Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal

This Easter, we invite you to celebrate with us the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
May your reading, writing, and wondering this season draw you closer to the Word Himself. 💛✝️
#Easter #HeIsRisen #FaithAndLiterature #LastSyllable

POETRY OPEN READING PERIOD 1 May-June 30 RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG

Hi poetry babes—hope April finds you revising that beautiful, full-length manuscript, and that you consider sending it our way when we open on May 1.

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Our wonderful publisher, Dr. Katie Manning, moderated a panel discussion at AWP titled “It’s Personal, Not Strictly Business: Networking for Writers.” Star panelists Abayomi Animashaun, Elizabeth Dark, and Jessica Jacobs shared valuable insights. Friends of Last Syllable, we hope to see you at #946!

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The fabulous author François Bereaud, whose play was published in Last Syllable Issue 3, visits our table at AWP! We hope more friends of Last Syllable stop by booth #946 to say hello.

Friends of Last Syllable, if you're at AWP, stop by booth #946 to chat with our friendly team! #AWP

#AWP25 kicks off tomorrow! The Last Syllable team can’t wait to connect with you at table #946!

Last Syllable is launching an Annual Post-Publication Book Award Contest! 📚✨
🏆 $1,000 cash prize and ✈️ up to another $1,000 travel expenses to PLNU, and 🎤 a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writers Series!
Check lastsyllablelit.com/book-awards for details!

It’s time! Last Syllable Issue 4 is officially LIVE! 🚨
Dive into a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger beyond the final word. Read, reflect, and revel in the artistry.
✨ Explore the issue now: lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iv.
#LastSyllable #NewIssue #LiteraryMagazine

🚀 Exciting news! Last Syllable Issue 4 is dropping tomorrow! 🎉 Get ready for a powerful collection of poetry, prose, and art that will stay with you long after the last syllable. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! #LastSyllable #NewIssue #ComingSoon

Happy Issue Release Day to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!! Founded by our professor and publisher @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 😊

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨
The wait is almost over—"Last Syllable" Issue 4 is dropping in just ONE week! Get ready for a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger long after the last word. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! 🔥📖 #LastSyllable #Issue4 #ComingSoon

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Submissions are open for Issue No. 7! Send us your best short stories, poems, or essays for a chance to be published. 💙
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Friends of “Last Syllable,” meet us at AWP at booth 946!

So. I cried a lot today.

So then I read this beautiful essay “On Crying” on @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
I’ve also wondered about the “Weeping Woman” across cultures. I, too, have tried forcing myself to cry in church to no avail, only to cry for myself later on. 🤍

lastsyllablelit.com/on-crying

We can’t wait to welcome #AWP25 to the City of Angels with a night of readings & revelry @ The Count’s Den in DTLA on Thu 3/27 with our friends Rinky Dink, Ghost Parachute, Bull, Fractured Lit & Stalking Horse presses.

More details to come!

The poets are showing up in our submissions (love it! Kept it coming!)

Where are our fiction and CNF writers? Our cover artists?

#CallForSubmissions is open through the end of March

Theme: #Resistance

Heron Tree Call for Submissions Calling writers of found poetry! Heron Tree Review is open to submissions of found poems composed form sources published in or before 1929.

Heron Tree seeks found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929. No reading fee. Submit erasure poems, remixed texts, & more by May 15. https://www.newpages.com/guide-submission-opportunities/heron-tree-call-for-submissions-2025/

#poets #callforsubmissions #foundpoetry

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Submissions are now open for Issue 0: Begin, Again.

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Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Sarah Southern (Nonfiction Editor left) and Rebecca Li (Managing Editor, right)

Mitch Albom concludes the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University, elevating it to new heights. The afternoon discussion is moderated by our writing professor and author, Holland Prior, and introduced by Josiah Roberts, Last Syllable’s Art & Web Designer.

Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University
Emma Grace Weber (Poetry Editor, left) and Anna Wang (Social Media Manager, right)

Second day of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University: Sandra Cisneros’s lecture—moderated by Margarita Pintado Burgos, our professor and a poet—draws a full house.

Some kind of wood painted pink. On it it says in stenciled white letters: In Pursuit Of Magic.

Submissions are open for our next anthology, the theme is GRIEF. Please read the guidelines carefully. We are looking forward to reading your work! Photo by Karly Santiago via Unsplash. #Poetry #Anthology #Grief #Submissions
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Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Lexi Bullock (Associate Editor, left) and Ella Hachee (Editor-in-Chief, right)

Colorado Review is hoping to replenish our nonfiction queue with a few more of your submissions this week 📝

Jesmyn Ward opens this year’s Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Breeann Kirby (left), professor of fiction, and Rebecca Li, a first-year MA in Writing student and managing editor at Last Syllable, introduce Jesmyn Ward to the audience.