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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join CALYX Press for a powerful series of four generative writing workshops, designed to support participants in writing on the topic. Explore your voice in a safe and accepting space. A virtual reading event will complete the workshop experience. Link in bio or at calyxpress.org. #writingcommunity

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Aug 30

Congratulations to this year's poetry prize winners, judged by the one and only, Ellen Bass! Read the poems here: www.calyxpress.org/lois-cransto... #communityofwriters #poetry #poets #poetryprize #womenwriters #womenwritingpoetry #womenpoets

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jul 29

Do you see her? ❤️

"Derecho" by Sarah Pedry is one of the most storied covers we've ever had! 😍

Visit Calyxpress.org to pre-order and read: Niwawa, the Award-winning short story by Suqi Karen Sims. #communityofwriters #litmag #poetry #nonfiction #WriterCommunity #coverdesign #booklove

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jul 1

Winners will be published in the 50th Anniversary issue of the journal. Judge: Julia Alvarez!!!😍 $20 Submission fee, $500 Prize. #literaryjournal #womenwriting #womenwriters #womenwritersofcolor #womenwhowrite #callforsubmissions #fictionwriters #creativenonfictionwriters

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 28

Just a few more days left! #poets #communityofwriters #poetryprize #callsforsubmissions #writingcontests

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 20

“Once, I was my brother’s subject. He controlled
time, light moving across
my face in steady increments“

Enjoy this audio recording of “Test Strip for Maximum Black” by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

"Test Strip for Maximum Black" by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren - CALYX

This CALYX Voices audio project features a poem on family, injury, and heartbreak read aloud by author Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 20

“This morning I watched a kinglet
—a bird so quick it often evades
human gaze—flit only a foot
from my husband’s face. I watched
the corners of his eyes lift.”

Enjoy this audio recording of “At the Reservoir” by Stephanie Striffler from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

"At the Reservoir" by Stephanie Striffler - CALYX

This CALYX Voices audio project features a poem that brings to life the clear vivid movement of birds and the aching love of family ties.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 14

Haven’t made any stickers lately. Suggestions? :)

CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 13

Poets! We’re reaching the final two weeks! #poetrycontest #womenpoets #poetryprize

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 13

“they sent me flowers
the summer you died
as if more death was a consolation—”

Enjoy this audio recording of “she loves me (flower sounds)” by Fredda S. Pearlson from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

“she loves me (flower sounds)” by Fredda S. Pearlson

“they sent me flowers the summer you died as if more death was a consolation—”

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 9

Today's contributor is Tiffany Promise, author of "The Cave-In, The Empty." www.tiffanypromise.com.

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Tiffany Promise (she/her) is a writer, poet, punk vocalist, chronic migraineur, and the mother of two wildlings. Winner of the 2023 Honeybee Prize for Literature.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 6

“Say you thought you were pregnant. [...] But this is 1979, and those tests don’t work until you’re a few weeks along. It’s not like today, where you blink and find out you’re pregnant before you even miss a period.”

Enjoy this audio recording of “1979″ by Maureen D. Hall.

"1979" by Maureen D. Hall - CALYX

This CALYX Voices audio project features a story on abortion care, history, and the differences and similarities between 1979 and today.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, author of "Wild Indigo" and "Test Strip for Maximum Black" (pictured). buff.ly/DDBcsNJ. Photo credit Sonia Bazar.

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Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a poet and translator in Montreal, Quebec.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today's contributor is Brittany Micka-Foos, author of "Border Crossings." buff.ly/QomQE2U.

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Brittany Micka-Foos is the author of the chapbook a litany of words as fragile as window glass and the short story collection It's No Fun Anymore.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 2

Today's contributor is Patricia Murphy, author of "The Perfectionist Goes to Boarding School."

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Patricia Murphy retired from Arizona State where she taught writing and magazine production and founded the literary magazine Superstition Review.

CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · Jun 1

June is the LAST month to submit to the 25th Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Ellen Bass! See www.calyxpress.org for full guidelines. Photograph by Irene Young.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 30

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Faith Gómez Clark, author of "When a Friend Asks Me What It's Like to Be a Mother with Dissociative Identity Disorder." www.faithgomezclark.com.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 28

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Laurel Ferejohn, who reviewed Stephanie Clare Smith's memoir, Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination. www.laurelferejohn.com

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 26

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, author of "Coastal Acoustics." buff.ly/cYCusMw

Edwards’s poems have been published in The Tampa Review, B O D Y Literature, and elsewhere; her prose has been published in HAD, CutBank, On The Seawall, and other journals.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 23

“I never thought I’d leave

until I realized it was okay
if he only remembered me as a weight.”

Enjoy this audio recording of “Echo” by Jessica E. Pierce from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

"Echo" by Jessica E. Pierce - CALYX

This CALYX Voices audio project features a poem engaging with Greek myth in a modern and surprising twist by the Lois Cranston Prize winner.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 23

“The speaker of the poem, V. Simon the Cyrene, admits, On all sides I am jostled / by witnesses of an execution. / They say the man had a knife / and the guards shot him down.”

Enjoy this audio recording of Jonathan Fletcher’s review of E.D. Watson’s Via Dolorosa and Advent Wreath from Vol. 35:1.

Via Dolorosa and Advent Wreath Review by Jonathan Fletcher - CALYX

This CALYX Voices audio project features the full review of E.D. Watson's Via Dolorosa and Advent Wreath, read by Jonathan Fletcher.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 23

Jessie Wingate is a florist and poet living on unceded Ohlone land in California. She holds an MA in art history. Her work has been published in Mother Mag, Chestnut Review, F(r)iction, and others. www.jessiewingate.com.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 21

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, author of "Bleachers" and "Heiligenblut."

Ranaraja is a multigenre creative from Kandy, Sri Lanka. She has written for Wildness, Hunger Mountain, Strange Horizons, Sky Island Journal, and others. www.shanelaranaraja.com.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 20

"She’s like, 'You can’t burn the books; these are readers reading this book! Please, I beg of you, don’t burn all the books.' And I was like, 'I have to burn all the books.'"

Listen to (or read) the full interview between author Jean Hegland and CALYX's Debbra Palmer at buff.ly/sn8RP9V.

Interview with Jean Hegland by Debbra Palmer - CALYX

Debbra Palmer interviews CALYX author Jean Hegland about Here in This Next New Now, a companion book to Into the Forest.

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CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social · May 19

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Kimberly Ann Priest, author of "What People See."

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Kimberly Ann Priest is the author of Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress 2021), tether & lung (Texas Review Press 2025), and Floralia (Unsolicited Press 2025). buff.ly/1pMhAyO

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