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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Join us for our Fall Reading Celebration this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 9 a.m. Pacific! Register here: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

♠️ SUBS OPEN ♠️

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Send my grad students your longform poetry and prose! Check out the open genre guidelines too! lastsyllablelit.com/submit

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Submit | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!

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Danielle Lemay @daniellelemay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My poem "The Body Ever After" appears in this tender Fall issue of Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Much gratitude to Editor @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social & all at WRR

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Gessica Sakamoto Martini @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m so happy to share that my prose poem “Snow Monkey” is out now in the latest issue of Whale Road Review!! ❄️🐒❄️ A huge thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social & the editors at WRR for giving my poem such a great home!! 💙

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happiness is releasing a fall issue of Whale Road Review on a Saturday morning in September while sipping an iced chai latte. ☺️❤️🍂

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Last Grace Day! Our new post-publication Last Syllable Book Awards include a $1k prize, travel to San Diego, and a spot in the Visiting Writers Series at PLNU. It's judged by first-year grad students, so they get to pick who they learn from next year, and they're so excited. 😊

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Book Awards | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last call for the Last Syllable Book Awards! Send my grad students your books published in 2024-2026, and you might just win a prize with money and a trip to San Diego for a spot in our Visiting Writers Series! lastsyllablelit.com/book-awards

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Book Awards | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I had such a lovely time talking with David J. Bauman for his In Three Poems podcast! This episode features two of my poems, a poem by Sally Rosen Kindred, and lots of shoutouts to birds and poets. www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/epis...

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In Three Poems @inthreepoems.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two poets kissing! @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social and I talk about both good and bad when it comes to our poetry heroes. Frankly, we also talk a lot about Birds. Listen to this episode, available now on all your favorite podcast platforms, including YouTube, and at inthreepoems.com.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

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Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The World Cup should employ a team of commentator Historians who describe the historical relations and tensions between the two countries over the course of the match.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm still seeing people talk on this app like it's only the children of immigrants who are born here who benefit from birthright citizenship. Everyone born here benefits from it. It's how you are a citizen.

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So grateful to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social & @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for including me in the gorgeous & moving summer reading on Saturday. It was such a stunning gathering of voices, I laughed, wept, & was lifted up out of constant overwhelm into a beautiful, connected heartshape of voices.

Screenshot of Whale Road Review reading with the images of 16 readers.

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This was a stunningly beautiful reading! I still can't believe people send us such amazing work.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/06/2026

"I mean, how would you even manage to complete everyday gang activities like leaping and twirling if you aren't classically trained in ballet? Everybody knows a cornerstone of organized street crime is frolicking down your turf like you're Ginger Rogers."

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We’re Sorry, You Can’t Join Our Street Gang Because You Don’t Know Ballet

“I mean, how would you even manage to complete everyday gang activities like leaping and twirling if you aren’t classically trained in ballet? Everybody know...

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Lisa Zerkle @lisazerkle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thrilled to have a poem in this latest issue! Thank you to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for this heroic editorial effort.

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm a couple days late, but I want to wish a happy 28-month anniversary to my December 2023 poetry submission to The New Yorker. 😂💀

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I just fell into one of the classic blunders. The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second is never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. The third is never start making cookies until you've made eye contact with all of the ingredients.

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a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .

ALT: a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New mini-review! Let me read you a poem and tell you about Emily Patterson's The Birth of Undoing. youtube.com/shorts/s7uI8...

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Poetry Rev 66 - Emily Patterson - The Birth of Undoing

YouTube video by Katie Manning

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"I never met my great grandmother, but she lives in my knees, the way they freeze even on the warmest days, just like hers used to do." I love this poem so much! Amazing writing by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in @merliterary.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I’m so honored that my poem “The Ghost in My Knees” was chosen as MER - Mom Egg Review Poem of the Month for April! They’re one of my very favorite publishers too. :) merliterary.substack.com/p/mer-poem-o...

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MER Poem of the Month - April 2026

Read The Ghost in My Knees by Katie Manning

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Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

What can we do to help (gestures widely)? We can raise money! Join me in fundraising for a group supporting immigrants: Red's Good Vibes! If you donate (at least) $20.00 and email me (chloemiller(at)gmail(dot)com) your receipt, I'll send you a Zoom link to join a generative writing workshop,

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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Super stoked to have a poem in this stellar issue! Thanks to everyone at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, especially @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for giving my poem a perfect home!

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm so amused that I get to release Issue 42 when I am 42. :D Happy spring reading from Whale Road Review! These pieces might indeed be the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Here's where you can find me at AWP in Baltimore next week! 💕🎉

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Trish Hopkinson @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I’m thrilled to share that my latest guest post, “Write, Revise, Submit: Essential Tips for Undergraduate Writers,” is now live on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. It includes a list of journals that accept undergraduate-only work. buff.ly/CjC3tpD #undergraduates #litmags

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Write, Revise, Submit: Essential Tips for Undergraduate Writers via Arizona Poetry Center

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

If you need plans for Friday evening, join us virtually for this reading with The Writers Place! I'll mostly be reading from 28,065 Nights (poems about/to my Granny) since it's her birthday. ♥ thewritersplace.wildapricot.org/event-6464333

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

In love with this in @asteralesjournal.bsky.social by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social with art by @sjane.bsky.social. The way it braids the intimacy of friendship with the awful unknown is gorgeous. "laugh together/whenever you’re ready to laugh" www.asteralesjournal.com/2-5-manning-...

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2.5 Manning-Sloat — Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I appreciate that Duolingo thinks I need to learn this sentence. They're not wrong. 🤣

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Christina M Rau The Yoga Poet @christinamrau.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

All good things are here! Want the newsletter in your inbox, DM me your email. You can check out the short version on my website. www.christinamrau.com #theyogapoet #allgoodthings #newsletter #mediatemoveandcreate #writingcommunity #artistcommunity #creativecommunity

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Issue Six Subs are now open! While you prep your submissions, enjoy @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social's work in Issue Five!

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My pufferfish poem is in some fantastic company at Poets for Science. Thanks to David Hassler for including me! I started writing this poem at a Driftwood Creative Arts Series event, so thanks also to Aliah Fabros for the inspiring playlist! poetsforscience.org/how-wonderfu...

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Our Staff Celebration Reading yesterday was a bright spot in a dark time. Thanks to all who read and attended! You can join us asynchronously and watch the reading here: youtu.be/XpFWjI12gXE?...

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Thank you for sharing it with us!

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This week, the lovely new @asteralesjournal.bsky.social published my poem I wrote for my dear friend Devon. ❤️ This poem contains a few of my favorite things, and it feels especially meaningful that editors Donna Vorreyer and Rachel Bunting wanted to share it. www.asteralesjournal.com/2-5-manning-...

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm so looking forward to this reading on Saturday. I hope to see your faces on Zoom! Register here: pointloma.zoom.us/.../regi.../...

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