they don't follow back... we are still following them anyway—our love is vast, our headlights bright 💜

Headlight in the (blue) house! 🚘

We here too —just X'ed out into this bluer sky 🚘 🚘

When? Thu Aug 31, 2pm ET Who? ALHS, Nadia Trudel, Kim Poirier, Lauren Smith, Malaea Ergina, Paz O'Farrell—& special guest @manahil.bsky.social Where? 4TH SPACE / hybrid: www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...

As far as I know, Headlight is always the first—or at least the one looking the furthest ahead 💜

Whether in-person or remotely, join us for the Headlight relaunch on Aug/31, 2pm ET, at Concordia's 4TH SPACE! With readings by several contributors, including ALHS, Nadia Trudel, Kim Poirier, Lauren Smith, Malaea Ergina, Paz O’Farrell—& special guest Manahil Bandukwala 💙 {free/hybrid event}

Hi skyers! Are we the very first Canadian lit journal to X-out into this blue? Yes or no, let us know—& we'll follow back all our journal friends... 🚘