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Read Issue 7! Epistemiclit.com Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social

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I dont remember tbh but they’re super responsive and helpful via email (we had a mixup with a renewal one year). If you need help figuring out who to email send me a DM and I’ll find the contacts I have

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Submission Guidelines - The Solitary Daisy The Solitary Daisy Journal runs on a fortnightly schedule (every two weeks). In each issue there is a prompt. Haiku written to the prompt will be considered

The prompt for our next issue is Signs of Spring! What does that mean to you in your part of the world? Submission deadline is Sunday, March 8. Full details here: thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g... #haiku #senryu #haikusubmissions

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Kathryn Reese | The tale of the dining table as told to itself

New CNF by @kathrynreese.bsky.social!!

β€œand you have a heart on your leg, engraved with a compass, the sharp edge of boredom, of having to β€˜sit here til the job’s done.’”

www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynreese

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Ok so srsly, who is planning to read something new during the open mic portion of Stanchion's Wednesday night AWP offsite and pitch it to me for Issue 23 of the magazine? You'll have ~ 3 minutes on stage then you can hand it to me on paper (name + email address included, please)!

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TEACHER RESOURCES - TEACHER RESOURCES SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FREE ISSUE DOWNLOADS DISCUSSION GUIDES WRITING RESOURCES OTHER KIDLIT MAGS

#TLSky #EduSky #Teachers #Homeschool #LibrarySky

DID YOU KNOW we have a whole page of educational resources?

- submission guidelines
- free PDF issue downloads
- discussion guides for each issue
- writing resources
- other #KidLit mags that take work from kids

epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

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The Sweetness in the Sour Moon as Salted Lemon by Clayre BenzadΓ³nDriftwood Press, 2025 Clayre BenzadΓ³n’s Moon as Salted Lemon is an exploration of the body and the self with all the sourness and tartness one could find in a…

The new @whaleroadreview.bsky.social is out, and my review of @clayrebenz.bsky.social's "Moon as Salted Lemon" is included. Read it here: www.whaleroadreview.com/clayre-benza...

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Submissions - Submission guidelines for a fully digital literary anthology that explores themes to open conversations through the written word.

I love watching the submissions come in!

We’re open all month, theme: righteous rage

Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/

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birthright/bloodline Kathryn Reese Β  When you were born, I was sent away to the witchdoctor/my grandma’s house/the place where they teach babies to sleep. You, a bundle in my arms/a portacot/still in my belly. Me, a pr…

β€œWhat would I know of bones? Mine exchanged every night for incense/gold leaf/fur.” @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social (no less) with this mothering stunner 🧑🧑🧑
pitheadchapel.com/birthright-b...

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What the Body Remembers β€” Ghost Parachute The herpes outbreak that covered half of Rania’s face a week before her wedding; red spots of fury as she prepared for the happiest day of her life, as she cried and bit the soft skin around her thumb...

So grateful to have my story "What the Body Remembers' in the March Issue of Ghost Parachute - with beautiful art by
@amymarques.bsky.social. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social & team

"How Rania’s eyesight deteriorated, as if the tears had forever blurred her vision, but not her sorrow."

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Yard Sale by Alex Carrigan β€” Full House Literary

My poem "Yard Sale" is now live in @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social. You can read and hear the piece here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026...

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Oh it’s so beautiful and sad!

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We are open all of March on theme righteous rage

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"The sting of his leaving has almost scabbed over now, crusted layers of hurt sloughing from shiny pink skin underneath."
This fractured CNF in @templeinacity.bsky.social by @cake-girl.bsky.social is raw, tender, skilful 🧑🧑🧑

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My dog Kai enjoys when I read poems about dogs to him. My miniature poodle sits on my lap as we look at Poetry for Pets, an Anthology.

My dog Kai enjoys when I read poems about dogs to him. My miniature poodle sits on my lap as we look at Poetry for Pets, an Anthology.

All proceeds from this poetry book are donated to the Buffalo Pug and Small Breed Rescue.

All proceeds from this poetry book are donated to the Buffalo Pug and Small Breed Rescue.

Text includes 4 haiku. Each about a dog. 

Haiku

Ray Hourigan

No joy like it, the Dog leaped and rolled, revelled i Snowy merriment.

Michael Aaron Harrington

broken gutter-dog flinches at falling coins

John Chmura

twin lanterns the orange sunset through a puppy's ears

Robin J. Phillips

balmy winter porch sun melts rooftop icicles dog stretches at my feet

Text includes 4 haiku. Each about a dog. Haiku Ray Hourigan No joy like it, the Dog leaped and rolled, revelled i Snowy merriment. Michael Aaron Harrington broken gutter-dog flinches at falling coins John Chmura twin lanterns the orange sunset through a puppy's ears Robin J. Phillips balmy winter porch sun melts rooftop icicles dog stretches at my feet

Like poetry?
Like dogs?
You'll love Poetry for Pets, a collection edited by Melissa Rotert aka @melruthwrites.bsky.social

Proceeds go to help a small breed rescue in Buffalo.

And remember ....
"The doggiest dog
is the bestest of friends"

#poetry #haiku #dogs

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Punarjanam by Sumitra Singam this Fibonacci in my pocket is destroyed, some symbol of cycles being remade and broken,

β€œβ€¦ where I first
understood that the way
you looked back at the men
who looked at you could be
dangerous, which my mother
understands as karma …”

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in West Trestle Review www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...

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What I might know if I let myself by Kathryn Reese Desire without ever aspiring to the darkness of tangled roots, drying mud and what we look like in drought. It’s high tide. The moon drags a fullly salted tide over us both. What started as a...

β€œβ€¦ But I’m learning to feel

the depth, that there are ways to be that have been kept from me …”

@kathrynreese.bsky.social in West Trestle Review www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...

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What the Body Remembers β€” Ghost Parachute The herpes outbreak that covered half of Rania’s face a week before her wedding; red spots of fury as she prepared for the happiest day of her life, as she cried and bit the soft skin around her thumb...

Read "What the Body Remembers" written by
@delgeo14.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"The doctor promised her father it wouldn’t leave scars following the treatment, but she scratched it raw, and it drew a white spot next to her left eye..."

tinyurl.com/ydejt7dj

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Very excited to have a piece about my kitchen table in today’s issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social !

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Oh I love it! All the various things our kitchen tables witness… (-k)

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β€œWorkout Starring Jane Fonda” by Sumitra Singam Content Warning: descriptions of disordered body image and eating Jane wears a pink and lilac striped leotard. β€œAre you ready to work out?”  My body dips and juts in ways I cannot contain. Yet…

β€œThe woman at the counter looks at my hips like they are parentheses for my body.”

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flarelitmag.bsky.social flare-magazine.com/workout-star...

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March goes out like a lamb and comes in with a ton of sub opportunities, so take advantage of a few that just opened:

@rustandmoth.bsky.social
@variantlit.bsky.social
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Submit here: forms.gle/dU2FqWCPJnq8...

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Image of exaggeratedly angry man. Headline text in fire letters: Righteous Rage

Text: submissions open for the month of March. What are you mad about?

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Image of exaggeratedly angry man. Headline text in fire letters: Righteous Rage Text: submissions open for the month of March. What are you mad about? Epistemic Literary logo

All March we want to see what you're fed up with? What really pisses you off? What has you righteously raging?
Let it all out, fam. You don't have to keep it PG, but no inciting violence, no spouting hate against races, cultures, religions. #righteousrage #rage #litmag #poetrycommunity #fiction

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Image of the cover of Alone in the Multiverse by Melissa Ruth Rotert 
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Graphic by Genalea Barker

"Free on Kindle" "Growing up in the Multiverse means never belonging to one world, but Erin and the other timewalkers will do anything to stabilize their existence, even if it means taking a life" "March 1-5" Image of the cover of Alone in the Multiverse by Melissa Ruth Rotert " Https://tinyurl.com/alone-in-the-multiverse " Graphic by Genalea Barker

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Genalea Barker Bookshop Genalea is a sleep-deprived mom andβ€”somehowβ€”the author of three books: LIFE AFTER, A SONG I USED TO KNOW, and LOVEHURTS. Her work has appeared with Broad River Review, WOW! Women on Writing, Watershed...

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Send us your flash fiction under 1000 words with your name removed from the document and all your loves and fears pressed inside! We're reading until 3/15 or we reach our cap.

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I keep hearing great things about out this book but it’s also not my typical genre… - k

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😁it’s actually 4! Here’s a cnf in @flarelitmag.bsky.social about Jane Fonda and chipsmore cookies and generally being a teenage girl

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This is one of those unforgettable stories haunted by the language of a place you can taste, and layers of emotion that leave you wanting more.

Listen to @tracierenee.bsky.social read her @trashcatlit.bsky.social story πŸ‘‡πŸΌβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈ

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