Chautauqua Journal

An annual literary journal capturing a season at @chq between our pages. Submit your stories, essays and poems at

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Our submissions are now open for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and young voices! 2022's theme is Resilience, and instead of our usual print issue, we'll be taking the journal online for a fall, winter, and summer issue. More details at https://t.co/yGcZs1VJsN

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End the semester right, y'all.

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“I think everything I’ve done is grist for fiction and poetry,” Anna Scotti says. “You have to live before you can write.”

Susan Polizzotto catches up with Chautauqua contributor Anna Scotti on the writing life in this recent blog post: https://t.co/ZJQ1i37oKA

[Keith Kopka @KeithKopka]

Thanks to @chautauqualit and Kayla Benson for her insights. @chq is an incredibly important place in my creative life, and I'm grateful to the Chautauqua Institution for helping this book, in many ways, come to fruition.

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"Here is a collection of poems that is brutally honest, raw, and intriguing. . . . Kopka hits all the marks and leaves no stone unturned."

Kayla Benson reviews @KeithKopka's debut poetry collection, Count Four (@UofTampa Press, 2020): https://t.co/J5UhJny5BN

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There are still a few hours left to submit to our Resilience issues before our submissions close until September! We look forward to reading your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction: https://t.co/veM69dsMi3

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"Stillness is a conscious and repeated effort that helps us as writers, and as individuals, to accept our lack of control without drifting into hopelessness."

Ryan Bloom shares tips for incorporating the practice of stillness into your writing routine: https://t.co/zUYBilLCGU

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Our summer assembly season is taking shape and we could not be more excited about it. #CHQ2021

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Tomorrow! Interested in a publishing career? We've got the perfect (free!) webinar for you! Join @UNCWCRW alumni @KateAMcMullen, Sumanth Prabhaker, and @KinzyJ for a conversation about launching and sustaining a rewarding career in publishing. Register at https://t.co/Fq038tMc7r

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An important piece from our 2021 CLSC author, @stephycha.

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"Did you try to stop it? / Eppur si muove, did it move—of course—all the same?"

We're reflecting on the spring equinox with Stacey Balkun's poem "Love Letter to Galileo: Pendulum," originally published in 2017. Read this Featured Flashback here: https://t.co/LMyAuPQFhO

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Join us for #WriteWilmington, a series of free writing sessions open to the public and led by #UNCWCRW faculty and graduate students. The first session will be led by publishing faculty @_SaidTheKat on Thursday, March 19. Let's write together!

https://t.co/StbFuf4p4p

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Finishing up your first manuscript & wondering what comes next? Considering a career in publishing but aren't sure where to start? We were newbies once too. Welcome to Lookout Labs: free virtual events with authors & publishing professionals. Register at https://t.co/Fq038tMc7r

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"There’s a new bird in town, I tell my husband, and he laughs. No, really, I say. Listen. It quacks."

—@suekush from "Open," published in 2014's Issue 11: Wonders of the World. This week's Featured Flashback is up! https://t.co/pJi5VIV3Yz

#chautauquaoneliners

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"Salt and wet sunlight smack my lips, my eyelashes, and I pull their promise deep into my stomach and my lungs."

Lauren Sanders's gorgeous essay "Seven Mile Island," originally published in 2011's Issue 8, is this week's Featured Flashback! https://t.co/zMUp91i5PD

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Congratulations to Chautauqua contributor @Hayden_Saunier on her new poetry collection, A Cartography of Home, fresh off the press from @broadstreview! Her poem "Why We Do It" was published in our Boundaries issue (17).

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A new #poetry collection from @Hayden_Saunier weaves Pennsylvania’s natural world with its mini-marts and hotels, exploring possibility, loss, compound perspectives, and calls to customer service:
https://t.co/Ec4G1fcHkV

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Did you wake up to an email from a Nigerian Prince or Chechen noble today? A long-lost aunt with a newfound inheritance? @Airbornepoet's "Spam," originally published in Issue 12, might just be your salve. Read this week's Featured Flashback here: https://t.co/P9Iy1CnzQd

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We are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our next workshops. We cannot wait for you to work with @ApricotIrving and @cathylinhche.
Register at https://t.co/0lVNs6j64W

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After returning home from war in Iraq, @tonyidigmusic
recounts a dangerous encounter from "normal" life in "I Was a Heisman Trophy," originally published in Issue 9: War and Peace. As you head into Super Bowl weekend, read this powerful Featured Flashback
https://t.co/MVSx5YXLsy

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Congratulations to Tobi-Hope Jieun Park whose debut poetry collection, Meraki, was published by @atmospherepress in 2020! Her poem "Star Child" first appeared in our 2014 Young Voices section, which features work by poets and writers aged 12-18.
https://t.co/m6i8rMBN34