Do you feel that autumnal chill in the air? 🍂 It's a reminder to get your subs in ASAP for our upcoming fall issue! Submissions close Sept 30.
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16.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Silence Is a Wall Furnace" by Nichole Turnbloom.
Read the full piece in garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-6
11.09.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Alley Truth" by Simone Parker.
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08.09.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “I Am Woman, Not Coyote" by Alina Kroll.
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03.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “waiting room" by Kiki Em.
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29.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Caw Caw Motherf**cker" by Grace Ellis.
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26.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICYMI—Issue 6 is out now! 🌸
You can read our new summer issue at
garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-6
We're open for submissions for Issue 7!
06.08.2025 22:59 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hot off The Garlic Press . . . our newest summer issue is available to read now! ☀️
Issue 6 features the work of these wonderful and talented contributors:
Audrey Beaton
Grace Ellis
Kiki Em
Alina Kroll
Simone Parker
Nichole Turnbloom
Check out the issue at garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-6
23.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Run, don't walk—we're still looking for writing pieces that make our noses and tastebuds tingle! Submissions for our upcoming summer issue close June 30.
Find our submission guidelines and what we're looking for at garlicpresslit.com/submit
25.06.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Ilium" by Casey Reiland (@caseyreiland.bsky.social).
Read the full piece in garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-5
23.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
An excerpt from “At the End of the World” by RJ Ingram.
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18.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “The Limbo Home" by Pilar Gonzalez.
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16.06.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Custodial Services” by Kenny Bradley.
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13.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Crime Pays by Freddie Gibbs (feat. Clairo)” by Kenny Bradley.
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11.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Pink Funeral” by West Ambrose.
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06.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
An excerpt from “boyhood” by Sofía Aguilar.
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03.06.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICYMI—Issue 5 is out now! 🌸
You can read the work of six new contributors at
garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-5
Just one month left to submit for Issue 6!
28.05.2025 16:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ilium
My sister asks me if I’m planning to procreate
in a way that suggests I shouldn’t: salty, stinging, heavy—
like the ocean we are floating in. A child
on the shore plays with a baby doll in the sand.
Just the other day, it was 60 degrees
in Antarctica, and I was so angry I wanted
the penguins to trill, Fuck you, and slither
belly down from all us humans
into the sea. The child waves the meaty
plastic arms of the doll, and I haven’t
answered my sister’s question.
My love is optimistic: The earth will change,
but we will acclimate. Others say the opposite:
We will become extinct, and little organisms
will survive and renew under our cells.
There is something hopeful about both theories.
We perennate or become silky wraiths in the soil.
I wonder if I want a baby because it’s what is expected of me,
like the child pressing the doll to her chest,
like how my sister and I would stuff
Cabbage Patch Kids up our shirts, sprawl
on our bedroom carpet, and slide their chunky
bodies from our clothes. Nothing is certain
except life is always making or breaking,
making or breaking. My legs pump
in the water, my pelvis slightly cracking,
and I don’t say that I’m afraid, even though it’s true
my bones will soften when a tiny
cranium crests through my ilium, the pain
surrendering to that punctured cry,
the fury at the world alive in that first breath.
For the evening crowd, I have a new poem up at @garlicpresslit.bsky.social! It’s about my existential crisis regarding parenting, ya know, casual stuff. Check it out below! 🧄
www.garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue...
30.04.2025 21:42 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Ilium
My sister asks me if I’m planning to procreate
in a way that suggests I shouldn’t: salty, stinging, heavy—
like the ocean we are floating in. A child
on the shore plays with a baby doll in the sand.
Just the other day, it was 60 degrees
in Antarctica, and I was so angry I wanted
the penguins to trill, Fuck you, and slither
belly down from all us humans
into the sea. The child waves the meaty
plastic arms of the doll, and I haven’t
answered my sister’s question.
My love is optimistic: The earth will change,
but we will acclimate. Others say the opposite:
We will become extinct, and little organisms
will survive and renew under our cells.
There is something hopeful about both theories.
We perennate or become silky wraiths in the soil.
I wonder if I want a baby because it’s what is expected of me,
like the child pressing the doll to her chest,
like how my sister and I would stuff
Cabbage Patch Kids up our shirts, sprawl
on our bedroom carpet, and slide their chunky
bodies from our clothes. Nothing is certain
except life is always making or breaking,
making or breaking. My legs pump
in the water, my pelvis slightly cracking,
and I don’t say that I’m afraid, even though it’s true
my bones will soften when a tiny
cranium crests through my ilium, the pain
surrendering to that punctured cry,
the fury at the world alive in that first breath.
Thank you so much to @garlicpresslit.bsky.social for publishing this poem of mine! Did you know your bones soften when you go into labor? Wild!!!
www.garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue...
30.04.2025 17:20 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
"you're dancing in the ship-model, bottle of a mirror with no reflection./You're drowning with the sirens only singing about True Love./Call your father? 1-800-U-GOT-ORPHAN."
"Name your price? Nine lilacs pressed in a stopped watch-face./(One for each circle-and in euro, please.)"
Come read 'Pink Funeral' in the new issue of @garlicpresslit.bsky.social. All about ballet and everything else worth living for!
30.04.2025 17:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Boyhood – The Garlic Press
so happy to share my newest poem “boyhood” with y’all, now out in @garlicpresslit.bsky.social !!! ✨ this piece was written to document my relationship with my furry dog son and desire to understand him - enjoy!! xx
www.garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue...
30.04.2025 16:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
We're ushering in spring with our fifth issue! 🌸
Our new issue features the work of six contributors that sprung us to our senses:
Sofía Aguilar
West Ambrose
Kenny Bradley
Pilar Gonzalez
RJ Ingram
Casey Reiland
Check out the issue at garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-5
30.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hey pungent pals! There's one more week to submit to our fifth issue! Send us your best. 🌱
You can find our submission guidelines and what we're looking for at garlicpresslit.com/submit
Our Spring 2025 reading period ends March 31.
24.03.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Digestif” by Theo Wylder.
Read the full piece in garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-4
18.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “The List of Symptoms I Give My Psychiatrist to Beg for a Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis” by Theo Wylder.
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12.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “One of These Nights” by Mac Wilder.
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06.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Hope is an intrathecal reservoir” by Stacy Marie Miller.
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03.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “please refrain” by Stacy Marie Miller.
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25.02.2025 20:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from “Seagulls” by J.B. Kalf, @enchilada89.bsky.social
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19.02.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
QUEER LATINE HEROES (SEPT. ‘25) | AMOR. (out now via Bottlecap Press!) | freelance writer | teaching artist | library professional
Bad sleeper | In search of the perfect bagel | Words in HAD, trampset, On the Seawall, and elsewhere
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editorial assistant @ knopf bfyr, sometimes poet, and a part-time mountain goat 📚🏳️🌈
“AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN” MA Thesis & WIP.
She/they. Aro/Ace horror writer. 🦑🌈🖤
✨Loves film, folklore, fantasy.
Published in 140+ venues.
eXvangelical. Queer. Jesus follower. Not…whatever this is.
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A platform for emerging writers & artists ✍️🎨
Celebrating creativity through poetry, prose, and art
Submissions open—let your voice be heard 📢
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Virtual review celebrating raw and honest work from independent poets.
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Atlanta Falcons and University of Utah Football are what life is all about 🫡
We are a quarterly, print and digital zine by anarchist dykes, for anarchist dykes. Learn more and submit here: http://bit.ly/42bCcjs
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Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
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biannual literary magazine about all things underscoring city life _ skeets by eic Erica Leslie (she/her)
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Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC.
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Small independent press sponsored by the Department of English at Missouri State University in Springfield. Publisher of books and Moon City Review.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s graduate student run lit mag. Publishing art, fiction, CNF, poetry and more since 1975!
🌞 SUMMER CONTEST NOW OPEN 🌞
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AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions CLOSED. On hiatus. Edited by
James Diaz, Jenny Robbins & Roy Duffield. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
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https://y2kq.com
Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻
Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social).
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Submissions will be closed October 16th to December 31st.
