Reposted by Jessica WillinghamThe Citron Review @thecitronreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Ahh! Just a couple of days ago, our Summer Issue dropped! Please join us for wonderfully brief creative writing. We are so thankful to have an amazing lineup of writers for you. citronreview.com 0125
Reposted by Jessica WillinghamCassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social · 12/07/2026In 2 weeks: #Writing #Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism | 3 hr online class hosted by @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social Taught by award-winning #poet & #trauma scholar @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social #poets #resist #ICE #Minnesota #resilience #writingcommunity 🦋Please share🦋 loft.org/classes/writ... 2166
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It was an honor to open the show at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa. @woodyguthriecenter.bsky.social. 🌟❤️ 🎼 Poets presented original work inspired by Guthrie’s song “Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” 📝 I wrote about agriculture, the changing climate, and New York City. 📍🦬🌃 130
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Protest Poetry Is Alive And Well In Oklahoma: At the Woody Guthrie Center, 12 writers delivered urgent messages about labor organizing, injustice, mass deportation, and the power of names. 🇺🇸 💛🦬 A great review of Woody Poets Tulsa @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social thepickup.com/protest-poet...thepickup.comProtest Poetry Is Alive And Well In Oklahoma - The PickupAt the Woody Guthrie Center, 12 writers delivered urgent messages about labor organizing, injustice, mass deportation, and the power of names 010
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"Night drops on this town like dirt at a funeral: a few fistfuls at first, then shoveled in and stamped down flat. But weep not..." 💌 Revision, June 27 by Cullen Whisenhunt 📍 A poem about my hometown @ninthletter.bsky.social ninthletter.com/2019/07/whis... 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 17/04/2026In awe of these beautiful spring releases from @bellepointpress.bsky.social 💙 "This National Poetry Month, it is our great pleasure to share three new Belle Point poetry collections—including two debuts—by deeply talented poets from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky: coming in May and June"bellepointpress.substack.comOur Next Poetry TitlesThree new collections by three remarkable poets 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026"Each granddaughter is a doll reborn in a mall this big.” 💝 from Girl of the Year™ by Alyx Chandler in @bicoastalreview.bsky.social Issue 12 Submission readers loved this poem for its fresh tone and on-the-nose nostalgia. www.bicoastalreview.com/alyxchandler 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026"There were swaths of her life about which she remembered little. Yet she could describe books she read and paintings or photographs she saw in extraordinary detail. Language seemed to flow from a continuous river within her." 🌿 The Corpse Flower by Thomas Heise mastersreview.com/summer-short... 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026As a submissions first reader, I fell in love with this unique eco-story in The Masters Review. 💚 A doctor meets a client who deals with insomnia brought on by unusually blooming corpse flowers. 🌺 Together they weave familial connection, history, and climate. 🌿 mastersreview.com/summer-short... 000
Reposted by Jessica WillinghamDidi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Writing prompts for the rest of the year from @kathyfish.bsky.social ! 15 minutes a day and you'll wake up January 1 with something to work on, instead of yet another terrifying blank page. 💙 2133
Reposted by Jessica WillinghamSuzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025My first book will be out May 2026 🖤 105715
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Poets! ❤️🔥 We’re open for submissions @fivesouth.bsky.social Send us your best work. 💌✨ Read submission guidelines here: fivesouth.net/submission-g... 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"She ran across El Paso, then back. She ran to Austin, then back. Still not exhausted, she ran the border of the state, even the panhandle Texas sacrificed to Oklahoma to remain a slave state. Now she’s running for Miss America." 🇺🇸 📖 @smokelong.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/miss... 031
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025"On the west side, roses grow between the modest graves of their mediocre descendants who lost that fortune, slowly but surely. 🌹 That’s where I will be, one day. I hope that ghosts can smell tamales." 🫔 Read 💌 "Hobbies in the Afterlife" @icebreakerslit.bsky.socialicebreakerslit.comHobbies in the Afterlife — IcebreakersTiny Hauntings Fiction By MM Kaufman (Haunter) & Tiff M. Z. Lee (Architect) 031
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 14/03/2025💖 Romance Writers! It's free submission day @fivesouth.bsky.social ❤️ 💗 We want stories of longing, relentless pining, never-ending crushes, breakups, breakdowns, cold shoulders, hot encounters, and happily-ever-afters. 🔥 Submit for FREE ➡️ fivesouth.net/submission-g... 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"We’re passing notes...instead of listening to Rodney Granger’s boring report about Lee’s surrender at Appomattox when the door opens and a man walks in..." 💙 A Civil War by Sarah Freligh for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #microfiction www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co... 043
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"I heard a spider chirp." ✨The Call by @ebenbein.bsky.social @fivesouth.bsky.social pulls you into a world just slightly off-kilter, where the ordinary hums with mystery. 🌿Read it here: fivesouth.net/bein-the-call/ 042
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 17/01/2025"All night long, men were launched into the championship banners. Kicked like hacky sacks. Spun like laundry. Horned in the ass...Their bodies hit the ground contorted into letters of the alphabet." 🤠 "A Rodeo at Madison Square Garden" www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01... 000
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025SoCal writers, sub fees are dropped for January. All other submission fees will be donated to LA fire relief. ♥️ We're here, we love you, writing matters, things will be okay again. @fivesouth.bsky.social EIC talks California, beauty, & hope. fivesouth.substack.com/p/audio-note... 110
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025✨ Poets, we love you. ✨ Submissions are OPEN at @fivesouthlit 💘 Got three poems (or five pages) that sing? Send them our way. Simultaneous submissions welcome. Send us something you love. 🌟 fivesouth.net/submission-g... 012
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024"the Thursday nurse who brings her warm honey buns and the good Jello, well-loved paperbacks and paper cups of tea with little notes on top that say eat me written in neat scrolling nurse script." 💕 The Princess of Tides by @amygcb.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... 040
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024"Dear Tulsa, I was a teenaged white girl living north of you. I believed everything you told me about yourself...big-city glitter to my Okie small-town ignorance...You were America to my whole-damn-rest-of-the-world." ⚡️ Dear Tulsa by Rilla Askew, AGNI 90 agnionline.bu.edu/essay/dear-t... 020
Reposted by Jessica WillinghamChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024No poem is just its autobiographical content. No poem is just its embroidery of language. As a reader, I favor poems that have multiple textures, moving freely from plain-speech, to silken [...] But all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling. —Henri Cole 29621
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024"Poets are puzzly people, I believe, not just because they’re often interestingly weird, but because their whole pursuit is about exposing the tiny, illuminating truths the rest of us too easily overlook." 🧩 Writers on Not Writing: Brandon Dudley, The Masters Review mastersreview.com/writers-on-n...mastersreview.comWriters on Not Writing: Brandon Dudley - The Masters ReviewWriters pour so much energy into their craft that sometimes we forget that creative pursuits other than writing can fill us up in other important ways. Here, we’ll look at what writers do when they ar... 020
Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This one means so much to me. Thank you @identitytheory.bsky.social ❤️ 040
Reposted by Jessica WillinghamIdentity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Here's one from @jessicawillingham.bsky.social that'll knock your socks off.identitytheory.comGrandmother Is a House Y'all Tore Down - Identity TheoryGrandmother buried babies under the mailbox, then planted bluebonnets. 042
Reposted by Jessica WillinghamJoanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 25/11/2024Honored to have my flash tip included at Vancouver Flash Fiction. Thanks @karenschauber.bsky.social! 1162