Claire Taylor
@clairemtaylor.com
Writer. EIC of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
April and Back Again available to preorder: https://www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/april-and-back-again-by-claire-taylor/
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
April and Back Again available to preorder: https://www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/april-and-back-again-by-claire-taylor/
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Claire Taylor
@clairemtaylor.com
· Dec 17
April and Back Again by Claire Taylor - Publishing Genius
An intimate year-in-poems capturing the joy and dread of getting older, growing a family, the world’s news … and the miracles—no bigger than a child’s hand—that keep us going.
www.publishinggenius.com
Did you know you can preorder my book?
You should go preorder my book.
"An intimate year-in-poems capturing the joy and dread of getting older, growing a family, the world’s news … and the miracles—no bigger than a child’s hand—that keep us going."
www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...
You should go preorder my book.
"An intimate year-in-poems capturing the joy and dread of getting older, growing a family, the world’s news … and the miracles—no bigger than a child’s hand—that keep us going."
www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...
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⚠️ DASHBOARD AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
January 18, 2026 at 11:30 PM
⚠️ DASHBOARD AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
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I've got a box of advance copies of TACOMA. Would love to give a couple away. Maybe let's do this...
Tell me/rave about a fave piece on @havehashad.com.
I'll RT them from HAD and randomly select 2 or 3 tomorrow morning to send a copy to.
Tell me/rave about a fave piece on @havehashad.com.
I'll RT them from HAD and randomly select 2 or 3 tomorrow morning to send a copy to.
January 18, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I've got a box of advance copies of TACOMA. Would love to give a couple away. Maybe let's do this...
Tell me/rave about a fave piece on @havehashad.com.
I'll RT them from HAD and randomly select 2 or 3 tomorrow morning to send a copy to.
Tell me/rave about a fave piece on @havehashad.com.
I'll RT them from HAD and randomly select 2 or 3 tomorrow morning to send a copy to.
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Issue 17 is live! Whether your resolution is to cultivate a childlike sense of wonder or not, don’t miss these great pieces!
vastliterarypress.org/26q1/
vastliterarypress.org/26q1/
26Q1
Editor’s Note Especially during times of uncertainty and unrest, I yearn for a simplicity often associated with childhood, a time when joy and wonder wait around every corner and imagination …
vastliterarypress.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Issue 17 is live! Whether your resolution is to cultivate a childlike sense of wonder or not, don’t miss these great pieces!
vastliterarypress.org/26q1/
vastliterarypress.org/26q1/
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JMWW January Editorial Team Zoom Reading
Don’t forget: JMWW’s virtual staff reading is on Tuesday, January 20th. Register with the link in the post.
Don’t forget: JMWW’s virtual staff reading is on Tuesday, January 20th. Register with the link in the post.
JMWW January Editorial Team Zoom Reading
Don’t forget: JMWW’s virtual staff reading is on Tuesday, January 20th. Register with the link in the post.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
JMWW January Editorial Team Zoom Reading
Don’t forget: JMWW’s virtual staff reading is on Tuesday, January 20th. Register with the link in the post.
Don’t forget: JMWW’s virtual staff reading is on Tuesday, January 20th. Register with the link in the post.
For a thing for my library, I am looking for love poems. Please please tell me your favorite love poems especially if they are lesser known or unexpected.
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
For a thing for my library, I am looking for love poems. Please please tell me your favorite love poems especially if they are lesser known or unexpected.
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A message to the ordinary people from our #Resistance issue —
“To the Woman Reading the Protest Flyer at the Grocery Store” by Candace Kronen
I see me (6 yrs ago, when I was well), in the store, with my kids being feral around me, pulling down a flyer …
epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...
“To the Woman Reading the Protest Flyer at the Grocery Store” by Candace Kronen
I see me (6 yrs ago, when I was well), in the store, with my kids being feral around me, pulling down a flyer …
epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...
TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE -
After Kim Addonizio
epistemiclit.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
A message to the ordinary people from our #Resistance issue —
“To the Woman Reading the Protest Flyer at the Grocery Store” by Candace Kronen
I see me (6 yrs ago, when I was well), in the store, with my kids being feral around me, pulling down a flyer …
epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...
“To the Woman Reading the Protest Flyer at the Grocery Store” by Candace Kronen
I see me (6 yrs ago, when I was well), in the store, with my kids being feral around me, pulling down a flyer …
epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...
Listen to Molly folks!
And maybe order my book which is full of poetry about joy and compassion (and even has a few poems about baseball)...
www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...
And maybe order my book which is full of poetry about joy and compassion (and even has a few poems about baseball)...
www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...
January 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Listen to Molly folks!
And maybe order my book which is full of poetry about joy and compassion (and even has a few poems about baseball)...
www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...
And maybe order my book which is full of poetry about joy and compassion (and even has a few poems about baseball)...
www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...
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Nice shoutout for my favorite writer @clairemtaylor.com's forthcoming book in today's newsletter!
Today's newsletter: Bregman's a Cub, Kepler gets popped for cow steroids, a couple of transactions, the British citizenship test, April and Back Again, and three Oscar-bait movies.
www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Cup of Coffee: January 12, 2026
Bregman's a Cub, Kepler gets popped for cow steroids, a couple of transactions, the British citizenship test, April and Back Again, and three Oscar-bait movies
www.cupofcoffeenews.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Nice shoutout for my favorite writer @clairemtaylor.com's forthcoming book in today's newsletter!
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My book, a collection of speculative short stories, comes out this week! You can still pre-order. Or pitch a review or do an interview or have me on your podcast. I'm just spit balling here.
Every Galaxy a Circle
Check out Every Galaxy a Circle - <p>An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human Experience</p><p></p><p>In <em>Every Galaxy a Circle</em>, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghost...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
My book, a collection of speculative short stories, comes out this week! You can still pre-order. Or pitch a review or do an interview or have me on your podcast. I'm just spit balling here.
only getting better and better
January 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
only getting better and better
Our kittens are home!!
January 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Our kittens are home!!
No school today so I’ve had my 2 kids plus my niece and nephew at my house all day and it’s totally fine but also 4 kids is so many kids. It’s just so so many kids.
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
No school today so I’ve had my 2 kids plus my niece and nephew at my house all day and it’s totally fine but also 4 kids is so many kids. It’s just so so many kids.
We get to bring our two new kittens home this Saturday!!!
We were going to get a kitten for our family Hanukkah gift this year but instead I think we are going to get two kittens.
January 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
We get to bring our two new kittens home this Saturday!!!
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Just want to say thanks to everyone out there filming ICE. Without all these videos, the tyrannical Trump administration could lie to us & we wouldn’t have the evidence to refute their claims or to even know we are being gaslit. These folks are risking their lives to do real service for democracy.
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just want to say thanks to everyone out there filming ICE. Without all these videos, the tyrannical Trump administration could lie to us & we wouldn’t have the evidence to refute their claims or to even know we are being gaslit. These folks are risking their lives to do real service for democracy.
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Did you step away from social media over the holidays? (Smart!) In case you missed it, the wonderful @davidjbauman.bsky.social had me on his excellent new poetry podcast, @inthreepoems.bsky.social, and I'd be honored if you checked it out!
Episode 2 with Mitch Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social is up! Listen on any of the regular podcast apps, or just follow the link! We talk about politics, poetry craft, road rage, and gun violence as well as Gary Snyder and the "interpenetration" of nature.
www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...
A Jackass Offers an Apology: David Reads a Poem by Mitchell Nobis - In Three Poems
David talks with Mitchell Nobis about his first book of poetry, The Size of the Horizon, or I Explained Everything to the Trees. The poetry discussion spans the topics nature and politics to gun viole...
www.buzzsprout.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Did you step away from social media over the holidays? (Smart!) In case you missed it, the wonderful @davidjbauman.bsky.social had me on his excellent new poetry podcast, @inthreepoems.bsky.social, and I'd be honored if you checked it out!
The thing about working on this novel is that to finish it, I really do have to resist the urge to work on anything else this year, but I worry that if the draft of this novel is the only thing I write this year I may mentally end up in a place where I decide to just never write anything ever again.
January 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The thing about working on this novel is that to finish it, I really do have to resist the urge to work on anything else this year, but I worry that if the draft of this novel is the only thing I write this year I may mentally end up in a place where I decide to just never write anything ever again.
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This comes out in 9 days 🥹
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
January 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
This comes out in 9 days 🥹
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January 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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⚠️ DASHBOARD AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
⚠️ DASHBOARD AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
#writingcommunity unite!
We wanna give out 3 awards to poetic pieces published in 2025 in OTHER online litmags!
Deadline: 1/31/26.
Writing Peers, Readers, & Editors can ALL nominate via Google Form: buff.ly/FMfhtG5
Rules & Details: buff.ly/vdm5FlB
⬇️ ⬇️
Heads up, fellow mom-writers, and writers about mothers:
Before we officially announce our issue theme, we’re going to spoil it here: it’s an issue about moms!
Are any writers interested in being interviewed about being a mom, or having a mom, or any mom adjacent subject?
Reply here or shoot us a DM! We’re excited to talk with you!
#opensubmissions
Are any writers interested in being interviewed about being a mom, or having a mom, or any mom adjacent subject?
Reply here or shoot us a DM! We’re excited to talk with you!
#opensubmissions
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Heads up, fellow mom-writers, and writers about mothers:
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Preorders help small presses and authors tremendously but that’s not why they’re important on a soul level. Preorders matter because they’re acts of faith. You trust the order will come through, the book will be good, which means something in this low-trust society we’re trapped in.
January 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Preorders help small presses and authors tremendously but that’s not why they’re important on a soul level. Preorders matter because they’re acts of faith. You trust the order will come through, the book will be good, which means something in this low-trust society we’re trapped in.
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Anyone can nominate!
⚠️ Editors! Readers! Writers! ⚠️
From Jan 1-31 we want YOUR NOMINATIONS for the Dashboard Awards!
We've got 3 awards to give out.
#2 is the Gut Punch Award!
Rules: buff.ly/9QxTVhG
Nominate your favorite poetic piece pubbed in 2025!
#indielit #indiepublishing #poetry #writingcommunity
From Jan 1-31 we want YOUR NOMINATIONS for the Dashboard Awards!
We've got 3 awards to give out.
#2 is the Gut Punch Award!
Rules: buff.ly/9QxTVhG
Nominate your favorite poetic piece pubbed in 2025!
#indielit #indiepublishing #poetry #writingcommunity
January 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Anyone can nominate!
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Subs are open all month! www.y2kq.com/submission-p...
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Subs are open all month! www.y2kq.com/submission-p...
Yesterday my husband and one of his friends from college talked on the phone for nearly an hour and I don’t know, men, maybe this is how you fix your loneliness epidemic.
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Yesterday my husband and one of his friends from college talked on the phone for nearly an hour and I don’t know, men, maybe this is how you fix your loneliness epidemic.
Putting this out there again because I really could use some advice/sense of what to expect…
My book comes out in February and I want to spend some of my year traveling around a bit and doing reading events but I don’t really know how to make that happen. Has anyone done a DIY book tour and can pass along advice for how they made it work?
January 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Putting this out there again because I really could use some advice/sense of what to expect…