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One Day More!!
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October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Send us some art, please!!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Last week to submit to our #Integrity issue!
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October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Subs are open!!
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October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Growth by Zary Fekete 1979 The snow fell like ash that first winter in Budapest. I was seven, and the world still smelled of smoke. Not fire, but a kind of chemical fatigue, as if the walls themselves had given up something invisible. Our third-floor apartment hummed with the brittle song of the water heater until the day it coughed a black puff of melted plastic across the bathroom tiles. Mom didn't scream. She took my arm in a firm grasp and backed me out of the apartment so she could keep an eye on the flames. Then, she dragged me down three flights in our house shoes to a neighbor we barely knew, a man with crumpled pajamas, breath like garlic and mothballs.
September 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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NEWS! We are reopening for submissions in just about two weeks, on the theme INTEGRITY.

Dates: Oct 1-31
Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Cover Art

Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/

Tandem call with our #kidlit mag @nimblewitlit.bsky.social, theme: Trustworthy. You are encouraged to submit to both!
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September 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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More awards! Congratulations to our @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards nominees!

@haleydirenzo.bsky.social
@jameslilliefors.bsky.social
@gretchenfilart.bsky.social
Allison Zaczynski
@brokenwingpoet.bsky.social
Arti Jain
Chelsea Allen
Mac Carey
Luis Lopez Galan
GENREPUNK AWARD NOMINATIONS EDITOR'S CHOICE HALEY DIRENZO | UPENDING THE GARDEN JAMES LILLIEFORS | THERE WILL BE WARNINGS GRETCHEN FILART | GARDENING DURING A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE DISABLED CREATIVES ALLISON ZACZYNSKI | ISOLATION TIM MURPHY | FOR THESE BRIEF MOMENTS WILDCARD ARTI JAIN | OF SONGS, THRESHOLDS, AND SLIPPERS HAUNTING CHELSEA ALLEN | SMOKE TRAILS MAC CAREY | LAST LIGHT LUIS LOPEZ GALAN | DIGNITY
September 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ok, friends, we are DELIGHTED to announce our nominees for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay

@awritingwall.bsky.social
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Jae Casella
@lyfaulk.bsky.social
Sama Bell
MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARDS Allison Wall - Before You Burn Me at the Stake, issue 4 Odin Meadows - Cellophane Boy, issue 4 Marisca Pichette - Asking, issue 4 Jae Casella - Monday Night Choir Boi, issue 4 Ly Faulk - Pig Flu, issue 5 Sama Bell - Better Chance, issue 5
September 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Did you see the cover image for today’s issue?

“At the Road’s End” by Anna Wiksten

See the entire issue here: epistemiclit.com/current-issue/

#nostalgia
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September 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Amy Devine
Lily Vaughan
Peggy Heitmann
Amanda Trout - www.instagram.com/atrout2972/
Karen Baumgart - @cake-girl.bsky.social
Gretchen Filart - @gretchenfilart.bsky.social
Issue 6: Nostalgia Poetry Contributors: Yoda Olinyk Anastasia Bortsvadze Rabab Ahmed Rachel Woodgate Megan Munger Amy Devine Lily Vaughan Peggy Heitmann Amanda Trout Karen Baumgart Gretchen Filart
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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And, finally, our #Poets of Issue 6!

Yoda Olinyk - www.instagram.com/doulaofwords/
Anastasia Bortsvadze - www.instagram.com/anastayinath...
Rabab Ahmed - www.instagram.com/havealittlem...
Rachel Woodgate - @vignettes.bsky.social
Megan Munger - www.instagram.com/megmungerpoet/

Continued —
Issue 6: Nostalgia Poetry Contributors: Yoda Olinyk Anastasia Bortsvadze Rabab Ahmed Rachel Woodgate Megan Munger Amy Devine Lily Vaughan Peggy Heitmann Amanda Trout Karen Baumgart Gretchen Filart
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Sunny Carlstrom
Jennifer Spurgeon - @einetogi.bsky.social
Lori Cramer - @loricramerwriter.bsky.social
Haley DiRenzo - @haleydirenzo.bsky.social
Lisa Thornton - @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Issue 6: Nostalgia Fiction Contributors: Ute orgassa Chris Cottom Gary Finnegan Barbara Reese Yager Bethany Cutkomp Sunny Caristrom Jennifer Spurgeon Lori Cramer Haley DiRenzo Lisa Thornton
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Next up, #Fiction contributors! A nice mix of new and former:

Ute Orgassa - @uteorgassa.bsky.social
Chris Cottom - @chriscottom.bsky.social
Gary Finnegan - www.instagram.com/finnegan6893/
Barbara Reese Yager - www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraya...
Bethany Cutkomp - @bdcutkomp.bsky.social

Contd —
Issue 6: Nostalgia Fiction Contributors: Ute orgassa Chris Cottom Gary Finnegan Barbara Reese Yager Bethany Cutkomp Sunny Caristrom Jennifer Spurgeon Lori Cramer Haley DiRenzo Lisa Thornton
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Introducing our Issue 6 #CreativeNonFiction contributors:

Diane Cypkin
Ryan T. Pozzi - @ryantpozzi.bsky.social
Karen Baumgart - @cake-girl.bsky.social

We can’t wait for you to read these amazing pieces!
Issue 6: Nostalgia CNF Contributors: Diane Cypkin Ryan T. Pozzi Karen Baumgart
September 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Introducing our Issue 6 Cover Artist, Anna Wiksten!

Find more about Anna and her art at www.instagram.com/studioannawi...
Issue 6: Nostalgia Cover Artist: Anna Wiksten
September 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Please congratulate our Best of the Net 2026 nominees!
Best of the Net 2026 Nominations POETRY CANDACE KRONEN I TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE issue 5 JAMES LILLIEFORS I THERE WILL BE WARNINGS issue 5 ALLISON P. BROWN I REMEDY FOR FASCISM issue 5 LOUIS FABER | EASTER issue 4 KATRIN REESE I MORDACIA PRAECOX THE AUSTRALIAN BROOK LAMPREY issue 4 ALLISON WALL I BEFORE YOU BURN ME AT THE STAKE issue 4 ART Original artwork by Melissa Fitzpatrick SPEAK TRUTH, SPEAK FIRE issue 5 FICTION HALEY DIRENZO | UPENDING THE GARDEN issue 4 LY FAULK | PIG FLU issue 5 CREATIVE NONFICTION GRETCHEN FILART I GARDENING DURING A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE - issue 4 MAC CAREY I LAST LIGHT - issue 4
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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July 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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#Nostalgia #Submissions #PoetrySky #Fiction #CNF #WriterSky #Art #Photography
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July 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Reminder: Submissions are currently OPEN on theme: #Nostalgia - Poetry, fiction, CNF, and visual art/photography!

Submit here:
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