Doubleback Review
@doublebackreview.bsky.social
Online journal accepting work previously published at now-defunct journals
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New issue out 4/15!
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New issue out 4/15!
When the words build up, don’t ignore them. Writing doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to begin.
How do you coax yourself back to the page when writing feels impossible?
#motivationmonday #booksky #kafka #writers
How do you coax yourself back to the page when writing feels impossible?
#motivationmonday #booksky #kafka #writers
May 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
When the words build up, don’t ignore them. Writing doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to begin.
How do you coax yourself back to the page when writing feels impossible?
#motivationmonday #booksky #kafka #writers
How do you coax yourself back to the page when writing feels impossible?
#motivationmonday #booksky #kafka #writers
📚💙 Feature Friday: “Vegetation” by @TheElleBoyd
Elle lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and their feline overlord. Her writing has appeared in Otherverse Magazine, Vocivia, Orchid’s Lantern, Recesses, and more.
📖 Read the full story in Issue 7.1 of DBR:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
Elle lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and their feline overlord. Her writing has appeared in Otherverse Magazine, Vocivia, Orchid’s Lantern, Recesses, and more.
📖 Read the full story in Issue 7.1 of DBR:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
May 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📚💙 Feature Friday: “Vegetation” by @TheElleBoyd
Elle lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and their feline overlord. Her writing has appeared in Otherverse Magazine, Vocivia, Orchid’s Lantern, Recesses, and more.
📖 Read the full story in Issue 7.1 of DBR:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
Elle lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and their feline overlord. Her writing has appeared in Otherverse Magazine, Vocivia, Orchid’s Lantern, Recesses, and more.
📖 Read the full story in Issue 7.1 of DBR:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
💙📚 The line that got away—that one sentence you loved, that's never been placed into a story or poem that it could call home.
🖋Drop it in the comments.
🖋Drop it in the comments.
May 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
💙📚 The line that got away—that one sentence you loved, that's never been placed into a story or poem that it could call home.
🖋Drop it in the comments.
🖋Drop it in the comments.
🖋️ “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wordsworth 📚💙
What does that look like for you right now—raw honesty, quiet grief, uncontainable joy?
Tell us: what’s been making its way onto your page lately?
#DoublebackReview #WritingLife #IndieLit #LiteraryCommunity #booksky
What does that look like for you right now—raw honesty, quiet grief, uncontainable joy?
Tell us: what’s been making its way onto your page lately?
#DoublebackReview #WritingLife #IndieLit #LiteraryCommunity #booksky
May 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🖋️ “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wordsworth 📚💙
What does that look like for you right now—raw honesty, quiet grief, uncontainable joy?
Tell us: what’s been making its way onto your page lately?
#DoublebackReview #WritingLife #IndieLit #LiteraryCommunity #booksky
What does that look like for you right now—raw honesty, quiet grief, uncontainable joy?
Tell us: what’s been making its way onto your page lately?
#DoublebackReview #WritingLife #IndieLit #LiteraryCommunity #booksky
✨ Feature Friday ✨
This week, we're shouting out Edward Belfar, whose story, The Fog of Severin, really hits all the feels!
Experience the full story here: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
#DoublebackReview #IndieLit #WritersOfBluesky #LiteraryMag #PoetryCommunity 📚💙
This week, we're shouting out Edward Belfar, whose story, The Fog of Severin, really hits all the feels!
Experience the full story here: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
#DoublebackReview #IndieLit #WritersOfBluesky #LiteraryMag #PoetryCommunity 📚💙
May 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
✨ Feature Friday ✨
This week, we're shouting out Edward Belfar, whose story, The Fog of Severin, really hits all the feels!
Experience the full story here: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
#DoublebackReview #IndieLit #WritersOfBluesky #LiteraryMag #PoetryCommunity 📚💙
This week, we're shouting out Edward Belfar, whose story, The Fog of Severin, really hits all the feels!
Experience the full story here: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
#DoublebackReview #IndieLit #WritersOfBluesky #LiteraryMag #PoetryCommunity 📚💙
💙📚 Feature Friday: The Sweetness by Ori Fienberg
Ori Fienberg’s #poem explores sound as sensation, memory, and transformation. It’s strange, soft, and beautifully #speculative.
Read the full poem in our Issue 7.1 of Doubleback Review:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7.../f...
#booksky
Ori Fienberg’s #poem explores sound as sensation, memory, and transformation. It’s strange, soft, and beautifully #speculative.
Read the full poem in our Issue 7.1 of Doubleback Review:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7.../f...
#booksky
April 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
💙📚 Feature Friday: The Sweetness by Ori Fienberg
Ori Fienberg’s #poem explores sound as sensation, memory, and transformation. It’s strange, soft, and beautifully #speculative.
Read the full poem in our Issue 7.1 of Doubleback Review:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7.../f...
#booksky
Ori Fienberg’s #poem explores sound as sensation, memory, and transformation. It’s strange, soft, and beautifully #speculative.
Read the full poem in our Issue 7.1 of Doubleback Review:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7.../f...
#booksky
Happy National #Shakespeare Day!
Today, give your words a little Bard energy. Toss “eth” on your verbs (“I leaveth for coffee”) and swap “it” for “’t” just because.
Drop a dramatic line or two below—maybe call your least favorite chore a “pit of despair.”
💙📚 #booksky
Today, give your words a little Bard energy. Toss “eth” on your verbs (“I leaveth for coffee”) and swap “it” for “’t” just because.
Drop a dramatic line or two below—maybe call your least favorite chore a “pit of despair.”
💙📚 #booksky
April 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy National #Shakespeare Day!
Today, give your words a little Bard energy. Toss “eth” on your verbs (“I leaveth for coffee”) and swap “it” for “’t” just because.
Drop a dramatic line or two below—maybe call your least favorite chore a “pit of despair.”
💙📚 #booksky
Today, give your words a little Bard energy. Toss “eth” on your verbs (“I leaveth for coffee”) and swap “it” for “’t” just because.
Drop a dramatic line or two below—maybe call your least favorite chore a “pit of despair.”
💙📚 #booksky
Feature Friday: “Seven Deadly Sins” by Melanie Figg
Inspired by Bruegel’s 16th-c. engravings, this reimagining drips with grit and grace.
Read in our latest Issue of Doubleback Review:
doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
💙📚 #FeatureFriday #IndieLit #DoublebackReview #Bruegel #poetry
Inspired by Bruegel’s 16th-c. engravings, this reimagining drips with grit and grace.
Read in our latest Issue of Doubleback Review:
doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
💙📚 #FeatureFriday #IndieLit #DoublebackReview #Bruegel #poetry
Melanie Figg - Doubleback Review
The Seven Deadly Sins from Pieter Bruegel’s copper engravings, 1556—1557 1: Wrath: She is armored & moving—out from beneath a cauldron (crow perched & the naked couple is boiling) There are knives & s...
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April 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Feature Friday: “Seven Deadly Sins” by Melanie Figg
Inspired by Bruegel’s 16th-c. engravings, this reimagining drips with grit and grace.
Read in our latest Issue of Doubleback Review:
doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
💙📚 #FeatureFriday #IndieLit #DoublebackReview #Bruegel #poetry
Inspired by Bruegel’s 16th-c. engravings, this reimagining drips with grit and grace.
Read in our latest Issue of Doubleback Review:
doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...
💙📚 #FeatureFriday #IndieLit #DoublebackReview #Bruegel #poetry
💙📚 #DoublebackReview Issue 7.1 is officially live!
Resurrecting great work from defunct journals—because good writing deserves a second life.
This issue features resurrected #Fiction, #Poetry, and #HybridWork too good to stay buried.
Read for free: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-april-2025/
Resurrecting great work from defunct journals—because good writing deserves a second life.
This issue features resurrected #Fiction, #Poetry, and #HybridWork too good to stay buried.
Read for free: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-april-2025/
April 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
💙📚 #DoublebackReview Issue 7.1 is officially live!
Resurrecting great work from defunct journals—because good writing deserves a second life.
This issue features resurrected #Fiction, #Poetry, and #HybridWork too good to stay buried.
Read for free: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-april-2025/
Resurrecting great work from defunct journals—because good writing deserves a second life.
This issue features resurrected #Fiction, #Poetry, and #HybridWork too good to stay buried.
Read for free: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-april-2025/
💙📚 #ThrowbackThursday to Anne Holub’s Waiting, With One Raised Hand, published in our October 2020 issue! ✨
If you haven’t read it yet, now’s your chance: doublebackreview.com/issue-2-2-oc...
🐪 What’s one past Doubleback piece that stuck with you? Let us know in the comments!
#booksky
If you haven’t read it yet, now’s your chance: doublebackreview.com/issue-2-2-oc...
🐪 What’s one past Doubleback piece that stuck with you? Let us know in the comments!
#booksky
March 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
💙📚 #ThrowbackThursday to Anne Holub’s Waiting, With One Raised Hand, published in our October 2020 issue! ✨
If you haven’t read it yet, now’s your chance: doublebackreview.com/issue-2-2-oc...
🐪 What’s one past Doubleback piece that stuck with you? Let us know in the comments!
#booksky
If you haven’t read it yet, now’s your chance: doublebackreview.com/issue-2-2-oc...
🐪 What’s one past Doubleback piece that stuck with you? Let us know in the comments!
#booksky
Fun fact — March is #NationalReadingMonth! 📚
The goal is simple: Make time to #readdaily, even if it’s just 15 minutes.
What’s taking high priority on your (possibly endless) #TBR?
Drop your current book in the comments! Bonus points if it’s from a past Doubleback contributor. 👀
#booksky
The goal is simple: Make time to #readdaily, even if it’s just 15 minutes.
What’s taking high priority on your (possibly endless) #TBR?
Drop your current book in the comments! Bonus points if it’s from a past Doubleback contributor. 👀
#booksky
March 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Fun fact — March is #NationalReadingMonth! 📚
The goal is simple: Make time to #readdaily, even if it’s just 15 minutes.
What’s taking high priority on your (possibly endless) #TBR?
Drop your current book in the comments! Bonus points if it’s from a past Doubleback contributor. 👀
#booksky
The goal is simple: Make time to #readdaily, even if it’s just 15 minutes.
What’s taking high priority on your (possibly endless) #TBR?
Drop your current book in the comments! Bonus points if it’s from a past Doubleback contributor. 👀
#booksky
⏳ TIME IS RUNNING OUT! ⏳🐪
Don't let the sun set on your art! Revive your out-of-print work and submit it to us by 03/10 for our April Issue!
#Submityourwork here → doublebackreview.com/submit/
💬 Tell us: If you could resurrect one dead #litmag, which would it be?
Don't let the sun set on your art! Revive your out-of-print work and submit it to us by 03/10 for our April Issue!
#Submityourwork here → doublebackreview.com/submit/
💬 Tell us: If you could resurrect one dead #litmag, which would it be?
March 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
⏳ TIME IS RUNNING OUT! ⏳🐪
Don't let the sun set on your art! Revive your out-of-print work and submit it to us by 03/10 for our April Issue!
#Submityourwork here → doublebackreview.com/submit/
💬 Tell us: If you could resurrect one dead #litmag, which would it be?
Don't let the sun set on your art! Revive your out-of-print work and submit it to us by 03/10 for our April Issue!
#Submityourwork here → doublebackreview.com/submit/
💬 Tell us: If you could resurrect one dead #litmag, which would it be?
We're still accepting submissions for our April Issue—send in your best out-of-print work!
⏳ New deadline: March 10
📩 Submit here: doublebackreview.com/submit
Missed your shot? Consider this your official do-over. 😉
#WritingCommunity #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #WritersOfBluesky #booksky
⏳ New deadline: March 10
📩 Submit here: doublebackreview.com/submit
Missed your shot? Consider this your official do-over. 😉
#WritingCommunity #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #WritersOfBluesky #booksky
March 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We're still accepting submissions for our April Issue—send in your best out-of-print work!
⏳ New deadline: March 10
📩 Submit here: doublebackreview.com/submit
Missed your shot? Consider this your official do-over. 😉
#WritingCommunity #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #WritersOfBluesky #booksky
⏳ New deadline: March 10
📩 Submit here: doublebackreview.com/submit
Missed your shot? Consider this your official do-over. 😉
#WritingCommunity #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #WritersOfBluesky #booksky
📢 Welcome our new Social Media Editor!
Shaylynn Marks is ready to bring #memes, #dadjokes & #literary necromancy to DBR.
🚨 Got out of print poetry or prose? #submityourwork by 03/10 for our April issue: doublebackreview.com/submit
💬 Give her a welcome & share which piece of writing you’d revive!
Shaylynn Marks is ready to bring #memes, #dadjokes & #literary necromancy to DBR.
🚨 Got out of print poetry or prose? #submityourwork by 03/10 for our April issue: doublebackreview.com/submit
💬 Give her a welcome & share which piece of writing you’d revive!
March 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📢 Welcome our new Social Media Editor!
Shaylynn Marks is ready to bring #memes, #dadjokes & #literary necromancy to DBR.
🚨 Got out of print poetry or prose? #submityourwork by 03/10 for our April issue: doublebackreview.com/submit
💬 Give her a welcome & share which piece of writing you’d revive!
Shaylynn Marks is ready to bring #memes, #dadjokes & #literary necromancy to DBR.
🚨 Got out of print poetry or prose? #submityourwork by 03/10 for our April issue: doublebackreview.com/submit
💬 Give her a welcome & share which piece of writing you’d revive!
Have work that was published in a journal that went defunct? Submit soon to be considered for our April issue!
February 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Have work that was published in a journal that went defunct? Submit soon to be considered for our April issue!
Doubleback Review is excited to announce the addition of Merrick Sloane to their team as Associate Poetry Editor!
February 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Doubleback Review is excited to announce the addition of Merrick Sloane to their team as Associate Poetry Editor!
Issue 6:2 is here! Don't miss all this poetry, fiction, and nonfiction we brought back from the dead! doublebackreview.com/issue-6-2-october-2024
October 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Issue 6:2 is here! Don't miss all this poetry, fiction, and nonfiction we brought back from the dead! doublebackreview.com/issue-6-2-october-2024
And here's our Issue 6:1 announcement with NO nudity (to avoid the Bluesky "adult" label)!
Issue 6:1 is here, and it's a banger!
doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
Issue 6:1 is here, and it's a banger!
doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
April 15, 2024 at 7:25 PM
And here's our Issue 6:1 announcement with NO nudity (to avoid the Bluesky "adult" label)!
Issue 6:1 is here, and it's a banger!
doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
Issue 6:1 is here, and it's a banger!
doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
Issue 6:1 is here and it's a banger! doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
April 15, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Issue 6:1 is here and it's a banger! doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
October 15, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Our first official Blueksy act:🍂 Cover reveal! 🍂 Issue 5:2 drops this Sunday! Cover art by poet & artist @djvorreyer.bsky.social!
October 12, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Our first official Blueksy act:🍂 Cover reveal! 🍂 Issue 5:2 drops this Sunday! Cover art by poet & artist @djvorreyer.bsky.social!