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If you're interested in applying to be a submission reader, screener, or our Volunteer Coordinator, please follow the link below 🤓 egjpress.submittable.com/sub…
Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things 📚@EmberJournal27 Feb 2024
Our spring submission call is coming up🌺 Since we've been experiencing high submission volumes these past few calls (and could use more volunteer readers to match 😃), we are setting a 500 submission limit for this period. Excited to read your stories and poems!
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Jessica Whipple@Jessicawhippl172 May 2025
Happy #poetryfriday! Here is the first poem I had published as an adult, this one in @EmberJournal. To read the rest: read.emberjournal.org/jessic…
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Abdulmueed Balogun@AbdmueedA8 Mar 2025
I'm glad to have my poem "Great Luminous Things " published yesterday in Ember: a Journal of Luminous Things. A big thanks to the editors for providing a befitting home. @EmberJournal Kindly read! read.emberjournal.org/abdulm… read.emberjournal.org/abdulm…

Great Luminous Things | Ember

Last night, I traded all the darkness In my life for great luminous things.

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"As Paulie's eyes adjusted, she located the dressing table. Just as she was about to grab the brush, she noticed some shadowy lumps in the drawer. She leaned closer to get a better look." Read "Gigi and The Lips" by Kelly White on Ember! read.emberjournal.org/kelly-…
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”We are like children who ask where the wind lived before all this homesick blowing began.” We’re excited to share a new poem “Trackless” by Richard Schiffman—two-time Ember contributor! read.emberjournal.org/richar…

Trackless | Ember

We are like children who ask where the wind lived before all this homesick blowing began.

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“Blanche had been taking her dogs to the dog park for as long as she could remember. But Albert. What was she to do with Albert?” Next up is “Gently Smiling Jaws” by Julie Le Blanc read.emberjournal.org/julie-…

Gently Smiling Jaws | Ember

Blanche had known that having Albert was going to be different, but she thought to herself, alligators make perfectly good pets.

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Ryan Benson@RyanWBenson4 Oct 2024
Excited my fantasy short story, "Faded Scars," is out now @EmberJournal! Read now for free! #shortstory #shortstories #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasy #love #lovestory #story #writing #free #writer #writerscommunity #urbanfantasy #storylove read.emberjournal.org/ryan-b……
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To celebrate the start of autumn, we’re publishing new stories and poems each week through December! First up is “The Wind Up Boy” by L.Rao read.emberjournal.org/l-rao/…

The Wind-Up Boy | Ember

The boy is beautiful. He hears them say it as the winding key coaxes his gears into motion, as he wakes in a building of steel and sunlight.

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We are excited to announce our Best of the Net nominations for 2025!
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We are working diligently on getting responses back to writers with submissions in our (very large) queue. Because of this, we have decided to forgo our typical fall submission call. We apologize for any disappointment but will reopen in March of 2025! 🧵
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We will announce of Best of the Net nominations within the next month 🏆 Plus we have SO many stories and poems to share with you starting in September 📚
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Thank you for your understanding and feel free to reach out to submissions@emberjournal.org for any questions!
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Ryan Benson@RyanWBenson1 Aug 2024
Excited my fantasy short story, "Faded Scars," was accepted by @emberjournal. It will be available online on October 4th. #shortstory #shortstories #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasy #love #lovestory #story #writing #free #writer #writerscommunity #urbanfantasy #storylove
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"Branches alone do not make a forest, however magical they are." Our next featured publication is "From a Seed, a Forest" by Em Harriett. read.emberjournal.org/em-har…
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"for eons i have nurtured this ——— a valley of woes" Our next featured poem is "Prayer—An Erasure" by Hameedah Aruwa read.emberjournal.org/hameed…
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Jessica Whipple@Jessicawhippl1710 May 2024
A #MothersDay #poetryfriday for today... I wrote this in high school and @EmberJournal ran it a few years ago (thanks!). Thanks for perhaps reading.
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"We light the diwas, and do the puja perfectly, and sing all the right bhajans. But nothing ever changes." Our latest story is "Shreya's Rakhi" by @ksshere_writes read.emberjournal.org/k-s-sh…

Shreya’s Rakhi | Ember

“We light the diwas, and do the puja perfectly, and sing all the right bhajans. But nothing ever changes.”…

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Submissions may be closed, but we've got new stories and poems for springtime 🌷 First up is "The Gift" by young writer Kerri Huang. This is Kerri's first-ever publication! read.emberjournal.org/kerri-…

The Gift | Ember

You were Someone who said My eyes were shaped like cherry blossoms…

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And that is 500! Thank you to all who submitted. We can’t wait to begin reading your work 🤓
Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things 📚@EmberJournal25 Mar 2024
We’re at 400! If you’ve been wanting to submit your work, now is the time to do so ⏰⏰ We will close submissions at 500.
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We’re at 400! If you’ve been wanting to submit your work, now is the time to do so ⏰⏰ We will close submissions at 500.
Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things 📚@EmberJournal19 Mar 2024
Update: we’re at 300 subs 📝
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