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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · May 26

When the words build up, don’t ignore them. Writing doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to begin.

How do you coax yourself back to the page when writing feels impossible?

#motivationmonday #booksky #kafka #writers

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · May 23

📚💙 Feature Friday: “Vegetation” by @TheElleBoyd

Elle lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and their feline overlord. Her writing has appeared in Otherverse Magazine, Vocivia, Orchid’s Lantern, Recesses, and more.

📖 Read the full story in Issue 7.1 of DBR:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · May 22

💙📚 The line that got away—that one sentence you loved, that's never been placed into a story or poem that it could call home.

🖋Drop it in the comments.

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · May 5

🖋️ “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wordsworth 📚💙

What does that look like for you right now—raw honesty, quiet grief, uncontainable joy?

Tell us: what’s been making its way onto your page lately?

#DoublebackReview #WritingLife #IndieLit #LiteraryCommunity #booksky

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · May 2

✨ Feature Friday ✨

This week, we're shouting out Edward Belfar, whose story, The Fog of Severin, really hits all the feels!

Experience the full story here: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...

#DoublebackReview #IndieLit #WritersOfBluesky #LiteraryMag #PoetryCommunity 📚💙

Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · May 2

a cat is dancing in front of a mirror with its paws up

ALT: a cat is dancing in front of a mirror with its paws up

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 25

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying " thank you "

ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying " thank you "

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 25

💙📚 Feature Friday: The Sweetness by Ori Fienberg

Ori Fienberg’s #poem explores sound as sensation, memory, and transformation. It’s strange, soft, and beautifully #speculative.

Read the full poem in our Issue 7.1 of Doubleback Review:
👉 doublebackreview.com/issue-7.../f...

#booksky

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 23

Happy National #Shakespeare Day!

Today, give your words a little Bard energy. Toss “eth” on your verbs (“I leaveth for coffee”) and swap “it” for “’t” just because.

Drop a dramatic line or two below—maybe call your least favorite chore a “pit of despair.”

💙📚 #booksky

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 18

Feature Friday: “Seven Deadly Sins” by Melanie Figg

Inspired by Bruegel’s 16th-c. engravings, this reimagining drips with grit and grace.

Read in our latest Issue of Doubleback Review:
doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-ap...

💙📚 #FeatureFriday #IndieLit #DoublebackReview #Bruegel #poetry

Melanie Figg - Doubleback Review

The Seven Deadly Sins from Pieter Bruegel’s copper engravings, 1556—1557 1: Wrath: She is armored & moving—out from beneath a cauldron (crow perched & the naked couple is boiling) There are knives & s...

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 15

💙📚 #DoublebackReview Issue 7.1 is officially live!

Resurrecting great work from defunct journals—because good writing deserves a second life.

This issue features resurrected #Fiction, #Poetry, and #HybridWork too good to stay buried.

Read for free: doublebackreview.com/issue-7-1-april-2025/

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Mar 27

💙📚 #ThrowbackThursday to Anne Holub’s Waiting, With One Raised Hand, published in our October 2020 issue! ✨

If you haven’t read it yet, now’s your chance: doublebackreview.com/issue-2-2-oc...

🐪 What’s one past Doubleback piece that stuck with you? Let us know in the comments!

#booksky

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Mar 25

Fun fact — March is #NationalReadingMonth! 📚

The goal is simple: Make time to #readdaily, even if it’s just 15 minutes.

What’s taking high priority on your (possibly endless) #TBR?

Drop your current book in the comments! Bonus points if it’s from a past Doubleback contributor. 👀

#booksky

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Mar 7

⏳ TIME IS RUNNING OUT! ⏳🐪

Don't let the sun set on your art! Revive your out-of-print work and submit it to us by 03/10 for our April Issue!

#Submityourwork here → doublebackreview.com/submit/

💬 Tell us: If you could resurrect one dead #litmag, which would it be?

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Mar 6

We're still accepting submissions for our April Issue—send in your best out-of-print work!

⏳ New deadline: March 10
📩 Submit here: doublebackreview.com/submit

Missed your shot? Consider this your official do-over. 😉

#WritingCommunity #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #WritersOfBluesky #booksky

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Mar 3

📢 Welcome our new Social Media Editor!

Shaylynn Marks is ready to bring #memes, #dadjokes & #literary necromancy to DBR.

🚨 Got out of print poetry or prose? #submityourwork by 03/10 for our April issue: doublebackreview.com/submit

💬 Give her a welcome & share which piece of writing you’d revive!

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Feb 16

Have work that was published in a journal that went defunct? Submit soon to be considered for our April issue!

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Feb 15

Doubleback Review is excited to announce the addition of Merrick Sloane to their team as Associate Poetry Editor!

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Oct 19

Issue 6:2 is here! Don't miss all this poetry, fiction, and nonfiction we brought back from the dead! doublebackreview.com/issue-6-2-october-2024

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 15

And here's our Issue 6:1 announcement with NO nudity (to avoid the Bluesky "adult" label)!

Issue 6:1 is here, and it's a banger!

doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Apr 15

Issue 6:1 is here and it's a banger! doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...

Issue cover, "Ophelia in Space" by Kathleen Harris: mixed media piece with a black background with silver and gold stars, topless bust of a violet-haired Opehlia in the foreground, sky and eyeball-filled planet with gold features. Text: Doubleback Review, Issue 6:1, April 2024

Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Oct 15

Doubleback Review's newest issue is out now! 🎉

READ HERE; doublebackreview.com/issue-5-2-oc...

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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social · Oct 12

Our first official Blueksy act:🍂 Cover reveal! 🍂 Issue 5:2 drops this Sunday! Cover art by poet & artist @djvorreyer.bsky.social!

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