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An online literary arts magazine for artists from the American South | EIC: @chellechampagne.bsky.social | Submissions CLOSED

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Maddie Gallo will be taking a break from our upcoming Winter 2025 issue. Taking the helm will be our magnificent Guest Poetry Editor, Eliana Franklin! Y'all give her a warm welcome!
Welcome Our Guest Poetry Editor! Eliana Franklin (she/her) received her MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has work forthcoming in The Greensboro Review and is the recipient of the Noel Callow Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also has poems published in Had I Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Floods, Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry, and Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts.
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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🎉Congratulations to our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nominations! 🎉
2026 Best of the Net Nominations Poetry: "Punctuation, Accent, Marks" by Laura Cesarco Eglin; "Taking Up the Cause of Hallelujah" by Jeff Hardin; "a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds" by Mikey Jones; "Over and Over" by Hiram Larew; "Monarchs" by Gregory Lobas; "Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit" by Annette Sisson Fiction: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard; "Artificial Intelligence" by Kathleen Reeves Nonfiction: "Going Back to Miami" by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; "Love in the Time of Dementia" by Cynthia Stock Photography: Sean Sexton, Kiko Salazar, and Gordon Johnston
October 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.

View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve

📸: Malcolm Glass
Susurrus. Issue Twelve. Summer 2025. Featuring: Malcolm Glass, Azul, D Bedell, Emma Bolden, Mark Blaeuer, B.C. Brock, Nicole Brogdon, Christa Fairbrother, Elisheva Fox, Marianna Gibson, Matthew Hand, William Hawkins, Patrick Holian, Tyler Jagt, L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Gabby Kiser, Pamela Manasco, Marshall Moore, Anne Myles, Claire Nelson, Jeff Newberry, Megan Nichols, Sean Sexton, Chelsea Stickle, and Lisa Zerkle
August 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Thank y'all! With almost 500 submissions received this reading period, we wanted to thank you all for sharing your wonderful work with us! All decisions have been sent out, but please feel free to email us if you have yet to receive a response! Issue Twelve is coming soon!
"Thank y'all!" in black text over a torn, white sheet of paper, atop a photo of a Live Oak tree draped in Spanish Moss.
August 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Faithna Geffrard, whose work "No Ponyboy" has been selected for @wigleaf.bsky.social's Top 50 2025 Longlist! This is also Faithna's second award for this story! "No Ponyboy" was also selected for @altcurrent.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions. 🎉
June 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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🎉Congratulations to @susurrusmag.bsky.social contributor ‪‪@whimsyqueen.bsky.social's‬ Antenora, ForeWord Reviews' 2024 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Gold Winner for General Adult Fiction! Purchase their award-winning book from Creature Publishing here: creaturehorror.com/books/antenora
June 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Faithna Geffrard’s “No Ponyboy” is one of @altcurrent.bsky.social’s 2025 Best Small Fictions Selections! Congratulations Faithna! 🎉#BestSmallFictions
Best Small Fictions "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard / Susurrus
May 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Welcome to a very special Issue Eleven, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late father.

View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-ten

📸: Gordon Johnston
Susurrus. Issue Eleven. Spring 2025. Featuring: Gordon Johnston, D Bedell, Adriana Beltrano, Stasha Cole, Wren Donovan, Morrow Dowdle, Kevin Grauke, Mikey Jones, Angela Joynes, Hiram Larew, Gregory Lobas, Kathleen Reeves, Tyler S, Sean Sexton, Noah Soltau, Cynthia Stock, Jennifer A Sutherland, and Ren Koppel Torres
April 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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🔔 #SubsOpen for our 11th issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to @susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Open for submissions through March 15th! Black text on a torn white paper background, overlaying a photograph of a Live Oak tree draped in Spanish Moss.
February 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🎉Welcome to Issue Ten!

View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-ten

📸: Kiko Salazar
Susurrus, Issue Ten, Winter 2024 Featuring: Kiko Salazar, D Bedell, Nadine Ellsworth-Moran, Amy Fleury, Cass Francis, Faithna Geffrard, Jeff Hardin, Brooke Harries, Bethany Jarmul, Deanna Lernihan, Skinner Matthews, Sam Moe, Claudia Stanek
December 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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🎉Congratulations to our 2025 #BestSmallFictions Nomination: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard, to be published in our upcoming Winter 2024 Issue!🎉
Best Small Fictions: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Gerrard," to be published Winter 2024
December 16, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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🎉Congratulations to our 2025 #PushcartPrize Nominations! 🎉
Pushcart Prize Nominations: "Only the Cow Knew" by Shome Dasgupta; "Punctuation, Accent, Marks," by Laura Cesarco Eglin; "Going Back to Miami" by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; "Visiting My Twenty-Something Grandson in NYC" by Karen Luke Jackson; "Koko’s kitten" by Matthew Moniz; "Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit" by Annette Sisson
December 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM