Ludington Writers

Dedicated to supporting & sustaining writers in the Ludington, MI area & beyond. Follow our literary journal @wavesreview

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

#OpenForSubmissions to our fall 2026 online and print issue. Thanks to donations, we were able to pay for our expenses—so there are no fees: https://t.co/2oBciHUvuX

Please read our guidelines carefully before submitting. No AI generated works. #WritingCommunity

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

Publishing & Funding Opportunities + Live Reading - https://t.co/1tn0fbnhqc

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

Submissions close Dec 31st for a special Pride 2026 issue. No fees. 4 awards. Submissions for our general, themed issue open Jan 1. https://t.co/kjadqJGfHj for more information #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artcommunity #openforsubmissions

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

#poetry

Some Fine Morning

I give no thought to the songs of mermaids –
you are my instruction, my delight.
No siren can distract me; you fill my eyes
with the handiwork of collective experience.

You are my instruction, my delight,
even now. As tyranny binds you
in the handiwork of collective experience,
your palpability slides through hidden doorways.

Even now, as tyranny binds you 
in sandstorms and the dampness beneath the desert,
your palpability slides through hidden doorways;
on some fine morning you'll be standing beneath my open window.

In sandstorms and the dampness beneath the desert
no siren can distract me; you fill my eyes.
On some fine morning you'll be standing beneath my open window;
I give no thought to the songs of mermaids.

© 2018 RC deWinter
Published in Making Waves 
@WavesReview
a West Michigan Review
by Ludington Writers
@LudingtonWrite1
Fall 2023

[Ludington Writers @LudingtonWrite1]

10/11 in Ludington

4 PM – Steve Brown reads from News of Need & Trample & Sew at Book Mark (201 S. Rath Ave)

5:30 PM – Launch Party for 2025 issues of Making Waves & Beach Combings

Free to read online at https://t.co/bnYRBPBDql

#MichiganWriters #BookLaunch #WritingCommmunity

[Ludington Writers @LudingtonWrite1]

Our president, @nbbirkett, won the Poetry Society of Michigan 2025 Traveling Trophy award for her poem: “Grit for the Knife Grinder’s Daughters.” She was selected from over 40 participants who read their poems for the honor, at their fall meeting #poetrycommunity

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

Submissions will open October 1 for a special Pride 2026 issue. No fees. 4 awards sponsored by the editors. https://t.co/kjadqJFHRL for more information #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artcommunity #openforsubmissions

[Nicole “Cole” Bernadette (she/her) @NBBirkett]

Sign up for this FREE workshop here: https://t.co/8mWa4MguZ5

Got a 7th–12th grader curious about D&D or tabletop RPGs?

Sept 17–Oct 29
Wednesdays, 5–6:30 PM
Zoom w/2 optional in-person
#ttrpg #writingcommunity #traversecity #nationalwritersseries #gamingcommunity #freeworkshop

[CLMP @CLMPorg]

Writers, don’t miss April 30 and May 1 submission deadlines at @PassagerBooks, @AutumnHousePrs, @WavesReview, @choeofpleirn, @TxReviewPress, @sillygoosepress, @sneakerwavemag, @thimblelitmag, @OysterRiverPgs, @NocoBooks & more publishers! Submit now: https://t.co/m3Sah20ZDw

[CLMP @CLMPorg]

Submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art to @WavesReview by April 30! Its Fall 2025 issue will focus on the theme “Homer’s Oddities”: https://t.co/QtWGPmVfB5

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

Making Waves is open for submissions! 🌊

🗓️ Submit Jan–Apr
📖 Past issues & guidelines: https://t.co/SVgwHB42gR

🎨 Theme: Homer’s Oddities
Think The Odyssey meets The Simpsons—travel tales, flawed heroes, or the downright bizarre.

#CallForSubmissions #WritingCommunity

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 opens for submissions 𝐉𝐚𝐧!

Theme: 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐎𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

Guidelines & past issues at 𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.𝐨𝐫𝐠.

No fees for visual art or USPS submissions.

$3 fee for online subs

#writingcommunity #poetry #opensubmissions

[Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryrev]

Good news, writers! Submissions to Hayden’s Ferry Review will be open until the end of the year! Send us your work: https://t.co/0Q3yCKzqUU

[Nimrod Journal @NimrodJournal]

The submission window opens soon. We can’t wait to read your best work.

[Making Waves: A West Michigan Review @WavesReview]

Free Ekphrastic poetry reading followed by an open mic, Tuesday, July 30th at 7 PM in the Performance Hall of the Ludington Arts Center.

[Shō Poetry Journal @sho_journal]

Subs for Shō No. 6 are open.

Accepted poems will be considered for the Sita Martin Prize ($250) for best poem by an emerging poet and the Shō Poetry Prize ($250) for best poem in issue.

See our guidelines for details.

[West Trade Review @WTRlitmag]

WTR seeks flash fiction under 704 words that engages the reader intellectually but also packs an emotional punch.

Submissions close August 1st.

See details at link below:
https://t.co/MtsvPVoJ6D

#writingcommunity #writingcontest #fiction #amwriting

[Ploughshares is on Bluesky @pshares]

Have you read the amazing prose featured in our summer issue, and want a chance to submit your own? Now's your chance! Submit to our Regular Reading Period by January 15, 2025 to maybe see your words in print, too. https://t.co/OcuSJMFr3Z

[Chestnut Review @ChestnutReview]

Chesnut Review Chapbooks is proud to announce Javeria Hasnain’s @peelijay debut poetry chapbook, SIN (June, 2024).

SIN is a collection of poems reckoning with femininity, desire, and transgression. It moves between the poetic and narrative “I” to detail what it means to desire.