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Print lit mag, 2x/year, reading submissions w author names concealed

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J.T. Price @jtprice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"After two decades of mergers & layoffs, conglomerate publishing today is populated by a harried & attenuated workforce ill-equipped to discover or deliver the new. Original books need original editors, ones w ears to the ground & the freedom to actually edit..." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/the...
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Old Directions | The Editors
It can feel like listening to Spotify, reading this way. A patchy sampling, in which huge expanses of history are available but unintuitively organized, likely to result in having heard rarities and m...
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Scott Cheshire @scheshire.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I’m super stoked to read Daniel Krause’ Pulitzer-winning novel, Angel Down. Fiction that wrangles with the notion of angels has always fascinated me…
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Big Score @bigscorelit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lil' update to say, Hey guys hey, thank you for the submissions you sent our way. We are digging them & will have some tough choices ahead...........!
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Big Score @bigscorelit.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Tonight's the night! Get in while you can... At the stroke of midnight, we will be open for submissions for our Fall issue. Read our guidelines (important!) here: bigscorelit.net/about/ Send us the GOOD stuff, please
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Big Score Lit
Brooklyn-based print lit zine, 2x year
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Big Score @bigscorelit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If you're chagrined abt the "enshittification" of everything & believe in a return to first-order principles like paying writers decently, evaluating work independently of the author's platform, & publishing in print, then you might just believe in us too. bigscorelit.net
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.
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And the Oscar Goes to … Men Not at Work
Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.
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Big Score @bigscorelit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If you're chagrined abt the "enshittification" of everything & believe in a return to first-order principles like paying writers decently, evaluating work independently of the author's platform, & publishing in print, then you might just believe in us too. bigscorelit.net
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J.T. Price @jtprice.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
V Woolf Hemingway Dostoevsky Beckett Pynchon
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J.T. Price @jtprice.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New issue coming soon of @bigscorelit.bsky.social aka the lit mag I edit... Read more abt us at the link beyondtheframe.substack.com/p/big-score-...
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Big Score No. 2
Find us at AWP in Baltimore (T338) — or watch this space for word on our launch party in Brooklyn
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"What they often evinced was better than interest, better even than bibliophilia; it was the rare and precious capacity to be interested in what they didn’t already know interested them. It was a willingness to be changed."
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “‘Wuthering Heights’ is a story in which love is an all-encompassing obsession that destroys anything in its path. It is also a story about how love, sustained through generations, eventually redeems that destruction,” B.D. McClay writes.
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Opinion | ‘Wuthering Heights’ Is the Greatest Love Story, Because It Is the Strangest
After 180 years, “Wuthering Heights” retains its ability to shock because it tells the truth about how deeply strange love can be.
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
With Ron Charles and Becca Rothfeld laid off from WaPo, there are now only 5 full-time book critics working in the United States. That's down from 7 when this pubbed last year, though you may find my definition of a "full-time book critic" arbitrary. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
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Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
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Big Score @bigscorelit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Doesn't feel antiquated to us. The number of writers on Substack drives home the hunger for reading/writing/community among writers. We believe in older fashioned network effects. Best way to show support is here, at annual cost of abt a month & a half of Netflix: bigscorelit.net/subscribe/
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Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
beachsloth.substack.com/p/big-score-... This desire to compensate people for the work they produce feels antiquated, almost like a job, which is a nice way of viewing writers.
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Big Score Lit
Big Score Lit pays for submitted pieces with actual currency.
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Scott Cheshire @scheshire.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Today’s haul from The Strand and @bookculture.com - Primo Levi, Iris Murdoch, Sam Lipsyte, and Yukio Mishima
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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Sent this out via the newsletter earlier and no one really responded to it, so here it is. Someone said writing a poem wasn't an act of resistance, likening it to a fart in the wind; true, but I didn't write this as an act of resistance. I wrote it because I didn't know how else to process it all.
The Dissection

For Renee Nicole Good 

No scalpel exists sharp enough to cut 
through all of this: the fat & the gristle
of diseased spirit, the tissues upon 
tissues upon tissues of lies. The corpse
of these times laid out on a gleaming slab 
of fear & violence & hate. No one needs
to see inside to know what’s killing us. 
What killed you. What will keep killing, killing. 

I’m thinking of you, writing your poem,
citizen. I’m thinking, too, of all those 
who came here to write their own, only
to be met with erasure. I hope the light 
was strong where you wrote it, a witness to
the struggle to live in a language not
yet poisoned. Oh, take this body away:
let it remember dreams of dignity,

while we carry your care for others on,
out of this morgue, past the cemetery, 
past those who did at long last die in vain, 
into a new birth. There’s always new birth,
even as the scalpels probe & descend 
& solve no mysteries. No mystery 
here. We know. We have always somehow known. 
I read your poem last night. It was good.
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Scott Cheshire @scheshire.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Today’s purchase at the wonderful @flyleafbooks.bsky.social while here in Chapel Hill, NC - The Mezzanine by @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social (which I’ve read and plan on teaching next semester), and Lost in the City, by Edward P. Jones (which I’ve not yet read and I can’t wait to fix that)…
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J.T. Price @jtprice.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. It does not feed us or clothe us or, unless you get very lucky, enrich us. But literature is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor of humankind has ever been." Gerald Howard www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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Opinion | The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 11/12/2025
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Poetry feat. @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @bigscorelit.bsky.social et al. duotrope.com...
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Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Poetry feat. @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @bigscorelit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/poetry/fee-free-literary-poetry-Vd05AZrM
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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Late-breaking update from a litmag now open for submissions (no fee to submit; pays for published work): bsky.app/profile/bigs...
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Big Score @bigscorelit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We are currently open for poetry subs for our spring '26 issue & will remain so until Dec. 15th or the moment, nay the very second, we hit 300 subs... bigscorelit.net/2025/12/03/p...
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Poetry subs for Spring ’26 issue close on Dec. 15th (if not before!)
Without so much fanfare, we’ve opened for poetry subs for our Spring issue, and will remain open until Dec. 15th, or until such time as we hit 300 subs. Currently, at around 125 and digging w…
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 05/07/2025
New publisher listing for: Big Score Lit @bigscorelit.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays sometimes). #WritingCommunity
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New Publisher Listing: Big Score Lit
New publisher listing for: Big Score Lit @bigscorelit.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays sometimes). #WritingCommunity
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