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@courtludwick.bsky.social
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writer, artist, teacher person
author of THESE STRANGE BODIES (ELJ 2024)
eic @brokenantlermag
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www.courtlud.com
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · Nov 13
hiya bluesky 🤠

i’m the author of THESE STRANGE BODIES (a hybrid cnf/poetry collection out now w/ ELJ Editions!) elj-editions.com/these-strang...

& also the eic of Broken Antler (which will be opening up for submissions in less than a week!!) www.brokenantlermag.com

iso poets, artists, community!
Selfie of Court Ludwick holding a copy of THESE STRANGE BODIES up next to her face. Cover of Broken Antler’s latest quarterly issue. Cover features a photograph by Nasos Karabelas, in which a hazy figure is curled into fetal position.
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brokenantlermag.bsky.social
share w/ ur fav artist

(we also pay!)

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White text on black background that says, “send us art / brokenantlermagazine@gmail.com / like now”
June 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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stonespiral.bsky.social
an honor to be published by Libre, this is my first review AND their first review :)

go read! and then read THESE STRANGE BODIES by @courtludwick.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
courtludwick.bsky.social
i reviewed Sara Mesa’s SCAR for @necessaryfiction.com

check it out here:
necessaryfiction.com/reviews/scar/
May 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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SCAR by Sara Mesa, translated by Adriana Nodal-Tarafa (‪@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by @courtludwick.bsky.social . necessaryfiction.com/reviews/scar/
May 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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amsterdamreview.bsky.social
"This is the inside of the shell you hold close to your ear now after stepping on its sand-covered points"

A poem by 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗟𝘂𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸 @courtludwick.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #poetrycommunity
Or maybe it’s more like this: a nondescript palm joins another. The fingers are warm—they touch. The palms belong to one person. The palms are covered in broken fragments of something. They bleed. “They” is an intentionally vague referent. And, as you peek into the red gaps, you finally see the white hello of bone. This is the inside of the shell you hold
May 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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variantlit.bsky.social
Check out @lowermelody.bsky.social's review of These Strange Bodies, the debut collection by @courtludwick.bsky.social, on The Variety Pack!

variantlit.com/knowing-and-...
April 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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lowermelody.bsky.social
Feels like a good day for an excerpt from my review of THESE STRANGE BODIES by @courtludwick.bsky.social (ELJ Editions: 2024), published in @variantlit.bsky.social's Variety Pack section earlier this year

variantlit.com/knowing-and-...
As it experiments with different techniques for presenting trauma and dissonance—including bouts with disordered eating, sexual assault, medical crisis, psychiatric definition, and family dynamics—Ludwick’s language also drifts among the currents of deeper theoretical questions about epistemology and identity. Visceral, confessional detail and hermit crab narrative techniques comprise the engine of this book, which provides readers with an able vehicle for exploring such storied waters.
May 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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brokenantlermag.bsky.social
“stroking a slow finger over / one dusty cover and its blue // eye-shadowed model until X. / said That’s his skin, that dust / and his finger stopped and we / looked at the dust differently.”

Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
Hauntological | Michael Bazzett — BROKEN ANTLER
www.brokenantlermag.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
courtludwick.bsky.social
“Time lets herself in; I pour us tea without sugar. She understands, she says. She leaves. She leaves. Sand drips down her face. It slips from her mouth mostly, when she talks, and from between her eyelashes when she blinks.”

oh i’m OBSESSED
brokenantlermag.bsky.social Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 17
“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”

Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER
www.brokenantlermag.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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brokenantlermag.bsky.social
“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”

Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER
www.brokenantlermag.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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brokenantlermag.bsky.social
BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️

4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.

Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER
www.brokenantlermag.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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madridlitmag.bsky.social
Such a special poem 👌
courtludwick.bsky.social court @courtludwick.bsky.social · Feb 14
so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social !

happy luvvv day <3
February 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
courtludwick.bsky.social
so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social !

happy luvvv day <3
February 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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madridlitmag.bsky.social
Loads of brilliant poets in Issue 3, coming #valentinesday @jermcurtin.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @courtludwick.bsky.social @robertrenegalvan.bsky.social @enochjones.bsky.social and more more more #newissue #incoming Elena Gual Art
February 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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wordgathering.bsky.social
The Winter 2024-2025 issue is live! HOORAY!

wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2/

@stevekuusisto.bsky.social
@razubal.bsky.social

#solidarity
#CripArts
#CripLit
Volume 18, Number 2 – Winter 2024-2025 – Wordgathering
wordgathering.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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audreytcarroll.bsky.social
Truly, deeply, endlessly grateful to @courtludwick.bsky.social and @romyewing.bsky.social for their conversation in @wordgathering.bsky.social about my short story collection What Blooms in the Dark (@emergejournal.bsky.social). 🌺

wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2...
In Conversation: Court Ludwick and Romy Rhoads Ewing on What Blooms in the Dark by Audrey T. Carroll – Wordgathering
wordgathering.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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okaydonkeymag.com
@courtludwick.bsky.social's book, "These Strange Bodies," came out in October: www.courtlud.com/these-strang...

Read Court's poem "Body Horror" in OKD:
Body Horror by Court Ludwick
See the mother. See through her skin. See the skeleton. See inside the body. Look, there is another body, only smaller and made of disconnected parts. What constitutes a body? See, Mother has a pel…
okaydonkeymag.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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guante.info
...oh and speaking of zines, I'm facilitating a short virtual workshop on Friday with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for their ZINE LUNCH series with a focus on zines as political communication, as tools of resistance and community-building. More info: www.sarabandebooks.org/zine-lunch
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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cristinajurado.bsky.social
🌞Issue 3 of THE MADRID REVIEW is coming next week with art by Elena Gual and I'm... SO EXCITED!!!
Please, subscribe at themadridreview.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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madridlitmag.bsky.social
Issue 3 is out Feb 14th, featuring @lenaozge.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @juliesheridanpoet.bsky.social @courtludwick.bsky.social @jermcurtin.bsky.social @enochjones.bsky.social @hitenchojer.bsky.social and many more. Image shows detail of art by Elena Gual
#poetry
February 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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lowermelody.bsky.social
Excited to share my review of
@courtludwick.bsky.social's THESE STRANGE BODIES from @emergejournal.bsky.social, now at @variantlit.bsky.social's new "Variety Pack" section!

As one who also explores embodiment in my work, reading & discussing this book was a treat.

variantlit.com/knowing-and-...
The cover of THESE STRANGE BODIES by Court Ludwick, featuring bold white text over a classical painting of an upside-down woman caressing a skull
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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necessaryfiction.com
We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard (Milkweed Editions). Reviewed by @courtludwick.bsky.social.
We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine – Necessary Fiction
necessaryfiction.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard (Milkweed Editions). Reviewed by Court Ludwick. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/we-a...
January 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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chillsubs.bsky.social
Alrighty folks, closing out this fun ass week with something special.

From 1160 nominations for 289 Magazines who are good at gettin’ weird,

Your 10 favorite…. WTF IS GENRE ANYWAY Lit Mags of 2024!

⬇️ Their details & how to submit your work
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COMMUNITY FAVORITES 10 BEST WTF IS GENRE ANYWAY LIT MAGS OF 2024 Bloodletter Magazine Dreamworldgirl Zine BROKEN ANTLER HAD FRUITSLICE Carolina Muse Taco Bell Quarterly Little Free Lit Mag Bending Genres DIAGRAM
December 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
courtludwick.bsky.social
books make great gifts

& books about inherited trauma, haunting childhood memories, mommy issues, etc. make great passive aggressive gifts—it’s Fun™️ for the entire family!

totally unrelated: a page from my book that’s about, hmm how strange, all of that :)

bookshop.org/p/books/thes...
December 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM