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Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.

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We’re looking to build our team and are currently accepting applications. Open positions include: Managing Editor, Nonfiction Editor, Readers, Social Media, Copy Editors etc. Apply:
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January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Open to submissions until March 1st. Poetry, Visual Art, CNF, Fiction, and Mixed Genre. Show us what you’ve got!

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January 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, including @rawheadjournal.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @darrencdemaree.bsky.social @lisasticepoet.bsky.social @turningleafjournal.bsky.social @mudseasonreview.bsky.social and more!
Saturday Shout-Out ~ October 25, 2025
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October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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"How did we learn it without the rooms we first imagined?"

'Inheritance' – the second poem of mine in Rawhead Journal's 'Bloody Bones' Special issue #1.

My thanks to EIC John T. Leonard.

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Vikki C. Inheritance How did we learn it without the rooms we first imagined? The blue nursery to draw first breath, a cradled small saint, before the dark corridor led us to the spiced chamber and its troubles. We’re still searching our way out. A thread between you and the next love, as though myth has animated every statue. When you gesture from that forsaken atria, I can edge near as any temperate season. Its rosehips and peonies in the mind, unprepared for a sudden flood. Who walks on crimson water still remains unproven. I travel against the mourning tide, gather my belongings, and the bald islands you chart are no longer visible. Sometimes, I catch my Mother’s tongue, its sharpness disturbing this thick, glossy lake. A corpse attracts fish, like its duty to nourish, and all the invisible life below never goes hungry. How do I recite such act in one part, on calved limbs meant for kneeling? Do we leave in pieces, or not at all? The air darkens, the waters silver. The thread is most taut, ready to pull us over. Yet here we are—resisting.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Thank you to these heroes for publishing/accepting for publication my words:
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December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Submissions are open until March 1st and will be considered for both Issue Two and Issue Three of Rawhead. We’re looking for your strongest poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and mixed genre pieces.

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January 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag.

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20 Lit mags founded in 2025 that we think will be the next big thing • (s)crawl magazine - Horror-focused lit mag amplitying marginalized voices • Strange Pilgrims - Real, surreal, & brutally beautirul writing • Gather - A writing table for gutsy, bold poets • Tough Poets Review - Funny, smart, unpredictable, & startlingly honest • Strange Hymnal - Literary magazine of mystery, ritual, & obsession • Sonder Literary - Queer and youth-run zine focusing on equality and whimsy • 149 Review - Fresh, original, thought provoking work • Rawhead - Exploring the many forms resistance takes • FLARE Magazine - Spotlighting chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities • Blood+Honey - Experimental and avant-garde work that challenges & provokes • Tractor Beam - Radical visions of hopeful futures on Earth • OTHERSIDE - Quarterly magazine of speculative work by queer creatives • MENACE - Work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, the gross • shoegaze literary - A third space for dreamy, distorted alternate realities • Sardine Can Collective - Secret cult of tish girls • Little Fruits Magazine - Your ripest work: tart, rotten, dripping with sweetness • Lullaby Machine - A digital rest stop dedicated to the lullaby • The Aftershock Review - After trauma, there is still poetry • Outskirts - A new home for misfit poetry and prose • Mouthful of Salt - Amplifying the stories that won't stay quiet
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The "Mars Needs Bacon" sticker always cracks me up!
middlewestpress.bsky.social Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Oct 23
VENDOR POP-UP this Sat., Oct. 25, 2025!!! Mayhempalooza 2025 at Mayhem Comics and Games, Des Moines!

"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn"!

Plus ... new sticker designs featuring Big-hearted Bigfoots ("Bigfeet"?), Zombies of the Corn, and Hog-abducting Aliens!!!

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October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I have a flash fiction in this chillacious issue. ☠️
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Thrilled to have a dark fairy tale flash in the new “Bloody Bones” issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social! Thank you to editor John T. Leonard. Can’t wait to read the whole issue! 🖤🐦‍⬛☠️

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Kathryn Kulpa Volitation A girl leaves her snug stone house on the edge of the woods to visit her grandmother. Hurry, her mother tells her, as she packs a basket with bread and wine. Be home before…
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October 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Beyond thrilled to have my short story, Final Form, published in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social's Bloody Bones Special Issue #1.

Huge thanks to John and the editorial team for such an amazing publishing experience!

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Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones – Special Issue #1
RAWHEAD Presents: BLOODY BONES Special Issue #1 / Fall 2025 Cover by Alex Leigh Farber Editor’s Note Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Visual Art Poetry Evelyn Lee3 Poems Amy Kesegich1 Poem John Sara…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Honoured to have two new poems out today in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social 's 'Bloody Bones' Special Issue #1.

My thanks to EIC John T. Leonard for including my work alongside many wonderful writers 🔥

I attach "Reliable Narrator".

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Reliable Narrator It is in the telling as much as the young mother stitching the fabric of a story to her child’s name. Fathers debate what makes the collection acceptable. That it must row itself cooly towards a lesser grief. My mentor coins the narrative a slow breakup. The complimentary flowers on the motel bed where the beloved betrayed every Sunday. Where faith doesn’t come easy to a preacher. Because poems possess—part angel or animal. What approaches, soon backs away into rearview —tinted and broken. On the wrong highway, you imagine skin around the found bones. The poems honour — they cloak and embalm, filter toxins and perfume the dying. A river is never far from a casualty, and pages lily and lantern, but refuse to float in one place. Because the current keeps moving with your tongue, lapping as language and dragonfly burr, the arabesque of a manuscript keeps the reader from drowning. It’s how we hear through whiplash and sirens—the opaline lake and its dropped oar; the body’s duty replaying the nectar of this world.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Proud to have a spooky war poem included in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social's debut "Bloody Bones" special issue!

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New War Poem in Rawhead's "Bloody Bones" Special!
A new poem by Global War on Terror (GWOT) writer and U.S. Army veteran Randy “Sherpa” Brown , author of the award-winning 2015 poetry colle...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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New issue available! Check it out.

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#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Thank you @rawheadjournal.bsky.social for publishing my weird Poe poem in your special Halloween issue, Bloody Bones. Not often that a dramatic monologue finds a home. Check out the whole issue!

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Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones – Special Issue #1
RAWHEAD Presents: BLOODY BONES Special Issue #1 / Fall 2025 Cover by Alex Leigh Farber Editor’s Note Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Visual Art Poetry Evelyn Lee3 Poems Amy Kesegich1 Poem John Sara…
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October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Special Issue coming very soon!
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Featuring a powerful piece of flash fiction today by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social from Issue One of Rawhead. Check it out!

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October 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A closet rod becomes a mode of communication and an element of power in my story Her Delight, out now in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social. My thanks to John T. Leonard and the editorial crew, and my greetings and congratulations to my fellow contributors.

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In a half-dark closet clothing is hung in a tight array of wire and plastic hangers.
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social for including my poem 6/25/25 in their first issue.

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Darren Demaree
Darren C. Demaree 6/25/25There’s no comfortin the unassailable truththat America is Deathcome to conduct an exitthrough the brittle grassof humanity’s desirefor an end that resemblesa television sh…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Delighted to have my flash fiction “Just Another Monday” published in the inaugural Issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Journal. Thank you to Editor-in-Chief, JohnT Leonard .

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September 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Really stoked to have a flash CNF essay from my Fight Nights series in the debut issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social 🥊👇🏻 https://rawheadjournal.org/issue-one/jack-b-bedell/
Jack B. Bedell
Jack B. Bedell A Beating Is Rarely the Worst Thing You Can Get It was never something he’d cared about before, so I was a little shocked when my son came in the other night wanting to know the wors…
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September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Issue One of Rawhead is live!
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September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The inaugural issue of Rawhead releases September 24th. It’s an ambitious release in size and scope and I’m grateful to all of our contributors and volunteers for their hard work. Look for it online next Wednesday! - John

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September 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM