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Issue 15 Is Out!
The 15th issue of Heart of Flesh is here!
Cover art: Prophet Elijah by Jésica Frustaci.
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Note from the Editor
Prayer Warrior II (2025) by Veronica McDonald.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
– Proverbs 13:12 (NIV)Waiting is hard. But, hard or not, when you’re a Christian, waiting on God is just a part of everyday life. In fact, it is a crucial part. Even as a God-fearing woman, there have been innumerable times when I knew what I wanted and I wanted it now, with all the patience of Veruca Salt (can I get an “Amen” from my impatient people?). But waiting reminds us of several important truths: 1) you are not in control – God is; 2) you do not know what’s best – God does; 3) God is not a cosmic genie here to grant all your wishes. He’s your Heavenly Father. He can tell you no. He can tell you it’s not the right time. And – while it pleases Him to give you your heart’s desires – His goal is to shape you to become more like Christ. And so, examine yourself and ask, will you stop loving God if your hopes have not yet become reality? If your prayers remain unanswered, if you can’t feel His presence, if longing has turned to weariness in the depths of your bones, will you stop loving Him? Stop following Him? Stop believing in who He is? These are the questions He will sometimes challenge us with. There are times when we hope and we long and we wait, and nothing seems to change. But when that happens, think of Jesus asleep in the boat while his disciples encountered the storm. Think of how they shook him, asking, “Teacher, do you not care (…)?” And remember – after He calms the storm – what He says to them in response: “Have you still no faith?” (Mark 4:38-39)
In Issue 15, our writers have experienced hope deferred. Many in this issue display discouragement as they wait on God and wrestle with the purpose of the suffering and intense longing in their lives. Here you’ll find poets who yearn for lost innocence and for the Eden-like state of heaven. You’ll find storytellers who wrestle with unanswered prayers of having children or a spouse. Others long for rest, and for freedom from worry, from mental anguish, and from the consequences of sin. The writers and characters here give a sense that they are holding their breath, waiting and watching for God. But while some let their hearts grow weary, many cling desperately to the source of their hope, to the One who will sooner or later plant the tree of life in their barren soil. Through the cracks, and the doubts, and the sicknesses of heart, these writers will show you Jesus – His goodness, His love, and the abundant hope we have in Him.
Thank you for reading!
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📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Kaleidoszkóp’s International Corner seeks fiction, poems, essays, and translations (EN→HU, HU→EN). Open to new & experienced writers. No political texts! Join us!
Example & details:
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📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Kaleidoszkóp’s International Corner seeks fiction, poems, essays, and translations (EN→HU, HU→EN). Open to new & experienced writers. No political texts! Join us!
Example & details:
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"if you’ve watched a three-year-old building a fort, you know that all of our efforts have an aspect of futility"
Read two new poems by Judy Halebsky, now at Scoundrel Time
#poems #writers #ScoundrelTime #poetry #poet #literature #LiteraryJournal
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Any suggestions for publications that might be interested in a short (under 1k words) meditation on carpenter bees?
#CreativeNonfiction #bees #CarpenterBees #WritingCommunity #literaryjournal #litmag
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The new edition of Yellow Medicine Review is now available. It features work by Indigenous authors including yours truly. I have one short story and three poems in it. You can nab your copy here: https://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/store/p41/Yellow_Medicine_Review_Spring_2023.html @indigenousauthors #Indigedon #Indigenous #Writers #WritingCommunity #Inuit #IndigenousLiterature #LitMag #LiteraryJournal
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The new edition of Yellow Medicine Review is now available. It features work by Indigenous authors including yours truly. I have one short story and three poems in it. You can nab your copy here: https://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/store/p41/Yellow_Medicine_Review_Spring_2023.html @indigenousauthors #Indigedon #Indigenous #Writers #WritingCommunity #Inuit #IndigenousLiterature #LitMag #LiteraryJournal
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I don’t understand why so many literary magazines expect writers to supply their work for free while demanding that it has never been published anywhere. Not even if it was published in a low-print zine that hardly anyone saw. That’s messed up. They’re beggars AND choosers at the same time, and that’s fucked up. It takes a lot of work to write something worthy of publication, and they gotta be all greedy about it. #Writers #WritingCommunity #PublishingIndustry #LiteraryJournal #LiteraryMagazine
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I don’t understand why so many literary magazines expect writers to supply their work for free while demanding that it has never been published anywhere. Not even if it was published in a low-print zine that hardly anyone saw. That’s messed up. They’re beggars AND choosers at the same time, and that’s fucked up. It takes a lot of work to write something worthy of publication, and they gotta be all greedy about it. #Writers #WritingCommunity #PublishingIndustry #LiteraryJournal #LiteraryMagazine
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Oh cool! Yellow Medicine Review just accepted three of my poems and one of my short stories for publication! Yay! The poems are all about Inuit culture, and the story is a YA urban fantasy. They published some of my poetry a couple of issues ago. I’m glad they like my stuff. https://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/store/c1/Yellow_Medicine_Review_Fall_2022.html @indigenousauthors #LiteraryJournal #WritingCommunity
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Oh cool! Yellow Medicine Review just accepted three of my poems and one of my short stories for publication! Yay! The poems are all about Inuit culture, and the story is a YA urban fantasy. They published some of my poetry a couple of issues ago. I’m glad they like my stuff. https://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/store/c1/Yellow_Medicine_Review_Fall_2022.html @indigenousauthors #LiteraryJournal #WritingCommunity
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The MONEY issue of the Ilanot Review just dropped. Given the subject matter, I really only had one option when I designed the cover.
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The MONEY issue of the Ilanot Review just dropped. Given the subject matter, I really only had one option when I designed the cover.
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The Spring 2020 issue of City College’s Forum literary journal just arrived. I’d forgotten all about this poem; it and one other of mine were included. #poetry #literaryJournal #creativeWriting
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(Issue) Number Five is alive! Short and sweet with punch and pucker, our first issue of 2023 features eight brilliant #poems by five #poets: @dogtrax; Gregory Schwartz; Laura Cooney; @jackferguson; and Gerald Sarnat. Listen to them all here: https://stanzacannon.com/issues/issue-five
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(Issue) Number Five is alive! Short and sweet with punch and pucker, our first issue of 2023 features eight brilliant #poems by five #poets: @dogtrax; Gregory Schwartz; Laura Cooney; @jackferguson; and Gerald Sarnat. Listen to them all here: https://stanzacannon.com/issues/issue-five
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My memoir essay “Lost & Found” has been published in Grande Dame Literary Journal. https://www.grandedameliterary.com/post/lost-and-found #LiteraryJournal #CNF #Memoir #Essay @indigenousauthors #skiing #CrossCountrySkiing #Mountains #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity
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My memoir essay “Lost & Found” has been published in Grande Dame Literary Journal. https://www.grandedameliterary.com/post/lost-and-found #LiteraryJournal #CNF #Memoir #Essay @indigenousauthors #skiing #CrossCountrySkiing #Mountains #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity
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Two rejections today for my writing, but one of my stories made it to a shortlist before getting kiboshed. Someone somewhere is gonna like my imagination. #WritingCommunity #LiteraryJournal #Rejection
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Two rejections today for my writing, but one of my stories made it to a shortlist before getting kiboshed. Someone somewhere is gonna like my imagination. #WritingCommunity #LiteraryJournal #Rejection
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I will be one of Carousel Magazines featured reviewers this summer. http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview2023/? #BookReviewer #Books #Review #BookReview #LiteraryJournal @indigenousauthors
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I will be one of Carousel Magazines featured reviewers this summer. http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview2023/? #BookReviewer #Books #Review #BookReview #LiteraryJournal @indigenousauthors
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For today’s feature from Issue 1, we’re highlighting 2 outstanding #poems by #poet Josiah Nelson. Even better, Arboreal’s Editor-in-Chief got to #interview Josiah about his process, influences, & much more.
Check out the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3KvFBkl
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #creativewriting #writing #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writerlife #literature #literarymagazine #literarymagazines #litmag #litmags #literaryjournal #indiepublishing #indiepublisher
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2 MORE DAYS until the BIG DAY! Arboreal’s Inaugural Issue Release is Wednesday, February 15 @ 9am PST!
You as jazzed as we are? 😅
#arboreal #literaryjournals #litmaglove #litmag #litmags #litmagazine #litmagazines #litmagart #litmagswelove #litmaglife #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literarylife #visualart #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #creativewriting #literarure #art #literaryarts #magazine #newissue #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #artistsonmostodon
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Another peek at our forthcoming inaugural issue (OUT FEBRUARY 15!). This time, an excerpt from a #surreal new #poem by #poet August Chaffin.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #poetrylovers #literaryjournals #litmaglove #litmag #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #angel #angels #poetryquotes #writersofmastodon #poetsofmastodon #poemsofmastodon
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This preview of our inaugural issue (OUT FEBRUARY 15) features the opening line of a fantastic new #shortstory by Max Barker.
#shortstories #literarymagazines #literaryfictionauthor #literature #literary #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literaryjournals #shortfiction #litmaglove #litmag #litmags #literarymag #fiction #fictionwriter #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #shortstorywriter #writersofmastodon
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Been a while, so let's do another #introduction post!
We are Stanza Cannon, an #online #literaryjournal that appears quarterly solely for the publication of #audio #poetry. Our first issue launched in March 2022, and we have been SO proud to feature new and established #voices and #poets from all over the world.
Stanza Cannon accepts #submissions 24/7/365 that enhance the words comprising them via intonation, emphasis, stress, and quiet.
Listen and submit today: http://stanzacannon.com
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Been a while, so let's do another #introduction post!
We are Stanza Cannon, an #online #literaryjournal that appears quarterly solely for the publication of #audio #poetry. Our first issue launched in March 2022, and we have been SO proud to feature new and established #voices and #poets from all over the world.
Stanza Cannon accepts #submissions 24/7/365 that enhance the words comprising them via intonation, emphasis, stress, and quiet.
Listen and submit today: http://stanzacannon.com
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Today’s preview of our upcoming first issue (OUT FEBRUARY 15) comes from a new #shortstory by Aaron Calvin that grips with its riveting realism.
#shortstories #shortfiction #fiction #fictionwriter #fictionwriting #literature #literary #literaryfiction #litmaglove #litmagazine #litmag #litmags #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literaryjournals #literarymag #magazine #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writer #writers #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Today’s preview of our upcoming first issue (OUT FEBRUARY 15) comes from a new #shortstory by Aaron Calvin that grips with its riveting realism.
#shortstories #shortfiction #fiction #fictionwriter #fictionwriting #literature #literary #literaryfiction #litmaglove #litmagazine #litmag #litmags #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literaryjournals #literarymag #magazine #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writer #writers #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Another riveting story from our third issue 10 days ago. Look at this opening line:
The blue-gray dirt on Ross-82D was dry as bone and heavy as regret.
Read now: http://www.radonjournal.com/issue3/if-you-love-him%2C-hide-the-grave
#scifi #dystopian #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #writing
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Another riveting story from our third issue 10 days ago. Look at this opening line:
The blue-gray dirt on Ross-82D was dry as bone and heavy as regret.
Read now: http://www.radonjournal.com/issue3/if-you-love-him%2C-hide-the-grave
#scifi #dystopian #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #writing
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I have a couple of #poems published in this special issue of Under a Warm Green Linden: #Indigenous #EcoPoetry. https://www.greenlindenpress.com/issue14 It just came out today. #poetry #poet #WritingCommunity #LiteraryJournal
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Calling all writers! Submit! The new call for work is up. For its second issue, Unbound Brooklyn, the #LiteraryJournal of St. Francis College MFA Program in #CreativeWriting, invites submissions on the themes of conflict and connection. #Conflict #Connection #Comics #Photographs #Poetry #Fiction #Drama #Essays https://unboundbrooklyn.com/submissions-2/?fbclid=IwAR0jIiKdlJQuHFPKDO0R8uyHANBigKfh_-b_2Kiz5hpmf8_ujX87V43lxKw&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
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CW: Poetry
After “Dear Shadow” comes “Soot of a Young Star.” This poem, a little longer than most of mine, holds a special place in my heart for being one of the first poems I was ever really proud of. I wrote it in college, but I could tell it wasn’t where I wanted it despite there being something about it that felt really strong to me, so I subjected it to a long series of revisions that sometimes bordered more on whole-cloth rewrites, taking each one in to my favorite professor’s office hours (Allison Schuette at Valparaiso University) for feedback. It continued to evolve after I went to Iowa State for my MFA in Creative Writing and Environment, and later still it found a home with two other of my poems in the “eco issue” of the little online journal Narrative Northeast: http://www.narrativenortheast.com/?p=5337
#poem #poetry #poet #book #newbook #forthcoming #stars #astronomy #woods #dreams #process #literaryjournal #litmag
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CW: Poetry
So, after that first poem comes one that hasn’t found a home yet, “Mouth o’ River,” so you’ll have to get the book for that one! The third poem in the manuscript’s first section, which shares the title “Mouth o’ River” (an early name for the settlement that would become my hometown in Michigan), is “Storm’s Breath,” which was first published in Free State Review. Sharing that here. It takes place on the shore of Lake Michigan.
https://www.johnlinstrom.com/news/55-poem-storm-s-breath
#poem #poetry #poet #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writer #amwriting #poetrybook #michigan #lakemichigan #literaryjournal #litmags
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I was thrilled to serve as Guest Fiction Editor for SHENANDOAH #literaryjournal ! There were nearly 400 submissions on my theme of “Border Crossing Narratives” and I could only pick five #stories for #publication. You could read the fall issue here: https://shenandoahliterary.org/721/editors-note/
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I’ve got three poems in the latest issue of #TheLonelyCrowd literary journal, and a short essay on writing those poems. #poetry #LiteraryJournal #honeybees #hive #writing #essay https://thelonelycrowd.org/2022/10/22/dancing-as-fast-as-i-can-by-eleanor-hooker/?fbclid=PAAabdq-BShQdHi9XBxn9ENoXKZuKQtIDEoe3m1W845-ecxZZY2SWiPKDExxA
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Three poems in the latest issue of The Lonely Crowd literary journal, and a short essay on writing those poems. #poetry #LiteraryJournal https://thelonelycrowd.org/2022/10/22/dancing-as-fast-as-i-can-by-eleanor-hooker/