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We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process.
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
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I love many things about what @lindzmcleod.bsky.social did with An Honour & a Privilege, but best of all is that it's a book that can be enjoyed by readers (thanks to 11 remarkable pieces of original fiction) AND writers, because the authors discuss process in paired nonfiction conversation pieces!
Yes I smell the books 2x during this video!
Collaborative writing & the craft of collaborative writing in one gorgeous book. @lindzmcleod.bsky.social et al, we've made a beautiful, purposeful book!!
Order your copy & breathe it in, too, & get a free bookmark!
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Collaborative writing & the craft of collaborative writing in one gorgeous book. @lindzmcleod.bsky.social et al, we've made a beautiful, purposeful book!!
Order your copy & breathe it in, too, & get a free bookmark!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I love many things about what @lindzmcleod.bsky.social did with An Honour & a Privilege, but best of all is that it's a book that can be enjoyed by readers (thanks to 11 remarkable pieces of original fiction) AND writers, because the authors discuss process in paired nonfiction conversation pieces!
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I have a CNF here in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social . Content note for parenting & mental health care (or lack thereof).
CNF "Case Review" by Kathryn Reese
“My ex beside me, blocking my view of my daughter. My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/case-rev...
“My ex beside me, blocking my view of my daughter. My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/case-rev...
case review — Blood+Honey
by Kathryn Reese “My ex beside me, blocking my view of my daughter. My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I have a CNF here in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social . Content note for parenting & mental health care (or lack thereof).
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I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
Feeling so much excitement about our next issue 💕 love collaboration, love poetry. Y’all are amazing.
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Feeling so much excitement about our next issue 💕 love collaboration, love poetry. Y’all are amazing.
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This is so exciting y’all!!!
My poetry chapbook Hippie Speedball is now available for preorder! Shout it from the rooftops please and thank you 😊
www.querenciapress.com/hippie-speed...
My poetry chapbook Hippie Speedball is now available for preorder! Shout it from the rooftops please and thank you 😊
www.querenciapress.com/hippie-speed...
Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk — Querencia Press
Let the dulcet poetry of Ly Faulk alter your brain chemistry. A little bit up, a little bit down, until it’s smooth and steady. In this short collection, Faulk explores grief and quietude, depression ...
www.querenciapress.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is so exciting y’all!!!
My poetry chapbook Hippie Speedball is now available for preorder! Shout it from the rooftops please and thank you 😊
www.querenciapress.com/hippie-speed...
My poetry chapbook Hippie Speedball is now available for preorder! Shout it from the rooftops please and thank you 😊
www.querenciapress.com/hippie-speed...
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We know you'll love Mingyu Brian Chan's stunning poem, HAIKU WHERE I LAY / WITH OCD, OBSESSING / OVER SYLLABLES, from our OCTOBER ISSUE ✨: buff.ly/An9Kgaq
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We know you'll love Mingyu Brian Chan's stunning poem, HAIKU WHERE I LAY / WITH OCD, OBSESSING / OVER SYLLABLES, from our OCTOBER ISSUE ✨: buff.ly/An9Kgaq
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Thanks to Midway Journal for giving this 🏳️🌈 collab-write a home.
We hope you read & enjoy!
“You have come to me for chaste conversation, your hands steepled like a church. It is what women do after all, talk and pray.”
We hope you read & enjoy!
“You have come to me for chaste conversation, your hands steepled like a church. It is what women do after all, talk and pray.”
@kathrynreese.bsky.social and I have another collab about queer longing, losing your skin and finding it again 🧡🏳️🌈.Thanks Midway Journal!
“Why has the skim of satin over your hips caused a salt tide in me?”
Read “Facts About Shapeshifters” here: midwayjournal.com/facts-about-...
“Why has the skim of satin over your hips caused a salt tide in me?”
Read “Facts About Shapeshifters” here: midwayjournal.com/facts-about-...
Facts about shapeshifters
midwayjournal.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Thanks to Midway Journal for giving this 🏳️🌈 collab-write a home.
We hope you read & enjoy!
“You have come to me for chaste conversation, your hands steepled like a church. It is what women do after all, talk and pray.”
We hope you read & enjoy!
“You have come to me for chaste conversation, your hands steepled like a church. It is what women do after all, talk and pray.”
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@kathrynreese.bsky.social and I have another collab about queer longing, losing your skin and finding it again 🧡🏳️🌈.Thanks Midway Journal!
“Why has the skim of satin over your hips caused a salt tide in me?”
Read “Facts About Shapeshifters” here: midwayjournal.com/facts-about-...
“Why has the skim of satin over your hips caused a salt tide in me?”
Read “Facts About Shapeshifters” here: midwayjournal.com/facts-about-...
Facts about shapeshifters
midwayjournal.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Wow 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
@S2Fjournal.bsky.social has been featured in our #IndieLitMagGala 2025 series—a journal that proves poetry doesn’t have to be solitary. Collaborative, experimental, and full of care.
The nomination came in anonymously—and we took it in good faith.
Read the full piece:
The nomination came in anonymously—and we took it in good faith.
Read the full piece:
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: ALOCASIA Journal - The Broken Spine
Some journals are built to publish poems. Others are built to make connection happen.Spark to Flame is the latter—part lit mag, part poetic matchmaking
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wow 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
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it’s getting close to third Thursday, and you know what that means…a Night Light event with some amazing poets!! sign up below to hear these inimitable readers do their thing in just a couple days’ time :) 💡
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
it’s getting close to third Thursday, and you know what that means…a Night Light event with some amazing poets!! sign up below to hear these inimitable readers do their thing in just a couple days’ time :) 💡
Thank you to everyone who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this next issue 😎
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Thank you to everyone who submitted to be part of Issue Six! So excited for this next issue 😎
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huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬
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October 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬
genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...
genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...
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Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.
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Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou.
Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
October 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou.
Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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couldn't be happier to see this poem land in @bruisermag.com, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision
More like a flower than a gun
WITH EACH BITE MORE MAD by @lowermelody.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/baker_bite
WITH EACH BITE MORE MAD by @lowermelody.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/baker_bite
October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
couldn't be happier to see this poem land in @bruisermag.com, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision
Less than 10 days to get your collaborative poems and/or sparks in, for consideration in our Issue Six!!
Come be part of this next issue 🔥
#creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity
Come be part of this next issue 🔥
#creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity
October 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Less than 10 days to get your collaborative poems and/or sparks in, for consideration in our Issue Six!!
Come be part of this next issue 🔥
#creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity
Come be part of this next issue 🔥
#creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity
Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Congrats to S2F’s Best of the Net nominees!
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It's aalways an amazing experience writing something for @s2fjournal.bsky.social - definitely somewhere I recommend looking into.
#poetry #litjournal #collaboration
#poetry #litjournal #collaboration
Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
September 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It's aalways an amazing experience writing something for @s2fjournal.bsky.social - definitely somewhere I recommend looking into.
#poetry #litjournal #collaboration
#poetry #litjournal #collaboration
Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
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Need a wild tale of the underworld set to an epic soundtrack? Queue up Underworld’s Born Slippy and open the latest issue of Gone Lawn.
It was so much fun to write this with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social who is actually the best.
Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)
It was so much fun to write this with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social who is actually the best.
Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)
Chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social merging Persephone and Born Slippy! Hope you enjoy!
“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”
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“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
September 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Need a wild tale of the underworld set to an epic soundtrack? Queue up Underworld’s Born Slippy and open the latest issue of Gone Lawn.
It was so much fun to write this with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social who is actually the best.
Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)
It was so much fun to write this with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social who is actually the best.
Content note: drums. (Also alcohol & drug use)
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Day 24: “fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social and @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social in @s2fjournal.bsky.social (pg. 7). I love how nat and D.W.’s styles merge in this raging, red-hot poem.
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August 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Happy Sunday! What a wonderful day to call up a friend and co-write a poem ☀️
#writingcommunity #poetry
#writingcommunity #poetry
August 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy Sunday! What a wonderful day to call up a friend and co-write a poem ☀️
#writingcommunity #poetry
#writingcommunity #poetry
Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025.
What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎
Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!
#poetry #writingcommunity
www.s2fjournal.com/submit/
What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎
Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!
#poetry #writingcommunity
www.s2fjournal.com/submit/
Spark to Flame
A Journal of Collaborative Poetry
www.s2fjournal.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Hello world! Issue Six submissions are open, closing October 12, 2025.
What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎
Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!
#poetry #writingcommunity
www.s2fjournal.com/submit/
What a perfect time to write some collaborative poetry, or start to think about sparks to send us 😎
Cannot wait to see what this issue brings!
#poetry #writingcommunity
www.s2fjournal.com/submit/
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“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I'm completely in love with "Little Sapling" - Karina Lin Jones took a small reflection of mine and transformed it into something wonderful, powerful, and pertinent.
Issue Five closes with “Little Sapling”--a beautiful meditation on our relationship to nature by Karina Lin Jones (Flame) and @mithalanis.bsky.social (Spark).
Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
Check it out, page 14: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...
#writingcommunity #poetry 📝
July 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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