Northern Lights in STL 💖
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Northern Lights in STL 💖
Thank you P&L! 🙏❤️
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thank you P&L! 🙏❤️
That moment when your favorite journal publishes your work. ❤️💀
Thanks to all of the writers who inspired this piece and to HAD for introducing me to them and to Aaron for my first skull. 🙏
Thanks to all of the writers who inspired this piece and to HAD for introducing me to them and to Aaron for my first skull. 🙏
we usually don't love pieces self-referentially ABOUT us... but Colette Love Hilliard found an exception that proved the rule!
"I wrote a piece titled “Half of a Conversation I’d Have with an Old Friend I No Longer Speak To,” but Tom Snarsky wrote it better..."
https://www.havehashad.com/gj9hc
"I wrote a piece titled “Half of a Conversation I’d Have with an Old Friend I No Longer Speak To,” but Tom Snarsky wrote it better..."
https://www.havehashad.com/gj9hc
Five Pieces That HAD All Been Done Before by Colette Love Hilliard
I wanted to write about a turtle on the road, but Cavin Bryce Gonzalez beat me to it. I hadn’t even considered that the turtle might be suicidal when I swerved to save him last week, but now I…
www.havehashad.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
That moment when your favorite journal publishes your work. ❤️💀
Thanks to all of the writers who inspired this piece and to HAD for introducing me to them and to Aaron for my first skull. 🙏
Thanks to all of the writers who inspired this piece and to HAD for introducing me to them and to Aaron for my first skull. 🙏
Really proud of this one. 🥹❤️🎉
Cover Reveal! September 15th! Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! Ten killer flash by ten amazing writers. And we're thrilled to feature new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in the SmokeLong Master Series. Cover art by Mario Loprete.
September 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Really proud of this one. 🥹❤️🎉
My micro, e-book of starry blackout poems is available from Yavanika Press! Link in bio ✨️🔭
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My micro, e-book of starry blackout poems is available from Yavanika Press! Link in bio ✨️🔭
We crowed into the restless corners of loneliness
June 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We crowed into the restless corners of loneliness
So proud of this one. It's for my sisters. 🥰
“We learned to love through
frayed feathers and
stone skin and
saltwater dreams.
We learned to love through
all the silly seriousness
of being immortal teens.”
- Colette Love Hilliard (@colettelh.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/05/13/m...
frayed feathers and
stone skin and
saltwater dreams.
We learned to love through
all the silly seriousness
of being immortal teens.”
- Colette Love Hilliard (@colettelh.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/05/13/m...
May 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So proud of this one. It's for my sisters. 🥰
So honored to be included in this issue! 🐦
🌱 our spring issue is up! 🌱
ft. @lovefeeler.bsky.social, @colettelh.bsky.social, @birchwiley.bsky.social, @sandrapoetry.bsky.social, @newsaiah.bsky.social, @orowe.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @dekinesoul.bsky.social, & more!
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ft. @lovefeeler.bsky.social, @colettelh.bsky.social, @birchwiley.bsky.social, @sandrapoetry.bsky.social, @newsaiah.bsky.social, @orowe.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @dekinesoul.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/05/13/s...
May 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
So honored to be included in this issue! 🐦
Reposted by Colette Love Hilliard
have done this once before, but... this one felt too meta and self-referential to accept, but too fun and great to just reject? so, here's like... half a skull (?) for a really great long, breathless sentence about submitting to HAD for @colettelh.bsky.social!!
![What It Feels Like
So it's 3 a.m. here in CST and my alarm goes off, which means it’s time to crawl out of bed and send this breathless paragraph to HAD, and I fucking hate mornings, but it's the first time I've been excited to wake up before god, and when I say excited, I mean euphoric from an interruption of REM sleep mixed with that twinge of hope us writers get when we know there's a chance someone might add a skull to the pile with our name on it, and what will happen in that time between hitting submit and opening the email reply? how shall I spend this 24-hour manic episode? revisiting that dream where my teeth fall out doesn't sound appealing, so I suppose I'll get up, but not dressed, and take a blanket with me to the backyard and wait for the birds to tell me the world hasn't ended (I have always believed this is how I will know) then, I'll watch the sunrise and think I should do this more often, knowing full well I won't, and once time ticks down to a point at which I must leave the comfort of home, and nature, and pajamas, I'll grab something from my closet that will help keep my spirits up, since I’m bound to have doubts about this little composition throughout the day, and there's nothing like a fitted pair of jeans to restore confidence, so I'll slide those on, walk the dog, kiss my husband, and drive to school, which is actually work, but teachers call work school, and I'll teach teenagers about imagery, “don't tell me love is amazing–describe what it smells like,” and between classes and after work/school, I'll check my email looking for the standard Submittable format RE: [HAD] etc., and here's how it always goes for me–I'll feel the notification on my wrist first, like a buzz of adrenaline, and I'll see just enough to know it's my fate waiting for me on the other side of the screen, and I'll give myself a conciliatory speech that includes affirmations like, it's just good to be writing, and so what if they don't love it, at least you do, but ther…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kfbvdxfwntlxvjko7zxhlttu/bafkreihh7jb5tubkdwybttmeqk5q7paqat3dun5uro2lquhrhxstgtodju@jpeg)
April 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
have done this once before, but... this one felt too meta and self-referential to accept, but too fun and great to just reject? so, here's like... half a skull (?) for a really great long, breathless sentence about submitting to HAD for @colettelh.bsky.social!!
New platform. Old piece. 🌿
April 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New platform. Old piece. 🌿