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HAD fuck me up on a sunday morning Jack Bedell

Hey! Here are some literary journals opening for submissions in September! Some are also open now & some will close soon. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary, & dates are tentative. I think these are all no-fee submissions. There are more resources & journals out there! Good luck!

“Get close to ground—as low / as you can, like a snake. / It won’t matter. As long / as there is glass—mirrors, / windows, lenses—you can’t / escape from yourself.” Self-Deceit + 1 by Jack Bedell in Moist Poetry Journal is on Bluesky 🏳️‍⚧️ moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/08/14/two…

“Motherhood is a mirror. To be able to look oneself in the eye, flawed and hurt and unobstructed, is a terrible blessing for a poet.” -Vic Nogay (Vic Nogay ) (If you aren’t reading the interviews, you’re missing out on some great stuff) brawllit.com/2024/vic-nogay

The Summer 2024 issue of Action, Spectacle is live! Guest edited by Alena Graedon, Carol Mitchell, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Michael Chang, Molly Gaudry, Nikki Herd, Roberto Tejada, Said Sayrafiezadeh, and Shane Book. action-spectacle.com

If you’re sending out work this weekend please keep us in mind. Accepted poems are considered for the Sita Martin Prize ($250) for best poem by an emerging poet and the Shō Poetry Prize ($250) for best poem in issue. We respond to all submissions in 30 days or less.

Have you submitted to FeralPoetry yet? We are open for submissions of poetry and art until August 31st. Send us your wildest darlings.

just two days left to submit your MICRO poetry and prose to Identity Theory! Get em in before September hits!!

Heading into the final month of our reading period, we’ve accepted 35 poems by 23 poets. There’s plenty of room for more! Accepted poems are considered for the Sita Martin Prize ($250) for best poem by an emerging poet and the Shō Poetry Prize ($250) for best poem in issue.

I’m beyond grateful to Moist Poetry Journal is on Bluesky 🏳️‍⚧️ & Dr. Han VanderHart is on Bluesky for giving “Band Camp” a loving home 🎷 moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/09/04/ban…

Very excited to have a poem up at BRAWL today! Huge thanks to Taylor Franson-Thiel 🍉 for letting me on the team!!! 🙌🏻👇🏻

Stoked to share this Louisiana wetlands poem today! brawllit.com/2024/jack-b-be…

"I can't think of a more Louisiana thing than this kind of bird,...." I love every single line of this poem by Jack Bedell in BRAWL 💙💙💙

"I can't think of a more Louisiana thing than this kind of bird...." Jack Bedell in BRAWL: brawllit.com/2024/jack-b-be…

New work out to The Dodge Mississippi Review Shō Poetry Journal The Marrow International Poetry & Identity Theory. Plus book mss out to Belle Point Press and TRP: The University Press of SHSU. 🤞🏻

Join TRP in celebrating #NationalBookMonth this September! This week: #Southern authors *At the Bonehouse* by Jack Bedell *Unmoored* by Elizabeth Burk *What Good is Heaven* by Dr. Raye // WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN out now! *Sallowsfield* by Cliff Hudder #Reading #LiteraryCommunity #WritingCommunity #South

“… dropping down into Lake Boeuf all messiah-like to save us from the apple snails feasting on our rice and crawfish.” Limpkins by Jack Bedell in BRAWL brawllit.com/2024/jack-b-be…

sub call time. closes tomorrow. get in here! duotrope.com/duosuma/submit…

Afternoon must-read from the inimitable Barlow Adams in HAD ! 🙌🏻👇🏻