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Passages North

7 years

"PN has given careful thought to the voices it wants to empower. We seek to publish work that empowers those voices, not endangers them."

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

Friends, Enemies, and Lovers: WE'RE OPEN! Now accepting submissions in all genres! More info at our site or on our submittable page!

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

and just like that, we're open in all genres again! poetry, cnf, shorts AND fiction! send us something that'll blow our minds!

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@PassagesNorth

1 year

We will still read your work if there is a typo in the cover letter! Frankly we’ll read your work if your cover letter is just a picture of you and your puppy.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

1 year

It's December first and that means we're re-opened for free submissions in poetry, cnf, and short-shorts! Send us your cozy, your exciting, your heartbreaking, and also your spotify wrapped because im curious 👀

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

Friends, Enemies, Lovers: We reopen to free subs 1 Oct. Our Nonfiction/Hybrid queue is looking a little sparse, so we're giving all you essayists and hybrid-writers a bit of a head start. CNF opens at Midnight. Fiction, Poetry, and Shorts open at 5 PM. Get ready!

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

oh no, seems we accidentally opened for Short-Shorts, Poetry, and CNF subs a whole 14 hours early! it would be a HORRIBLE shame if people went to our submittable page at and started sending us their cool and lovely work! (fiction opens tomorrow!)

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

🍁it's november 1 which means we're open for free subs again (everything bit fiction) but it ALSO means im gonna be so cozy for the next 4-6 months🍁

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@PassagesNorth

11 months

When I say I got that dog in me, this is what I mean

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@PassagesNorth

3 months

Tortured Poet's Department? You mean the corner booth at the college bar where the MFAs hang out?

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@PassagesNorth

8 months

🚀🚀🚀 We're open!! Send us your lovelies!!! 🚀🚀🚀

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@PassagesNorth

5 months

Passages North has always championed work that experiments with the page, which is why we’ve opened up a new submission category: the visual essay. We’re looking for visually striking work that challenges the conventional ways of reading. Send us something cool.

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

i live my life in constant fear of accidentally parking like a jerk also we're open for CNF, Poetry, and Shorts again

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

6 years

Psst, we're open for submissions.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

1 year

ISSUE 44 IS HERE!!!! 🎉🎊🍾

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

Absolutely obsessed with the fact that the last time I was in a tattoo shop the shop assistant heard me talking about my thesis (poetry) and just silently walked over to the tv, put Dead Poets Society on, then went back to his desk.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

Friends, enemies, lovers: We're so excited to reveal Passages North No. 43. Cover art by @_milacreates . Layout by @esperanzawrites . 59 stellar contributors in Shorts, Fiction, Poetry, and CNF. Read selected pieces and view the full table of contents here:

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Passages North will be back open on Dec. 1st so use this week to get your subs ready!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

5 years

Creative Nonfiction peeps, we want your weird and bizarre. Your phantasmal, your apocalyptic. Not sure where your piece fits, send it. 🚀🚀🚀🚀

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

6 months

We’ve got some free submission spots for the lucky few (while supplies last)

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

8 months

Ready those hermit crabs and burning haibuns—Passages North is open for subs THIS FRIDAY (9/1)

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

Our subs will reopen on Feb. 1st! In the meantime, take care of yourself Rocketeers ❤

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@PassagesNorth

8 months

There is truly nothing like sending out submission season’s first acceptance. Except for maybe puppy smooches. Those are also quite special.

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@PassagesNorth

8 months

Dang these submissions are SOOOO good idk how to choose between all of these amazing pieces. I hope nobody submits anything else otherwise I’ll die

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

6 years

If you've got LGBTQ flash fiction, we want it.

Christopher Allen

@Christopher_All

6 years

"No swearing, profanity, explicit sexual scenes, graphic violence, LGBTQ." Loving being lopped into this list, right after "graphic violence" Major fail

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

It's the worst-kept secret on lit twitter: Issue 42 is LIVE

Issue #42 — Passages North

www.passagesnorth.com

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

7 months

We were getting some serious FOMO watching all of the other cool lit mags nominate their awesome contributors for BotN so we decided to nominate our own.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

Lots of announcements, no April Fools Bits: We've reopened for Shorts, CNF, and Poetry, and they won't reopen until August! Contest subs for BOTH of our contests are open right now! Free contest subs for those who need them open on Monday!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

Our nominees for Best Small Fictions are: @writesloud @reverse_venus @courtney_clute @jreikoteruya @DinaLRelles

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

If you're wondering to yourself "what are the editors at Passages North about?" this is a pretty good summary: "We are not interested in reading racist, misogynistic, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, or any otherwise hateful work or work written by abusers."

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@PassagesNorth

8 months

just like every organism eventually evolves into a crab, i have a theory that every poet becomes an essayist by some inexplicable law of the universe

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 months

ANNOUNCING the new glorious issue of Passages North! Featuring the words of @yaoxiaoart , @megpokrass , @geg2us , @huan_direction , @UrvashiBahuguna and more!! You can get issue 45 NOW on our site or at the Passages North table at AWP!!

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Passages North has truly arrived everyone:

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

Friends, Enemies, Lovers: Passages North's 2021 Pushcart Nominations!

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Passages North is extremely excited to announce our Pushcart nominations!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

1 year

Managing Editor @ZoaCoudret on today’s bonus short-short: “ @EliotLi2 exposes the silliness, excitement, and always-looming sadness of growing old with a romantic partner, and what’s at stake if (or rather, when) we lose them.” Check it out here!! 🚀

Why Max and Ying Decided to Make a Sex Tape by Eliot Li — Passages North

Managing Editor Zoa Coudret on this week’s bonus short-short: “Why Max and Ying Decided to Make a Sex Tape” looks at love, sex, aging, and death from an indirect but powerful perspective. By keeping...

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@PassagesNorth

5 months

Y’all have no idea how tempted I am to leak this beautiful cover. We’ve really outdone ourselves. You’re gonna lose it.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

5 years

The spooky season has arrived. We're open for submissions again. Bring it on. 💀🦇🕷️💀🦇🕷️

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

4 years

When I say this Airbnb is typewriter themed, I mean it is TYPEWRITER THEMED! Kinda love it.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

We have a limited number of free submissions open for our contests! ***Please do not submit in the free category if you can comfortably pay the regular entry fee.*** Please do not submit more than one free entry.

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@PassagesNorth

5 months

Announcing our Pushcart Nominees this year! Congrats to @elk_selk , @NicAnstett , @MollySKiefer , @Camille_U_Adams , Isuara Ren, and Jason Gordon!

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@PassagesNorth

5 months

This giving Tuesday, we’re asking you to look into your heart and give us a really, really, really good flash essay.

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

We're so excited to have @likelykevin & @NatalieLima09 judging our Poetry and Nonfiction Prizes this year! Send us your stuff!

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Now That's What I Call An Essay Im Not Emotionally Honest Enough To Write: Volume 481

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

5 years

We're thrilled to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations! 🚀🚀 @LeonoraDesar , @melostrom , @Lizard_Eyes , @CardewjCardew , and Michelle Ross.

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

When I say I'm an "emerging author" this is what I mean:

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

4 months

Trying to solicit some poems from Yukon Cornelius. If anyone has their contact info that would be a huge help.

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Associate poetry editor @hannahcajandigt said "When I came across this piece in the queue, I audibly gasped." Check out "Ode to @MarkRuffalo " by @mjarlett :

Ode to Mark Ruffalo by Megan J. Arlett — Passages North

Associate poetry editor Hannah Cajandig-Taylor on today’s bonus poem: When I came upon this piece in the queue, I audibly gasped. Megan J. Arlett’s voice brilliantly shines in the clever echoes of...

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

4 years

Our reading year is officially beginning, but we're way overdue in introducing our new Managing Editor, Audrey Bauman ( @haylin42 )! A brilliant scholar & fiction writer with work in Jellyfish Review & Paper Darts, please welcome queen of the golden-hour lighting, Audrey.

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

Another little sneak peak photo where you can see a bit more of our lovely cover art by @_milacreates !

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

Free contest submissions are now open! No questions asked on our end. Free subs are limited, so please submit through the normal contest queues if you're able. For more info visit

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

We're into this. Future contributors: we'd welcome it if yall wanted to include a tipping option in your bios going forward. Past online contributors: get in touch at passages(at)nmu(dot)edu if you'd like us to update your bios.

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Every day I get up and put on my silly little blazer and turn on my silly little camera just for my students to not show up to their scheduled zoom meeting and that is okay.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

4 years

My roommate (and PN managing editor) just said "I don't remember this book being sad." The book in question? CHARLOTTE'S WEB.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

We just heard the news! @goftyler 's "Eternal Night at the Nature Museum..." was selected for Best Microfiction! Congrats to everyone selected

Best Microfiction

@bestmicrofic

3 years

Best Microfiction's 2021 judge Amber Sparks @ambernoelle has made her selections. Congratulations to the winners and the magazines who published these incredible micros! Here are the winning stories. Thank you so much to the nominating editors.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

7 years

All day, we'll be tweeting and RTing work from LGBT, Black, brown, disabled and female writers. Tweet us your recs. 💜

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

A note from the CNF/Hybrid team: We're really vibing with the "hybrid" part of our queue these days. We're looking for formal audacity anchored by brilliant "prose." If you've got something experimental, in-between, and exciting, we'd love to see it in the queue!

Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

and just like that, we're open in all genres again! poetry, cnf, shorts AND fiction! send us something that'll blow our minds!

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

Last day of AWP! Come by, say hello to Heidi the hippo and our staff! Pay what you want for copies of PN! Free stickers!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

1 year

It’s 40 degrees here today and you know what that means: the Baja Blast I forgot in my car last month is just melted enough to drink again. Cheers!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

3 years

We are thrilled to announce the winner of this year's Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize: "Aviary" by @yongsnotolds Honorable Mention: "Triptych with Oleo-Saccharum and Abandoned Old Navy Dress” by @a_prevett

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

At AWP? Drop by table T554 and say hello!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

4 years

Passages North is extremely excited to finally reveal our Best of the Net nominations:

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

Without further ado, we're absolutely stoked to announce this year's Best of the Net nominations from Passages North! All of these dynamite pieces (and so much more) available on our site right now!

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

1 year

This is your sign to submit to your dream journal! We're not that scary! We're normal people* just like you! *It is important to note that 30% of our staff are vampires

Monica Prince—ROADMAP AVAILABLE NOW!

@poetic_moni

1 year

Y'all, I've was scared to submit to journals like @PassagesNorth , despite reading them for almost a decade, but today I got a 2024 acceptance from my fever dream submission drive last year! A piece from my unpublished choreopoem [INSERT FANTASY HERE] no less!

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Good morning, I guess

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

We're thrilled to announce the winner of this year's Waasnode Fiction Prize, judged by @mcrane_12 : "Man" by Ucheoma Onwutuebe! Congrats to @ucheomar , as well as the other finalists, @liwendyxu , @lisa_wartenberg , @vicku___ , @ugwueze_kosiso , and @taromilkpng .

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@PassagesNorth

1 year

We have a sexy graphic for our sexy contests that you should submit your sexy (or non-, un-, anti-sexy) work to!

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

3/14: Keep your eyes open.

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

4 years

Went around & asked for litmags for the Free Little Library down from our Airbnb and you all responded! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 #AWP2020 @cimarronreview , @SlipperyElmLJ , Nelle, @PassagesNorth , @SCReview , Western Humanities Review, @prairiemargins , @RathallaReview , @UndergroundGSU .

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

Hard at work packing, labelling, and doodling on envelopes!

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

So, I'm the new managing editor of PN, @t_guzman . Been the voice of PN twitter for the last two years. Tweeted some absurd stuff during that time a lot of it about snacks and snow. And today part of my job was searching for sweet Dino costumes. This job is pretty cool.

Jennifer A. Howard

@JferHow

4 years

Um I just ordered three dinosaur costumes for @passagesnorth purposes. 🦖☄️☄️☄️

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@PassagesNorth

1 year

🚨⚠️YOU HAVE 11 DAYS TO SUBMIT TO OUR CNF AND POETRY CONTESTS!!! WIN A CASH PRIZE! GET A PUBLICATION!! EARN BRAGGING RIGHTS!!!⚠️🚨

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Editor-in-chief @JferHow on today's bonus essay: "Only the brilliant @paulaoffkilter could write an essay so sexy and so practical at the same time. What an incredible voice." Read "tender lunges" by Paula Harris here:

tender lunges by Paula Harris — Passages North

Editor-in-chief Jennifer A. Howard on today’s bonus essay: Only the brilliant Paula Harris could write an essay so sexy and so practical at the same time. What an incredible voice. tender lunges I am...

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Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

nonfiction/hybrid open now! everything else opens at 5 pm! go go Go GO GO!

Passages North

@PassagesNorth

2 years

Friends, Enemies, Lovers: We reopen to free subs 1 Oct. Our Nonfiction/Hybrid queue is looking a little sparse, so we're giving all you essayists and hybrid-writers a bit of a head start. CNF opens at Midnight. Fiction, Poetry, and Shorts open at 5 PM. Get ready!

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

In a few months I will probably be complaining about snow, but I do kinda love it here.

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

I regret not buying more pizza rolls.

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

We're now open for our biennial fiction and shorts contests! This year's Waasnode Fiction prize is being judged by @mcrane_12 , and the Neutrino Short-Short prize by @heckaseuss . Find more information at our contests page here:

Contests — Passages North

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

my hottest take is that the recipe preamble is my favorite genre of essay

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

We are so excited to announce our 2021 Poetry & CNF contest judges, @likelykevin & @NatalieLima09 ! Read more about them and our contests here:

Poetry & Nonfiction Contest Judges Announced! — Passages North

Passages North’s poetry and creative nonfiction contests will open for submissions on February 15, 2021, and close on April 15, 2021. We’re pleased to announce this year’s guest judges! Ray Ventre...

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

Friends, Enemies, Lovers: Passages North's Best Microfiction Nominees!

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Woah! Looks like we've hit our submission limit for September already. But don't worry, we'll be back open bright and early on Oct. 1st!

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

We are so pleased to announce our nominations for Best New Poets: @Hussyainy & @jej_sen ! You can read their respective pieces from Issue 42, "Assemblage of Stones for a New Colony" & "cargo", online here:

Issue #42 — Passages North

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Our first acceptance of the year!!

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Did I lose this piece? Was this piece never there? 🤔 This is going to haunt me.

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@PassagesNorth

11 months

trans writers rule so hard

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@PassagesNorth

6 years

So excited about our first acceptance. Can't wait for everyone to read this @loki_writes piece!!! 🚀🚀🚀

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

Volta (who lives with MFA-ers @edgy2003blond & @futonsinbulk ) enjoying a tasty snack.

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

brb writing an elegy for the grocery list i lost somewhere between the bread aisle and the cheese aisle

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@PassagesNorth

5 years

Copies are in the mail and on their way!!! The gorgeous cover art is by @mcfawn !!! Purchase a copy below!🚀🚀🚀 #PN40

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@PassagesNorth

1 year

Wouldn’t it be so cool if you could purchase the immaculate issue 44 of Passages North at booth T1134 at AWP this Thursday through Saturday?? That would be crazy too tho… unless…

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

If, like me, you've been scrolling on this nightmare site for over 24 hours, here is a cute dog playing in the snow:

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Two of us in the office today! We're eight ft apart and wiping everything down every couple of hours, but we're in the queue! Send us some cool and crazy and weird stuff. In particular, we'd love more work from marginalized voices!!! 🚀🚀🚀

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@PassagesNorth

4 years

Will I eat anything other than chips today? 🤔 No. The answer is no. It's just chips and cheese dip and salsa. I mean salsa has vegetables, so not too bad right?

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

And how about this cover by the incredible @mcfawn !?

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@PassagesNorth

5 years

It's official. Subs are open!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Jennifer A. Howard

@JferHow

5 years

Oops: I know we didn't plan to open @PassagesNorth subs until tomorrow, but I got excited.

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@PassagesNorth

5 years

Congrats to @loki_writes !!! The Murdered Ladies series is going to be a book. Make sure to preorder it at @okaydonkeymag . We will most definitely be doing so. 🚀🚀🚀

Okay Donkey Mag/Press

@okaydonkeymag

5 years

WE HAVE NEWS (yes we are yelling) OKD is launching a small press! Our first book will be none other than the beloved Cathy Ulrich’s ( @loki_writes ) “Ghosts of You,” a full-length collection of her Murdered Ladies Series, out 10/15/19 Preorder your copy: !

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

*Lea Salonga's "Reflection" plays softly in the background*

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@PassagesNorth

3 years

We are extremely excited to announce our best microfiction nominees: @katiecurnow @grasoceng @StephLenox @goftyler @BeccaOrchard @ShereeWinslow

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@PassagesNorth

7 months

Just got the news that I’ve been nominated for stinkiest poet. It’s an honor to be considered amongst the likes of Jack Kerouac and probably Walt Whitman

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@PassagesNorth

2 years

up at 3 am and it's definitely because im so excited about opening for subs on thursday, not because i forgot to take my allergy meds and can only breathe out of half my face

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