Audi Locus

Audi Locus, A Journal of Poetry, announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations from Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2. Issue 1 nominations are: "The Pope Graces Buc-ee's with his Divine Presence" by Dutch Simmons, "Apples" by Meghan Albizo, and "People Keep Dying So I Keep Writing About It" by Sofiya Ivanova. Issue 2 nominations are: "The Tent" by Rowan Tate, "Unsilenced Ghosts" by Isabelle Ruby, and "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)" by Tess Ezzy.

We are bursting with pride to announce our six nominees for the 2025 Pushcart Prize!

Huge congrats to: Dutch Simmons, Meghan Albizo, Sofiya Ivanova, Rowan Tate, Isabelle Ruby, and Tess Ezzy.

Read all the nominated poems and the full issues now at www.audilocus.com

#PushcartPrize #Poetry

So excited about the submissions coming in and am currently digging through Issues 1 and 2 for Pushcart nominations!

A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."

Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry

This seems a great time to pipe up with a #Conrad4Congress! There's a working-class guy running against Mike Johnson in Louisiana (@conrad4congress.bsky.social). ✊💞

Working on balance.

an honour to be included❤️

Thank you for contributing! 💞✨

A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."

Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry

A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"

What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #CurrentEvents #Poetry

Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus

The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam

A digital flyer with a black brick background announces that Audi Locus, a journal of poetry, is open for submissions. The main text in bright neon reads: "WE ARE OPEN for submissions." Below, it lists "Poetry · Art · Music" and the submission period "Oct 01 – Nov 30." At the bottom, the Audi Locus logo appears with the tagline "A Journal of Poetry" and the website "www.audilocus.com"

Audi Locus is now accepting poetry, art, and music for our next issue. Submit your work between Oct 1 – Nov 30.

🖊 Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

Art is resistance. Come build with us.

#poetrysubmission #poetrycall #artcall

A poem is an anti-capitalist machine

yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it

no, it doesn’t produce on command

the factory is closed

the worker is sleeping

In poetry, just do whatever feels good. I love an em dash. 💞

Love a poem on a heavy topic delivered with levity. It's beautiful!

A quote graphic from the poem "Unsilenced Ghosts" by Isabelle Ruby. The quote reads: "I name every shadow that passes through me. I name every silence complicit in my pain."

Isabelle Ruby's "Unsilenced Ghosts" is the powerful voice of a survivor, actively witnessing and naming every silence and shadow. Read it and more in our current issue.

📖: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #Poetry #SurvivorPoetry #LitMag

Hi, everyone,

Submissions close for my magazine, Steel Jackdaw, for Edition 19 on Sunday, the 12th October (midnight UK time).

Submit your best work for consideration – poetry & flash fiction:
www.steeljackdaw.com/submissions

#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #writingcommunity

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Maudie Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the disquiet beneath the surface. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit

Arrives Nov

A quote graphic from the poem "Homeless Woman" by Esther Fishman. The quote reads: "I try to imagine the blast that left such a ruin, or the semblance of life that must go on day after day..."

Esther Fishman challenges us to truly witness those we often pass by. Her poem "Homeless Woman" looks at the stark reality of life stripped bare. Read it in our "Witness" issue.

👁️: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #HomelessWoman #Poetry #SocialJusticePoetry

Submissions We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…

And YES! Another submission opportunity!
We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest.
Check out the website for submission details...
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

The theme is "LUCK". In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry". POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap. PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece. Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under. Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry". All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

A quote graphic from the poem "The Tent" by Rowan Tate. The quote reads: "...Whatever is left of my country, I brought it with me in my skin and keep it wrapped in my abaya..."

Our "Witness" issue begins with Rowan Tate's poignant bearing witness to life in exile. The feeling of bringing everything you have left with you is encapsulated here.

📖 Read "The Tent" and more:
www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

#AudiLocus #Witness #RowanTate #TheTent #RefugeePoetry #LitMag

A graphic listing the contributors for Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2. The list includes: Angela Arnold, Barnaby Blue, Ian Brownlie, Denise Bossarte, L.A. Duncan, Tess Ezzy, Esther Fishman, Juleanna Green, Joanne Macias, Janet McMillan Rives, F.T. Rose, Isabelle Ruby, Carolyn Schlam, Kim McNealy Sosin, Rowan Tate, Colette Tennant, Wallgrin, and Ernest Williamson III.

We are proud that these incredible poets and artists answered the call to "Witness" for Volume 1, Issue 2. Thank you for your vital work! Tap the link in our bio to read the new issue.

Submissions will officially be open in one week for Issue 58!
Between Oct 1. and Oct. 31, submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or drama work using the link in our bio, where you can also find more information on our submission guidelines. We can't wait to read your writing!

Our submission period is open for Issue 16!
Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem.
🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit

#PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

🎉 Eeeek! We’re today’s Listing of the Day on Duotrope!
Proud, thrilled, and maybe a little over-caffeinated. 💫

Submissions are OPEN, and we’re so excited to keep building our little corner of the literary world!

#artcall #poetrycall #opencall

Nice cover! And Charlotte Cosgrove has good taste, so I'm sure it's a gorgeous collection!

A digital flyer with a black brick background announces that Audi Locus, a journal of poetry, is open for submissions. The main text in bright neon reads: "WE ARE OPEN for submissions." Below, it lists "Poetry · Art · Music" and the submission period "Oct 01 – Nov 30." At the bottom, the Audi Locus logo appears with the tagline "A Journal of Poetry" and the website "www.audilocus.com"

Audi Locus is now accepting poetry, art, and music for our next issue. Submit your work between Oct 1 – Nov 30.

🖊 Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

Art is resistance. Come build with us.

#poetrysubmission #poetrycall #artcall

Very happy to have a couple of poems included in this fabulous issue. Thank you, Maudie and Brandon🙏

It's true! We're open for submissions. No theme. We love the existential and surreal. ✨

Well, we blew the deadline for Best of the Net this time around (we’ll have our act together next year). But on the bright side, we get the joy of combing through our first two issues to make our Pushcart picks!