@megjnic.bsky.social
Poems in Threepenny, Poetry Daily, Plume Managing Editor for Variant Lit https://megannicholswriter.com
Send your work to Variant if, like me, you're submitting poetry this weekend!
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Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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This month's #Mondettes picked by @happilander.bsky.social
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/october-2025
ahhhh thank you!
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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through November 30th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
21.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Text on blue background: "we're open for submissions" and "submit your poetry, flash prose, and fiction to Variant Literature between October 21 and December 4"
We can't wait to read your work!
variantlit.com/submit/
There are other motivations behind AI for creative work and plagiarism. But I'm sympathetic toward this way of thinking - this desperate desire.
But of course, publication isn't a golden ticket. & identity has to do with action. The only qualification for "writer" is that one actually *writes*.
I have to imagine that AI is similar. "I want to write creatively but I don't have the time to edit and perfect my work on my own. If I'm published really quick, then I can buy my way in".
The identity of "writer" and the hope of gaining a "writers life" fast can be so tempting
When I first started editing a journal, I was baffled by the (occasional) plagiarized poem. It took me a while to understand part of what I think is going on. I believe some people may want to write, but either believe they cant, or actually can't afford to & publication looks like a way in
20.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm rewatching from the beginning before I start on season 3. I think this is the best thing netflix has ever been apart of
19.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grateful to have a poem in this issue!
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Susan L. Leary At First, Obedience, Subsequently— Defiance. The wound, begging for attention: its half heart beating beneath a lace doily while the ugliness explodes to the surface. Why disrupt this flourish of peace, this little tomb of white space? She looks good, they'd said. Brave inside unworkable conditions. Dead or alive, we make an anniversary of our sorrow, expeditious with our buckets of spring. To what do we owe the pleasure? You fabricate worlds in dreams while a girl fabricates worlds on the page. This is what is meant by ritual. When we say, the pedigree of the mouth-body is good. There's no use determining for whom our company is intended. Every gesture is dangerous. Were I to cut my ear off, I'd give it to you.
An image of the front cover of Cream City Review.
New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
@triohousepress.org
We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!
13.10.2025 17:55 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Hi! For anyone here who has wanted to join a Lemon Grove Writer's zoom writing sprint - our LAST sprint of 2025 is October 18th AND we're having an open mic. Now is the time to sign up! lemongrovewriters.com/sprint
11.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Every Friday in October, we invite you to explore the depths of creative horror, from the existential to the bone chillingly supernatural. We’ll draw from several different texts including Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Octavia Butler, and many more.
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"I spent hours in my bedroom practicing my banter, explaining the nuance of each of my lines, and making sure to perfect the sullen, distant look in my eyes."
New issue of my favorite writer's advice series is out!
tinyurl.com/bdutdrxf
New from The Variety Pack! In conversation with Variant Editor @williamjcagle.bsky.social,
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social discusses the strange possibilities of fiction from their forthcoming collection The Museum of Future Mistakes from @boa-editions.bsky.social
variantlit.com/the-museum-o...
Every Friday in October, we invite you to explore the depths of creative horror, from the existential to the bone chillingly supernatural. We’ll draw from several different texts including Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Octavia Butler, and many more.
28.09.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My writing group, Lemon Grove Writers, is doing a free Halloween writing series in October. Prompts, rec reading, co-writing sessions, and an open mic! It's freeee. Sign up!
lemongrovewriters.com/spooky
Write with nice strangers over zoom! Not as weird as it sounds!
Our next sprint is: Saturday, September 27th, 2025
11 AM Central / 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific
Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com
"All my talent is in waiting for small eggs to hatch—
a treasure I cannot touch.
The babies are so translucent you can see their dreams.
Shell-memory; soft belly full of worm.
What's unraveling is my ambition for more."
- "Ars Poetica" by Megan Nichols (@megjnic.bsky.social)
This August! A month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd!
Considering signing up!
lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies
Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...
Thrilled to have a micro in @susurrusmag.bsky.social about the things we carry, and trees, of course. Thank you to @jekwriter.bsky.social and @writertammyevans.bsky.social for their feedback.
www.susurrusthemagazine.com/crown-shyness
Very honored to have my poem Ars Poetica included in Issue Twelve of Susurrus. Looking forward to spending the rest of my morning reading the incredible work of the other contributors.
17.08.2025 15:08 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Very honored to be included!
17.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Susan is such a kind poet- this lifted my spirits so much. What are you reading today? I suggest Dressing the Bear, a profound collection: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
01.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Survival Plan make a scarecrow of self-worth from bloodied dancing shoes, a mask and a sea green bathing suit; call it silly, call it profound, call it regret learn to dance in the wind despite all corporeal limitations so what if the crows ignore you? this is the daily practice-trade the desire for a hundred journeys for bare usefulness, even joy lean toward the straw gold sun bow in the snow and rain send out no invitations, decline all requests, stay vigilant above the invisible field where hope grows— this will be the scarecrow's task
Sarah Stockton ✨
from THE SCARECROW OF MY FORMER SELF (MoonPath Press)
Day 1 - #SealeyChallenge
@sealeychallenge.bsky.social
Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...
This August! A month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd!
Considering signing up!
lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies
