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The Woolf (Official) @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks for sharing this zinger of a CNF with us :)

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This made my week! Thank you for the Best of the Net nomination, @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social! ✨

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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 40 Fall 2026 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is now live! This will be the final issue of our publication. Thank you for 11 wonderful years. #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Come hang with MUTHA next month at our Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event! #BKBF2026

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Local folks: If you’re going to Franklinton Fridays tomorrow, stop by Wild Goose and check out the Speak Easy community exhibition! A few of my photography pieces will be included (I’m a total amateur, but it was fun).

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“I felt thrust into another world—and it wasn’t just money, it was milieu. It was a certain register they could hit when they talked or wrote that I just couldn’t. And they had a confidence that comes from having few material concerns, this idea that the ground would always be there to meet them.”

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MUTHA Magazine @muthamagazine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“The cruelty and randomness of it settles into my body once again…” Read the rest of Bria Dolnick’s latest, “From This Spot,” at the link in comments. #comics #grief #ice

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

July Submissions Spotlight: @muthamagazine.bsky.social, which publishes nonfiction on the topic of “the journey to becoming a parent (or determining a different path).”

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Parasites in the produce, wildfire smoke in the air…what a time to be an outdoor runner & vegetarian

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Very happy to announce that I received a 2026 Funds for Artists grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to support my writing! #GCACGrants #ArtMakesCbus

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Who amongst us, etc “Too Many Books? Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

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Too Many Books? (Gift Article)

Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yay!!!!

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We're looking for poetry, art, fiction, and nonfiction for our next issue! Submissions are open until 7/31 or until our cap is reached. Learn more at mudseasonreview.com/submit. #callforsubmissions

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Whoa - what an honor to see that my essay “Artificial Light,” published in sneaker wave magazine, made it into Memoir Land’s Memoir Monday roundup (and in great company, too)! #memoirmonday @www.sneakerwavemag.org @memoirland.bsky.social

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"Memoir Monday" Personal Essay Roundup 6/22/26

PLUS: Scroll down to the bottom for so many great workshops and calls for submissions...

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Friends—here are about 55 literary journals opening for submissions in July—some are open now or will close soon in June or July. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative & all these should be no-fee submissions. There are more resources out there, including on here. Wish y’all well.

Ubwali Literary Magazine
A Public Space
Salt Hill
Kitchen Table
Blueline
Acorn
Seaside Gothic
Dogwood
I-70
Diamond Gazette
Potomac Review
Arcturus
The Shore
Encyclopedia Prismatica
Beloit Poetry
Santa Fe Literary
Confluence
Mulberry Literary
Black Fox Literary
Kudu
Naugatuck River
Bluestem
The Branches
Harpur Palate
San Pedro River
Weird Lit
Thieving Magpie
Amsterdam Review
Reading Into Culture
New World Writing
InterrobangLit
Saw Palm
Rockford Review
Superpresent
Oh Reader
Fictive Dream
Turn & Work
Ghost Parachute
The Forge
X-R-A-Y
Necessary Fiction
Streetcake
Shine Poetry
Extra Teeth
Reckon Review
Barcelona Review
Literary Namjooning
The Baffler
Doric Literary
Lamp Lit
Stone of Madness
The Hoolet’s Nook
MoonPark Review
FIYAH
The Bulb Region
Stone Circle
Passionfruit

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sneaker wave magazine @www.sneakerwavemag.org · 12/06/2026

We're so thrilled to publish this story from @jen-bryant.bsky.social ! For anyone who's ever worked a soul-sucking job, and also for those who have managed to avoid them. Read it now at sneakerwavemag [dot] org.

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Thomas Costello @thomascostello.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I felt this one. I was back in that credit card call center, remembering how one night I sent someone to the escalated line just because I knew the wait was long and I needed a break from it all. Read this.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I wrote a little something about my time working in a call center, and now it’s out in the world! This one means a lot to me; many thanks to @www.sneakerwavemag.org for giving it a home.

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artificial light

by Jen Bryant

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"Plus One" by @jen-bryant.bsky.social, a Southerner living in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in Ms., BUST, The Sun, Matter News, and elsewhere.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I mostly share publishing wins in this space, so to balance it out: My work was just rejected by a certain lit mag for the SIXTH time in the past few years. (That’s what I get for checking email on the weekend, heh)

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Thomas Costello @thomascostello.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

As season 10 of Summer House comes to its pre-reunion close, one moment of the season brought up a lot of emotions for me. I talk about losing loved ones to alcohol, how it hangs over you decades later and the nearly daily struggle. More life. thomascostellowrites.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/a...

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An Alcohol Struggle and Summer House

Trauma and internal strife through the eyes of reality television.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Feeling a bit better about my recent Granta rejection, heh

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I had the good fortune to interview Barrett Bowlin about his powerhouse of an essay, “Pugilism,” for Mud Season Review. Link below!

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century

This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

High Fives to contributors Julia Clebsch @jen-bryant.bsky.social Richard LeBlond @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social & @beekaekae.bsky.social. Head to our Substack 5minutes100words to find out what they published, and where!

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“It’s important that we consider the labour of writing, and all creative pursuits, important. It’s integral that we ascribe a true value to all the steps and setbacks.”

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As the founder of Generation Hope, Nicole Lynn Lewis has received many knee-jerk reactions that teen parents and student parents aren’t smart enough or deserve to get college degrees. This is stigmatizing rhetoric. @brittanyepage.bsky.social

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Republican Mythology is a BARRIER TO ENDING POVERTY!

Brittany Page is joined in conversation by Nicole Lynn Lewis, author of the new book, "Student Parent: The Fight for Families, The Cost of Poverty, and the Power of College." Nicole is the Founder &…

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Mud Season Review is looking for volunteer creative nonfiction readers to join our team! Submissions are open 4x a year. Interested? Please email editor@mudseasonreview.com.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is a gorgeous essay. Please give it a read!

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Missed my flight home after four hours in the TSA line at the New Orleans airport…are we great yet? Drowning my sorrows with airport cocktails & beignets.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Excited to be a guest reader for Five Minutes this month. Send us your work!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Honored to have a new nonfiction flash piece in Issue 38 of Door Is A Jar. Timing is a strange thing - I wrote this about the post-9/11 US bombings of Afghanistan, which given the events unfolding, feels relevant again today. Here’s to an end to these forever wars, and thanks for reading. 🖤

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Happy to have a new flash nonfiction piece in issue #27 of Paloma Magazine. Thanks for reading! 🔗 substack.com/home/post/p-...

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027. MIRROR IMAGES.

rhyme and rhythm.

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MUTHA Magazine @muthamagazine.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“Reproductive justice is a bridge in a way that choice never could be.” New at MUTHA: Jen Bryant in conversation with authors, activists, and thought leaders Marlene Gerber Fried and Loretta J. Ross. #reproductivejustice #interviews #books

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Abortion and Reproductive Justice: A Conversation with Marlene Gerber Fried & Loretta J. Ross

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

on the lookout for a new labor columnist. feel free to message me or drop a comment if you know of any local writers who might be a good fit.

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Thomas Costello @thomascostello.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The free press died so capitalism can keep living and growing and consuming itself. These folks never thought they would make money in journalism, they are dismantling a vital service that threatens their money and power.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

So excited to have a new piece in Issue 38! Can’t wait to see it in print.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“Many of our rights have been won through peaceful disobedience, working-class struggle, and people demanding an end by withholding their labor,” Pham said. New from Jen Bryant. matternews.org/community/ac...

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Activists call for nationwide general strike to protest ICE, Columbus answers – Matter News

In addition to the general strike, a protest will take place at 3 p.m. today (Friday, Jan. 30) at the Ohio Statehouse.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Related: Allowing federal agents to make arrests at the courthouse without judicial warrants or a court order is an affront to justice. A new op-ed from Liliana Baiman of 614 ICE Watch and Defend and Recruit. matternews.org/voices/opini...

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Opinion: Get ICE out of the Franklin County Municipal Courthouse – Matter News

Allowing federal agents to make arrests at the courthouse without judicial warrants or a court order is an affront to justice.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 29/01/2026

it is a wild sickness to try and find evidence or reason for why someone's life should have value to the state. When lives are ended by cops in the street the defence is always that they were peaceful and law abiding, as if the opposite would mean they somehow deserved what bullets claimed them.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Thomas Costello @thomascostello.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ICE increased its numbers in Columbus again. If you can give to CRIS, they are making sure people can stay out of harm’s way with food and resource drop off. crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...

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CC - small appeals link

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