VLAD MAG #5: “DEAD ENDS” is OUT NOW! Edited by lex briscuso (▰˘◡˘▰)! To recalibrate our sanity while also celebrating an entire year of Vlad Mag, submissions will be closed until summer 2025, so BIG THANKS to all contributors, readers and guest editors 🖤 Enjoy! houseofvladpress.com/dead-ends

🫡 Tiago Lemos “City Soldier” part is playing on our YouTube channel 📺

Machines of Loving Grace: On Birth, Child Loss, and Technological Interventions by Raegan Bird up now on Cluny Journal. clunyjournal.com/p/machines-of-…

Alright y'all. Year fucking FIVE! Here are your Best of the Bests: tylerdempseywriting.com/best-of-the-be…

there's something to this. i'm a fairly active reader and even i find, if my phone is near me, i'll put down the book after five pages of reading to look at it. recently started putting phone away in a drawer when i need to concentrate. even right now i'm on my phone. poison

HAPPY NEW YEAR LOL My 5 favorite VLAD MAG pieces (though I love them all) from issues 2 - 5 (not including the first issue, which I curated) [A THREAD] / VLAD MAG returns summer 2025 / Please include your favorite piece(s) in the comments / Big thanks to my guest editors!

Gino

we're all so proud of this one. i hope you like it. thank you to Rob Kuniuk for steering us, & thank you to Aubri Kaufman Corey Aaron Burch & FemmeInTheory for your art

p&w asked me to write something short about writer's block and i have pw.org/writers_recomm…

"I feel like 'invention' triggers the bullshit alarm inside our animal minds, which prevents readers from fully entering the fictive dream." 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕙 s 𝕕𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕚𝕟 interviews Harris Lahti about his debut novel, “Foreclosure Gothic.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/graves…

We have to stop romanticizing pro skating and do more of this. Pretty sure the future of skateboarding depends on it.

The big spin!

Your sixth (and final!) Best of the Bests is live! tylerdempseywriting.com/best-of-the-be…

“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.” Read new fiction by Corey Lof: relegationbooks.com/article/a-robb…

New story at R&R Highly recommend reading the back log, and refreshing the page every Tuesday and Friday. Never disappoints. Thanks Joseph Grantham relegationbooks.com/article/a-robb…

A poem

I have a stupid idea to make a print anthology of all 6 years of Best of the Bests.