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Audi Locus
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A contemporary poetry & art journal exploring liminality, existentialism, & the in-between. Featuring poetry, visual art, music/lyrics, & hybrid forms. Submissions: Apr–May & Oct–Nov.

www.audilocus.com

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · Oct 1
The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam
Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus
www.audilocus.com
audilocus.bsky.social
First time I actually licked an envelope in quite some time. Sending off our very first batch of Pushcart Prize nominations! It’s been a solid first year of publishing. Proud of the work we’ve put out and the writers who trusted us with it. Here’s to the next one.
A close-up photo of a brown envelope with a handwritten address in black ink that reads: "Pushcart Press, P.O. Box 380, Wainscott, NY 11975." The image is decorated with cheerful digital stickers: a blue text bubble at the top reading "to the post office!!!!", two pink hearts, and a "Good Luck" graphic in yellow and pink cursive script at the bottom right.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
You can submit up to 5 mags! And what's really cool, regardless of "winning," is that the tags y'all pick will help label the lit mags in Chillsubs for easier navigation and visibility!
frazzledlit.bsky.social Frazzled Lit *Closed* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · 1d
Jennifer has written a short substack post for the mag actually about how much we love you.

Take a look, see what it is all about.

www.frazzledlit.com/p/you-guys-l...

Vote for us here. If the mood takes you!
Vote for someone else if you want. But, do vote.

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November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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here is the shorter of yesterday's 2 poems from Kara Knickerbocker
Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny What I can’t stop thinking about is how, when I was growing up, we kept a large glass jar of them behind the couch— our way of saving for a vacation. How my dad would search for those copper-plated faces like little parking lot prayers. Looking now feels worthless but I do. Heads up, my father is still alive in another universe. Tails up, try again.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
In our "Witness" issue, Tess Ezzy turns the eye inward and asks the hard questions: "what is the Greek word / for grief you didn’t earn".

Read "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)", one of our Pushcart noms, here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#Poetry #IndieLit #Publication #LitMag
Promotional graphic from "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2". At the top, a large blue quotation mark and the text "what is the Greek word for grief you didn't earn" followed by another blue quotation mark. Below, against a painting of a woman with brown hair looking out a window at city buildings and holding a cup, is the title "“ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)” By Tess Ezzy" and "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2"
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Proud to feature this piece by Barnaby Blue in the "Witness" issue! 👁️💘

www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

#indiejournal #litjournal #art
barnabebop.bsky.social Barnaby Blue @barnabebop.bsky.social · Apr 1
bullseye (2025)
24x12”
acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

look mom, i did a painting on a real canvas for the first time since college!
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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We'd love to be one of your five! 😍
audilocus.bsky.social Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 3d
It's time to vote for Best Lit Mag in the ChillSubs Community Favorites Awards!

If our work has ever hit you sideways, cracked something open, or lit a little fuse, take a moment and nominate us.

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Type Audi Locus, choose a few tags, hit submit.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It's time to vote for Best Lit Mag in the ChillSubs Community Favorites Awards!

If our work has ever hit you sideways, cracked something open, or lit a little fuse, take a moment and nominate us.

🗳️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Type Audi Locus, choose a few tags, hit submit.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
The countdown is on. One week left to submit your work for Audi Locus Volume 2, Issue 1. We’re looking for poetry and art that demands to be heard and remembered.

Deadline: November 30
Weblink: www.audilocus.com
A digital flyer with a dark, abstract background featuring blurred shapes in orange, yellow, and red. Text reads: "AUDI LOCUS, Volume 2, Issue 1. 1 WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT ART & POETRY. Subs open until November 30. www.audilocus.com.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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We are bursting with pride to announce our six nominees for the 2025 Pushcart Prize!

Huge congrats to: Dutch Simmons, Meghan Albizo, Sofiya Ivanova, Rowan Tate, Isabelle Ruby, and Tess Ezzy.

Read all the nominated poems and the full issues now at www.audilocus.com

#PushcartPrize #Poetry
Audi Locus, A Journal of Poetry, announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations from Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2. Issue 1 nominations are: "The Pope Graces Buc-ee's with his Divine Presence" by Dutch Simmons, "Apples" by Meghan Albizo, and "People Keep Dying So I Keep Writing About It" by Sofiya Ivanova. Issue 2 nominations are: "The Tent" by Rowan Tate, "Unsilenced Ghosts" by Isabelle Ruby, and "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)" by Tess Ezzy.
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
So excited about the submissions coming in and am currently digging through Issues 1 and 2 for Pushcart nominations!
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry
A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
Working on balance.
alixklingenberg.bsky.social Alix Klingenberg @alixklingenberg.bsky.social · Oct 10
What are you working on right now? (Interpret widely, poetically, existentially)
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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an honour to be included❤️
audilocus.bsky.social Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · Oct 12
What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #CurrentEvents #Poetry
A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
audilocus.bsky.social
Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry
A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #CurrentEvents #Poetry
A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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audilocus.bsky.social
The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam
Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus
www.audilocus.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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audilocus.bsky.social
Audi Locus is now accepting poetry, art, and music for our next issue. Submit your work between Oct 1 – Nov 30.

🖊 Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

Art is resistance. Come build with us.

#poetrysubmission #poetrycall #artcall
A digital flyer with a black brick background announces that Audi Locus, a journal of poetry, is open for submissions. The main text in bright neon reads: "WE ARE OPEN for submissions." Below, it lists "Poetry · Art · Music" and the submission period "Oct 01 – Nov 30." At the bottom, the Audi Locus logo appears with the tagline "A Journal of Poetry" and the website "www.audilocus.com"
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
A poem is an anti-capitalist machine

yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it

no, it doesn’t produce on command

the factory is closed

the worker is sleeping
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
audilocus.bsky.social
Isabelle Ruby's "Unsilenced Ghosts" is the powerful voice of a survivor, actively witnessing and naming every silence and shadow. Read it and more in our current issue.

📖: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #Poetry #SurvivorPoetry #LitMag
A quote graphic from the poem "Unsilenced Ghosts" by Isabelle Ruby. The quote reads: "I name every shadow that passes through me. I name every silence complicit in my pain."
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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daydreamacademy.bsky.social
Hi, everyone,

Submissions close for my magazine, Steel Jackdaw, for Edition 19 on Sunday, the 12th October (midnight UK time).

Submit your best work for consideration – poetry & flash fiction:
www.steeljackdaw.com/submissions

#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #writingcommunity
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Maudie Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the disquiet beneath the surface. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit

Arrives Nov
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
audilocus.bsky.social
Esther Fishman challenges us to truly witness those we often pass by. Her poem "Homeless Woman" looks at the stark reality of life stripped bare. Read it in our "Witness" issue.

👁️: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #HomelessWoman #Poetry #SocialJusticePoetry
A quote graphic from the poem "Homeless Woman" by Esther Fishman. The quote reads: "I try to imagine the blast that left such a ruin, or the semblance of life that must go on day after day..."
October 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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And YES! Another submission opportunity!
We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest.
Check out the website for submission details...
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/
Submissions
We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…
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October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
The theme is "LUCK". In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry". POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap. PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece. Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under. Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry". All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM