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An online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose. 🧄 Submissions open!
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An excerpt from “Drool Steeped'n" by McKinley Johnson.

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December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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An excerpt from “The Plan" by C. John Graham.

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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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An excerpt from “Eight Legs Ain't Enough" by Brian Austin.

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November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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An excerpt from “In My Sleep" by Brian Austin.

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November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Do you feel that autumnal chill in the air? 🍂 It's a reminder to get your subs in ASAP for our upcoming fall issue! Submissions close Sept 30.

Read our guidelines at: garlicpresslit.com/submit
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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An excerpt from “Silence Is a Wall Furnace" by Nichole Turnbloom.

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September 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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An excerpt from “Alley Truth" by Simone Parker.

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September 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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An excerpt from “I Am Woman, Not Coyote" by Alina Kroll.

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September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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An excerpt from “waiting room" by Kiki Em.

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August 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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An excerpt from “Caw Caw Motherf**cker" by Grace Ellis.

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August 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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An excerpt from “tooth whitener" by Audrey Beaton.

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Issue 5 – The Garlic Press
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August 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ICYMI—Issue 6 is out now! 🌸

You can read our new summer issue at
garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-6

We're open for submissions for Issue 7!
August 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Hot off The Garlic Press . . . our newest summer issue is available to read now! ☀️

Issue 6 features the work of these wonderful and talented contributors:

Audrey Beaton
Grace Ellis
Kiki Em
Alina Kroll
Simone Parker
Nichole Turnbloom

Check out the issue at garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-6
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Run, don't walk—we're still looking for writing pieces that make our noses and tastebuds tingle! Submissions for our upcoming summer issue close June 30.

Find our submission guidelines and what we're looking for at garlicpresslit.com/submit
June 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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An excerpt from “Ilium" by Casey Reiland (@caseyreiland.bsky.social).

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June 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An excerpt from “At the End of the World” by RJ Ingram.

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June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An excerpt from “The Limbo Home" by Pilar Gonzalez.

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June 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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An excerpt from “Custodial Services” by Kenny Bradley.

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June 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An excerpt from “Crime Pays by Freddie Gibbs (feat. Clairo)” by Kenny Bradley.

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June 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An excerpt from “Pink Funeral” by West Ambrose.

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June 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An excerpt from “boyhood” by Sofía Aguilar.

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June 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ICYMI—Issue 5 is out now! 🌸

You can read the work of six new contributors at
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Just one month left to submit for Issue 6!
May 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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For the evening crowd, I have a new poem up at @garlicpresslit.bsky.social! It’s about my existential crisis regarding parenting, ya know, casual stuff. Check it out below! 🧄

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Ilium My sister asks me if I’m planning to procreate in a way that suggests I shouldn’t: salty, stinging, heavy— like the ocean we are floating in. A child on the shore plays with a baby doll in the sand. Just the other day, it was 60 degrees in Antarctica, and I was so angry I wanted the penguins to trill, Fuck you, and slither belly down from all us humans into the sea. The child waves the meaty plastic arms of the doll, and I haven’t answered my sister’s question. My love is optimistic: The earth will change, but we will acclimate. Others say the opposite: We will become extinct, and little organisms will survive and renew under our cells. There is something hopeful about both theories. We perennate or become silky wraiths in the soil. I wonder if I want a baby because it’s what is expected of me, like the child pressing the doll to her chest, like how my sister and I would stuff Cabbage Patch Kids up our shirts, sprawl on our bedroom carpet, and slide their chunky bodies from our clothes. Nothing is certain except life is always making or breaking, making or breaking. My legs pump in the water, my pelvis slightly cracking, and I don’t say that I’m afraid, even though it’s true my bones will soften when a tiny cranium crests through my ilium, the pain surrendering to that punctured cry, the fury at the world alive in that first breath.
April 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Thank you so much to @garlicpresslit.bsky.social for publishing this poem of mine! Did you know your bones soften when you go into labor? Wild!!!

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The Ilium My sister asks me if I’m planning to procreate in a way that suggests I shouldn’t: salty, stinging, heavy— like the ocean we are floating in. A child on the shore plays with a baby doll in the sand. Just the other day, it was 60 degrees in Antarctica, and I was so angry I wanted the penguins to trill, Fuck you, and slither belly down from all us humans into the sea. The child waves the meaty plastic arms of the doll, and I haven’t answered my sister’s question. My love is optimistic: The earth will change, but we will acclimate. Others say the opposite: We will become extinct, and little organisms will survive and renew under our cells. There is something hopeful about both theories. We perennate or become silky wraiths in the soil. I wonder if I want a baby because it’s what is expected of me, like the child pressing the doll to her chest, like how my sister and I would stuff Cabbage Patch Kids up our shirts, sprawl on our bedroom carpet, and slide their chunky bodies from our clothes. Nothing is certain except life is always making or breaking, making or breaking. My legs pump in the water, my pelvis slightly cracking, and I don’t say that I’m afraid, even though it’s true my bones will soften when a tiny cranium crests through my ilium, the pain surrendering to that punctured cry, the fury at the world alive in that first breath.
April 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Come read 'Pink Funeral' in the new issue of @garlicpresslit.bsky.social. All about ballet and everything else worth living for!
"you're dancing in the ship-model, bottle of a mirror with no reflection./You're drowning with the sirens only singing about True Love./Call your father? 1-800-U-GOT-ORPHAN." "Name your price? Nine lilacs pressed in a stopped watch-face./(One for each circle-and in euro, please.)"
April 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM