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Some Important Changes: Dear readers, friends, and supporters of @WriteNowLit, in our commitment to bringing you vivid writing(s), the newest and best voices, we recently had some updates on our website. Our website has a new extension (now writenowlit.org) 1.

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9 years ago, @WriteNowLit started in our founding editor’s heart. Today it’s reached 95,762 hearts. Grateful for all of our readers who trust the work we do and all the artists and writers whose work found a home with us. Send us your best work. We’d love to read. #WriteNowLit

Photography by Claudia Wysocky: Celestial Nights Claudia Wysocky is a Polish poet and photographer based in New York, celebrated for her evocative creations that capture life's essence through emotional depth and rich imagery. writenowlit.org/2025/10/photog…

Read “Nap” by Paul Smith “Today’s nap was like no other in other naps you dream about the life you lived the lives you didn’t live this one was different…” writenowlit.org/2025/10/nap-by…

Flight and The Wonder of Things: Three Photographs by Larena Nellies-Ortiz Mountain Ridge; Sea View; Bird Flying High “Whether it’s the lift of wings against an open sky, the slow endurance of a high altitude…” writenowlit.org/2025/10/flight…

“The Woman” by Holly Day “I used to wonder if I’d recognize her if I passed on her on the street if there would be some spark of recognition in her eyes…’” Day currently teaches classes at @MuseWritersCntr in Virginia. writenowlit.org/2025/10/the-wo…

“Revelation” by Howard Brown “It was only a dream, and I was fully
aware of that fact, even as I dreamed
it.  Yet the absolute verisimilitude of
the nocturnal fantasy was such that, 
moment to moment, I was enmeshed
in its unsettling narrative…” writenowlit.org/2025/10/revela…

Re-reading a Classic: Bashō by Ronald Tobey @Turin54024117 “Basho became a servant to a poetry-writing samurai, but was never himself promoted to the samurai caste. His lord died in 1666. Bashōapparently renounced any samurai ambitions…” #criticism writenowlit.org/2025/10/re-rea…

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“It’s the third time this week he saw her, sitting on her small stool in front of her portable easel painting the view across the Seine. The first two times he’d seen her…” Short fiction, “Pisco on the Quai de Montebello” by Julian Gallo @JulianGallo66 writenowlit.org/2024/09/pisco-…

“And I’d defend the moon with longings  With anything I could muster  No limits -- To keep it up over In harvests or phases  Even for no one…” Three poems by Hiram Larew @HiramGLarew writenowlit.org/2024/09/three-…

“I have built an ethereal monument of Immortality, a universal museum of The human heart, where the most Treasured mainstay is my thought of you…” Five Poems by Yuan Changming. See bio @poetswritersinc writenowlit.org/2024/09/five-p…

“In the morning,  the dog sniffs out  some rabbits  in our planters,  and it’s all we can do  to keep them  out of her jaws. Later, hawks circle above…” Three poems by John Brantingham @JohnBrantingham writenowlit.org/2024/09/three-…

@JoseHernandezDz Douglas Cole’s The Cabin at the End of the World is a flight through “heating ducts and beast parades” on a slowly sinking tanker, because “Who wouldn’t want their illegal cargo sunk / without a trace?…” —Scott Ferry, author of Sapphires on the Graves

Blurbs for The Cabin at the End of the World: “Douglas Cole paints with an imagist’s clarity, a minimalist’s precision, and a poet’s sense of Duende... Well done, poet!” —Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American. @JoseHernandezDz

Our contributor, Cole Douglas, whose five poems was published earlier this year has a new poetry collection coming out this Fall with Unsolicited Press called “The Cabin at the End of the World.” Prepublication orders can be made through the press: unsolicitedpress.com/store/p458/the…

We have a volunteer request for a Poetry review for a forthcoming Collection. If you/anyone you know would be interested in writing, please email Writenowlitsubmissions@gmail.com with an elevator pitch. The review would be specially published on our website, & widely shared.

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