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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thank you everyone who came out to the launch party, it was a huge success!

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It’s officially launch day! We’re so excited to bring you another edition of Short Vine. online.pubhtml5.com/jsglw/lawf/

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Spring 2025 Final Journal

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We’re very excited to reveal the cover for the upcoming edition of Short Vine! The journal releases April 21st. Stay tuned for more updates.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We want to thank everyone who submitted to Short Vine in the past few weeks. Submissions are now closed, and we are making editorial decisions to bring you a wonderful edition of our journal. Short Vine Spring 2025 goes live April 21st on our website. #Writing #Publishing

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"Reflections" by Ibrahim Mohammed, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Art

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"On Being a Bird" by Elliot Briar, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Nonfiction

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Space Boots" by Tyler McDonald, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Poetry

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Aspirations" by Virginia Smith, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Fiction

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"Black Girl Reflection" by Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Art

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Scene" by Natalia Lui, from our Fall 2022 edition. Read the full issue and more at shortvinejournal.com/archive/ #Writing #Nonfiction

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’d like to get back to posting about literature and our upcoming edition, but our university just sent another email about what bathroom people are allowed to use. Anyways, submit your work down below— angry, anti-establishment pieces are encouraged shortvinejournal.com/submissions/

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Submissions – Short Vine

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just so we are clear the Short Vine Literary Journal will continue to publish diverse voices, empower equity, and promote inclusivity. Regardless of what our University Administrators decide is worth supporting, we will not abandon our community and principles. We will not comply in advance.

A protestor at a rally on the University of Cincinnati's campus on Feb. 24, 2025 holds a sign that reads "University of Cowards”, Zack Carreon, WVXU.

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

'Submissions for Issue 27 of The Manchester Review are now open. The submission window will be open from 24th Feb to 24th March 2025. Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

There are still leaders in this country standing up for what’s right. Use this as an example—when people in power want to push you out of the way and erase you, plant your feet and tell them “I’m not going anywhere.”

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Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating DEI-related grants

The judge found the administration's mandate that grant recipients not engage in "equity-related" programs was too broad.

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Writing an opening that’s unforgettable, urgent, memorable & specific all at once seems…impossible? Somehow people do it, & in @crystalhanak.bsky.social’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class, she'll teach you how. One class, March 4, Zoom! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

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PJ Seminar: A Master Class on the Art of the Opening with Crystal Hana Kim - StoryStudio Chicago

In this generative class, we will consider how to write an opening line, and then an opening paragraph, that is memorable, specific, and urgent.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Hey neighbors! Please keep an eye on this list, and if you feel compelled, call your senators and representatives to voice your opinion.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

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Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump

How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Billy-Ray Belcourt.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 18/02/2025

If you cannot even barely move forward in fractional fucking increments, how does anyone ever accomplish anything in this nightmare, you're doing it right. The feeling is just that excruciating. Creative writing is pain. And if you ever get to feel actual joy in it for like one moment, live más

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 18/02/2025

How do you get an agent? Is there money in this? Is there a God? Is this a projection of my fear that I will die alone and in panic so my plan is just to scream as loud as I can and call it Art?

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The Saturday Evening Post @satevepost.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Lionel Richie talks about where he gets his energy at 75, what he thinks of American Idol, and the what makes the essential cornerstone of one's existence.

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3 Questions for Lionel Richie | The Saturday Evening Post

At 75 years old, the singer-songwriter continues to fill the world with music.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“Poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot ever aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection.” -- June Jordan

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We love to see poets experimenting with form. #poetry

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW! Applications for our Summer Editorial Fellowship are due February 15. The program offers intensive training in editing and producing long-form, ideas-driven magazine writing for a general audience. Pay is $20/hr. For more details, visit:

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Jobs and Internships - Boston Review

Learn more about jobs, internships, and fellowships at Boston Review.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As citizens of Cincinnati, we at Short Vine are so proud our neighbors who bravely stood up to a group of Nazis last week. White Supremacists have no place in the world, and will not be tolerated. Please be safe out there, protect each other, and LOUDLY call out hate when you see it.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

From our Spring 2024 edition, a beautiful poem by Lillian Tzanev. #poetry #writing

Haiku, Devotedly by Lillian Tzanev

If not for others,
why bother to live at all?
I am but your hands.

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The first submissions are coming in! Everyone on the team is excited to read your work.

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Elizabeth Collins @elizabethcollins.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Maybe the Cheifs are distracted by the downfall of democracy.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Gather round children, and let me tell you the tale of how when I was a child, eggs were so cheap we chucked them at cars and houses

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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

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Urban Sketchers Cincinnati @uskcincinnati.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A news segment about Urban Sketchers Cincinnati from a few years back. I believe this was our first in-person outing after the pandemic lockdown, which is why all the masks and references to social distance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXl...

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Urban Sketchers Cincinnati Profiled on WCPO

YouTube video by URBAN SKETCHERS

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Greetings puny mortals, it is I, TOTO! I want to let you know that my summer reading list was likely vastly superior to yours bc I read #LocusMag, and therefore have a team of humans to select books from the best of the best. Curses! I let the secret out. locusmag.com?utm_sou...

A photo of a small dog (Toto) sitting on a stack of books in our office. He is facing the camera. His face is really shaggy.

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Susan Perabo @susanperabo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“If enough of them kill you, they’re innocent.” from Percival Everett’s “James” #sundaysentence

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

For Sunday a review of A Record Of Our Meeting With The Grand Faerie Lord Of Vast Space And It's Great Mysteries, Revised by A T Greenblatt in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social a story of being trapped in time and space nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-re...

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I Read Stories: A Record of Our Meeting with the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space and Its Great Mysteries, Revised By A.T. Greenblatt

A Record Of Our Meeting With The Great Faerie Lord Of Vast Space And It’s Mysteries, Revised by A T Greenblatt in Beneath Ceaseless Skies...

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Short Vine is now accepting submissions for Spring 2025! The theme is Perseverance and Permanence. What endures in the face of change. We are accepting both themed and general submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art&Photography. Learn more at ShortVineJournal.com

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Great theme! I’ve added you to my lit mag starter pack: go.bsky.app/6exghcc

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "Happily Ever After Comes Round" by Sarah Rees Brennan! (@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social) You can read it here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/hap…

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 56, “Resurrecting Venus" by Galen Dara: In the background, two planets overlap. A large red one is eclipsed by a blue one, the surface is decorated with waves. At the forefront, a woman's face is split in three pieces that are slowly coming together. Spread throughout the motif of sea waves are present in shades of light blue, dark blue, and purple. The outline of koi are spread throughout too, accompanying the woman. The quote reads: "Children don’t generally assume their father will abandon them to die in the snow. But under certain circumstances, they might get an inkling."

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“…at sixty-eight years old, I am no longer as worried about reception, so that means my work can be more honest and filled with personal integrity. I am doing what I want to do and how I want to do it.” —Benjamin Green Read the full interview with featured artist Benjamin Green (link in comments)

Storm over Playa 10 x 14 inches; paper, broken glass, leather, styrofoam, fenceboard, veneer, resin, aluminum pie pan

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Read the full interview with featured artist Benjamin Green here: www.rfr.bz/b0aa39e

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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