Linden Avenue Literary Journal

Linden Avenue, a monthly journal based in Philadelphia, publishes poetry, creative non-fiction, and short fiction that highlights the intersection of everyday life and art. Find us at www.lindenavelit.com

[andreablythe]

In honor of Women in Horror Month, here is my poet spotlight with Saba Syed Razvi on the interplay between dark and light.

[andreablythe]

Poem 18: Spring.

My @kickstarter #make100 project is fully funded! Eeeeeee! Thank you! There’s still a few hours left to get your copy of the a limited-edition chapbook or an original erasure poem. Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andreablythe/make-100-a-fearless-chapbook-of-erasure-poetry

Source: @TraderJoes Fearless Flyer, May 2017.

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[kazechama]

As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.

Ursula Le Guin

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Nonfiction is solving a jigsaw puzzle. Fiction is creating the puzzle.

Howard Ogden  (via psliterary)

[doyouwanttobesaved]

LWT Summit

Support 'LWT Summit' by donating or sharing today!

hi everyone! i was awarded a scholarship ticket to the Lesbians Who Tech conference this March!! i need money for transportation, boarding, and potentially as a safety net in case my job reprimands me for this. please please help i want to be able to get a stable job and this will help me so much!!!! thank you so much and if you cant donate please please reblog!

[doyouwanttobesaved]

an update! thank you for helping me raise money so far, i still need quite a bit before i can book a ticket but look at this! I was accepted into Udacity’s Grow With Google Developer Scholarship Program! After three months, if I do well, I could be accepted into a full scholarship for their Web Development Nanodegree!

please continue to share and donate! thank you so much!!

[andreablythe]

So, I Launched a Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andreablythe/make-100-a-fearless-chapbook-of-erasure-poetry

For January, Kickstarter is hosting the make/100 challenge — essentially urging creators to created a limited edition something (100 tee shirts, 100 sculptures, etc.). It’s concept I found fascinating and I really wanted to participate when they launched the challenge last year, but I had too many…

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Welcome to H Y P H E N, just a post for those interested in getting involved to let you know which books we’ll be reading and when. 

January- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine February- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi March- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates April- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor May- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead June- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie July- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison August- Recitatif by Toni Morrison September- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat October- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston November- Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis December- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

We’ve begun reading Citizen over on the Goodreads group and I’ll make a Tumblr specific thread for it next week!

Please consider joining us even just to read and think about what people are contributing even if you don’t have time to read the books, we’ll be discussing so much more, the books are just the start! Also a reminder to use #hyphenbc or #hyphenbookclub so I can find your contributions!

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Home

Check out this new database for literary agents of color residing in the United States. You can find what they’re looking to represent here! Also don’t forget about MSWL (Manuscript Wish List) another great resource for finding specifics on what literary agents are looking for! 

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LWT Summit

Support 'LWT Summit' by donating or sharing today!

hi everyone! i was awarded a scholarship ticket to the Lesbians Who Tech conference this March!! i need money for transportation, boarding, and potentially as a safety net in case my job reprimands me for this. please please help i want to be able to get a stable job and this will help me so much!!!! thank you so much and if you cant donate please please reblog!

[boykeats]

Do you know any poets of color here on tumblr whose work you'd recommend folks check out?

@crowsummer

@danezsmith

@darshanasuresh

@hieuminhbeing

@horaetio

@oceanvuong

@prcserpina

@safia-elhillo

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Call for Submissions for the February Issue of Rising Phoenix Review

The Rising Phoenix Review is a monthly literary magazine dedicated to modern social commentary and social activism. We feature poetry, art, and photography.  Our mission is to build a sacred space for poets, artists, and photographers to share their voices. Our goal is to feature art that actively engages some of the most challenging issues of our time.

Click here for submission guidelines. If you are wondering what we look for in a poem, read some of our past issues or our publication philosophy.

The deadline for submissions is January 31st at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. 

submit your poetry submit your photography and art

[themusepaper]

Check out this lovely blurb from my book!

Athena Dixon’s ‘No God In This Room’ is a taut and compelling collection that reads like a bit of gossamer thread being wound around a finger too tight, or a dreamcatcher revolving slowly above an unmade bed, or a bamboo wind-chime suspended on the porch in autumn sending low notes along the wind. Poems such as, “Boxes of Andromeda” and “Macerating the Berries” make a kind of curio cabinet of the details of the everyday. They are a little sweet and a little sad, and by “Starlings,” the reader becomes a willing captive as she lifts each remnant up to the light. The ghosts in the poems that follow will have you holding your ribs as you read, but it will be too late. Dixon’s got a keenly tuned ear and eye for liminal spaces—the gaps, the cracks, and the chinks—even in her reader, and it is in those places she buries the absence of the everyday—what we don’t notice has departed until it’s much too late. But then again, it’s not like she hasn’t warned us: “here lies a wild woman/broken in and worn.” -Bianca Spriggs

http://www.argushousepress.com/store/p24/No_God_in_This_Room__.html

[themusepaper]

My debut chapbook, No God In This Room, is now available via Winged City Press at the link below! Please support and spread the word!

http://www.argushousepress.com/store/p24/No_God_in_This_Room__.html

[themusepaper]

My debut chapbook, No God In This Room, is now available via Winged City Press at the link below! Please support and spread the word!

http://www.argushousepress.com/store/p24/No_God_in_This_Room__.html

[blackmagiczine]

Hello everyone! After a long road, it’s finally time to get excited for the official launch of the Black Magic Zine Kickstarter! A link to our kickstarter page will be posted on Monday (November 20th 2017)! BLACK MAGIC is a charity zine promoting black girl and femme visibility within the fantasy genre. 35+ black female and non binary aritsts have been selected to participate in this zine! ⭐ GOAL: The goal of BLACK MAGIC is to promote black girls existing in the fantasy genre and to give black women and non binary artists exposure and recognition for their work. ⭐ THEME: BLACK MAGIC is all about all things fantasy and mythological! Black girls as mermaids, witches, werewolves, vampires, goddesses, princesses, knights, magical girls, etc!  ⭐ CHARITY: All proceeds for this zine, after printing, merchandise & shipping costs, will be going to the United Way of Genesee County to contribute to the Flint Water Fund (FWF). 100% of the money donated to the FWF goes to buying filters and bottled water for Flint residents, as well as other emergency support services and prevention efforts. Their website is here and more information about the Flint Water Fund can be found here.   SOCIAL MEDIA:  Instagram Facebook

Photo by: @kennyletelier

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Submissions open for  FIYAH magazine

FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about people of the African Diaspora.

Submissions are currently OPEN for Issue #4. The theme is ROOTS. This window will close at 11:59PM ET on July 31st.

Fiction Guidelines

“We are looking for brave works of speculative short fiction by authors from the African diaspora that reject regressive ideas of blackness, respectability politics, and stereotype. Please submit your bravest, blackest, most difficult to sell stories to us. We want to read them…“

Keep reading at  fiyahlitmag

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Rising Phoenix Press Care Package 

When you purchase a collection from our shop during the month of April, you will automatically be entered to win a care package! You will receive one notebook, a package of confetti, a To Write Love on Her Arms Button, and a six pack of pens. Winners will be chosen randomly at the end of April. Care packages will ship May 1st. International orders also qualify for care packages.  

Our team wants to give back to the wonderful people who support us. We want you to know that you are loved and we support your writing dreams! 

Place an order in our shop to qualify