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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Jul 16

Rolling subs for now! If anything changes, y’all will be the first to know🤠

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Jun 28

yes, we are currently accepting submissions on a rolling basis!

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Jun 17

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · May 3

youtube.com/watch?v=oJg4...

This video is linked in my new review of MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan (@querenciapress.bsky.social), as an example of the coherent dissonance driving the book's experimental prose. Available on @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow

The Beauty of Atonal Music / Unique contrasting pieces Op.19

YouTube video by THE BIASED COMPOSER

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 30

@lowermelody.bsky.social @querenciapress.bsky.social

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 30

“In literature, if normative devices such as character, plot, and genre are like the shared language of tonal harmony, then Milk Sickness is the atonal exception.”

D.W. Baker reviews MILK SICKNESS (Querencia Press) by David Greenspan. Drink it on up🥤

www.brokenantlermag.com/blog/a-revie...

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 30

“In the silences between, we snuggle a little harder, slip in and out of existence, and listen for some asteroid coming for us both.” ☄️☄️☄️

Read “A Prehistoric Heist Story” by Aaron Sandberg in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...

Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 2

omg congratulations!

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Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social · Apr 2

Wow I am so awed and excited to have my weird lil story from @brokenantlermag.bsky.social on this rad shortlist!!! 🥹🥰

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.

Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...

Or in the screenshots🖤☠️

Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.

The BRAVE NEW WEIRD SHORTLIST:

Ainsley Hawthorn - Big Cats of Newfoundland

Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs - Spolia

Alex Fox - The City of Cities, Inverted; A Shadow Cast By Many Hands

Angela Liu - A Contract of Ink and Skin

Ann LeBlanc - Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth

Avra Margariti - Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn

Azure Arther - Reciprocity

Briar Ripley Page - Birth Of a Sucker

Calla Eris Orion - Kiss of a Toad

Casey Lawrence - Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin: A Presentation

[sarah] Cavar - Mad Studies

Dane Erbach - Something Else

David Corse - The Amassing Man

E.G. Condé - Sibilance

E.M. Linden - Mangrove Daughter

Elad Haber - End of Line

Elana Gomel - Mother Black Hole

Eleanna Castroianni - Zarghána

Emma Burnett - Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]

Emma E. Murray - An Angel of God

Emmett Nahil - Vining

Erik McHatton - The Man Who Collected Ligotti

F. J. Bergmann - The Museum of Etymology

Faith Allington - Teacakes for Foxes

Guan Un - Painted Surfaces

Hannah Greer - To Be Human

Ira Rat - Soft

Jack Klausner - Cardboard Faces

Jack Lennon - The Scottish Welfare Fund Application Form

James Cato - Wonders of a Plastic Ocean

Jes Malitoris - The House of Coiled Earth

Jess Elizabeth Reed - The Belly

K. A. Roy - Welcome to Rebirth Grove

K.A. Wiggins - The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)

Kay Vaindal - Pig House

Kelsea Yu - Creature

Lena Ng - The Halloween Horror Show

Leo Oliveira - They Remember Faces

Leslie What - Wayback

Lor Gislason - fumes

Lucas Yao-Bendimerad - So Dramatic

M. L. Krishnan - Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation

Madalena Daleziou - Hauntless House

Matthew Mitchell - Knight Rumors

Nayt Rundquist - Flashes of Neverwhen

O F Cieri - The Tragedy Brotherhood

Plangdi Neple - Not All Your Bones Are Yours

Raluca Balasa - Cogs in the (War) Machine

Ryan T. Jenkins - The Potato Problem

Samir Sirk Morató - EGREGORE

Shantell Powell - The Snow Hath No Queen

Sharang Biswas - Waiting for Jonah

SJ Townend- I HAVE SEEN SEVEN BAD THINGS

Sonya Vatomsky - The Yolo Wallpaper

Susan L. Lin - Gravitational Pull

Tehnuka - You Can Leave Your Helmet On

Tiffany Michelle Brown - Full Immersion

Tim Pratt - The Liminal Space Dating Agency

Timaeus Bloom - Memorabilia

Zoe Kaplan - Travelling Salesman

Cover art for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 3 by Matt Blairstone: a Monster Cereal style homage of a toxic green skeleton with corals sprouting from its skull, eating a bowl of Weird cereal: slugs, hardware, severed fingers, green sludge.

TEXT:
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: THE BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR VOLUME 3
Hardcover Edition
Signed Bookplate
Preorder now
Limited to 50 copies
store.tenebrouspress.com

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 2

We’ve all been there.

Read “Getting Over It” by Seth Wade in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 1

“Gap-toothed, the woman in a baseball cap sells The Big Issue.”

………..how meta of us

Read “Garema Place” by Megan Cartwright in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...

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earworms magazine (SUBS OPEN UNTIL 11/5) @earwormsmag.bsky.social · Mar 31

the graininess, the lack of windows or doors, the creep factor; it’s reminding us of the movie “skinamarink” which is unsettling to say the least 🫣🪱 what a fantastic piece

Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hybrid forms = our love language 🫀

Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...

Prodigally Vacant | Trevor Hormel — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 31

“It must have been a tar spill. They must have all landed there. They had been unable to get back up. It wasn’t a scene I could easily look away from. As they laid there […]”

Read the rest of “Flightless Birds” by Rosalinda Valeri in our latest issue:

Flightless Birds | Rosalinda Valeri — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 23

“i picked up a pebble on my brother's / grave, & kissed it—a way of telling / him to smile for the camera”

Read “Marshmallow” by Tajudeen Muadh in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...

Marshmallow | Tajudeen Muadh — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Mar 13

Beyond honored to have the weirdest short fiction I’ve ever written published today by Broken Antler Magazine! Check out my story and other work by amazing writers and artists—Issue Six is killer 🔪⏰❤️

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...

Getting Over It | Seth Wade — BROKEN ANTLER

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 20

“instead of blood, a uniform-drab bird dripped out of the wound. Taking flight after its sudden, startled birth, Gladys waited, knife in hand, for the thing to bash itself in confusion against the windowpane over the sink. Instead, it alighted”

Read “Bird Dreams of Woman” by Galen Gower:

Bird Dreams of Woman | Galen Gower — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 19

“stroking a slow finger over / one dusty cover and its blue // eye-shadowed model until X. / said That’s his skin, that dust / and his finger stopped and we / looked at the dust differently.”

Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...

Hauntological | Michael Bazzett — BROKEN ANTLER

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hybrid forms = our love language 🫀

Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...

Prodigally Vacant | Trevor Hormel — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · Mar 17

“Time lets herself in; I pour us tea without sugar. She understands, she says. She leaves. She leaves. Sand drips down her face. It slips from her mouth mostly, when she talks, and from between her eyelashes when she blinks.”

oh i’m OBSESSED

Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 17

“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”

Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six

In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 17

“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”

Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six

In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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Abdulbasit A. Olúwaníshọlá @oluwanishola.bsky.social · Mar 13

i'm delighted to be featured in this Issue, do read my poem and all the remaining pieces in there.

here's the link to my poem: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · Mar 13

New poem today in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social #6!

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six

BAM QUARTERLY - ISSUE SIX
MARCH 2025
BROKEN ANTLER

D.W. Baker, Michael Bazzett, Megan Cartwright, Geoffrey Detrani, Galen Gower, Trevor Hormel, Sophie Hoss, Maia K. Huddleston, Chloe Mohs, Tajudeen Muadh, Abdulbasit Oluwanishola, Aaron Sandberg, Rosalinda Valeri, Seth Wade

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · Mar 13

Delighted & grateful to have a new poem, (kind of a weirdo, tbh), in Broken Antler, a great new magazine I highly recommend checking out... 💜 @brokenantlermag.bsky.social

Hauntological | Michael Bazzett — BROKEN ANTLER

www.brokenantlermag.com

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Sloth & Envy Press @slothandenvy.com · Mar 13

WoOOoooOOooooo! The Sloth & Envy Press TN branch and Toad Shade EIC has a story in Issue 6 of @brokenantlermag.bsky.social Broken Antler titled "Bird Dreams of Woman"

Read n share, friends! Thanks :)

Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Mar 13

BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️

4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.

Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six

Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER

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