TIMBER

Write against the grain. A journal of new and innovative work published by MFA candidates at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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TIMBER is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2025 #PushcartPrize.

Congratulations to:
Jackie Craven
@kgindermaur
@Lachenmeyer
@ModerTim
@remirecchialit
@Toscano200

Read their work at https://t.co/tpSi6869Bc!

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A reminder that we are open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024!

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Our poetry cap has been reached, but we're still open for prose subs! Send us your genre-bendy, your lyrical, your unconventional prose baby that hasn't found a home elsewhere!

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WINTER IS COMING.

SUBS NOW OPEN FOR LGBTQIA+ & DISABLED WRITERS

🚇subs open for all writers OCT 16
🚇subs close DEC 1

~ never any fees ~ we accept prose & poetry, including text-based visuals ~ always looking for experimental & hybrid concoctions ~

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WINTER IS COMING.

SUBS NOW OPEN FOR LGBTQIA+ & DISABLED WRITERS

🚇subs open for all writers OCT 16
🚇subs close DEC 1

~ never any fees ~ we accept prose & poetry, including text-based visuals ~ always looking for experimental & hybrid concoctions ~

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Nostalgic for warmer nights, hometown shenanigans, & that “comfortable kind of nonsense.” @mirventures featured in Issue 14.2 read more & get ready to submit @ https://t.co/tpSi6869Bc

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Writers! We are still open for submissions!! Send us your work and find our submission FAQ at https://t.co/gGn2ZNlb8A

Submission deadlines- Sept 30 for Poetry, Oct 1 for Fiction, and Oct 31 for Nonfiction!

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Here’s “The First Day of Autumn” published in Timber Journal & in “Bad Mexican, Bad American” (Acre Books, 2024).

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“God sobs in my arms, but He could do better”
// new from Melanie Goulish in TIMBER summer issue 🤝

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Nicholas Alti is playing with words in issue 14.2 (out now!)

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IT’S HERE!!! LAUNCH DAY!!! A RAT WAS BORN TODAY!!! 🐀🖤

[Kristina Ten | @kristinaten on Bluesky @kristina_ten]

Lyndsie never misses! Honored to have "The Dizzy Room" (@NightmareMag) included on this thoughtful list of genre-bending sci-fi tales 👾

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So proud of our previous poetry editor!

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author copies? author copies!!

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book promo @ the austin museum of ice cream spotted 👁️👁️🐀 do as the pic says, preorder here: https://t.co/jWjx4cQQWT

[Kristina Ten | @kristinaten on Bluesky @kristina_ten]

Wow?? My horror-is-an-ESL-game-you’re-forced-to-play story, “The Dizzy Room,” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction! Thank you @NightmareMag, @wnwagner, jurors, readers. And big congrats to all the nominees!

https://t.co/U2KrQ2D8tq

[bri gonzalez @bg_writing]

ratman is PHYSICAL now, i received my proof this week 👀🐀 t-minus three months to launch!! preorder your copy here! https://t.co/jWjx4cQj7l

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Check out this praise for one of TIMBER’s last poetry editors and their forthcoming collection!

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Author Bri Gonzalez has just finished their MFA (congrats!) & is already doing big things. A debut collection? A blurb from Eugenia Leigh???? AMAZING! Preorder today at https://t.co/a7QdwQmODT

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The graceful prose of Sayantani Roy @sayan_tani_r's "Almost-Friend" seeps into the liminal spaces, and lingers

Read "Almost-Friend" today in Issue 14.1!

https://t.co/DXbZkEpxnR

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Jacqui Zeng's "Queers in Love at the End of the World" is achingly beautiful. Read it here: https://t.co/uvCxuJWu7Z

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@lizmmusic Unfortunately, our poetry submissions are capped at 100 submissions due to our small team. If that category isn’t visible on Submittable, then we’ve reached our cap. We’ll be available for poetry submissions again in the fall!

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Reading period now open for our Summer 2024 issue. From March 1 to March 15, we're inviting submissions from BIPOC, People with Disabilities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community ONLY! General submissions open after March 15 and close May 1. Link to our website in the bio!

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FYI to all our horse girlies...you're going to love Ellen Welcker's poem "IN WHICH THE HORSE"

Read it here in Issue 14.1

https://t.co/yypkhN2uNG