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To all our contributors, past & present, we thank you for your support, for sharing your work, for trusting us with it to publish & share. Most of all, we thank you for being part of our family. Without you our journal wouldn’t be a success. Thank you. Much love to you all!
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Ariana here. I NEED to read #submissions & I NEED you to #submit your work today for our September issue. Yes, you! Subs are always FREE & rolling. To entice you, I’m offering anyone that submits by 2 a.m. EST a 24-hour or less turnaround time. Go ahead, bring it on! Please RT.
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We NEED poetry #submissions STAT #WritingCommunity. #submissions are FREE & rolling. Currently reading for our November issue. Please send us your work. Poets, where are you?
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For the record, we spent a small fortune for the privilege of our distribution & now our books are sitting in warehouses we have no contact information for or access to, thousands in inventory, with no promise of royalty payments at all. My authors’ words are in boxes… 1/3
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Proud to announce the ELJ Editions 2021 Pushcart Nominations. So many good pieces in all the books; so hard to choose. Congrats! @rachaelapoet @melloftheball @TravisCravey @amygcb @francinewitte @TommyDeanWriter
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At 3:58 pm yesterday evening, my specialist confirmed no signs of official cancer relapse! Now, to focus on the neurological issues. Onward.
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#WritingCommunity, please share a link to your favorite piece you’ve ever had published. Blow up our feed w/literary goodness. We want to read it. We want to share it. ❤️
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Let’s make this clear. Yes, I’m disabled. I’m ill. ELJ is NOT closing, pressing pause or taking a hiatus. It’s surrounded by supportive staff & warm community. Yesterday’s tweet was about transparency. We are here. We are human. We care about this community. These are the facts.
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#poetry #submissions for Emerge Literary Journal are currently on a 24-48 hr turnaround. Sometimes hours. If you have work, please try us. We are a paying market. We pay a $10 honorarium per acceptance. We’re currently reading for Issue 29, January 2024. eljpublications.submittable.…
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1/3 PLEASE READ. I’ve been quiet lately because I have lots of medical things. Over the past month, I found out I have cancer in my remaining thyroid lobe & into the neck. I also need a total knee replacement. I also found I have a non-life threatening…
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How many times do you sub your work until you resign to kill your darlings? I’d like to invite you to sub any piece you’ve had rejected over 15 times by Tues @ 10 a.m. EST. It might not be accepted, but I’ll give you personal feedback. Write “Kill Your Darlings” as the sub title.
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ELJ and hundreds of publishers just lost their distribution via an email with no warning from SPD with no exit plan for our books. I mean, like, I have 80 books in transit for a PO they just ordered knowing they were going out of business. Wtf? #isawthiscoming 1/2
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We're still open to manuscript #submissions through 4/1 for 2023 publication! Send us your chapbooks or full-length collections. Send us your hermit crabs, your epistolary, your ekphrastic, your CNF, your novella. How can there be guidelines if we want to read everything?
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We’re still open for mss #submissions through Friday 4/22. We would love to see more mental illness themed collections in the queue. Don’t be afraid to share your story. You’re in good company. #WritingCommunity
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When you join the ELJ Editions family, we give all our love to you, & we send you writerly things for you to write your next manuscript. Because, why not? ❤️
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We currently have zero Afternoon Shorts #submissions in our queue. If you have a #novelette 8-15k words and are looking to publish in print/eBook in 2024, please consider us. Open thru 9/1. Current turnaround is less than 48 hours. #fiction #WritingCommunity
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As I’ve come back to work near 100% & am thriving, I’d like to thank @DianeGotAuthor, @KeithJ_Powell, @Koss51209969, @natallman, @Read_Instead, @LaurieMMarshall, & @ayescobe for keeping the press moving while I healed & I’d love to thank those who reached out w/love & warm words.
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Emerge Literary Journal took its first breath 9 years ago today. It launched, received its first submission, & became the first piece of what would later be ELJ Editions. A very happy birthday to my baby! Thank you friends for all your support. Here’s to many more anniversaries!
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Author Spotlight: Amy Barnes
Amy is the author of MOTHER FIGURES, forthcoming May 2021. She is quite prolific & spends a great deal of time volunteering for your favorite lit mags.
elj-editions.com/amy-barnes/
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the bitter end. I’m enraged because I’ve been fighting for months to get service & to get a less than informative blast email & then see everything go dark is the biggest gut punch ever. ELJ authors I will claw my eyes out before I lose your books. 3/3
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A here: I’m caught up on my correspondence & am excited to report @amygcb’s MOTHER FIGURES officially went to press today. I’ve been told order will ship 6/21. Now that the transition has happened, we should be back on track for @TravisCravey’s MANIFOLD. Pre-order coming soon!
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ELJ welcomes @amygcb to the family. Her chap, Mother Figures, left us breathless. This flash spins a theme so well done it is absolutely to die for. We also welcome @TravisCravey. His chap, Manifold, centers on being real, the running & trying to run. Remarkable talent. Truly.
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Much love & congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees:
@TommyDeanWriter
@TravisCravey
@francinewitte
@KristinTenor
@JulesJustWrite
Big hugs to all! Can we get a round of applause?
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Pleased to announce the Winner and Runner Up for Emerge Literary Journal’s CNF Contest. Congratulations @PunyFingers & @sfreligh! Look for these beautiful pieces in Issue 21 of Emerge Literary Journal.
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Emerge Literary Journal is pleased to announce its 2021 @PushcartPrize nominations, including: @toddclaystuart @lindymbiller @kelle224 & others
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We had the opportunity to scoop up a phenomenal collection of essays by @CoCo4AfroPuffs this week. I fell in love w/her work before the open call & asked her to submit. She wasn’t ready at the time, but I’m still reeling from what she just sent. Welcome Exodus to the ELJ family!
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Please give a warm welcome to our 2023 family: @Read_Instead @TravisCravey @TerenaBell @MrsWhitehouse74 @raniqualee @anhvubuchanan & Shawna Mayer.
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Congratulations to our NOMINEES for Best Microfiction 2020!
@francinewitte
@TommyDeanWriter
@laurabesley
@sfreligh
@JaredPovanda
@CharlotteHam504 / @charlotteAsh
We think these writers have written beautifuly succinct stories that are worthy recognition.
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Enjoy an all new Issue 31 of Emerge Literary Journal today. You won’t regret it. emergeliteraryjournal.com/cu…
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If this were a thing, would you #submit? Would you buy one? A year’s worth of micros, one everyday for an entire year? What if you could rip them out? Hang them up on your refrigerator? Share them w/a friend? Just in time for the 2023 holidays?
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I missed the announcement yesterday, but yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Emerge Literary Journal! Emerge was born on November 28, 2011. There’s a special issue of centos taken from all the published issues being published in December. Those participating are the following:
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Get ur micro flash (100 words/less) ready! @TravisCravey tweeted abt wanting a guest edit’g gig, so we created a contest JUST for him! 8/1-8/15 #submit. NO FEE. $50 prize to winner; $25 runner-up. Incl. in Issue 20, Sept ‘21. 1st 20 subs entered into a raffle for an ELJ t-shirt.
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Woohoo!!! The ever amazing @DianeGotAuthor & her AMAZING contributors! CONGRATULATIONS!
Guess which anthology won the 2024 IndieReader Discovery Award--Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness!!!! THANK YOU @IndieReader! And so much ❤️❤️❤️ to all contributors, to @gaylebrandeis for the foreword, and to dear Ariana @EmergeJournal!
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.@TravisCravey has made it pretty public he struggled w/the decision. And rightfully so. All five remaining contestants were notified. ELJ & Travis are pleased to present the Winner & Runner-Up: @ClaireM_Taylor & Sofia Aguilar. Congrats & Thank you! You knocked Travis’ boots off!
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Friends! What’s your favorite line you’ve ever written? (You know we all have one.) Has it been published? If so, where? Please share line & link. Fill my feed w/your phenomenal words. My line: “I want to be the black in a cluster of stars.” Published in a chap. Now, GO! —Ariana
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I’m just going to leave this right here: eljpublications.submittable.… If you see it, you see it. If you spread the word, you spread it.
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ECSTATIC to announce @helloshanwolf is our new Acquisitions Editor. Shannon is a phenomenal person all around & brings her love of literature—she read 165 books last year!—into the fold. She is an ELJ author and is hoping to welcome a few more family members. Welcome Shannon!
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Happy Book Birthday to @TommyDeanWriter! COVENANTS is hot off the press & headed towards those who preordered. Congratulations Tommy! There’s still a chance to own this lovely chap. We’re offering this lovely notepad with the next 15 orders. elj-editions.com/covenants/
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Show of hands. Who has a manuscript to #submit to this? Maybe we might open tomorrow? Thoughts?
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Who's been waiting for this? I know. I know. We've been holding out WAY too long. Let's SCREAM their names: @LRScully @OliviaBraley @rachaelapoet @melloftheball @amygcb @TravisCravey @francinewitte & @TommyDeanWriter We can't wait to create what you won't want to put down. Truly.
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One theme. Five micro-chapbooks. One volume. One binding. Coming January 2020. Meet Growing Pains, edited by @rachaelapoet. Calling for poetry, prose, or a mix of both beginning 9/18. 8-12 pieces per mss. Payment royalties+copies. More details to follow. Sharpen your pencils!
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This just in! Congratulations @BethanyJarmul @AudreyTCarroll @Jennife00420145 @PrognatusD Rachel Linton, Justin Clark, L. Soviero, and Sumitra Singam! Special thanks to Emerge Literary Journal editors Diane Gottlieb and Alisha Escobedo for all they do!
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HAPPY LAUNCH DAY to @DianeGotAuthor's AWAKENINGS! Diane hosted a beautiful launch party w/all the lovely contributors last night. This anthology is just so, well, I'm just speechless. There's so many voices & so many gut-wrenching stories abt all things body. Put it on your list!
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It’s official. We just sent out our final acceptance for 2024. We’ve selected 10 collections in total for publication in 2024 out of 113 total received. Official announcements to follow in the next few days! SO. MUCH. EXCITEMENT!
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We are open and currently seeking poetry submissions for the July Issue. Tell all your poet friends. #WritingCommunity
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ELJ would like to welcome @mspicone as Managing Editor of Emerge Literary Journal. It’s been a pleasure having her join the team (& she’s hit the ground running). She’s energetic, brilliant, & hands on. She’ll be a great asset to the team, the journal & the press. Bio below: /1
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We’ve rec’d 21 Kill Your Darlings #submissions & there’s still time to #submit your darlings to us. Ever felt like giving up on a piece based on how many times it’s been rejected? Ever wish you had feedback on that piece? Well, we’re here to give it to you for FREE. #submit now!
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Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 19, is NOW LIVE. If you read something you love, share it with a friend or everyone you know. The most important thing you can do for a writer is amplify them.
Be Well. Write Well. Read Well.
Ariana
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Please welcome these phenomenal 2022 authors! We're honored to be given the opportunity to showcase their work.
@LeighChadwick5 @maryann_aita @eireprof @LannieStabile @instamartin17 @CardewjCardew @RoddWhelpley @sbdobbie @infflorescence
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Issue 17 of Emerge Literary Journal is NOW LIVE! Thank you for all your patience as this issue came into being. There's SO much phenomenal work, Damon & I are beside ourselves w/the beauty of the issue....
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sent to die by a distributor, who, at the end, didn’t even fulfill their contractual obligations, picked & chose which publishers went to Ingram, didn’t place inventory into channels we paid for… ELJ had the privilege of having so many bestselling authors w/SPD even till… 2/3
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Seeking experimental or hybrid manuscripts. Something strange w/words that serve to both cut & repair simultaneously. Applies to all work: #poetry #fiction #cnf. Also, really have an appetite for longer works of fiction right now—novellas, novels—send them. #WritingCommunity
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Just a reminder ELJ Editions is an LGBTQ+ ally. Also, approx 50% of our authors identify as women & our staff is mainly women. We do not tolerate submissions of hate or intolerance against the LGBTQ+ community or women or any marginalized groups. RESEARCH your markets, please.
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SO, we’re lacking #submissions! AND, we’ve reopened our #LitBlitz to entice you. #Submit by 6 p.m. EST and receive a response in 24 hours or less. Let’s DO the thing! You get a lightning fast response; we get to read! #Submit! Tell your friends! Retweet! #WritingCommunity
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3/3 this afternoon, hoping I have more concrete answers. I’m really sorry I haven’t done my best in communicating, but I needed answers before I could move forward & make a plan. No matter what happens, I will make sure ELJ Editions presses forward. TY for your understanding.
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Emerge Literary Journal's ISSUE 28 is NOW LIVE! This issue's content focuses on the juxtaposition of grief & nostalgia, at least it did from my perspective. It is rich in its usual CNF & Fiction & is brimming w/extra Poetry this time around. Enjoy!
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Pleased to announce our newest author, @LaurieMMarshall & her debut collection, PROOF OF LIFE. PROOF OF LIFE is set for a 4/15/23 release w/a preorder launch on 1/15! For more info on the collection, visit elj-editions.com/proof-of-li…. Congratulations Laurie!
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As many of you know, Damon has resigned from his Managing Editor of Emerge Literary Journal @ ELJ Editions, after 17 months of outstanding service. Not going to lie, I cried when he told me because not only did he revive the journal, curate 8 phenomenal issues & ready content /1
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We need more #poetry #manuscript #submissions in our queue our current call. We are being blown away with story collections and novels but must have that delicate balance of #poetry. Any theme is welcome. Quick turnaround! eljpublications.submittable.…
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We’re still open to #submissions for full-length collections & novellas & novels (novelettes in our Afternoon Shorts series). Have you submitted? We’ve accepted a few collections. Yours could be next. Give @helloshanwolf something to chew on. #submit today. #WritingCommunity.
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I’m one week post-op & going crazy w/work while my out-of-office is on. I have a couple of mss to accept, proofs to send to authors, preorder links to blast; honestly, I can’t keep up. But, I will say, I love you all. Thanks for being in my corner every time I go under the knife.
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We’re getting so many queries we thought we’d open our Magpies category that includes poetry/flash chaps & full-length poetry/story collections from right now thru 5/27. This will be our one & only window for 2022 publication. Competition will be fierce. eljpublications.submittable.…
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Our Kill Your Darlings #submissions call is here, beginning at 6 p.m. EST through Midnight 8/23/20, EST. What is KYD? Take a peek below then #submit your Darling tonight. While our turnaround is not lightning fast, we take the time to read & provide the best feedback. Try us out.
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So, I’m feeling a little…oh, I don’t know the word. Anyways, pitch an anthology to me. The theme cannot be too niche & you have to be willing to put the work into curating & compiling it. Please only if you’re serious & I’ll do it but you have to really, really sell me on it. Go
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Congratulations to our 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominations!
@muller_aj
@charlotteAsh
@KristinTenor
@LRScully
@ShannonFrostGre
Sophia Bruce
@DamonMcKinney76 was so excited & frazzled to comb through such great work in all of our 2020 issues!
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After countless fights w/SPD for years for proper distribution, I’m excited to say Itasca has all the backlist titles listed on Amazon. So if Amazon is your thing, consider ordering today. Support an ELJ author. Your order is a giant hug. Your review is a gift. Love them. ❤️
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🧵In September I took a job to supplement the press income in the wake of the SPD disaster. Unfortunately, not only did it not work, but it also sabotaged my mental health, & I had to resign due to a psychotic break. While I’ve been healing, I’ve been silent but slowly working
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Going forward, ELJ will offer contributors to both journals the ability to add a personal Tip Jar link to their work. While Emerge can only offer a $5 honorarium, we realize that’s not enough for the amazing work we’re publishing. You deserve better & we want to foster that.
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We just accepted two very powerful Magpies. It’s unusual to pounce this early in the reading window, but some things, these things, had to happen because the queue was on fire. We’ll be making announcements very soon. Off walks the very excited publisher, clicking heels and all.
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Please welcome Keely Honeywell to the ELJ Editions Masthead as a Design Editor. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Keely Honeywell is an artist and designer who also writes fiction and code. Welcome, Keely!
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Happy Pub Day to the ever beautiful @MrsWhitehouse74! THEY MORE THAN BURNED became an @spdbooks bestseller & was incl in the Recommends list all before its official release. I can’t speak this book’s truth w/out crying. It’s waiting for you to burn w/it. Much love to you, Tara!
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For me, publishing books is an act of translation, crossing over from one state of mind to another—finding threads that run through my authors’ experiences and perceptions—and coming up with new understandings. I publish in order to awaken ELJ’s readers to the deepest parts… 1/3
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ELJ is excited to CONFIRM it’ll host a Lit Blitz & Kill Your Darlings open window every month. We’ll announce times at random. Whether you’re looking for lightning fast responses or personal feedback, we’re here for you. As always, subs are FREE. Be well. Write well. Read well.
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Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 16 is NOW live! emergeliteraryjournal.com/cu… Special thanks to @DamonMcKinney76 for being the wing beneath my wings and the arm of the journal. Special thanks to our contributors (those we can name). We wouldn't be here without you.
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Get ‘em ready. @TravisCravey is hungry and has a special place in his heart for grit lit. 3 novelettes? In 1 volume? No way.
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ICYMI: We’re seeking #manuscripts thru Sept. We’ve accepted a few & would like the next one to be yours. #poetry #flash #novelette #novel (check categories). $100 adv on royalties @ signing/royalties/copies/distrib. We’re reading & making decisions for 2025. #WritingCommunity
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Friends! Today is ELJ Editions 8th anniversary as a press. Originally founded as ELJ Publications, ELJ Editions now hosts two journals & is slated to publish 10 titles this year. Much love to our contributors & authors & all of you who are submitting!
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ELJ welcomes @TommyDeanWriter to the family. His chap, Covenants, is a crisp micro-flash masterpiece. We fell in love instantly & you will too.
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🧵A lot’s been happening behind the scenes here at ELJ. We lost our appeal with SPD for lost revenue because we claimed lost inventory (because they actually lost it) and their lawyer said that wasn’t acceptable, & we don’t have the money for a lawyer to appeal. /1
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Check out the latest edition of Emerge Literary Journal: emergeliteraryjournal.com/cu…
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There’s still 4 more days to #submit to our 2025 #manuscript call. We’re starting to narrow our selections. Now’s the time to throw your hat in. We’ll be finalizing all selections within two weeks of window close, if not sooner. #submit today. #novel subs will take a lot longer.
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1/2 Now avail. Preorder @CoCo4AfroPuffs' essay collection. All preorders incl a tiny notepad & ship approx 1 mo prior to pub. "This sharp and inviting collection explores the wonders of the Black feminine body, the parts, the troubles, and the infinite potential...
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Things are falling into place and it looks like we’ll have an interim book designer coming on shortly. We’ve additional feelers out for other designers to join the Masthead in the near future. I will not let anything slip because injury and cancer decided to knock on my door!
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Well, well, well. Sure looks like an unbound proof that fell into my hands today. Look out world, once this is approved, we’ll be unleashing lots and lots and lots of copies of Manifold in the near future. @TravisCravey put together a fine specimen of a chapbook here. Yes he did.
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I shipped a carton of 2 titles to SPD in Berkeley, at their direction; a total of 80 books $800 value + s/h & neither Ingram nor PSSC can produce them. WTF SPD? Now I have to run two new runs? Argh. Please, please support these ELJ authors for a reprint. gofund.me/4feb97fe
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Morning. I just wanted to let ya’ll know I was undergoing some medical testing when suddenly I began to experience several neurological deficits. The two have nothing to do w/each other. I want you to know I’m still working hard behind the scenes, but am slow. Please DM w/any ?
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We’ve signed a distribution contract w/Itasca & will begin the daunting task of shipping over 1,000 books to their warehouse & back into distribution BUT those things come w/costs this little nonprofit can’t bear alone. Consider donating to our GoFundMe: gofund.me/d5caf4c2
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Emerge Literary Journal is now excepting CNF/Memoir excerpts up to 1,000 words. #WritingCommunity #submit today.
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Whew! Issue 18 of Emerge is now live! emergeliteraryjournal.com/cu… Fancy a read? Go ahead, take a peek, sink your teeth! I'd like to thank @DamonMcKinney76 and Kell for curating this issue. Many thanks to the beautiful contributors for sharing their work & being ever so patient w/me.
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Just sitting around w/your family & leftovers? Have a manuscript you’ve been wanting to submit but haven’t gotten to it? We’re open for a pop up window thru Sunday 11/27 for 2024 publication. Give it a shot. $0 fee. No chapbooks, plz. eljpublications.submittable.… #WritingCommunity
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