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Stanchion
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Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
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Announcing Stanchion's 2026 Pushcart Prize nominations!

Congratulations to all. Thank you for the privilege of publishing your work this year. 🖤🤍

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First Kicking, Then Not by Hannah Grieco What the Husband Keeps by Todd Dillard A Milo Baughman by Michael Shelley Wild Geese (Ladies) by Kristen Zory King Permission to Talk About Joy & Other Soft Things by Oladosu Michael Emerald In the America of My Mother's Kitchen by Dasia Sharae Moore
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Vote for Stanchion! Please & Thank you 🖤🤍❤️

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Voting is OPEN for our 3rd Annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards Every year, we ask our community to vote for their favorite lit mags in our Best Lit Mag Awards…bet you can guess what this email is about! This award has no fees. No judges. Nothing matters but what the community votes (which is still legal, we think). Winning lit mags receive $300 each and get showered with love & attention across social media & Substack. Anyone who votes this year will be entered into a raffle to win one $500 cash prize and one of five one-year Chill Subs Memberships (Yes, we're bribing you to do something nice). Voting takes under a minute and is open from November 17th-December 7th
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Just reread Kristen Zory King's Ladies, Ladies, Ladies and GOD DAMN is that a great book. How fortunate I was to nudge along its creation and to publish it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Apropos of nothing, here's a glimpse at the quiet brilliance lurking inside Mostly Soldiers, an unrivaled poetry chapbook when it comes to concept & the execution of it.

Use code MOSTLY5 to take $5 off the already fair $13 cover price.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Selling and signing books today at the Barnes & Noble in Philly.
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Stanchion Book Club members will be receiving a stunning, hand-sewn Moran Press journal with their copy of An Honour & a Privilege by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social later this month. So happy to put $100 into the pocket of an indie maker & bookbinder, and to give members a unique handmade journal.
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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It's here and it is beautiful. The culmination of 5 years of making an elegant print magazine full of brilliant stories, poems, and photographs. It's almost enough to make me cry.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I could REALLY use more orders of Issue 20. SRSLY.

This is a celebration of 5 years of a magazine that pays, prints, nominates for awards, fulfills orders immediately, doesn't charge fees or ask for donations & champions its contributors. Here's what's inside the anniversary issue
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November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Yes I smell the books 2x during this video!

Collaborative writing & the craft of collaborative writing in one gorgeous book. @lindzmcleod.bsky.social et al, we've made a beautiful, purposeful book!!

Order your copy & breathe it in, too, & get a free bookmark!

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November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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New Dillard. New Gatford. New Bereaud. Plus classics from Wolf, Brownlow, Fliss, Steffler, Hicks, McQueen, and many more. Even a little something I once wrote. And many photos from the archive. 90 beautiful pages. All that and a bookmark for only $10.

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November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Lighting nerd.

On the Disney Destiny before Hercules musical.
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Do you long to read about male friendship, grief & love? About collaborative writing and artistic process? Hot flash fiction about motherhood & losing your god damn mind? About being a teenager on the cusp of a new century & new life experiences?

I've got the books for you.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Staff pick at Powell's what?!?!
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Went through my massive TBR and selected Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III. Started it tonight and daaaamn the work Dubus puts into setting a scene. Loving this.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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5 years in the making, 2 weeks away.
Stanchion 20 is a celebration.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Stack of 2025 Stanchion releases to reread ahead of Pushcart Prize nominating. Toffee is supervising.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Aaaaah my book Street Cats and Where to Find Them made it into the @bookshop.org gift guide!! 😻😻😻
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Here's the front + back of Issue 20, which is at the printer now + will be published on Nov 25th.
Running a independent print lit mag that doesn't rely on donations, grants, or fees is getting so much harder.
Please consider pre-ordering a copy. Just a tenner.

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November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🌹SURPRISE🌹

The 20th Issue of Stanchion arrives in 3 weeks. Here's a look at the cover.

Pre-order now for just $10 & get a special 5th anniversary bookmark.

Read all about this marvelous 90-page Best Of issue w/ select new works by some old favorites.

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November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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If you're looking to 1) support an indie business, 2) receive 12 books in 2026, 3) get 4 exclusive gifts & 4) be invited to private zoom chats with authors, the 2026 Stanchion Book Club might be for you! Makes a great gift, too. Receive a welcome letter + bonus book immediately!
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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An Honour & A Privilege with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social is at the printer! Pre-order now from Stanchion to get a H&P free bookmark delivered with the most innovative craft writing book you've ever experienced.

Discounted UK shipping is available!

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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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@lindzmcleod.bsky.social's collaborative craft writing book An Honour & A Privilege "offers us both a testimony as to what can be done together and a guide on how to do it."

This is a craft book like no other. It will amaze you and inspire your writing.

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I spent a while trying to figure out how to classify An Honour & a Privilege. Viewed through one lens it might not seem an important question: classification is mostly helpful for shelving decisions. But genre also dictates how one reads a thing. Whether you think of this book as an anthology (many authors), a collection (one common author), or a craft book (the reflective duets) may affect your perception of the whole. I struggle to compare this work to any of those three genres. The project in front of you reveals more about its craft than other anthologies. It's more authentically connected to strong exemplar material than other craft books. It's more heteroglossic than any collection I recall. The best way to think of An Honour & a Privilege may be to regard it as a genre all its own, one which depends significantly on its many interconnections, one which marks both an occasion and an invitation, one which offers us both a testimony as to what can be done together and a guide on how to do it.
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Sold and signed 32 copies of my book today in Wilmington, DE!
October 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Some people find it so weird that my book Street Cats and Where to Find Them is, in part, dedicated to my ex-wife. But she's a huge part of my life, then and now, and the very reason I'm a dad, of kids and cats. It'd be weird if I didn't dedicate this to her.
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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It's all returns & canceled magazine subscriptions currently. So, to remind you of the works of art I make & publish, in case you need a new read made by a press that never asks for donations, doesn't charge fees, pays writers, prices books fairly & fulfills orders immediately...
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM