Two months until our last deadline of the year!
Head to neomfa.org/apply for more info.
16.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#AWP attendees, add this to your off-site schedule…featuring readings from 2️⃣ alums, Zach Peckham & Sony Ton-Aime 🎙️
12.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THIS WEEKEND 🎭🎭🎭
All tix are pay-what-you-can and available at convergence-continuum.org 🎟️
09.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming up soon! 2026 NEOMFA Play Readings. Fri Feb 13 @ 7:30pm: W. Reid Kennedy, Jennifer Foxhoven, & Ari Croft. Sat Feb 14 @ 7:30pm: Eric Mansfield. Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd, CLE. convergence-continuum.thundertix.com/events/259305. All seats are Pay What You Can! ($1 minimum + processing fees.)
04.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats all of the NEOMFA winners of 2026 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards! Hilary Plum, Anthony Tognazzini, Laura Maylene Walter, David Giffels, Caryl Pagel, Thomas W. Hayes, Brandon North, Amanda Stovicek D’Alessandro, &
Catherine Wing. oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an...
30.01.2026 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to student Lindsay Collier (KSU), whose poem "Bird (abandoned) theory" was published in The Words Faire. Read it online via the link below! www.thewordsfaire.com/theexhibitio...
29.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Plenty of time before our final application deadline for Fall 2026 study, April 15! Part-time applicants and others not seeking funding are still welcome! Choose one of four genres and one of three gateway universities. For info, visit neomfa.org/apply or contact neomfa.applicants@gmail.com.
27.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2026 NEOMFA Play Readings. Fri Feb 13 @ 7:30pm: W. Reid Kennedy, Jennifer Foxhoven, & Ari Croft. Sat Feb 14 @ 7:30pm: Eric Mansfield. At The Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland. Tix: convergence-continuum.thundertix.com/events/259305. All seats “Pay What You Can”! ($1 minimum + processing fees.)
23.01.2026 21:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hit submit on those apps by midnight!
We’ll have one more app deadline on 4/15 for Fall ‘26 matriculation.
15.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you! 🙏
14.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
UPDATE: This event is canceled due to weather tonight; new date TBD!
14.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TONIGHT
14.01.2026 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
🎊🎊🎊
Our Program Director Mary Biddinger's piece, "Everyone Needs a Bit of Spiritual Devotion," (pub. @whaleroadreview.bsky.social) was chosen for Best Microfiction 2026!
Congratulations, @marybid.bsky.social 💫
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social
www.bestmicrofiction.com/index.html
13.01.2026 13:01 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Congrats to CSU fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro on her Pushcart Prize nomination from @weirdlitmag.bsky.social 💫💫💫
Read her nominated story here: www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/yell...
09.01.2026 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mark your calendars 🗓️
El Bentivegna (CSU, poetry) will read from their new chapbook “Confirm Humanity” next Wednesday, Jan 14, 7pm, at Mac’s Backs 🎙️💫
Joining El at the mic will be Julia Cilano (Kent, poetry) 💚
Don’t miss it!
07.01.2026 13:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Just 🔟 days until our next application deadline!
Applicants who want to be considered for an assistantship MUST apply by the 1/15 deadline. Head to neomfa.org/apply for more info 💡
05.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to KSU poetry candidate Julia Cilano on her placement as co-editor for @crayfishmag.bsky.social 💫🦞✍️
www.crayfishmag.com/about
02.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to our Program Director @marybid.bsky.social on her 2025 Best Microfiction nomination from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 💫
23.12.2025 13:12 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Faculty Hilary Plum's latest novel, "State Champ," out from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, was named in the @parisreview.bsky.social's "Our Favorite Books of 2025" list (selected by @markleidner.bsky.social) 🏆🏃♀️🩸
Full list: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
17.12.2025 13:14 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mark your calendars 🗓️
Past faculty Emily Mitchell is coming to Loganberry Books for a reading & conversation with author Dan Chaon Jan 14, 7pm 🎙️
Mitchell will be reading from her new collection of speculative fiction, "The Church of Divine Electricity" 🔌⚡
www.loganberrybooks.com/emily-mitche...
16.12.2025 14:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love this piece from @ironbrewer.bsky.social
15.12.2025 17:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Officially one month away from our next application deadline…let’s see those apps!
neomfa.org/apply
15.12.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TONIGHT 🌨️🌨️🌨️
@clereviewbooks.bsky.social
14.12.2025 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Student-led reading series 2x2 put on another great night of music & lit last weekend 🎸📚🎙️
11.12.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
50 Cleveland Book Releases We Loved in 2025
Find new releases in fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry and more from authors affiliated with Northeast Ohio's literary scene.
Books from faculty Hilary Plum ("State Champ," @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) AND alum Ali Black ("We Look Better Alive," @burnsidereview.bsky.social) featured in this list of favs from @clevelandmag.bsky.social 💫💫💫
clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...
10.12.2025 22:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A semi-regular collection of words and pictures, HALSEY focuses on the art and science of living and what it means to be human: 30 poems, 10 photos, and 2 essays in every issue https://www.rockwoodpress.com/halsey
Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
writer of books, sometimes movies http://linktr.ee/markleidner
https://markleidner.substack.com/p/50-questions-to-ask-about-your-story
Independent literary publisher of books and chapbooks of poetry, based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2004.
➡️ www.burnsidereview.org
Celebrating the #BestOfCLE since 1972
Hugo Award finalist, World Fantasy and Ignyte Award winning online magazine of literary adventure fantasy, since 2008.
Read/listen online: https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Global solidarity collective.
publishersforpalestine.org
IG:@publishers4palestine #ReadPalestine
A group of Crazy Artists/poets/ writers making anthologies from in-between places. Purpleinkpress.com
Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS ARE ALWAYS OPEN!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
Two women, no plots, no problem
https://open.spotify.com/show/09pac7Cnbw6rWImc6Uwdnt?si=7ww1Q27QT_K22vCHk2pdqQ
https://www.instagram.com/plotless_podcast?igsh=MWlhcmF1ZW80M3k4MA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
A digital magazine + podcast on culture, history, and environment
📍 University of Wisconsin-Madison
🔗 edgeeffects.net
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
www.leannesimpson.ca
Publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and reviews since 1980. Based at Bowling Green State University.
Submit: https://casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview/submit/
Literary magazine est. 1979, reimagined 2021.
Writing, translation, and art on the environment.
https://thedodgemag.com/
General submissions in nonfiction, translation, and visual art OPEN NOW!
📝Writer in Booth, Pithead Chapel, Salt Hill, XRAY, and elsewhere.
www.CoreyMillerWrites.com
A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
A magazine of poetry and prose. Submissions are open through March 25. We pay $15 per accepted piece.
the cleveland of reviews of books
clereviewofbooks.com
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