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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Jellyfish and Microbeads By Maureen C. Berry Mixed‑media watercolor pairing the natural with the unnatural to confront plastic pollution. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/jellyfis...
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Jellyfish and Microbeads - Literary Heist
By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
in cemento veritas By Mario Loprete Concrete sculptures born from personal history — pandemic‑era memory preserved in cement. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/in-cemen...
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in cemento veritas - Literary Heist
Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Summer Study By Anna Sui Acrylic on canvas inspired by Ontario’s blooms and foliage — summer’s greens in full voice. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/summer-s...
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Summer Study - Literary Heist
Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario's national and provincial parks.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Detached From Color By Carl Scharwath Photography stripped to essential feeling — images meant to provoke an emotional response. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/detached...
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Detached From Color - Literary Heist
Photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all art, is to evoke an emotional response.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Lost Heartbeats By Edward Michael Supranowicz Bold, high‑contrast colour studies that echo a heartbeat — and its absence. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/lost-hea...
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Lost Heartbeats - Literary Heist
Bold and high contrast colors intended to be the visual equivalent of a heartbeat, one that is lost because it was not taken.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Old Cock Road By Michael Noonan A quiet Halifax passage rendered with vivid realism and memory. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/old-cock...
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Old Cock Road - Literary Heist
Depicts a small pedestrianized street in Halifax, which links Commercial Road to Market Street. The building in the background of the...
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Evening Shores By Don Hoeppner Watercolour serenity — light, reflection, and calm distilled on canvas. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/evening-...
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Evening Shores - Literary Heist
Original Watercolours Watercolour prints on Canvas
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Empty Mirror By Jaina Cipriano Hand‑built photographic worlds that explore how spaces shape inner life. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/the-empt...
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The Empty Mirror - Literary Heist
These photographs are of worlds built with my own hands. The concept of how space affects internal life is central to my process.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Painting 3159 By Claudio Parentela A tarot‑tinged meditation on solitude and insight — a hermit’s lantern turned inward and outward. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/painting...
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Painting 3159 - Literary Heist
The hermit in the tarot sees what others see and do not see, he looks at himself, he looks forward and behind...
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Comets By Thomas Riesner Dark, spontaneous, and magnetic — a series that pulls you into a mysterious orbit of imagination. #Art #Artwork #Artist #ContemporaryArt #VisualArt #FineArt #ArtOfTheDay #CreativeProcess #ArtLovers #ArtCollector www.literaryheist.com/art/comets/
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Comets - Literary Heist
Exudes an atmosphere of originality and spontaneity, with a motif that is rather dark. Quite spontaneously and suddenly...
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Literary Heist is looking for Art submissions for the next edition - see www.literaryheist.com/guidelines/
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Guidelines - Literary Heist
Please see Literary Heist's guidelines to submit poetry, short stories, articles, book reviews, interviews, and art, published quarterly.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Flash Fiction - What is flash fiction? A brief history and guide to current trends. www.literaryheist.com/articles/fla... by Robert Boucheron
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Flash Fiction - Literary Heist
What is flash fiction? A brief history and guide to current trends. Definitions of flash fiction vary, but here are some common ones.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Just published the Spring edition - some great work from 19 different poets and writers. www.literaryheist.com
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Literary Heist wants to democratize the literary and art world. We are an online magazine that also publishes a yearly compilation into an electronic book.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Peter J. Dellolio, a contributor to Literary Heist has recently published “The Vigil,” a novella about a man (Ralph Unda) who is the lighthouse keeper on Little Brewster Island in Massachusetts... www.literaryheist.com/news/the-vig...
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The Vigil - a novella by Peter J. Dellolio - Literary Heist
Peter J. Dellolio, a contributor to Literary Heist has recently published “The Vigil,” a novella about a man (Ralph […]
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Check out the first poem ever published on Literary Heist - www.literaryheist.com/poetry/wife-... #writingcommunity
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To My Wife (On The Occasion of Our 25th Wedding Anniversary) - Literary Heist
This poem reflects social injustice, broken hearts, and lifelong love, that which is always with us.
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Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
My most recent poem, "If Humans Grew Wings," was published in @literaryheist.bsky.social www.literaryheist.com/poetry/if-hu... #poems #poetry
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If Humans Grew Wings - Literary Heist
Imagines a hypothetical future where we have grown wings and explores whether that world would be different from our society today.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Dennis Rader had a family, a job, worked with a church, and helped out with Scouts, all while actively maintaining his hobby! What's your excuse for not writing today? #WritingCommunity #BTK #SerialKiller
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Check out Adam Shatz is the United States editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, and other publications. He was a child prodigy chef, then studied history at...
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
The latest edition is now out!
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
There is a great New Zealand author whose book I reviewed back in 2019. You can hear a podcast interview with Heather McQuillan here
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
I just read a short story and audibly said: "f**K yeah" at the end.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Want to Lose Weight? Reading burns more calories than watching TV. Check out our short stories and start losing weight for free.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Literary Heist is still considering Banned Book reviews for the next edition. Would you like to review a book that has been banned? Send in your review, and don't forget to mention where the book has been banned, so we can verify.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
After a brief hiatus, Lilies on the deathbed is now rereleased. You can see the review here with links to this amazing book!
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Reflections at Age Ninety-nine is a poem by Bunny Moon, a poet who is nearly 100. In this, the twilight of my years, I recollect past hopes and fears; sorrows and exhilarations; my missteps and aspirations. Too soon widowed, how could I cope to raise...
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
An amazing new poem - "Diné Deliverance" “Fuck Jesus! Fuuuck Jeeesus!” Loren spews his Diné fury calling the congregation to nervous worship, spilling the anguish of too many years walking ashamed in the Anglo’s shadow. He has come today to take us to...
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Check out "Reflection" - the latest poem on Literary Heist. We rise, we coffee, begin the routine, pricked with flashes, typically, of the recent past. There is a filter, that eliminates the mundane, from the priceless – which become the cornerstones.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Check out War winter via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
The overturning of Roe Vs Wade, for an Indian woman looking to the West as a model for women’s rights, this was my honest view. The Best of Mothers via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
A truly touching story from the latest edition. Lot Dog via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Take a look at this fresh short story from the latest edition. Rough Ride via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Up for a quick read? Take a look at this amazing story from the newest edition of Literary Heist​. The Frightful Fall via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
From the latest edition of Literary Heist! Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Check out this article from the latest edition of Literary Heist. The Corner Store via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Looking for a great read? Check out this review from the latest edition (just published)! From A Candle To A Flame To A Wildfire Of Hope via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The latest (Autumn 2023) issue is now available at
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
Check out this recent article from the latest edition.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 26/06/2023
Check out this black and white photography from the Summer 2023 edition. Detached From Color via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
Here is some of the latest art work in Literary Heist. There are the regular heartbeats we have and the ones we do not have, the ones we do not see or feel, or the ones felt so strongly that that we miss a beat or... Lost Heartbeats via @literaryheist
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 30/05/2023
Writing tip of the day. Please use character voices.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
Thinking of doing a live poetry reading with the next edition which would allow contributing poets to read and discuss their contributions. I'll leave it up to the readers and poets.
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
Like if you support the #writersstrike. Retweet if you remember the last one! Shoutout to #WritersStrike2023 supporters @jtimberlake @thekatvond @danieltosh @MileyCyrus @KDTrey5 @KimKardashian @JLo @iansomerhalder @justinbieber @joejonas @ladygaga @ddlovato @aplusk #WGA
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 08/04/2023
Last night I dreamed I closed my eyes forever. I tumbled far through glittering specks of light And bottomless tunnels deep. The endless sleep was such a magnificent pleasure, Where I was No more thieving villains creep, No more... #poetry #dream #sleep
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 07/04/2023
please do not bleed, not right now. hold your blood couched in sugar pockets, and this hurts to say, ain’t a demon, your brother but do not whimper when we are this close the light is there, a prayer away, and your blood shall clot... #poetry
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 06/04/2023
At this time of year the loneliness returns ten fold. My heart is like an abandoned car at the river’s edge, rusted out, and mangled by the ravenous hands of time. At this time of year the loneliness returns, like... #poetry #life #death #opportunities
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 05/04/2023
disinformation is a card trick intended to confuse what you see with your own eyes by gaslight not an honest mystake for which journalists apologize and retract while they lose their jobs faster than coal miners... #poetry #Disinformation #Gaslight
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 04/04/2023
Back from a do-or-die rehab, Cody sat in my class, jacket-on, sweet smell of pot floating off it, hand limp over a book. The year before he and his buddy, a roly-poly kid with a baby face, pushed each other back and forth along the... #poetry #time
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 03/04/2023
I will catch a glimpse of you Down the road Walking Twenty years ago Walking Healthy Walking Younger Walking And I will not be able to stop you Walking And I will not be able to keep you from Walking Away from us, Past now... #poetry #death #cancer #family
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 02/04/2023
My heavy heart pours out its cries from the awful words and mockeries thrown at me, but I’ll rise Like the break of dawn. #poetry #life #faith
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Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social · 01/04/2023
Dear G You’ve asked me what makes a poet And I can only answer with what I know The truth You are either a poet Or you are not #poet #poetry
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