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Welter Journal

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Welter is a print and online literary journal produced by the MFA program at the University of Baltimore. 🌐 blogs.ubalt.edu/welter 📨 welter.submittable.com/submit

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

ICYMI: our Fall 2025 Digital Lit issue is now available to read! blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/fall-...

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Tomorrow's the day! Our Fall 2025 Digital Lit issue is almost here.

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Another day, another sneak peek at our new issue, dropping next week...

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Enjoy another sneak peek at our Fall 2025 digital lit issue, which releases on 12/2!

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Are you excited for our Fall 2025 digital lit issue yet? Maybe this excerpt of Bethany Bruno's "Gone to Babyland" will entice you... Keep an eye out for the issue release on 12/2!

Excerpt of Gone to Babyland by Bethany Bruno

At first, nothing seems unusual. The tide has teased children before, tickled their toes, stolen their buckets and left them squealing. This feels no different until the sea changes. A surge rolls in, sudden and merciless, pulling faster, deeper, stronger.

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Our Fall 2025 issue, Before/After, is still open for submissions! More info: blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/submit

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We're experiencing some intermittent technical difficulties with our website! While we work to resolve them, this is just a note that our guidelines are also on Submittable. welter.submittable.com/submit

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Welter at University of Baltimore Submission Manager

Welter is the University of Baltimore’s premier publication for creative works of fiction, poetry, memoir, essays, and visual art, gathered from writers and artists everywhere. Founded in 1965 by UBal...

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Calling all alchemists, shapeshifters, and timeline tenders! Our Fall 2025 issue theme is BEFORE/AFTER. #fifthwheelpress #indiepublishing #indiebooks #zinedistro #litmag #poetsofinstagram #writingcommunity #lgbtqiapoetry #thebmorecreatives #bmoreart #bookstagram #smallpress #smallpresspoetry

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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Welter Journal @welterjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Mark your calendars: submissions will open the evening of September 9 for our Fall 2025 Digital Lit issue!

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Artists from Maryland @artfrommaryland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Artists from Maryland's 2025 Best of the Net noms! POETRY: Otis Sprow, Patricia Adelizzi, Kay Mi, @matoro.bsky.social, @whoastanderson.bsky.social, Breasia "Bree" Boyd CNF: Hayley Igarashi Thomas, Kelci Tillman ART: @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @eldritchjellyfish.bsky.social, Judith Skillman

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“When a long supply of city blocks
lies in front of you,
notice how each door you pass
tells a different story.”
Otis Sprow, “For Beginnings”

“shhh! listen for what you can hear
as the farmer silences his machine”
Patricia Adelizzi, “ditchin’ days”

“& this time, i am so lonely. i have all the time in the
world to anticipate what’s outside: the frost rushing
beneath our skins, & the moon, so the moon.”
Kay Mi, “it’s april again”

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“This is not a winless team,
but we’re dogshit.“
Matthew Herskovitz, “Father’s Day at Camden Yards (June 2021)”

“fifty tiny crabs a hundred
three thousand
warmed into the sun"
stephanie anderson, “blue crabs get smote again”

“because the raunchy lyrics with heavy beats make
it all too indecent.”
Breasia “Bree” Boyd, “You Can’t Play Too $hort at the Family Cookout”

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“The soundtrack of my anxiety is the beating of an imperfect heart. I do not know how valves or septums work, but I can close my eyes and feel the rhythm of blood, flowing back and forth, in and out, where it's wanted and where it's not.”
Hayley Igarashi Thomas, “Thanks for Your Patience”

“Sundays used to be the pinnacle of the week, of our existence really, but things have changed and slowly, with time and age, we’ve shifted and are shifting still. The Baltimore Farmers Market and Bazaar happens every Sunday, a place where we can be fed.“
Kelci Tillman, “ditchin’ days”

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“Meadow, after Dion Salvador Lloyd” is oil on board, 11” x 14”. I was struck by the beauty of this pastoral scene and used brushes to render shades of green and cream, punctuated by bales of hay or simply otherwise mysterious marks. The grasses were done with a palette knife. I am fascinated by imaginary and real journeys, and like to think of the top upper left green as a pathway off the rectangle.
Judith Skillman, "Meadow, after Dion Salvador Lloyd"

From black paper and graphite, augmented with digital highlights and unnatural colours. Creatures stare curiously, maybe hungrily at you from the darkness. Hidden in the shadows of a forest that doesn't yet exist; drifting beneath the illusion.
Kyrico, "Unfinished Tree"

A photograph of the afternoon light casting shadows through the ceiling windows at the American Visionary Arts Museum.
nat raum, "untitled"

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