my first ever published short story is out with Waxwing Magazine !! it’s about doomed romance, family illness, and the fact that i am always craving falafel 🥙 would love it if you spent some time with it (and the other beautiful writing in this issue)!!! waxwingmag.org/items/issue29/…

“Hold hands with your brother through the prison bars. Don’t answer your phone. Air out your grief as laundry. Trust me, no one was born knowing anything about disaster.” Heather Qin | The Lumiere Review lumierereview.com/heather-qin

“if you could collect your life into the salt lines of your palm what would you reach for what would you choose as what was worth it? the squeal song laugh of your children when they were small?” Jill Kitchen | The Lumiere Review lumierereview.com/jill-kitchen

“When she picks up, we don’t speak and then one of us hangs up. When she doesn’t, I leave lengthy voicemails that ultimately culminate in some form of an existential threat.  I don’t tell my psychiatrist about this, either.” Megan Xing | The Lumiere Review lumierereview.com/megan-xing

“In the culture of writers, period is celebrated. A curtain descending on stage, a final beat to a song, a firm strike on the keyboard. Something to be achieved, not avoided.” Xinyi Huang | The Lumiere Review lumierereview.com/xinyi-huang

Announcing our SundressPublications Best of the Net 2024 Nominations! Congratulations and all the best to our nominees, we love your work so much. The full list of nominees can be found at lumierereview.com/nominations.

Um wow. A second nom for BotN this year, from The Lumiere Review! "First Summer" is one of the first short stories I'd written, and I'm so happy it found its place in the world and now this. Many thanks!!

I am so so honored and thrilled to have one of my favorite pieces be one of The Lumiere Review 's favorite pieces & nominated for Best of the Net. Tea Moon! My gratitude to the editors... and a toast to happy accidents and playing with your coffee...

always the tricky ones i think that get the most love. thank you jessica kim || out now: "L(EYE)GHT" The Lumiere Review for thinking of my poem, for liking “ഓളങ്ങള്‍” enough to nominate it for BotN. 💜 big, big congrats to everyone on this list! in case you want to read/re-read: lumierereview.com/letitia-jiju

“Do you have a happiest moment? he asked. I did, but I couldn’t say it involved him if he couldn’t say the same of me, and furthermore, I wanted to believe my happiest moment was yet to come. nathan xie | The Lumiere Review lumierereview.com/nathan-xie

utter gratitude from the heart of this fathomless grief poem (this endlessly grieving poet) to jessica kim || out now: "L(EYE)GHT" and the The Lumiere Review team for their faith in both)

So lovely to wake up to my piece in Fractured Lit’s carefully curated BIPOC Love Anthology by the wonderful ✨💚Exodus Oktavia Brownlow💚✨! Thank you so much for including me ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

“write a poem about wishes” by @sofiafeycreates in the The Lumiere Review. Sofia joins the WPLS tomorrow (Wed)! #poems #poetry #poetrylovers

we will be taking a small break from the december issue but will be back for march, promise!! submissions open in january!

the voidspace 🕳️SUBS OPEN🕳️ HORNS Maudlin House March (part 2): "Wading Through" in The Lumiere Review: lumierereview.com/melissa-flores… “By the Numbers” in Raw Lit - SUBS CLOSED, which was nominated for a BOTN: rawlit.weebly.com/BTN.html-flore…

submit my lovely writers 🥹🥹

"We are intrigued by the inextinguishable sparks of truth and connection, the effervescent meddling of narrative, and the luminous creations that expand on perceptions of genre, language, and form." #WritingCommunity lumierereview.com/submit

welcome to our new poetry editor @wangwrites_! check out our lumierereview.com/masthead page for our editors' bios!