We'll be feeling ✨fab✨ at FAB this weekend!! 🤩 Come hang out with the staff. kickstartfarmington.org/fab-fest/

We've entered the home stretch of POET HUNT 29!! $15 and 5 poems is all you need for a shot at $500!! This year's contest is judged by Michael Meyerhofer, set to appear in vol. 39.3 out in July. Enter today on Submittable: themacguffin.submittable.com/submit/287856/…

It's July 1 and the staff is officially on vacation until September!! The office is still (mostly) open if you need anything, but submissions will be closed until September 1. Have a great summer! 😎☀️🏝

We are over the MOOn about featuring Linda Pelowski’s “Steerhead” on the cover of vol. 39.3 available now: bit.ly/macg393.

Billboards highlighting works by some Michigan poets are planned to go up along some roads in the state this fall. michiganpublic.org/2024-08-13/poe…

RETURN OF THE MAC[GUFFIN]!!! We're back from summer vacation and ready to read, y'all. Thanks for not blowing up our inbox for taking an extra couple days off for Labor Day. ❤️themacguffin.submittable.com/submit

Me wondering why we've received so many poems titled "Labyrinth" this week. 🧐

IT'S CHRISTMAS IN SEPTEMBER!!!!

We're so excited to share that Sharon Pretti's "Waterline" has been selected to appear in the 2024 Best New Poets anthology!! "Waterline" first appeared in MacGuffin vol. 39.2. Congrats, Sharon!! bestnewpoets.org/finalists.php #litmags #poetry #schoolcraftcollege

In case ya haven't heard, our former Head Honcho and current Assistant Poetry Editor Kathleen McClung has a new collection out from Longship Press!!! Check it out here: longshippress.com/online-store/Q…

“Hey, Siri: Play ‘Party in the USA.’ ” WE’RE FINALLY 40!! We’ve been pre-gaming it all year, but the first issue of volume XL is in the house and will start appearing in mailboxes next week!! Get yours: bit.ly/MacG401

December is #Pushcart season, and this year we nominated a bunch of work from our still-brand-new vol. 40.1 (and one from 39.3) for the #PushcartPrize. Check these out at schoolcraftbooks.com!!

Our stocking is hung, and we say this with cheer: Till 1-6-25, we're all out of here!! MacGuffin World Headquarters is going on break until Monday, January 6!! See ya in the New Year, y'all!! ✌️

Heading out to #AWP25 this week?? Stop by our reading at The Mermaid down the road in Little Tokyo!!

ONE WEEK left to enter this year's POET HUNT!! themacguffin.submittable.com/login?returnUr…