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opportunities, news, tweets, etc.

Happy Thursday, folks!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• Opportunities

• News

• Call to action

• Tweets

It’s a long one—so please open up this email in a new tab if you want to read to the end.

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Housekeeping:

This newsletter has officially hit 200 followers! Woo-hoo!

I’m so thankful to you all for following along—and glad to know that you find my silly little posts helpful.

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Finally, a check-in—

because I hope that this newsletter will continue to help / inspire / amuse you:

1. What topics would you like to see covered in this newsletter?

2. What are some literary-/publishing-related questions you have that I might be able to answer?

Please feel free to respond directly to this email with any thoughts!

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I have a poem out in Cumberland River Review.

& I’m honored to be included. You can read it here:

& some art out in Wrongdoing Magazine!

Wrongdoing Magazine | SUBS OPEN @wrongdoingmag

Another multi-talented artist that we get to feature; @itsdbouts is not just a wonderful writer, but yet another collage genius featured in Issue 3. Go stare at the 5 pieces we had the joy to publish: wrongdoingmag.com/spring-2022

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Extremely exciting news:

Tarik Dobbs @mxrlevant

My debut poetry collections NAZAR BOY (spring 2024) and DEARBORNISTAN (2026) will be published with @haymarketbooks!

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Opportunities:

• ($100 - $1,000) Belt Magazine | Ed is looking for all sorts of pitches, features, poetry, personal essays about life in the Midwest. Guidelines here.

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News:

Once again, we have a journal behaving unethically—a singular editor, specifically:

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

honestly so weird to me how, every time a editor is called out for managing their journal unethically, they just disappear from twitter. *tap taps on windowpane* we know ur in there!!!!

The journal in question is [PANK], and you can read more about what’s going on here and here. For me, the idea of charging $5 alone is absolutely fucked but, the idea that submissions aren’t even getting read? Criminal.

The editor in question is Jessica Royce Fischoff, who has been hiding from Twitter, me thinks. I’m really big on accountability—and working toward community, always. Hope she’ll apologize & change her behavior. And refund everyone.

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Speaking of ethics and community:

Journals that do this are annoying & dumb:

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

i know journals think that this is rly """inclusive""" & """forward-thinking""" but every time i see a journal that charges for submissions offer this i'm just like wow. u rly want us to admit to a stranger that we are impoverished huh lol. that's fked up

More on this kind of thing here:

being a good literary citizen

on community

some handy links // guys, what the f*ck?

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Call to action:

Try out one of these prompts!

(Scroll to see all 30)

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Tweets:

LikeTheStatue @k8bushofficial

if someone else can decide whether you have agency then you don't have agency

Jason Diamond @imjasondiamond

Been in L.A. two weeks and twice I tried to make friends with what I thought was a dog off its leash but it turned out to be a fucking coyote.

Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable

This new Addams Family show looks like nothing, but I'll say this for it: Catherine Zeta Jones and Luis Guzman are a god-tier Morticia and Gomez.

Julia Rapp 💙 @jujujulife

guy who joins people on their cigarette break and just starts blowing bubbles

LaVonne Idlette, OLY @idlette

My lash lady makes $1500 a day. She is in school to be a teacher… bc her mom wants her to have a “real job” People who love you don’t always give you the best advice.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

whomst wants a sexy bitch on their AWP panel. i am available

VƎX @vexwerewolf

People who think condemning Columbus is "wokeness gone mad" should consider that *even by the standards of his time* he was considered a genocidal racist

flat rylan ☻ @testosteronejew

NEW SLUR JUST DROPPED ???

Sarah Andersen @SarahCAndersen

Read Wobblies and Zapatistas @JoshuaPotash

I'm amazed they're really laying out the housing crisis on TV

dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch

i got added to the wrong chat

LikeTheStatue @k8bushofficial

my internalized whatever is so entertaining. dropped a pair of jades underwear at the laundromat and someone handed it to me and i panicked like “why would a guy have womens underwear? now i’m clocked”???

cosima bee concordia @bimbotheory

do not bite the hand that fists you or however that saying goes

kate @bananapuff777

do not bite the hand that fingers you or however that saying goes

Charlie James @nonbinarycowboy

not having a crush is dangerous. what am i supposed to think about. what if i invent something

trip @DEMONSTRATlON

u know ur lattes aboutta hit when ur barista looks a bit funky and peculiar

sarina 🛋 @svrinx

My digital footprint is crazy but I also don’t care bc nothing is real

transgender marx @JUNlPER

“seems weird to block people who criticize you” i come online to have fun

transgender marx @JUNlPER

yea sure what i really want to do is have my blood pressure as high as possible at all times. i need health problems that stem from posting

Typer Durden @drdevonprice

Got asked to contribute to an academic journal where, if my work were accepted, not only would I not be paid for writing it-- I as the author would have to pay a publication fee. Academia is sick. Here was my response.

Amy Gaeta @GaetaAmy

I can’t stop thinking about how the divorce rate for men leaving their really sick wives is so high that nurses are taught to warn women patients when they get diagnosed with a serious illness

belle @blondedbelle

Miami Against Fascism 🌴☕️ @MIAagainstFash

Today we will be introducing for the first time ever Andrew Coleman, a Tampa, FL based realtor who was a tiki torch carrying Nazi marcher at #UniteTheRight in Charlottesville five years ago this week. Join us and other anti-fascist researchers as we #IgniteTheRight. 🔥🔥🔥 1/

the prince with a thousand enemies ♂️ @jaketropolis

Christ without HRT is Cis...

arabelle sicardi 英梅 @arabellesicardi

A lot can be said about therapy (I love it) but my life would also simply improve and my anxiety would temporarily disappear if I had an extra ten thousand dollars

Katya💫 @byataslilbitch

@CupcakKe_rapper It's u

Kenny Keil @kennykeil

cdc says go head and eat the silica packet

thunder nuggets @DstanfordHenry

no offense but every time i hang out with my short friends i feel like a shepherd with his flock of sheep is that fucked up

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That’s all for today!

Please buy things so that I can pay my rent. Love you.

-Despy Boutris
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