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Mulberry Literary

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an indie lit magazine featuring prose, poetry, art, & so much more! SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW THRU JULY 31, 2026 linktr.ee/mulberryliterary

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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One more week to submit your writing & art to our next 2 issues! Send us your juicy, boundless stories in any and every form. Guidlines & FAQ: mulberryliterary.com/submit
Layered background: a thick horizontal stripe features a photo of juicy, plum and ruby-red mulberries. Behind that, a deep-pink-and-bright-orange duotone rectangular photo of honeysuckle flowers. Behind that, framing the duotone, is the original photo of bright-yellow honeysuckles. On the duotone rectangle is the Mulberry Literary logo in white, and white text. Lower-case serif font reads, "submissions open." A mix of serif, script, and thick caps block letters reads, "one more week" and, below that, serif font reads, "through July 31." Below that, centered, bold serif font reads, "mulberryliterary.com/sumit".Beneath that, all-caps serif letters read some of the accepted genres, separated by a small, white circular bullet: "fiction - poetry - nonfiction - visual art - experimental - hybrid - more!"
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Savor Issue X poetry by Leila Farjami. “A Girl’s Body” ripples and eddies so that, as @sarahali.bsky.social writes of Farjami’s debut collection DAUGHTER OF SALT (more in 🧵), “nothing, not great beauty or harrowing pain, slips through unnoticed.” Full poem: www.mulberryliterary.com/issue-x/leil...
First of three carousel images. White and indigo text overlay a purple-indigo duotone photo of a small wire patio table and two metal chairs in front of a garage wall of lush vines and leaves, interwoven through wood lattice. Over the photo, white script and thick block text reads "Savor indie poetry" in top-right corner. In center, a headshot of author Leila Farjami. Leila has light skin, dark-brown eyes, and long, side-parted, dark-brown hair that curls over her right shoulder. Her head is turned slightly to the right and she looks directly at the camera with a smile. She wears rosy-red lip color, a long-sleeve and navy-blue shirt, and gold, pearl-studded earrings. Over this photo, indigo text with white highlight reads, "'A Girl’s Body,’ poetry. Leila Farjami, Issue X: of gen-e-sis, Spring 2025.” The bottom-left corner features a white Mulberry Literary logo.Second image features same top and bottom text/logo and background image. An excerpt of Leila’s poem is collaged above the Issue X cover, which features a golden-yellow background and photo of three Black masc people sitting on bikes. Poem excerpt reads, 
“A girl’s body is 	a girl’s body—
waiting in the immigration line 	stamped, approved to enter.
Enter a virgin		blood branding	the toilet paper
water running pink	then red	flushing it down.
Like when the port patrol	screamed at me,
	You were born in Eye-Ran!
And i was.	No doubt.	And I ran from it.
I ran		with my body, 		before the bullet”
Highlighted text blocks read, "Leila Farjami, 'A Girl’s Body,' Issue X: of gen-e-sis. read in full at mulberryliterary.com/archive"Third image features same top and bottom text/logo and background image. Center features large white serif font with all vowels bolded, reading, "indie art lives here." beneath that, smaller white serif font reads "read and support at mulberryliterary.com"
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Still thinking of Meera Dinh's issue X piece, "Cut Me Open - The Main Dish." Intimate, surreal, and, as Meera describes her art, "confronting and liberating." Did you know that we accept #visualart? Our submissions are open now thru July 31. Find Meera's art + submit yours at mulberryliterary.com.
An image of an oil painting over a background of overlapping abstract and surreal loops, curls, drips, crystals, stripes, digital gingham, and pearl strings in vivid colors like orange, neon yellow, fuchsia, indigo, cyan, terracotta, olive-green, and mustard-yellow. The oil painting pictures a right-side profile of a woman in a child's pose on a dark-grey plate with a silver knife and fork cutting into her back, as if she were food. Her skin is light-medium pink with darker pink and puce shadows where her belly folds over her thighs. She arms rest down along her shins, stopping at her toes. She has dark, nearly black hair. She gazes up at the fork and knife wearily. The plate hovers amid a rich, dark and muddy red-orange background. Outside the painting, in the background and over a thick yellow-and-orange abstract string is thick black text reading the artist's name and painting title, "meera dinh, Cut Me Open - The Main Dish." In the bottom-left corner, black-highlighted white serif text reads, "Mulberry Literary issue X: of gen-e-sis" and "mulberryliterary.com/archive"White-highlighted black serif text over a background of overlapping abstract and surreal loops, curls, and a fractal crystal in vivid colors like orange, neon yellow, fuchsia, indigo, cyan, terracotta, olive-green, and mustard-yellow. All vowels are bolded. Across 6 lines, text reads, "did you know? Mulberry Literary accepts visual art! submissions OPEN through July 31. mulberryliterary.com/submit"
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our submissions are STILL open worldwide to writing & art of any genre. Now through July 31, submit your work with a pay-what-you-can-fee to also support Mulberry Literary's mission and community for the long haul. mulberryliterary.com/submit #litmag #callforsubmissions #openforsubmissions #writer
Background image of bright yellow, thick-petaled flowers with long stems gathering into a leafy-green bush. They grow in front of a silver and brown fence of corrugated wire and wood. Behind the fence is a white wall. Top-right corner features white Mulberry Literary logo. In center, a mix of large white script and thick-block text reads, "Submissions still open." Yellow-highlighted black text reads, "through July 31." Italic white serif text reads, "worldwide, all genres & forms, no theme! we pay!" Bottom-center features thin white serif font that reads, "pay-what-you-can, mulberryliterary.com/submit"Same background image and logo as first slide. Large white script text in center reads, "Send us your" followed by a list of accepted genres in white, thick-block letters: "poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, hybrid works, plays, screenplays, photography, comics, dance, film, music, experimental work, & much more!" In bottom-right corner, white serif font reads, "mulberryliterary.com/submit"Same background image, logo, and bottom link as second slide. Headline followed by body text. In a mix of white script and thick-block letters, headline reads, "Why is July 15-31 a pay-what-you-can submission period?" In yellow-highlighted black text, body copy reads, "As a volunteer-led indie publication created by working-class artists and writers, we know how money can become an obstacle when trying to get published.
We keep our open submissions free July 1-14 and pay-what-you-can July 15-31 so that we never have to implement mandatory fees for contributors and our readers.
We use these funds to pay our contributors, house their work on our site domain for many years to come, and support our longstanding mission to expand publishing opportunities."
Beneath in a diagonal, white italic and regular serif text reads, "thank you for supporting our work and community!"
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Meet the team! Get to know who makes Mulberry Literary so zesty. First up, Gabriel, aka Senior Nonfiction Editor & K-Ming Chang fan (us too). We ❣️ Mulberry's community—every reader, contributor, and creative comrade. Creative nonfiction writers, our submissions are OPEN: mulberryliterary.com/submit
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
‪It's true! Mulberry Literary ✨ submissions are open ✨ for our next 2 issues. Submit for FREE by midnight tonight! Need more time? We got you: sliding-scale, pay-what-you-can submissions stay open through July 31. mulberryliterary.com/submit 🍓🍇🫐 #callforsubmissions #litmag #indiepublisher #writing
Collage graphic, featuring bright pink, white, and red text over three background photos of white daisies, fuchsia, and juicy red and purple mulberries. A white Mulberry Literary logo is in the top-right corner, over mulberries. An announcement in block text and script reads, "One more week! Free submissions thru July 14 @ midnight CT. mulberryliterary.com/submit." Hand-drawn white squiggles surround the word "free." In the bottom right corner, white text with dark red highlights reads, "pay-what-you-can submissions remain OPEN July 15-31." Along the right edge, thick white block text shares some of the many genres that Mulberry accepts: "Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid, visual, experimental, plays, screenplays, dance, comics, photography, & more!"
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Submissions are open for our next issues! Visit the link in our bio to submit your work ✨️
ALT TEXT: On a beige background, text reads "Submissions Open!"
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Mulberry Literary @mulberryliterary.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
ISSUE X: "of gen·e·sis" IS OFFICIALLY LIVE ❕️ Thank you to all the amazing creatives who contributed and submitted to this issue! We are so grateful for your continued support. 💗 Check out, "of gen·e·sis" up on our website! 🖤 Cover art by Nsikanabasi Effiong!
Cover of Mulberry Literary Issue X, "of gen•e•sis" features a photograph of three men on bicycles with a backdrop of pale blue sky. The photograph is framed by a yellow border and lines which imitate the sun's rays.
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