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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · Nov 13
🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

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🛋️Winter '25 Subs are Closed!🛋️

Thank you all! Submissions for this issue have been nothing short of breathtaking!

We've got work to do!

See you soon!

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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🎆 Happy New Year! 🎆

This is the final call for Winter Submissions! We close January 8th!

We're accepting poetry, fiction, other prose, and ART!

Full guidelines at LampLit.net.

🕯️We can't wait to see you!🕯️

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th! 🛋️

We're accepting poetry, fiction, and other prose but we are looking for more ART!

Full guidelines at Lamplit.net!

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #photography #illustration #collage #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🕯️Happy Holidays from Lamp Lit!🕯️

May the nights be warm and the hearts be bright.

#happyholıdays #poetry #fiction #essay #art #lamplitmag
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th for our Winter issue! 🛋️

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

(Seriously we NEED more Art!)

Full guidelines at LampLit.net.

We can't wait to see you!

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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from Ewen Glass's ( @ewenglass.bsky.social ):
The one who sees inside you

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Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now!

#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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They also nominate #writers for The #PushcartPrize and Best of the Net.

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December 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Full guidelines at LampLit.net.

We're also listed on ChillSubs!

We can't wait to see you! 🛋️

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December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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from Elisheva Fox's ( @elisheva.fox ):

Blessing for a queer dating app.

Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now!

#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🛋️ Submissions are OPEN until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Please see full guidelines at LampLit.net.
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We can't wait to see you! 🛋️
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#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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from Todd Dillard's ( @toddedillard.bsky.social ):

The Lampshade

Read the full piece in our latest issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 2026 open now!

#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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🛋️ Submissions are now open until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!
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We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net. Link in bio!
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We can't wait to see you! 🛋️
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#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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from Darren C. Demaree's ( @darrencdemaree.bsky.social ):

All All #21

Read the full piece, and another from this beautiful series by Darren in our latest issue, at www.lampLit.net

Submissions for our Winter 2026 are open now!
#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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poetjohncompton.bsky.social
read my poem from the first issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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kathleenpalmer.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky. Poetry in progress. Delighted to have a poem in @lamplitmag.bsky.social Thanks to editors @jlilley.bsky.social and @snakeborn.bsky.social and fellow contributors. See current issue at lamplit.net/q-issue-number/ Cover art by Mirjana M., @cyanide_cherries on insta.
Cover art for Lamp Lit fall 2025. A figure facing right in profile. The image is broken up by concentric circles and a white cross as if refracted light. I have done it again (after Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath) I said yes; meaning no, I swallow the near vomit of negative Bite down on the bit Grimace from over-smiling I wake, jaw clenched and aching Tongue marked by my teeth What is this peg on my tongue? I am mute A strange Cassandra, What god or witch have I offended? To break the spell I bathe in rage Open the lock Spew bile until it runs clear.
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
lamplitmag.bsky.social
🛋️ Submissions are now open until January 8th 2026 for our Winter issue!

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, and art.

Full guidelines at LampLit.net

We can't wait to see you! 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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From Dustin Brookshire's ( @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social ):
Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It,

"I need some advice, a friend says
before I utter hello. Why are you crying?
she asks. Have you seen the news? Pulse?"

Read the full piece at LampLit.net!

#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!
Love Poem with Overwrought Similes Because That's As Close As I Can Get To Explaining It Right Now OK Lately every day I feel like I am peeling oranges while crying, like my fingers are cold-curled from missing the bus and walking home 3 miles on a day it wasn't supposed to snowand I just wanted something quick to eat while I thawed, but now it's like I'm 16 again and the orange is made of bra claspsbut also it's like I'm Heraclitus off his depression meds,like I'm certain the river can't be crossed twice because I'm going to drown. But then you hear the ice cream truck jangling like a train carrying only xylophones as cargo, and we sprint outside and wave down the truck like it's a ship and we've been wrecked on an island of Wednesdays for 14 years. We order the biggest ice creams on the menu, and our faces break into smiles like a child's laughter cartwheeling across a funeral home. We walk back holding vanilla cones aloft like a torches, we walk home like Friday lovers running into each other again at church, elbows nosing elbows like dolphins in love, the wind kiting a strand of your hair into my beard like when you are on top and your hair gets caught in my beard.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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darrencdemaree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the editors of @lamplitmag.bsky.social for including two poems from my All All sequence in their new issue.

So many friends and great pieces in this one. You can read the whole issue here:

lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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dustinbrookshire.bsky.social
Thank you to @lamplitmag.bsky.social editors Jaime Lilley & Michael C for publishing “Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It” in the fall issue.

I’m in good company. Shoutout to @toddedillard.bsky.social & @darrencdemaree.bsky.social!!

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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We're in love with it too! 😁
cuttinghail.bsky.social Luca @cuttinghail.bsky.social · Nov 14
I read this, I think I am in love with this. Poetry ça va sans dire, but the artwork? Look at that Crazy Town! Look at it! Such a lovely place (to read and perhaps submit to)
lamplitmag.bsky.social Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · Nov 13
🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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cuttinghail.bsky.social
I read this, I think I am in love with this. Poetry ça va sans dire, but the artwork? Look at that Crazy Town! Look at it! Such a lovely place (to read and perhaps submit to)
lamplitmag.bsky.social Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · Nov 13
🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal!

Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta

Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️

#coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM