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In case any of my 75 human followers and one sex bot missed it, last week was a big publishing week for me starting with this piece in @Dear_Booze : dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/ph…

@BeckyLTuch Never seen someone try to license a “personality” before - bold move!

Portion of a contract from a literary magazine to a writer. 😮 Does this look reasonable to you? (Emphases mine.)

@juscarts This all makes total sense and is a very normal thing to do

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Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: fish, paradoxes, chalk, weird weather, malls, loneliness, fun facts, the sublime, hybridity, video games, cnf, grass, spices, heliocentricity, movies, spun sugar, and warmth.

@luckycreature @ScottMacLe59594 Nice! Congrats my friend

Submissions for #muckymondays for 2026 are closed!!!! Thank you to the wonderful 52 people who are bringing the fire in this debut year of the project.

These magazines have 3-8% acceptance rates with 100+ tracked subs. Submit to them (and check out more) here: chillsubs.com/lists/sweet-sp… Featured: @BCSmagazine @TheMaineReview @GordonSquareRev @qaejournal @ExpoReviewLit @wildnessjournal @alacarteblanche @OSUtheJOURNAL

Funky and wonderful flash up this week. Don't sleep on "The Master: some considerations..." from Simon Firth Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-17-26

If you've been holding off submitting to #muckymondays for the year the window is closing. Just make sure your work has more than two words in it. muckymondays.neocities.org

April is gonna be big. Huge even #muckymondays

@magnoliasskye yes, anyone can submit a poem. let’s celebrate the acceptances. Those are great! FYI - I am submitting to @NewYorker tomorrow

it makes me so nervous when people tweet @ literary magazines publicly announcing they're submitting to them. it kind of puts a lot of pressure on the team to feel bad if they don't think your work is a fit. ahhh!!!

@BurialMagazine I am a daily @BurialMagazine reader and I would also like to be paid

i’m one underemployed guy. sorry for not being the atlantic

@SomeWordsLit how do you live with yourself

@3floyds taps giving big @dishsoapquart vibes in chicago these days

@bloominonionlit @dishsoapquart @MaudlinHouse @gonelawn @SoFloPoJo These are all true facts! Can’t wait for this issue to go live

@benjaminstarr studied poetry in college and as part of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. A proud member of the Bursky Collective, his work has been published in Bending Genres, @dishsoapquart, @MaudlinHouse, @gonelawn, @SoFloPoJo, and others.

Today, we celebrate our contributors for Issue Three: Bloom, out April 1.

@anxiousinithaca @dodo_eraser oh yeah!!!

@benjaminstarr @dodo_eraser Man I’m so excited

come listen to me and a bunch of much better @dodo_eraser writers read words into zoom microphones on 3/25

+ open mic!!!

@InkInThirds 💜 best wishes to Grace and her family #cancersucks 💜

Due to setbacks during Chemo treatment for Grace’s son, publication of the upcoming issue is being pushed to April 1, 2026. (Though a bit of a delay, it seemed fitting for the 10th Anniversary Issue, considering the inaugural issue was on April 1, 2016, ten years ago exactly.)

@scaffoldlitmag One of my recent favorites

our current feature is, "virgin" by ruby-rose whitcher. this one is fantastic, so take a read of it now! scaffoldlit.com/microwritings/…

@BurialMagazine @dodo_eraser @travis_shosa No, Duchovny is not joining

@dodo_eraser @travis_shosa heard a rumor about someone who’s going to be on this one…someone i have immense respect for as an artist and human…

Announcing the next reading this weekend (yes we are getting a virtual reading in this month).

Come join the growing @dishsoapquart team. Good people and truly great soap