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We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
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to the person who sent us a pdf of their passport instead of a pdf of poems, you are handsome & loved & we are taking your identity
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The greatest trick t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ Submittable ever pulled was convincing the writing world "In Progress" means anything.
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asking for your piece to be taken off of a certain other literary website? we have a form for that with a limited-time special offer!*:
*not actually limited, we'll keep this open till the end of the year maybe?
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this felt too meta and self-referential to accept... but kinda too fun to just reject? so, here's like... half a skull (?) for Andrew Rivas
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i will never stop shouting about how titles + last lines can either sink or save a piece
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gonna do a sub call soon (PROB monday morning, but schedule might change) specifically for ppl without skulls. open for an hour, so race against time instead of each other. looking for a bunch'a newcomers, whether you've never been able to make a call or been piling up declines)
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Another
@toddedillard
banger of grief and wonder and heartache and beauty.
There's a moment, he says,
when the day's alerts come in
and he sees her name, he remembers
she's alive. "Don't you mean you remember
she's gone?" I say.
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What other journals are fun and exciting and open right now?
I got so many subs, been passing on some really great stuff. Where should people send some of these gems??
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👀👀
@crowjonah
&
@Aaron__Burch
are gonna open up subs on Thursday for… 24 hours (!!)
a caveat tho:
**only open to writers who have submitted to us 0 or 1 times before**
link will be available from noon Thur – noon Fri EST
full info in screenshots, & text in replies below…
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love when a poem can capture something so perfectly in such a small, tight snapshot!
today from
@graceandlaurels
:
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🚨💀 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💀🚨
*This* Friday, 5pm EST, we're opening for 200 submissions.
Giving a heads up because we're looking for something specific:
@DinaLRelles
wants to read your "tiny true stories in transient spaces"
Full sub call language in image and below.
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everyone who calls it "X" instead of "Twitter" in their bio gets their HAD acceptance rescinded
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We're opening up submissions!
Tomorrow and Tuesday!
BUT...
You gotta mail it to us on a postcard. Really.
More info in screenshot, and in replies below.
This link will be live tomorrow (Monday, 7/19).
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ON LOVE Submission Call coming!
*Monday, 6/12, 10am EST, 150 submissions*
guest editor:
@islafissure
full sub call language in image, alt text, and reply tweets
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I... uh. Well. Huh. I'll be honest, I don't know.
But I DO know this is one of the most amazing cover letters I've ever received.
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I mean... there's pieces we've accepted largely on the power of their title.
And then there's pieces that are really just title...
Some story titles are so good that we just want to publish the title. Can we publish just the title?
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🚨🌈💀 tomorrow, June 1,
@sofiafeycreates
is gonna give out some rainbow skulls! 💀🌈🚨
• this is for the LGBTQIA+ writers
• subs will open at 8pm EST (capped at 150 submissions!)
• this link will be live *at* 8pm EST tomorrow:
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a fun (???) submission call would be where we reject everything but take one fave sentence from each piece and collage it all together
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So, uh, we're at 575 submissions already 👀
But I bumped the cap to 700. So there's some more room. Because I love all of you. Also, I made a lot of coffee and I'm probably not sleeping tonight anyway.
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Normalize your bio just being a long list of every tab you have open on your phone instead of publication credits.
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would a "sleepytime tea bear inspired" themed submission call be too specific/niche?
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if I just declined your piece four times in a row I am sorry this is my first time on this side of submittable!!!! also I am drinkgin
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love this teeny tiny lil 13-word story with a 19-word title wonder today from
@JaredPovanda
✈️🌫️🪡✨✨
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this surprise submission call (in celebration of 15k followers) is dedicated to those who reply to our newsletters (that clearly say not to reply to them). reply to this tweet (or email the had email) with a screenshot of your submission of exactly 150 words. you have 1.5 hours.
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deets for voicemail submission call
call will be open all day (ET) Thursday
submit with some combo of name/title/phone number/cover letter and you'll get an autoreply with a phone number to call and leave a voicemail submission
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DONE
final tally:
open for 24 hours
replied to last submission 93 hours after opening
709 submissions
63 maybes sent back and forth for a second opinion
39 acceptances
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Our first postcard!
I love this one from
@QueenHattieJean
so much. As soon as I read it I knew I wanted to feature it first.
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hereby smashing my skull into pieces and granting one of the 978 small shards to each of you who submitted. huge thank you to everyone for all the continued awesome, fun, encouraging, inspiring energy.
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Submission call coming this Sunday, 7/23, 1pm ET!
Submission cap: 150
Guest Editor:
@neonpajamas
!!
full sub call language in pic, alt text, & replies
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💀💀💀Hey folks! This is
@danirosepoet
and I wanted to give y’all a little heads up that I’m gonna open up HAD submissions probably Thursday for a little readin’ & skull givin’. Once again I want to read a LOT of submissions! Like, hundreds.
(sketchy details in next tweet!)
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OK, let's do this tomorrow. Monday, 2/26, open 10-11 am ET.
Open only to writers we haven't previously published.
All genres. 1-2 pieces, totaling under 700 words.
sub call language in image/alt text/replies
If you can't use Submittable for any reason, reply here or DM us.
gonna do a sub call soon (PROB monday morning, but schedule might change) specifically for ppl without skulls. open for an hour, so race against time instead of each other. looking for a bunch'a newcomers, whether you've never been able to make a call or been piling up declines)
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That’s a wrap y’all!! 300 subs in 50 minutes. DAMN. Be back soon with what we find <3
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NEWBIE SUBMISSION CALL UPDATE:
Getting a handful of check-ins. We got a little overwhelmed by the response (550!) & also life got kinda crazy this week, so taking a little longer than normal skull-time to get to everything... should get through them all by end of week! Thx! 💀💀
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Aaaaaaand... "Skulls for the Skull-less" call is complete!!
Received 978 submissions in 1 hour. Took me almost 8 days to get through them all. Sent 45 acceptances. 4.6%! Probably won't need another call until May.
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Are any journals open right now for a quick turnaround and/or are looking for anything super weird/fun/specific? Let us know, let us help you hype it.
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All done. 700 submissions. A slower start than I would have liked (it is 2am now.) And some amazing work. I am exhausted. Enjoy your skulls. Thank you everyone who sent me all these awesome words. I loved this so much. You all are the best.
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I'll be honest, I didn't totally know there were 600+ writers into our journal who we hadn't yet published...
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We've got TWO (2!) Submission Calls coming in the next ~24 hours!
• tonight, Thursday, 11/2, 6pm ET — guest editor,
@nicholls_evan
• tomorrow morning, Friday, 11/3, 11am ET — guest editor,
@anniejo_17
sub call language in screenshots & alt description
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don't think we're gonna announce our best of the net nominations; it really feels like everything we published last year was a "best of the net." if you had something on HAD between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 please consider yourself as having been nominated.
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No offense to our contributors but this is better than any poem we’ve published.
My son's teacher had them writing shape poems today. This is his poem. It is called 'Ugly Plane.'
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"I want an IUD. I want an MFA. I want more and more and more tattoos. I want a studio apartment and a house plant I don’t kill. I want to be flung into something completely new and solitary."
🔥💀❤️🔥💀 today from
@BonesAndBeer
!!
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SURPRISE!
@nikonamerica
&
@matt_mitchell48
are reading subs for 3 hours tonight, starting RIGHT NOW! newbiez only, no previous contributors allowed! 😎
submit here:
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making submitting to lit journals like buying tickets from ticketmaster
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FINALLY through everything! 123 subs, 2 hours, accepted 19. A little higher acceptance rate than normal, but there was SO MUCH good stuff. Excited to see a bunch of these appear elsewhere. Loved reading so many ppl mention how much fun they had collaborating! Thanks everyone!!
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Reminder:
* open for 24 hours (i.e. until noon EST tomorrow, Friday, 5/7)
* you can only submit if you've only submitted to us once or never before
* keep it under 800 words
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In the meantime... if I passed, or if you don't make it in today... let's do a thread here of other fun and awesome and exciting journals who are currently open and would love to read y'all's work?
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how about a thread of other great journals who are open right now and might like some of the weird and wild woolies??
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I often end up accepting something like 10%. If I did that here, it'd fill us up for 3+ mos., which isn't *bad*, but isn't really our vibe? I'm gonna say no to a BUNCH of good stuff, looking for the extra special somethings.
How about a thread of other great, fun places open rn?
it's cool that so many people are into the journal and seem so into it. the downside is y'all are so into it, and know our vibe, and etc., there's practically no "easy declines" here to help speed things up.
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loving seeing all these submissions with cover letters from people saying they ALWAYS keep missing our windows... and also REALLY loving the number of cover letters of first-time-to-anyone submitters, saying they felt encouraged to finally send something out! ❤️❤️
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soon as I read this shortie from Ella Duffy, I knew it was a HAD piece
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just to make sure every aspect of our process is filled with complete chaos, the previous year's guest editors are about to receive this comprehensive form to vote for our BOTN nominations (due tomorrow 😛)
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new submission guidelines dropped, courtesy of Scorsese
"You gotta rip it out of your skull and your guts. To find out what the hell you really – what do you really feel should be said at this point in life by you?"
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who else up republishing hundreds of peoples' precious hypertext markup language files?
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hello, I just sent my first acceptance & there is no better feeling in this world. I mean... holy crap
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Wanna read submissions for HAD for an hour?
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Hey, everyone.
@amorak
here. I've spent a huge percentage of the past 24 hours reading your submissions. It was an honor, truly.
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We actually have plenty enough money where we COULD pay contributors, we just don’t actually think writing is worth anything.
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it’s always exciting to accept a beautiful prose poem & then read the cover letter to find out it will be their first poetry publication 💀
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incredibly ready to nominate a piece titled "Everyone dies, their bodies rot, and every face becomes a skull" for every anthology award
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That's all folks! 700 submissions. I'm working through them and will get back to everyone as soon as I can!
Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏
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we're actually open for submissions right now, but the link to submit is only available as an NFT
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🚨🚨 NEW
@writesloud
!! 🚨🚨
"There is a sign on the front: for sale
by owner, this house you’ll never buy that will teach someone
else to scream all that joy, but oh, what if?"
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crow here. trying to think of how to one-up aaron's last submission gimmick. what do you think? wanna meet me at some mysterious and remote coordinates with your piece etched on a stone mounted aboard a yoke-drawn cart?
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Gonna zag and open up a short submission window but instead of replying as fast as possible we aren’t going to look at the submissions for 18 months. We’ll get back to you October 24, 2022.
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hellooooo HAD-lovers. Dina at the wheel (lord help us). subs are NOW OPEN for Tiny True Stories in Transient Spaces! let the countdown begin :)
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friends, exactly 1 week from tonight (02/01)
@nikonamerica
and
@matt_mitchell48
are going to open up the HAD submission manager and read stuff for a few hours. y’all have been warned 🥸💀👀
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this one today from
@writesloud
is 10000% my jam.
"Look at the blue sky, at the trees in the park behind your fence, branches and branches of orange and brown leaves that will fall any day now. Think about taking your dog on a walk through those trees."
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hi friends! it's
@toddedillard
reading for HAD! send me your weird summery darlings, your strange brief lyrics, your all-night campfire convos in those white plastic chairs (150 is the cap!)
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Holy shit, this is dooooope!! 💀💀💀
Got a cool glass print made of my Swamp Thing piece in
@havehadhavehad
to commemorate my skull! 🙌🏻💀
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this long sentence "list story" from
@fabulistpappas
is just about the encapsulation of my ideal HAD story
"...the time she looked in the mirror and learned she could lie, the time she bled through her underwear, the time she got asked out as a joke..."
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normal people leave the house and worry they left the stove on. I went out to walk my dogs and had a panic attack thinking I left the HAD sub call live
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