Check out our new batch of lit mag submission opportunities, including Gulf Stream Magazine, @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social, @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social, @unborderedmag.bsky.social, @crowkeys.bsky.social, and more! wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town. Read an excerpt from the book here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-fall-d...

In the new Notebook Navigation, we dive into the opening paragraphs of Don DeLillo's 1985 classic White Noise, emphasizing the precise use of language—a deep attentiveness that we can, perhaps, carry into our own writing. Get the full post: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings. This edition features @wennieevans.bsky.social @rachelturney.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @colleen-harris.bsky.social & more: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Thanks to @unearthedjournal.bsky.social for including this poem in their "Nourish" issue. See more at unearthedesf.com

Did you know you can gift yourself a poem on your birthday? This one is from last year at @wildroofjournal.bsky.social (thanks, @aaronlelito.bsky.social)

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/this-is-my... New guest post on the WRJ Substack

From Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world. Get it here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t... @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social

Want to submit your work this month? Here are some great opportunities: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Including @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @pictura.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social & more

Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world from the minds who pay it the most attention. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t...

New post! Check out a preview of Candice Kelsey's new poetry collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/into-the-w... @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social

Wild Roof Journal | Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

Podcast with Wild Roof Journal Thank you so much to Aaron and Wild Roof Journal for having me on! Aaron and I talk about motivation and the meaning behind what we write. We discuss visual art. I share my top tip for time management. We also go in depth about my upcoming debut full-length poetry…

In this episode, @rachelturney.bsky.social joins host Aaron Lelito to talk about how to maintain an organized chaos while writing, the influence of music in her new work & the dilemma of publishing poems about family. Rachel closes us out with a piece called "Meditation." wildroofjournal.podbean.com

Winter 2026 issue | wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

On this Wild Roof Podcast episode, authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction as a genre and cultivating awe in our daily lives. Get the full clip here: youtu.be/9rpOBi03c_Y?...

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Including @tabularasa.bsky.social @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @msatris.bsky.social @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social @pooryorickjournal.bsky.social & more

New poem at Wild Roof Journal alongside many writers thinking deeply about ecologies. Thank you to inspirations large and small: bird voices, mountains, Community of Writers, deer families, unpaved roads, the mountain lion that said hello mid-draft. Thank you Aaron Lelito for including my work!

Oh, nothing, just my poem appearing in this dynamite issue of Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Go read issue 32, y'all, it's so good - wild nature, soft light, books, pasta, and people saving trees <3

Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors! Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

I have a new poem out today called "...a monument to a world worth living in" - it's tough to see the world as worth it today, but I am thankful to have this poem out there. Thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social #poetry

Absolutely thrilled to have a story in the Winter 2026 @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors for including “Glory Days” in this beautiful issue.

Proud to have my #poem "Lament of an Islander Too Long Gone" in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32-gal... The whole issue is fantastic & I'm proud to be in it--read issue 32 at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32/ #booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️

It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

For today’s post, I asked some of WRJ’s friends and collaborators to offer a few of their favorites from 2025. Check out the list here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...

From Fall 2025 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31

From Fall 2025: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31

Read 2 poems from Melissa Powless Day's new collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/a-bow-forg... It's a journey of Indigenous reclamation, exploring identity, belonging, responsibility & wholeness. The author navigates her ties to the landscapes of SW Ontario & the nations to which she belongs.

Authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction (aka narrative nonfiction) as a genre and what makes it an exciting artform for writers today. Check out the full conversation here: youtu.be/Qnb6nv706gQ?...

Listen to our new episode: wildroofjournal.podbean.com Available on all podcast apps and YouTube

Authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about how place and the natural world informs their writing and their approach to shaping individual essays into a book-length collection. We chat about craft, cows, cultivating awe in our daily lives . . . and beer. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

Check out our new writing prompt, available here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...

We have a new batch of lit mag publications and submission opportunities. Check 'em out: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... @splitlipthemag.bsky.social @ballastjournal.bsky.social @asteralesjournal.bsky.social @golgonoozamag.bsky.social & more

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/stillness-... Check out our new guest post from Issue 31 contributor Ingrid Brown, who shares how she brings her love for natural landscapes into the studio

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Thank you to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for inviting me to share this essay and revisit the strange beauty of String Theory, Quantum Mechanics, and those vibrating filaments of energy that make the universe feel poetic. That fine line where science starts to sound like mythology. ⚛️🪬

What is a book that’s been with you for decades? Which author speaks to you, offering insights & advice? In this new guest post, @tebean.bsky.social tells us about the role that Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe has played in his life & writing. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/strange-ma...

Author Michael Engelhard joins the WRJ Podcast to talk about his essay collection No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City. *Listen on any podcast app or web (wildroofjournal.podbean.com) *Watch on Wild Roof Journal's YouTube channel youtu.be/ad7IIeExXuo?...

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings (with submission opportunities too!) @novellum.bsky.social @sorrynotsorry.bsky.social @dishsoapquart.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social & more wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

wildroofjournal.podbean.com/e/43-wild-ro... New podcast episode >>> check it out for an interesting conversation about a one of a kind place, writing narrative nonfiction, and what we can learn from a grizzly bear mother protecting her cubs.

We have new nominations to announce! Congrats to our amazing contributors.

wildroofjournal.com/submissions We're open for Issue 32 & beyond Here's a wonderful piece from the Fall 2025 issue

Find your next favorite writer in our latest roundup of lit mags! Our October roundup features new issues from more than 25 magazines: www.clmp.org/news/october...

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, including @rawheadjournal.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @darrencdemaree.bsky.social @lisasticepoet.bsky.social @turningleafjournal.bsky.social @mudseasonreview.bsky.social and more!

wildroofjournal.com/submissions We're open for Issue 32 and beyond

Please stop defacing my poetry with your red squiggly lines. -me, to Microsoft Word

Check out our new submission listings here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... @psmokejournal.bsky.social #litmags #submityourwork

Haibun anyone? This new piece investigates the popular poetic form: "In her Feb. 2014 essay, 'More than the Birds, Bees, and Trees,' poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil explains that a haibun juxtaposes a poetic prose journey or landscape description..." wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/to-liberat...

In this podcast episode, we learn about Marybeth Holleman's new novel, Bloom Again, and we get into the central themes of the book: climate anxiety, changing ecosystems, and the question of how to navigate it all. youtu.be/1IsuB-yzWbk?...