Does your #writing practice need a tune up?

From publication
advice from a Graywolf editor, to using #humor , #writing #personalessays , or publishing #flash , our masterclasses are a fun, affordable way to boost your work & your career.

Next class 4/28!

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i love small journals and will always support them, they’ve given homes to the work that feels riskiest and closest to my heart, not to mention the support and feedback and my god small lit mags do such a service for keeping literature a living breathing changing complex thing

Come see me read! Two weeks from tomorrow on Zoom 😎

Looking forward to the reading! Hope you'll join. :)

Register for Cleaver 45 Reading, 7pm ET on April 21.

w. TS Bender, Nicole J Brogdon, Rebecca Entel, Federico Escobar, Susan Goslee, Michael Grinthal, Luke Koesters, Claudia Monpere, Sophie Nunberg, Julian Shendelman, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Rachel Toliver, Katie Tonellato

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Cleaver Magazine I enjoyed reading ANGELA, by: FEDERICO ESCOBAR, in CLEAVER MAGAZINE, so much that I linked it to my WEEKEND READS site shawnbrinkauthor.wordpress.com/weekend-reads/. Hopefully, this will draw additional readers. – Cheers! Shawn D. Brink, Author

Poet & Graywolf Press prose editor Anni Liu teaches BEHIND THE COVERS: Publishing Your Book.

The 2-hour Masterclass will cover pitching agents, working with editors, launching books and much, much more.

Sunday, April 28
2-4pm EDT on Zoom

Register now: cleavermagazine.com/upcoming-works…

WRITERS: Submit to our short essay contest, DUALITY, judged by the incomparable Clifford Thompson.

Explore duality in yourself, your experience, and/or the world — and submit up to 1000 words by April 20, 2024 via Submittable.

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'I can almost hear the tapping when aspiring crime writers ask for advice.'

Snowden Wright, author of the forthcoming THE QUEEN CITY DETECTIVE AGENCY (HarperCollins) wrote a tip for our weekly newsletter.

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'To trust in making art on the spot is to spend hours staring at something in woeful incompletion, embarking on a paragraph only to delete it, having a remarkable run one day but running aground the next.'

A craft essay by David Galef is on Cleaver.

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I scooped some tea-brown water in my hand: /
the pink knots of their hearts /
winked through their crystal cases.
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FAIRY SHRIMP, a poem by Richard Parisio, appears in Cleaver Issue 45. wp.me/p30UXE-fAR

#newyorkwriters #newyorkpoet #naturewriter Richard Parisio

frog fish squid and oyster /
all these friends ejaculating millions into /
this disastrous bisque /
this delirious broth
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AQUACULTURE QUARTET, a poem by Jess Yuan, appears in Cleaver 45, our new issue! wp.me/p30UXE-fyI

#bostonwriter #baltimorewriters #bostonpoet

'People ask you how you’re doing as if it’s about you.'
HOW TO DRINK ENOUGH WATER IN WARTIME, flash #nonfiction by Rebecca Entel, is featured in Cleaver Issue 45. wp.me/p30UXE-fyo

'The way they spoke reminded me of the sad, slow songs you’ve heard so often but don’t understand until you’ve suffered. All of us there had in some way, and that day we’d lost one of us.'
MIGUEL'S SANCHO, a story by TS Bender, in Cleaver 45. wp.me/p30UXE-ftx

More new work from the prolific kim magowan, courtesy of Cleaver Magazine:

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'Even from our separate buildings, I saw her eyes rake over me, vicious.'
PROXIMITY, short fiction by Sofi Guven, appears in Cleaver 45, our new issue. wp.me/p30UXE-fts
#phillywriter #phillypoet #cincinnatiwriter #brynmawralumni

Sad day for indie presses
/ #WritingCommunity . Small Press Distribution (SPD) is shutting down.