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Solstice MFA is a full-time, two-year program that helps you further your writing practice with a high level of professional proficiency while developing your unique voice in a supportive community.

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi BlueSky! We're the Solstice MFA Program, a low-res graduate writing program based in the Boston area. Get more info about us here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Low Residency MFA Programs | Lasell University

Looking for the best MFA creative writing programs? Lasell University's MFA Creative Writing Programs offers a unique affordable opportunity for students to explore their passion for writing with feed...

www.lasell.edu

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awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 18h

THE NATION is accepting applications for winter/spring 2026 editorial internships until October 26! AWP members can find out more and browse additional job openings on our Job List.

Editorial Intern | THE NATION

www.awpwriter.org

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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 17h

Now online: Our August event with @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social & Monica Lee Weatherly.
thenotebookscollective.com/notes/in-con...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 17h

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

Best of the Net is seeking volunteer readers - 10 to 20 submissions per week - Apply by 11/1/25

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 18h

Happening next week! Register here:

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Guess what it also is? Banned books week! Hurray for free speech & boo to censorship.
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Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 2d

This 👇

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 7d

Don't miss out on our next virtual information session to get answers to your questions about earning an MFA with Solstice. Get to know us on Oct. 15 at 12 p.m. ET by registering here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

Icons of people with Q and A speech bubbles with text: Solstice MFA Virtual Info session, October 15 at 12 p.m. Eastern

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awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 7d

Contemporary literature and AWP have benefited from the efforts of individuals who have done their utmost to support the next generation of writers. To help us recognize them, submit a nomination for the AWP George Garrett Award, open through October 31.

AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature

Nominations for the 2026 AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature open September 1, 2025, via this submission portal only. Letters of nomination will not be accepted…

awpwriter.secure-platform.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know

learning is good

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 8d

We're excited to announce that our Writer-in-Residence Terrance Hayes will join us in person for our upcoming January 2026 residency to teach a class and give a reading that will be open to the public. Stay tuned for more details, and check out his bio here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Solstice MFA January 2026 Writer-in-Residence Terrance Hayes, including an image of Terrance sitting in front of books on bookshelves

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 9d

psst....

we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1).

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press

www.glass-poetry.com

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 9d

Winter/spring '26 deadlines are approaching. Apply by Nov. 10 (Oct. 27 for fellowship consideration). Decisions in as few as 10 biz days if we have your personal statement, writing sample, and 2 recommendation forms. (Transcripts due by Jan. 2 at the latest.)

More info: buff.ly/gBgQGLr

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 9d

Well, this is delightful news. 📚
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian

After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

bookriot.com

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats to our faculty member @joshneufeld.bsky.social, who self-published a zine related to his book, A.D.: After the Deluge, called Beyond A.D.: 20 Years After the Deluge, gathering material related to the book and its characters in the years after Hurricane Katrina.

Beyond A.D. – Josh Neufeld Comix and Stories

$10.00

www.joshcomix.com

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats to our alum @ellenaustinli.bsky.social, who spoke with Katerina Stoykova about her poetry collection Incidental Pollen on Accent Publishing's podcast! Check it out here:

Ellen Austin-Li

Katerina Stoykova interviews poet Ellen Austin-Li about her latest book, Incidental Pollen.

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 14d

Our submission period is open for Issue 16!
Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem.
🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit

#PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 12d

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open through 11/15, for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 13d

For our friends in and around Portland, ME, our founding director
@megkearney.bsky.social and faculty member Iain Haley Pollock will read with Myronn Hardy at Print: A Bookstore on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Get more details here:

A Night of Poetry with Iain Pollock, Myronn Hardy, and Meg Kearney

Join us for an evening of poetry with Iain Pollock (author of All The Possible Bodies), Meg Kearney (author of All Morning The Crows), and Myronn Hardy (author of Aurora Americana)!

printbookstore.com

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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 13d

Grab your copy of Issue 15 of Palooka & consider sending your own chapbooks, prose, poetry, comics, art, & photography for future issues or chapbook publication. Open year-round. Fees vary.

#writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

Palooka Seeks Chapbooks, Prose, Poetry, Artwork, Photography

Literary magazine and indie press Palooka accepts work for its literary magazine and chapbooks year-round.

www.newpages.com

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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 13d

December 31 is the deadline for girls and young gender-expansive artists ages 14-21 to submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & art to Girls Right the World for Issue 10. Read up on past issues before submitting.

#writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

Call For Submissions From Girls Worldwide

Girls Right the World invites girls and gender-expansive youth (ages 14–21) to submit poetry, prose, or art by December 31, 2025.

www.newpages.com

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 14d

Happening tonight! Register here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 15d

Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.

porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

Porcupine Literary Submission Manager

We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...

porcupineliterary.submittable.com

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats to our writer-in-residence Dzvinia Orlowsky and her co-translator Ali Kinsella, whose co-translation from the Ukrainian of Haylna Kruk’s Lost in Living has been longlisted for the American Literary Translators Association’s 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry!

ALTA

A L T A

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solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 16d

Congrats to our alum Jonathan Todd, whose short story comic “Canine Intelligence” appeared in Shenandoah! Check it out here:

Canine Intelligence

Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...

www.shenandoahliterary.org

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