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Eirene Eleni
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This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales. https://eirenegentle.com https://templeinacity.com Lit in cool places. This month in Blood & Honey, soon in Painted Pebble ANMLY.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 20d
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Eirene Gentle — Does It Have Pockets
Cycle of violence | Skins
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1h
periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 1h
Issue 7 update: on read-thru #2 of 3. Release is coming soon! 🖤
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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d
fountain pens are great if you are secretly and not so secretly a messy person
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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d
"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc
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Lit Kids Magazine @litkidsmagazine.bsky.social · 22h
Know a talented young creative?
Lit Kids has open submissions for Issue 8: Air through 10/31! 🌪️
We accept writing, art, and photos from kids ages 5 to 13. Subscribe to our site and spread the word, please and thank you. Keep shining! ✨
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#parents #emag
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ALT: a cartoon penguin is standing next to a fan
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 1d
“Loss knocks you off your bearings. It divides your life into before and after.”

Excerpt from John Jacboson’s “Dancing with Louise Gluck,” exclusively on our Subtack, Roots & Words.

Read it at the link below:

buff.ly/uis1ao0

#writingcommunity
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Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social · 2d
Please submit. It was a great experience.
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Suburban Witchcraft Magazine @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social · 2d
Reading submissions for Issue 11 until November 1st.!

#writingcommunity #litmag #publishing #callforsubmissions #art #literature
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Xander Sable @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 2d
Ireland already felt like an attractive place to live and write, and with this news even more so. It's a wonderful country you live in @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social! 💚 I thought of you, @erinconnally.bsky.social also? #arts #basicincome
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 3d
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 3d
ICYMI: My poem 'To the Swallow's Final Hatchling' is free to read from Orion's Belt!

🌙Tonight, or some night soon,
I’ll dream my way back home again💫

If you love fairytale birds, reimagined myths, and intergenerational stories, I hope you'll check it out!

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To the Swallow’s Final Hatchling — Orion's Belt
Save me my wings, little daughter.
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 9d
Okay…*deep breath and sorry for awkward promotion things….*, my new flash fiction chapbook ‘Light Chemical Sea’ is coming Fall 2026 with Bull City Press. ✨⚗️🌊

Sign up for a one time email notification that will let you know when the book is released!

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Jenny Wong's latest chapbook ‘Light Chemical Sea’ will be out in Fall 2026 with Bull City Press. Sign up below to receive a one time email that will notify you when the book is released.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 3d
I mean!!
Inside of a fallen mushroom cap, delicate translucent white with peachy daubs.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 3d
I can’t stop taking pictures of mushrooms.
A…mushroom. With a tiny leaf and shadow of other leaves on its little white cap.
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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 7d
Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp...

Here’s one:
A city bursts inside of me My head becomes heavy from bloom. The lake leaks out of my eyes. I'm pregnant with families. They spill onto my toes and set up tents. I can hear crying on my kneecaps. At night, a train shivers with longing.
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 5d
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 4d
Me: there’s no law against it.

Them: there’s Coles’s law.

LATE BREAKING DAD JOKE! 🚨🚨
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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5d
It is also an important time to be reading and writing.

Fortifying yourself with truth & good argument. Rest and take a break.

Repeat as needed.
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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 6d
My main genre from childhood through college was poetry but I hadn't written a poem in probably 10+ years. This summer I was in a multi-genre workshop group and it inspired me to start writing poems again. One just got accepted to @flaremagazine.bsky.social (coming out at the end of the month) 🥰
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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 9d
New CNF up at Aesterion Lit.

www.aesterion.com/fall-2025-1
General 2 — aesterion
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 5d
Buddhism is all about experiencing and experimenting for yourself. You might get enough out of it to keep going. And going. And if not, ok! Want to give it a try?
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Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social · 5d
Don't know how to meditate? Like to learn? You can with these easy to follow first steps into Buddhist meditation wp.me/pFy3u-1zX.
First steps into Buddhist meditation
You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself, or make other people say and do the things you want them to say and do. All of your power is contained within this moment, related t…
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Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social · 5d
Don't know how to meditate? Like to learn? You can with these easy to follow first steps into Buddhist meditation wp.me/pFy3u-1zX.
First steps into Buddhist meditation
You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself, or make other people say and do the things you want them to say and do. All of your power is contained within this moment, related t…
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New Flash Fiction Review (subs open) @nffr.bsky.social · 7d
Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
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And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review
Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 7d
I do!
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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7d
Want a nice little fungi photo from this morning’s walk?
A group of Sulphur Tufts
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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7d
Want a nice little fungi photo from this morning’s walk?
A group of Sulphur Tufts
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Jennifer(Eine Togi) @einetogi.bsky.social · 7d
Seriously though, Epistemic Literacy is AMAZING and to throw in a small plug for them, they just opened for subs! Maybe that brings my integrity into question.😊 They are doing a simultaneous sub at Nimblewit Lit for kids. Trust me, it's a good one.
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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 8d
One of the most quietly powerful presses out there, @epistemiclit.bsky.social, has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025.

Big thanks to Jennifer (@einetogi.bsky.social) for the heartfelt nomination—this one hit us deep.

Read the full feature here:
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#SmallPressLove
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: Epistemic Literary - The Broken Spine
This isn’t a competition. It’s a celebration.
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