Haley (they/them)

Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work.

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The creators of Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon talk to us about farm games We sat down with Eric Barone and Yasuhiro Wada to talk farming, Japanese ports, and making games.

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A tan image includes the black Nerve to Write logo featuring a raspberry-colored neuron in the top left corner and the dark purple words “A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers” along with the raspberry words “Now open for submissions” and the purple text “nervetowrite.com.” In the top right and bottom left corner of the black neurons stretch off the image.

Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE - After Kim Addonizio

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A massive thank you to everyone that submitted to the last reading period! Our next reading period will be in May '26. In the meantime, get ready for some new books!

At the top, Split This Rock’s red logo. Below, bold heading text reads “Double Your Donation” with a circle that says “x2” to the right. Body text reads “The Poetry Foundation will now match donations up to $25,000. This is your chance to make your gift to Split This Rock go twice as far. If we unlock this challenge grant, we will have raised over 80% of our $68,750 goal. DONATE TODAY” The Poetry Foundation logo is to the right. There is a URL for Split This Rock’s online giving portal at the bottom: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock.

We're excited to announce a generous challenge grant from the Poetry Foundation! Gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for their support.

Gifts we receive in the coming weeks will be DOUBLED, up to $25,000. Double your impact & donate today! DONATE ONLINE: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock

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@splitthisrock.bsky.social needs our support! #SplitThisRock is a great source of inspiration, potential, and opportunity for the DC Area community, lit. & otherwise. Let's help keep its lights on. Spread the word, donate time or $$. Read on. 🙏💙

feeling particularly excited & grateful today to be a trans person!! it is an existence that others are trying to make difficult and that does definitely get to me but like... I really like who I am now, and I like the unique perspectives that transness gives me.

I can’t go this time around but I think it’s going to be great

This is so fair! If you want encouragement to finish, I’d recommend @ghostcitypress.bsky.social’s Summer Series. They’re microchapbooks, all available online for free (or you can donate to the authors if you want). They’re short enough you might be able to read one/day for a few days.

Words Glowing like Honey: From Self-Doubt to Self-Compassion and Creative Flow — Creative Momentum When we’re writing regularly, we show up to our life as our full self. Engaged. Curious. Open. But when we’re stuck, we can start doubting our skills or even whether we’re meant to be writing. We...

Generous and warm online workshop coming up from the wonderful Meg Hayertz:

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Thanks for reading!

SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! If your prose or poetry features the Black American South, this one is for YOU. *reprints only!* This call closes August 30. Details on our submissions page:
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POETRY by Em Setzer [Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy]  Quote "When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do." 18 August 2025 Strange Horizons

[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy] 
by Em Setzer

"When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do."

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We’re looking for thoughtful, passionate creatives to lead dynamic workshops with Fahmidan Education. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge, connect with engaged learners, and make an impact in the global literary and arts community.
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Attention writers! In an effort to remove barriers to access, The Common will open for fee-free submissions from August 15-22. We encourage any and all communities underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals to send in your writing! Read more below:

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🥹 Feeling really honored by this nom from @petrichorlit.bsky.social for my weird, speculative poem about agrotourism in the Willamette Valley.

Read it here:
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Book 6 for my #SealeyChallenge was We Are Mermaids by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Loved this and will be teaching it in my writing workshop

#SealeyChallenge Day 5 is The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Cy. Weise.

Read Cy.’s collected BORG.DIEM at ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu...

Thanks for writing and sharing it! It’s been on my list for a while and I got off the waitlist for the Eugene Public Library just in time to read it as one of my Sealey books.

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

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Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...

Read for the #SealeyChallenge. Fundraising for the Sameer Project through @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. Sponsor my reading at: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

Day 4: Meltwater by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social

I read this whole book in one sitting, in the sneaky presence of a tiny snake, and am still dazed by its vivid grief.

My #SealeyChallenge Day 3 was Transgenesis by Ava Nathaniel Winter.

Shoutout to the Eugene Public Library and reminder that you can request your Sealey Challenge books from your local library!

Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions!

Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...