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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
THEME: TIDAL LIGHT🌊✨️

Submit on Duosuma - Check out our website for more information.

Also, please vote for CDJ if you have a moment for Chill Subs annual BEST LIT MAGS:
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November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM

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Today's listing of the day is: Neon Origami Literary Magazine #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Neon Origami Literary Magazine #WritingCommunity

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November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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Stone Circle Review

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“Poetry takes its form in its endless failure to express what language cannot.”

-- Lee Seong-bok

November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 6d

Looking for a home for your short, punchy spec fic? Hollow Oak Presents: Acorns wants 1,000–1,500 word stories with a strong speculative element (they especially love fantasy).

💵 $5 flat payment
📝 Previously unpublished only

Details: horrortree.com/ongoing-subm...

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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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Bristol Short Story Prize

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We’re open for submissions!
Closing date 31st January.

Visit our website to read our submission rules, register your entry, and check out our amazing judges:

bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/rules/

November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Voting is open for Chill Sub's 3rd annual community favorites ✨️

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We love what we do, and would be honored to be featured in this amazing list ❤️

November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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in honor of Period Cramps Monday, my gross flash fic "The Blood Child" for the latest @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08...

screencap from the story reading: " But in recent months, it's
become clear that my menstrual lifetime is coming to its close. I
have no regret regarding my womb's emptiness. I've never
wanted children. My real offspring lives inside the blood-vats,
taking form over long years, its nascent parts shaped by the
sublime disgust with which I submit to my body. This child is
born of broken expectations and squandered potential. When
people see me, they see blood."

November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Chill Subs

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It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

Writers!
Who are the best litmags of 2025?

CHILL SUBS®

November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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Ian Brownlie

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Delighted to have my poem 'haircut' in the new issue of Cosmic Daffodil, The Body Archive. Check it out here:

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#Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social

haircut, by Ian Brownlie
From Cosmic Daffodil Journal XII: The Body Archive

haircut

cutting my own hair
became the only viable solution
because it minimised
social interaction
discomfort
unknowability
lost control

but now i kneel
naked
watching clumps of hair fall around me
and i see the greying flecks among the brown
grey growing
gaining ascendancy

in the barber's chair i would not notice
the grey
as it slipped to the sticky floor
to be swept away by someone
who wasn’t me

i have no difficulty getting up
from the hard floor
but in that recognition itself
i feel the future coming for me

cost
that was another factor
in cutting my own hair
you have to consider the cost

November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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D.L. Stille

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Spooky season isn’t quite over yet! I’m excited to announce another one of my pieces has been published. Read my new story, “Second Opinion,” in the latest edition of the Cosmic Daffodil Journal! @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social

Link here: static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08... #writingcommunity

November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

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ISSUE XII: TIDAL LIGHT

NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🌊✨️

Keywords: emotional immensity, nature as metaphor, dreamlike reality, oceanic feeling, ecstatic fear.

Submit here:
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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Terri

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Happy to have one of my poems included in the latest issue. Check it out:

Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social · 25d

IT'S LAUNCH DAY 🎉

We are very excited to announce that our 12th issue THE BODY ARCHIVE is now LIVE on our website ‼️

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Enjoy! ❤️

November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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a.d. 🌒

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grateful that my Electra piece was chosen as the cover for this issue 🖤

November 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Brooksie C. Fontaine

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My story, "The Creation," is featured in this issue! A tender reimagining of Frankenstein.

The Cosmic Daffodil crew is always wonderful!

#writing

Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social · 25d

IT'S LAUNCH DAY 🎉

We are very excited to announce that our 12th issue THE BODY ARCHIVE is now LIVE on our website ‼️

cosmic-daffodil.squarespace.com/ebook-collec...

Enjoy! ❤️

November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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@deeholloway.bsky.social

The Body Archive from @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social is live! keep the Halloweekend going with one of my intrusive thoughts, "The Blood Child":

static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08...

cover art in black and red for The Body Archive.

November 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

@cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social

IT'S LAUNCH DAY 🎉

We are very excited to announce that our 12th issue THE BODY ARCHIVE is now LIVE on our website ‼️

cosmic-daffodil.squarespace.com/ebook-collec...

Enjoy! ❤️

November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

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Happy Halloween! 🎃 We hope your day is full of good tricks and treats 👻

October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

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We are putting the finishing touches on THE BODY ARCHIVE 🔪🩸 It's going to be a good one...we can't wait to share it with you!

October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Literary Mama

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We're looking for a new Poetry editor!

Details about this and other staff opportunities here:

Opportunities

Literary Mama is an all-volunteer organization that brings mamas and mama supporters together through literature. Over the years, our staff has included mamas of all sorts, reaching across identities ...

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October 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Duotrope

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Today's listing of the day is: ergot. @ergot.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: ergot. @ergot.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

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THE BODY ARCHIVE submission statistics ‼️

We are extremely grateful to everyone who submitted during these last couple months.

Also, a huge THANK YOU to the Daffodil Patch for staying on top of reading submissions 📚

THE BODY ARCHIVE releases November 1st 🔪🩸

October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

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Happy Diwali 💜🩷

Wishing you a festival filled with light, laughter, and love that lasts all year!

October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM

Cosmic Daffodil Journal

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Submissions for THE BODY ARCHIVE are now CLOSED.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted - we are currently reading through submissions. You can expect a response from us soon. Thank you again!

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