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Authors — The Bulb Region We are proud to present the list of authors whose work we are privileged to publish at The Bulb Region: 2026 Zac Smith Will...

One of the best parts of building THE BULB REGION has been getting to work with such an incredible group of writers. We’re nearing launch (January 13, 2026) and I can’t wait to share all the amazing work we've got lined up:

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image with list of author names: Zac Smith Will Musgrove Natalie Warther Aaron Burch Mallory Smart Steve Gergley Mike Andrelczyk Brett Hymel J.D. Strunk Emily Rinkema Cathy Ulrich Çağla Arıbal Matt Rowan Tracy Fuad Benjamin Niespodziany Patrick Holian Ecem Yücel Travis Dahlke Büşra Erkara Leslie Wilber Claire Polders Yavuz Altun Gabriella Navas Wilson Koewing Sam Gilchrist Hall Masha Shukovich Hasan Cem Çal BLUD Spencer Eckart Bear

Excited for this new journal, The Bulb Region, edited by HAD & SSL fave, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, launching on the 13th! Excited to be included, excited to be among this list of writers!

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French sign saying (in French) "Crepes and chocolates", left arrow. "Cruel world", right arrow. Harvested from the webs, no idea of attribution.

My pleasure! :)

What if you think of it as a smashed version of "Beheaded Moth"? 😆 (I'll never forget it now, that's certain)

Meme of a drunk guy yelling at an unimpressed girl in a nightclub; the caption reads "I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the right honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh"

Apropos of nothing... a series of Pride and Prejudice memes.

The Two-headed Calf Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.

Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92 Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

Will never forget "Jitterbug Perfume," which was carved into my brain when I read it very young, only in my teens. It was a novel unlike any others I had read and left a mark in me. I still think/daydream about it whenever I pluck my white hair. RIP Tom Robbins 🙏 😢
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Rain, New Year's Eve By Maggie Smith The rain is a broken piano, playing the same note over and over. My five-year-old said that. Already she knows loving the world means loving the wobbles you can't shim, the creaks you can't oil silent—the jerry-rigged parts, MacGyvered with twine and chewing gum. Let me love the cold rain's plinking. Let me love the world the way I love my young son, not only when he cups my face in his sticky hands, but when, roughhousing, he accidentally splits my lip. Let me love the world like a mother. Let me be tender when it lets me down. Let me listen to the rain's one note and hear a beginner's song.

It’s NYE & raining here. I wrote this poem in 2013, so the five-year-old is now sixteen.

Even when it’s hard to love the world unconditionally, and it’s never not hard, here’s to imagining what might be possible and what we can make so.

Love from here on a rainy Tuesday.

2024 Reading Challenge See what your friends are reading

I have read 100 of 100 books for the 2024 Reading Challenge! What should I read next? www.goodreads.com/user_challen...

Poetry & Prose Inspired by John Lennon from James Penha and Ecem Yucel Bio for James Penha: Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him🌈) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in j…

Poetry and Prose inspired by #johnlennon on Fevers of the Mind today from James Penha and Ecem Yucel #poetry #prose #writingcommunity #art feversofthemind.com/2024/12/24/p... @jamespenha.bsky.social @theecemyucel.bsky.social

Me facing 2025

Then, I will! 😄 Thanks a lot! 🥰

Can it be a dark, sort of grotesque submission about a kitchen utensil? Or would you want us to keep things lighter? 😅

I love that story, though 😊

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I still remember your Studio Ghibli poems, too! 🥰🥰 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!💞💞💞

What a great honor to be nominated for Best Microfiction 2025 with a piece I enjoyed writing so much! 🥳🥳🎉🎉🎊🎊 So many thanks to the editors of @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for the nomination! ❤️

#writingcommunity #writerslife #poet #poetry #prosepoem #bestmicrofiction2025 #poem #microfiction

Best microfiction 2025

And here are our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025... 🥳

Congratulations and all the best to the nominees! 💚🤘

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a man sitting in a classroom with the words hey mr. scott written above him Alt: a man sitting in a classroom crying with the subtitles hey mr. scott whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do make our dreams come true.

Great, now it's gonna be stuck in my head the whole night 😮‍💨

Dear Sophia,

I really like this last stanza of "Dark Sonnet" by Neil Gaiman from 'Poems to Fall in Love With', chosen & illustrated by Chris Riddell. I find it a bit sobering.

#writerscommunity #poetry #poem #poet #writerslife #poems

I feel you, Richie.

The picture of a small backyard in snow.

First snow of Ottawa. Winter is officially here. ❄️☃️

a man is holding a teddy bear and reading a book titled aster Alt: a man is holding a teddy bear and reading a book in bed

Is it really my fault if I read a book about child wizards and armadillo familiars who try to get the rain back to their village till 5AM, then show up at a ZOOM meeting in the afternoon all sleepy and unfocused?

a man is sitting in a chair with his hand on his face . ALT: a man is sitting in a chair with his hand on his face .

In my experience, if you get a submission rejection in the middle of a ZOOM meeting for your day job, you're already so frustrated, numb, and in a bad mood that the rejection doesn't sting as much.

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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Tell us your birth year by sharing the cover of an album that was released the year you were born

Beautiful. 💕💕💕