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📝Literature 📸 Photography 🎙Open Mics 🎨Arts ✨Journal run by CSULB’s MFA program✨Annual publications📚

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Purge by Athena Vasquez literallystories2014.com/202…
Purge by Athena Vasquez

Purge by Athena Vasquez

There was a disassociation between my body and my mind. My body begged for sustenance, but my mind refused. And I stood on the outskirts, watching it all play out.

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The submission period for the 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry prize is now open and ends May 1. Follow the link for more info! unpblog.com/2023/04/04/the-2…
The 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open

The 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open

The submission period for the Backwaters Press yearly poetry prize is now open, and ends May 1. Guidelines for the prize series can be found here. The judge for the 2023 contest is Hilda Raz. Raz i…

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Looking for Submissions! #submission #shortstory #literallystories literallystories2014.com/sub…
Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

You’re the busy writerly type. We understand. You just want to know the basics so you can get on with writing more stories. So here’s the important stuff you need to know. We accept qua…

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What was the first book series you read and loved? 📚
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#statement #csula is now accepting submissions for the 2023 issue! Chosen works will be published in Statement Magazine, one of the best student-run literary magazines in the country.
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any writers who write both poetry and prose (preferably essays/cnf but fiction is fine too)!! i want to read your works.
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
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God, how I ricochet between certainty and doubt.
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Happy Publication Day to OTHER BIRDS by Sarah Addison Allen! Delightful and atmospheric, OTHER BIRDS is filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go. 💙 Join us in giving this special book a warm welcome! 👏 bit.ly/3Tgra5u
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“I behaved badly on freeways, the two of us trapped in the car. I’d make my mother admit her parenting mistakes when she was at her weakest, three days post chemo, tired and sweaty,” writes @GlattLisa. loom.ly/UFJqef8
The Things We Carried to Chemo | Los Angeles Review of Books

The Things We Carried to Chemo | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lisa Glatt explores first her mother’s and then her own experiences with cancer in the context of national politics and family life.

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What is a line of poetry whose sound you love, even or especially if you’re not sure you know its sense? For me, Whitman: “Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice.”
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Ilya Kaminsky@ilya_poet16 Dec 2018
“Poetry confronts emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.” --Williams
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Tag your fave lit mags who are giving platforms to marginalized writers & artists. Tag your fave marginalized writers & artists. Let those who are doing a good job know they’re doing a good job. ✨
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W. Todd Kaneko@ToddKaneko6 Aug 2018
Oh, all you writers whose tweets announcing your first publication are appearing in my feed even though I don’t know you: I hit the little heart button because how could I not hit the heart button. Sorry not sorry.
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Shira Erlichman@sheer_awe25 Jul 2018
If you are feeling low on confidence in your artistic practice today, take 10 minutes to do something you know you can achieve - something mundane, even better if it's not artistic. That's what I'm doing. I'm literally tending to a spreadsheet like a garden.
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兔兒神@chenchenwrites13 Jun 2018
life is short. write the poems that are yours. write the poems that you love reading out loud. write the poems that you wish somebody, goddammit, would write already. poem your heart out. poem like nobody is watching!
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"I’m giving you permission to procrastinate, but only put off the stuff that’s actually better to worry about later on." electricliterature.com/the-b…
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sam sax@samsax115 Apr 2018
This poem by Rick Barot from his latest book has been haunting me since I read it in a journal
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"For heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are thirty." lithub.com/essential-writing…
Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf

Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf

Who wouldn’t love to write like Virginia Woolf? (Well, some people, probably, but I’d wager not many of them are looking at this page.) Woolf was a once-in-a-generation mind, and as bot…

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The window overlooking the sea is part of the dream One by one the words leave you, even this one —John Yau #PoemADay
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