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Our new issue is live! Please read and share!
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Wish our little journal a happy 21st birthday by checking out some incredible reads, and maybe a drink. Congrats to our talented contributors, this is one of our best yet.
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Pssst: we are open for poetry submissions! Send us your best! And hurry, we’re only open until we meet our cap of 300 subs! Probably only a few days!
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Some exciting news: we will open for submissions soon!
Long-form Fiction: April 1-15 (150 cap)
Flash Fiction: April 16-30 (150 cap)
Poetry: May 1-31 (300 cap)
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General submissions for prose and poetry to Waxwing reopen on September 1, which is only about one week away! We can't wait to read your words again.
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We’re back and better than ever in Waxwing Issue XXVI! Thank you as always to our amazing contributors for trusting us to share their beautiful work. We can’t wait for you to take a look!
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Issue XXV is live and we are so delighted to share it with you! Thanks as always to our contributors, editors and readers, you are what makes this journal so special
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Waxwing Issue XIX is here! Thanks as always to our incredible contributors for trusting us with their work. Check us out
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Here it is! Waxwing 20 is the first issue of 2020. We can't wait for you to experience the magic too.
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It's here! Waxwing 17 is now online and full of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translations. We hope you like our winter issue because we are head over heels for our contributors' works.
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Tomorrow is 9/1, which means that our reading period begins for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. We hope for the chance to read your words.
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We were set to open to poetry submissions on January 1 but we couldn't wait. We are now open to all genres (translations, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) for the rest of the December or until we hit our submission cap, whichever comes first.
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Issue 18 here! The sincerest of thank yous to all of our kick-ass contributors. We've officially made it, our journal is old enough to vote!
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What an amazing belated Valentine's gift! Waxwing Issue 23 is live and we are so excited to share it with you.
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"I’d say in retrospect it was a bad idea to send me on a trip to France with rich kids who didn’t like me."
Unfettered and Alive by
@kathyfish
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With the recent school closures, some of us are moving slower than usual (work, childcare) on reading subs and responding to emails. We’re doing our best and will get back to everyone as soon as we can. We hope y’all have found ways to stay safe and healthy out there.
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It's a NEW ISSUE! With the release of Waxwing XVI today, we celebrate our fifth anniversary and look forward to another five years of publishing. Thanks y'all for hanging with us, readers and contributors alike. We hope you enjoy this new issue.
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We are officially open for long-form fiction! We are accepting stories of >1000 words until April 14th or until we reach our cap of 150 submissions!
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We can’t pretend the world is all business as normal. But we are reopening to submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and translations starting April 1.
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We’re so excited for you guys to read this one. Thank you to our contributors for their kickass work, this is one the best yet. Presenting Waxwing Issue XXII!
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Poetry submissions reopen on March 1. That's just a couple of hours from now. Just saying.
We are still open for fiction, nonfiction, and translations submissions. We reopen to poetry on March 1. After that, who knows what the future brings.
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We are still reading through subs from our last call—and will respond asap! But we are also open for LONG-FORM FICTION submissions this month (or until we meet our cap of 300)!
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At Waxwing, we have worked to create a magazine that is welcoming and inclusive, and we hope that this includes survivors of sexual abuse. After learning recently about the sexual abuse accusation against Willy Palomo, we have decided to remove his poems from our archives.
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Dear Twitter/X world,
We have been neglecting you, but we’re back! And we’ve got a new issue launching tomorrow! Stay tuned!
Love,
The Editors of Waxwing
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Annnnd we already met our cap of 300 poetry submissions! Wow! Thank you to all those who submitted! If we missed you this time around, we open again for poetry November 1st!
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We are happy to announce that Waxwing‘s new poetry coeditor is Iliana Rocha, who has published poems in Waxwing and for the past several issues worked as a contributing editor. Congrats and welcome,
@la_ilianarocha
!
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Our statement on the Lisa Low / Claudia Cortese controversy.
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Happy New Year everyone! We are so pleased to announce Alyssa Jewel will be joining our team as the new Assistant Poetry Editor for Waxwing. We are so lucky to have you!
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We open for flash fiction in 2 days! Get those subs ready! We’re capping this round of submissions at 150!
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We are celebrating big time here at the Waxwing house. We would like to announce that
@k_mingchang
is joining our team as Assistant Fiction Editor! She will join
@rosieskelton
in steering our fiction section and we are super excited to have her with us! Welcome, K-Ming Chang!!
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We are looking to add an Assistant Fiction Editor to our masthead. Please feel free to apply if interested share widely with those who might be interested. See our Facebook page for details.
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IT'S ALIVE!! All of us here at Waxwing are so happy to bring you issue 15, just in time for your next summer party. We hope you like it as much as we do.
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We are proud to announce our 2019
@PushcartPrize
nominees. It's always hard to choose and we wish we could nominate more, but we don't make the rules. Congrats and good luck to
@IrisALaw
,
@abugoddess
,
@theBGrass
,
@robin_ep_myers
,
@bestiecilla
, Gabriella Balza, & Kevin McLellan.
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We are proud to present Waxwing Issue XIII. Congrats to all our wonderful contributors!
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Sent out 2 fiction acceptances in the past 2 days! The next issue is shaping up to be an incredible one! Can’t wait to share these pieces with y’all! ❤️
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It’s August 1, and we are once again open for submissions of poetry and fiction. Fee free. Open until we hit our 300 subs cap. Rock and roll.
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It’s March 1 and we are open for submissions, fee-free in all genres: fiction, nonfiction, translations, and poetry.
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Issue 19 is here and we couldn't be prouder. It's also our sixth birthday! Celebrate with us by taking a look:
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This poem by
@maggiesmithpoet
from her book GOOD BONES.
Please help, y’all. I was smart enough to take a picture of this fabulous poem, but not smart enough to get the poet’s name😭.
Any ideas? ‘The mother is a weapon you load/yourself into, little bullet//The mother is a glass through which/you see, in excruciating detail, yourself’
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"The moon, the red ache of its carcass
I could almost carry. In the souvenir shop
I raze my body into vulture, strip away"
Jingwei and the Ghost Aquarium (2016) by
@stephchaang
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Every please join us in welcoming
@hairolma
and
@RashiRohatgi
to the Waxwing masthead as the new fiction co-editors! We also want to thank
@tara_zambrano
, it was such a pleasure to have her leading our fiction team and we can’t wait to see what she does next!
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Co-signed.
Your pronouns, your choice. We're just here to support you. 💖💖💖
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We reopen to fiction, nonfiction, and translations in like four days. Fee free always.
@moonchildmag
We're currently open for submissions. Here are a few fee-free spaces we adore:
@WaxwingMag
@FoundryJournal
@moonrabbitcandy
@TinderboxPoetry
@glass_poetry
@PoetryShore
@ellipsiswc
@GIGANTICsequins
@IndianapolisRev
@BostonAccentLit
@upthestaircase
.
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To kick off the new year, we have opened submissions in fiction, nonfiction, translations, and poetry, fee-free as always. Our editors would love to read your words!
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We open for flash fiction submissions tomorrow!!! Can’t wait to read your words! ❤️
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Another thing: we are planning an online submission reading night for next week. More details coming soon!
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Announcing our
@PushcartPrize
nominations for this year from Waxwing issues 14-16. Congratulations and good luck to Tracy Winn,
@anjoliroy
,
@KelliAgodon
, Brian Komei Dempster,
@blackstreakwood
, and
@O_BriannaNoll
. We hope to see your names in lights.
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We are so proud to announce "Late Summer After a Panic Attack" by
@adalimon
is the winner of the
#2017GoodBonesPrize
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We hit our cap for the month already! Thanks to everyone who sent us their words. We will be back open for submissions on October 1.
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We are open for translation submissions year round. Editor
@rajivmohabir
would love to read your work!
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Wed., May 6 is the night of our first
#WaxwingNight
. We will start reading new submissions at 7pm Eastern and go until midnight, until we hit our cap, or until we get overwhelmed, whichever comes first. We will respond as quick as we can as long as we can.
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It's September 1 and Waxwing is now open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations and visual art. We would love to see your work in our queue.
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"I am overweight for my age group, friendless, and known for thick glasses and dark overalls, which I wear because my mother is exasperated with my clumsiness and tendency toward spillage."
Rabbit Heart by
@ginathechung
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We hit our Submittable cap last night and are now closed to submissions until January 1, 2020, when we will reopen to all genres, fee-free, as always. Thanks y’all for your generosity.
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We are proud to announce our 2018 nominations for
@SundressPub
#BestoftheNet
. Congrats, thank you & good luck to
@PaulCrenstorm
,
@anjoliroy
, Sienna Chapman,
@rosieskelton
,
@KendraDeColo
, Vievee Francis,
@TAGreathouse
, Kate Maclam,
@nascenters
, &
@dlseuss
!
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After a hiatus that seemed to go forever, it's February 1 and our Submittable cap is reset. We're now open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, translations and poetry. Fill our queue again and shut us down because our editors want to read your words!
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Got nonfiction? We are open for submissions right now. Editor
@silas_hansen
would love to read your words!
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Given all the cancellations this year in San Antonio, we will would like to run a special section in Waxwing 21. Submissions for
#AWP20
Craft Essays will open in April. See our submission guidelines (about 1/2 down the page) for details.
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We regret to announce that the release of Issue XXIV is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. Rest assured, this issue is a firecracker and we can't wait to share it with you. Thank you all for your kindness and patience, and check back in a week to read one of our best yet
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The editors are proud to announce Waxwing's nominees for
@SundressPub
#BestoftheNet
2019.
@abugoddess
,
@KelliAgodon
,
@krysmalcolmbelc
,
@brchampagne
,
@dorothykchan
,
@SincerelyArri
, Nancy Naomi Carlson, No'u Revilla, Stephen Hundley, and Kell Connor. Bring it home, kids.
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Just 5 days into our new submissions period and we have received 300 (!!!) submissions, which is our cap. We'll continue reading the submissions we have and reopen on October 1. Thank you for sending us your words. If you missed us this month, we hope to catch you when we reopen!
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We just hit our Submittable cap, 300 submissions in just five days. We are thankful to our submitters for the trust they place in our editors. We have to close submissions for now and will be back open on September 1.
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We are so excited to be able to co-host this reading with our friends at
@NewfoundOrg
and
@TheCollagist
to kick off
#AWP19
in Portland. We hope you can join us on Wednesday 3/27 at
@turnturnturnpdx
for what is bound to be a crazy good start to the
@awpwriter
conference!
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This season's cover is Avoid Seating Two People Next to One Another by L.I. Henley
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It’s April 1, which means we are now reopened to submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and translations. That’s it. Our editors want to read your work!
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Did you know that Waxwing is currently open to submissions of
#translations
? We are always looking for translations in addition to our other general categories and have a new editor in
@rajivmohabir
to read and select for publication.
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If you are a Waxwing contributor and we don’t follow you on Twitter, please give us a shout here so we can connect and better celebrate your successes on social media. Thanks!
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Today. Now. We are open to submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and translations. No submission fees.
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Basically, we're looking for someone to join our crew of volunteer editors as Assistant Fiction Editor to help shape our fiction section and help with production and building our community. Please apply or spread the word. Details are on our FB page.
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I know we just reopened to fiction and poetry submissions on August 1, but it looks like we are already nearing our Submittable cap for the month. We will have to close again once we hit 300 (probably very soon), but don’t worry—we’ll be back again on September 1!
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Co-signed. Also, if an editor doesn’t invite you to resubmit, that does not mean they don’t want to see more of your work.
Just a reminder that when an editor invites you to submit again, they mean it.🧡
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30 more submission spots left for our long-form fiction category! Submit now! (Flash submissions open mid-April!)
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After closing early in September because we hit our Submittable limits, we will reopen on Monday, 10/1 to general submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations and art. We’ve missed getting your submissions. We can’t wait to see your work!
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At Waxwing, we love translations of prose and poetry alike and read translation submissions year round. Translations editor
@rajivmohabir
wants to read your words that translate words. Lots of them.
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Big congratulations to Waxwing contributor
@RosebudBenOni
, whose manuscript IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY was just announced as the winner of the
@AliceJamesBooks
Award!
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"has always been impossible,
the body a spruce-root basket,
a twined bag woven from husks,
though hard for me to say, this I"
Surpassing danger by
@marthasilano
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We're a bit late, but congrats to Waxwing contributor
@KelliAgodon
, whose poem "At Times My Body Leans Toward Loss" won the 2019 Poetry Society of America Lyric Poetry Prize, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky! See more of Kelli's poems in Waxwing 12 and 16.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are extending our
#AWP20
Craft Essay submission deadline to May 10. Please see the details in our submission guidelines at the link, about mid-page.
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Our new artwork titled Crossing, by Kelly Cressio-Moeller
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"You need to follow your passion
as long as your passion is not poetry and is definitely a hedge fund."
Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice by Matthew Olzmann
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"You’re a lit match, you insist, deeming my hair a golden flame, my radiating body heat blurring the air, warmth of breath fogging the widows."
August Heat Wave feat. Roadside Hookup by
@itsdbouts
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An insane amount of talent in here, including
@adalimon
,
@Danez_Smif
,
@fannychoir
, and many more. Congrats to all!
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We are still open for fiction, nonfiction, and translations submissions. We reopen to poetry on March 1. After that, who knows what the future brings.
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"I have a pond full of fictional dead girls in my backyard. I sit on the edge of the pond and dangle my legs in, trailing my hands in the water until I find a dead girl."
Dark Waters by
@covo_noa
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Maybe your fiction is weird or dangerous or eerie, or maybe it’s not. However your fiction rolls,
@rosieskelton
and
@k_mingchang
are eager to read your stories because we are open to fiction submissions through the end of July.
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Never easy to make decisions like this, but here are Waxwing's nominations for
@BestSmFictions
this year. Good luck, y'all!
Kevin McLellan, "Interiors, Maine"
William Lychack, "Barkley"
@OcqueocSAM
, "Waiting"
@kehfinegan
, "This Animal's Return"
Taryn Tilton, "Dogs on the Beach"
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"When I say it started with power
lines that were buried
below ground, I mean the children
I want are missing."
Errata by
@ChelsDingman
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It's just barely mid-October and we have hit our monthly 300 submission limit on Submittable, which means that we are closing for now. We will be open again for free submissions in all genres on November 1. Thanks for your patience, all.
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"We had no ghosts or shadows, nothing to carry with us, so we claimed the apartment and made it ours."
Animal by
@grasoceng
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Hi. Waxwing is open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and translations. Editors
@rosieskelton
,
@silas_hansen
, and
@rajivmohabir
are just sitting around, thumbs twiddling, refreshing the queue, looking for your awesome new words for the magazine.
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"I was just learning being girl’s a curse, a surefire
contract between me & a billion dumb furies"
Sonnet for Maleficent, the Horned Sorceress by
@jbaileyhutch
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