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The 2025 Best of the Net Anthology is now live! Read work from this year's winners and see the full list of finalists here! bestofthenetanthology.com

What a wonderful and generous resource! Use it!!

Submissions Short fiction for our online magazine Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions in poetry, short and flash fiction. We’re open for subs! To celebrate the upcoming release of Colin Gee&#821…

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YouTube video by The Chrysalis BREW Project July 2025 BREW Readers' Choice Awardees: 9 Titles Win the Book of the Month Title

July 2025 BREW Readers' Choice Awardees:
9 Titles Win the Book of the Month Title
Proud to have this recognition for my full-length poetry book "Apprenticed to the Night"!
Chrysalis BREW did this video.
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Just a reminder for this year's #SealeyChallenge, Sundress offers free downloadable chapbooks on our website! www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps

We're always fascinated by the creative process & so thankful that our contributors offer up their Author Insights!

Here, @dustintriplett.bsky.social breaks down his #poem "Clean Up on Aisle 12" from Things That Made Me, available as a free download: buff.ly/9FlWnFl.

#booksky #amreading #authors

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Alright @ewenglass.bsky.social !! Congrats!

ANATOMY OF AN AXE by Ewen Glass (@ewenglass.bsky.social‬), illustrated by Ysabel Hinrichs, is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Wonderful news!!

We invite you all to read, discuss, & celebrate @apbrown.bsky.social's incredible #poetry microchap Small Remedies.

Download it for free: buff.ly/9FlWnFl!

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We love @apbrown.bsky.social’s invitation to resistance!

Thank you so much Matthew!

Dustin Triplett | Substack St. Louis based poet and creative nonfiction writer specializing in work that’s raw, reflective, and a little unhinged. I explore the cracks in everyday life—what festers, what heals, and what refuses...

It's part of my series about the 7 stages of grief of romantically losing someone. Would you like to read what I had to say about the other stages? I'm actively seeking publications or those. If I can't find a home for them, I'll publish them on my Substack.

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The Bed Is Still Warm (Denial), is now live on Discretionary Love! It’s about the space someone leaves behind and how that space keeps breathing without them. #poetry #MissouriWriters #MidwestPoetry #StLouisWriters #PoetsOfMissouri #MissouriLit #BlueskyPoets

"...the quiet horror of spaces that were never built for soft, weird kids."

@dustintriplett.bsky.social explains the origins of his #poem "Clean Up on Aisle 12" & really captures the feeling of modern dissociation.

You can download his microchap Things That Made Me for free: buff.ly/9FlWnFl !

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@apbrown.bsky.social’s Small Remedies is such a treasure!

Yes!! Thank you for downloading our microchaps!!

Wonderful, Matthew!!

On behalf of e(i & @dustintriplett.bsky.social - a big THANKS for taking time w his work & for sharing yr thoughts!

We love this poem too esp bc of the lines : "Don’t make me talk.
 / Don’t open that box.
 / There’s no Schrödinger here.
 / Only ghosts made of my own voice."

@apbrown.bsky.social's Remedy for a Manic Mind wants you to follow these steps on your self-soothing ritual.

Read it! buff.ly/9FlWnFl

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#sealeychallenge -rs!

Cleanse your poetry pallete with these fantastic and free microchaps!

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In @dustintriplett.bsky.social's "Clean Up on Aisle 12" a trip to Walmart morphs into a surreal consumerist nightmare dreamscape!

Read it! buff.ly/9FlWnFl

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It might be a fun exercise to lean into the phobias?

But then again I am most taken by your handling of “everyday emotions”!

Hey that's me! What other remedies should I write? My current to do list includes: Indecision, Jealousy, Self Doubt, and Misophonia

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet

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Sealey Challenge reminder: all kith books have eBooks (kithbooks.com/digital) and all kith eBooks can be free books if that's something you need. DM or email, no reason required.

Attn #writingcommunity!

You've got to check out @apbrown.bsky.social's stunning & powerful microchap Small Remedies, available as a free PDF download: buff.ly/9FlWnFl!

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Shameless self-promotion: @dehm000.bsky.social is me!

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rowhouse song was inspired by my upbringing in a multigenerational household.

It's about summertime magic, skeletons in our closets, girlhood/sisterhood, & the unthinkable.

TY @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!

Also we are sending out little tokens of our thanks to those who download our microchaps! We’ve got stickers & coasters!

Friendly reminder.

We'd love to gather opinions/reactions/commentary on these wonderful microchaps!

Send your thoughts our way!

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