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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal

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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 13h
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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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thank you to everyone who submitted!!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Congratulations to our Best of the Net Nominees!!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com We can’t wait to read your work!! #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This Easter, we invite you to celebrate with us the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. May your reading, writing, and wondering this season draw you closer to the Word Himself. 💛✝️
#Easter #HeIsRisen #FaithAndLiterature #LastSyllable
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Hi poetry babes—hope April finds you revising that beautiful, full-length manuscript, and that you consider sending it our way when we open on May 1. Submission guidelines here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm... Model contract here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/cont...
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Yes!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Our wonderful publisher, Dr. Katie Manning, moderated a panel discussion at AWP titled “It’s Personal, Not Strictly Business: Networking for Writers.” Star panelists Abayomi Animashaun, Elizabeth Dark, and Jessica Jacobs shared valuable insights. Friends of Last Syllable, we hope to see you at #946!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Congratulations!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Congratulations!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Congratulations!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The fabulous author François Bereaud, whose play was published in Last Syllable Issue 3, visits our table at AWP! We hope more friends of Last Syllable stop by booth #946 to say hello.
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Friends of Last Syllable, if you're at AWP, stop by booth #946 to chat with our friendly team! #AWP
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#AWP25 kicks off tomorrow! The Last Syllable team can’t wait to connect with you at table #946!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Last Syllable is launching an Annual Post-Publication Book Award Contest! 📚✨ 🏆 $1,000 cash prize and ✈️ up to another $1,000 travel expenses to PLNU, and 🎤 a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writers Series! Check lastsyllablelit.com/book-awards for details!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s time! Last Syllable Issue 4 is officially LIVE! 🚨 Dive into a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger beyond the final word. Read, reflect, and revel in the artistry. ✨ Explore the issue now: lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iv. #LastSyllable #NewIssue #LiteraryMagazine
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚀 Exciting news! Last Syllable Issue 4 is dropping tomorrow! 🎉 Get ready for a powerful collection of poetry, prose, and art that will stay with you long after the last syllable. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! #LastSyllable #NewIssue #ComingSoon
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Happy Issue Release Day to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!! Founded by our professor and publisher @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 😊
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 The wait is almost over—"Last Syllable" Issue 4 is dropping in just ONE week! Get ready for a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger long after the last word. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this! 🔥📖 #LastSyllable #Issue4 #ComingSoon
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Everscribe Magazine @everscribemag.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Submissions are open for Issue No. 7! Send us your best short stories, poems, or essays for a chance to be published. 💙 everscribemag.com/submit
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Submit Stories | Everscribe Magazine
Submit stories, poems, and articles to Everscribe, an inclusive literary magazine for all voices. Share your creativity, join our community, and become a published author!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Friends of “Last Syllable,” meet us at AWP at booth 946!
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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So. I cried a lot today. So then I read this beautiful essay “On Crying” on @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social I’ve also wondered about the “Weeping Woman” across cultures. I, too, have tried forcing myself to cry in church to no avail, only to cry for myself later on. 🤍 lastsyllablelit.com/on-crying
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On Crying | Last Syllable Literary Journal
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The Wax Paper @thewaxpaper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We can’t wait to welcome #AWP25 to the City of Angels with a night of readings & revelry @ The Count’s Den in DTLA on Thu 3/27 with our friends Rinky Dink, Ghost Parachute, Bull, Fractured Lit & Stalking Horse presses. More details to come!
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The poets are showing up in our submissions (love it! Kept it coming!) Where are our fiction and CNF writers? Our cover artists? #CallForSubmissions is open through the end of March Theme: #Resistance
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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Heron Tree seeks found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929. No reading fee. Submit erasure poems, remixed texts, & more by May 15. www.newpages.com/guide-submission-o… #poets #callforsubmissions #foundpoetry
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Heron Tree Call for Submissions
Calling writers of found poetry! Heron Tree Review is open to submissions of found poems composed form sources published in or before 1929.
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String Bean Arts Scene @sbartsscene.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Submissions are now open for Issue 0: Begin, Again. sbartsscene.wixsite.com/string-bean-... #Arts #Literary #CreativeWriting #journal #artsjournal #literaryjournal #submissionsopen #magazine
Submissions are open for String Bean Arts Scene and this image is describing that fact.
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Sarah Southern (Nonfiction Editor left) and Rebecca Li (Managing Editor, right)
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Mitch Albom concludes the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University, elevating it to new heights. The afternoon discussion is moderated by our writing professor and author, Holland Prior, and introduced by Josiah Roberts, Last Syllable’s Art & Web Designer.
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University Emma Grace Weber (Poetry Editor, left) and Anna Wang (Social Media Manager, right)
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Second day of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University: Sandra Cisneros’s lecture—moderated by Margarita Pintado Burgos, our professor and a poet—draws a full house.
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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Submissions are open for our next anthology, the theme is GRIEF. Please read the guidelines carefully. We are looking forward to reading your work! Photo by Karly Santiago via Unsplash. #Poetry #Anthology #Grief #Submissions sidhe-press.eu/submissions/
Some kind of wood painted pink. On it it says in stenciled white letters: In Pursuit Of Magic.
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Come to say hi at Last Syllable table and meet our team if you’re attending Wrier’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Lexi Bullock (Associate Editor, left) and Ella Hachee (Editor-in-Chief, right)
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Colorado Review @coloradoreview.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Colorado Review is hoping to replenish our nonfiction queue with a few more of your submissions this week 📝
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Jesmyn Ward opens this year’s Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Breeann Kirby (left), professor of fiction, and Rebecca Li, a first-year MA in Writing student and managing editor at Last Syllable, introduce Jesmyn Ward to the audience.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
No matter where you live on this planet, you can participate in SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon. Sign up by Feb 28. We'll start letting people into the workshop tomorrow, Feb 27! www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
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The March Micro Marathon 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
BOOK HERE We are doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writi...
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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Your weekly reminder that we're open to your small-town horror novel submissions for the next 2 weeks - so if you've got one ready, we'd love to read it! Sub details & more about what we're looking for on the site 🦇
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Nefarious Bat Press | Indie Publisher
Nefarious Bat Press is a female owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime and dark fiction.
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A Sufferer's Digest @asufferersdigest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
There is just over a week left to submit. Keep them rolling in! We accept both traditional "literary stories" and work that experiments with voice, structure, and form. Either way, send us what you've got! www.sufferer.online
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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Calling all poets! Since 2012, Trio House Press has sponsored the Trio Award (First/Second Book) & the Louise Bogan Award (Excellence in Poetry). Winners get $1K + publication! Judges: Sierra DeMulder & Randall Mann. $25 fee. #AmWriting #Poetry #poets #writingcontest
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Trio Award and Bogan Award Poetry Book Publication Contests: Win $1,000and Publication
Explore the 2025 Trio Award and Louise Bogan Award for poets from Trio House Press. Winners receive cash prize and book publication.
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phoebe journal @phoebejournal.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Happy to announce that our Spring 2025 Contest is open tomorrow and will run until March 15th! First prize winners in each genre will receive $500, and honorable mentions will receive our standard contributor rate of $30 per accepted piece.
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Prairie Home Magazine @prairiehomemag.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We're still accepting #prose and #poetry for our March issue! Please consider sending in your work to Prairie Home 🐣
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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵
A white neon sign on the corner of a house. It says: You're not lost you're here.
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Graveside Press @gravesidepress.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
HEY. HEY. STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING. IT'S CRYPTID TIME. Submissions are now open! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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Graveside Press Submission Manager
Submit to Graveside Press (a project of Paper Angel Press). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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Sloth & Envy Press @slothandenvy.com · 16/02/2025
It's a ko-fi thing! Funds 4 paying authors & artists we publish in our zine. Issue 3 open for subs Mar 1-Apr 15 (theme is Dystopian Theme Park, doesn't have to be literal, your interpretation. Subs read by our judges & scored). Send us questions if you have any! ko-fi.com/slothenvypress
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Support Sloth & Envy Press on Ko-fi! ❤️
We pay our Toad Shade Zine writers and artists what we can upon acceptance. We'd like to be able to pay them pro-rate and keep the zine going.
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Happy Valentine’s Day to all friends of Last Syllable!
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Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Hi guys, just a reminder that Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ is now open for submissions. Link below, cheers: www.authora.net/submit
Picture by Sergey Guk
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Sally Cronin @sallycronin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
February Writer's Tips - #Writing Process, #Publishing #Scams, #Blogging Tips dgkayewriter.com/2025/02/11/f... @dgkayewriter.bsky.social @lizgauffreau.bsky.social @hughsviewsandnews.com
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February Writer’s Tips – #Writing Process, #Publishing #Scams, #Blogging Tips
Welcome to my February curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Liz Gauffreau is at the Story Empire with a detailed post on Revisiting our Writing Process, Nathan Bransford has some helpful t…
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We have an opportunity for a creative writing instructor for an after-school program. See the announcement in the image below and apply if interested. Please share, as well! #writingcommunity #creativewriting
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
FIVE DAYS left to submit! Free submissions for all genres ❤️ psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/
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Submissions
Welcome! We are open for submissions We are open for submission in all genres during our two annual reading periods: Jan 1-Feb 15 and June 1-July 15. We do not consider submissions outside of our r…
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