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Audi Locus
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A contemporary poetry & art journal exploring liminality, existentialism, & the in-between. Featuring poetry, visual art, music/lyrics, & hybrid forms. Submissions: Apr–May & Oct–Nov.

www.audilocus.com

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · Oct 1
The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam
Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus
www.audilocus.com
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Shoutout to our Editor @maudiemichelle.com for being named the 2025 Ephraim Tyler Poet of the Year by POETIC X.

At Audi Locus, we don’t just curate great art, we make it! 🖋️🔥
maudiemichelle.com Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 24d
Officially picked up my plaque for the 2025 Ephraim Tyler Poet of the Year award this weekend.

This honor was given earlier this year at Speak Poetry Fest by POETIC X, and picking it up this past Saturday (on Apollo’s birthday) felt like the perfect alignment.

#LouisianaArts #SouthernWriters
Outdoors in the sunlight, a woman in a floral print blouse beams with pride while holding a dark wood and gold plaque awarded to her as "Poet of the Year" at the 2025 Speak Poetry Fest. Fall-colored leaves and a chain-link fence are visible in the background.
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Number 6! 🥰

Next issue coming at the end of January and our next submission period begins in April (theme TBA)!
chillsubs.bsky.social Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · Dec 16
Next up are our top Hidden Gems of 2025!

Check out how to submit to them and see which other lit mags made the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/hidden...

#writing #writers #writingcommunity
CHILL SUBS Annual Best Lit Mag Awards Hidden Gem * Abundance Literary Magazine Promoting emerging voices and cultural perspectives MoonLit Getaway Enrapturing readers with excitement, wonder, and intrigue JADE& COMPASS Seeking the nostalgia of the future Pearl Press Publication striving to build a community of diverse voices Collaborature To work jointly with others writing in prose or verse
December 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Audi Locus is art! Poets, check it out!
audilocus.bsky.social Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · Dec 16
We are so honored to be ranked #6 on the @chillsubs.bsky.social Hidden Gem List! Thank you to our contributors and readers for recognizing our crisp blend of liminal and surreal poetry and art.

Check out the full list and find your next favorite lit mag: www.chillsubs.com/lists/hidden...
Promotional graphic for Audi Locus, a literary journal of poetry, celebrating its ranking on the Chillsubs list. The dark blue background is textured with a faceted, gem-like pattern and framed by a gold border. The journal's name is in stylized gold lettering. The center features a large, striking #6 in a neon cyan and magenta gradient. Below the number, the text reads: Chillsubs Best Lit Mags: 2025 and includes a gold laurel wreath containing the words Hidden Gem.
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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CONGRATS @audilocus.bsky.social !!
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December 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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We are so honored to be ranked #6 on the @chillsubs.bsky.social Hidden Gem List! Thank you to our contributors and readers for recognizing our crisp blend of liminal and surreal poetry and art.

Check out the full list and find your next favorite lit mag: www.chillsubs.com/lists/hidden...
Promotional graphic for Audi Locus, a literary journal of poetry, celebrating its ranking on the Chillsubs list. The dark blue background is textured with a faceted, gem-like pattern and framed by a gold border. The journal's name is in stylized gold lettering. The center features a large, striking #6 in a neon cyan and magenta gradient. Below the number, the text reads: Chillsubs Best Lit Mags: 2025 and includes a gold laurel wreath containing the words Hidden Gem.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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stanchion.bsky.social
Who's gonna send me something on January 5?
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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maureenlangloss.bsky.social
It's amazing how a few weeks away from a poem makes you see the cracks in it. Time is the best editor. Patience is better than any craft book.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🔥 The 2026 FISH List is out! Audi Locus jumped nearly 100 points from last year. That’s not luck; that's doing the work.

For the uninitiated: the FISH List ranks thousands of indie lit-mags, weighing submission practices, longevity, and editorial rigor to point you toward venues worth your words.
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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First time I actually licked an envelope in quite some time. Sending off our very first batch of Pushcart Prize nominations! It’s been a solid first year of publishing. Proud of the work we’ve put out and the writers who trusted us with it. Here’s to the next one.
A close-up photo of a brown envelope with a handwritten address in black ink that reads: "Pushcart Press, P.O. Box 380, Wainscott, NY 11975." The image is decorated with cheerful digital stickers: a blue text bubble at the top reading "to the post office!!!!", two pink hearts, and a "Good Luck" graphic in yellow and pink cursive script at the bottom right.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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You can submit up to 5 mags! And what's really cool, regardless of "winning," is that the tags y'all pick will help label the lit mags in Chillsubs for easier navigation and visibility!
frazzledlit.bsky.social Frazzled Lit *ISSUE 4 OUT NOW* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · Nov 26
Jennifer has written a short substack post for the mag actually about how much we love you.

Take a look, see what it is all about.

www.frazzledlit.com/p/you-guys-l...

Vote for us here. If the mood takes you!
Vote for someone else if you want. But, do vote.

www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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here is the shorter of yesterday's 2 poems from Kara Knickerbocker
Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny What I can’t stop thinking about is how, when I was growing up, we kept a large glass jar of them behind the couch— our way of saving for a vacation. How my dad would search for those copper-plated faces like little parking lot prayers. Looking now feels worthless but I do. Heads up, my father is still alive in another universe. Tails up, try again.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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In our "Witness" issue, Tess Ezzy turns the eye inward and asks the hard questions: "what is the Greek word / for grief you didn’t earn".

Read "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)", one of our Pushcart noms, here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#Poetry #IndieLit #Publication #LitMag
Promotional graphic from "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2". At the top, a large blue quotation mark and the text "what is the Greek word for grief you didn't earn" followed by another blue quotation mark. Below, against a painting of a woman with brown hair looking out a window at city buildings and holding a cup, is the title "“ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)” By Tess Ezzy" and "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2"
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Proud to feature this piece by Barnaby Blue in the "Witness" issue! 👁️💘

www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

#indiejournal #litjournal #art
barnabebop.bsky.social Barnaby Blue @barnabebop.bsky.social · Apr 1
bullseye (2025)
24x12”
acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

look mom, i did a painting on a real canvas for the first time since college!
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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We'd love to be one of your five! 😍
audilocus.bsky.social Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · Nov 24
It's time to vote for Best Lit Mag in the ChillSubs Community Favorites Awards!

If our work has ever hit you sideways, cracked something open, or lit a little fuse, take a moment and nominate us.

🗳️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Type Audi Locus, choose a few tags, hit submit.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It's time to vote for Best Lit Mag in the ChillSubs Community Favorites Awards!

If our work has ever hit you sideways, cracked something open, or lit a little fuse, take a moment and nominate us.

🗳️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Type Audi Locus, choose a few tags, hit submit.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The countdown is on. One week left to submit your work for Audi Locus Volume 2, Issue 1. We’re looking for poetry and art that demands to be heard and remembered.

Deadline: November 30
Weblink: www.audilocus.com
A digital flyer with a dark, abstract background featuring blurred shapes in orange, yellow, and red. Text reads: "AUDI LOCUS, Volume 2, Issue 1. 1 WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT ART & POETRY. Subs open until November 30. www.audilocus.com.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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We are bursting with pride to announce our six nominees for the 2025 Pushcart Prize!

Huge congrats to: Dutch Simmons, Meghan Albizo, Sofiya Ivanova, Rowan Tate, Isabelle Ruby, and Tess Ezzy.

Read all the nominated poems and the full issues now at www.audilocus.com

#PushcartPrize #Poetry
Audi Locus, A Journal of Poetry, announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations from Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2. Issue 1 nominations are: "The Pope Graces Buc-ee's with his Divine Presence" by Dutch Simmons, "Apples" by Meghan Albizo, and "People Keep Dying So I Keep Writing About It" by Sofiya Ivanova. Issue 2 nominations are: "The Tent" by Rowan Tate, "Unsilenced Ghosts" by Isabelle Ruby, and "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)" by Tess Ezzy.
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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So excited about the submissions coming in and am currently digging through Issues 1 and 2 for Pushcart nominations!
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry
A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Working on balance.
alixklingenberg.bsky.social Alix Klingenberg @alixklingenberg.bsky.social · Oct 10
What are you working on right now? (Interpret widely, poetically, existentially)
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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an honour to be included❤️
audilocus.bsky.social Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · Oct 12
What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #CurrentEvents #Poetry
A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
audilocus.bsky.social
Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry
A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #CurrentEvents #Poetry
A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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audilocus.bsky.social
The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam
Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus
www.audilocus.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM