Nimrod Journal
@nimrodjournal.bsky.social
Bringing you the brightest new voices since 1956. Published by the University of Tulsa.
Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
Zoom address in post below.
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Today our newsletter readers received two vivid, meditative poems from Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s new sequence, “Gold.” These appeared in our Summer 2025 issue.
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Today our newsletter readers received two vivid, meditative poems from Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s new sequence, “Gold.” These appeared in our Summer 2025 issue.
Authors, start your engines!
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Authors, start your engines!
Thank you, @aestallings.bsky.social, for reading these poems from our latest issue with such sensitivity and enthusiasm! www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...
September 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thank you, @aestallings.bsky.social, for reading these poems from our latest issue with such sensitivity and enthusiasm! www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...
This morning our free newsletter readers received a pair of poems from the Summer 2025 issue that capture the experience of sensing history rumble beneath one’s feet. Read them here: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/history-li...
August 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This morning our free newsletter readers received a pair of poems from the Summer 2025 issue that capture the experience of sensing history rumble beneath one’s feet. Read them here: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/history-li...
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine, from our Summer 2025 issue.
July 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine, from our Summer 2025 issue.
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a powerful pantoum by Jonny Teklit from our Summer 2025 issue.
June 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a powerful pantoum by Jonny Teklit from our Summer 2025 issue.
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a poem from our latest issue—Ye Chun’s ghazal in the voice of Tan Xiaojie, one of eight people murdered in an attack on spa workers in and around Atlanta in 2021.
nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/bullets
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June 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a poem from our latest issue—Ye Chun’s ghazal in the voice of Tan Xiaojie, one of eight people murdered in an attack on spa workers in and around Atlanta in 2021.
nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/bullets
nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/bullets
Congratulations to Erin O’Luanaigh, whose “Comedy of Remarriage”—one of three poems in the Summer 2025 issue—was shared on the Best American Poetry blog!
(Stanley Cavell couldn’t have said it better himself…)
(Stanley Cavell couldn’t have said it better himself…)
June 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Congratulations to Erin O’Luanaigh, whose “Comedy of Remarriage”—one of three poems in the Summer 2025 issue—was shared on the Best American Poetry blog!
(Stanley Cavell couldn’t have said it better himself…)
(Stanley Cavell couldn’t have said it better himself…)
Our Summer 2025 issue is out in the world. Click through to read the full table of contents. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/our-new-is...
May 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our Summer 2025 issue is out in the world. Click through to read the full table of contents. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/our-new-is...
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a piece from our coming Summer 2025 issue—an interview with Tulsa’s own Ron Padgett, whose new collection, PINK DUST, is out with @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/ron-padget...
April 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a piece from our coming Summer 2025 issue—an interview with Tulsa’s own Ron Padgett, whose new collection, PINK DUST, is out with @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/ron-padget...
Today our readers received an exquisite, sharp-sighted poem from our latest issue by Tyson Hausdoerffer, inspired, in form and feeling, by Sappho. Sink your talons in at substack.com/@nimrodjournal, and subscribe!
March 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today our readers received an exquisite, sharp-sighted poem from our latest issue by Tyson Hausdoerffer, inspired, in form and feeling, by Sappho. Sink your talons in at substack.com/@nimrodjournal, and subscribe!
Today, on World Poetry Day, our readers received a poem by Dai Weina, translated from Chinese by @liangyujing.bsky.social, from the Winter 2025 issue. Subscribe to our free newsletter to receive more work weekly, and support us by subscribing to the journal as well!
March 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today, on World Poetry Day, our readers received a poem by Dai Weina, translated from Chinese by @liangyujing.bsky.social, from the Winter 2025 issue. Subscribe to our free newsletter to receive more work weekly, and support us by subscribing to the journal as well!
Today our readers received, by email, the first poem in Roger Craik’s folio from the Winter 2025 issue. Craik’s work took Second Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Award competition, judged by Paisley Rekdal. Sign up and, if you can, subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...
March 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today our readers received, by email, the first poem in Roger Craik’s folio from the Winter 2025 issue. Craik’s work took Second Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Award competition, judged by Paisley Rekdal. Sign up and, if you can, subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...
Today our readers received, by email, the first poem in Jonathan Diaz’s folio from the Winter 2025 issue. Diaz’s work took First Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Award competition, judged by Paisley Rekdal. Read it here: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/gloria-cri...
And subscribe today!
And subscribe today!
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Today our readers received, by email, the first poem in Jonathan Diaz’s folio from the Winter 2025 issue. Diaz’s work took First Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Award competition, judged by Paisley Rekdal. Read it here: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/gloria-cri...
And subscribe today!
And subscribe today!
From the Winter 2025 issue, a tight, gripping, timely short story by Yiru Zhang. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/renewal
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
From the Winter 2025 issue, a tight, gripping, timely short story by Yiru Zhang. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/renewal
Sink into Allison Krupp’s award-winning short story “Swamp City!” In the words of Kelly Link, the prose is “lively, prickly, and fizzes with life,” packing a novel’s worth of drama into a few pages. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/swamp-city
January 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sink into Allison Krupp’s award-winning short story “Swamp City!” In the words of Kelly Link, the prose is “lively, prickly, and fizzes with life,” packing a novel’s worth of drama into a few pages. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/swamp-city
This morning subscribers to our Substack received a poem from our latest issue by Ange Mlinko. Go over and read it for free! open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...
January 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This morning subscribers to our Substack received a poem from our latest issue by Ange Mlinko. Go over and read it for free! open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...
This morning subscribers to our Substack received a poem from our latest issue by Ange Mlinko. Go over and read it for free! open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...
January 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This morning subscribers to our Substack received a poem from our latest issue by Ange Mlinko. Go over and read it for free! open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...
Submit to the Nimrod Literary Awards, now until the end of the month!
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January 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Submit to the Nimrod Literary Awards, now until the end of the month!
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We are excited to announce our judges for the 2025 Nimrod Literary Awards, Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim (@njooyounkim.bsky.social)! The submission window is open from January 1 to January 30.
December 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
We are excited to announce our judges for the 2025 Nimrod Literary Awards, Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim (@njooyounkim.bsky.social)! The submission window is open from January 1 to January 30.
Please join us on Thursday, December 12, at 4pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Jonathan Diaz and Allison Krupp, with judges Paisley Rekdal and Kelly Link.
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December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Please join us on Thursday, December 12, at 4pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Jonathan Diaz and Allison Krupp, with judges Paisley Rekdal and Kelly Link.
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A new look for a new year. Our Winter 2025 issue, which will reach readers in January, features work by writers we’ve admired for years, as well as poems and stories by those just starting their careers. A thing of beauty, inside and out. We couldn’t be more proud.
November 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM
A new look for a new year. Our Winter 2025 issue, which will reach readers in January, features work by writers we’ve admired for years, as well as poems and stories by those just starting their careers. A thing of beauty, inside and out. We couldn’t be more proud.