Tomorrow, Aug. 1, we’ll open submissions for our annual Brett Elizabeth-Jenkins Poetry Prize! The submission fee is $15 USD for up to 5 poems. The fees from this annual contest help us keep the proverbial light on. More details to come. Send us poems here: shorturl.at/aojAD

We are so excited to announce our ✨new issue✨ Tinderbox 10.1! Read all the new poems (and new poetry book reviews) right here: tinderboxpoetry.com?utm_source=s...

Tinderbox Poetry Journal is looking for a new Social Media Editor! This is a volunteer position that's responsible for promoting new issues of Tinderbox on Bluesky and Instagram. If graphic design really is your passion, please email our current Social Media editor, Jacqui, at [email protected]

We are still looking for a new Social Media Editor! If you're interesting in this volunteer position, please send us a chat #onhere or DM us on Instagram @ tinderboxpoetryjournal.

Do you love reading Tinderbox? Do you want to help us reach more readers? We are looking for a new Social Media Editor! Please DM us #onhere if you are interested.

Our 2024 Contest Issue is Live! 🎉 We are so excited to share all of these poems with you. 2024's Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Prize Winner is "I Want" by Nancy Lynée Woo 2024's Maja Gama Editor's Prize Winner is "When We Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Myth" by Issam Zineh @izineh.bsky.social

yesterday at @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social we shared space & read together for #ReadPalestineWeek here’s our reading list, some of which are free for download via P4P at the link below we left with an action of resistance & invite you to do the same 🍉 publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/29/f...

join us at @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social for an hour of reading together online and sharing space during #ReadPalestineWeek 🇵🇸🖤 on 3rd december, we’ll read some of Publishers4Palestine free resources and books + other work register for our solidarity lunch hour here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Throughout #ReadPalestineWeek, there are a selection of free ebooks available through the publishersforpalestine.org website, as well as events & actions you can take now.

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

🎁This year, we have put together a Holiday Giving list. It includes mutual-aid suggestions and gifts you can buy where 100% of profits go to Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon: books, art, pottery, more. Thanks to everyone who helped w/the list. arablit.org/2024/11/28/h...

Writing reviews is hard, but so incredibly rewarding when even one person reads the review & buys the book or gains more insights into it. I've written a few this year for @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social. My latest on R.L. Farr @rfarr.bsky.social 's Become Echo from Atmosphere Press. bit.ly/3XPb6Li

"Bodies and Language Always Fail" by Donna Vorreyer (@djvorreyer.bsky.social), from Tinderbox Poetry Journal (@tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social) tinderboxpoetry.com/bodies-and-l...

Hello Bluesky! We are finally, officially, leaving Twitter and plan to be more active on our Bluesky account. If you've been published in one of our past issues, please let us know you're here!

Hello Bluesky! We are finally, officially, leaving Twitter and plan to be more active on our Bluesky account. If you've been published in one of our past issues, please let us know you're here!

We are at 71% for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Kickstarter on our first day and…! Dang. Feeling so held by community, and wanting to support other presses who need it right now. Please share those calls with me and RRB and @amorak.bsky.social so we can boost 🌊🌊

🎉 Congrats to Nick Martino, one of our past contributors, on winning the Alice James Editor's Choice Prize! Alice James Books will publish his collection, Scrap Book, in June 2026. You can read his poem "Honeysuckle" right here: tinderboxpoetry.com/honeysuckle

2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Tinderbox’s founding. As one of the longest running journals on the internet, a cash reserve would allow us to weather seasons of activity and rest while continuing to support our free subs weeks. We have a $1,000 matching donation, which means your dollars double!

We are accepting book review submissions! Is there a poetry collection that you want to uplift? We want to hear about it! Especially if it's your first time reviewing a book! Pitch us a review at our email: [email protected]. Or submit a complete review at our Submittable: rb.gy/jhj2hc

We're so excited to announce the contest winners for 2023! 1st Place, selected by Paul Hlava Ceballos, is Claire Pinkston's "Nocturne." This year's Majda Gama Editor's Prize winner is linda harris dolan's "for I have genetic heart disease. (or: unsaid things.)(or: to my husband, on my death.)"