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Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees!
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees!
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
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We always love announcing our Pushcart Prize nominees, though it's always a challenge to make our final choices. Congratulations and best of luck to our six nominees! @pushcartprize.bsky.social #pushcartnominees
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We always love announcing our Pushcart Prize nominees, though it's always a challenge to make our final choices. Congratulations and best of luck to our six nominees! @pushcartprize.bsky.social #pushcartnominees
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We're proud to preview the cover for Issue 17! Poets are reviewing their proofs and soon it will be off to the printer. Order your copy today or send us poems for Issue 18. We are all caught up on submissions and want to start reading again! #submissions #poetry #magazine
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November 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We're proud to preview the cover for Issue 17! Poets are reviewing their proofs and soon it will be off to the printer. Order your copy today or send us poems for Issue 18. We are all caught up on submissions and want to start reading again! #submissions #poetry #magazine
poetrysouth.submittable.com
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We've been hard at work (but not posting)! Issue 17 is nearly done — page proofs were sent to poets this week. We've also caught up on submissions to Nov. 1, so now might be a good time to send us some poems or order your copy of the new issue! poetrysouth.submittable.com
Poetry South Submission Manager
Poetry South is an international journal that considers all kinds of poetry. Though we pay particular attention to writers from the South — born, raised, or living here — all poetry within our covers ...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We've been hard at work (but not posting)! Issue 17 is nearly done — page proofs were sent to poets this week. We've also caught up on submissions to Nov. 1, so now might be a good time to send us some poems or order your copy of the new issue! poetrysouth.submittable.com
Don't miss our last Welty Symposium session at 9:30 this morning — in person in Poindexter auditorium or live online (if the live stream starts a few minutes late, just wait for us — it's Saturday, y'all!)
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2025 Welty Writers' Symposium Saturday AM
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October 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Don't miss our last Welty Symposium session at 9:30 this morning — in person in Poindexter auditorium or live online (if the live stream starts a few minutes late, just wait for us — it's Saturday, y'all!)
youtube.com/live/WfOtHW8...
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Don't miss tonight's Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium keynote with poet laureate of Alabama, Ashley M. Jones! 7:30pm in Poindexter Auditorium, Mississippi University for Women. If you can't join us in person, you can till watch live youtube.com/live/0MthPTm...
2025 Welty Writers' Symposium Keynote
featuring Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving
in Poindexter Hall, Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium, Mississippi University for Women
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October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Don't miss tonight's Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium keynote with poet laureate of Alabama, Ashley M. Jones! 7:30pm in Poindexter Auditorium, Mississippi University for Women. If you can't join us in person, you can till watch live youtube.com/live/0MthPTm...
Mississippi Today has a feature on the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium. The symposium starts this Thursday and is free and open to the public. @mississippitoday.org mississippitoday.org/2025/10/21/a...
Alabama poet laureate will speak at Eudora Welty writers' conference in Mississippi - Mississippi Today
Alabama's poet laureate, Ashley M. Jones, will be the keynote speaker this week at the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium in Columbus – a gathering that highlights authors and poets from across the South...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mississippi Today has a feature on the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium. The symposium starts this Thursday and is free and open to the public. @mississippitoday.org mississippitoday.org/2025/10/21/a...
For a closer look, here is each panel of the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium with 12 Southern writers and 5 Ephemera Prize Winners. Each session is free to attend and will be live-streamed on our WeltySymposium Youtube channel. #readings #writerscommunity #mississippi #southernwriters
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For a closer look, here is each panel of the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium with 12 Southern writers and 5 Ephemera Prize Winners. Each session is free to attend and will be live-streamed on our WeltySymposium Youtube channel. #readings #writerscommunity #mississippi #southernwriters
Two weeks from today, we begin the 37th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. Here's our complete schedule! #writers #southernauthors #readings #bookfestival #TheW
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Two weeks from today, we begin the 37th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. Here's our complete schedule! #writers #southernauthors #readings #bookfestival #TheW
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Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com
So true, and true for our low-res MFA in Creative Writing. We're used to finding work-arounds
We may be in #Mississippi but our students (and editors) are all over the country, so that fact that @bsky.app has #blocked MS IP addresses won't stop us. (Plus there are ways around it, #Mississippians.) bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
So true, and true for our low-res MFA in Creative Writing. We're used to finding work-arounds
Welcome to our new MFA students (Summer and Fall 2025): Betsy Arnett, Asjiah Benoit, Devon Boan, Alexis Ellis, Meriwether Nichols, and Laura Flint. You are now on our map!
Besides adding new students, I've moved our recent graduates to the alumni list.
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Besides adding new students, I've moved our recent graduates to the alumni list.
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The W's MFA in CW - Google My Maps
Mississippi University for Women's Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Students, Alumni, and Faculty live in these places.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Welcome to our new MFA students (Summer and Fall 2025): Betsy Arnett, Asjiah Benoit, Devon Boan, Alexis Ellis, Meriwether Nichols, and Laura Flint. You are now on our map!
Besides adding new students, I've moved our recent graduates to the alumni list.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
Besides adding new students, I've moved our recent graduates to the alumni list.
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Great to see alumna Julie Whitehead with an article on @janefriedman.com Way to go Julie! #writingadvice janefriedman.com/how-being-a-...
How Being a Good Literary Citizen Leads to Stronger Book Launches | Jane Friedman
In terms of reaching new readers, literary citizenship might prove to be a better investment than any money paid to an online marketing guru.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Great to see alumna Julie Whitehead with an article on @janefriedman.com Way to go Julie! #writingadvice janefriedman.com/how-being-a-...
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I had a great conversation with Lauren Rhoades on the Mississippi Arts Hour yesterday. Our interview will air this Sunday on MPB Think Radio. Listen live on mpbonline.org or later on the Mississippi Arts Hour podcast.
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Mississippi Arts Hour – Kendall Dunkelberg - Mississippi Arts Commission
This week on the Mississippi Arts Hour, Lauren Rhoades talks with poet Kendall Dunkelberg, whose newly released collection of poetry is titled TREE FALL WITH BIRDSONG. The episode airs on MPB Radio th...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I had a great conversation with Lauren Rhoades on the Mississippi Arts Hour yesterday. Our interview will air this Sunday on MPB Think Radio. Listen live on mpbonline.org or later on the Mississippi Arts Hour podcast.
arts.ms.gov/events/missi...
arts.ms.gov/events/missi...
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Hi everyone, just a reminder that on Friday, July 18 at 7 p.m. at the D & H Canal House Museum in High Falls, New York, there will be a gathering to launch my new poetry collection "Still Life." Some nosh, some drink and some poetry
July 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hi everyone, just a reminder that on Friday, July 18 at 7 p.m. at the D & H Canal House Museum in High Falls, New York, there will be a gathering to launch my new poetry collection "Still Life." Some nosh, some drink and some poetry
Congratulations!
The lovely people over at RUNNR from Pocket MFA featured one of my many sister stories this week ❤️
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FLASH IN FOCUS
"Hunting Eddies" by Blake Bell
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July 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Congratulations!
Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway."
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Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway
Searching for metaphor, you named yourself Papa
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July 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway."
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I'm finally back in Mississippi and will be heading to Jackson tomorrow for my reading at Lemuria Bookstore! Looking forward to seeing everyone! I'm bringing extra copies in case the store runs out, so there's sure to be plenty for everyone... It will be a great time! #JacksonMs #poetryreading
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm finally back in Mississippi and will be heading to Jackson tomorrow for my reading at Lemuria Bookstore! Looking forward to seeing everyone! I'm bringing extra copies in case the store runs out, so there's sure to be plenty for everyone... It will be a great time! #JacksonMs #poetryreading
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It's a big week for Tree Fall with Birdsong with an insightful review by Celeste Maria Schueler in the Clarion Ledger and the Mississippi Books Page. #poetrybook #review
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The natural world is the star of new poetry collection by MUW professor
Kendall Dunkelberg’s fourth poetry collection focuses on the natural world but also touches on grief, loss.
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July 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's a big week for Tree Fall with Birdsong with an insightful review by Celeste Maria Schueler in the Clarion Ledger and the Mississippi Books Page. #poetrybook #review
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"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'"
Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!
Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!
The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg
“I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'"
Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!
Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!
Congratulations to Christian J. Collier, newly minted MFA (thesis defended, only waiting on graduation) for winning the Summer 2025 Shō Poetry Prize for his poem "Nocturne."
#poetryprize @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
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#poetryprize @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
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June 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Congratulations to Christian J. Collier, newly minted MFA (thesis defended, only waiting on graduation) for winning the Summer 2025 Shō Poetry Prize for his poem "Nocturne."
#poetryprize @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
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#poetryprize @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
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Now you can order a signed copy of Tree Fall with Birdsong from my local bookstore, Friendly City Books, and I will come in and sign it for you.
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SIGNED: Kendall Dunkelberg — Friendly City Books
Order with Friendly City Books for a signed copy — personalization available! Treefall with Bird Song explores the natural world around the poet's home in Mississippi and delves into memories o...
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May 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Now you can order a signed copy of Tree Fall with Birdsong from my local bookstore, Friendly City Books, and I will come in and sign it for you.
www.friendlycitybooks.com/shop/p/signe...
www.friendlycitybooks.com/shop/p/signe...
Check out Dominique Lewis's feature article in Mississippi Folklife on HBCU marching bands! Congratulations, Dominique!
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Mississippi HBCU Bands: Preserving Black Southern Cultural Traditions Through Unmatched Music, Drills, Dance, and Soul
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May 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Check out Dominique Lewis's feature article in Mississippi Folklife on HBCU marching bands! Congratulations, Dominique!
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Last night UPS delivered my copies of Tree Fall with Birdsong, but I waited until today for the #unboxing. #bookreveal #poetrybooks
May 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Last night UPS delivered my copies of Tree Fall with Birdsong, but I waited until today for the #unboxing. #bookreveal #poetrybooks
Congratulations to Alexis Jemal, AWP Intro Journals Prize Honorable Mention in Prose for “Lost Identity or Evolution?,”
Creative Nonfiction @awpwriter.bsky.social #IntroJournalsProject
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Creative Nonfiction @awpwriter.bsky.social #IntroJournalsProject
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2025 Winners
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April 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Congratulations to Alexis Jemal, AWP Intro Journals Prize Honorable Mention in Prose for “Lost Identity or Evolution?,”
Creative Nonfiction @awpwriter.bsky.social #IntroJournalsProject
www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
Creative Nonfiction @awpwriter.bsky.social #IntroJournalsProject
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