Katie Manning

We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com

And if you're lucky enough to be in a city that's included on her book tour, get yourself to the event! We will have her here in San Diego in our PLNU M.A. in Writing Visiting Writers Series on Dec. 3.

Happy book release day to my dear friend Kelly Foster Lundquist! Her new book, Beard, is an impossibly beautiful memoir, full of humor, food, pop culture references, and so much compassion for her ex-husband and her past self. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Just listened to this super late last night. It’s so lovely. I might need to get new poetry books soon… 🐠

I just need everyone to know that today my awestruck 14yo son called me the God of Tetris. 😁🚀

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

❤️❤️❤️ to see people still engaging with Jesus Merch is the most exciting, thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social!!!

Yes! It's so good.

YouTube video by Katie Manning Poetry Rev 65 - Jessica Jacobs - Unalone

If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :)

youtu.be/HsodIXXqGwU?...

YouTube video by Katie Manning Poetry Rev 64 - Jesus Merch - Megan McDermott

I haven't made a Poetry Rev video in a while (it's been an absurd year), but here's a new one with Jesus Merch by Megan McDermott!

youtube.com/shorts/yI5pB...

I’m so honored that Painted Pebble Lit Mag has nominated my poem “When My Spouse Was Hot” for Best of the Net!

You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But… We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but Democrats are dangerously close to keeping health insurance costs from spiking. We, the GOP, don’t want a s...

"We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government."

We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com
We can’t wait to read your work!!

#writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit

Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

This is gonna be fun!
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
@grantclauser.bsky.social
@jdisip.bsky.social
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
@claudiasavage.bsky.social
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social
@micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online

Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade — The Rupture Amorak Huey   "As long as your campaign remains viable, it will continue a slow process of change and growth." —Gary Gygax When you come back in the fall of 1983 your friends lis...

@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 's chapbook How to Play. @amorak.bsky.social's Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade: www.therupturemag.com/the-collagis...

Thanks for reading and sharing my book!

The cover of the Katie manning book how to play, poems inspired by games

YOU ALWAYS LET ME WIN AT CANDYLAND I never knew you were cheating, but Mom said you were going to make me a bad sport. If you could speak now, what would you say? I just loved to see you happy. No, you'd still say love— present-cigarettes and coffee on your breath. And you'd play love so I would be the one to find it, like our favorite card-the layered ice cream bar that never melts.

Day 23 of the #sealeychallenge

August 23rd- How to Play, Katie Manning

This chapbook by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social from features poems inspired by games of childhood, a perfect nostalgia for the end of summer

So pleased to have a review of UK writer James Roderick Burns' chapbook, Salamander Street, in this fine publication - @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @davidbridie.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 29 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @andotheritems.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more.

Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.

I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poems

Issue 39 / Summer 2025 Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” –…

Please make a writer’s day and send a little something (or a lot) using the Tip the Author links below many of the bios. As ever, thank you for reading!

@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-39-sum...

Model What’s Natural Instead of Integrating the Artificial When I was a graduate student, the professor teaching our pedagogy class gave an unpopular task: we had to write the paper we were about to assign in first-year composition. Then we’d exchange pape…

In pedagogy, Jen Hirt brings us a timely and much-needed example of modeling the writing process rather than integrating AI.

www.whaleroadreview.com/hirt/

Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).

This is a black and white photo of Katie Manning with text that says "Glen Workshop" and "Writing Retreat Guide."

I'm delighted to be on faculty for the Glen Workshop this summer as the writing retreat guide. Come write with me in Seattle? :)

imagejournal.org/2025-the-gle...

Wooden bowl with white cloves of garlic in it

Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire":

www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/

Thanks for including me!