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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jacqueline Kolosov reads three passages from her new book that stopped her while she was writing them. Hear them and watch her read at the link below: buff.ly/uIhZMm2 Get a copy of the book at the Iron Oak Editions website. #WritingCommunity #PlacesBetween #SmallPress #Essays #BookTok

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/OcldCnr #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #CallForSubmissions

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get inspired. Connect with other readers & writers. Become an annual subscriber to our Substack, Roots & Words, and receive a complimentary copy of our spring print edition of West Trade Review or become a free subscriber to our newsletter. Details at the link below: buff.ly/dHBSz7A #AmWriting

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcing Good Friend, the debut novel by Cosmo Hinsman, coming Fall 2027. Facing a genetic dementia that will take his memory by forty, a young philosophy student spends a year asking what it means to be good, and whether a life can mean anything if it will be forgotten. #LiteraryFiction

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Prose queries are open. There's a real person behind every yes. “I'd love to see a voice-driven book, language that pulls me into the character's interior from the first sentence.“ - Jane Wageman, Prose Editor Guidelines below: buff.ly/BFz7xV9 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Twenty years in the making. Fifty-three lyric poems rooted in the landscapes of Michigan, moving through grief, desire, caregiving, and the long aftermath of childhood. Available for presale at the link below: buff.ly/Jg2nUjK #poetrycommunity #smallpresspoetry #debutpoetry #BookTok

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What makes us sit up: work that ends by naming something we didn't know we needed to hear. Character-driven, lyric, immersive. Fiction and CNF that makes us think and feel. If that's the book you're writing, we want it. Submission guidelines: buff.ly/BFz7xV9 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers. Become an annual subscriber to our Substack, Roots & Words, and receive a complimentary copy of our spring print edition of West Trade Review or become a free subscriber to our newsletter. Details at the link below: buff.ly/dHBSz7A

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers. Become an annual subscriber to our Substack and receive a complimentary copy of our spring print edition of West Trade Review or become a free subscriber to our newsletter. buff.ly/QqZMcu4 #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #LitMag

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Submissions open. We want literary fiction and CNF that is character-driven, lyric, immersive, psychologically deep. Memoir, essays, novels, story collections. buff.ly/frEb9Sd #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #SubmitWork #SubmissionsOpen

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/lCuSk4n #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Poetry's lifeblood is its against-all-odds idiosyncratic nature and its obstinacy in the face of the myriad pressures to be anything else or sound any other way than the way it does. That's what makes poetry queer. That's what makes poetry useful." Interview with Alec Hershman: buff.ly/5LfiRhz

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“That first night I still remember the moon, white and distant and radiant.” Excerpt from Jacqueline Kolosov’s “The Month Before a Book is Born,” new on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/eWLjYwK #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #PlacesBetween #SmallPress

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hershman writes the body the way few poets do — not as metaphor, not as politics, but as the actual strange fact of having one: its sounds, its failures, its unexpected tenderness toward other bodies. Available for presale at the link below: buff.ly/TmT0Eng #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookTok

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Charlotte Lit Press and Iron Oak Editions will host a reading at the Lit studio on Wed, Sept 16, featuring two new poetry publications. Hear new work by Wayne Johns (Vivarium, Charlotte Lit Press, 2026) and Dan Kraines (Strap, Iron Oak Editions, 2026). Register at the link below: buff.ly/ufi7Ly6

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Book tour! Dan Kraines is celebrating the release of his new poetry collection, Strap. Readings are free and open to all. 🗓️ Three stops: Asheville, NC —Sept 13, 4PM Malaprop's Bookstore Charlotte — Sept 16, 6PM Charlotte Lit, 601 5th St Boston — Sept 28, 7PM Boston University, 745 Comm Ave

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers. Become an annual subscriber to Roots & Words and receive a complimentary copy of our spring print edition or become a free subscriber to our newsletter. Details at the link below: buff.ly/P05Qp5O #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/lCuSk4n #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Between isn’t division but a standing at the edges or meeting points of two places at once. To be in between requires a softening that isn’t a giving up but more of a yielding." -Jacqueline Kolosov, author of Motherhood, and the Places Between buff.ly/3EZz5NR #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“I remember the rawness of receiving the first draft back. Specifically, my teacher’s suggestion that abuse—‘molestation’—had been gay.” Excerpts from “When we Never Awaken: Writing as Revision” by Dan Kraines, new on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full essay below: buff.ly/BVmZf3Q

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Lean into the prophetic hidden just below the surface of the odd, the bizarre, the unexpected.” Looking for writing inspiration? Check out this generative poetry prompt from Allisa Cherry at the link below: buff.ly/Gp6lO2Q #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/h0R2ey3 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #CallForSubmissions

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The finished book. Spine of the Hug: Poems by Alec Hershman. Available for presale at the link below: buff.ly/IyZuDeo #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SpineOfTheHug #SmallPress #DebutPoetry

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Between is a liminal place, a crossroads, in many cases a dilemma. And between is not easily resolved.“ Excerpt from “Between begins with to be, with being” by Jacqueline Kolosov, new on our Substack Roots and Words. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/A0oPQIM #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The finished book. Spine of the Hug: Poems by Alec Hershman. Available for presale at the link below: buff.ly/IyZuDeo #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SpineOfTheHug #SmallPress #DebutPoetry

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/h0R2ey3 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #CallForSubmissions

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“The cover is emblematic yet a dicey representation for a book of thwarted eroticism and childhood violations, desert wandering and persistent dysphoria.” Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/6dS0ycN #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/aHDxq2C #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“The first day I met Milly, I stood in the pasture and wrapped my arms around her long neck.“ From Jacqueline Kolosov’s essay “With Horses” in her new book Motherhood, and the Places Between, out Oct 6. Preorder at the Iron Oak Editions website. Listen to her read below: buff.ly/rgFf3EJ

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“As a way of entering a room, say no to the amplified leaves, to the eyes that land as they do” Alec Hershman “From the Courtyard,” Spine of the Hug, forthcoming September 15th. Preorder at Iron Oak Editions. Listen at the link below: buff.ly/EOhqxU2 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookTok

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts. Submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/aHDxq2C #WritingCommunity

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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