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The Sunlight Press @thesunlightpress.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"All my life, I wish someone would wrap me like a bread loaf to keep my arms from losing themselves and then tuck me into a space not so bright, not so loud, and rub my feet." "And So We Walk" is our featured essay this week on Sunlight. bit.ly/4o2t2Pl
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This one's not sappy, for a change. Frustrated, more like it. Major thanks to the folks at the gorgeous @bicoastalreview.bsky.social for an amazing editing experience with this piece. www.bicoastalreview.com/alinazollfrank
Colored photo of open pinkish white apple blossoms in front of green leaves.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Big feelings upon having this published. backchannelsjournal.net/edition-no-1... #Backchannels #poetry #childbirth #parenting #love
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New creative nonfiction today at Reckon. Come visit and read "Mothering, 21st Century Edition" by Alina Zollfrank @zollizen.bsky.social
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Thanks to @wayfarermagazine for letting a couple of my more somber pieces land. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/making-it and www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/beach-trea...
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Making It
A Poem by Alina Zollfrank
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Burningword Literary Journal @burningword.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Alina Zollfrank burningword.com/2026/01/alin... #nonfiction January 2026 Burningword Literary Journal
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And this one is for all of you. Because we hold on. amethystmagazine.org/2026/01/09/i...
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I Sit Like Mary Oliver – a poem by Alina Zollfrank
I Sit Like Mary OliverThis book of poetry nestled into my chest. Hold there, I tell my thoughts. If Mary did then I can. Hold that glossy stone in your palm. Let it speak with lilting tongues. Hold…
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Dedicated to our immigrant friends and neighbors. And to my people, the ones that made me. burningword.com?s=zollfrank #immigration #legal #regime #identity
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Search results for "zollfrank" | Burningword Literary Journal
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The 2025 DIAJ Award Winners: The Bee by Emily Molinari Tuulikki Bakes a Cake by September Woods Garland Sweating Like a Mother by Alina Zollfrank Buddy's Picasso by Komal Sharma TOWER TOUR by Brian C. Billings A Review of Larks by Han VanderHart by Eleanor Ball www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards
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DIAJ Awards
Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Ahhh, I'm excited about the timing of this December publication to include one of my earliest childhood memories. Halfway Down the Stairs's Intuition issue is gorgeous and a good place to sink your near-end-of-year brain into. halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/b...
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Bump, by Alina Zollfrank
The first time I remember she was bent over me with serious pupils popping out of her face, and I kept asking the nice lady who she was. “I’m your Mama,” she said, and the winter sun shone through …
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is needed, crucial, and vitally timed. literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
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Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts | Literary Arts Fund
New York, NY (October 28, 2025) – Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations—the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mell...
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
www.chollaneedles.com published a rather candid essay I wrote in edition 106, AND the full-page black-and-white photography throughout and the popping cover page are courtesy of my sharp-eyed artistic firstborn. The editor is attentive and caring - a delightful experience!
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Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library
a non-profit literary corporation<p><em> <i>Our publications are available locally at Rainbow Stew, Space Cowboy, and Raven's Book Shoppe.</i><p> send your poetry/short stories/photos/art/essays to ed...
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟 Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
That's how I feel most of these days: NOPE. Thank you to Writers Resist for shouting what is true and urgent and uncomfortable into the world, and for publishing my www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n... (Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)
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NOPE – Writers Resist
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
So, whatcha readin'?
Image of wide treem stem with a yellow chainsaw lodged through the middle. Quote reads: "Ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. (A book has to be the axe for the frozen sea inside of us). - Franz Kafka
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So excited about Tint Journal choosing to work with me! I felt called to highlight some of the profound learning that happens when we invite foreign exchange and refugee students into communities.This was a formative period in my life. #ESL #ELL #exchange #school #culture #memoir
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New Words, New Worlds
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Let me do you a favor. If you're over, say, 45, and you have brought children to adulthood or near adulthood, and if you have parents or memories of parents, and if you've had love and loss and sand between your toes, your heart wants to read this book. #sandwich #catherine_newman
Book cover in sunset colors - beach house with chairs and multicolored towels drying on the railing. Title: SANDWICH. A Novel by Catherine Newman
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Corporeal lit mag @corporeallitmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period) Alina Zollfrank Unmentionable www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
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Alina Zollfrank — Corporeal
The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period)
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thanks, anotherchicagomag.bsky.social, for helping me give a voice to something that needs one. "You get how this system is an entity that assumes people exist to serve it in perpetuity, instead of the system serving the people." anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r... #insurance #menstruation
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Ha! This one is outside of my usual repertoire but a pretty accurate description of %$^& that's happened to us. oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-alin... Thanks to all of you making the art, speaking the words, and supporting the things and people who need supporting. #poetry #wordplay #doom #oddball
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Poem by Alina Zollfrank - oddball magazine
Artwork by Mark Blickley
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Excited that HOOT chose me for their July postcard. And yes, you can order postcards by subscribing to www.hootreview.com/and supporting a small, independent platform for the arts! www.hootreview.com/.../hoot-pos...
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'm mulling over a new writing project and could use the friendly hive mind. (Responses will be used anonymously). Define what you consider a "bad person" or "bad people." Ready? Go! #bad #labels #writing #survey
A plastic ball point pen with black ink next to a graph paper writing pad.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Read this. I mean it. It is GORGEOUS and CLAIRVOYANT. Racial issues? Check. Book bans? Check. Power grabs? Check. History rewritten? Check. Borders & wars? Check. Bodily autonomy? Check. And so much beauty. And yes, sizzle 🙂. Read this. #Laurie_Forest #The_Black_Witch #fantasy #novel #resistance
Black book cover with stars and a bright white feather with pale trees placed on top. Title" The Black Witch" Author: Laurie Forest
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Unreasonably proud that my piece "(Tongue)Eaters" is in SAND Journal's Issue 8. A gorgeous publication that couldn't have come at a better time when we worry about our people, all species, and the planet. #environmentalism #nonfiction #resistance #renewal
Journal cover in green-turquoise with bubbles and wavelike contrasts. Title: SAND Literature & Art
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is a first. My firstborn has two pieces of photography in this, and I a poem. We love, love Last Leaves Literary Magazine. Please support small presses & journals. Free download for this **Issue 10** at www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-.... Print copies available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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Last Leaves Issues | Last Leaves Mag
Literary magazine accepting art and poetry submissions.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So glad this piece landed at Full House Literary. Reality is what we make of it. www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...
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We’re All Just Tourists Here by Alina Zollfrank — Full House Literary
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Image of white wrought-iron table and four chairs amidst tall weeds. Image reads: "I had a heartbreaking conversation with long-term neighbors just now. Our current reality can be summed up into money, greed & might versus compassion, care & love. We get to choose how we align. It is more important than ever to reach out to the people who live next door or down the street and find out what their worries are and how we can protect them and each other. Be neighborly - and proactively so.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The threat of collapse and utter loss can provoke a deeper sense of wholeness, where nothing but total involvement and whole-heartedness will work." - quote of the day from Michael Meade's nourishing book "Why the World Doesn't End"
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Good book for all women to ready today. Loss comes in all shapes and forms. So do clarity, and empowerment. And: it's beautifully written. Grab those tissues.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NPR wants to know how people are doing with the whole free-speech thing. www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g...
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Do you feel you can exercise your right to free speech? NPR wants to hear from you
NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loose more under President Trump or are you holding back?
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Musings on guns and birds and cancer and, well, peace. My gratitude to Sierra Nevada Review for the care and editorial guidance. To all of you reading: pretend you're birds today. www.sierranevadareview.com/alina-zollfr... #poetry #piece #guns #cancer #evolution #technology #peace
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Skin and Feathers | Alina Zollfrank — Sierra Nevada Review
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What I'm reading right now. Why? Humanity. Shared truth. Feelings, feelings, feelings. Where to donate? poemsnotbombs.org #poetry #Ukraine #dictator #war #deafness #suffering #peace #children
Book cover showing blank-white diagonal split with a human ear formed of bricks. Title: Deaf Republic. Poems. By Ilya Kaminsky.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I was so glad to get this in the mail this week from comstockreview.org. I am now, more than ever, channeling my grandparents' generation who faced total destruction and hardship beyond belief. Yet, they rebuilt.
Image of front page (textural photography) of The Comstock Review Summer 2024.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
You AND your friends and relatives in "otherwise oriented" states need to contact elected officials to protect Medicaid. If this program is slashed or tied to certain loopholes, access barriers, etc, innocent people *will* suffer and die. More info at 5calls.org/issue/protec...
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Protect Medicaid Funding ⭑ 5 Calls
Medicaid is a health insurance program serving 72 million low-income and disabled Americans that is jointly funded and administered by …
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Grateful to the deep, caring people at Braided Way Magazine for accepting another one of my pieces. If you're reading this - much love to you and the women in your life. braidedway.org/stories-told... #grief #women #empowerment #spirituality #ancestors
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Stories Told in the Cemetery - Braided Way Magazine
I dive into the peace and greet all of these women, those before me, those now, and those to come.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Perfect timing. Big shout out to the marvelous people at Eastern Iowa Review for letting this solemn piece land safely. www.portyonderpress.com/alina-zollfr... #evolution #dictators #nature #philosophy #CNF #hopelessness #species
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Alina Zollfrank - A Couple of Things
CREATIVE NONFICTION ALINA ZOLLFRANK ​
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"The President’s remarks today suggesting the deadly crash of Flight 5342 may have been the fault of public servants with disabilities are irresponsible, disparaging, and wrong. "www.ndrn.org/resource/dca-crash Spread truth, people, spread truth. #disabilities #truth #FAA
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
You CAN do this today: Go to www.thearc.org/action to explain to legislators that Medicaid is a lifeline. **Share this with anyone and everyone you know in other states, too.** Remember: There is strength in numbers, and there a a lot of good people. #disability #Medicaid
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The Arc Action Center
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The poem I wish I'd written. I hope this one will make it into history books down the road ... unless books become a hoax. Sending hugs to all of you who need them.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Yes. This.
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Red Wine & Blue @redwine.blue · 22/01/2025
Sunday’s Zoom with @hcrichardson.bsky.social was full of wisdom on how to navigate 2025—focus on what you can control, find your people, and never stop learning. So, what’s your game plan to make it through the year?
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We can't cave. That's what they want. So we fight back with what we have. I have words. "I hold my heart outside my chest and use it as a megaphone." zollizen.medium.com/courage-is-c...
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Courage Is Contagious
“We are the apocalypse” -
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Thanks to Tipton Poetry Journal for giving my angry-exhausted "Choices" a home. issuu.com/tiptonpoetry...
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Tipton Poetry Journal, located in the heartland of the Midwest, publishes quality poetry from Indiana and around the world. Statistics: This issue features 32 poets from the United States (20 unique ...
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My heart needed this today. New Wind and Root from columnist Barlow Adams and Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick: reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo... @barlowadams.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
By the talented www.jeannetteencinias.com/about Work The work now is to keep the heart open, strong, and alive no matter what happens. This is hard work. The tallest order. The deepest prayer. I wake in the morning...
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
What better way to come back than with Pushcart nominations woohoo. Best Microfiction to follow this post. A huge congrats to @noranadj.bsky.social, @zollizen.bsky.social, @michaelimossan.bsky.social, DC Restaino, @rushikawick.bsky.social and Ally Fowler! 🎉
Black background with faded confetti print. White text reads 'Pushcart nominations'. The pieces nominated are 'Two truths and a lie by Nora Nadjarian, One "am" in the Bathroom by Alina Zollfrank, How I Choose To Begin the Story by Michael Imossan, Everyone Becomes a Crab by DC Restaino, Mise en abyme by Rushika Wick and the pause between breaths by Ally Fowler'.
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Writing Alina @zollizen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Looks like this place is where the brains, the hearts, the guts, the giggles, grins, and hugs have ended up. Thanks for making me feel sane. I share this with you out of love. Just got published, thanks to @heimatreview.bsky.social . www.heimatreview.com/a-list-of-th...
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