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Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town.

Read an excerpt from the book here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-fall-d...

In the new Notebook Navigation, we dive into the opening paragraphs of Don DeLillo's 1985 classic White Noise, emphasizing the precise use of language—a deep attentiveness that we can, perhaps, carry into our own writing.

Get the full post:
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Saturday Shout-Out ~ February 21, 2026 Check out new submission listings from established & up-and-coming literary publications

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings. This edition features @wennieevans.bsky.social @rachelturney.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @colleen-harris.bsky.social & more:

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Thanks to @unearthedjournal.bsky.social for including this poem in their "Nourish" issue. See more at unearthedesf.com

Poem on the Last Day of my Thirties, by Jessica Whipple. Found online here: https://wildroofjournal.com/issue-31-gallery-3/

Did you know you can gift yourself a poem on your birthday? This one is from last year at @wildroofjournal.bsky.social (thanks, @aaronlelito.bsky.social)

This Is My Religion: How Nature teaches me to open my heart (when I’m ready for it) A guest post from Erin the Bard

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New guest post on the WRJ Substack

From Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world.

Get it here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t...

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Saturday Shout-Out ~ February 7, 2026 Check out new submission listings from established & up-and-coming literary publications

Want to submit your work this month? Here are some great opportunities: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Including @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @pictura.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social & more

@bdcutkomp.bsky.social @rachelturney.bsky.social @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social

Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world from the minds who pay it the most attention.

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t...

"...[A]cross these poems, witness the speaker break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and, in an era of political upheaval, raise her children with a love that is fiercely abundant and profoundly self-aware."

Blurb by @susanlleary.bsky.social, Author of Dressing the Bear

"Candice M. Kelsey’s Another Place Altogether is a book of sweeping emotional and geographic expanse; of memory, introspection, and resilience; and especially of remaking, the speaker narrating her move from Los Angeles to Augusta, GA and back again...."

New post! Check out a preview of Candice Kelsey's new poetry collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/into-the-w...

@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social

Wild Roof Journal | Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

Podcast with Wild Roof Journal

Thank you so much to Aaron and Wild Roof Journal for having me on! Aaron and I talk about motivation and the meaning behind what we write. We discuss visual art. I share my top tip for time management. We also go in depth about my upcoming debut full-length poetry…

In this episode, @rachelturney.bsky.social joins host Aaron Lelito to talk about how to maintain an organized chaos while writing, the influence of music in her new work & the dilemma of publishing poems about family. Rachel closes us out with a piece called "Meditation."
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Winter 2026 issue | wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

On this Wild Roof Podcast episode, authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction as a genre and cultivating awe in our daily lives. Get the full clip here: youtu.be/9rpOBi03c_Y?...

Saturday Shout-Out ~ January 10, 2026 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

Including @tabularasa.bsky.social @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @msatris.bsky.social @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social @pooryorickjournal.bsky.social & more

New poem at Wild Roof Journal alongside many writers thinking deeply about ecologies. Thank you to inspirations large and small: bird voices, mountains, Community of Writers, deer families, unpaved roads, the mountain lion that said hello mid-draft.

Thank you Aaron Lelito for including my work!

Oh, nothing, just my poem appearing in this dynamite issue of Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Go read issue 32, y'all, it's so good - wild nature, soft light, books, pasta, and people saving trees <3

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Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors!
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

I have a new poem out today called "...a monument to a world worth living in" - it's tough to see the world as worth it today, but I am thankful to have this poem out there. Thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social #poetry

Absolutely thrilled to have a story in the Winter 2026 @wildroofjournal.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors for including “Glory Days” in this beautiful issue.

Proud to have my #poem "Lament of an Islander Too Long Gone" in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32-gal...

The whole issue is fantastic & I'm proud to be in it--read issue 32 at wildroofjournal.com/issue-32/
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️

It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

For today’s post, I asked some of WRJ’s friends and collaborators to offer a few of their favorites from 2025. Check out the list here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...