Huge things happening this weekend!
🌊 Way Downstream opens for submissions. Finish polishing up your long stories & essays. Any genre! fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream
📚 I am launching a secret project I've been working on for MONTHS. Tune in this Saturday for all the deets!! AHHHHH
AHHH JORDAN 💕 thank you!!
AHAHA almost choked on my coffee
A screenshot of the Monarch Queer Literary Awards website. Text superimposed on top reads, Monarch 2026 now available to read. Beneath it is the cover of the anthology, a photo of a person lying on their back in a field of tall grass with their left arm covering their face. Cover text reads Monarch 2026, a queer literary awards anthology published by fifth wheel press.
MONARCH 2026 is out now! 🦋
Buy a print copy of the anthology: fifthwheelpress.shop/products/monarch-2026
Read it online: monarch.gay/monarch-2026/
obsessed.
ICYMI, @havenspec.bsky.social published a new poem of mine last week! 🖤 it’s all about creating care and community in the face of apocalypse
havenspec.com/poetry/if-i-...
Sad Jack uses a very old desktop computer, with a matrix of white ones and zeroes on a light blue background. The title reads "Back into the Archives" by Eleanor Ball. The "e" in "Archives" is the old internet explorer icon.
This month, we’re diving back into the archives with help from Fiction Reader Eleanor Ball. But we didn’t stop there, as we also included a Q&A with Carolene Kurien (outgoing Poetry Editor) and Erin Malone (new Poetry Editor)! Read the full newsletter at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/a-return-t....
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YESSS
I AM CO-EDITING THIS 🌊💗 Do you ever struggle to place your longer essays or fiction pieces? So do we. So we decided to create an anthology all about celebrating the unique joys & opportunities of long prose.
Subs open 3/15-5/15!! Come wander way downstream with us.
motherboard Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for motherboard: all genres. #CallforSubmissions
My poem “If I must exist here” is now free to read in the new issue of Haven Spec!
havenspec.com/poetry/if-i-...
Hugos, Locus, Nebs, Small Press, World Fantasy, SFPA, and more...
We published three issues in 2025! If you're reading for awards, please give them a glance. Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction - all original, wonderful works!
Read something *Fantastic*!
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
Oh my god I love this.
![An excerpt of the poem "If I must exist here," by Eleanor Ball, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads:
then with open arms. Bitten nails. Tongue bloody
from eating itself like a snake. From pressing
my mouth to yours. Oracle, puzzle,
three-body problem. Then in prayer,
licking the wounds of the earth.
Then sunflowers, springing
[...]
The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ueitqarm32pz3ap6ckphdzu/bafkreicimeypudhbrvshfrkncthgvg6dhuvsh43qn52x65taqxpi6jmtpa)
An excerpt of the poem "If I must exist here," by Eleanor Ball, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads: then with open arms. Bitten nails. Tongue bloody from eating itself like a snake. From pressing my mouth to yours. Oracle, puzzle, three-body problem. Then in prayer, licking the wounds of the earth. Then sunflowers, springing [...] The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.
👀February 2026 Poetry👀
"If I must exist here," is a poem by @eleanorball.bsky.social about hope and apocalypse. Read it as an act of survival in a wounded world.
Available in our February issue, due to subscribers on Monday!
havenspec.com/issues/issue...
THISSSSSS 🔥🔥🔥
I have a little poem in here about finding love and community and hope in the apocalypse 🖤
time to start vagueposting about TWO new projects …. exciting things happening in march!!
(hint: not a new lit mag or a book launch …. a secret third thing 👀)
❤️ I’ve been on Ajovy for about a year! For me, it took around 6 months to for the medication to fully build up in my system, but after that it made a huge difference. Hope it works for you too!
Oh this is SOOOOO GOOD
I would love to!
ordered and waiting eagerly for it to arrive! 🖤
time to start vagueposting about a new project
Yessss fingers crossed!
My favorite is “All of Our Mothers Are Dead,” published in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social 🖤
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
today!! happening now!! get em in!! (reprints welcome!!)
"The freedom of floating,
cradled by the sea, until I beached on the sands of Babylon.
In my palms, the kisses of birds."
book mail!! 😍 @reckoningmag.bsky.social
I've been published by them and I personally found Lee to be wonderful to work with. Very easy to communicate with and cares a lot for his contributors + the wider poetry community.
Hmmm . . . maybe Rogue Agent, Nerve to Write, ballast journal, Under a Warm Green Linden, Stone Circle Review? Dodo Eraser is a brand-new journal I'm really excited about.
