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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We want to know where you go for a change in scenery when you’ve got writer’s block! #writing #literarymagazine #writinginspiration

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your writing is always changing and evolving with you. This week, try stepping outside your comfort zone! #poetry #fiction #literarymagazine #writingcommunity

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Where's your favorite place to write? Featuring pre-fall vibes on the beautiful Baylor campus between Draper and Old Main 🌳 #independenceliteraryreview #poetry #fiction #writingcommunity #amwriting

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What summer memory are you taking with you into the fall semester? 🍂

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Less than a month until our submissions window closes-- don't forget to send your work to Independence Literary Review via Duosuma!

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Campus is full and the semester has begun ☀️ That means we're harder at work than ever reading submissions and prepping for our first issue due out this December 🤗 Check out the link in our bio to submit by October 1! #literarymagazine #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #art

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our panel got accepted! We’re so excited to be chatting about teaching literary magazine publishing with The Missouri Review, @northamerreview.bsky.social, @greensbororeview.bsky.social, and The Rappahannock Review in Chicago this March! See you at AWP! #literarymagazine #pedagogy #amwriting

The Editorial Classroom: Teaching Literary Magazine Publishing. In literary magazine practicums, students gain invaluable skills that give them a serious leg-up in future publishing and editing jobs, while literary magazines gain invaluable assistance. In this panel, instructors in these classrooms dissect best practices and pitfalls in teaching students to evaluate submissions, correspond with writers, layout issues, navigate ethical challenges, and more. New and experienced literary magazine instructors alike will leave with a wealth of ideas.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Your weekly writing inspiration: Find somewhere beautiful and listen 🌳💛 #literarymagazine #writingcommunity #amwriting

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Welcome back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! Our final feature is Mary Victoria Taylor, a phenomenal artist who contributed the gorgeous painting on our homepage. Swipe to her bio for another rendition of the columns for the website! #literarymagazine #art #artist

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Want to get to know our taste for general poetry, fiction, & nonfiction submissions? Check out our “What We’re Reading/Watching” series... TV/Movies We’re Watching, Watching Next, & Re-Watching 🍿 Widow’s Bay House of the Dragon Slow Horses Mona Lisa Smile The Odyssey #literarymagazine #writing

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Welcome Back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! This week’s feature is Elizabeth Branstetter, an incredible artist whose work is the basis of our logo! #literarymagazine #art #artist

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nonfiction We’re Reading, Reading Next, and Re-Reading ✨ How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Communion by bell hooks Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz On Witness and Respair by Jesmyn Ward #creativenonfiction #essay #literarymagazine #writing

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Welcome back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! This week we’re featuring Jo Eriom, who contributed this wonderful artwork of the Independence pillars.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fiction We’re Reading, Reading Next, and Re-Reading 🌿 Outline by Rachel Cusk The Antidote by Karen Russell Bestiary by K-Ming Chang No One Belongs Here More than You: Stories by Miranda July Deacon King Kong by James McBride #fiction #shortstory #literarymagazine #writing

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Welcome back to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series! This week we’re featuring Randy Clute, an incredible artist and contributor to our website. You can check out his Linktree here: linktr.ee/randyclute #literarymagazine #art #artists

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eve (m̠̠o̠̠t̠̠t̠̠o̠ ̠e̠̠r̠a̠ ✨) @aeviraoftheaossi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

this is where i am mentally 💚

lush forest creek with sunlight filtering through the trees and reflecting on the shallow water 💚

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Poetry We’re Reading, Reading Next, and Re-Reading 🤗 Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing Then Winter by Chloe Honum Chord: Poems by Rick Barot All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg #poetry #poem #literarymagazine #writing

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Welcome to the “Spotlight on Our Website Artists” series. This week we’re featuring Piya Patel, designer of our amazing logo.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our general submissions are also open in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art!

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And if you’re looking to submit work, we have an open call for submissions for our “Healthcare and Healing” folio right now. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art that opens new windows of understanding into the ways the body and mind can rupture, be repaired, be reconfigured, and be re-understood.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hi 👋 We’re a new lit mag and new to Bluesky 💙 We’d love to make more connections with the writing community here. Give us a follow and we’ll follow you back!

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Poetry: - "Ode to the Hotel Near the Children's Hospital" by Kevin Young - "Lunch Break at the Psychiatric Ward" by Chloe Honum - "University Hospital, Boston" by Mary Oliver - "The Capacity for Malignancy Is Ancient" by Chera Hammons

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Nonfiction: - "Drawing Blood" by Laura Johnsrude - "The Pain Scale" by Eula Biss - "On Boredom" by Nuar Alsadir - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘴 by Esmé Weijun Wang

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fiction: - "The Happy Memories Club" by Lee Smith - "A Tiny Feast" by Chris Adrian - 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘦 𝘎𝘰 by Kazuo Ishiguro - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘧𝘦 by Téa Obreht

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Interested in learning more about our Healthcare and Healing folio? Here’s some of the works that inspired our theme.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And the promise of all the exciting writing and art we plan to publish

As well as our launch into the future.

This is written above a purple illustration of an old building facade with four columns that spell out ILR.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It held classrooms, an auditorium, a library, and a rec room for women students at Baylor

They're part of the only remaining structure from Baylor's original 1845-era campus in Independence, TX.

This is written above a black-and-white illustration of an old building facade with four columns.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A: So many things–but we especially can’t wait to fall in love with writers’ and artists’ work. We’re also stoked for our fall “Publishing the Literary Magazine” class, where Baylor students will get involved in the nitty gritty of bringing the magazine to life.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Q: What are you most excited about for the year ahead?

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We want your writing to take us on a deep dive through your brain and its strange, moving explorations.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A: We’re eager to read any and all pieces writers are burning to share. We’re looking for literary writing, but beyond that, so much is fair game: realism, elegies, prose poems, nature writing, flash fiction/nonfiction, speculative fiction/memoir/poetry, and more.

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Q: What other kinds of writing are you looking for?

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IndependenceLit.bsky.social @independencelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Q: Do you have future folio themes in mind? A: We’re planning an “Empathy” theme for Issue 2 in the spring, and a “Nature and Ecology” theme soon as well.

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