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Use the space as I need / so I breathe / so I call to the sky and hope that there's a god / that's the first time I admitted that out loud / I think of who I was: angry and unyielding / I am still unyielding / to the sky, I hope, even if there is no god / that there is the energy of those we love.

06.04.2025 23:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

To be born daughter is to be born wind torn / from arms, from the air that shaped them / to be born daughter is to be leader / is to be fraught / is to be alone but always pressed against the next body that opens its mouth to the shape of need / to be born daughter is to wonder / is to know.

07.04.2025 21:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

#poets what’s your plan for #napowrimo this year?😋

14.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Artists from Maryland Issue 2 submission graphic For Issue 2 of Artists from Maryland, we will be PAYING contributors, through a free-to-enter contest! Winner receives $40 USD, Runner-ups receive $20, Finalists receive $10. All honorees will be published in Issue 2! Details at artistsfrommaryland.org/guidelines. Submissions close April 26th.

hiiiiiiii i'm co-judging issue 2 of @artfrommaryland.bsky.social 👀 i'd love to read work that evokes a vivid sense of place—show me your corner of the state in all its details. make me feel something!

oh, and did i mention this is a paid opportunity?

09.03.2025 19:51 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!

10.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 442    🔁 104    💬 10    📌 3

Want to join the Split/Lip Press Team? We're looking for a Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor! Applications open 12/5-12/15! For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com

Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our new Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor!

Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]

05.12.2024 13:37 — 👍 72    🔁 59    💬 2    📌 5

We did it! We're finally on Bluesky! Can y'all signal boost this so we can find our friends from Twitter? We've missed you so much!

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