You guys need to go follow The Turning Leaf Journal and submit submit submit!! They are truly incredible people collecting meaningful stories of change & transition ♥️ Vol 1 is available to read on the website and we are psyched to read your work for the next issue!!

This never fails 😂

“I raised my eyes to the big Texas sky & asked not for a new life, but to be a new person in this one— to be a woman who lives happily in her body & not only in her imagination.” This one hit me like a ton of bricks. Chelsea B DesAutels

I love this 😭😭

one thing that all my fav work has in common—fiction, nonfiction, & poetry—is the ability to brilliantly defamiliarize the familiar, whether that be through surprising language & transitions, interesting & effective metaphors, surrealism, or otherwise.

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Ah, a rejection— a chance to place my work elsewhere with someone who will (hopefully) truly enjoy it 🤞🏻

“I know and I hate / that there is a point beyond which I have to be vague” Beautiful work by Elizabeth Gibson 🌈 Why is everything from Dust Poetry Magazine so lovely, raw and evocative?

I thought “this place” meant hometown & I was like yesss but then I was like oh hell yeah hit that block button

The Warriors cats books gave me so much emotional damage as a child, I almost forgot about them

I don’t want to do my 9-5 “pays-the-rent” job, I wanna do my made-up fun “critiques-poems-and-posts-silly-little-things” job ://

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I’ve spent, like, 3 months editing a single poem, only to be half-satisfied with the results 😅😔

best thing I’ve read today

THIS