ICYMI: "Metamorphosis" and "Spooky Spring" are both available to read on our site. https://t.co/oUpUb3L892
Thank you to our incredible contributors, with extra thanks to "lost issue" Spooky Spring writers and artists for being patient with us through the transformation💚
A peek behind the scenes of our team's inboxes.
We're not leaving this hellscape platform just yet, but soon. Find us on Bluesky @hellbendermag.bsky.social
While our Winter 2025 general submissions window is now closed, we are still open for submissions for our Logo Contest! We'll be taking Logo Contest submissions till Jan. 1 2025, so send your slimiest salamanders our way! https://t.co/R1ERnXWqAG
Our little salamander bellies are FULL of gorgeous poetry submissions. 🥰 Thank you to the poets who hit our submission cap faster than we could have imagined! CNF and Fiction are filling up fast, too. Don't wait!
Did you know? The hellbender salamander's diet primarily consists of tasty & nutritious short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art.
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Heads up, buttercups: #HellbenderMagazine will be opening for general submissions in #Fiction, #CreativeNonfiction, #Poetry, and #VisualArt in exactly 1 week for our Winter 2025 issue. More deets soon. Very soon. Crack those knuckles and tear into your keyboards, friends...
Word of the Week with Kelly Ward:
solastalgia - "a form of emotional or existential distress caused by negatively perceived environmental change" (Wikipedia).
I have three photos in the latest @hellbendermag :)
"flag" + "daydreaming" + "rays"
the first taken in nyc almost exactly a year ago, perhaps more relevant today
“the hands that mixed batter for countless confections / and always passed me a beater to lick, salmonella be damned”
Poetry from Kelly White Arnold in our Metamorphosis issue 🍰
“His anger, a thunderous force, tore through their home, leaving emotional havoc in its trail.”
Read the rest of this visceral story by Huina Zheng in the Metamorphosis issue.
“the lip of the Sprite can is a blade”
Read the rest of this poem, “BREAKING: one man dead from Bikini Kill crowd, no one cares,” by @beanbie666 in our Metamorphosis issue
“‘Does God even like sex?’ Ever since our freshman year of high school, my peers tell me I ask ‘dangerous’ questions.”
Stunning CNF titled "Coming of Age" from Winnie CT in our Metamorphosis issue!
“we drove in the city of cavities. / you with your dashboard face & me with / my dreams of husband-life.”
Read Robin Gow's poem "potholes" in the Metamorphosis issue!