Cosmic Daffodil Journal

THE BODY ARCHIVE - Now open for submissions 🔪🩸

We are looking for:
Poetry, Flash Fiction (300-600 words), Flash Nonfiction (300-600 words), Visual Art, Photography

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I'm so excited for my first publication for just any old stranger to read it! And I'm overwhelmed to be in such amazing company!

(I'm page 87, but you should read it all!)

THE BODY ARCHIVE 💀🖤

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN

PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION

My Blue Army Elvis has been published on page 61 the current Lost and Found edition of Cosmic Daffodil literary journal, alongside some stunning pieces - see in link

Thanks @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social!

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HAPPY LAUNCH DAY 🎉

We are proud to announce that LOST & FOUND is officially LIVE!

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Thank you to our wonderful contributors & amazing content readers - we couldn't do this without you!

💙 Madi & Kelly

LOST & FOUND

Issue 11 Contributors

❗️❗️LAUNCHING AUGUST 1ST ❗️❗️

Ink drawing of two antelope and a lion statue in the foreground, with trees in the background.

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From 'The Archive' (1926-27)
—Eiko Yonemura

#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration

Invitation My love is rippling out, Little liquid streams Over the edge of the fountain, But hardly anyone ever passes this way… My love is rippling out… Come a little nearer, if you are thirsty…

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From ‘Current Opinion’ (1922)
—Helene Mullins
Is this one of the earliest uses of the slang “thirsty” in a poem?!

#ForgottenPoets #poetry

A defiant #poem for our times.

@apbrown.bsky.social's Remedy for Fascism commands you to collect stones & people & march on.

Read Small Remedies for free: buff.ly/9FlWnFl!

Send us your thoughts/reviews!

#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #indielit #indiepress #amreading

Lioness poem - Lorna Goodison It is Sunday and we are off to the Lion park. But first we must pass this parade of ostriches: mother and father and a float of small babies with fabulous plumage still in tufty stage soft furze that ...

“Done win already. Miss honey, sweet-biscuit, amber
and pollen.”

Lioness by Lorna Goodison

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Re-opening: long con magazine long con magazine (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/long-con-magazine-28102 #amwriting

long con magazine (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

ISSUE 12 THEME ANNOUNCEMENT

- THE BODY ARCHIVE -

SUBMISSIONS OPEN AUGUST 2ND

🟣LOST & FOUND🟣
SUBMISSION STATISTICS

Thank you to everyone who submitted these last few months. Please check your inboxes; all responses have been sent out.

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that packs an emotional punch and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth.

$704 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winner.

Details:

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#writingcommunity

We are looking for poems that uniquely explore each month's theme. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images that resonate in interesting and unexpected ways.

August’s theme is bravery.

Submissions open on 8/1!

Details at the link below:

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#writingcommunity

The Beehive is ready. If you're a litmag / anthology editor with a submission call you'd like writers to know about, feel free to email us before we send out our upcoming newsletter this weekend!

“Cora wants to be liked. She wants this date to go well, if for no other reason than to have something good to tell her mother later.”

Excerpt from “Migration Patterns” by Frankie Concepcion. It appears in the Summer 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.

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#writingcommunity

Re-opening: Sixth Finch Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social (Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/sixth-finch-3211 #amwriting

Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social (Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Proverbs Who rails at the stars Has his teeth fall out. * Who weeps for the world Loses his eyes. * Who sleeps with lice Will be full of fleas.

Serbian proverbs, edited by Vasko Popa

Eggs We turn out As tippy as Eggs. Legs Are an illusion. We are held As in a carton If someone Loves us. It’s a pity Only loss Proves this.

From ‘Erratic Facts’ (2015)
—Kay Ryan

#poetry #poem #booksky

ISSUE 12

THEME ANNOUNCEMENT

7.23.2025

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Submissions are CLOSED for LOST & FOUND!

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." – Toni Morrison

We’re giving away one copy of Issue 2 and one copy of Issue 3 to two randomly selected individuals! All you need to do is like this post AND quote post with someone (living or dead) you’d like to send a poem postcard to and why. Winners will be selected on July 31st!

LOST & FOUND

Today is the LAST day to submit.

Please visit our website or the Duotrope page for more information:
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“But I belong to a nation which has ceased to be interested in the nobler manifestations of intelligence, and whose only deity is the golden calf.”

-- Hector Berlioz, Memoirs

SUBMISSIONS WILL CLOSE FOR *LOST & FOUND* IN ❗️TWO❗️DAYS:
July 14th @ 11:59 EST.

Email submissions will not be accepted - Please use Duosuma to submit to our call.

Check out our website for more information ❤️

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Submissions for LOST & FOUND close in ONE WEEK ✨️📅

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We can't wait to see your creations!