Lots cooking at Little Free Lit Mag! Issue 3 (Spring) is nearly ready for release, we're open for subs, and we've got big news to share in a couple of weeks! Please send us your shorts! littlefreelitmag.com/submissions-...
*Please do share this with anyone who has been impacted by these illegal layoffs. Some of the prompts will be about writing resistance, and the whole offering really is about creative resilience, and who doesn't need that these days?
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
Next week! Write joy and solace in kindred community! Sliding scale. Please reach out if you are impacted by the illegal firings or in a DEI "reduction in staff." If you've lost your job thanks to performing the service you've provided to this nation, join us for free!
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Little free library in a snowy yard
Last call for submissions for issue 3 of Little Free Lit Mag! <3 We close on 1/31, and won’t reopen til April! Littlefreelitmag.com
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
Little Free Lit Mag is now reading for issue 3! Do you write cross genre shorts? Short poems? Micro-memoirs? Any sort of little lit is welcome! We'd love to read it! (We were #8 on @chillsubs.bsky.social 's amazing list of "WTF Is Genre Anyway?" top 10 from last year! littlefreelitmag.com
*forgot we read the excellent and moving Soil by Camille Dungy! Last Spring seems so long ago!
Cover with title "The Black Fantastic" with three profiles of women's heads in three different African patterns, in the shape of waves
Contents Introduction by andré m. carrington * 1 HERBAL Nalo Hopkinson * 13 ALL THAT TOUCHES THE AIR An Owomoyela * 17 BLUDGEON Thaddeus Howze * 41 A GUIDE TO THE FRUITS OF HAWAII Alaya Dawn Johnson * 58 SANFORD AND SUN Dawolu Jabari Anderson * 89 A SONG FOR YOU Jennifer Marie Brissett * 115 TENDER Sofia Samatar * 126 THE MALADY OF NEED Kiini Ibura Salaam * 136 THE VENUS EFFECT Violet Allen * 139
CONTENTS THE SECRET LIVES OF TASHING NEGRO TERR OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Phenderson Djèli Clark * 169 THE HOSPITAL WHERE Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah * 181 THE ONES WHO STAY AND FIGHT N. K. Jemisin * 197 THE FINAL FLIGHT OF THE UNICORN GIRL, Alex Smith * 209 CALENDAR GIRLS Justina Ireland * 222 SHAPE-UPS AT DELILAH'S Rion Amilcar Scott * 236 HABIBI Tochi Onyebuchi * 259 SPYDER THREADS Craig Laurance Gidney * 279 THE ORB Tara Campbell * 291 WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS Victor LaValle * 310 RULER OF THE REAR GUARD Maurice Broaddus * 341 Biographical Notes * 357 Notes * 363 Sources & Acknowledgments * 366
TARA CAMPBELL The Orb Every time I stir the biomass, I feel lucky to have been chosen. The stirrer is flat and smooth, made of blonde wood; the biomass is thick and smells of overripe fruit. I look down into the buttery orange swirls in the bucket, and it amazes me that just a few months ago I was helping a friend paint her new nursery walls a similar color. But before her baby arrived, I was selected, and now I'm here making history. I walk across the dusty field to the wooden shed in our small corner of the "estate" —which is more like a compound--and press my palm to the scanner, one of the Master's few concessions to modern technology. Electricity and running water seem almost out of place here. Everything else on the compound is rustic: the big farmhouse in which he lives; the bunkhouse where the astants sleep; a couple of small cabins, one of which is crammed with materials, the other which I claimed for myself by...
Y'all, this is one I'm really excited about
The Black Fantastic: 20 #Afrofuturist Stories from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social edited by @andrecarrington.bsky.social
My story "The Orb" is described as "a spell of ecofeminist #horror" 🥹
It's wild to be published w/authors I teach in my classes!🤩
*To give you an idea of our wide ranging reading, here's a list - past Poet Camp Book Club books have inspired some amazing and now, award winning poems! We've read Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Inciting Joy by Ross Gay, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson.
Wintering by Katherine May is full of strategies for getting through difficult times - whether that's having a hard time writing, coping with the news cycle, or personal difficulties in the weeks and years to come. I hope you'll join us! Read at your own pace, and write along when you're able.
Tomorrow Poet Camp's winter Book Club, Wintering by Katherine May begins again! This is a generative, slow moving book club. Month 1 - pre-write questions go out. Month 2, prompts based on the book. In Month 3 we gather on Google Meet to discuss/readaround. ❤ (poetcamp.com/poet-camp-bo...)
I like this one www.instagram.com/reel/DDm9fpw...
As we are coming up on the holidays, there are some truly great Star Trek holiday songs.
All I want for Christmas...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvW...
*Please reach out if you find money is a barrier to joining, and I'll get you squared away. I want a house with a crowded table, as the Highwaywomen so eloquently sing!
From a Poet Camper - Debra Darby gave me permission to share this blurb about our recent time together: "I wanted to thank you so much for the craft classes. They were rich with information, ideas and prompts. Your material is so helpful and the presentation is so rich and unique."
Still time to join us on Boxing Day for the 5th annual Boxing Day Cozy Writing Retreat! Come and go as you're able, or stay the whole time. We'd love for you to join our kindred spirit family! ❤
poetcamp.com/retreats/
Screenshot 1/5 of part of small press directory in alphabetical order: 1913 1080 press 8th House Publishing Acre Books Action Books After Hours Editions Air and Nothingness Press Airlie Press Akashic Books Alice James Books Alternating Currents Alternative Book Press Anti-Oedipus Press Apocalypse Party Aqueduct Argos Books Argyll Productions Atelos Atthis Arts Autofocus Books Autumn House Back Patio Press Bard Books Belle Point Press Bellevue Literary Press Belt Publishing BHC Press Birds, LLC Black Lawrence Black Opal Books Black Sun Lit Blackwater Press Blair Blazevox Boa Editions Bordighera Press Brandeis University Press Broadstone books Bucknell University Press Bull City Press Bullshit Lit Burnside Review Press Burrow Press Canarium Books Catapult Cemetery Gates Chax Press and MadHat Press Circumference Books City of Light Clash Books
Screenshot 2/5 of part of small press directory in alphabetical order: CLEARWATER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. co*im*press Coffee House Press Columbia University Press Contra Mundum Press Coolest Stories Press Copper Canyon Press Cornerstone Press Counterpath Counterpoint Dark Moon Books Delete Press Dialogos Digging Press Dorothy Driftwood Press Duck Prints Press Dulzorada Press Dzanc Books ECW Press Edge Books ELJ Editions Empty Bowl Entre Rios Books Essay Press Eulalia Books Ex Ophidia Press Featherproof Press Feminist Press Fence Books Fieldmouse Press Filthy Loot Books Finishing Line Press Flowersong Press Forest Avenue Press Foundlings Press Four Way Books From Beyond Press Future Tense Books Futurepoem Georgetown University Press Glass Poetry Press Gnashing Teeth Press gnOme Graywolf Green Linden Press Hadley Rille Hanuman Editions Hawthorne Books Haymarket Books Hesse Press
Screenshot 3/5 of part of small press directory in alphabetical order: Hoopoe, an imprint of The American University in Cairo Press Host Publications Hub City Press Igneus Press Inlandia Institute / Inlandia Books Insert Press Inside the Castle Islandport Press Jacar Press Kallisto Gaia Press Kaya Press Kelsey Street Press Kent State University Press KERNPUNKT Press Lanternfish Lavender Ink Lightscatter Press Lily Poetry Review Books Lithic Press Litmus Press Little Ghost Books Mad Creek Books Mad House Press Madrona Books Malarkey Books Mason Jar Press Maverick Duck Press McSweeney's Meekling Press Meerkat Microcosm Publishing Milkweed Editions Minnesota Historical Society Press Moon City Press Moon Tide Press Neon Hemlock New Press New South Books New Vessel Press New Village Press Nightbooat Books Nightscape Press Noemi Press Okay Donkey Omnidawn Ooligan Press Open Letter Books Outpost 19 Owl’s Nest Publishers Perugia Press Press 53
Screenshot 4/5 of part of small press directory in alphabetical order: Propeller Books Psychopomp Publishing Genius Quale Press Queen of Swords Press Querencia Press Rabbit Catastrophe Press Raven Chronicles Press Raw Dog Screaming Press Red Sweater Press Redbone Press Regal House Publishing River River Books Roadside Press Rose Metal Press Running Wild Press Sagging Meniscus Santa Fe Writing Project Sarabande Books Seven Stories Press Shortwave Publishing Shotgun Honey Sloth & Envy Press Small Beer Press Sobelo Books Soft Skull Solid Objects Speculation Publications Split/Lip Press Spout Press Spuyten Duyvil Stalking Horse Press Stillhouse Press Sublunary Editions Subterranean Press Sundress Press Susquehanna University Press Syracuse Press Tarpaulin Sky Tavern Books Tenebrous Press Texas Tech University Press The Economy Press The University of Georgia Press The University of Utah Press Thirty West Publishing Tilted House Timber Ghost Press Tin House Tiny Fox Press
Small press directory 2.0 (cont in comment)! U.S. 50ish bks max/yr. Who's missing? Point them to www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress.
If u suggested a press & it's missing, they didnt list contact info online.
Next wk: guidelines to reviewers for "100 notable small press bks 2025" #100smallpress
What a great read!
Greyed out photo of Nikki Giovanni in background. Title reads "Nikki Giovanni (1948-2024). Quote underneath reads "i hope i die warmed by the life i tried to live" by Nikki Giovanni. Link on footer to sarahannwinn.substack.com
Yesterday, I wrote a Substack celebrating Nikki Giovanni's life & work. It includes a prompt & some links to more about her life and work. Such an amazing poet & human being. <3 sarahannwinn.substack.com
Climate Catastrophe & the Writer’s Task - Learn more about this generative @poetcamp.bsky.social workshop with #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Nickole Brown. 🗓️ December 3, 2024, 7 - 9 p.m. Eastern Time. #Poetry #Climate
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Short, Shorter, Shortest: A Reading of Flash and Short Stories
Join us for an evening of readings from:
DeMisty D. Bellinger
Tara Campbell
Tara Isabel Zambrano
Avitus B. Carle
Featuring our special guest host Exodus Oktavia Brownlow!
December 19
8 - 9 pm (Eastern)
Register:
Background image: Wool woven throw on a window seat, with snowy bush on other side of the glass. Text reads "December Jumpstarts. Dec. 2-6 & Dec. 9-13. 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Eastern, Google Meet. $25-50. Poet Camp logo in white.
Portraying the writing life as constant daily output is a harmful stereotype. But I do believe in the power of routine. Bite sized, manageable, a reliable meeting point for you & your muse. Anyone want to practice with me for 15 mins a morning in Dec? poetcamp.com/december-jum...
Thank you!!
Adore this book!
This. I can't recommend enough reading & editing for journals if you get the chance. It shows you how much time & work goes into the publishing process. Also that rejections aren't a reflection on the quality of work, because there's often hundreds of submissions to sort through.
Looking forward to being with kindred spirits next week, and to Nickole Brown joining Poet Camp to offer such an amazing and timely workshop! sarahannwinn.substack.com/p/more-than-...
But I really, really encourage folks to create the spaces you want to see in the world. Don’t wait for someone else to give you permission. Always happy to talk and share resources.
