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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"the cards say, you are the spider, this is your web. they say, weave an invitation, not a trap, & be whole again beyond distrust." "Nine of Wands, Alabama" by @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"If I twisted my body just so, perhaps I could draw the plumeria’s deep roots over me, a chorophylled blanket of tendriled root browns greening my shins, thighs, belly, shoulders, wrists, my hair, lashes..." "Plumeria" by Joanna Grant 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“I’d love to know forgetfulness.” Read & listen to “Post-Pandemic” by @rosswhite.com from our latest issue at the link below. kenyonreview.org/piece/post-p...
Ross White Author PhotoFrom "Post-Pandemic" by Ross White
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📝 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2026 issue, Issue 16! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, and #CNF to @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Open for submissions through November 15th!
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"3. Brush your hair, slowly, meditatively, like it’s the last time you’ll ever be able to. Close your eyes and feel the bristles on your scalp, the chair cool against your thighs." "A Non-Exhaustive List of Ways to Remember You’re Alive" by Niamh Carmichael 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"When I took my great-grandmother’s quilt from storage, it was pristine, soft and bright, without picks in the yarn, no fraying strands, no imminent holes, and now, twelve years in my care and I don’t know what to do with it..." "Proof of Care" by Logan Elizabeth Craig 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Do you know there are tulips here still—it’s been such a cold spring. No riotous colors, just pink, just yellow. They don’t throb. They frighten nobody." "Dear Sylvia: In My Condominium’s Garden, Mother’s Day, 2026" by Joanna Grant 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Herons frolic in the alcove, salt water flows from duct to marsh, pluff mud expands to fill the basin The hem of the curtain fades into black, too comfortable with being stained" "Shower Curtain Wetland" by Jayda Gilliard 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It took a whole lifetime to reach the deep part. By then we knew what the body could and couldn’t take and you were already wading out." "My Brother Swimming in the Last Year of His Life" by Tyler Jagt 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Scott Craig Cigars @saintbridge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please check out the great Southern literature and photography in this issue of Susurrus magazine. They are friends and I wholeheartedly recommend you spend some time exploring their site! @susurrusmag.bsky.social www.susurrusthemagazine.com
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A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South.
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"My mother’s not interested in the end of the world, so I’m in charge of our SPAM supply. She’s the third generation of sickness, the third wave of song. She gave up music to feed us." "Tornadoes Over Thompson's Station" by Spencer Jewell 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Do you remember the stringy yellow vines swallowing our dark green sugar beets? Do you remember how long they lasted, past the pruning and pesticide?" "Dear Christener," by Hannah Lane Patterson 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"in a good year maybe we picked the berries together and you flash froze them on a cookie sheet portioned out in Ziplocs for the sole purpose of baking your feelings as needed" "blueberry pound cake" by Stacy Miller 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"How is it, that in my blessed iridescence, I forgot all that girlishness was and is? Or even, what we did not have to be?" "June Beetle Funerals" by Kale Hensley 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"In your belly, all that remains unwritten is an embryo you’ve decided to keep to yourself. If she only ever grows smaller you’ll hold her even closer. Shine her hair with your palms." "Yours, An Ars Poetica" by Samantha Renee Ratcliffe 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"In the second grade, I learned to be beautiful is half tragic, half accident: is when rivers prefer your company and will make man suffer for it." "Clothesline" by Kale Hensley 📸: Julia DesRoches
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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'The horticulturalist holds a machete to the banana tree’s throat.' Such deft threading in this story about friendship by @emhall47.bsky.social @susurrusmag.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.susurrusthemagazine.com/clean-cuts
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Scott Craig Cigars @saintbridge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The new Susurrus is out! Y'all go check it out!
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dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This poem I wrote that dropped today in @susurrusmag.bsky.social is pretty much how I have been feeling lately, weirdly. So often I write a poem and by the time it makes it out into the world, I feel foreign from those feelings. Not today. I trust no one. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/nine-of-wand...
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🏖️ Welcome to Issue Fifteen! We hope you find something that makes you feel right at home. 🏖️ View it here: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-fifteen 📸: Julia DesRoches
Susurrus. Issue Fifteen. Summer 2026.Featuring: Julia DesRoches, D Bedell, Niamh Carmichael, Neil Corbett, Logan Elizabeth Craig, Jayda Gilliard, Joanna Grant, Emily Hall, Lola Haskins, Kale Hensley, Tyler Jagt, Spencer Jewell, Stacy Miller, Hannah Lane Patterson, Samantha Renee Ratcliffe, Murray Rice, and Kimberly Ann Southwick
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I like your voice / hope it will age and crackle
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
TODAY is the FINAL DAY to submit to our Summer 2026 issue, Issue 15! Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just TWO DAYS left to submit to our Summer 2026 issue, Issue 15! Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
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Marshall Moore @marshallsmoore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A little thing I done wrote.
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"I know this is not how sane people think. In my defense, I was seven or eight. Also, in the rural South, logic and reason matter less than a well-crocheted narrative." "Sentinel Days" by @marshallsmoore.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"With a mug of tea in one hand, I use my other hand to caress her back. We sit in front of the fireplace where she sleeps on a pile of blankets." "Brain Baby" by Nicole Gulotta 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"I remember we always called the telephone 'phone' but for some reason we called the telephone poles 'telephone poles.' We were on a first-name basis, we should have just called them 'phone poles.'" "Phone Poles" by JH Lucas 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎉Congratulations to our @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2026 Longlisters: B.C. Brock, @angelajoynes.bsky.social, Richie Kurt, and @chelseastickle.bsky.social!
Wigleaf Top 50 2026 Longlist“They Think in Circles” by B.C. Brock; “My Grandmother’s Hands,” by Angela Joynes; “Carcass” by Richie Kurt; “Crown Shyness” by Chelsea Stickle
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Woohoo! Over the moon to find one of my stories on the Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social long list! My first time! Thanks to the team at @susurrusmag.bsky.social www.susurrusthemagazine.com/my-grandmoth...
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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Amazed my micro made the @wigleaf.bsky.social longlist! Thank you to the editors who do the work that make this possible every year. And thank you to the editors of @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing it! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/crown-shyness
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"The cylinder that is my brother was made for him—for me—at great cost. On such an overcast day as this, it seems made out of the same shining gray stuff as the sea." "Graveyard of the Atlantic" by @grnpointer.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"The birds moved like enchanted lanterns: glinting and bending on lithe, soundless feet. Back then, they came in an arabesque of colors, plucked from a medieval depiction of Eden." "The Day of the Birds" by @ihavenoland.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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michelle champagne @chellechampagne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
How do you live like an artist every day? How do you ground yourself? How do you make sure you are always in touch with your creativity or artistic spirit?
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Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Celebrate this publication. They are an absolute revelation.
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Among the Kentucky hills there was none of that, just horses, forest, loneliness, and wildflowers. Much had changed, but these remained, except no father now. Not anymore." "She Sees Horses" by Reva Russell English 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"It’s not until you’re standing alone in the center of that pale field...woven in red snakes and sugarsnap grasshoppers, that it occurs to you that this is a place meant for killing people." "Nadá’ Hintį́į́ Naltsoos / Corn Field Obituary" by Alexis Clifton 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Even when it was cold and she couldn’t rest, she believed that her father’s eyes would speak to her in short whispers, and the quick bursts always warmed her brown skin." "So Grief Gives Its Beloved Sleep" by James Daniels 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"My father loved playing Battleship. When he wasn’t floating ships in the bathtub, he lined up and counted the battleships over and over and over again. One day, he dropped them in the kitchen sink he’d filled with water." "Potemkin's Boats" by @amygcb.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"It doesn’t make sense, to hear that the love of some God is the most beautiful thing when she already has the most beautiful thing in the world..." "The Most Beautiful Thing in the World" by Margaret Emma Brandl 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"She tried to count the foxes she could see and gave up at 49. They moved too quickly to count, anyway. At night, she heard them scratching at the siding, the roof, the windows, trying to get in. She could wait for that to happen." "Omnivores" by @bsherm36.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"A tiny voice in your mind reminds you that you should never talk to strangers. The voice sounds like your brother and nothing like the soft words of the gardener." "There's a Garden" by Christina Ellison 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Instead, can I pretend to be a blossoming of flowers? A lily concrete in the center of my chest. One foot's already six feet underneath soil, so let the other heel join it." "Small Mercies" by Venus Knowles 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📝 #SubsOpen for our Summer 2026 issue, Issue 15! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, and #CNF to @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Open for submissions through July 15th!
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
On the importance of honouring your loved one's wishes, insofar as you're not inconvenienced... this piece by @grnpointer.bsky.social in @susurrusmag.bsky.social, as selected by @kdiannerule.bsky.social for @turnandwork.com 's Shortlist: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/graveyard-of... #FlashInTheFeed
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Welcome to part three of our @susurrusmag.bsky.social staff Q&A! Hope you find some questions you have been thinking of and the answers you have been searching for! 🧵(1/9)
Susurrus Staff Q&A! (part 3)
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Welcome to part two of our @susurrusmag.bsky.social staff Q&A! Hope you find some questions you have been thinking of and the answers you have been searching for! 🧵(1/12)
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Welcome to our first @susurrusmag.bsky.social staff Q&A! Hope you find some questions you have been thinking and the answers you have been searching for! 🧵(1/16)
Susurrus Staff Q&A!Submissions open June 1st!
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Thank y’all for making these past five years so meaningful with your poetry, prose, and photography. A special thank you to Michelle Meredith, co-founding editor & nonfiction/interviews superstar, for your dedication and thoughtful contributions in our early days...
Happy 5th Anniversary, Susurrus!
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"The summer after my daughters die: each day a hot iron handled bare-fingered, every second something that singes." "Chiaroscuro" by Jennifer Randall Hotz 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
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