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Betty
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EdD, MFA, poet, author, debate coach, speech coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, gamer
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Two new poems in the newest issue of 3rd Wednesday! thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2026/02/04/t...

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Two Poems by Betty Stanton
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February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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A flash piece and a prose poem out today in Blasphemous. blasphemousaliteraryjournalfortheforgotten.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/b...

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Betty Stanton
About Her Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Pushcart nominated writer who lives and teaches in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Some of her favorite recent publications can be found in Susurrus, The Medley, and narrate…
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February 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Oh! Also today I have two poems out in the newest issue of Brown Bag, one reprint and one new-ish work! brownbag.online/issue-11/ I also really love how they laid out this journal like an immersive experience.

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Issue 11 - Brown Bag
Reuban Letter from the Editor For the second time, our No Theme theme generated one anyway. We found consistent threads of time within each piece. We saw the progress and regress of living. We felt al...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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Honored to be the feature poet in the newest issue of MockingHeart Review! They included three of my poems and an interview. mockingheartreview.com/volume-11-is... mockingheartreview.com/volume-11-is...

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Volume 11, Issue 1
EDITOR’S LETTER MockingHeart friends! Welcome to the new year. I hope it’s been treating you well. Louisiana is normally a place replete with warmth, the hum of insects and the trills o…
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February 3, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Not affiliated with this press, but as an Okie I fully support this and am looking forward to keeping an eye on it!
February 3, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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So pleased today to be announced as the 1st runner up in the Mukoli Contest from Mukoli - The Magazine for Peace. mukoli.net/contest-resu... The poem will be published in their Winter '26 issue.

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February 3, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Over 170 publications re-opened today, including @suspendedmag.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @dogthroat.com @flarelitmag.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @wyldblood.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...
Re-openings for February 01, 2026
Over 170 publications re-opened today, including @suspendedmag.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @dogthroat.com @flarelitmag.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @wyldblood.bsky.social https://duotrope.com/news/publishing/
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February 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Be sure to follow and pin our Mercurial Poets #list. These are Bluesky writers who have been published on Tiny Prophecies.

Want to be added to the list? Send us a poem or story here: mercurialsilver.com/pages/submit....
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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The other day I posted about a story I had in the new collection from Wicked Shadow Press. They actually put out TWO holiday horror collections, and I had a story in both. This is the second one. It looks great! www.lulu.com/shop/parth-s...

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YuleHide: The Red Book
40 Stories ~ 290 Pages Behind the lights, the feasts and the forced warmth of tradition, something watches. Something remembers older winters, bloodier rituals and the quiet violence lurking beneath ...
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January 31, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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A-minor Magazine was one of the first mags I submitted to during my MFA, and one of my first rejections. I've loved the mag since - and today (10 years later!) I have a short story in the new issue! aminormagazine.com/2026/01/30/b...

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Blue
by Betty Stanton The wind carries the taste of ash, not rain. It coats the tongue, a dry promise that never breaks. The road ahead fades into a mirage of warped air, shimmering pools that vanish wh…
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January 31, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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How many markets is TOO many markets to have a piece simultaneously submitted to? Asking for a "friend." lol #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Two poems today in Shot Glass Journal from Muse Pie Press. www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/be...

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Shot Glass Journal - Betty Stanton
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January 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Today a short holiday horror story of mine came out in this great collection from Wicked Shadow Press. www.lulu.com/shop/parth-s...

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YuleHide: The Green Book
40 Stories ~ Over 275 Pages Behind the lights, the feasts and the forced warmth of tradition, something watches. Something remembers older winters, bloodier rituals and the quiet violence lurking ben...
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January 30, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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I had 65 poems/short stories accepted in 2025, of those only 13 are still forthcoming and the rest were published and shared. It’s by far been my most productive year. Now I’m really struggling to write anything at all that isn’t smut with my friends. I needed these snow days!!!

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January 27, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Happy to have a piece in this issue, out today from The Periwinkle Pelican @periwinklepelican.bsky.social ! This poem is literally over a decade old, and it's great to have finally found a home for it.

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January 27, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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I've been talking about Last Kiss a lot but did you know I wrote a one page RPG about wrestling your queer friends with sexual subtext?

Pronoun Throwdown is available for free or capitalism luckoftheharbor.com/pronoun-thro...
Pronoun Throwdown
A One Page TTRPG by Brian Liberge​You are queer and looking for foreplay with a total stranger (or friend or ex), so you head down to PRONOUN THROWDOWN, your local queer trans wrestling social. You…
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January 21, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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I have two new prose poems/micro flash pieces available in the new issue of Ionosphere from @ampliconpress.bsky.social Find it here www.amazon.com/ionosphere-V... (free to read w/Kindle Unlimited) It looks so good!

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ionosphere Vol. III Issue 1
Amazon.com: ionosphere Vol. III Issue 1 eBook : Press, Amplicon: Kindle Store
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January 19, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Issue 5 of the literary journal ionosphere is now available on Amazon!
Read poetry and essays by @fadingbetty.bsky.social,
@bigjosh84.bsky.social, @zoomburst.substack.com,
@misshalcyon.bsky.social, @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social, and many
others.
The post features an image of the cover of the literary journal ionosphere superimposed on an image of a white single-use plastic bag. The journal cover contains a picture of two superimposed images of a kelp forest and a high-domed building with many windows, and two colorful bars framing it. The title is written in white at the top. Below the image of the book cover, a font reads "ionosphere Vol III Issue 1", and above, a font reads "available now".
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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New micro-poem today in the newest issue of The Odd Magazine.
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Odd Poetry | Oddity 31
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January 19, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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A new poem and a short flash piece in the newest issue of Blue Daises out this week bluedaisiesjournal.wixsite.com/bluedaisiesj... "Threshold" and "Candlelight"

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Blue Daisies Journal | Online Journal
Blue Daisies is an online literary journal where experiments with genre aesthetics happen.
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January 19, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Three micro poems out today with Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com They are curating a really great collection over there, and I'm enjoying reading through their hearth, ruin, & whimsy.

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January 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Excited for this tomorrow in @mercurialsilver.com . "In Which She Is" started as a set of poems submitted to a call from @tinywrenlit.bsky.social a few years ago and grew into a full chapbook project. Happy to have these three out in the world.
mercurialsilver.com Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com · 27d
Monday is approaching and we know what that means— Ruin & dread.

Tomorrow's prophecy is titled "In Which She Is" by @fadingbetty.bsky.social

She is the fire. She is the wolf. She is the fog. A triptych of burning, hunger, and forgetting.

Check back later to read the full prophecy. #poem #ruin
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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No one cares until it’s too late.

Until warnings become reality.
Until the fire reaches their door.
Until the system fails someone they love.

But justice & change are needed before the breaking point.

Justice demands more than words, it demands action. So, let’s do the work.
‘let us not be scared of the work because it's hard let us move the mountain because the mountain must move.’ Danez Smith
February 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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New (old) flash piece in Flash the Court today flashthecourt.com/2026/01/09/c...

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“Christmas” by Betty Stanton
We can name a day, even a holiday, but can’t know what it holds for those other than ourselves. In “Christmas” by Betty Stanton, “the calendar doesn’t mean much anymore,” but a new name, “something…
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January 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM