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Sorry for the shameless self-promotion. It's the anniversary of my chapbook. Please check it out. The funny parts are funny. bottlecap.press/products/motors

started juggling in front of my toddler and instead of being impressed he said “why are you doing that”

In addition to Virginia Quarterly Review and The Iowa Review, the Colorado Review also opens for submissions on 1 August! I wish I had stuff to submit 😭

Honored to have this little ditty about The Big Lebowski and spreading my brother's ashes published in the great great at Your Impossible Voice. Would be grateful if you'd take a quick little read and maybe pass it on if you don't hate it. yourimpossiblevoice.com/that-scene-fro…

Had a story declined today because, though the editors loved the “specificity of the descriptions,” they felt the story didn’t belong to the one telling it. But I think sometimes the MC in a story lacks the skills/awareness to tell it themselves. And that’s part of the point. 🤷‍♀️

Wanda Coleman 💙

Amid all the doom and gloom about lit mags shutting down or hiking submission fees, there’s also encouraging news: I noticed more are starting to pay writers, and many that already did are increasing their rates 💲

You guys, I cooked!! 🤣 😂 🔥 😱 #adhdlife #neurodivergent #momlife #momswhowrite #momswhodaydream #iwastakimgabathok

“All poetry is 'hermetic,' 'cryptic,' heretical use of words--not to sell, not to instruct in skills designed to produce & sell--so, in that sense, l'art is always pour l'art: the un-paraphrasable is what we want” -- Anselm Hollo

very grateful today to have two poems up HAD — here’s the first one:

Every book. Every time. The hauntology rides hard.

He does give a shit, and he's pissed off!

Check out the newest collection of stories by @dawnsteffler and then check out all the other great stories in the MPTSP V11 thread and then come back next week for a new collection of stories by Amy Marques ⬇️

Throwback to last July, when the lovely The Passionfruit Review published two of my sad-happy-sad poems.

Throwback to last July. Keep the art, leave the sadness 😊 💙

jjournal.org/post/smoke-bre… Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri.

Please head over to Reckon to read this essay by our columnist Barlow Adams. It was exactly what I (Meg) needed to read today. Maybe you, too? Barlow Adams

I just realized I wore a reading shirt (“Just one more page, please”) TO THE LIBRARY. I am that dork.

Here are a few more journals opening for submissions soon! 🗓️ ➡️Michigan Quarterly Review - 1 August ➡️New Ohio Review - 15 August ➡️Copper Nickel - 15 August

Went to the doctor with a suspicious-looking mole. He said they all look that way and I should have left him in the garden.