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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just a reminder that you can purchase issues 9 + 10, as well as the David Lynch Tribute Folio, through our website! Follow the link to do so. www.loverseyepress.com/copy-of-submit

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce our exciting and experimental publishing project: Skylar: An Exquisite Corpse. Click the link to learn more and to find out how you can submit! Submissions now close on 10/25/2026! www.loverseyepress.com/skylar-an-ex...

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

heyyyyy i've got four poems in the latest issue of @loverseyepress.bsky.social about being a woman in this apocalyptic hellscape, including this one. you can visit the poems holding my rage here: www.loverseyepress.com/post/4-poems...

DISCOUNT SHOPPING THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE

All of us women in T.J. Maxx are sweating. We talk

ice packs, plant estrogens, black cohosh, the shots

that will lead us to love our bodies by losing most

of our bodies, the internet says. The hangers slip off

their clothes. It is not summer. The radio proclaims

a high of 90°. I’m looking more than ever at the mirror,

which looks back at me more like my mother than ever.

Eat your vegetables, the mirror says. Hold your shoulders up.

Why do you never mop. I glow a rage so incandescent

it’s indistinguishable from the sun, which the internet

wishes would just go ahead and explode. A friend sends

an article about an asteroid that may or may not be

aimed to end the earth. Destroy me, daddy, my friend

writes. Three emojis eject their tongues from pink

half-moon mouths. I refuse to walk down the pinkest aisles.

This isn’t the time for pale, I say. This isn’t the time

for longing or low-slung pants, for pretending

the eyes are windows for anything other than reflected

light. All of us women in T.J. Maxx dwell in bodies

that have fewer rights than the day they were born.

I wish my teeth would grow into knives, my nails

into actual nails. At a frequency too high for human

ears, each woman’s body emits a constant wave

of sound. Like a siren. Like a howl.

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T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"Shelly was so ripe and glowing, while the skin on Norma’s fingers was thinning, knuckle bones pressing through." by Tori Rego from the David Lynch Issue of @loverseyepress.bsky.social. www.loverseyepress.com/post/fiction...

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Fiction by Tori Rego

(CW: Sexual assault, traumatic birth)Audrey Horne Becomes a MotherIt was without reason / white light in her eyes / heels clacking on cold linoleum / her legs spread / that ripping sensation / somethi...

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delia @deebit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

hello, my essay "A Portal" was published today on Lover's Eye Press. i wrote about being childless, anxious, and bewildered. thank you to my family and friends who were semi-anonymously featured in this piece, i love you <3 read the full essay here: www.loverseyepress.com/post/nonfict...

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Nonfiction by Delia Rainey

A Portal In late spring of 2021 in Chicago, H and I decided we were vaccinated long enough that we could take the Blue Line downtown. We wanted to go to our separate colleges for different reasons. H ...

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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Delighted to be in @loverseyepress.bsky.social's David Lynch tribute! The folio includes my video collage On Lone, which explores my relationship to solitude since early 2020, when I found myself solitary due to divorce & COVID. www.loverseyepress.com/post/video-b...

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Video by Addie Tsai

On LoneTsai_Addie_on loneAddie Tsai (any/all) is the author of Dear Twin (2019), included in American Library Association’s Rainbow List in 2021, Unwieldy Creatures (2022), a Shirley Jackson finalist ...

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Just a taste, for the freaks. To get the whole thing, the high-octane desire, the Chicago boosterism, the early 2000s Yeah Yeah Yeahs-inspired masochistic longing... Well, you have to go over to @loverseyepress.bsky.social

lately I need nothing more

than to touch you
to crawl across

this crowded bar

just to hold the hem
of your dress

in my mouth

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

❤️ We are proud to announce the publication of Lover’s Eye Press Issue 10 and the David Lynch Tribute Folio. ❤️ LEP Issue 10: www.loverseyepress.com/issue-10 The David Lynch Tribute Folio: www.loverseyepress.com/the-david-ly...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Surprise! Now everyone has a little more time to send in their work.

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Less than a month to go! Send us your work. We cannot wait to receive it. Issue 10: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm... David Lynch Tribute Folio: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Looking for a home for your work? Our submissions are open until August 1st! Issue 10: duotrope.com/.../lovers-e... The David Lynch Tribute Folio: duotrope.com/.../the-davi...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Get to know the readers for our May lineup! We are excited and honored to host them. Remember, RSVPs are free and required for this event. Follow the link to reserve your spot. We so hope to see you at Rare Nest Gallery on the 25th at 5! loverseyepressreading.rsvpify.com

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We’ve rescheduled! Our new date for the Lover’s Eye Press reading series at Rare Nest Gallery will be on May 25th from 5-7 PM. Join us for an evening of remarkable writing and help support your local arts community. RSVPs are required for this event. loverseyepressreading.rsvpify.com

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Jasmine An’s poems in Issue 9 are a deft alchemy of strength and vulnerability. Follow the link to enjoy her voice in full. www.loverseyepress.com/post/jasmine...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We can’t wait to receive your work for this folio! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Enjoy the sumptuousness of Lisa Marie Basile’s verse in Issue 9 of Lover’s Eye Press. Read more through the link! www.loverseyepress.com/about-3-1

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 05/04/2025

Many thanks to Malcolm Curtis for running such a great online poetry journal with great poems & interviews on craft. I have 5 more poems up now. Check out more on talking about strawberries all of the time. talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/04/jess...

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Jessica Lee McMillan

TRUTH IN FORGERY for Lee Israel* Hope fell off posture when Truth slept with the camera. Even though Buddha brought just a stick...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Just a reminder! You don't want to miss this call. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Submissions for our 10th issue are now open! We’ve moved our submissions portal to Duosuma and so emailed submissions will no longer be accepted. Follow the link for our full guidelines duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

To read all of Cottle's amazing, thoughtful work, follow the link: www.loverseyepress.com/post/meredit...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Enjoy the layered and enthralling art of Art Editor Shannon Hozinec and read about her approach to her creativity and most recent inspirations. To read the full interview, follow this link: www.loverseyepress.com/post/intervi...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

An excerpt from Fiction editor Justin J. Allen’s short story “Wrong Turn” and interview with EIC Eniko Deptuch Vaghy. To read the entirety of Allen’s story and interview, follow this link: www.loverseyepress.com/post/justin-...

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

An excerpt from an amazing discussion with CNF editor Meghan Lamb on her book MIRROR TRANSLATION now available for preorder through Blamage Books. Click here to read the full interview: www.loverseyepress.com/post/intervi...

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Ginger Ko @gingerko.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here’s the first few seconds of my multitext captioned video essay, “Mutually Assured.” It’s about voices, and workplace racism. The amazing editors of @loverseyepress.bsky.social made it a part of Issue #9, which is full of amazing and fascinating things.

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Say goodbye to January and hello to Issue 9 of Lover’s Eye Press! 23 contributors made this a brilliant issue and I can’t wait for you all to enjoy it. We’re doing something different this time... www.loverseyepress.com/about-3-1

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Our reading series is returning to the incomparable Rare Nest Gallery! Join us for a night of phenomenal writing from Shirley Stephenson, Rebecca Fishow, and Margaret Hawkins. RSVPs are a must, beloveds. Follow the link below to claim your spot! theloverseyepressreading.rsvpify.com

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Don't miss out! Find our full submission guidelines here: www.loverseyepress.com/submit

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Lover's Eye Press | Submissions OPEN until 10/25 @loverseyepress.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Our full submission guidelines can be found here! www.loverseyepress.com/submit We cannot wait to receive your beautiful work

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Urbane Arts Club’s very own Jamie Khan will be reading with us on Wed. Check out her story Ooh La La over at @loverseyepress.bsky.social www.loverseyepress.com/post/fiction...

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Fiction by Jamie Kahn

Ooh La LaCondoms, dude. Just say condoms. It’s shorter and easier and much less embarrassing. We’re at the CVS near the 86th St. train stop and it’s the middle of the afternoon, but we know we’re goin...

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