This Easter, we invite you to celebrate with us the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. May your reading, writing, and wondering this season draw you closer to the Word Himself. 💛✝️
#Easter #HeIsRisen #FaithAndLiterature #LastSyllable

Hi poetry babes—hope April finds you revising that beautiful, full-length manuscript, and that you consider sending it our way when we open on May 1. Submission guidelines here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm... Model contract here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/cont...

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Our wonderful publisher, Dr. Katie Manning, moderated a panel discussion at AWP titled “It’s Personal, Not Strictly Business: Networking for Writers.” Star panelists Abayomi Animashaun, Elizabeth Dark, and Jessica Jacobs shared valuable insights. Friends of Last Syllable, we hope to see you at #946!

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The fabulous author François Bereaud, whose play was published in Last Syllable Issue 3, visits our table at AWP! We hope more friends of Last Syllable stop by booth #946 to say hello.

Friends of Last Syllable, if you're at AWP, stop by booth #946 to chat with our friendly team! #AWP

#AWP25 kicks off tomorrow! The Last Syllable team can’t wait to connect with you at table #946!

Last Syllable is launching an Annual Post-Publication Book Award Contest! 📚✨ 🏆 $1,000 cash prize and ✈️ up to another $1,000 travel expenses to PLNU, and 🎤 a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writers Series! Check lastsyllablelit.com/book-awards for details!

It’s time! Last Syllable Issue 4 is officially LIVE! 🚨 Dive into a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger beyond the final word. Read, reflect, and revel in the artistry. ✨ Explore the issue now: lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iv. #LastSyllable #NewIssue #LiteraryMagazine

🚀 Exciting news! Last Syllable Issue 4 is dropping tomorrow! 🎉 Get ready for a powerful collection of poetry, prose, and art that will stay with you long after the last syllable. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! #LastSyllable #NewIssue #ComingSoon

Happy Issue Release Day to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!! Founded by our professor and publisher @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 😊

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 The wait is almost over—"Last Syllable" Issue 4 is dropping in just ONE week! Get ready for a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger long after the last word. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! 🔥📖 #LastSyllable #Issue4 #ComingSoon

Submissions are open for Issue No. 7! Send us your best short stories, poems, or essays for a chance to be published. 💙 everscribemag.com/submit

Friends of “Last Syllable,” meet us at AWP at booth 946!

So. I cried a lot today. So then I read this beautiful essay “On Crying” on @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social I’ve also wondered about the “Weeping Woman” across cultures. I, too, have tried forcing myself to cry in church to no avail, only to cry for myself later on. 🤍 lastsyllablelit.com/on-crying

We can’t wait to welcome #AWP25 to the City of Angels with a night of readings & revelry @ The Count’s Den in DTLA on Thu 3/27 with our friends Rinky Dink, Ghost Parachute, Bull, Fractured Lit & Stalking Horse presses. More details to come!

The poets are showing up in our submissions (love it! Kept it coming!) Where are our fiction and CNF writers? Our cover artists? #CallForSubmissions is open through the end of March Theme: #Resistance

Heron Tree seeks found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929. No reading fee. Submit erasure poems, remixed texts, & more by May 15. https://www.newpages.com/guide-submission-opportunities/heron-tree-call-for-submissions-2025/ #poets #callforsubmissions #foundpoetry

Submissions are now open for Issue 0: Begin, Again. sbartsscene.wixsite.com/string-bean-... #Arts #Literary #CreativeWriting #journal #artsjournal #literaryjournal #submissionsopen #magazine

Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Sarah Southern (Nonfiction Editor left) and Rebecca Li (Managing Editor, right)

Mitch Albom concludes the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University, elevating it to new heights. The afternoon discussion is moderated by our writing professor and author, Holland Prior, and introduced by Josiah Roberts, Last Syllable’s Art & Web Designer.

Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University Emma Grace Weber (Poetry Editor, left) and Anna Wang (Social Media Manager, right)

Second day of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University: Sandra Cisneros’s lecture—moderated by Margarita Pintado Burgos, our professor and a poet—draws a full house.

Submissions are open for our next anthology, the theme is GRIEF. Please read the guidelines carefully. We are looking forward to reading your work! Photo by Karly Santiago via Unsplash. #Poetry #Anthology #Grief #Submissions sidhe-press.eu/submissions/

Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Lexi Bullock (Associate Editor, left) and Ella Hachee (Editor-in-Chief, right)

Colorado Review is hoping to replenish our nonfiction queue with a few more of your submissions this week 📝

Jesmyn Ward opens this year’s Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Breeann Kirby (left), professor of fiction, and Rebecca Li, a first-year MA in Writing student and managing editor at Last Syllable, introduce Jesmyn Ward to the audience.

No matter where you live on this planet, you can participate in SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon. Sign up by Feb 28. We'll start letting people into the workshop tomorrow, Feb 27! www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...

Your weekly reminder that we're open to your small-town horror novel submissions for the next 2 weeks - so if you've got one ready, we'd love to read it! Sub details & more about what we're looking for on the site 🦇

There is just over a week left to submit. Keep them rolling in! We accept both traditional "literary stories" and work that experiments with voice, structure, and form. Either way, send us what you've got! www.sufferer.online

Calling all poets! Since 2012, Trio House Press has sponsored the Trio Award (First/Second Book) & the Louise Bogan Award (Excellence in Poetry). Winners get $1K + publication! Judges: Sierra DeMulder & Randall Mann. $25 fee. #AmWriting #Poetry #poets #writingcontest

Happy to announce that our Spring 2025 Contest is open tomorrow and will run until March 15th! First prize winners in each genre will receive $500, and honorable mentions will receive our standard contributor rate of $30 per accepted piece.

We're still accepting #prose and #poetry for our March issue! Please consider sending in your work to Prairie Home 🐣

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

HEY. HEY. STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING. IT'S CRYPTID TIME. Submissions are now open! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

It's a ko-fi thing! Funds 4 paying authors & artists we publish in our zine. Issue 3 open for subs Mar 1-Apr 15 (theme is Dystopian Theme Park, doesn't have to be literal, your interpretation. Subs read by our judges & scored). Send us questions if you have any! ko-fi.com/slothenvypress

Happy Valentine’s Day to all friends of Last Syllable!

Hi guys, just a reminder that Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ is now open for submissions. Link below, cheers: www.authora.net/submit

February Writer's Tips - #Writing Process, #Publishing #Scams, #Blogging Tips dgkayewriter.com/2025/02/11/f... @dgkayewriter.bsky.social @lizgauffreau.bsky.social @hughsviewsandnews.com

We have an opportunity for a creative writing instructor for an after-school program. See the announcement in the image below and apply if interested. Please share, as well! #writingcommunity #creativewriting

FIVE DAYS left to submit! Free submissions for all genres ❤️ psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

We decided to EXTEND our deadline through tomorrow 2/10/25 (by the end of the day) for our Valentine's Day issue: "Love to the Mind and Body." Submit here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com #chronicillnessawareness #disabilities #mentalhealth #callforsubs #deadlineextended #litmags

We're excited to announce that staff applications for the Reader role are now open! Interested in joining our team of volunteers? Apply now! 💙 everscribemag.com/work-with-us

Just four more days! Wed love to see more of everything but especially anything from kids! And illustrations! #CallForSubmissions

#poetry Pea wants your imaginative & futuristic scifaiku dealing with advanced science & technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Oh yes please! #Submit by the 15th February ➡️ poetrypea.com/submissions-...

It's that time once again, shoppers! We're OPEN for your miCRo submissions. Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!