Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 5hDear OKD Reader- We’ve been trying to reach you regarding your lack of work submitted to us. Our free submissions run out fast, so please send us your writing at your earliest convenience using this link: buff.ly/chQ4jpz. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Corporate Sad Jack 💼🫏 1136
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 02/10/2026“She was beautiful in an intimidating sort of way, and though only a few years older than me, she had the confidence of a grown woman, something I kept forgetting I was as well.” “For a Limited Time Only” by Meghan Proulx, new flash fiction out today at OKD: buff.ly/qz75twQ 020
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 01/10/2026OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses. 02013
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Poetry “Blue Persons” by Emily Wittenhagen @emilywittenhagen.bsky.social: buff.ly/d5gcznq Congratulations to all of our Best of the Net nominees! 🫏 020
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Poetry "How an Adoptee Reads Literary Rejection Letters: a lost and found poem” by Danna Schmidt @dannadschmidt.bsky.social: buff.ly/qNaZqh1 110
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Poetry “Nine American Sentences” by Julia Ross: buff.ly/auci9Ae 111
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Poetry “onwards & without delay” by Alexandra Nwigwe: buff.ly/XOtjmDQ 110
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Poetry "In the Other World, They’ll Receive Mitzvahs” by Daniel Lurie: buff.ly/mjwhWbi 110
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Poetry “Time Only Looks Human” by Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social: buff.ly/l7aByTk 110
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Fiction “Door in the Woods” by Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social: buff.ly/fyLo6d6 140
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026OKD Best of the Net Nominee - Fiction “13.1 Septillion Pounds” by Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social: buff.ly/qr6u0Sj 100
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026Meet OKD’s Best of the Net 2027 nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below. 1153
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 25/09/2026“I’m up on the water / mat now, chest up— / a siren on a rock, luring— / what?” “Swimming” by Kieron Walquist, new poetry out today at OKD: buff.ly/efXDpt5 051
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/09/2026OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee “The Void is Right There” by Yasmine Yu: buff.ly/1Q4n5uo 061
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/09/2026OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee “We Took Turns Trying to Start the Truck With Our Minds” by Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social: buff.ly/dMshG1d 341
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/09/2026OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee “Feed” by Debbie Urbanski: buff.ly/iYu1Dkr 120
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/09/2026OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee “Alligator” by Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social: buff.ly/HktxxGY 130
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/09/2026OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee “Family Double-Dare, ‘The Lima Beings vs. Toledo TNT,’ June 1991” by T.J. Martinson: buff.ly/958tIad 130
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/09/2026Congratulations to OKD’s Best Small Fictions 2027 nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below. 1125
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 18/09/2026“She must return to the very beginning of things. [...] Before migraines. Before she felt the need to cut her finger open on a jagged leaf. She decided that some lies were small enough not to kill her.” “Oranges” by Laura Jane Lee, new flash fiction out today at OKD: buff.ly/1JdLsqF 061
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 14/09/2026Please welcome new Associate Fiction Editor, Eleanor Ball (@eleanorball.bsky.social)! When it comes to her new role, Eleanor says she’s drawn to “stories with a speculative premise” and is looking forward to “spreading the Sad Jack Agenda…” Read Eleanor’s full interview at buff.ly/feKlWQ9. 0121
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 11/09/2026“[...] I have a trick. Like when the crazy / girlfriend shows up & throws all your records / into the street. The logic of the nonsequitur / lies in its disobedience.” “Girls to the Front” by Heather Derr-Smith, new poetry out today at OKD: buff.ly/QYTXGCZ 061
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 07/09/2026This month’s newsletter features OKD Poetry Reader Liz Kingsley on “Poetry As Unserious Business.” Plus, an interview with one of our new Associate Fiction Editors– Eleanor Ball! Read the full newsletter at buff.ly/ORkQKok 081
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 05/09/2026If you’re seeing this message, that means the big Sad Jack in the sky hand-picked you to submit to OKD! Submit for free (while supplies last) at buff.ly/chQ4jpz. 0197
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 04/09/2026“She had nightmares in which everyone but her knew the secret of who to be. In these dreams she’d walk from person to person, often familiar faces from school, begging them to tell her [...]” “Chrysalis” by Santiago Wilson Heredia, new flash fiction out today at OKD: buff.ly/SI0iDwk 021
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 01/09/2026OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses. 0127
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 28/08/2026“My boss killed a lamb for me. Or did I kill a lamb for the boss? So long ago, these risks to bloom in the waste of creation. Decades in which one’s title was contingent.” “Bildungsroman” by Kathleen Winter, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/08/28/b... 073
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 24/08/2026We are proud to say our Poetry Editor, Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social, is a 2026 Poet Laureate Fellow! With a local school district, she will create and lead workshops for fourth grade students using a bilingual illustrated edition of Pablo Neruda’s "Book of Questions." Congrats, Erin! 🫏🎉 0141
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/08/2026“[...] I can no longer fathom what is real and what is not. Have I bared my soul? Is it possible to be present and vulnerable and remain unaffected?” “Shall a Man That Doeth Violence Flee to the Pit?” by Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD: buff.ly/9qyxKGz 062
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 19/08/2026Introducing our new Associate Fiction Editor, Gina Thayer @ginathayer.bsky.social! When it comes to her new role, Gina says “it’s energizing to be reminded how expansive and multi-faceted flash fiction can be,” thanks to OKD’s creative submissions. Read Gina’s interview at buff.ly/l2GbmrD 0163
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 17/08/2026Last month, OKD contributor Mac Crane @mcrane12.bsky.social (2018, 2020) had a short story collection come out with The Dial Press! You can check out their book, “Perverts,” at our new Bookshop affiliate link: bookshop.org/shop/okaydon... 052
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 14/08/2026“I hover above the breaking. I am already a memory. Why call it dissociation? I call it the fixed point of light that renders our new landscape shades of decay." “META/MORPH/OSIS” by Shannon Kearns, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/08/14/m... 021
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 12/08/2026Okay Donkey now has a Bookshop affiliate page! Visit bookshop.org/shop/okaydon... & check out books by OKD contributors & staff. If you buy a book through our link, OKD will earn a small percentage, which helps us pay honorariums to staff & contributors. Thank you for all your support! 🫏 0122
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 10/08/2026OKD’s contributor honorariums are increasing from $20 to $25 per piece! 🌟 Okay Donkey is growing, but of course, there’s no magazine without our contributors. Thank you for being part of our weird little community. 🫏🩶 0255
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 07/08/2026“As you say, history is the story of events with praise or blame, and I am here to present your legacy, one for which you should feel both pride and shame.” “Commencement Address to be Delivered Only to Cotton Mather” by Erin Lyndal Martin, new flash fiction out today at OKD: buff.ly/mCdPNt2 041
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 05/08/2026Announcing Okay Donkey’s NEW WEBSITE! 🥳 Check it out at okaydonkeymag.com And this month’s newsletter will only further your inspiration with Fiction Reader Damilola Omotoyinbo’s feature all about allowing yourself to write “the messy first draft.” Read the full newsletter at buff.ly/YV3nmHp. 2228
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 04/08/2026When was the last time you submitted your work? Sad Jack hopes you sent it to Okay Donkey… but if not, there’s still time to redeem yourself. Submit at buff.ly/chQ4jpz 0207
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 02/08/2026Are you a little odd? And are you hoping to read poetry for a lit mag? Then look no further, because we want YOU to read poetry for Okay Donkey! Apply now at forms.gle/ZZ8wJB6ptBtW... Form open through August 31st. 1134
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 02/08/2026OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses. 03818
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 31/07/2026“Spry, how the afternoon light lands on a vase of flowers. A-glow, as in someone sliding a magic carpet into the DMs of memory.” “Ode to Serotonin” by Cynthia Atkins @catkinspoet.bsky.social new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/31/o... 160
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 27/07/2026The other half of OKD’s socials team is Social Media Manager Dani Kuntz @danikuntz.com! About OKD, Dani says, “It's great to be a part of a literary magazine that takes the work seriously but not necessarily itself as an ‘institution.’” Read her full interview at buff.ly/xNjHAVz 071
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 24/07/2026“Gonna have to choke it, I guess, he said. No telling how long the bastards can hold their breath. Thumb into the trachea, son. Come on now.” “Taxidermy” by Nelson Taylor, new flash fiction out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/24/t... 1123
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 20/07/2026We’re finally revealing the wizard behind the curtain…our Social Media Associate, Cassey Abella! For OKD’s social media presence, she “envision[s] Sad Jack subconsciously permeating everyone’s minds [...] TLDR: WORLD DOMINATION.” Read Cassey’s interview at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/bid-farewe... 190
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 17/07/2026“[...] I tell her sometimes people don’t understand they are standing in the middle of a miracle until all that’s left of it is an afterthought.” “Case of Missing Animals” by Sarp Sozdinler, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/17/c... 3194
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 13/07/2026OKD and its contributors were fêted in the Wigleaf Top 50 2026 for “On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61” by Patricia Q. Bidar and “Fireflies” by Rina Olsen. Several pieces also made the longlist— see the full list in our newsletter at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/bid-farewe... 0163
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 10/07/2026“Days and nights melted together. I remember it rained, and I stood outside under a tree, catching runoff from leaves in my mouth.” “Winter’s Tales,” two micros by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social new flash fiction out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/10/w... 0172
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 08/07/2026OKD contributor T.J. Martinson (Jan. 2026) has a thrilling new novel out with Counterpoint Press! You can check out T.J.’s book, “Blood River Witch,” at bookshop.org/p/books/bloo... 031
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 06/07/2026This month’s newsletter features Lead Fiction Reader Ellie Amos on outwitting writer's block, and we (Dani & Cassey, socials team) answer some interview questions! Plus, other members of the OKD community have some exciting news to share… Read the full newsletter at buff.ly/gBgcxWk 071
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 03/07/2026“[...] The red taillights make fingertips. Blinking, they both turn left, then dark.” “Planet” by Kary Wayson, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/03/p... 081
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 01/07/2026OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses. 02214