Gratitude to everyone who dragged themselves out of bed and over to Four Letter Books for our Issue 10 Release Party (Part I) yesterday! Was hot in every meaning of the word! If you couldn’t make it yesterday, we got Part II on 9/9 at Tangible Books in Bridgeport!

It was so fun to hang out and read at the first Sobotka Lit Mag launch party yesterday at Four Letter Books! Mark your calendars for the second one next month to hear more contributors read too!

Another glorious visit to USPS to send out some literary magazines. Can you believe in 4-6 days mags will get from Back of the Yards, Chicago to both coasts. So nutty. So beautiful. Thanks.

Hanging up a couple two tree flyers around Bridgeport for the reading on 9/9 at Tangible Books at 7p. łem, Nate Hoil, Francesca Kritikos, B Lewis, Grant Garland, and Alexis Foran reading. Mags for sale, drinks for free. Halsted bus to 33rd or Red Line to 35th. Cya there.

Fresh colophon tees are in the works! Green ink on tan Bella+Canvas tees! Printing in (my (Nick’s) sister’s) house, so short runs! Order by 9/15 and we’ll print yours up with a few extra in each size then this colorway’s gone for good! Thankee! ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com/product/tan-ci…

Bridgeport street walkers got no excuse!

CHICAGO! ISSUE 10 RELEASE PARTY, PART DEUX! SATURDAY, 9/9! BRIDGEPORT! TANGIBLE BOOKS! 7PM! 6 ISSUE 10 READERS! FREE BEERS AND BUBBLY WATERS! MASKS AND AIR PURIFIERS ON DECK! MAGS FOR SALE! LOVE FOR FREE! BERNICE’S AFTER PARTY!

Selling this shirt. We will print up however many orders we have as of 9/15 with a couple extra in every size and then this colorway will be gone. Thanks. ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com/product/tan-ci…

Issue 10 parties are done! Love to our contributors (& guest editor Sara Elizabeth McNally): Zach Kocanda, pale horse ralph lauren, Kaitlyn L. Palmer, Ricki Cummings, Alexis Foran, Grant Garland, B Lewis, Francesca Kritikos, Nate Hoil, łem! Love to Four Letter Books & Tangible Books! 🖤

Found a copy of Sobotka Lit Mag issue 2 in one of my neighborhood little lending libraries.

Sobotka Lit Mag

Got to talk to the bud Nick about poetry and publishing and some other stuff for Bullying Poets: open.spotify.com/episode/2xtclG…

We’re emerging from chapbook choosing hibernation and we’re hungry. Please feed us your weird berries and beautiful insects. ursusamericanuslit.com/submit

More chapbooks coming soon. Some poetry, a prose one. You know how it goes. On and on until we can’t afford to do it anymore. Excited to have this group join the family 💋🐻💚 juliet gelfman-randazzo @olgamikolaivna Adrian 'The True Imported Polish Ham' Henry Goldkamp Natalie Stamatopoulos

This website is hell but we will be opening submissions for Issue 11 next month after a year of inactivity. Buy a copy of Issue 10 to help us fund contributor copies for Issue 11. Thanks.

Excited to put some Chicago writers in Issue 11 so we can party again in 2025. If you live in Chicago and write short stories, poems, or personal essays, we will be opening subs again towards the middle of November. Also if you live elsewhere, but Chicago where our heart is.🔥☠️

Fuck this website. Fuck Elon Musk. Fuck the ad revenue posting this creates. Buy a chapbook here: ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com Read a poem here: ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill Go outside.

Submissions for Issue 11 open until May 1, 2025. sobotkalitmag.wordpress.com/submission-gui…

Thanks everyone who submitted this weekend. Good to feel connected through this wretched system of digital tubes. If you’re thinking of sending but hesitant for some reason, please remember the worst we will say is “we don’t dig this, send something different next time.” Love.