K.M. Hanslik ✨🪰

Is my yard overgrown or am I creating holistic Halloween decorations?

Submissions open in one week! Yay!

How/What to Submit:
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Open September 1st through November 1st to CNF, Poetry, Hybrid, and Art!

My piece “the taxidermist” in ‘Issue 2: Survivors’ of Black Glass Pages!

Today’s feature is an excerpt from Jean Feldeisen’s poem, “Jab Jab Cross.”

Read this poem, and two more by Jean, here: turningleafjournal.com/2024/12/15/j...

We paired this piece with artwork titled “Cherry Thinking,” submitted by Mirjana M.

Yeahh I don’t fully feel anywhere is safe anymore

Welcomeee

I feel like what a lot of people call “wonder” is just them shutting off the things that filter the world around them

Hello!!

Thank you! 😊

Been kind of a dry spell but I have 2 pieces confirmed coming out in 2025 so far, and a potential chapbook in the works, so stay tuned :)

If you see this and you’re a fellow writer, say “hi”!! 🙋

Artwork Source: “Marsh Grass,” by Milne Ramsey American. In the Public Domain.

Vol 1.2 Contributors and final submission stats!

Each of these contributors have helped us to create an issue that is so viscerally human and we cannot wait for its publication on December 15th! Just a few days away!

Happy publication day to Volume 1, Issue 2 of The Turning Leaf Journal!

Read the EIC's letter first, then slowly indulge yourself in 22 new definitions, explorations, and reflections on change--that is, after all, what we're all about. 🌿

turningleafjournal.com/v1-2/

I have been waiting for someone to make this joke 😂

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Low class? As in poor? Why even write this?

Thank you!! ♥️

"Town Square" by Susan Barry Schulz. 9” x 9” collage on packing cardboard (vintage book pages, magazine and catalogue scraps)

Bluesky gets the reveal first 👀

So excited to share the cover for our second issue! Publication date is set for December 15th.

Artwork is from @suebarryschulz.bsky.social and is titled "Town Square."

YES 🙌🏻

In case you missed it, I’m uploading some of my writing to this platform now. Here’s “sanctimonious” from Bleating Thing Magazine’s second volume 🤍 🐏

Received a lovely acceptance yesterday, from the folks at Black Glass Pages! ♥️

Our next issue Joy will be out in January. Thank you for your patience while we make our way through the Dust inbox, we’ve been thinking a lot about this as we do:

I dunno what I’m doing either tbh, but nice to meet you! Running several accounts at once is going to be rough lol

Hi Josh! I like a lot of those bands as well :) I mainly do writing, but have dabbled in art in the past! Good to see fellow creatives on here!

I genuinely don’t know how to manage this multiple-platform thing 😅😂

We're expanding the masthead! Applications will stay open until all positions have been filled.

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Also, hi 👋 We're gonna be more active over here now!