Just a few days to submit your poems or hybrid work on Birth. merliterary.com/submit
Just a few days to submit your poems or hybrid work on Birth. merliterary.com/submit
So grateful for this thoughtful review of MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES @merliterary.bsky.social, including an Anne Sexton reference.
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We are honored to present some of the work that was read that night. For more, see you in Baltimore!
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Submit to MER - Mom Egg Review
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"Two pages into The Fun Times Brigade, author Lindsay Zier-Vogelβs follow-up to her acclaimed novel Letters to Amelia, and I am fully transported to my own early days of mothering an inconsolable, colicky newborn." Read Jane Ward's review for @merliterary.bsky.social. merliterary.com/2025/06/11/t...
Clean, efficient and a little bit devastating - that's new #microfiction from @marjorietesser.bsky.social in the #Bully issue, out now.
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Without further ado, Issue 8 is now live!
The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories
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Thrilled and honoured that βAfter the Kissβ (2024) is featured on the cover of this yearβs MER literary journal print issue!
You can check out the beautifully written work on motherhood, literature, & art in MER 23 here: merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m...
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#motherhood #klimt
"In All This Can Be True, Jen Michalski offers a poignant story about this transformational power of loveβeven when that love is not destined to be the forever kind."
A lovely review of @socalwritergirl.bsky.social forthcoming novel in @merliterary.bsky.social
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our Shoo Shoo Baby reading with @WTAW imprint @Betty books, all the contributors and new friends who visited our book table, and hanging out with our team, @jennmartelli, @cindyveach, @JPHoward, and Ana CH Silva. Happy travels and see you next time.
β¦our Shoo Shoo Baby reading with @WTAW imprint @Betty books, all the contributors and new friends who visited our book table, and hanging out with our team, @jennmartelli, @cindyveach, @JPHoward, and Ana CH Silva. Happy travels and see you next time.
So many beautiful moments at AWPβThe amazing poets and writers who read at our two off site events, Off site.On purpose. with our colleagues from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social and @cultivatingvoiceslive
This was an AMAZING event. If they pull together this βOff Site/ On Purposeβ group reading again next year, seek it out! Powerful poems and an exceptionally warm, inclusive vibe @merliterary.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
Will you be at AWP in Los Angeles?? Come find me at my book signing @univnebpress.bsky.social or the offsite reading hosted by @merliterary.bsky.social and @wtawpress.bsky.social and @bettybooks.bsky.social Happy to arrange for a review copy--just ask!
We appreciate @jennmartelli.bsky.social, co-poetry editor at @merliterary.bsky.social, for joining us for a Brown Bag Lit βFake AWPβ panel!
Learn more about MER here: merliterary.com
and Jennifer here: www.jennmartelli.com
Betty's AWP events!
π Panel: The Matrilineal Saga β March 27, 10:35 AM, with @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social & @ilzeduarte.bsky.social
π Book Signing: TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by @janishubschman.bsky.social β March 27, Noon
π Reading: Shoo Shoo Baby β March 28, 5:30 PM with @merliterary.bsky.social
Delighted to have a poem up in the single mothering folio @merliterary.bsky.social today!
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With deep gratitude to the editors at MER (Mom Egg Review), @merliterary.bsky.social I am thrilled and honored that my poem "Memo to the Absent" has found a home in the "Mothering Alone"poetry folio. merliterary.com/2025/03/13/m...
Lesley Wheeler at AWP Thurs 3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, βUnderstories & Mycocosms: Tapping Hidden Networks,β Room 403A, Level 2, Convention Center Thurs 3/27, 7:00-9:00 pm, Reading with MER, SWIMM, Whale Road, Perugia, & Cultivating Voices, MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St Fri 3/28, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing with Tupelo Press, Bookfair Booth 604 Fri 3/28, 7:00-9:00 pm, Tupelo Press Reading at The Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd
Me at #AWP25!
3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, βUnderstories & Mycocosmsβ Rm 403A, L2
3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St
3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604
3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd
Two weeks from tonight! Weβre thrilled to be part of a collaborative offsite at #AWP25 in L.A. on 3/27. Join us! Free admission / Cash bar. @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social
www.versedaily.org/2025/isawagi... A Feature in Verse Daily. @versedaily.bsky.social "I Saw a Girl" first appeared in @merliterary.bsky.social
MER Wrapped!!! Looking forward, and backward in our latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/merliter...
Lore Segalβs flash fiction online at merliterary.com.
Congratulations to Lore Segal on the launch of βLadiesβ Lunchβ (Melville House).
Hi bluesky! Glad to be here!