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#AWP26 Recap, Last Call, and Discount We had a great time in Baltimore! And we want to thank everyone who stopped by our table with a discount and a reminder that our next reading period ends March 15!

We had a great time at #AWP6. Here's a recap, a call for submissions, and a discount! open.substack.com/pub/ponderre...

Stop by our table T984 at #AWP26 and pick up some of our swag! We love to meet former and future contributors.

We're halfway through our submission window. Now is a great time to send us your work and avoid the mad rush at the deadline! #submissionsopen ponderreview.submittable.com

Celebrating #writers and other creatives in Mississippi (and everwhere) this year!

Contributor copies and all but one (international) subscription went in the mail today. Let us know when you get yours!

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We're starting our 10th year! Won't you join us?
Send us your best #fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, #plays, #art, and #newmedia.
Reading 12/15-3/15. #callforsubmissions #submissioncall
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Ponder Review 9.2 is here! We're proud to showcase these fine writers! #litmag #newissue

Bluesky is finally back in Mississippi! No longer will we have to hitch up the mule and head over to Alabama to post. We did have to verify our age, though. Great for us, but not so great for the mule, who will probably get fat eating all those oats.

Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees!
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2

For a closer look, here is each panel of the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium with 12 Southern writers and 5 Ephemera Prize Winners. Each session is free to attend and will be live-streamed on our WeltySymposium Youtube channel. #readings #writerscommunity #mississippi #southernwriters

Two weeks from today, we begin the 37th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. Here's our complete schedule! #writers #southernauthors #readings #bookfestival #TheW

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

The saddest part is that the Supreme Court indicated the law will probably be struck down, but they didn't see any reason to keep it from going into effect in the meantime. Maybe that will change now, or maybe there'll be a compromise.

Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.

We may be in #Mississippi but our students (and editors) are all over the country, so that fact that @bsky.app has #blocked MS IP addresses won't stop us. (Plus there are ways around it, #Mississippians.) bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our MFA student editors are back in classes, and there's less than a month to send us your work. Don't miss your chance to submit to issue 9.2! #submissioncall #fiction #poetry #CNF #plays #art #digitallit

Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway Searching for metaphor, you named yourself Papa

Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway."
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Cover of Ponder Review Volume 9, Issue 1.

I may have forgotten to tell you (and shame on me!) that @ponderreview.bsky.social 9.1, which includes an essay of mine on Oscar Wilde, is available now.

You can also submit work for PR 9.2 now. And you should because the folks over there are wonderful.

Ponder Review 9.1 is here! Isn't it lovely? Order your copy today! We'll even give you a discount with the link below.
#litmag #new #discount
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Ponder Review is Still Here With news of lit mags losing funding, we wanted to take a moment to reassure our readers and our contributors that we aren't going anywhere.

With all the news of funding cuts affecting lit mags, we just want to reassure everyone, we're not going anywhere. Issue 9.1 comes out next month, and this article has a discount link!
#litmag #defunding #discount
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We especially like to follow our contributors. Reply or DM us if you've published in Ponder Review and we haven't followed you back yet! We like to follow other writers, too.

Social Media Truths Every Writer Needs to Understand Fake audiences, bloated accounts, and bots

ChillSubs' analysis of social media at Lit Mag News made us feel better: they call a 10:1 follower/following ratio healthy. Ours is about 2:1. We're still looking for cool people to follow, but glad to feel less pressure to follow back. @chillsubs.bsky.social litmagnews.substack.com/p/social-med...

Thanks for noticing us. We've actually been on Bluesky since January 2024. It's interesting to see that our number of followers is now getting closer to what we had on X. More and more people are here these days.

Exiting the #awp25 Book Fair after another exhausting yet exhilarating three days! See you in Baltimore for #AWP26!

Text: On this day: 8 years ago today March 28, 2017 Honored to be chosen to be published in an exciting new literary magazine Ponder Review. Look for me in their inaugural spring issue! #amwriting

Wow! 8 years ago I got my very 1st acceptance. Many thanks @ponderreview.bsky.social for setting me down the path. Hard to believe I'm now at over 100 published stories! It only takes one "yes" to get the ball rolling.

#amwriting #publishing #shortstories

Contributor Julia Philipp stopped by our table at #AWP25 this afternoon. She was one of our Pushcart nominees. Great to meet her in person!

Happy Friday #AWP25! We’re already having a great day after our conversation with Mario, a poet from Iowa who stopped by the table in the first minutes of the Book Fair.

Before and after Day 1 of #AWP25

We're Heading to AWP If you're going, too, you should be packing... me, too, but here I am!

We're heading to #AWP25 see us at T1133!
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We're still taking submissions of fiction, poetry, short plays, digital writing / new media, and art through March 15, too. Promoting CNF this week.

📢 Call for Submissions! ✍️

Ponder Review seeks Creative Nonfiction for our next issue!
✨ We’re Looking For:
✅ Engaging personal narratives
✅ Thought-provoking essays
✅ Lyrical and experimental nonfiction

📝 Deadline: March 15, 2025
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#CallForSubmissions #LitMag