phoebe journal
@phoebejournal.bsky.social
A journal of literature and art published by George Mason University. Submissions are closed for the winter 55.1 edition!
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Take a look at phoebe’s Best of Net nominations! 🙂↕️
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Take a look at phoebe’s Best of Net nominations! 🙂↕️
phoebe is still fee-free for marginalized writers through tomorrow, and our submissions are also open through tomorrow! October 8 is the last day to submit, so get your submissions in! ✨ #CallForSubmissions #phoebejournal
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
phoebe is still fee-free for marginalized writers through tomorrow, and our submissions are also open through tomorrow! October 8 is the last day to submit, so get your submissions in! ✨ #CallForSubmissions #phoebejournal
The Submittable will show all fee-waived submission portals. Head to our Submittable link to submit! To make space for voices that publishing too often overlooks, phoebe journal is offering free submissions for BIPOC and underrepresented writers starting today until our submissions close on Oct 8.
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Submittable will show all fee-waived submission portals. Head to our Submittable link to submit! To make space for voices that publishing too often overlooks, phoebe journal is offering free submissions for BIPOC and underrepresented writers starting today until our submissions close on Oct 8.
Reminder that today is the last day of our fee-free weekend 🗣️ go to our Submittable and submit now 🙂 #CallForSubmissions #LiteraryJournal
September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reminder that today is the last day of our fee-free weekend 🗣️ go to our Submittable and submit now 🙂 #CallForSubmissions #LiteraryJournal
Imagine if we did a fee-free weekend… oh wait, we are! It’s this weekend! Go submit your pieces now 😌 It ends on Sunday the 21st.
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeWeekend
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeWeekend
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Imagine if we did a fee-free weekend… oh wait, we are! It’s this weekend! Go submit your pieces now 😌 It ends on Sunday the 21st.
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeWeekend
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeWeekend
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Today's listing of the day is: phoebe (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: phoebe (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
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September 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today's listing of the day is: phoebe (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
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Finding the right journals for your work. Writing a lit mag cover letter. Submitting to contests. Let's talk about it at Submit-a-Thon! Hosted by us and @phoebejournal.bsky.social, open to the GMU community. Sign up here: cglink.me/2d7/r2287792
September 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finding the right journals for your work. Writing a lit mag cover letter. Submitting to contests. Let's talk about it at Submit-a-Thon! Hosted by us and @phoebejournal.bsky.social, open to the GMU community. Sign up here: cglink.me/2d7/r2287792
Hi everyone:
There’s a new submission deadline for phoebe, on October 8! Thank you for understanding and make sure to make note of the new date so that you can get your submissions in on time 🙂
There’s a new submission deadline for phoebe, on October 8! Thank you for understanding and make sure to make note of the new date so that you can get your submissions in on time 🙂
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hi everyone:
There’s a new submission deadline for phoebe, on October 8! Thank you for understanding and make sure to make note of the new date so that you can get your submissions in on time 🙂
There’s a new submission deadline for phoebe, on October 8! Thank you for understanding and make sure to make note of the new date so that you can get your submissions in on time 🙂
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🌀SUBS OPEN🌀
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September 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🌀SUBS OPEN🌀
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phoebe’s submissions are open now for the winter edition, 55.1! Find the Submittable link in our bio!
phoebe’s submissions are open now for the winter edition, 55.1! Find the Submittable link in our bio!
August 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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phoebe’s submissions are open now for the winter edition, 55.1! Find the Submittable link in our bio!
phoebe’s submissions are open now for the winter edition, 55.1! Find the Submittable link in our bio!
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Many thanks to @phoebejournal.bsky.social, where this poem first appeared!
"Elsewhere: leftover / pips solid as teeth, fruit lips / curled back in decay. A mouth / packed with loss."
Stefanie Kirby, from "As Demeter"
REMAINDER #AvailableNow
Stefanie Kirby, from "As Demeter"
REMAINDER #AvailableNow
Remainder by Stefanie Kirby (Inch #64)
by Stefanie Kirby Inch #64, Summer 2025 17 pages, saddle-stapled ISSN: 1932-6149 Release date: June 24, 2025*
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July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Many thanks to @phoebejournal.bsky.social, where this poem first appeared!
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simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
Birth Control - phoebe
Rebecca Hawkes “why suck the strap” why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now – Tumblr user @bloodpups To live ethically in the present moment...
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May 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
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I have a new story live in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
today! It’s about a funeral for a star. It was rejected 19 times and I'm so grateful to the editors at Phoebe for loving it as much as I always have 💫 phoebejournal.com/rigel-the-kn...
today! It’s about a funeral for a star. It was rejected 19 times and I'm so grateful to the editors at Phoebe for loving it as much as I always have 💫 phoebejournal.com/rigel-the-kn...
Rigel, the Knee - phoebe
Samantha Zabell 9:02 pm I am throwing a funeral for a constellation and if no one comes I will feel like such an idiot. And not just because I went to Heinen’s and bought a whole sheet cake that can p...
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May 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I have a new story live in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
today! It’s about a funeral for a star. It was rejected 19 times and I'm so grateful to the editors at Phoebe for loving it as much as I always have 💫 phoebejournal.com/rigel-the-kn...
today! It’s about a funeral for a star. It was rejected 19 times and I'm so grateful to the editors at Phoebe for loving it as much as I always have 💫 phoebejournal.com/rigel-the-kn...
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hey I’ve got art in this!! :)
Our Spring issue, 54.2, is live! Please give it a read; we're really proud of this one. All of our contributors did an amazing job. The link to check it out is in our bio!!!
May 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
hey I’ve got art in this!! :)
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Ecstatic to share my poem "The Worst Portland in America" has been named a runner-up in the @phoebejournal.bsky.social Poetry Contest and featured in their newest issue. Thanks to the wonderful Phoebe team! Check out the full issue below.
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May 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ecstatic to share my poem "The Worst Portland in America" has been named a runner-up in the @phoebejournal.bsky.social Poetry Contest and featured in their newest issue. Thanks to the wonderful Phoebe team! Check out the full issue below.
phoebejournal.com/the-worst-po...
phoebejournal.com/the-worst-po...
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Delighted to have a poem of mine be featured here with so many talented voices. Please enjoy ❤️🔥🥂
Our Spring issue, 54.2, is live! Please give it a read; we're really proud of this one. All of our contributors did an amazing job. The link to check it out is in our bio!!!
May 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Delighted to have a poem of mine be featured here with so many talented voices. Please enjoy ❤️🔥🥂
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I have a leetle story in this issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social, and please read the winning short story by Jumaana Abdu, “Two Burials.” It’s incredible.
TGIF, everyone. 💚
phoebejournal.com/54-2/
TGIF, everyone. 💚
phoebejournal.com/54-2/
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2025 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Two Burials by Jumaana Abdu 2025 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner Notes on Property by Esther Ra 2025 Spring Poetry Contest Winner Bestiary by Seth Peterson Read com...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I have a leetle story in this issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social, and please read the winning short story by Jumaana Abdu, “Two Burials.” It’s incredible.
TGIF, everyone. 💚
phoebejournal.com/54-2/
TGIF, everyone. 💚
phoebejournal.com/54-2/
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It’s late summer and the light is glorious, spilling like white gold over the great dome of St Paul’s and glittering on the Thames’s expansive sweep.
But I don’t see the beauty, not really.’
Such a moving, involving story by @jaimegill.bsky.social in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
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But I don’t see the beauty, not really.’
Such a moving, involving story by @jaimegill.bsky.social in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
“You loved maps showing lands like Prussia, Formosa, or Ceylon, lands that don’t exist anymore.
Like you.
I know I’m crying. Just fuck off, will you? It’s your fault.”
Very proud of my story “Mysterious Rooms”, and to be in glorious @phoebejournal.bsky.social
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Like you.
I know I’m crying. Just fuck off, will you? It’s your fault.”
Very proud of my story “Mysterious Rooms”, and to be in glorious @phoebejournal.bsky.social
phoebejournal.com/mysterious-r...
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Jaime Gill September Well, this was a bloody stupid idea. About two months ago, you said, half-joking I think, that I should hire a therapist. “Don’t be absurd,” I said. “I’m not a neurotic twentysome...
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May 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s late summer and the light is glorious, spilling like white gold over the great dome of St Paul’s and glittering on the Thames’s expansive sweep.
But I don’t see the beauty, not really.’
Such a moving, involving story by @jaimegill.bsky.social in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
But I don’t see the beauty, not really.’
Such a moving, involving story by @jaimegill.bsky.social in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
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new poem out at @phoebejournal.bsky.social :) excited to be featured alongside such cool poets--thank you to the wonderful editors!
phoebejournal.com/Touchstruck/
phoebejournal.com/Touchstruck/
Touchstruck - phoebe
Mollie O'Leary I’d spent the morning staring down into a caldera, ropes of steam moving past me to pursue their own relentless cycles. I could see the city below, miniature buildings gathered tight al...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
new poem out at @phoebejournal.bsky.social :) excited to be featured alongside such cool poets--thank you to the wonderful editors!
phoebejournal.com/Touchstruck/
phoebejournal.com/Touchstruck/
Our Spring issue, 54.2, is live! Please give it a read; we're really proud of this one. All of our contributors did an amazing job. The link to check it out is in our bio!!!
May 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Our Spring issue, 54.2, is live! Please give it a read; we're really proud of this one. All of our contributors did an amazing job. The link to check it out is in our bio!!!
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Such a surreal experience to win this while reading Corey Van Landingham’s latest book (which is amazing). Thanks to her and the whole @phoebejournal.bsky.social staff 🙏
Happy to announce the winners of our Spring 2025 Contest for issue 54.2. Jumaana Abdu for Fiction, Esther Ra for Nonfiction, and @sethpeterson.bsky.social for Poetry. Stay tuned for the launch of 54.2 in May, where you can read these lovely pieces and the other finalists.
April 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Such a surreal experience to win this while reading Corey Van Landingham’s latest book (which is amazing). Thanks to her and the whole @phoebejournal.bsky.social staff 🙏
Happy to announce the winners of our Spring 2025 Contest for issue 54.2. Jumaana Abdu for Fiction, Esther Ra for Nonfiction, and @sethpeterson.bsky.social for Poetry. Stay tuned for the launch of 54.2 in May, where you can read these lovely pieces and the other finalists.
April 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy to announce the winners of our Spring 2025 Contest for issue 54.2. Jumaana Abdu for Fiction, Esther Ra for Nonfiction, and @sethpeterson.bsky.social for Poetry. Stay tuned for the launch of 54.2 in May, where you can read these lovely pieces and the other finalists.
Only a few more weeks left to submit!
our subs are open for our summer digital issue until may 1!!!! 🦩
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April 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Only a few more weeks left to submit!
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Head on over to read our interviews! Corey's book is AMAZING!!!!!!!
Now up are two reviews of our Spring 2025 Poetry Contest Judge Corey Van Landingham's book Reader, I. Reviews written by our Poetry Editor, Victoria Jean Reynolds, and Assistant Poetry Editor, @taylorfthiel.bsky.social . Link in bio!
April 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Head on over to read our interviews! Corey's book is AMAZING!!!!!!!