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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2h

Writing & Art from the Farmworker Community—a 2024 portfolio from @commonmag.bsky.social—features fiction by Helena María Viramontes, nonfiction by Nora Rodriguez Camagna, poetry by Miguel M. Morales, and more! Read it this #HispanicHeritageMonth: www.thecommononline.org/issues/issue...

The Common, Issue 26

A special portfolio of writing from immigrant, seasonal, and migrant farmworkers, stories set in Chicago and India, an essay about coming of age in the Balkans, and poems by Rickey Laurentiis,…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 19h

“You’re sitting in the back of the car en route to the outlet malls a few towns over. In front of you is a GameBoy Color.”

Read Lyn Rafil's “‘Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?’: A Walkthrough" in @anmlymag.bsky.social! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth anmly.org/ap37/lyn-raf...

Lyn Rafil – ANMLY

ANMLY

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

Read a Kaya Press novel this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

Set in 1970s Honolulu, R. Zamora Linmark's ROLLING THE R’S “animates the hilarious, disturbing, and chaotic misadventures of a group of Filipino, Vietnamese, Okinawan, and haole fifth graders.”
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Rolling the R's: 20th Anniversary Edition |

Before the Young Adult became the edgy, best-selling genre it is today, Kaya Press was publishing cutting edge stories about Asian diasporic young people that changed the world. R. Zamora Linmark’s…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

“A painful amount of guilt has riddled my body for years.”

Read “In My Own Skin” by Camille Espiritu, published by Wellspringwords, this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: www.wellspringwords.love/the-descent/...

In My Own Skin — Wellspringwords

“I will no longer be a silent citizen of victimhood.”

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

Kimberly Vargas Agnese’s poetry “invites readers to ponder: What rights ought to be afforded to the people, creatures, and landscapes that comprise the world in which we live?”

Order KADUPUL FLOWER from @greenwriterspress.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth greenwriterspress.com/book/kadupul...

KADUPUL FLOWER

Kimberly Vargas Agnese

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

MANILA NOIR (@akashicbooks.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

According to Publishers Weekly, this anthology “includes a liberal dose of the gothic and supernatural, with disappearance and loss being constants.”
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Manila Noir (Philippines)

Fresh noir from one of the most intense, congested, and overpopulated cities in the world.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2d

In THIRD WINTER IN OUR SECOND COUNTRY, Andres Rojas “captures the essence of the experience of settling into a new land, in all its strangeness and sometimes, ridiculousness.”

Read this poetry collection from @triohousepress.org! #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Third Winter in Our Second Country by Andres Rojas

A poetry collection detailing the experience of the exiled, this collection both haunts and inspires. In elegies that mourn loss of a homeland, Rojas also captures the essence of the experience of…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2d

“do not hold honey in our home like that.
sweet-hold, i tear my jaw
from the window. there’s a spasm
between your lips.”

Read “idiosyncratic kitchen,” one of two poems by Turi Sioson in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth:
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“idiosyncratic kitchen”

Turi Sioson

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2d

Giancarlo Huapaya’s poetry collection [GAMEROVER]—translated by Ryan Greene—charts “the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents’ bodies and complicated habits.”

Order your copy from @deepvellum.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth store.deepvellum.org/products/gam...

[gamerover]

By Giancarlo Huapaya, tr. Ryan Greene. A political, poetic excavation of the human landscape, charting the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents' bodies and complicated…

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Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

Read Eileen R. Tabios’s BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR (Marsh Hawk Press) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

According to E. San Juan, Jr., this collection of poetry and prose “weaves the semiotic subtleties of icon, index, and symbol into epiphanies.”
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Because I love you, I Become War Poems & Uncollected Poetics | Independent Publishers Group

Independent Publishers Group

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

BANANA [ ] is on our reading list for #HispanicHeritageMonth!

Published by @upittpress.bsky.social, Paul Hlava Ceballos’s poems “reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits.” upittpress.org/books/978082...

banana [ ] - University of Pittsburgh Press

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

Grace Talusan’s THE BODY PAPERS (Restless Books) is on our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list!

Talusan’s memoir “powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.”
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The Body Papers — Restless Books

By Grace Talusan Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

“Here is today’s reality in all its viciousness mixed with a supreme, kind, hilarious truth.” —Tupelo Hassman

Stephen D. Gutierrez's CAPTAIN CHICANO DRAWS A LINE IN THE AMERICAN SAND (@utampapress.bsky.social) is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list:
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Captain Chicano Draws a Line in the American Sand by Stephen Gutierrez - University of Tampa Press

“Gutierrez breaks hearts with Captain Chicano and its superhero “wearing his chones on the outside of his tights like they all do” while delivering heroism the way we most need it right this very…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

Submit lit mags and fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction books by November 14! Learn more about the #FirecrackerAwards: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

“We’re outside the Time Temple waiting for a fourth to join our party when we meet NotButter. He’s a Level 67 Shadower, which is a good fit for our party.”

Read Paula Mirando's “Maple Boyfriend” in @southeastreview.bsky.social! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...

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Maple Boyfriend We’re outside the Time Temple waiting for a fourth to join our party when we meet NotButter. He’s a Level 67 Shadower, which is a good fit for our party; Lili’s an Arch Mage; Riku’s a…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

Warm congratulations to CLMP members @openletterbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @archipelagobooks.bsky.social, @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, and Restless Books for being shortlisted!

American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 4d

🎉 We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2025 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose!

2025 marks the 27th year for the NTA, and the 11th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose.

View the lists here: literarytranslators.org/the-2025-nat...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

According to Rachael Crosbie, this poetry collection using English, Tagalog, and Cebuano “commands language with a blend of love and sorrow.”

Read MOHILAK by Keana Aguila Labra, from @fahmidangroup.bsky.social and our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list: www.fahmidan.net/store

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Fahmidan

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

“My father was a regular listener of Jaime Licauco’s ‘Inner Mind on Radio,’ which aired in the evenings when I was growing up in the Philippines.”

Read Monica Macansantos's “My Father and W. B. Yeats” in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

“My Father and W. B. Yeats”

Monica Macansantos

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

Writers, submission periods are closing soon at thirteen indie presses and lit mags! These deadlines are coming up between October 10 and October 22. Learn more and submit now: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Calls for Submissions - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP. Before submitting your work, be sure to check…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ by Iliana Rocha is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list!

This @tupelopress.bsky.social collection “chronicles an obsession with the 1971 unsolved murder of Rocha’s grandfather while interrogating the true crime genre.” www.tupelopress.org/product/the-...

THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ

Iliana Rocha

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

Read BABYLAN, edited by Nick Carbó and Eileen R. Tabios, this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

This anthology of Filipina and Filipina American writers from Aunt Lute Books features poetry and prose by Gina Apostol, Lilledeshan Bose, Shirley Ancheta, and more:
www.auntlute.com/babaylan

Babaylan | auntlutebooks

Nonprofit Publishing Since 1982

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

ALBUM OF FENCES (Cardboard House Press) is on our reading list this #HispanicHeritageMonth!

Omar Pimienta’s poetry collection “documents what living on either side of a militarized border does to a community, how it distorts, breeding suspicion and lies.”
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the album of fences omar pimienta — cardboardhousepress.org

ALBUM OF FENCESOmar Pimienta Translated from the Spanish by Jose Antonio Villarán Poetry / Photography....

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

In FIRST, Lianne Cruz shares “the heartfelt, and often unplanned, moments of pregnancy and motherhood.”

This @readfuriously.bsky.social collection based on Cruz’s webcomics is on our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list:
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First

The highly anticipated followup to Pursuit:A Collection of Art In First, Lianne Cruz shares the heartfelt, and often unplanned, moments of pregnancy and motherhood. Drawn in a gorgeous series of…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 6d

We're thrilled to announce that applications are open for the fifth annual Constellation Award, given to honor an independent literary press that champions the writing of people of color. Learn more and submit by November 7! www.clmp.org/constellatio...

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