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The Anti-Literary Mag. Here to ruin your feeds. Closed for submissions. Read the mag at jakethemag.com.

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Heads up: JAKE's backend experienced a breach one of his contributors (thankfully) spotted this week. Almost 250 pieces were affected (had an LLM-sounding paragraph of advertising inserted). All should be fixed now, but if your piece is still messed up, email JAKE & he'll fix it.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I found ~one~ last copy of my book, “Day Three of a Five Day Headache” (@publishedbyjake.bsky.social), which I think is the last unclaimed copy from the two editions we did…it’s a free gift to anyone who wants it: some paper masquerading as a book of poems, re: #chronicpain at the end of the world.
The cover of “Day Three of a Five Day Headache” by Elliott Coates. A blue & black streetscape with clouds.
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Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This might be my last ever publication with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, so check out "Three Meals, Waterloo IL, Christmas 2025" now: jakethemag.com/three-meals-...
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Three Meals, Waterloo, IL, Christmas 2025
he relents when the spoon melts in the pan
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Just finished formatting the last few pieces we'll publish before the indefinite hiatus. Check out some of these titles, coming to you from some heavy hitters:
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Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Just received my lucky number 13th acceptance from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for my prose poem "Three Meals, Waterloo, IL, Christmas 2025." Look forward to reading about my mediocre Christmas later this month!
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
All responses have been sent. Thank you!
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Subs update. Fiction: 5 left Nonfiction: All Responses Sent Poetry: 30 left If you haven't heard back from JAKE, you'll hear this week.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Shoutout to Anthony Verdi for capturing these pics (and making me look kinda cool!) at @publishedbyjake.bsky.social’s total blast of a AWP Sat. night reading.
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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thank you Terri Linn for capturing me and Ben's souls @terrilinndavis.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social
important writers attend the JAKE reading at AWP 2026 in Baltimore
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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What a fucking beautiful night. Thank you everyone for coming to Death to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social ! I couldn't have asked for a better send off.
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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
@beansbaker5.bsky.social at Death to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social reading 💕 Such a great group of people. Such an epic send-off.
Photo of Ben at Death to JAKE reading
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Hanging with @joshuatrentbrown.com and @noahpowers.bsky.social , a few of the minds behind the mag. Out reading started like four hours ago lmao
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We have added another press to the RF chaos table. @invariablyso.bsky.social has their book from @querenciapress.bsky.social is here as well!
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Check out this essay I wrote a couple few years ago about working a job where we tried to harvest rubber waste from old astroturf @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/my-summer-of...
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My Summer of Rubber Dust
The Machine didn’t work well, not by a long shot. But, in the end, it worked just enough.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Good riddance.
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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 07/03/2026
Goodbye JAKE 🖤
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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
pour one out for JAKE tonight
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Tonight at Club Charles, 7 p.m.
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Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I am waiting on a plane to leave Baltimore and have ceded the @rfpress.bsky.social table to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social whose got super cool chapbooks! T318. Enjoy today, writer peeps
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Chilling at the Roi Faineant table!
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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Very excited to be reading during this! Come outtttt 💕
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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Packed a small cardboard box w/author copies to put in my suitcase for Baltimore. Will probably do the same w/a few copies of the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social titles, so if you want one and see me around, I might be able to hook you up.
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Noah Powers @noahpowers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Ohhhh I’ll be there! Reading! I’m reading!
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
👀👀
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Updated lineup with a few more friendly faces:
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Gabie Martin @crabbygabie.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
God I wish I wasn’t leaving early, GO to this
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stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
see you there xoxo
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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
stoked for this!
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Read my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Mother Karma by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social , out from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social , here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social , is Mother Karma going to break my heart? If so, tell me now so I can be prepared. 🥰 I mean, this is only page 2 and I'm already feeling the weight and the beauty of the book. Looking forward to spending my morning with it!
Part of Page 2 of Sumitra Singham's book Mother Karma, with the words "Mythili wonders what the opposite of orphan is -- what you would call a mother without a baby."
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
One night only! End of AWP!
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Specifically contributors w/o plans. Hit up the DM's!
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So... anyone going to be around in Baltimore Saturday night of AWP weekend?
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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
⚡️Fast Flash Fiction Review: the brilliant Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam published by the excellent Jake! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Thank you for submitting to JAKE. He encourages you to keep looking for your corner of the literary and artistic weird.
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Subs close Sunday: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine Submission Manager
Submit to JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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Isaac Fox @isaac-k-fox.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I have two (very different) new things out! A poem about the joys of having your eyeballs mapped in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social: jakethemag.com/ode-to-retin... And an article on winter brook trout in the latest issue of Dark Skies Fly Fishing: darkskiesflyfishing.com
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Ode to Retinal Imaging
Don't blink, you remind yourself
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
this piece that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social took was basically the genesis for, and forms a kind of backbone for, TACOMA! jakethemag.com/maps/
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Maps
As record-keeping, and as way of making your life a little more organized, and as a kind of diary, and as way of seeing and learning your new town even more.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
sad to hear (JAKE is great!) but so goes the world of literary journals. there are a handful with institutional support and/or mysterious money (tho fewer & fewer of even those), otherwise the lifespan is more often than not shorter than that of a large dog. love them similarly when they're around.
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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's a tough time out there to be a lit mag, even if you're as kickass as JAKE. Treat yourself to some of the awesomeness before they go ungentle into that good night! They made a home for a story about a sad anarchist meeting Alien Jesus. They are beauty. Au revoir, l'ami.
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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Oh this is such sad news!
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This makes me sad. JAKE published my book and I love them. 😕♥️
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big VERN (Shea Soc) @vernorsofficial.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
long live JAKE
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
JAKE is and has been what is best about independent lit: weird, excellent, electric.
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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I respect this transparency on clearly a hard decision so much!!
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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
JAKE will be missed. Sending all the love & gratitude for what we’ve all gained through JAKE being part of this community 💕
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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Sorry to hear this news — JAKE kicks ass. Really hope it’ll be back someday 🌼
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Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I will be forever grateful to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for publishing my CNF chapbook. Running a little mag, whether online, in print or both, is a tremendous commitment so I understand where the team is coming from even as I'll miss the publication.
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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Too bad, Jake was/is amazing.
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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The literary world just got a little less weird. You will be missed.
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