15 years ago, I published my first micro in a now-defunct litmag. I'll post here for anyone curious! Sundays My mother went once and never came back. My father took me there, and I prayed while he sat in the car, his window cracked, and smoked cigarettes.

DO NOT tell the poets

Harpies, a creative reached out to us and informed us they had sent a submission to our old inactive email. If you have done this, please forward your submissions now to our current email which is [email protected]. Thanks!

There is a little known 11th commandment that says, Thou shalt eat apples in Autumn 🍎

Cover reveal! Art by Koss!

My namesake, Alina.

Surprise: a copy of my debut novel ALL OUR TOMORROWS, with the final cover, came in the mail today!!! It’s so beautiful 🩷 Available for preorder you know where 😉

The submission page of the Stanchion site has been updated with manuscript window information. stanchionzine.com/submissions

I love the question and the answer.

Tis the last week to get these beauties at a discount. You'll receive 2 new Mathieu Cailler stories & 2 new pieces of short fiction from Abigail Myers + new todd dillard ,Barlow Adams, shome dasgupta, Didi Wood 😷, David Lanvert, Hannah Linden, Linda Bayley. Jacqueline & SO MUCH MORE!

Happy Sunday. Here’s me, along with some things that made me smile this week. 1) Rediscovered Sopranos meme I made a few years ago 😝 2) Really nice rejection from Honey Literary 🥰 3) Car wash porn 💦

I have a new story in the lovely MoonPark Review with an alien abduction (maybe, or probably definitely) and a song from Annie (definitely, or probably maybe). Thanks so much! 💖💖💖 moonparkreview.com/issue-29-fall-…

I think about this moment from Bob Dylan's 60 Minutes interview a lot

If you’re rich, and you’re not finding a promising but poor artist so you can pay their rent, what are you even doing?

Such a whirlwind, successful weekend! I crushed two tennis matches and a craft presentation in Cleveland, kids crushed a soccer and flag football game, and new rescue puppy crushed first days at the dog park! #Winning

Even without your own comically archaic attempts at poetry, your suggestion that poetry “sells” with any frequency suggests to me that you are living in a bygone age.

So I don't typically count rejections bc it's hard to quantify but here we go... Total rejections 2019-now: 5,661 Total submissions in 2024: 1,485 Rejections in 2024: 697 The remaining 798 subs* are mostly open/no reply, with a handful of acceptances. Don't give up y'all🐢

There is nothing I have regretted more deeply or repeatedly than my decision to take out outrageous student loans to pursue a liberal arts degree instead of going to trade school to learn an in-demand career skill by participating in a paid apprenticeship to a master necromancer.

One of our songs has passed 600 views omg 🥲 I know that's smallfry, but it's also huge for me!!

It’s wonderful to find respect and understanding in the same person, but I think I’m at the point where I’d rather be respected than understood. The simple reason is that few things can do more damage than a person who understands you, but chooses to disrespect you anyway.