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Wild Willow Magazine
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A literary magazine that showcases the wonderful, weird, and wild aspects of the human condition.

🌿 EIC: Melissa Ashley Hernandez 🌿
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Even in winter, lightning
dribbles from gusty clouds
to illuminate our backdrop

"That Side of the Canvas” by William Doreski, pdf pg. 27

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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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She always said I love you to her husband before hanging up.

"Study in Grief” by Jane Hertenstein, pdf pg. 20

We will showcase this piece over the next two weeks. Check back next week for more, or read issue two for the whole piece now!

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November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#FollowFriday for the third week of National #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth is for Native American authors! Show them some love:

📚 @byoungwrites.bsky.social (“Healer of the Water Monster”)
📚 @morgantalty.bsky.social (“FIRE EXIT”)
📚 @themarisamohi.bsky.social (“To Catch a Captain”)

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November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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An herb for January! This issue will be themed "Wintergreen," so send us your poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations inspired by themes of hope, persistence, and endurance. Human resilience this winter!

Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Delicate” by Piper Gross, pdf pg. 46

Image description: Two images of the same person, one with a smile, one with a frown

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November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Protect me, though, and you will find I am easy to grow.

"tender perennial” by Ellen Miller, pdf pg. 23

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November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This week's National #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth's #FollowFriday is a showcase for Native-led magazines! Give these a read:

📖 Leading the Way (instagram.com/leadingthewa...)
📖 Turning Points Magazine (instagram.com/asuturningpo...)
📖 Haven Spec Magazine (@havenspec.bsky.social)
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Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
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November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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"Snow Queen” by Rachel Turney, pdf pg. 55

Image description: A city street covered in snow, a car and a person in motion

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November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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You don’t have to hold the world up
with your worry. And worry isn’t prayer.

"Emotional Support Poem” by Wren Donovan, pdf pg. 11

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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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November is National #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! For this #FollowFriday, we’re spotlighting some Native American writers:

✏️ Nat Rose Wolfman (@nrwolfman.bsky.social)
✏️ James Bird (@jamesbirdbooks.bsky.social)
✏️ Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (@annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social)

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November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The winter season starts its slow creep inward... but we like to view winters as a reminder of our human resilience! January's issue will be themed "Wintergreen," so send us your herb-inspired original poetry, fiction, cnf, visual art, etc!

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Submission Periods are as follows unless stated otherwise:January 15th – March 15thApril 15th – June 15thJuly 15th – September 15thOctober 15th – December 15th Wild Willow M…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Oh, slipping across the border is not the hard part, believe me. It’s finding the way back that gets tricky.

"The square root of two” by Yana Kane, pdf pg. 24

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November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Our fourth issue is live! Toxic relationships, generational trauma, and actual literal poison, oh my! Happy Halloween to you all, and we hope you have a safe and fun Halloweekend.

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November 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Our last #FollowFriday falls serendipitously on Halloween, the same day that we release our Halloween Issue! Check out these wonderfully creepy artists:

👻 Flewory (@flewory.bsky.social)
👻 Alexandria Bishop (@alexandriabishop.bsky.social)
👻 Ashley Voortman (@peculiarlyashley.bsky.social)

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November 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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The rent is so low the living outnumber the dead.

“Living in a Drawer at the Morgue” by William Doreski, pdf pg. 38

tw: mentions of dead bodies, autopsies, and the words 'sex crimes'

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October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"Fort Lauderdale by the Sea" by Melissa Ashley Hernandez, pdf pg. 58

Image description: The moon reflected on the sea.

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October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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a car stopped in the street,
its fender dented

“Onlooker” by Wolfgang Wright, pdf pg. 20

tw: mentions of blood and bodily harm

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October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We are closing in on Halloween! What better way to celebrate than to highlight some of the spookiest writers in the community? Happy #FollowFriday!

👻 Willow Nichols-Capra (@novellamenagerie.com)
🎃 Amber Hathaway (@amber-hathaway.bsky.social)
👻 Mitch Miller (@astramachina.bsky.social)

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October 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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A black cat walks
across my path,

“Triplet From the Crypt” part II by Torian Bay, pdf pg. 57

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October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"What We Were, What We Are" by Joe Ponzio, pdf pg. 26

Image description: A house and trees on a hillside.

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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Having lived in Newgate my whole life, I’ve found its curiosities to be innumerable and its oddities more common than the residents...

“Make Me A Miracle” by Dakota Donaldson, pdf pg. 39

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October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#FollowFriday Halloween is almost here! Here are some lit mags with open subs right now during spooky season (go submit your work!):

✨ Phenomena Press (@phenomenapress.bsky.social)
✨ Unicorn Teeth Magazine (@unicorn-teeth.bsky.social)
✨ Aphor Magazine (instagram.com/aphormagazine)
October 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Carmella Camden watched herself on the mounted TV, hair teased ridiculously high, covered in flashy jewelry...

“Highway to Desire” by Jude Deluca, pdf pg. 55

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October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"Warren Road Bridge" by nat raum, pdf pg. 40

Image description: A bridge made of steel girders at night.

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October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Everything turned on a dime in his imagination and then he mentioned the girl on the trestle.

“The Railroad Trestle” by G.D. McFetridge, pdf pg. 11

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October 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM