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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 2d

No amount of pepper, anywhere ever, has come out of this style shaker. Go ahead and pound on it.

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 5d

I’m The Beatles of just sitting here waiting.

Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 5d

Corner lashes really tangling today. Every blink a tousle. Odds on lowers which is surprising but I love an underdog story.

Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 5d

Poems are dangerous. If that sounds hyperbolic, take a stab at writing the one that scares you. Worse yet, where will you put it?

Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 5d

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 6d

Writers are inhaling their turbulence and repackaging it as arrows. How neatly defiant. Language has them looking so tired & fragile. Soggy flannel scarecrows with spilling straw guts. You can put lipstick on them.
We are the scary lot.
Writers, steady on.

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 6d

Currently 22 manuscript submission opportunities on my activity updated list. October has the most.

Know of others? Comment below. List is only for full-length and chapbook poetry or hybrid. Open now or upcoming.

bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

Poetry & Hybrid Manuscript Submission Opportunities

Full-length & chapbook reading periods for Aug 1 through November 30

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 7d

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…seeking a creative and curious person who can also write accurate, persuasive prose while thinking imaginatively

interest in conservation; and have a background in environmental topics and a passion for nature, conservation, and birds.

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American Bird Conservancy - Writer/Editor

  Title:    Writer/EditorSupervisor:  Senior Writer/EditorLocation: Flexible/remote; preference for Washington, DC areaSalary: Estimated at $60,500*; Based on experienceA...

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 7d

JMWW is now open for free submissions of poetry, cnf/essay, flash, and hybrid/beyond-genre. Closes Oct 15

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Guidelines

Please go to our Submittable site for specific category guidelines and to submit work. jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.…

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 8d

JMWW opens tomorrow 10/1 for hybrid & beyond-genre submissions.

Here’s my craft essay on the subject

JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 9d

Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/c...

Crafting the “Other”: On Hybrid & Beyond-Genre by Bradley David Waters

Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 8d

another Walter Pavlich excerpt

“…eyes that don't
go through a person but go
in and stay there, feeling
their way unobtrusively around
a sadness, or, recognizing pain, glancing it like two ants
interrupted by each other.”

Like a thumbnail with one expression, with eyes that don't go through a person but go in and stay there, feeling their way unobtrusively around a sadness, or, recognizing pain, glancing it like two ants interrupted by each other.

It is the face of a clock with its hands in its ears. And its time is the beginning and end of any flower

Temperature of such a face: tapwater over a dead wrist; or someone's hair just before they awaken after a long sleep.

You would not know where to kiss this face unless you married it

Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 9d

Who’s still accepting poetry subs for autumn melancholia synced with autocracy-induced dysthymia?

Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 9d

1. When JMWW opens for submissions on Oct. 1st, Blended & Beyond will now be a regular feature alongside our other categories. B&B is our space for hybrid and beyond-genre works.

2. My new craft essay on the subject is out today:

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/c...

@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Crafting the “Other”: On Hybrid & Beyond-Genre by Bradley David Waters

Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW and is open for submissions alongside our other categories on October 1st!

jmwwblog.wordpress.com

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 10d

Walter Pavlich
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 10d

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 10d

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 11d

Congrats to JMWW’s Best of the Net nominees

@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 12d

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction

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Open For Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions. Responses usually in less than two weeks. BTW, our editor loves when an animal pops up in a story.

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 14d

JMWW opens Oct 1st for hybrid/blended & visual

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Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social · 14d

We have officially opened our submissions for video essays and sound-based literature! Click "Submit to Blackbird" in our bio to read the full guidelines. We want your work!

A turquoise graphic with black text that reads, “The video essays we admire most employ language, image, and sound with equal craftsmanship and collective vision.” Above the text are two small image icons, and below are two illustrated ear icons with sound waves.

A turquoise graphic with black text that reads, “Sound-based literature is an original piece of writing that pairs a recorded voiceover with a musical composition or sound design score.” Above the text is a megaphone icon, and below is an open book icon.

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 14d

My long hair breaks at the end like Lisa Murkowski. Falls apart like a Manhattan prosecutor’s case. Splits like Ted Cruz. What are your recommendations for a daily leave-in defense/repair/conditioner? Something that can withstand heat like Donald’s wrist spackle.

Truly tho I need a spray.

Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 15d

My micro-garble on friendship for @exactingclam.bsky.social upcoming Dada issue contains 18 hyphens. Here’s a sneak peek:
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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 15d

Cauliflower strikes me as an impeccably clean vegetable but who knows what’s really going on.

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 16d

Prepping a knock-off of Portland's plant-based Mississippi bowls. Rice, not-beef, coleslaw, green onions, ranch, bbq, @ranchogordo.bsky.social yellow eye beans, side of garden amaranth. I remember 2010 food trucks & miserable midnight shift at crisis call center. I ❤️ PDX

#recoveringsocialworker

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 16d

Previously loved book mail: The late husband & wife poetry powerhouse of Sandra McPherson and Walter Pavlich.

“a little drug of paint won’t hurt.”

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