check this out! we at phoebe are extending our non-fiction and visual art submissions by one whole extra week. you now have until October 22nd to submit!!! we can't wait to see what exciting work you send.

Geckos? Top surgery? Panty burials? If any of these interest you, check out my essay “Shed” in the New Ohio Review 🦎 ❤️ newohioreview.org/2023/09/21/she…

I sent a crochet rat to one of my favorite YouTubers ⁦@omazingpaige⁩ and her reaction just made my week! Thank you for freeing the boi!!!!! 🐀 youtube.com/clip/UgkxY2nbL…

Have you heard?? The Rumpus got a beautiful redesign, and they close for essay submissions tonight! Robbie Maakestad is a wonderful person & such an astute editor, I can’t wait for this piece we’ve been working on to go live 👀 therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Congrats to our Nominees for the Pushcart Prize! Danielle Batalion Ola, Ashlen Renner, Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D., Kimberly Johnson, Alice White , @KT_Landon All nominated work can be read at newohioreview.org!

This man got me a Pushcart nomination. King behavior 🦎

“I once watched my pet gecko eat his own skin. It was late at night, and I woke to his little nails scraping against woodchips and rocks” from “Shed” by Ashlen Renner in NOR 33! Ashlen Renner newohioreview.org/2023/09/21/she…

Why isn’t this real? Someone get Lego on the phone

I bought plastic canvas in the year of our lord 2024 to make a tissue box cover. Am I old?

Me when I wear my arms on my ears

Very excited to finally be able to share with you the latest issue of phoebe! 53.1 is available online now🥳🥳🥳 check the link in our bio.

Sometimes it’s me and goose cup against the world

"but somebody’s gonna eat those eggs." Our very own Ashlen Renner has an interview with Spring Contest Judge in Non-Fiction Erika Howsare on our website now! Link is in the bio!!! Don't forget submissions are open. We need more non-fiction (and all genres really) so send away!

Time doesn’t exist in Adobe Creative Cloud

Hey UNC English & Comparative Literature! Nonfiction editor of phoebe journal and alumna here. I would love to see more southern/queer essays thrown my way for our Spring Contest Issue. Last day to submit is this Friday. Link in bio :)

The absolute death grip Khruangbin's "Con Todo El Mundo" has on my writing workflow needs to be studied

Me when I get published in DIAGRAM on a random Wednesday. Anyway, go read it: thediagram.com/25_1/renner.ht…

I just got my copy of Ninth Letter in the mail and it is GORGEOUS ✨🏰✨ Check out my essay part of my Hildegard of Bingen book while you’re at it!

Congrats to @Mason_cw alum @ashlenrenner for her new essay "Abundance and Thirst," a selection from her larger project about St. Hildegard of Bingen, out now in the latest print issue of Ninth Letter!

Picked up these books from two amazing authors from UNC Chapel Hill. Tarheels represent!