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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · Sep 13
Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40
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Good news! You are invited to WRR's 10-Year Anniversary Reading!

Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Register in advance:
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November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Hello, friends!

In case you'd like to vote for us and/or some of your other favorite lit mags, here's the link for this year's Chill Subs awards. Voting ends on Dec. 7. :)
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Coming soon: Our 10th anniversary winter issue and our December reading period!
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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psst.... go vote for the @chillsubs.bsky.social's Best Lit Mag awards. You *can* vote for us, or for an actually great mag like @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, @asteralesjournal.bsky.social, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, etc... 😁

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Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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christinadaub.bsky.social
Because I try not to revel but I revel

Poem by Martha Silano
#poetry
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Poem by the late Martha Silano in Whale Road Review.
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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grantclauser.bsky.social
Here's the 3rd and last poetry video from Temporary Shelters. The poem, Gunpowder Homestead, was first published by @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. I hope you like it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSoQ...
"Gunpowder Homestead" - A Poem by Grant Clauser
YouTube video by Bare Bones Filmmakers
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November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Congrats to our 2025 Best Spiritual Literature nominees!
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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We are honored to present some of the work that was read that night. For more, see you in Baltimore!

@merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social

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Issues 110 & 111 - Painted Bride Quarterly
The Sept 2025 double issue packs in a ton of amazing poetry. Issue 110 focuses on recent work to PBQ; Issue 111 is a special issue.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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My debut poetry collection, April and Back Again, is coming Feb 24th, 2026, from @pubgen.bsky.social!

You can get a peek at the vibes by reading "October (After My Hysterectomy)" in the Fall issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social.

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Photo of two pumpkins in a pumpkin patch on a beautiful fall day. Picture includes text from the poem "October (After My Hysterectomy)"
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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prettyminotaur.bsky.social
throwback thursday to that time @jenniferfliss.bsky.social interviewed me about HORSE SHOW for @whaleroadreview.bsky.social !

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The Horses Are the Main Point: An Interview with Jess Bowers
Horse Show by Jess BowersSFWP, 2024 Jess Bowers’s Horse Show, published with SFWP (Santa Fe Writers Project) in April 2024, is a feat. In a slim but wholly dynamic collection, Bowers skillfully wea…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com
We can’t wait to read your work!!

#writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit
October 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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nocturnalxlight.bsky.social
“The beauty was unrelenting. /
I don’t miss it. Look at this chipped mug, / there’s coffee stains inside.”

I’ve been randomly thinking of this poem “After the Fall We Sit in a Dingy Kitchen” by Rita Tiwari on @whaleroadreview.bsky.social again late last night.

www.whaleroadreview.com/tiwari/
After the Fall We Sit in a Dingy Kitchen
Eden was exhausting. Too muchperfection; chance meetingswith God at any moment. Talkingsnakes in the trees, fruit that tastedof more than fruit: like flowers,promises, prayers. Like eatingsunshine.…
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September 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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poetbex.bsky.social
Delighted to hear that my poem 'Moeritherium' has received a Best of the Net nomination!

Published by the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, it was inspired by this model in the Natural History Museum 💙
Moeritherium After walking beneath blue whale bones and following the loops of mammoth tusks, I linger near an unsuspecting model: the squat, shapely form of a moeritherium. Indirect ancestor of elephants and sea cows, all Eocene curves with soft, painted eyes. The grey egg of her body is dwarfed by stockier relatives, but she seems to float in front of me, goddess of buoyancy, the spirit of the semi-aquatic. I admire her womb-shaped face, her stubby trunk, which is touch-whitened from decades of petting, but resist the urge to reach out. I am content with our closeness, the shared beauty of those without descendants.
September 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Thank you @whaleroadreview.bsky.social !! 🩵🩵
whaleroadreview.bsky.social Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · Sep 27
And this year's Best of the Net nominees are...
www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/

Congrats to all, and fingers crossed for you! :)
"Icon/Graph" by Tristan Beiter "Pregnant at the Taos Gorge" by Julie Ebin "Glass Animal Collection" by Suzy Eynon "My High School Teacher Tells Me Men Would Line Up to Get Me Pregnant" by Kindall Fredricks "Moeritherium" by Bex Hainsworth "Anxiety said let’s disappear" by Rachel Pittman "Things my mother has forgotten" by Beth Sherman "Celestial Navigation" by Christy Tending "Writing What We Know" by Angela Townsend "Apples in Bieszczady" by Rachel Walker
September 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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nocturnalxlight.bsky.social
“I recalled enough of the prayer to whisper it to the newts the next day, holding my hands over the plastic dollhouse like some kind of enormous god.” 🦎💛🙏🏼

Such a banger opening to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social’s Fall Issue.
neomfa.bsky.social Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts [NEOMFA] @neomfa.bsky.social · Sep 17
Check out the latest short prose from our Program Director & UA faculty, @marybid.bsky.social, up at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 🐳

www.whaleroadreview.com/biddinger/
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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nocturnalxlight.bsky.social
“This Castle is a Creature,” aka one of my favorite poems we’ve published in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!

“Will I ever stop being so childish. Sometimes I sharpen / my lead and sometimes I watch as much television as I / want and it’s glorious, shrimp’s eye of color.”

🏰 🌈 🦐 📺
emmabolden.bsky.social Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · Sep 16
hey friends, i have a poem about how weird it is to have a body in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and I hope you'll visit the issue here: www.whaleroadreview.com/bolden/
This Castle Is a Creature I palace the heart centered in my chest. No part of my body tells the truth. Not a single brutal clot of wisdom. Not the zero asleep in each bone. Will I ever stop being so childish. Sometimes I sharpen my lead and sometimes I watch as much television as I want and it’s glorious, a shrimp’s eye of color. The subtitles tell me what to hear, which I appreciate. There’s something lost in the gray translation of air and anyway I’m just so over. I’m just about this close to. There’s too much weather in my body’s center. There’s no shelter to seek in the interior, blank rooms, bald windows and etceteras, no way to shutter the bud and the beauty, the dream of what I thought I was going down smooth. I palace the heart because it can bring the whole city down along with it, because I’ve never known a verb more terrible, more gorgeous than to fall. Emma Bolden is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage (Soft Skull), and the poetry collections House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an editor of Screen Door Review.
September 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
whaleroadreview.bsky.social
And this year's Best of the Net nominees are...
www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/

Congrats to all, and fingers crossed for you! :)
"Icon/Graph" by Tristan Beiter "Pregnant at the Taos Gorge" by Julie Ebin "Glass Animal Collection" by Suzy Eynon "My High School Teacher Tells Me Men Would Line Up to Get Me Pregnant" by Kindall Fredricks "Moeritherium" by Bex Hainsworth "Anxiety said let’s disappear" by Rachel Pittman "Things my mother has forgotten" by Beth Sherman "Celestial Navigation" by Christy Tending "Writing What We Know" by Angela Townsend "Apples in Bieszczady" by Rachel Walker
September 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
whaleroadreview.bsky.social
We have a very belated announcement: while working on this year's award nominations, we discovered that we'd neglected to announce last year's nominees for The Nina Riggs Poetry Award!

www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations/
"My Sister Comes Home After Graduation" by Heather Qin "Inheritance" by Michael Sun "Horns" by Jared Beloff "Dangling Over the Sea" by Nicole Brogdon "To Be Ten" by Katy Luxem "Shelved" by Rita Maria Martinez
September 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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My review of ODYSSEUS' DAUGHTER by Cammy Thomas has washed up in the perfect journal, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

Thank you, @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social !

www.whaleroadreview.com/cammy-thomas/
The Subtle Thread
Odysseus’ Daughter by Cammy Thomas Parkman Press, 2023 The first poem of the slim chapbook Odysseus’ Daughter hints at the themes that glance through its poems. In the following pages, delicately d…
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September 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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bethcastrodale.bsky.social
I'm deeply grateful to Whale Road Review for publishing a conversation about occult fiction between me and the insightful novelist Ellen Birkett Morris.

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September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Aww, thanks for reading them, Nate. I love your poem in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social:

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Cleaning Out My Uncle’s Place
On the high shelf, behind the tangle of holiday lights: a box.Mom is packing up the kitchen and this feels sacred,so I click shut the closet door and pull the old bulb’s chain.The apartment smells …
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September 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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beekaekae.bsky.social
Delighted to be included in the new issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for giving “UnNamed” a good home.
whaleroadreview.bsky.social Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · Sep 13
Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40
September 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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emmabolden.bsky.social
hey friends, i have a poem about how weird it is to have a body in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and I hope you'll visit the issue here: www.whaleroadreview.com/bolden/
This Castle Is a Creature I palace the heart centered in my chest. No part of my body tells the truth. Not a single brutal clot of wisdom. Not the zero asleep in each bone. Will I ever stop being so childish. Sometimes I sharpen my lead and sometimes I watch as much television as I want and it’s glorious, a shrimp’s eye of color. The subtitles tell me what to hear, which I appreciate. There’s something lost in the gray translation of air and anyway I’m just so over. I’m just about this close to. There’s too much weather in my body’s center. There’s no shelter to seek in the interior, blank rooms, bald windows and etceteras, no way to shutter the bud and the beauty, the dream of what I thought I was going down smooth. I palace the heart because it can bring the whole city down along with it, because I’ve never known a verb more terrible, more gorgeous than to fall. Emma Bolden is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage (Soft Skull), and the poetry collections House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an editor of Screen Door Review.
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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neomfa.bsky.social
Check out the latest short prose from our Program Director & UA faculty, @marybid.bsky.social, up at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 🐳

www.whaleroadreview.com/biddinger/
September 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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marybid.bsky.social
Thanks much for sharing, and gratitude to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social ✨
neomfa.bsky.social Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts [NEOMFA] @neomfa.bsky.social · Sep 17
Check out the latest short prose from our Program Director & UA faculty, @marybid.bsky.social, up at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 🐳

www.whaleroadreview.com/biddinger/
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM