I am thrilled to announce that Flat Ink is opening for submissions on April 30th! Follow substack.com/@flatink for updates 🤍

& to catch up on pubs here, the fantastic Hyacinth Review published my very first poem- written at age 16 for lost family history. 🤍 Here is Steppe Classics:

Circling back around to this to say that I’m still very honored to have been able to honor my ata this way. Please go read about the Asharshylyk and the genocidal horrors visited upon innocent Qazaq people. Over 1/3rd of the entire population died, & 1/6th- including my family- fled to never return

I got to interview debut singer-songwriter zoerose for Flat Ink!
Go read: tinyurl.com/zoeroseinter...

New to Bluesky so here’s my most recent publication at the Lumiere Review! Pls enjoy my deeply repressed narrator <3
lumierereview.com/dilara-sumbul