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🌀SUBS OPEN🌀 Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · 10h

Saying GOODBYE to our Summer Digital Issue with Danielle Emerson's trio of works, “Shí dóó shimá, shí dóó shítsilí, & shí cuzzins" www.sotospeakjournal.org/danielle-eme...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · 1d

44 is a mud slide, a surgeon's needle, a ballerina's last triumphant turn and the effigy of a prior self on fire. The essay reads like a phoenix molting: death, fire, and release. Read it in our summer issue: www.sotospeakjournal.org/dani-putney-44

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · 9d

New FICTION – Victoria Hood’s “you want to feel special” is a meditation, a mantra, a hearty soup for the soul. It plays with form, and the form echoes in our bones. Read it in our Summer Digital Issue → → → www.sotospeakjournal.org/victoria-hoo...

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · 15d

@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Boyfacts" is a random bruise you don't recall getting, the way you sweat in a humid summer, a no longer produced brand of gum you loved as a child. www.sotospeakjournal.org/debmalya-ban...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · 29d

Finding the right journals for your work. Writing a lit mag cover letter. Submitting to contests. Let's talk about it at Submit-a-Thon! Hosted by us and @phoebejournal.bsky.social, open to the GMU community. Sign up here: cglink.me/2d7/r2287792

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

@exquisite.bsky.social Exquisite Armantè’s “Stages” reminds us of the baby you find in king cake— it’s an overripe orange, a nipple barbell, an elevator to anywhere🍊

Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/exquisite-ar...

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

Anyone obsessed with the @chillsubs.bsky.social rating feature? 🙋🏾‍♀️

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

Irina Tall Novikova’s collage series, “Brown,” is lying in wait in the top bunk. It asks you to play tag in the dark woods behind your childhood home and stick your fingers through the holes of a rotting tree🏵️🐦‍⬛

View the series here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/irina-tall-b...

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

Tracy Sidesinger’s debut literary essay, “Hot Springs,” is a shot of Fireball, a plunge in a cold lake, a rallying cry, a reclamation of your younger self🏵️🏛️⛲️

Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/tracy-sidesi...

Follow Tracy on Substack: tracysidesinger.substack.com

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12

we’ve been working on an archive project👀 SHOUTOUT your favorite STS editors in the comments!! full list @ www.sotospeakjournal.org/previous-edi...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Aug 10

Making a master doc of past contributors and it’s over 50 single spaced pages

That’s like, a lot of you

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Aug 10

NEW POETRY by Sarah Giragosian 🪷 “Salvation” is a fish-eye lens, a candle when the power goes out, a gardener in a historical park — Salvation will save you if you let it.

Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sarah-girago... 🌸🌱

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Aug 5

wish list: ‘90s era dark room photography

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

WHY ARENT YOU CALLING 911? by Zoé Mahfouz is a quick dip in a hotel pool, an inch of dust on a medical textbook, thick smoke that follows you around a campfire🐁✈️🚑

Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/zoe-mahfouz-...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Jul 26

Kale Hensley’s “Blunt Annunciation” is a roach held between your pinky and thumb. It asks you to roll each of its thousand words on your tongue. View it live in chef’s-knife 8k (whatever that means) @ sotospeakjournal.org/kale-hensley-blunt-annunciation & more collages at kalehens.com🔪🩸

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16

“Coin” is the orange glow on the metal coil of a vintage portable heater, rivulets of mountain water trailing down mossy stone, the quiet of waking up before everyone else. 🌅⭐️

Read Sebastian Bronson Boddie’s poems, “Coin” and “280 to Ithaca” here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sebastian-br...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW FICTION🌵🌾 🪩

Katie Field says, “The first image I had of the story was of a queer person, perhaps myself, making a spectacle of themself as they chased a chicken through a sea of macho cis men. Eventually it grew into a love story” 🐓

Read here:
www.sotospeakjournal.org/katie-field-...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Jun 1

happy pride🏳️‍🌈just birthed an issue🤰go read it📚here:

www.sotospeakjournal.org/online-issue...

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · May 20

NEW on Blog: Gemini Wahhaj’s “The Politics of Invitations” is a nighttime stroll, a mosquito bite, a meditation on intersectionality. 🌸🌿🎈

@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social
is the author of *The Children of This Madness* and *Katy Family*

Read her piece here:
www.sotospeakjournal.org/blog/politic...

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · May 15

Saying GOODBYE to print issue 34! We took one look at “DDD 081” and said, “That’s the cover.”

Gabriela Burlamaqui @gabur.art
has gifted us a sun tan, a soda, a fresh pedicure, a colorful celebration of the body🥤💅🏼☀️

Grab a print copy @ sotospeak.submittable.com/submit

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · May 13

Nicole Cech’s multi-media essay forces you to take a second look: it’s a 7/11 run, a passport stamp, a kaleidoscope of Sydney’s violent history. @nicolecech.bsky.social

Grab a copy of print issue 34 @ sotospeak.submittable.com/submit 🦎

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · May 8

Yo I just got access to our @chillsubs.bsky.social page and it’s UPDATED and looking so beautiful 🧚‍♀️🦄🐉

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · May 7

NEW blog post: Britt Gillman’s “HOWL” guides the reader through a mental health struggle with beautiful, emotional prose. It’s honest, bare, and oh so lovely.💘

Check it out on the So to Speak blog: www.sotospeakjournal.org/blog/howl

So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · May 4

Syd Brewster’s photo series “i don’t want to rush this with you (again)” is a whispered secret, a worn leather jacket, the last two minutes of a sunset.

Your caption writer returns (again) to suggest consuming Syd’s work on the big screen, aka our print issue: sotospeak.submittable.com/submit