Cam Whelr

SOME DAY It is only the world, and only your time in it; it is only the last breath, very soft. Now the hours can go home: they always wanted the quiet they have found. It is only your faults that wander now — no place for them to go. But finally they will lie down too, since no one will care any more. Some place on the earth it may happen, may catch the light, some day again, like the way Sunday was, or when you crossed through the door the last time — And the only thing left, your way of leaning your head, will catch in that shadow and then slip and be gone.

William Stafford

Really really want to read your fiction. This is a great opportunity to have your wintry story in print. Here's some insider knowledge, Christmas books sell well and fiction outsells poetry. This is a no-brainier. Submit today! #WritingCommunity

Sunday Share: Synaptic Spark—Poetry Unbound & Ilya Kaminsky Today, two loves converging

New Substack: @camwhelr | Lucent Splinter

A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa – Exploring Tulsa’s Food Scene in a Poem by Jay Rafferty - The Broken Spine Tulsa is a city that feeds the soul as much as the stomach, and Irish poet Jay Rafferty has captured its essence in this sumptuous prose poem. More than mere

Discover Tulsa like never before 🍔🍺 Dive into @jayrafferty.bsky.social's evocative prose poem, A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa, capturing the soul of the city through its eateries. Read it here: shorturl.at/O7hLU #Poetry #Foodies

Fraser MacDonald · Diary: Remembering Nan Shepherd The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be...

‘There’s the power of good writing and the power to deem writing good; these are different things with distinct geography (elsewhere needn’t be so far away: Edinburgh-based Canongate is an ingredient in Shepherd’s revival).’

@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd
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"I’m reading Ephesians. It’s so good. I think. I haven’t had time to read it, but it feels important. Blaise Pascal says there's an empty space in the human heart that only God can fill. That is so true. I agree. I underline." - James W. Miller mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Cover art: ‘Stuck to You’ by Shannon Wallace

Superpresent is seeking submissions on any aspect of the theme Movement. We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, performance art, videos, sound art, asemic writing, and visual art of all kinds. Subsmission deadline is 3/1 #callforsubmissions #movement
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Use the link in our bio to submit your poems and get a response in ONE WEEK! Those selected get published in our annual anthology. #callforsubmissions

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit to us. And also thanks to those supporters who have shared our call for submissions!
We are excited about the "Spring Warmer" and are looking forward to pulling it together.
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Thanks for the submissions today! Sent out two acceptances!

We need more art! Artists, please submit today!

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Want to submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology? Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions

Taking a Stand on the Beachhead of Love An Open Letter:

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Sunday Share: Reasons for Living with Esmé Weijun Wang From Depending, posted this week:

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If you don’t already, you really must follow: @esmewang.com

Against a backdrop of pink, purple, and peach roses: A two-headed lambs lays on a bed of pink roses underneath a banner of text that reads gaudy infinitesimal wants to catalog your unabashed gratitudes!

Against a backdrop of pink, purple, and peach roses: FOR THIS ISSUE, we're seeking work that luxuriates in petite miracles; catalogues of tiny happinesses; the captured essence of little treats. we're looking for all the small things worth waking for.

Against a backdrop of pink, purple, and peach roses, a bust-up clipping of a two-headed lamb framed in a garland of roses hovers over the following text: For a full list of guidelines, visit bleatingthingmag@gmail.com

Submissions are OPEN for our third issue, GAUDY INFINITESIMAL. It's all about luxuriating in the little things.

We are in serious need of: visual art, essays, and hybrid work.

Poets, never stop sending! (Until the deadline, anyway.)

Maggie Smith: Attending to Awe & Ash

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Maggie’s poems attend so tenderly to all the awe & ash of this, our momentary, Life. She snagged me early. I felt plucked out of the wind & caught aloft. A kite broken loose. Lodged high in a tree with views of the whole horizon. I was buffeted & needed upholding.

Lucent Splinter: Winter Vibe:

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Snow Days, Skipping Out & Dangerous Off-Ramps: The ice storm + blizzard that rolled over the past 2 days, left our whole area with cars & trucks spun into heaps & lodged in drifts on medians & off-ramps.

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Lucent Splinter: lit slivers meant to lodge under your skin | Cam Whelr | Substack aglow. alight. clear: perfectly useful for the transmission of light — meant to lodge under the skin. Click to read Lucent Splinter: lit slivers meant to lodge under your skin, by Cam Whelr, a Substac...

New Year | New Substack: open.substack.com/pub/camwhelr

Merry. Merry. Joyful. Joyful. Blessed beyond Blessed!!

Only three weeks until my submission call with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social opens!

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress.

All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024.

www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant

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Shara McCallum’s “Wilding” is today’s featured poem from the fall issue of Pleiades! pleiadesmag.com/online-exclu...

Hello, we're back! Last reading of 2024 will be this Sunday afternoon at 2 PM Central. Come hear @danadelibovi.bsky.social and Molly Peacock discuss elegy and memory.

Register here:
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What's the best book you've read by a chronically ill or disabled writer recently? Any you're looking forward to? Read book reviews/interviews on Ciadish.co.uk & find authors to follow in this starter pack go.bsky.app/EFKNgPt (which I'm still updating but slowly due to pacing) #disability #NEISvoid

And this is why authors are always asking you to preorder.