Scott Frink
@brokenspinejournal.bsky.social
Founder of The Broken Spine Journal.
Where raw voices are heard.
Poet. Advocate.
📍thebrokenspinejournal.com
Where raw voices are heard.
Poet. Advocate.
📍thebrokenspinejournal.com
We’re excited to share 5 new pieces now live:
📖 Finally, Something — Kate Tell
✍️ Knives — Eric Chiles
📖 Comrades — Rose Shrader
✍️ Lost or Stolen or Strayed — Deb Blenkhorn
✍️ As You Are About to Find Out — R. Gerry Fabian
Read them here 👉 thebrokenspinejournal.com
📖 Finally, Something — Kate Tell
✍️ Knives — Eric Chiles
📖 Comrades — Rose Shrader
✍️ Lost or Stolen or Strayed — Deb Blenkhorn
✍️ As You Are About to Find Out — R. Gerry Fabian
Read them here 👉 thebrokenspinejournal.com
August 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We’re excited to share 5 new pieces now live:
📖 Finally, Something — Kate Tell
✍️ Knives — Eric Chiles
📖 Comrades — Rose Shrader
✍️ Lost or Stolen or Strayed — Deb Blenkhorn
✍️ As You Are About to Find Out — R. Gerry Fabian
Read them here 👉 thebrokenspinejournal.com
📖 Finally, Something — Kate Tell
✍️ Knives — Eric Chiles
📖 Comrades — Rose Shrader
✍️ Lost or Stolen or Strayed — Deb Blenkhorn
✍️ As You Are About to Find Out — R. Gerry Fabian
Read them here 👉 thebrokenspinejournal.com
🌿 New work just published in The Broken Spine Journal!
✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words
✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project
✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree
✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973
Discover fresh voices + powerful stories:
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words
✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project
✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree
✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973
Discover fresh voices + powerful stories:
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🌿 New work just published in The Broken Spine Journal!
✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words
✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project
✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree
✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973
Discover fresh voices + powerful stories:
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words
✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project
✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree
✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973
Discover fresh voices + powerful stories:
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
✨ New on The Broken Spine Journal ✨
Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience.
📖 Read:
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
#Poetry
Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience.
📖 Read:
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
#Poetry
August 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
✨ New on The Broken Spine Journal ✨
Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience.
📖 Read:
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
#Poetry
Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience.
📖 Read:
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
#Poetry
New at The Broken Spine Journal:
• “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
• “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
• “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...
• “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
• “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
• “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...
August 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New at The Broken Spine Journal:
• “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
• “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
• “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...
• “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
• “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
• “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...
📢 The Broken Spine Journal is seeking poetry, short fiction, prose & multimedia that’s raw, real & unfiltered — straight from lived experience.
Submit: thebrokenspinejournal.com
📩 [email protected]
📬 P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339
📱 860-323-3671
Submit: thebrokenspinejournal.com
📩 [email protected]
📬 P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339
📱 860-323-3671
August 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📢 The Broken Spine Journal is seeking poetry, short fiction, prose & multimedia that’s raw, real & unfiltered — straight from lived experience.
Submit: thebrokenspinejournal.com
📩 [email protected]
📬 P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339
📱 860-323-3671
Submit: thebrokenspinejournal.com
📩 [email protected]
📬 P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339
📱 860-323-3671
Taking on the plight of angels
with black halos—
one foot in the grave,
but I still have two hands to pray.
From I Won’t Paint You Flowers by Scott Jordan Frink—
a chapbook for those who've lived through the silence.
🛒
with black halos—
one foot in the grave,
but I still have two hands to pray.
From I Won’t Paint You Flowers by Scott Jordan Frink—
a chapbook for those who've lived through the silence.
🛒
I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned,…
bottlecap.press
August 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Taking on the plight of angels
with black halos—
one foot in the grave,
but I still have two hands to pray.
From I Won’t Paint You Flowers by Scott Jordan Frink—
a chapbook for those who've lived through the silence.
🛒
with black halos—
one foot in the grave,
but I still have two hands to pray.
From I Won’t Paint You Flowers by Scott Jordan Frink—
a chapbook for those who've lived through the silence.
🛒
The Broken Spine Journal is live.
We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth.
Check out the site, share the mission, help us amplify unheard voices.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth.
Check out the site, share the mission, help us amplify unheard voices.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Broken Spine Journal is live.
We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth.
Check out the site, share the mission, help us amplify unheard voices.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth.
Check out the site, share the mission, help us amplify unheard voices.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
🖤 My chapbook is out now.
I Won’t Paint You Flowers
isn’t pretty—it’s real.
It’s pain, survival, and truth.
🛒 bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#PoetryThatHurts #BottlecapPress #DebutChapbook #TheBrokenSpineJournal #LivedExperience #Zinesky
I Won’t Paint You Flowers
isn’t pretty—it’s real.
It’s pain, survival, and truth.
🛒 bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#PoetryThatHurts #BottlecapPress #DebutChapbook #TheBrokenSpineJournal #LivedExperience #Zinesky
I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned,…
bottlecap.press
August 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🖤 My chapbook is out now.
I Won’t Paint You Flowers
isn’t pretty—it’s real.
It’s pain, survival, and truth.
🛒 bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#PoetryThatHurts #BottlecapPress #DebutChapbook #TheBrokenSpineJournal #LivedExperience #Zinesky
I Won’t Paint You Flowers
isn’t pretty—it’s real.
It’s pain, survival, and truth.
🛒 bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#PoetryThatHurts #BottlecapPress #DebutChapbook #TheBrokenSpineJournal #LivedExperience #Zinesky
🖤 The Broken Spine Journal
Raw work from the unheard—poetry, essays, art, truth.
No gatekeeping. Just voice.
Submit / Support / Share:
📎 thebrokenspinejournal.com
📬 PO Box 101, Ledyard CT
📱 Text: 860-323-3671
#TheBrokenSpineJournal #RawVoices #IndieLit
Raw work from the unheard—poetry, essays, art, truth.
No gatekeeping. Just voice.
Submit / Support / Share:
📎 thebrokenspinejournal.com
📬 PO Box 101, Ledyard CT
📱 Text: 860-323-3671
#TheBrokenSpineJournal #RawVoices #IndieLit
The Broken Spine Journal | Literary Journal for Unheard Voices
A literary journal for unheard voices—publishing raw, unfiltered work that speaks truth, defies polish, and dares to be real.
thebrokenspinejournal.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🖤 The Broken Spine Journal
Raw work from the unheard—poetry, essays, art, truth.
No gatekeeping. Just voice.
Submit / Support / Share:
📎 thebrokenspinejournal.com
📬 PO Box 101, Ledyard CT
📱 Text: 860-323-3671
#TheBrokenSpineJournal #RawVoices #IndieLit
Raw work from the unheard—poetry, essays, art, truth.
No gatekeeping. Just voice.
Submit / Support / Share:
📎 thebrokenspinejournal.com
📬 PO Box 101, Ledyard CT
📱 Text: 860-323-3671
#TheBrokenSpineJournal #RawVoices #IndieLit
🖤 Grateful to have three poems featured in Red Rose Thorns Journal:
— Rosemary’s Baby
— Broken Bike
— Web of the Storm
Read them here:
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/rosemary-s-baby
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/broken-bike
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/web-of-the-storm
#Poetry #RedRoseThorns #PublishedPoet
— Rosemary’s Baby
— Broken Bike
— Web of the Storm
Read them here:
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/rosemary-s-baby
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/broken-bike
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/web-of-the-storm
#Poetry #RedRoseThorns #PublishedPoet
Rosemary’s Baby by Scott Jordan Frink | redrosethorns publications | empowerment
Discover a powerful poem on self-empowerment in 'Rosemary’s Baby'. Uncover the raw, emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance. redrosethorns publishes writing centred around mental health,...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🖤 Grateful to have three poems featured in Red Rose Thorns Journal:
— Rosemary’s Baby
— Broken Bike
— Web of the Storm
Read them here:
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/rosemary-s-baby
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/broken-bike
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/web-of-the-storm
#Poetry #RedRoseThorns #PublishedPoet
— Rosemary’s Baby
— Broken Bike
— Web of the Storm
Read them here:
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/rosemary-s-baby
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/broken-bike
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/web-of-the-storm
#Poetry #RedRoseThorns #PublishedPoet
We’re thrilled to share the first three pieces in our new Voices section! 🎉
✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie
🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley
💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae
Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.
✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie
🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley
💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae
Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.
July 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We’re thrilled to share the first three pieces in our new Voices section! 🎉
✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie
🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley
💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae
Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.
✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie
🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley
💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae
Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.
📬 New Submission Methods! 📱
We’ve added more ways to share your voice.
✉️ Mail submissions to:
The Broken Spine Journal
P.O. Box 101
Ledyard, CT 06339
(Handwritten or typed welcome!)
📞 Call or Text:
860-323-3671
Send poems or prose by text, or leave a voicemail with your name for follow-up.
We’ve added more ways to share your voice.
✉️ Mail submissions to:
The Broken Spine Journal
P.O. Box 101
Ledyard, CT 06339
(Handwritten or typed welcome!)
📞 Call or Text:
860-323-3671
Send poems or prose by text, or leave a voicemail with your name for follow-up.
July 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
📬 New Submission Methods! 📱
We’ve added more ways to share your voice.
✉️ Mail submissions to:
The Broken Spine Journal
P.O. Box 101
Ledyard, CT 06339
(Handwritten or typed welcome!)
📞 Call or Text:
860-323-3671
Send poems or prose by text, or leave a voicemail with your name for follow-up.
We’ve added more ways to share your voice.
✉️ Mail submissions to:
The Broken Spine Journal
P.O. Box 101
Ledyard, CT 06339
(Handwritten or typed welcome!)
📞 Call or Text:
860-323-3671
Send poems or prose by text, or leave a voicemail with your name for follow-up.
Discover my debut chapbook! You can purchase it at [Bottlecap Press](bottlecap.press/products/iwo...). If you enjoy it, please consider sharing the link with others who might be interested. Thank you for your support!
I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned,…
bottlecap.press
July 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Discover my debut chapbook! You can purchase it at [Bottlecap Press](bottlecap.press/products/iwo...). If you enjoy it, please consider sharing the link with others who might be interested. Thank you for your support!
Check out our website thebrokenspinejournal.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Check out our website thebrokenspinejournal.com
My debut chapbook I Won’t Paint You Flowers is out now via Bottlecap Press.
Proceeds help fund @BrokenSpineJrnl—a journal for raw, unfiltered voices from recovery, shelters, and the unheard.
Support the mission: bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#poetry #mentalhealth #chapbook #recovery
Proceeds help fund @BrokenSpineJrnl—a journal for raw, unfiltered voices from recovery, shelters, and the unheard.
Support the mission: bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#poetry #mentalhealth #chapbook #recovery
I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned, unedite...
bottlecap.press
July 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My debut chapbook I Won’t Paint You Flowers is out now via Bottlecap Press.
Proceeds help fund @BrokenSpineJrnl—a journal for raw, unfiltered voices from recovery, shelters, and the unheard.
Support the mission: bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#poetry #mentalhealth #chapbook #recovery
Proceeds help fund @BrokenSpineJrnl—a journal for raw, unfiltered voices from recovery, shelters, and the unheard.
Support the mission: bottlecap.press/products/iwo...
#poetry #mentalhealth #chapbook #recovery
Support the movement.
Submit your raw, real, unfiltered words to The Broken Spine Journal — where voices that don’t usually get heard finally do.
🖋️ Submit now: thebrokenspinejournal.com
#CallForSubmissions #LitJournal #PoetryCommunity #TheBrokenSpine
Submit your raw, real, unfiltered words to The Broken Spine Journal — where voices that don’t usually get heard finally do.
🖋️ Submit now: thebrokenspinejournal.com
#CallForSubmissions #LitJournal #PoetryCommunity #TheBrokenSpine
Literary Journal for Unheard Voices | The Broken Spine Journal
A literary journal for unheard voices—publishing raw, unfiltered work that speaks truth, defies polish, and dares to be real.
thebrokenspinejournal.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Support the movement.
Submit your raw, real, unfiltered words to The Broken Spine Journal — where voices that don’t usually get heard finally do.
🖋️ Submit now: thebrokenspinejournal.com
#CallForSubmissions #LitJournal #PoetryCommunity #TheBrokenSpine
Submit your raw, real, unfiltered words to The Broken Spine Journal — where voices that don’t usually get heard finally do.
🖋️ Submit now: thebrokenspinejournal.com
#CallForSubmissions #LitJournal #PoetryCommunity #TheBrokenSpine
Welcome to The Broken Spine Journal.
We publish raw voices, unfiltered truth, and poetry that bleeds.
If you’ve lived it, write it.
Submissions are open.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
#poetry #litjournal #rawvoices #indielit #submissionopen
We publish raw voices, unfiltered truth, and poetry that bleeds.
If you’ve lived it, write it.
Submissions are open.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
#poetry #litjournal #rawvoices #indielit #submissionopen
Literary Journal for Unheard Voices | The Broken Spine Journal
A literary journal for unheard voices—publishing raw, unfiltered work that speaks truth, defies polish, and dares to be real.
thebrokenspinejournal.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Welcome to The Broken Spine Journal.
We publish raw voices, unfiltered truth, and poetry that bleeds.
If you’ve lived it, write it.
Submissions are open.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
#poetry #litjournal #rawvoices #indielit #submissionopen
We publish raw voices, unfiltered truth, and poetry that bleeds.
If you’ve lived it, write it.
Submissions are open.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
#poetry #litjournal #rawvoices #indielit #submissionopen