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"Hollands’s poetry also teems with references to the famous faces of his youth, all while he explores those personal memories...Mangrove is a moving reflection on a queer life lived to the fullest." @newohioreview.bsky.social on @billhollands.bsky.social's exception new collection!

Enjoy a steep discount on all ebooks and books and book bundles now through Sunday. Get 5 books for just as little as $45 plus S/H! Where can you go wrong? elj-editions.com/black-friday...

Pleased to welcome our 1st release of 2026, Primal House by Emily Koss! Due out in late-January, you can reserve your copy today! elj-editions.com/primal-house/

Releasing May 2027. #submissions opening 1st Quarter 2026. Stay tuned!

Also, today, EBSCO reached out to open an account to get ELJ’s titles into libraries, & our titles are available via Ingram beginning w/our 3/2025 titles. Thanks to everyone that stood by us as we moved forward. The future is now, & we will be announcing our first 2026 title next week.

Great news! All ELJ Editions books published after March 2025 are now available on Amazon, BN.com, and Bookshop.org, as well as ELJ’s website! Pick yourself up a book this Holiday season!

We don’t think it’s possible to go through life without experiencing trauma. Some experiences of trauma begin with a small “t,” while others are undeniably of the uppercase variety. Either way, trauma has a way of settling in our bones, impacting how we see and move in the world.

#submissions are now open! Response time will vary. Please submit up to 2 micros/250 word max/2 per sub. Payment 1 calendar. $3 reading fee. More here: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/34116...

#submissions are now open! Response time will vary. Please submit up to 2 micros/250 word max/2 per sub. Payment 1 calendar. $3 reading fee. More here: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/34116...

A Desktop Calendar Experience. #submissions opening soon.

Our Afternoon Shorts series is returning with revamped word counts (10k-25k). ebook & print publication. Varying response time up to 60 days. #submit today. eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/27708...

Sarena Tien's Definition is now available as an ePub directly from ELJ Editions! Don't miss our latest Afternoon Short!

The Trouble with Sweetheartz by Lukas Tallent is now available for ereaders! Pick up your copy today and go on a road trip you won't forget.

Check out my novelette! Fun fact: I started writing it because someone once told me that writing can't work as "a piece of art or entertainment as well as an awareness platform."

Thanks @charhamrick.bsky.social for the engaging questions. And I also did learn a lot from your writings @charhamrick.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie @emergejournal.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social reckonreview.com/the-nitty-gr...

Recent writing from me at @emergejournal.bsky.social ✨ emergeliteraryjournal.com/about-that-i...

Congratulations to @billhollands.bsky.social, whose collection "Mangrove" is a finalist for the Last Syllable Book Award! "Mangrove" is a stunning poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. Check it out today! (bit.ly/3VZGzd5)

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

I have two new poems published today in @emergejournal.bsky.social! Read em here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-connecti...

New #poems! "Natural History" & "Mind Made" out now at @emergejournal.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu... #poemsky #writingcommunity #poetry #authors

New: Definition by Sarena Tien! Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself.

Now Available: The Trouble with Sweetheartz by Lukas Tallent If it were anyone else calling, Jamie would not have heard the phone ring. But it’s Micah, his ex-girlfriend, and she needs a ride home from Florida.

Submission open 2/1/26.

@dianegotauthor.bsky.social interviews author @billhollands.bsky.social about his poetry collection, Mangrove. Mangrove recently received an outstanding review over at The Adroit Journal. Check out the interview!: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/o...

The Be Well Series is returning in January 2026 as Be Well: a Series on Craft, Writing, and the Art of Healing, hosted by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. Save the date: 1/11/26

What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness is a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph; pleasures and pain; challenges, resilience, and growth. Get it today for only $2.99!

My chapbook with the long title is on sale today for e-readers. Check it out! #flashfiction

Did you know we have an eBook Shop on our website. For a limited time, get an eBook for just $2.99, including the highly acclaimed Awakenings anthology. We’ve currently got a limited selection, but new and older titles will be added soon! Visit us today at elj-editions.com/shop/

Did you know we have an eBook Shop on our website. For a limited time, get an eBook for just $2.99, including the highly acclaimed Awakenings anthology. We’ve currently got a limited selection but new and older titles will be added soon! Shop elj-editions.com/shop/ via @EmergeJournal

Now Available: Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage! Don't miss this stunning collection of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy. Edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social!

We're excited to share @billhollands.bsky.social will be on the Rattlecast on August 3 talking about "Mangrove," his new poetry collection! Look for it on your favorite podcasting app.

"...there’s something there: an image, a memory, a line. So I think, well, let’s hone in on that and see what happens." Don't miss @billhollands.bsky.social discussing his collection Mangrove with @lukerolfes.bsky.social in Laurel Review!

Finally get to hold a copy of the Grieving Hope anthology with my first microchapbook Preparing to be wrecked. And I share space with amazing writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social

Now Available for Pre-orders! Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage—a stunning collection of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy.

Y’all, this was meant to be a 2,500-word short story, and THINGS CHANGED. 🤣 Probably the most fun I’ve ever had researching, because the myth of the Wendigo is BANANAS. 🍌

Thanks a lot @melostrom.bsky.social. Your support means a lot. So glad to be a part of this beautiful group of writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie with @dianegotauthor.bsky.social (Ed) @emergejournal.bsky.social

After their disastrous first date, Juliette, an Anthropology professor, never expects to hear from Cole, a self-professed “Crypto Bro,” again. But when Cole texts her late one night, she finds herself caught up in a sordid plot of money, mythology, and murder.

In 2001, unknown artist and Holocaust survivor David Klein unveils The Time Golem, a massive sculpture inspired by the legendary protector of the Jews. At the opening, he performs a forbidden ritual—one not attempted in 400 years—to bring it to life. Check out Seth Schindler's The Time Golem

After a teenager nicknamed Electricity had her innocence stolen from her ten years ago at the county fair, she returns prepared to steal it back—not realizing all the forces at play, then and now, each chasing after innocence and power. The Fair Day by @linny43.bsky.social is available now!

Employing lyrical prose, @littlemissbleah.bsky.social's Em’s River explores the fall of the Weimar Republic and rise of fascism during Germany’s Third Reich through the lens of personal turmoil and privilege as it explores class, compulsive heterosexuality, and nationalism.

"For twenty years, Sam has lived in fear, controlled by his father—while Cal, his brazen, chain-smoking best friend, hides in his closet. Now, with Cal facing a terminal illness, the two must race against time to break free from the expectations that have kept Sam paralyzed."

New from J.G.P. MacAdam: In the unforgiving landscape of Afghanistan’s Tangi Valley, a military base tells its own extraordinary story. Neither human nor inanimate, this “square of dirt” becomes a witness to the brutal rhythms of war, listening intently to the soldiers who build and inhabit it.

In Roadkill, college senior Steven returns to his New Hampshire hometown under the guise of helping a friend—but he may be running from his future. There, he meets Catherine, a guarded outsider with a shovel in her truck and a past she’s not ready to share. Then the wildfire starts.

Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. A collection of 22 micros and #flashfiction from @keithjpowell.com to light your fire & break your heart.

Grieving Hope is now available! Don't miss this five-in-one collection featuring chapbooks by Charlotte Hamrick, @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, and Janet Murie. #flashfiction #writingcommunity

Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect, and strange new viruses, @benkline.bsky.social revisits and reconfigures narratives about Appalachia and the AIDS Crisis years of the 1980s and early 1990s. #poetry

Highly recommend. @kimsrogers.bsky.social writes beautifully. So glad to share space with her on these pages and with other amazing writers brought together by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social