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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Come read with us! Feel free to reach out to me with questions; email sguess@mudseasonreview.com to apply.

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Submissions are OPEN for poetry, prose (fiction & nonfiction), and art! We pay a small honorarium for accepted work. For more details on what we're looking for and how to send it our way, please visit the link in our bio.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Spent some time in rural Nebraska as a writer-in-residence at KHN Center for the Arts and came away feeling renewed, focused, and excited about the work again. (Also saw some pretty great sunsets and ate my body weight in pie.) Thanks for everything, KHN! #khncenterforthearts

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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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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I spent 2 hours at the office a couple weeks ago and had to immediately come home and lie down. 😮‍💨

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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 · 06/08/2026

Oh hey, we also went yesterday! The butter sculptures in the Dairy Barn are always fun (very patriotic this year, but usually more interesting/random, like “butter moon landing,” “butter inventor of the vacuum cleaner,” etc). That cable car thing you can ride across the fair is also a good time

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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

If you’re thinking of applying, consider this your sign - applications are open til 10/1! www.gcac.org/grant/2026-f...

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2026 Funds for Artists - Greater Columbus Arts Council

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

Thank you so much! Imposter syndrome quieted for now, lol

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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

Thanks for reading, Thomas! Sisyphus & his boulder have nothing on call centers - pretty sure they’re the tenth circle of hell.

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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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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yeahhh…We’ve also noticed that concertgoers have gotten more annoying in recent years. It’s like everybody forgot how to be in public after Covid. (Recurring discussion otw home from shows: “Are we just getting old or…?”)

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Great piece! And what a weird content restriction on Bluesky’s part.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Moe Reen is great! We also saw them at Rambling House a while back (solid venue). 🪩

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

@sagetyrtle.bsky.social and here I thought I was setting a record! As writers, it’s easy to feel like everyone else is sailing through - normalizing rejection helps. Keep submitting!

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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

Maybe the real treasure is the rejection letters we accumulate along the way

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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

This is so good. Thank you for sharing it!

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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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