Mount Island

The literary magazine of, for, and by rural LGBTQ and POC writers and artists.

[Virginia Tech CW MFA @VTcwMFA]

“When I speak aloud, I also listen / through my skull”

New poems from our recent graduate @garvoille in @mountislandmag No. 7!

You can purchase here!
https://t.co/k4ZxDDHbgw

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

Mount Island No. 7 is live! Featuring work by @itsdbouts, @garvoille, Quinton Lawrence, and Jane Ryder. And an important announcement in the editor's note!

Read our big news and get the new issue at https://t.co/mX4ooBtHBb

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

Our spring issue is coming soon—and with it an exciting announcement!

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“I had to dare to make life changing decisions, or I would be dead for real.”

Read our Q&A with storyteller Ada Cheng, the latest in our Village Voices series.

https://t.co/KRzlFnvkKv

[Canned @CannedMag]

Hi there! 🌱 We plan to open submissions for our second issue this Sunday. Guidelines linked in our bio!

To whet your appetite, here’s a long overdue cocktail: The Brünnhilde, a companion to our first issue. Find both on our website. 🖤🥫

https://t.co/Uu1M9DSxvj

[Shade Literary Arts @ShadeLitArts]

We are excited to announce that applications for round 2 of the Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund open next week Tuesday, April 13!

With thanks to the @PhilaAssembly and the Money in the Streets Initiative, we are able to fund 40 queer writers of color $250 each.

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

Thank you for the inclusion!

[The B'K Magazine 🇵🇸 @TheBKMagazine]

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Thank you for the love.

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"Indeed, the very idea that black film’s greatest purpose is to be an educational primer on race in America is a notion that we need to lay to rest.”
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[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

This piece by Jasminum McMullen @thewritegift is heartbreaking yet illuminating.

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“Let me go home with you. I want to stand up in it all night. Don’t matter to me, you fat. He said as if I moved in the world for the sole purpose of being desired by a man."
https://t.co/18a3IC3TQL

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

“Let me go home with you. I want to stand up in it all night. Don’t matter to me, you fat. He said as if I moved in the world for the sole purpose of being desired by a man."
https://t.co/18a3IC3TQL

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

All of this!!!

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"The fact that you have the luxury as a white male to write all your poems about being lost in the woods, that you don’t have to interrogate race and gender, is a political statement in and of itself."

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[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

@IowaReview Thank you for the mention.

[The Iowa Review @IowaReview]

Happy #MLKDay2021! We have come up with a list of much-admired and diverse publications that you need to pay attention to.

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[Vermont Arts Council @VTArtsCouncil]

Author and multidisciplinary artist Shanta Lee Gander is the recipient of the 2020 Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts. While we couldn't celebrate our 2020 awardees in-person, we are pleased to honor each with a brief video: https://t.co/iSCIOxITnl

#vtarts

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

Amazing!

[Ukamaka Olisakwe; Or, Ngalakwesili @MsOlisakwe]

My OGADINMA just got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly😭!!

https://t.co/zMWWEY0HsH

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

This newsletter by author @ShantaLeeG includes insights and creative contemplations along with flash interviews that feature other creatives. These individuals are a range of performers, writers, visual artists, and anyone across the spectrum of creating.

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

This newsletter by author @ShantaLeeG includes insights and creative contemplations along with flash interviews that feature other creatives. These individuals are a range of performers, writers, visual artists, and anyone across the spectrum of creating.

[Mount Island @MountIslandMag]

Thanks for this recommendation.

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