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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · 14d

“the ground holds firm against my prodding spade” / Read our latest feature: a beautiful and pertinent poem by @pinkpossumclub.bsky.social 👇🏻

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"Poem, After the AI Censors Get a Hold of It" by Cam McGlynn — MEMEZINE

“Poem, After the AI Censors Get a Hold of It”

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · 16d

We have a pertinent piece by @pinkpossumclub.bsky.social dropping this Wednesday, keep a lookout!

MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · 17d

👼 girlhood is a spectrum 🐛
✨ opens october first ✨
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zine submission call: girlhood is a spectrum — MEMEZINE

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 18d

“they were all like what / is butter to the bibb what // does the chlorophyll care / i said to them to god // first of all you brought it up” —Joey Gould, “god is one of us + they take me to lunch + they recommend the salad bar” @memezine.bsky.social www.memezinelit.com/weird-little...

“god is one of us + they take me to lunch + they recommend the salad bar” by Joey Gould — MEMEZINE

“god is one of us + they take me to lunch + they recommend the salad bar”

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Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social · 20d

Less than two weeks until Submissions close Sept 30 for our Fall 2025 Issue!

We accept poetry, fiction, other prose, non-fiction, and art. Please see the full guidelines at LampLit.net.

We can't wait to see you 🛋️

#poetry #prose #fiction #essay #art #nonfiction #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · 20d

We were so psyched when we heard about @monarch.gay & we are honored to share our nominees! Please join our internet clapping for Joey Gould, Katy Haas, & Jordan Alejandro Rivera! 👏👏👏

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Sep 5

“I love rabbit holes of pop culture. One click to another click to another click.” / check out our new feature by @queerginger.bsky.social 👇🏻

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"Q: What about your search history?" by Stephen S. Mills — MEMEZINE

“Q: What about your search history?”

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · Aug 31

"grok, if we don't know what we're missing, are we even missing it?"

Too close to home

MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Aug 29

This flash fiction piece by @amykdebellis.bsky.social hits hard. Read here and get into itttt
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"Fact Checking" by Amy DeBellis — MEMEZINE

“Fact Checking”

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Aug 29

This flash fiction piece by @amykdebellis.bsky.social hits hard. Read here and get into itttt
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"Fact Checking" by Amy DeBellis — MEMEZINE

“Fact Checking”

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 NEW FEATURE 🚨 “DEATH WISH BEGINNING AND ENDING WITH LINES SPOKEN IN TIKTOKS” by @kdawn999.bsky.social has been delivered straight to your algorithm. Read here: www.memezinelit.com/featured2025...

"Death Wish Beginning and Ending with Lines Spoken in TikToks" by Kimberly Gibson-Tran — MEMEZINE

“Death Wish Beginning and Ending with Lines Spoken in TikToks”

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Kimberly Wolf @kimberlywolf.bsky.social · Jul 31

@memezine.bsky.social published this poem of mine this month in their special issue KAKISTOCRACY.

You can read the entire issue here: www.memezinelit.com?fbclid=PAQ0x...

KIMBERLY WOLF
HOW TO GET AN ATHEIST TO PRAY

Divinity's been shot in the head
point blank
and the casket at its funeral is child-sized.

No one on God's green earth attends the service
but plenty of people take selfies at the wake while a drone ignites a temple
ignites a school
ignites a home.

To get an atheist to pray
you have to suck all the holy out of the atmosphere
bring them to their knees
make them desperate to breathe.

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jul 30

MEMEZINE will now give featured writers two options for their token payment on their acceptance forms. They can accept the $5 token payment for their own use, or choose to pool it in donations to The Sameer Project, which supports food and water aid in Gaza. Stay rad, pals.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jul 24

Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.

Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

buff.ly

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jul 15

We will be closing general submissions on July 16th for a month or two.

As some of you may know, the MEMEZINE team lost one of our own last Wednesday: our talented video artist (and most importantly, our dear friend) Benji Cardenas. Benji was deeply creative, funny, and always kind. He loved his friends. He had immaculate taste in music and film. He was an artist. Not only did we work together on MEMEZINE projects (like covers for “weird little guys” and “KAKISTOCRACY”), but we also worked together on personal projects as well. His art was special to us. He was punk as fuck. He was real.

We are processing and grieving the loss of Benji. As a result, Rachel and I have decided to close general submissions on Wednesday, July 16th. We will quickly work through these submissions and then take a month or two off. Accepted features will be published on schedule.

And don’t worry, this isn’t goodbye by any means. We still have things planned, things that Benji wanted to show you.

All we ask is that you tell your friends how much they mean to you. Make stuff together. Check in. Be there. Stay radical.

Take care,

Chel Campbell
EIC of MEMEZINE

Rest in power, Benji.
Say hi to David Lynch for us.

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you for the shoutout!

Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, including @doorisajarmag.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @memezine.bsky.social @claudineliterary.bsky.social @streetlightmag.bsky.social

Saturday Shout-Out ~ July 12, 2025

Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

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Alex Tretbar @alextretbar.bsky.social · Jul 4

One of three new poems in @memezine.bsky.social's KAKISTOCRACY issue (kakistocracy = "a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country").

Down with American empire and its cruel and heartless idiots.

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jul 4

KAKISTOCRACY is live, in the digital flesh. Read at memezinelit.com

Free Palestine.

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jun 23

Our latest feature is by none other than M.C. Schmidt! Read his raw, honest flash fiction here: www.memezinelit.com/featured2025...

"Skin" by M.C. Schmidt — MEMEZINE

“Skin”

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jun 22

THANK YOU everyone for submitting to the Kakistocracy Issue. We’ve been reading subs as they’ve come in (to meet our July 4th publication deadline). We sent a lot of responses today. If you haven’t heard from us, your piece is still under consideration.

Stay rad <3

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jun 21

Today is the last day to submit! Get your submission in before midnight. Guidelines at memezinelit.com/submit

MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · May 8

Hey goblins! This Saturday we open for submissions for our KAKISTOCRACY issue. This is a paid call and an opportunity to send us your most urgent work. Full guidelines here: memezinelit.com/submit

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · Jun 11

I am pleased to present my strangest lexical experiment to date: a microsonnet crown in which 100% of the body text is pulled from a database of pokemon moves, up today at @memezine.bsky.social . Here is perhaps my favorite of the seven, "the land is empowered to oblige our death wish"

the land is empowered to oblige our death wish
(microsonnet of pokemon moves #5)

doom desire
expanding force
thousand waves
collision course
scorching sands
corrosive gas
no retreat
land’s wrath
ceaseless edge
malignant chain
power swap
spatial rend
tectonic rage
perish song

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · Jun 11

We’re stoked to share this dazzling Microsonnet Crown of Pokémon Moves by @lowermelody.bsky.social

read here: www.memezinelit.com/featured2025...

Microsonnet Crown of Pokémon Moves by D.W. Baker — MEMEZINE

Microsonnet Crown of Pokémon Moves

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · May 8

Hey goblins! This Saturday we open for submissions for our KAKISTOCRACY issue. This is a paid call and an opportunity to send us your most urgent work. Full guidelines here: memezinelit.com/submit

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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · May 3

Hey pals, we have new featured poetry by Parker Logan and art by GJ Gillespie for your eyeballs!

Read at memezinelit.com :)

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