Some Words

Welcome to Some Words, a literary journal hosted on a message board. Here are our submission guidelines: somewords.boards.net/thread/4/submit

NEW SOME WORDS new one from @jamdraper today — won't spoil it, so all I'll say is you gotta check this shit out somewords.boards.net/thread/98/jame…

NEW SOME WORDS Quiet little flash piece here from Julie Lebreton. somewords.boards.net/thread/97/juli…

NEW SOME WORDS The third week of the Brett Stuckel serialization is here. somewords.boards.net/thread/86/bret…

@norabird The unspoken rule — which has now been spoken — is that if it’s a special call, I will ignore that window.

@SomeWordsLit i'm still outside of my permitted submission window, please know it is only due to my rule-following that you have not heard from me. because i'm sure you were wondering

Periodic reminder that we still are looking for poems to fill up next month’s 30 days of poetry plan. Also don’t let me make ambitious plans like that again.

NEW SOME WORDS Start the week off by thinking about Ancient Aliens with @nullanno. somewords.boards.net/thread/96/nic-…

are we still doing lit mag pay discourse if so can we stop for a minute to look at next week's some words schedule

@mcmansionhell seems like a good idea

ok now I need to come up with a second short story

Good advice.

The slippery slope from “online forum that publishes poems” to “human rights violations & the Burj Khalifa”

Anyway, send us some words. I can’t pay you but I promise to give your words time & space to be words.

No one’s making money from this. It’s not “outside” of capitalism but it’s at least suspicious of capitalism.

Tweeted & deleted a pithy statement earlier, but felt it important to come back & post this: I would love to pay writers, but the economics of the literary world don’t allow for that, & the idea that we can change those economics is unrealistic.

NEW SOME WORDS short poem today by Kent Kosack that you should go read right now right now like immediately go go go somewords.boards.net/thread/95/kent…

official call for posters

NEW SOME WORDS Start your Thursday off with this new poem from @SadeeBee. 🔗: somewords.boards.net/thread/94/sade…

This has one like & 75 views. It deserves 100 likes & 750 views.

NEW SOME WORDS We don't publish a lot of non-fiction, but we have this short little one today from Lena Kinder. somewords.boards.net/thread/93/lena…

Okay this got a bit of interest. If you’d like to be considered as a potential reviewer/poster/interviewer/whatever for the Some Words board, shoot me an email. Preference to former/future contributors at the moment.