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Accepting Submissions for The Dolomite Review Fall 2026 Issue

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The Dolomite Review is a dynamic literary magazine highlighting narratives from the Midwest. We feature poetry, short fiction, and essays from new and established writers. We also now accept photography. Our focus is storytelling; therefore, we prefer prose or narrative poetry. We want character driven short stories and relatable essays. Send us your finest work, keeping our mission in mind. Deadline: Rolling, Year Round. Submit here.

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The 6th Annual Haiku Search is On!

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The 2026 Best Haiku international search offers $500USD with a top honorarium of $200 awarded by Haiku Crush’s three judges. Up to 50 poets will win book publication. Submit your four best at HaikuCrush.com. Deadline: October 18, 2026

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10th Annual Taos Writers Conference with Keynote Speaker, Alexandra Fuller

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Join us at the 10th Annual Taos Writers Conference in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 24-26, 2026, with keynote speaker and featured faculty member, Alexandra Fuller (Let’s Not Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fi, and many others). Other instructors include Connie Josefs, Valerie Martinez, Juan Morales, Allegra Huston, Sean Murphy, & Kristina Marie Darling. Offering over twenty workshops in poetry, fiction, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting, and more. FMI: view flyer, [email protected], www.somostaos.org, or 575-758-0081.

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Heart Poetry Award 2026

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HEART Poetry Award: $500 prize and publication in HEART #21. Entry fee is $10 for up to three unpublished poems and includes a digital copy of the issue. Include name, address, and email on each page (removed for judging). Review sample poets, judge bio, and full guidelines at the website. Submit by email to [email protected] and pay online here. Deadline: Midnight, June 30, 2026.

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New Book :: “The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses”: four landmarks within the tangles, networks, and knots of Gadda’s Pasticciaccio

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“The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses”: four landmarks within the tangles, networks, and knots of Gadda’s Pasticciaccio by Adria Bernardi
Bordighera Press, April 2026

An extended hybrid essay, The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses is part personal essay, part travel essay, part family and cultural history, part literary analysis, and part philological obsession, which emerged from a reconsideration of Carlo Emilia Gadda’s Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, a masterpiece of 20th century Italian literature. A great experimental novel and influencer of the crime genre, Gadda’s Pasticciaccio considers fascism and the language of fascism. The essay is part of the Robert Viscusi Essay Series.

“It’s a tangle. It is a big tangle of a novel. A series of knots within knots within knots.” — from The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses

Bring the Past to Life :: 2026 History Through Fiction Short Story Contest

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Do you write historical fiction? Submit your unpublished short story (up to 5,000 words) set in any historical setting, any subgenre, any time period before 2000 to the 4th Annual History Through Fiction Short Story Contest, open June 15 — August 15, 2026.

Writers compete for cash prizes, including a $250 grand prize, and publication in the History Through Fiction’s next paperback anthology (March 2, 2027). Writers will also receive editorial feedback on every submission. Multiple submissions accepted.

Early bird fee: $20 through July 14; regular fee: $30 beginning July 15.

Let your story recover the past and reach new readers!

Full Submission Guidelines: https://www.historythroughfiction.com/short-story-contest

Founded in 2019 by Minnesota author and historian Colin Mustful, History Through Fiction is an independent press dedicated to publishing high-quality historical fiction.

The 2026 Catamaran Poetry Prize

Catamaran seeks unpublished, book-length poetry manuscripts (60–100 pages) in English from poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, or Hawaii.

Prize: $1,000 and book publication. Entrants receive a complimentary one year subscription to Catamaran. Judge: Joseph Millar. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

Individual poems may have prior journal publication (with acknowledgments). Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed; notify if accepted elsewhere. Submit blind (no identifying information). Winner, finalists, and semifinalists announced September 2026; publication expected April 2027.

View flyer for more information and Submit here.

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See your book project take flight with Birds & Muses

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Acclaimed novelist, editor, teacher and “literary godmother” Kate Moses has been taking writers under her wing for over 3 decades – you too can realize your vision for your work with a mentor as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Recent mentees have been published by Flatiron, Northwestern U Press, SheWrites, and Sybilline; won the Pushcart Prize, Narrative Prize, and Independent Book Publishers Association Medal; finalists for Greywolf Nonfiction Prize and Next Generation Indie Book Award; in residence at Breadloaf, Craigardan, Hedgebrook, and Hewnoaks.

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Nine Mile Literary Magazine: We believe that poetry is everyone’s art.

Deadline: August 31, 2026
Nine Mile Magazine publishes online twice yearly, showcasing works deeply imbued with life. We seek to bring great writing to our readers, without consideration of school, style, or form, with a special focus on CNY and featuring writers within and outside the mainstream. Our Propel Poetry initiative publishes books by first rate poets with disabilities.

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The Word Works Summer 2026 Submission Opportunities

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The Word Works is currently open for two opportunities. The May/June Open Reading Period accepts full-length poetry manuscripts (typically 48–80 pages) from May 1 through June 30; up to five books are selected for publication; entry fee: $20.

The Tenth Gate Prize (June 1–July 15) awards $1,000 and publication for a full-length collection by a mid-career poet with at least two previously published books (chapbooks and self-published titles do not count). Submissions are read anonymously; follow general guidelines.

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Colorado Authors League

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing.

View our flyer to see new May 2026 releases by members and learn more at our website.

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New Book :: No Packing Necessary: Poems for the Solo Journey

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No Packing Necessary: Poems for the Solo Journey by Patricia Ann Joslin
Main Street Rag, March 2026

No Packing Necessary: Poems for the Solo Journey is a book of narrative poetry, easily accessible for those recovering from the loss of someone dear. It is a follow-up collection to I’ll Buy Flowers Again Tomorrow: Poems of Loss and Healing published by Charlotte Lit Press in 2023. The title of this second book comes from a line in one of the poems. It speaks to the timelessness of memory — the things we carry in our hearts. Poems reflect the shared experience of grief and the journey of moving forward as time passes. Themes include navigating loss, widowhood, aging and the magic of life in later years.

“’The divine exists even in the darkest places,’ writes Joslin, but these poems are fa from dark. Though many deal with aging, mortality, and grief, they exhibit grace, vulnerability, and empathy. She renders the world in vivid sensory detail — a flash of cardinal’s wing, rock wrens rising in song, the scent of her father’s pipe tobacco — and moves us to see the ‘bliss in the mystery of it.’” — David E. Poston, author of Letting Go.

Patricia Ann Joslin raised her family in Minnesota, and now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

New Book :: Alteration

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Alteration by Claire Ibarra
Atmosphere Press, May 2026 (Preorder Available)

Margaret is an acclaimed fashion designer, devoted mother, keeper of order and elegance in a city that never slows. But one morning, she simply doesn’t get out of bed. She has the startling discovery that here, within her quilted sanctuary, life feels gentler, truer, and more alive.

What begins as a quiet rebellion becomes a daring experiment in stillness. From her antique four-poster bed, Margaret receives a parade of visitors – among them are her free-spirited best friend, fretful daughter, young neighbor, and even the echo of her late husband. As secrets and old wounds surface, she begins to confront painful truths.

With wit, wonder, and a sharp eye for the absurd, Alteration invites us to ask what happens when we stop merely performing and begin fully living — one unexpected revelation at a time.

“Original, fascinating, exceptional, Alteration is an entertaining, engaging, and thought-provoking read from start to finish and one that showcases author Claire Ibarra’s deftly crafted, character and narrative driven storytelling style. An extraordinary and unreservedly recommended pick.” –Midwest Book Review

New Book :: irl

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irl: poems by Danielle McMahon
Stanchion, March 2026

irl is a chapbook cast in amber, a series of poems with a nostalgic bent, framed by clips of AOL Instant Messenger conversations. It is a love story and it is also not. It’s about kinship, communication, coming of age, and finding the right person at the right time. The poems of irl are tender without ever being sentimental and capture the agony and ecstasy of being seen as a young person.

“At turns visually striking and intimately conversational, irl is a fascinating poetic exploration.”

— Audrey T. Carroll, author of The Gaia Hypothesis

“irl is what cuts through the radio static when the dead zone ends on a winding midnight drive through the middle of nowhere. It is the neon pulse of the lovesick heart and the shards of a glittering eternity. McMahon sings of the age when the small town last felt like the universe: of desolate landscapes crackling with life, and of the electricity of opening oneself to the possibility of everything.”

— Amy Jannotti, author of Angels & Insects are Creatures with Wings and editor-in-chief of Bleating Thing Magazine

MFA in Writing at Lindenwood University

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The MFA in Writing at Lindenwood University focuses on the study and practice of the craft of creative writing. Our program offers a variety of craft classes, literature classes, and writing workshops, all in small-group settings and taught by experienced writers who are published authors, journalists, and editors. Students can participate in several industry learning experiences, such as serving as an editorial assistant for The Lindenwood Review, our national literary journal. View flyer and learn more at our website.

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Kubrick Reimagined: Strangelove Country on the Awards Circuit

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Strangelove Country explores Stanley Kubrick’s futurist cinema through science fiction, “filmosophy,” and the theory-fictional lens that defines D. Harlan Wilson’s oeuvre. Nominated for the BSFA Award and eligible for the Locus Award, the book has been praised by critics as intellectually rigorous, provocative, and boldly original—one of the most compelling studies of Kubrick’s films to date. View flyer to learn more.

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Colorado Authors League March 2026 Member Releases

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New Book :: Souvenirs from Another Life

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Souvenirs from Another Life: Stories by Leah Browning
Quiet Ocean Studio & Press, February 2026

Souvenirs from Another Life, the first full-length collection of short fiction by Leah Browning, features an abundant selection of stories. By turns sharp and tender, these stories delve into the reality and surreality of love, companionship, and family.

In “Caught,” a man finds his Tinder date surrounded by vaguely threatening birds. Toward the beginning of “The Surrogate Wife,” a woman returns after a long journey to discover that her husband’s new housekeeper has taken over her home. And in “The Costume Wedding,” a doctor and her boyfriend travel to Albuquerque to attend a ceremony where they’ve been instructed to dress up.

The collection — which is available as a print paperback, e-book, and unabridged audiobook — includes full-length literary fiction, flash, and linked stories about the pleasures and absurdities of everyday life.

Fiction by Leah Browning has appeared in Four Way Review, Harpur Palate, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Threepenny Review, Necessary Fiction, Contrary Magazine, and elsewhere. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions.

Visit www.leahbrowninglit.com/souvenirs for more information about Souvenirs from Another Life including product details, an excerpt, and a printable discussion guide for readers.

The Beautiful Pause Prize 2026

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Submissions open now until May for NONFICTION manuscripts and pitches!

The Beautiful Pause Prize held by Press Pause Press is a yearly prize of $1,000 and the print publication of a full-length manuscript awarded to a writer (18 years and older) of exceptional talent and heart.

One runner-up will receive $500 and publication of an excerpt in one of the Press Pause biannual print volumes.

Submissions are open for NONFICTION manuscripts and pitches through May 1, 2026.

Check out the contest guidelines for additional criteria and helpful information about pitching Press Pause Press. Submit when you’re ready but do not delay!

Press Pause is a quiet literary magazine avoiding social media, fostering reflection, publishing biannual volumes, annual prize manuscripts, and books.

New Book :: Dorset Prize for Poetry Winner – The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles

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The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles by Janée J. Baugher
Tupelo Press, February 2026

Winner of the Dorset Prize for Poetry, selected by Shane McCrae, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles by Janée J. Baugher presents an imaginative narrative of the painter’s creative life, rife with both losses and pleasures. Baugher employs the footnote form to write a book-length narrative of ekphrastic poetry in which the character of Andrew Wyeth chronicles his internal musings. The sixty-three Wyeth paintings that influenced these poems (dated 1938 through 2008) are the ones in which Baugher delighted in how the quotidian is made tender, like a white sheet drying outside on the line or sunflowers’ shadows against a house. Studying the work of this particular artist was a decades-long meditative practice of deep-looking, a method by which the author detaches from her ego. Wyeth’s paintings, drawings, and watercolors became portals through which she could imagine worlds beyond her immediate awareness and in which she could explore linguistic possibilities.

Five Ways to Submit to The Word Works in 2026!

Flyer titled “Five Ways to Publish With Us!” from The Word Works, listing poetry opportunities: The Washington Prize (deadline March 31), Hilary Tham Capital Collection (nominations by April 20, submissions by May 1), The Tenth Gate Prize (June 1–July 15), International Editions (queries only), and May/June Reading Period (May 1–June 30). Includes book cover images and contact details.
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Upcoming Deadline: March 15
Four Deadlines for Poets! First up: the Washington Prize for a full-length collection. Submit January 15 – March 15. The Word Works then reads submissions for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, the Tenth Gate Prize, International Editions, and our Open Reading Period. Each uses a different selection method, and our taste is omnivorous! View our flyer and visit our website for more information.

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Colorado Authors League January 2026 New Member Releases

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members and learn more at our website: coloradoauthors.org.

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New Book :: A Spoonie’s Guide to Self-Acceptance

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A Spoonie’s Guide to Self-Acceptance by Kelly Esparza
Bottlecap Press, November 2025

How do you live life to the fullest when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness in your twenties? In this grief-inspired poetry chapbook, Kelly Esparza chronicles her experience with living with a chronic illness by cycling through what it means to grieve over a diagnosis and find self-acceptance in a completely life-altering experience.

From debilitating fatigue to joint pain that makes one feel elderly, how does one cope over the loss of what used to be? Kelly strives to show the difficulties of living with a chronic illness, but as with all her poetry, she also finds the beauty and the hope to keep moving on and make the most of what she lives with on a daily basis. Her life may have changed, but she has come out stronger than ever.

Kelly Esparza (she/her) is a chronically ill writer and freelance editor who holds BAs in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. She is also the editor-in-chief of FLARE Magazine, a literary journal that publishes literature and art about chronic illnesses, disabilities, and mental health. Find out more on her website: kellyesparza.wordpress.com.

Colorado Authors League November 2025 Member Releases

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members this November and learn more at our website.

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New Book :: Queer as Folk Tales

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Queer as Folk Tales by James Penha
Deep Desires Press, October 2025

When James Penha moved to Indonesia more than thirty years ago, he fell in love with its archipelago, its people, and its folk tales. But most of the tales, especially when passed on to him orally by natives, were as fragmentary as an Aesop fable. Penha wanted to ask why a wizard would do this or why a goddess would choose that, but the storyteller had no way of knowing. When Penha did dare to be impolite enough to raise such queries, he would usually be told to “believe it or not. It’s up to you.”

Penha took on the challenge and rewrote and published Indonesian legends with the logic and sometimes the sensibilities and sexualities of contemporary fiction without sacrificing the magic and fantasy and exoticism of the originals.

What Penha, as a gay male, missed in the project were LGBTQIA+ characters and plots. And so he set about queerly adapting tales from around the world. They — as well as Penha’s own original speculative stories — comprise Queer As Folk Tales.

The title reveals the collection’s target audience, of course, but the author says he is pretty sure even straight readers will enjoy the narratives and the characters.

Call :: The Dolomite Review Debut Issue

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The Dolomite Review is currently accepting submissions for its debut issue to be published January 2026.

Rooted in Michigan and steeped in the spirit of the Midwest, The Dolomite Review features writing that captures the subtle tensions of place and people — the rust belt cities, the wind-battered shorelines, the endless fields and small towns where stillness speaks volumes. It’s about the unsaid, the nearly forgotten, the moment just before everything changes.

The theme of The Dolomite Review inaugural issue is “new beginnings and firsts” — first steps, first frost, first love, first loss. The first time you left home. The first time you came back. The editors are interested in beginnings that don’t announce themselves. They want the quiet moments before or after the turning point — the kind that only feel like a “first” when you look back.

This theme is a guide, not a rule. The Dolomite Review is looking for great storytelling and voices readers will want to come back to. If that might be you, learn more about how to submit to The Dolomite Review here.

New Book :: Where Heaven Sinks

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Where Heaven Sinks: Poems by María Esquinca
University of Nevada Press, September 2025

In Where Heaven Sinks, María Esquinca delivers a searing collection of poems that traverse borders — both physical and emotional. Set against El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, these experimental works weave fragmented verses, striking imagery, and bold typography to confront the brutal realities of immigration and identity. Esquinca exposes injustice while celebrating resilience and hope. Her work is shaped by the intersection of cultures, histories, and experiences of the US-Mexico borderlands. Each poem is a tribute to those who have endured and a call to challenge oppressive systems. Where Heaven Sinks is a love letter, a memorial for the lost, and a testament to the transformative power of language.

27th Annual Taos Storytelling Festival

Poster for the 27th Annual Taos Storytelling Festival on October 11, 2025.
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Join us in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, for SOMOS’ 27th Annual Storytelling Festival on Saturday, October 11th, 2025. Participate in a two-hour workshop with featured teller, Eldrena Douma, an afternoon storyswap, and the main event at 6pm. Tellers include Eldrena Douma, Sage Vogel, Celinda Reynolds Kaelin, and musician Chuy Martinez. FMI: view flyer or visit our website.

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Colorado Authors League September 2025 Member Releases

Flyer showcasing new book releases from Colorado Authors League members, September 2025.
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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members and learn more at our website.

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New Book :: The Thing About My Uncle

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The Thing About My Uncle by Peter J. Stavros
Young Adult Thriller, July 2025

Although ten years have passed, Rhett Littlefield has always blamed himself for his father abandoning him and his family. When the troubled fourteen-year-old gets kicked out of school for his latest run-in with the vice principal, his frazzled single mother sends him to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky to stay with his Uncle Theo, a man of few words who leads an isolated existence with his loyal dog, Chekhov.

Resigned to make the best of his situation while still longing for the day when Mama will allow him to return home, Rhett settles into his new life. Rhett barely remembers his uncle, but he’s determined to get to know him. As he does, Rhett discovers that he and Uncle Theo share a connection to the past, one that has altered both of their lives, a past that will soon come calling.

The Thing About My Uncle is an engaging and heartwarming coming-of-age story that explores the cost of family secrets, the strength of family bonds, and the importance of reconciling the two in order to move forward.

For more about Peter J. Stavros, visit his website, www.peterjstavros.com.

Magazine Stand :: Thorn & Bloom 02: Breaking the Cycle

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Following the acclaimed launch of its debut issue, Thorn & Bloom — the literary magazine redefining self-care as resistance — presents its bold second edition, Breaking the Cycle. This quarterly publication continues its mission to fuse personal healing with collective liberation, now turning its lens toward dismantling oppressive narratives that bind us.

Thorn & Bloom 02: Breaking the Cycle features bold voices that interrogate societal conditioning and explore how unlearning can forge pathways to personal and political freedom. Where the first issue laid the foundation for self-care as radical honesty, this edition pushes further, offering language as a tool for fracture, freedom, and rebirth, all through essays, poetry, fiction, and expert insight.

“True liberation begins when we disrupt the stories imposed upon us,” says the editorial team. “This issue is an invitation to unlearn, to rise, and to rewrite.”

Inviting readers are over two dozen contributors, including Kara Dorris, Agbeye Oburumu, Grace Flaherty, CJ The Tall Poet, Rita Moe, Melanie White-Heron, Kristy Ettel, Mars Gorman, Mary M. Brown, Margaret Gibbs, Taslym Umar, Tinamarie Cox, and Rachel Turney, among others.

Rooted in inclusivity and empowerment, Thorn & Bloom is a haven for stories that break open and build a new, where vulnerability meets defiance, and self-care becomes revolution. Here, storytelling is not just art but alchemy, turning pain into power and words into weapons of liberation.

Contest and Writing Sessions from Black Fox Literary Magazine

Black Fox Literary Magazine Summer Fox Tales Prize announcement with theme “Feast”; submit fiction, poetry, or nonfiction by August 31, 2025.
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Submission/Registration Deadline: August 31, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Summer Fox Tales Prize with theme: Feast! Deadline: August 31, 2025! Registration is also open for our September Lunch Break Writing Sessions. View our flyer for more information and links to our website.

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Holli Carrell’s Apostasies in Presale – Release Date: September 15

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Holli Carrell’s Apostasies, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize, is now available for presale at Perugia Press and Asterism Books. The sale rate at Perugia is offered until 9/15/2025. This debut, hybrid collection explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a repressive and patriarchal American religious ideology. View flyer and visit website for more information and to purchase.

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The 2025 Tuscany Writing Retreats with Bret Lott

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LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE FOR THE FICTION WEEK, OCTOBER 5-11, 2025.
NONFICTION WEEK IS SOLD OUT

Whether you’re just beginning or already well on your way, these seven days will be a life-changing time of inspiration and creativity. Internationally bestselling author Bret Lott has been writing and teaching writing for four decades and will be leading you through a time of finding your path as a writer in both mindful and practical ways. This all-inclusive retreat includes luxury accommodations at Villa Poggiano just outside Montepulciano, as well as curated excursions into the Tuscan countryside for historical and literary and culinary pursuits. Together with trusted providers, The Tuscany Writing Retreats has created a truly bespoke Italian experience. Everything is included so you won’t need to worry about a thing. Registration ends August 31. View flyer and visit the website to learn more.

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Wildacres Writers 2025: Commercial Fiction Workshop Registration Open

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Registration Open Now
Writers take all sorts of classes on craft: character building, plotting, thematic elements, etc. BUT what you need to know beyond that is THE INDUSTRY. If you want to see your book on the bookstore shelves, you have to be a student of the business of publishing.

Whether you’re just getting started or you have a completed draft, knowing how to pitch and present your novel is imperative! Your query and first 10 pages are your foot in the publishing door.

Thinking you don’t need that yet because you’re still writing the novel? You know the adage, “Dress for the job you want?” You should be writing for the place on the bookshelf you want.

Start figuring that out for sure now and it will make everything you do in the future easier. So, yeah, this workshop IS for you—whatever stage your novel is in!

View flyer and learn more here.

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New Fall Releases from Livingston Press + Reading Through September

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Livingston Press will be reading through September. We are looking for novels, linked story collections, and narrative poetry. Send complete work, along with a bio to [email protected]. Check out our flyer for upcoming fall releases.

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Inverted Syntax’s Poetry Book Contests

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Deadline: August 15, 2025
Inverted Syntax is where the margins take center stage. Now accepting submissions for our annual poetry book contests: the Sublingua Prize (for debut collections by female-identifying writers) and the Aggrey & Tabbikha Prize (for first or second books by Black and/or S.W.A.N.A writers). Winners receive $500, publication, a retreat, and more. Fissured Tongue Vol. VII also open. View flyer for more information and submit here.

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New Workshops from Consequence

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We have a host of new workshops coming up. All are offered on a sliding scale.

  • Writing through Conflict: A free nonfiction workshop for emerging writers
  • The Grammar of History, the Syntax of War (Poetry)
  • Writing Sci-Fi War Stories
  • Bringing the Receipts: Using Personal Documents as Prompts to Write about the Past (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Click here for the full class descriptions or to register. Thank you.

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Stop Dreaming About Publishing Your Book; Let’s Get it Done!

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Registration Open Now
You’ve been dreaming about publishing your novel long enough! It’s time to make the next move toward getting it done. Come to Wildacres Writers Commercial Fiction Workshop in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC this fall for a workshop geared toward preparing your novel and submission packet for its best chance at landing a deal. Whether you’re planning to seek an agent or editor, publish with large or small press, or indie publish your own novel, this workshop will help you put your best book forward. Visit the website for all the details! Space is limited on this one! Act fast!

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Sponsor :: New Book :: What She Saw in the Lotería Cards

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What She Saw in the Lotería Cards, Poetry by M. Garcia Teutsch

Bottlecap Press, July 2025

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards by M. Garcia Teutsch is a poetry collection that can be understood as a cartography of identity—mapping emotional, cultural, familial, and bodily terrains. The use of Lotería cards is more than decorative—it offers a mythopoetic framework that grounds intimate, raw stories in universal symbols. For more on the author go here: www.poetrepublik.com.

9th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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JOIN us for SOMOS’ 9th Annual Taos Writers Conference, in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 25th—27th, 2025, featuring keynote speaker, memoirist, & poet, Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City). Over twenty workshops in every genre. Conference includes receptions, keynote reading, lunch roundtable discussions on publishing, faculty readings, and book sales. FYI: view our flyer, visit our website, or call 575-758-0081.

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July 2025 Releases from Colorado Authors League Members

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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see new releases by members and learn more at our website.

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Sponsored :: New Book :: Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems

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Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems by Alan Botsford
Cyberwit.com, April 2025

“A wonderful gang of talkative alter egos meets the ego in a cosmic expatriate bar and the ego tells their story, which is the intriguing inner and outer story of the poet Alan Botsford himself.” — Sarah Arvio, author of Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves

“In these poems of self and world, an American abroad, living in Japan, with a copy of Walt Whitman under his arm, sets out on the open road of the imagination, absorbing and transcending cultural constructions of that very self and world, ventriloquizing voices that speak back frequently at and to the author, as they embody multitudes, exemplifying the interconnectedness and contingency of identity, language, place, and emotion. Borderlines offers a new vision, looking both ways, inward and outward, ahead and behind, crossing borders, in an embrace centered ultimately in love.” — Michael Sowder, author of Sacred Letters: Sanskrit, Yoga, and Awakening the Divine

Alan Botsford is an American poet, author, and professor born in Connecticut and living in Japan for many years, where he teaches in university. His poetry collections include Possessions: Poems in American Poetry and Dreamer: Poems in Culture, and the hybrid Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore.

Sponsored :: New Book :: Feller

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Feller: Poems by Denton Loving
Mercer University Press, August 2025

Using the natural world as both mirror and lens, the poems in Denton Loving’s third collection of poetry explore themes of connection, longing, and the pursuit of a fully lived life. They celebrate “the light that enters the woods and cleanses the wound.” They seek the sacred order in everything, from the phases of the moon down to the delicate colors of a moth’s wings. And yet, they are not cloistered away from the human struggle — whether with nature, with each other, or with the self. Feller envisions our environment and landscape, not as backdrop or ornament but as revelatory forces illuminating the hidden chambers of the self. At once deeply rooted in his Appalachian soil and universally resonant, Feller confirms Loving’s position among those rare poets who transmute a sense of place into profound human truth.

“Loving makes lyric sense of complex issues in poem after poem in Feller, with his special blend of eco-poetics and earthly reason.” — Elaine Sexton, Site Specific

“At once timely and timeless, Feller is a superbly striking and essential book.” — Matt W. Miller, Tender the River

“Reading Feller is a transformative, joyful, loneliness-alleviating experience.” — Annie Woodford, Where You Come From Is Gone

Sponsored :: New Book :: Fragments of Cerulean

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Fragments of Cerulean, Short Stoires by Neal H. Paris
Revelation House Works, May 2025

Fragments of Cerulean is a surreal and emotionally resonant collection of short stories that blurs the boundaries between horror, memory, and myth. Structured in five evocative phases, this book invites readers into a world where the familiar becomes uncanny and the subconscious takes center stage. Each story is a journey through eerie landscapes — abandoned highways, sentient motel rooms, and cryptic machines that trade in secrets — crafted with immersive, cinematic prose.

This collection explores the fragile nature of identity and the haunting echoes of loss, transformation, and fear. With a tone that shifts between dreamlike introspection and psychological unease, the stories challenge perceptions of reality and self. Readers will encounter narratives that tug at the heart while unsettling the mind, offering a reading experience that is both emotionally raw and intellectually provocative.

Ideal for fans of atmospheric, genre-defying fiction, Fragments of Cerulean delivers a powerful blend of dark beauty and symbolic depth. It doesn’t offer easy resolutions — instead, it invites introspection and lingers long after the final page. Perfect for those drawn to the liminal, the strange, and the deeply human, this collection is a haunting exploration of what lies beneath the surface of our stories — and ourselves.

Sponsored :: New Book :: The Cobbler’s Crusaders

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The Cobbler’s Crusaders by Rick Steigelman
Author Published, May 2025

Jacquelyn Pajot, a nine-year-old American visiting her sanctimonious grandmother in Paris, falls in with a pair of young French girls whose carefree grasp of ‘right and wrong’ has the wide-eyed American narrowly averting prison, purgatory and, most perilously, her grandmother’s righteous indignation.

“A charmingly whimsical, whip-smart slice of Parisian life wrapped in equal parts heart and humor…Rick Steigelman’s prose is wry, warm, and beautifully descriptive, capturing the magic of Montmartre through the curious, wide eyes of young Jacquelyn Pajot.” — Alex Norton, Likely Story

“Dialogue sparkles with life, especially as Jacquelyn navigates the humorous pitfalls of being an American tween in a French-speaking world.” — Swapna Peri, Book Reviews Cafe

“Beneath all the comedic mishaps, there’s a beautiful sense of intergenerational connection. The dynamic between Jacquelyn and her grandmother, Catherine, is particularly touching as it anchors the story in emotional truth while allowing the young cast to explore their own emerging identities and moral boundaries. I’d easily recommend it to readers who enjoy novels like A Man Called Ove or The Elegance of the Hedgehog, stories that offer laughter, but also invite you to pause and feel something deeper.” — Heena Pardeshi, The Reading Bud

Birds & Muses September 2025 Residency Now Enrolling

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Application Deadline: July 15, 2025
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Individual mentorships and small group retreats. Now enrolling for September writers’ residency at Hewnoaks in Maine. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. View flyer or visit website to learn more.

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Now Out from #Ranger Press: Noetic Variations, v1 and v2

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Noetic Variations, v1 and v2 are experiments in extreme poetic abstraction, eschewing the appearance of formal narrative and mainstream convention. The NV project is an exciting postmodern exercise in pure language, stripped of all meaning and impervious to literary interpretation. Download free copies here: V1 V2 or purchase here: V1 V2. View flyer for more information.

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Consequence Volume 17.1 Now Available

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In Consequence Volume 17.1, a theme emerges of how affecting a difference doesn’t only have to happen on a global scale—it can and should include the more local ones. This is maybe most conspicuously expressed in the essay “A Trip to Kosovo” where a doctor returns to the war-torn country to navigate its broken bureaucracy in hopes of getting his nephew immediate cancer treatment and ends on the line: If the world can be saved, it will be by small acts of kindness. View flyer for more information.

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Magazine Stand :: Consequence – 17.1

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Consequence Volume 17.1 is full of prose, poetry, and visual art addressing the consequences of war and geopolitical violence. In this issue, a theme emerged of how affecting a difference doesn’t only have to happen on a global scale — it can and should include the more local ones.

This is expressed in “A Trip to Kosovo” where a doctor returns to the war-torn country to navigate its broken bureaucracy in hopes of getting his nephew immediate cancer treatment (a piece that pointedly ends with: If the world can be saved, it will be by small acts of kindness). It appears in “Withdrawal” with the narrator always answering his phone in case it’s a fellow soldier or a refugee in dire need. It’s there in “The Lucky Ones” as a director for an adoption agency in Korea reveals to women the tricks necessary to help their babies find safe homes.

Maybe the most conspicuous example of this theme, though, is in the Translations Feature, which consists of works written in Arabic and centering on the Palestinian experience. Translations Editors Parisa Saranj and Fathima M. frame all ten pieces of the feature by stating, What else can we do but bear witness to the pain of our fellow human beings? Literature has been the first recordkeeper of what humans are capable of doing to and for each other.