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WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
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It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
Winter 2026 issue | wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
On this Wild Roof Podcast episode, authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction as a genre and cultivating awe in our daily lives. Get the full clip here: youtu.be/9rpOBi03c_Y?...
January 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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New poem at Wild Roof Journal alongside many writers thinking deeply about ecologies. Thank you to inspirations large and small: bird voices, mountains, Community of Writers, deer families, unpaved roads, the mountain lion that said hello mid-draft.

Thank you Aaron Lelito for including my work!
Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors!
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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Oh, nothing, just my poem appearing in this dynamite issue of Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Go read issue 32, y'all, it's so good - wild nature, soft light, books, pasta, and people saving trees <3
Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors!
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors!
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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I have a new poem out today called "...a monument to a world worth living in" - it's tough to see the world as worth it today, but I am thankful to have this poem out there. Thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social #poetry
It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 8, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Absolutely thrilled to have a story in the Winter 2026 @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors for including “Glory Days” in this beautiful issue.
It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Proud to have my #poem "Lament of an Islander Too Long Gone" in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32-gal...

The whole issue is fantastic & I'm proud to be in it--read issue 32 at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32/
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️
Issue 32: Gallery 2
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January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
January 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
For today’s post, I asked some of WRJ’s friends and collaborators to offer a few of their favorites from 2025. Check out the list here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
From Fall 2025 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31
December 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Read 2 poems from Melissa Powless Day's new collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/a-bow-forg...

It's a journey of Indigenous reclamation, exploring identity, belonging, responsibility & wholeness. The author navigates her ties to the landscapes of SW Ontario & the nations to which she belongs.
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction (aka narrative nonfiction) as a genre and what makes it an exciting artform for writers today.

Check out the full conversation here: youtu.be/Qnb6nv706gQ?...
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Listen to our new episode: wildroofjournal.podbean.com

Available on all podcast apps and YouTube
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about how place and the natural world informs their writing and their approach to shaping individual essays into a book-length collection. We chat about craft, cows, cultivating awe in our daily lives . . . and beer. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
#44 - Wild Roof Podcast: Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder
Podcast Episode · Wild Roof Podcast · 12/03/2025 · 46m
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December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Check out our new writing prompt, available here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Check out our new guest post from Issue 31 contributor Ingrid Brown, who shares how she brings her love for natural landscapes into the studio
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Thank you to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for inviting me to share this essay and revisit the strange beauty of String Theory, Quantum Mechanics, and those vibrating filaments of energy that make the universe feel poetic. That fine line where science starts to sound like mythology. ⚛️🪬
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What is a book that’s been with you for decades? Which author speaks to you, offering insights & advice?

In this new guest post, @tebean.bsky.social tells us about the role that Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe has played in his life & writing.

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Strange Magic in The Elegant Universe
A guest post by T.E. Bean
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November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Author Michael Engelhard joins the WRJ Podcast to talk about his essay collection No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City.

*Listen on any podcast app or web (wildroofjournal.podbean.com)

*Watch on Wild Roof Journal's YouTube channel
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November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings (with submission opportunities too!)
@novellum.bsky.social @sorrynotsorry.bsky.social @dishsoapquart.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social & more

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Saturday Shout-Out ~ November 8, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
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November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM