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Happy March! We are THRILLED to share Issue 8 of Random Sample, now live! We have a fantastic sampling of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art for your enjoyment 🎉 randomsamplereview.com/issue-8/

Hello hello! Did you know we're now open for submissions for Issue 9? ✨ Give us your #poetry and #prose now through May 16. #CallForSubmissions randomsamplereview.com/submit/

We're still here, still working on getting this issue up, and still so grateful for everyone's patience. 💞 The next issue's pub date might be a bit more "random" than we'd hoped, but it's on the horizon and it's shaping up to be SUCH an amazing issue. Excited to share it soon!

Was looking for a story I thought someone else had written only to discover that in fact the person who wrote it was me? Writing is so strange: it's such an eerie way of being in the world. 🧄 [Grateful to @Random__Sample for giving this one a home a few years ago.]

Thanks everyone for your patience and continued support of our little lit mag! We're all volunteer-based and need to fit the journal into our day jobs and other responsibilities. Rest assured we are diligently reading through your amazing submissions! 💞

Update: We had hoped to get Issue 8 ready by December, but due to sickness among the masthead, we're a bit behind schedule. We're looking at January or February as the publishing date for Issue 8, just to give everyone time to recover and time for our readers to catch up!

We're less than a week away from when we close subs for Issue 8! Make sure to send your work to us by Monday, October 31!

looking for the perfect place to send your #poetry and #prose? we're open for subs until October 31! #callforsubmissions randomsamplereview.com

📣 attention, attention! ✨ Due to an influx of submissions and to make sure our lovely readers can stay on track, we will close subs for Issue 8 a bit early! Submit your #prose and #poetry to us by October 31st! randomsamplereview.com #callforsubmissions

"The world is ending and they are drinking through it" — from "Shooting Star" #poetry by Alyssa Arns read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/sho…

"Andra had never really thought about leaving the city where she grew up, even as her friends were jumping ship at an ever-increasing speed." — from "Island of the Ducks" #fiction by Irina Hrinoschi read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/isl…

"I want the confidence to sing in public" — from "Forehead Smiles" #poetry by Maija Haavisto read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/for…

"Or, put differently, What makes art great? you ask me." — from "What is Beautiful?" #nonfiction by Theresa Lin read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/wha…

"The shock of it" — from "Breakfast" #poetry by Joaquin Soliven read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/bre…

"I know this woman who went and upended her life. Completely. She didn’t have to, but she moved halfway across the country with only a suitcase and bicycle." — from "Starting Over" #nonfiction by Jane Hertenstein read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/sta…

"she moves arms encircled / as if winding the day" — from "Tai Chi: a Toronto Morning" #poetry by DS Maolalai read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/tai…

Heads up: We're considering closing submissions for Issue 8 early. We've received a lot of subs and our readers need time to catch up! If we do close early, we will give you plenty of warning so just keep an eye out -- and send us your stuff now if you were planning to submit!

"I remember it clearly—the tip of the pole diving toward the water, the vibration in the handle, the surprising strength through the line." — from "The Goldfish" #fiction by Josh Rank read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/the…

Jazz hands for joining Random Sample Review @Random__Sample as a prose reader. Subs are open until November 15th! #submissionsopen

"we receive instruction from our flesh. instinct / contorting us. i haven’t decided yet // whether you are a church or a throne." — from "Love Song" #poetry by Paxton Grey read more in our "Joy" issue: randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/lov…