Use the link in our bio to submit your poems and get a response in ONE WEEK! Those selected get published in our annual anthology. #callforsubmissions

Merry Christmas to everyone except reviewer 2.

The NYer Munro article indicts a school of craft that claims to present human truths but ends up aestheticizing, justifying, and obscuring the workings of power. A beautifully framed picture of emotions is not the endpoint of writing, at best it’s someplace to start!

Alice Munro’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. In a new investigation for The New Yorker, Rachel Aviv writes about the story Alice refused to tell—which her daughters are now speaking up about. Read it here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lT5IuS

my book is officially published as of today! please join me in wishing it a happy 0th birthday and a very auspicious life to come!!

New Ohio Review is open for submissions (until April 16 or until 300 submissions have been received). USD 3 submission fee.

Oh, you bought a house? Well I wrote 600 words that i'm thinking of deleting

Here are some well-respected lit mags where your chances are better than impossible! Not too competitive, but not exactly easy either. 3-8% acceptance rates based on 100+ subs tracked on the website Find them here: chillsubs.com/lists/sweet-sp…

Send us your micro. Micro can mean a poem up to 9 lines or a prose piece up to 500 words. We nominate for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. No fascist bootlickers allowed.

Notes on draft

“I’m grateful for the helpful feedback on my draft”

Very excited to have a new fiction story in Harper's Magazine this month! It’s about envy, anarchists, the common longing for exceptionalism. And a subject I know less about: trees harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Chillin with my unread books

LIT, the magazine of The New School Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, is open for FREE submissions until June 23: prose (15 pages) and poetry (3 poems or 7 pages). If selected for the print issue, payment is in copies.

I am over the moon to share the very happy news that my new novel, The Orange Notebooks, will be published by the excellent Assembly Press in September 2025. Can't wait for US and Canadian readers to discover this book.

Wisdom

Friends, I’ll be taking time away from social media for a while. Be well. Vacation Today I cannot receive you desperation, disappointment, tough legions of death. Come by some other time, never, and leave gallantly your business cards Emil Botta, Tr. fr Romanian by L. Georgesc