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Bulb Culture Collective's newest call for Chandelier Submissions! The theme? Blazing! "Summer 2025" is written in an orange type, and against a white field, orbs of yellow light emanate from an ivory chandelier. A bigger yellow orb, sun-like, is centered at the bottom of the image beneath the chandelier.

Ready for an ANNOUNCEMENT? 💡☀️

We are OPEN for Chandelier Submissions! The theme?

BLAZING

If you're unfamiliar, Chandelier is BCC's e-zine! A curation of previously published writing centered around a single theme.

We're looking for writing that BLAZES. Think: HEAT, LIGHT, SEAR, BURN.

Full Moon - Wendy BooydeGraaff — Bulb Culture Collective She sat beneath the trees because she needed the darkness first.

The light is on for Wendy BooydeGraaff! 💡 @onlybooyskies.bsky.social

“Full Moon” is a spectacularly eerie micro that demands to be read and reread!

Check it out!

Sign outside Grace Methodist Church, reading: THE ONLY MINORITY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY ARE THE BILLIONAIRES. Posted on Facebook by Grace United Methodist Church on Jan. 30, 2025.

Audrey Carroll In My Next Queer Life I Want To Be cover: a line drawing of a wreath.of flora and critters in black with the title overlaid in pale lilac brush script on a background of green "a cactus knows how to draw boundaries. You can go exactly this far and that's enough and if that's not respected? Blood is drawn" available in print and eBook

In My Next Queer Life, I want to Be is an expression of the haunting realities of living queer today, told through the hopeful lens of possibilities for a better future. Audrey's poems are witty, mournful, and joyful—often all at once.
@audreytcarroll.bsky.social

It's true. Send us the poetry! Send us the essays! JAKE wants your weird.

Poets! Essayists! We want your work!

I'm talking to my 20-year-old crochet maestro about a 2025 Stanchion Book Club crocheted goodie. So far, she's made a ghost & a slew of adorable sock ornaments. Buy a book club membership for yourself or your favorite reader to get books & so much more!

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so grateful this piece has found a new home!! thank you @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social 💞

A reminder that we are very much open for your previously published fiction, poetry, and CNF!

Full guidelines here:

www.bulbculturecollective.com/submission-g...

Thank you! I'm really excited to join JAKE.

Alright, y'all. I'm making the switch. It's a relief, almost, to be able to say goodbye to the other place, even though I've been there for over a decade.

O.k. Time for the next bit of big news. JAKE is proud to announce that he's bringing in the venerable
@scoops.bsky.social
as the new Managing Editor for Poetry!🧵

So ready to read the killer work that @scoops.bsky.social is going to bring to JAKE

‎My Bad Poetry: Pumpkin King ... Decreasing Functionality (w/ L.M. Cole) on Apple Podcasts ‎Show My Bad Poetry, Ep Pumpkin King ... Decreasing Functionality (w/ L.M. Cole) - Feb 26, 2024

What makes a bad poem bad? The structure? The subject? The essence? Listen to @scoops.bsky.social guest on the show and hear a sorted batch of bad poems from the drafts folder! Thanks L.M. for coming on the show!
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Spring Break Bloopers! Co-Hosts Aaron and Dave took the week off to focus on their day jobs. Enjoy a compilation of the tangents, distractions, and strange takes that just didn't make the…

Just dropped an All-Star episode featuring @trappermarkelz.bsky.social , @scoops.bsky.social , @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social , @madelinksi.bsky.social , Shiksha Dheda, Court Ludwick, @natallman.bsky.social !!!
What's that... it's a blooper compilation?
Oh. Enjoy!
www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetr...

Back to the Start by Cheryl Skory Suma An old fashioned wooden door, an illustration of a cabin in the woods, sparks from a fire.

The light is on for Cheryl Skory Suma! @cherylskorysumal.bsky.social

Today's story is a heartfelt paring down of a relationship, a look at the way a fire can reduce to smolder and still burn.

Check it out:

www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/back-to...

MCR Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Swamp Thing Works through the Third Skandha by Jack B. Bedell | Issue #31 My first week living in this swamp I had a hard time admitting I was what I was. The growth formula, the fire, all the violence and loss—these things caused me to be the thing I am, and what was lef...

"What I was now was a useful tool for anger, so I threw myself into that spite."

Swamp Thing Works through the Third Skandha. New #flashfiction from @jackbedell.bsky.social!

I know it isn't much, but I'm sorry, I hear you. ❤️

Multi colored teacups on a white background. Text: Mug Shots Dan Brotzel

The light is on for Dan Brotzel!

Come read up on some new definitions in this touching and humorous piece from return writer, Dan Brotzel! "Mug Shots" is another piece of excellence and we're so excited to share it!

This was so fun to do! I recommend working with the JAKE team!

Collins Literary Guild The Collins Literary Guild functions as a specialized firm, providing a comprehensive array of representation services to authors who are at various stages of their publishing journey.

#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com

I love it!!

The faster we find our followers here, the faster we can leave the dying bird site (we still rely on it a lot for site traffic!) so do a smol business a favour and share the shit out of us so we can find our gang. Pretty pretty please 🙏 🙏 🙏

Blown Away - Dan Brotzel Background is a red knit sweater with horn buttons. Grey swaths of book cover overlaid. On left: a shiny yet broken trophy

The light is on for Dan Brotzel!!

He's back again! "Blown Away" is a witty, humorous piece of fiction that all writers can relate to. It's a rage-inducing riot that hits just right.

Check it out!

www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/blown-a...

Ooh I'm jealous! It's beautiful!

"Evacuate South" while Israel continues bombing and blocking the way out. It's a death sentence either way.

Congratulations! I'm going to add this to my list!