Kelly Schoenegge

I love when a story takes a big risk and somehow lands on its feet. Let’s all be a little unhinged on purpose.

Community isn’t a hashtag or an event. It’s the person who sees you across the room and nods, “You can sit.” I’m so grateful to live here with chosen family and strangers who keep inviting me in.

You do not need to be the loudest voice in the room to lead well. But you do need to be accountable. That includes course correcting when people trust you enough to name harm.

While we are not closing for submissions, today is the last day for your submission to be considered for one of our inaugural prizes. FREE to submit. $200 prize for CNF and $200 for fiction.https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/broad-ripple-review-vGnmj

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When a true dream publication sends a personalized rejection. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Broad Ripple Review | Literary Magazine Broad Ripple Review is an online literary magazine publishing bold, evocative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We seek work that challenges convention, lingers in complexity, and stays with the…

While we are staying open all year long, this is your last month to submit if you want your work to be considered for one of our inaugural prizes. $200 fiction and $200 CNF. It is FREE to submit. broadripplereview.com

I'm on vacation. Your piece probably got a full read by me, not a reader. As a writer, I thought we hated long turn around times?

Also, from a place of love and trying to genuinely help you: PLEASE STOP SENDING SNARKY RESPONSES WHEN YOUR PIECE IS DECLINED.

Please, please, please. You're submitting for free. An actual human is reading your piece with care. I'm so sorry that rejection is disappointing but...

I complain about this incessantly, but I'm curious what people are trying to accomplish when they put something unkind in that field. It's baffling.

It has the same impact as being rude in your cover letter. I'm not subjecting my team to problematic or disrespectful behavior.

Broad Ripple Review Submission Manager Submit to Broad Ripple Review. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

This weekend we are offering free editorial feedback on a handful of entries. This is normally a paid service.

If you're interested, submit in our open call category for free and just put a quick note in your cover letter that you're interested in editorial feedback.

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In jiu jitsu I’ve been tapped by people with worse technique than me. I’ve also won rolls I didn’t deserve. None of it adds up like people think it does.

When people say “kill your darlings,” they rarely mean the parts that flatten someone else’s story to elevate your own.

Stop putting transphobic shit in the pronouns field with your submission.

Thankssssss.

The only bad writing is writing that harms people. Everything else is just preference.

I’ve aged out of wanting to feel included. Now I want to feel intact.

I struggle with people who hate writing, but romanticize being a writer. You’re allowed to want something else. Writing is hard. That's fine. But if you fundamentally find the process to be miserable, don't do that to yourself.

Being queer in a red state is less about courage and more about strategy.

I do not believe in writer’s block. I believe in avoidance. I believe in dread. I believe in the psychic cost of wanting something badly.

Of all the injuries from BJJ this one has made me the most grouchy, for sure.

I'm pretty sure I have a torn mencius from one aggressively humping my thigh. Truly impressive, actually, given he was no where near the knee.

Rolling with a bjj white belt who goes too hard is a spiritual experience. You see your own past. You forgive nothing.

There’s a special kind of spiral that starts with “I should write” and ends with “maybe I never learned how to think.”

Reading submissions has made me more compassionate and also less tolerant of metaphors involving birds.

5 things to know about Lambda Literary's new executive director Jozie (J. Clapp) Clapp

J. Clapp is a voracious reader! Her 5 favorite books include: The Color Purple by Alice Walker Legends of Drag by Hanson and Antheus Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

J. Clapp builds organizations: As the Executive Director of the LGBTQ Center of Durham, J. Clapp grew the annual budget from $300k to over $2 million in just under four years!

Get to know Lambda's new executive director J. Clapp, including her favorite queer books, fundraising achievements, leadership milestones, drag performance, and her vision for Lambda. 👀 (1/2)

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction Queer historical fiction is having a moment. Acclaimed recent novels have imagined queer lives in settings as varied as Puritan New England, antebellum Mississippi, and England during the first Wor…

B. Pietras considers the works of Sylvia Townsend Warner: “They are, in short, queer historical fictions—albeit ones written before the genre had a name.”

We are open for FREE submissions for prose.

All work submitted by 7/31 will be considered for the Broad Ripple Review Prize in fiction and nonfiction.

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Jiu Jitsu is just gay yoga with consequences.

Refreshing a submission manager is like patiently waiting on more friends to arrive.

My favorite part of Jiu Jitsu is making accidental eye contact while tangled in someone’s armpit and silently agreeing never to speak of it.