My first book will be out May 2026 🖤

Poets! ❤️‍🔥 We’re open for submissions @fivesouth.bsky.social

Send us your best work. 💌✨

Read submission guidelines here: fivesouth.net/submission-g...

"She ran across El Paso, then back. She ran to Austin, then back. Still not exhausted, she ran the border of the state, even the panhandle Texas sacrificed to Oklahoma to remain a slave state. Now she’s running for Miss America." 🇺🇸

📖 @smokelong.bsky.social
www.smokelong.com/stories/miss...

"On the west side, roses grow between the modest graves of their mediocre descendants who lost that fortune, slowly but surely. 🌹 That’s where I will be, one day. I hope that ghosts can smell tamales." 🫔

Read 💌 "Hobbies in the Afterlife" @icebreakerslit.bsky.social

💖 Romance Writers! It's free submission day @fivesouth.bsky.social ❤️

💗 We want stories of longing, relentless pining, never-ending crushes, breakups, breakdowns, cold shoulders, hot encounters, and happily-ever-afters.

🔥 Submit for FREE ➡️ fivesouth.net/submission-g...

"We’re passing notes...instead of listening to Rodney Granger’s boring report about Lee’s surrender at Appomattox when the door opens and a man walks in..."

💙 A Civil War by Sarah Freligh for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #microfiction
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

"I heard a spider chirp."

✨The Call by @ebenbein.bsky.social @fivesouth.bsky.social
pulls you into a world just slightly off-kilter, where the ordinary hums with mystery.

🌿Read it here: fivesouth.net/bein-the-call/

"All night long, men were launched into the championship banners. Kicked like hacky sacks. Spun like laundry. Horned in the ass...Their bodies hit the ground contorted into letters of the alphabet."

🤠 "A Rodeo at Madison Square Garden" www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01...

SoCal writers, sub fees are dropped for January. All other submission fees will be donated to LA fire relief.
♥️ We're here, we love you, writing matters, things will be okay again.

@fivesouth.bsky.social EIC talks California, beauty, & hope.

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✨ Poets, we love you. ✨ Submissions are OPEN at @fivesouthlit 💘

Got three poems (or five pages) that sing? Send them our way. Simultaneous submissions welcome.

Send us something you love.

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"the Thursday nurse who brings her warm honey buns and the good Jello, well-loved paperbacks and paper cups of tea with little notes on top that say eat me written in neat scrolling nurse script."

💕 The Princess of Tides by @amygcb.bsky.social
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"Dear Tulsa,

I was a teenaged white girl living north of you. I believed everything you told me about yourself...big-city glitter to my Okie small-town ignorance...You were America to my whole-damn-rest-of-the-world."

⚡️ Dear Tulsa by Rilla Askew, AGNI 90

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No poem is just its autobiographical content. No poem is just its embroidery of language. As a reader, I favor poems that have multiple textures, moving freely from plain-speech, to silken [...] But all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling.

—Henri Cole

"Poets are puzzly people, I believe, not just because they’re often interestingly weird, but because their whole pursuit is about exposing the tiny, illuminating truths the rest of us too easily overlook." 🧩 Writers on Not Writing: Brandon Dudley, The Masters Review mastersreview.com/writers-on-n...

This one means so much to me. Thank you @identitytheory.bsky.social ❤️

Here's one from @jessicawillingham.bsky.social that'll knock your socks off.

Honored to have my flash tip included at Vancouver Flash Fiction. Thanks @karenschauber.bsky.social!

Sweet Pickle Books, NYC 📍🥒