existential poetics newsletter @existentialmail
a weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing lovely poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction dredged up throughout the wide web of the internet. released every fri tweets by @ajoyouschild Joined February 2021-
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this weekend check out these two fantastic issues recently released! wordswithoutborders.org perhappened.com/issue13saltwat…
happy friday <3 another extremely short rec letter this week! thegeorgiareview.com/posts/spell-to… vagabondcitylit.com/2021/06/21/we-… waxwingmag.org/items/issue24/…
Just three recommendations this week because I've been busy, and will be, for the next few weeks! Hope you're all doing well and having a magical summer <3 x.com/olicketysplit/… joylandmagazine.com/nonfiction/the… electricliterature.com/filthy-animals…
HABITAT Caves acclimating the letter exposing the prescription: light. All cloud the face clean— We animals also heed home.
have a good weekend~
@RuffneckRefugee's “A TABLEAU OF ASPIRATION” "grief is as elegant as soup stains / blotting the sanctity of cloth / & canon"
happy friday i hope you have great weather to enjoy this week's recs~
hitesh meena @hiteshmeen77170
56 Followers 483 Following
Seighez @Seighez457273
0 Followers 533 Following If you don’t want to grow old together, why suffer and not let go?
Janne Jämsen @JamsenJanne
76 Followers 2K Following
The Confessionalist (... @ConfessionZine
2K Followers 2K Following Online lit mag dedicated to confessional poetry | Issue 4 out August 15 | EIC: @blueberrypoet
Naseer K Saithu @SaithuNaseer
30 Followers 2K Following Father of 3 Heroes👨👨👦 and One cute Princess 👸 &Hus of their Mom.. my chunk Partner 🧕❤️
Dead Skunk Mag @deadskunkmag
4K Followers 4K Following A Lit Mag That Doesn't Stink🦨 Issue 2 is Alive - https://t.co/yopIi0PG2d Editors @EmilySamples & @suzanne_samples
Pollux Journal | SUBS... @polluxjournal
2K Followers 549 Following a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to multilinguality ✧ SUBMISSIONS CLOSED FOR ISSUE 7.
Lauren Garretson-Atki... @afrosandprose
116 Followers 360 Following Emerging Writer | Astrologer-in-Training | Afro Futurist & Pessimist | Radical Fatty | @kimbiliofiction Fellow 2019 | she/her
Jyothi Natarajan @cupofjyo
1K Followers 992 Following working for @haymarketbooks, editing @decanonproject, previously @aaww (she/they)
Tejashree @earth2tj
132 Followers 619 Following she/her | past lives @bcg, @IIMAhmedabad, & @iitmadras | climate action, public policy, literature
Jack Saebyok Jung 정... @daybreakjung
4K Followers 2K Following NEA Translation 2024 / Yi Sang (2020, @WavePoetry) / Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus (2025, Black Square Editions) / Assistant Professor of English @DavidsonCollege
David Baker @davidbakerpoet
2K Followers 440 Following David's new book of poems “Transit” will be available from WW Norton in mid-January 2026. He lives in Granville, Ohio.
ariana benson @literari_ana
2K Followers 2K Following 🪴🌚 *poet* *multivariate nerd* *current hyperfixation: sportsball *book: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press), @cavecanempoets prize, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Veronica Jarboe @VJarboe
162 Followers 541 Following Actress Writer Dancer LAMDA. Author of “sweethearts and sorrows,” available on Amazon / reader-editor @mosspuppymag / “i tell the finches” @rinkydinkpress
sunny 🌦 (hiatus) @sunnyvwrites
1K Followers 813 Following eic @interstellarlit | adroit '21, iyws & kyw '22 | words in @DiodeEditions @strangehorizons @halfmysticpress @KissingDPoetry | stressed pixie dream girl
Erica Messner @erica_messner
639 Followers 881 Following Editor of the @sanfranciscan__ magazine. Big fan of alternative modes of transportation, vegan treats, local stories, and climbing stairs for the views.
Group Chat Review @grp_cht_rvw
238 Followers 406 Following a caring home for poetry and flash fiction // Black Lives Matter // subs now closed
The B'K Magazine 🇵... @TheBKMagazine
10K Followers 6K Following An art & lit mag prioritizing and paying traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. POC, ND, queer, and trans nonbinary led. Editor: @mxchristalbot
Richard Mirabella🦌 @RPMirabella
5K Followers 4K Following Writer, reader, office potato. Author of BROTHER & SISTER ENTER THE FOREST. Lambda Award Finalist for Gay Fiction. I'm queer. he/him. rep: @CRSRipley
Paper Crane Journal |... @pcjmag
2K Followers 793 Following A literary magazine for teens, by teens. Submissions are currently closed. Link to the Outstanding Poets Anthology in bio!
Preeti Dhaliwal (she/... @Jadooberry
366 Followers 495 Following ARCHIVED | critical race feminist | writer | lawyer | facilitator | Masi | @guelphcwmfa | drink cha often | run writing workshops | find me elsewhere online |
sal🧂 / 예서 / �... @nini_kang
654 Followers 625 Following making gay poems & doing bdsm ; they/them ; free palestine, from the river to the sea // 한국 - 영국 왔다갔다하면서 사는 한국사람입니다
Seema @SeemaReza
829 Followers 761 Following she/her Reading & Writing. Author: A Constellation of Half-Lives (Write Bloody Publishing) & When the World Breaks Open (Red Hen Press). CEO @cbaw_
Melissa Llanes Brownl... @lumchanmfa
6K Followers 4K Following Bitter over Sweet https://t.co/sYLKELtEu5 Hard Skin https://t.co/rwoOEn73DI Kahi&Lua https://t.co/zPtOzutAb4
dorothy grace frankli... @dgfranklin06
398 Followers 1K Following 19. muppets obsessed classics & english student
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D... @TaylorByas3
13K Followers 3K Following I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (‘23) & RESTING BITCH FACE (‘25) @softskull | #FreePalestine | repped by @ng_rosenzweig at @_triangle_house | she/her
💅🏻 Dia Roth �... @diaroth____
252 Followers 530 Following poet, they/them, assistant editor @thehooliganmag, poems in @poetrynw, @havehadhavehad, & more
equal opportunity hat... @vtheoddity
28 Followers 111 Following
Sanam Sheriff صنم @sunummm
783 Followers 407 Following poet & artist • queer & liminal • i teach @ bryn mawr college , make home in philadelphia, miss home in bangalore • i'm barely on here, find more at:
Gabrielle Bates @GabrielleBates
23K Followers 4K Following JUDAS GOAT (@Tin_House 2023) • she works for @openpoetrybooks • cohosts @PoetSalonPod • teaches a bit • some words in @NewYorker • from Bham, AL • xx
zoe-aline howard @zoealinehoward
1K Followers 473 Following agent at @HowlandLit, literary publicist at @PineStatePub
Maya ✡︎ Owen @mayaceliaowen
559 Followers 2K Following notable strumpet | sheing for the time being | & so to tenderness I add my action — Aracelis Girmay, The Black Maria
Trivarna Hariharan @TrivarnaH
4K Followers 4K Following Poet. Pianist. Literature post-grad. Poems in @AtticusReview, @jmwwjournal, @HungerJournal. Founder of the writing community, Wildflowers are Prayers.
WRITING CONTEST SUBS ... @icelollyreview
2K Followers 516 Following A nonprofit literary magazine by the youth and for the youth (ages 12-26) Previously published welcome. ISSUE 14 out now! Tweets by @jessjellybeanss
J. YURU ZHOU / 周玉... @mooncasted
184 Followers 502 Following prefigurative practice / {poet, researcher, web crawler} /🎐 an altar @julyfoolss / 🏹 an arrow @containertheory / 👩🏻🌾 flowers & fields
Wf Teegzy Care @Teegzycare
102 Followers 599 Following
Tedla Lombeso @lombeso_tedla
164 Followers 596 Following Wish to_justice_liberty_equality_democratic & #free_tribal_🇪🇹.
C @casewash
29 Followers 1K Following
Group Chat Review @grp_cht_rvw
238 Followers 406 Following a caring home for poetry and flash fiction // Black Lives Matter // subs now closed
pablo piñero stillma... @p_p_st
352 Followers 411 Following OUR BRAINS AND THE BRAINS OF MINIATURE SHARKS (@MoonCityPress) Work in @GburgReview, @VCUBlackbird, @MissReviewMag, et al.
Richard Mirabella🦌 @RPMirabella
5K Followers 4K Following Writer, reader, office potato. Author of BROTHER & SISTER ENTER THE FOREST. Lambda Award Finalist for Gay Fiction. I'm queer. he/him. rep: @CRSRipley
Seema @SeemaReza
829 Followers 761 Following she/her Reading & Writing. Author: A Constellation of Half-Lives (Write Bloody Publishing) & When the World Breaks Open (Red Hen Press). CEO @cbaw_
Sam DeFlitch @sdeflitchy
837 Followers 2K Following CONFLUENCE (Broadstone Books, 2021) I she/her I corgi is Moose
Melissa Llanes Brownl... @lumchanmfa
6K Followers 4K Following Bitter over Sweet https://t.co/sYLKELtEu5 Hard Skin https://t.co/rwoOEn73DI Kahi&Lua https://t.co/zPtOzutAb4
Necessary Fiction @NecessaryFic
9K Followers 1K Following A webjournal publishing weekly short fiction, book reviews, & whatever else happens. We prefer to use Bluesky and our newsletter, and will be leaving this site.
Midst @midstpoetry
1K Followers 281 Following Midst is a new literary journal that shows readers how poems are written: blank page to final draft, and every edit in between. 💻 Ed. @annelysegelman.
josé olivarez @_joseolivarez
15K Followers 4K Following son of Mexican immigrants. poet. educator. Promises of Gold (Henry Holt 2023). Citizen Illegal, (@haymarketbooks 2018). (He/Him)
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D... @TaylorByas3
13K Followers 3K Following I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (‘23) & RESTING BITCH FACE (‘25) @softskull | #FreePalestine | repped by @ng_rosenzweig at @_triangle_house | she/her
First Wave @omaifirstwave
1K Followers 493 Following The ONLY four year full tuition scholarship for hip hop & urban arts in the world. Apply to First Wave at the link in our Linktree!
Kevin Young @Deardarkness
20K Followers 1K Following Poet. Nonfictionist. Poetry Editor @NewYorker. Picture book EMILE & THE FIELD out now. Follow @NMAAHCDirector for official #Smithsonian info
Hannah Aizenman @ghazalblues
2K Followers 894 Following reader / writer / stranger // my only interest is everything // wrangling poems @NewYorker // chair @newyorkerunion
Fractured Lit @FracturedLit
11K Followers 3K Following Fractured Literary. The Future of Flash. Tweets by @tommydeanwriter. Fractured & Fused Prize open until 11/22/2026! https://t.co/Ge6HFxC3nJ
Chase Berggrun @patriphobe
3K Followers 827 Following • poet • trans lesbian • author of R E D (erasures of Dracula) • she/her • free palestine •
Jewish Currents @JewishCurrents
52K Followers 3K Following Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left. Subscribe today!
Eloisa Amezcua @Eloisa_Amezcua
9K Followers 2K Following fighting is like a wife (april 2022, @coffee_house_) // she.her.hers
Radix Printing & Publ... @radixcoop
3K Followers 2K Following Radix is a worker-owned printer and publisher, producing beautifully designed, union-made books and ephemera. Black Co-owned. Weelaunee Defense Society.
Jonathan Escoffery @J_Escoffery
4K Followers 2K Following IF I SURVIVE YOU | Booker Prize & PEN/ Faulkner Finalist | National Book Award Nominee | Checks DMs rarely
Clarion Workshop @ClarionUCSD
2K Followers 174 Following Since 1968, the Clarion Workshop has fostered community and helped aspiring writers of SF&F develop their craft. Feed maintained by the Clarion bulletin team.
Yohanca Delgado @yodelnyc
4K Followers 2K Following Writer & Stegner fellow @Stanford | @NEArts fellow & emerging @bookcritics | From NYC 🇩🇴 🇨🇺 | Words w/ @JanelleMonae in NYT Bestseller THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
Room Magazine @RoomMagazine
12K Followers 2K Following Literature, Art, and Feminism Since 1975. A print journal publishing writers and artists who identify as women (cis/trans), trans men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary.
SEPIA @sepiaorg
2K Followers 762 Following A literary/arts organization, home to Sepia Journal and Staccato. On hiatus.
Mizna @Mizna_ArabArt
5K Followers 1K Following Mizna is a contemporary arts organization promoting Arab/SWANA lit, film + art. We publish, Mizna Online, a literary journal + produce the Arab Film Fest.
fargo nissim tbakhi @YouKnowFargo
3K Followers 2K Following palestinian performance artist | TERROR COUNTER (2025) | ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (2027) | Deep Vellum
Apogee Journal @ApogeeJournal
6K Followers 787 Following ISSUE 19 IS HERE! 💫 Read it at link below. Publishing fresh work that resists the status quo.
SmokeLong Quarterly @SmokeLong
21K Followers 1K Following Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. No Trump supporters.
SwR @SouthwestReview
4K Followers 714 Following Quarterly print mag and weekly content online | Follow our multimedia outlet @newponytx
Joyland Publishing @JoylandPub
12K Followers 2K Following nonprofit publisher of Joyland Magazine, a literary journal, and Joyland Editions, a small press publishing two novellas every year
trampset @trampset
11K Followers 4K Following A literary journal. ISSN 2692–5001. Editors: @jedwardkruft @scottneuffer L Mari Harris Columns: @MandiraPattnaik @cornrowchuks Member @CLMPorg
Waxwing Magazine @WaxwingMag
10K Followers 635 Following Waxwing is an online journal publishing fiction, CNF, poetry, and translation. Tweets by @AFB16
hummingbird mag @hummingbirdmag1
682 Followers 2K Following seeking to elevate exciting, perspective-widening talent 🐦🧚 donate to @TWOCCNYC !!!!!!
The Boiler @TheBoiler_
6K Followers 2K Following Turn up the heat. Make it whistle. Sputter and steam. We'll gauge the pressure. Since 2011💨
EREMITE POETRY @EremitePoetry
504 Followers 109 Following Biannual Poetry Journal run by Babcock University students/alum • EIC: @pamilerinjacob OPEN FOR SUBS
The Night Heron Barks @HeronBarks
2K Followers 1K Following A Sanctuary for Poet and Poem; an online poetry journal. Also the team behind Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, @starbassoon. EIC: Rogan Kelly, @jerzypoet
The Daily Drunk Mag @dailydrunkmag
11K Followers 7K Following Pop culture writing that pops. Film, TV, Music, Video Games, & Podcasts. Posts by @sbb_writer & @seth_borkowski
Hiatus Jones | Sylvia... @jes3ica
1K Followers 3K Following writer | editor | WNBA fan | spider-saver | she/her
Danielle Paige @dpwpoetry
1K Followers 794 Following 803 to LA | Danielle Paige streaming everywhere 💿 Copywriter at CAA ✍🏽 Author of Who All Gon’ Be There? @backbonepoetry 📕
Lauren Garretson-Atki... @afrosandprose
116 Followers 360 Following Emerging Writer | Astrologer-in-Training | Afro Futurist & Pessimist | Radical Fatty | @kimbiliofiction Fellow 2019 | she/her
Shangyang Fang @ShangyangFang
928 Followers 515 Following Bankrupt Poet with Skinflint Ink. Author of Burying the Mountain (Oct, 2021) @coppercanyonprs. Wallace Stegner Fellow @stanford.
January Gill O'Neil @januaryoneil
4K Followers 2K Following Associate Prof @SalemState • Author of Glitter Road & Rewilding @CavanKerryPress • 2019-2020 Grisham Writer-in-Residence • AWP • Poet • Mom • Go @RedSox! ❤️Trends for United States
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