Justin Carter
@juscarts.com
Author of Brazos (Belle Point Press, 2024) // women's basketball & motorsports writer // Texan living in Iowa // juscarts.com
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Justin Carter
@juscarts.com
· Nov 8
Brazos
Brazos, by Justin Carter Publication Date: August 6, 2024 A stark and lonely voice rings clear in Justin Carter's debut collection. Brazos teems with ghosts, bloodlines, and gas flares, tracing a "riv...
bellepointpress.com
Hey. I wrote a book. You can buy it directly from the publisher. It's poems about growing up on the Texas Gulf Coast & touches on the political divide between me & the conservative world I grew up in.
Buy it here: bellepointpress.com/products/bra...
#booksky
Buy it here: bellepointpress.com/products/bra...
#booksky
Eulogy Press
A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.
eulogy.press
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Clover County’s Finer Things.
What's the best album of 2025?
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Clover County’s Finer Things.
Reposted by Justin Carter
THIS WEEK'S SOME WORDS SCHEDULE
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
THIS WEEK'S SOME WORDS SCHEDULE
Reposted by Justin Carter
BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL.
Send us some of your words by the end of the day & I promise to eventually read the words & get back to you.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Send us some of your words by the end of the day & I promise to eventually read the words & get back to you.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
somewords.boards.net
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL.
Send us some of your words by the end of the day & I promise to eventually read the words & get back to you.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Send us some of your words by the end of the day & I promise to eventually read the words & get back to you.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Reposted by Justin Carter
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Reposted by Justin Carter
Welcome to Some Words, a literary journal hosted on a message board.
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Welcome to Some Words, a literary journal hosted on a message board.
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Reposted by Justin Carter
I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board.
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board.
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Reposted by Justin Carter
Who will send the first submission since our launch? Will it be YOU?
Welcome to Some Words, a literary journal hosted on a message board.
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Who will send the first submission since our launch? Will it be YOU?
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Doing an online reading Tuesday. Hit me up for the link if you want to watch.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Doing an online reading Tuesday. Hit me up for the link if you want to watch.
Looking at my novel for the first time in a couple of weeks & I suddenly think it's actually extremely good.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Looking at my novel for the first time in a couple of weeks & I suddenly think it's actually extremely good.
Reposted by Justin Carter
okay so...
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
What if I started a literary journal that was hosted on a 2000s-style message board.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
okay so...
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
okay so...
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
What if I started a literary journal that was hosted on a 2000s-style message board.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
okay so...
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
"theoretically"
if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open
then you should like this post
What if I started a literary journal that was hosted on a 2000s-style message board.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What if I started a literary journal that was hosted on a 2000s-style message board.
Catching up on some WBB scores from this morning &, uhh...Middle Tennessee only beating Tennessee State 59-53 seems concerning!
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Catching up on some WBB scores from this morning &, uhh...Middle Tennessee only beating Tennessee State 59-53 seems concerning!
Huge win here for Baylor to open the season. Taliah Scott addition might be even better than I expected.
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Huge win here for Baylor to open the season. Taliah Scott addition might be even better than I expected.
If you’re one of the, like, three people who read my newsletter, it’s coming tomorrow because I had too much work to do today.
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If you’re one of the, like, three people who read my newsletter, it’s coming tomorrow because I had too much work to do today.
I have now finished the second draft & am still wondering "now what?"
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I have now finished the second draft & am still wondering "now what?"
My almost-two-year-old weaned himself off his binky today with these two easy steps.
1) He threw the only binky he likes into the parking lot of a Salvation Army without us realizing it
2) He refuses to put the replacement in his mouth because it has that new plastic taste.
1) He threw the only binky he likes into the parking lot of a Salvation Army without us realizing it
2) He refuses to put the replacement in his mouth because it has that new plastic taste.
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My almost-two-year-old weaned himself off his binky today with these two easy steps.
1) He threw the only binky he likes into the parking lot of a Salvation Army without us realizing it
2) He refuses to put the replacement in his mouth because it has that new plastic taste.
1) He threw the only binky he likes into the parking lot of a Salvation Army without us realizing it
2) He refuses to put the replacement in his mouth because it has that new plastic taste.
2025-26 Big 12 Preview
Can Mark Campbell keep the momentum going at TCU?
herhoopstats.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Justin Carter
Whoa, one of my short stories is on this list!!!!!
Apparently I made the "Distinguished Stories" list in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERIES 2024?
September 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Whoa, one of my short stories is on this list!!!!!
Whoa, one of my short stories is on this list!!!!!
Apparently I made the "Distinguished Stories" list in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERIES 2024?
September 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Whoa, one of my short stories is on this list!!!!!