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LEAVES, GESSICA SAKAMOTO MARTINI — MudRoom Leaves

See our contribution for your next favorite poem about memory in Issue 20 with "Leaves" by @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social

MudRoom is open for submissions! Send us your work through March 25. Check our submissions page for more info.

SPRING, AARON RACHEL SELBY — MudRoom Spring

“Spring” is full of images that repeat and change like a single lamp flickering. Check out Aaron Rachel Selby’s beautiful poem in Issue 20. You can also see more of their work on their substack, Dreamhorse Dispatch.

The Infinite Doors at the Center of Myself - Electric Literature two-poems-by-sarah-cavar

And you can find poems from the collection in @electricliterature.com, @passagesnorth.bsky.social, @mudroommag.bsky.social, and more!

find some of the pieces here:

DOLL-AMERICAN GIRL, KELLY MURASHIGE — MudRoom Doll-American Girl

Kelly Murashige crafts a reversal full of feeling that deepens with every turn. Read the full story in Issue 20.

Read the piece that opens our newest issue for a poem, that, as our Poetry Reader put it, makes you feel like it's reading your mind. A showstopping opener by @graycious.bluesky.social.

www.mudroommag.com/grace-alvino

The Earth Room, A Review — MudRoom The Earth Room "is a surreal, deeply immersive dive into a world unlike our own."

Thank you, @mudroommag.bsky.social, for the kindest review of my book.

"Here, nature is not a place of primordial awe or solitude, but the undeniable self. It is so intoxicating, staggering, it can only be captured by comparisons to itself."

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Issue 20 is live! Check out the amazing work by Teo Vasilescu, @manateevanity.bsky.social, Aaron Rachel Selby, Charlie Harris, @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social, Annie Grimes, @graycious.bsky.social, Kelly Murashige, & Cathy Adams. And a review of The Earth Room by @danadiehl.bsky.social!

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Issue 20 goes live tomorrow. Prepare to be stunned.

ANTI-CHRIST ARCHITECT, AYESHA OWAIS — MudRoom Anti-christ architect

The caesuras in "Anti-Christ Architect" work to open the poem both physically and narratively. Read the beautiful piece by Ayesha Owais that closes Issue 19 here.

SPORADIC AVAILABILITY, GABBY KISER — MudRoom Sporadic Availability

All Angie's hopes lie in the quest for a single flavor. Read Gabby Kiser's hilarious, deeply affecting story in Issue 19.

www.mudroommag.com/gabby-kiser

Watch what stays and what gets made as language disappears in "Burning Plastic Factories." Read Corey Miller's electric poem here:

www.mudroommag.com/corey-miller

AMERICA DING HAO, CHRISTINA CHIU — MudRoom America Ding Hao

Drifting on the bay, in the midst of grief and potential capsize, Joan makes an observation: "Grandma has pulled another freaky stunt." In "America Ding Hao," Christina Chiu crafts a story that is equal parts complex, humorous, and heart-breaking.

www.mudroommag.com/christina-chiu

Submissions close on November 25. Just a reminder

www.mudroommag.com/submissions

HOOKUP, MISS JACKSON NEWBERN — MudRoom Hookup

In "Hookup," Miss Jackson Newbern crafts an image that doesn't let go, making an incredible poem in the process. Read it here, along with the rest of Issue 19.

www.mudroommag.com/miss-jackson...

SUBJECT: RE: MATERNITY LEAVE, STEPHANIE POWELL — MudRoom subject: re: maternity leave

Stephanie Powell takes a familiar form and makes a poem that reveals all the mechanics and anxieties that live beneath it. When we first read it, it haunted us. Check it out in our newest issue and let it haunt you too.

www.mudroommag.com/stephanie-po...

AFTER HOURS, DANIEL MOHR — MudRoom AFTER Hours

"After Hours" is intoxicating, mysterious, and a little bit scandalous. Read it here, then check out the rest of Issue 19.

Congrats congrats congrats to MudRoom's Best of the Net nominees! Read their contributions here:

www.mudroommag.com/bestofthenet...

MudRoom is open for submissions through November 25! Send us your prose, poetry, and visual art for Issue 20.

SLOUGH, BRYAN THOMAS DALY — MudRoom Slough

Impossible to post any part of Bryan Thomas Daly’s incredible poem without spoiling it. Read to see why it opens Issue 19.

New poem by candidate Corey Miller up at @mudroommag.bsky.social 👟

www.mudroommag.com/corey-miller

In no particular order, eight moments from Issue 19.

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Issue 19 is live! Check out incredible work by @IronBrewer, @bryanthomasdaly, Christina Chiu, Miss Jackson Newbern, Stephanie Powell, Ayesha Owais, Daniel Mohr, and Gabby Kiser. And beautiful cover art by Jacelyn Yap!

www.mudroommag.com/no-19

Issue 19 goes live on September 1 🐐

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@gladeyepress.bsky.social
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VAIDHY MAHALINGAM — MudRoom Pudgy , Vaidhy Mahalingam

“Pudgy,” despite its forthcoming structure, gently pulls us off the expected path. The result? We reach the end and say “Of course, of course,” and immediately go back to the beginning to start again.

I ECHO — MudRoom “Lost,” I Echo

Can you create a world without grief? Or does even its absence make it? Read I Echo's transformative, meditative poem in Issue 18.

www.mudroommag.com/i-echo

ELISA LUNA ADY — MudRoom “Silverfish,” Elisa Luna Ady

Silverfish by Elisa Luna Ady is a poem that moves with speed and precision. Read the whole piece here along with the rest of Issue 18.

ROBERT STONE — MudRoom Vacancy, Robert Stone

Somewhere in this family, Skinner senses a secret story. But how do we make stories out of other people?

Check out Robert Stone's mysterious, compelling piece in Issue 19.

Last day to submit to MudRoom for issue 19! Or else you have to wait until October (scary 🎃)