Elinor Ann Walker

ISSUE SIX September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

“The kitchen will be hot—so will you, a-flash, perspiration on your lip. [Tenderness takes a while.]"

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ISSUE SIX September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

"Place meat inside while flour drifts around you [like a ghost]. Seal and rotate gently in your hands [hear the sighs]"

Wonderful interplay between recipe and bracketed asides in this hybrid piece from @elinorann.bsky.social

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ISSUE SIX Sudha Balagopal | Allison Field Bell | Patricia Quintana Bidar | Joefel Bolo | Timothy Boudreau | Kim Magowan | Nora Esme Wagner | Elinor Ann Walker

Feast on RUBY Issue Six featuring delectable and piquant writing by Sudha Balagopal, Allison Field Bell, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Joefel Bolo @tcboudreau.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner & @elinorann.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-... #foodwriting #flashfiction

Thank you, Pat!

Thank you!

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🧵It is with sadness that I am parting ways with ELJ Editions. I did my best to help right what many had warned me was a sinking ship, and I have succeeded in getting three beautiful books out into the world through the Redacted Books Series.

Susan, thank you — & for the re-post! 🥰🥰🥰

Melissa, thank you! 💞🥰

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I'm excited to be able to share that my poem "Sestina (A Ghost Story)," published originally in Northwest Review, was awarded an honorable mention in the Winning Writers Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024💫 🔗 in comments. #poetry #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth #NaPoMo

Thank you, @softlywild.bsky.social, for the re-post❣️

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Thank you so much 🥰

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Thank you, Jude!

Thrilled to be on this list & for my first full-length poetry manuscript MEUSE! Thank you Madville Publishing & judge @allisonpoet.bsky.social
💫 congratulations to winner DeAnna Stephens & first runner-up Meghan Malachi! 💫 #poetry #NaPoMo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrycommunity

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Grateful for 🌼 & poetry, readers & kind publishers. National Poetry Month. Wild violets that provide food & nectar for fritillary butterfly caterpillars & 🐝 So much is cruel, but much is beautiful 💚 thanks to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing this one in 2023 #NaPoMo #poetry #poetrymatters

It's here! It's NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! Celebrate with River Heron by receiving a free prompt a day delivered to your inbox. Link in profile.

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Send us your poems! ✨You may also receive a free writing prompt accompanied by a photo each day in April for Na-Po-Mo-25 (National Poetry Month) from @riverheronreview.bsky.social via sign-up on the website. 🔗 www.riverheronreview.com 💫 #poetry #poetrysubmissions #poetrycommunity #NaPoMo

Thank you @kossworks.bsky.social for the re-post! 💞

Blue cyanotype photo of different fern leaves.

Single blue cyanotype photo of algae.

HBD to Anna Atkins, English botanist & photographer.
#BOTD 1799.
Do check out her beautiful cyanotypes 💙