@ShonMapp

I read. I write. I eat bread. 🇧🇧🏳️‍🌈 ANMLY Folio Editor, Caribbean Yard Poetics coming in October Fractured Lit Reader

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Joined December 2018
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Shon@ShonMappJul 5
The Caribbean Yard Poetics folio is open for submissions through Aug 14th. Guest Editor: @AmilcarSanatan @ANMLY_LIT Folio Editor: @ShonMapp For more info, click the submission link in comments.
Caribbean Yard Poetics flyer Submissions open to poetry, CNF, and art Image shows overgrown yard in foreground and Barbados sunrise in background

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It's here!
ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press@ANMLY_LITOct 13
ANMLY #43 is here! We’re over the moon to share our translations, fiction, poetry, CNF, graphic narratives, micros, and new folios of Caribbean Yard Poetics and The Fetish Folio! >>> anmly.org/ap42 >>> Send us new work until February 1! >>> anmly.submittable.com
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The Red Bull thieves must've decided to upgrade.
Wanted in Rome@wantedinromeOct 9
A gang of thieves has stolen 30,000 bottles of Tuscan wine worth €5 million from the Marchesi Antinori cellar in Cortona, in what is being reported as the biggest wine theft in Italian history. wantedinrome.com/news/italy-…

30,000 bottles of wine worth €5 million stolen in record heist in Italy

Thieves have stolen 30,000 bottles worth €5 million from the Marchesi Antinori cellar in what is described as the biggest wine theft in Italian history.

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welcome critique, appreciate encouragement, ignore advice
Shon@ShonMappOct 10
Journalist: What is the best writing advice you've received? Anne Carson: I've never received any. I don't ask, frankly.
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Journalist: What is the best writing advice you've received? Anne Carson: I've never received any. I don't ask, frankly.
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“Beauty is primal, beauty precedes the interpreted world. Like mud, it’s organic, always changing.” — Aria Aber.
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I love the tone of this piece. Especially the line, "Six dangling days of nuzzling commas, a string of ands and no plug to light them. "
Eirene Gentle@IreneGentleSep 25
Poetry: World unmade by Eirene Gentle – JMWW jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/…

Poetry: World unmade by Eirene Gentle

Six days of burnt bulbs. Of whispers, no vowels and nothing

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Every human being has equal value. Every single one. At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored. No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed. What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity. Love and a little kindness. For everyone.
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a dream-sequence is almost never the solution
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Calling it superintelligence doesn't make it a palatable surrogate for humans.
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Cancer seems to come for everyone these days.
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I love this poem about how bereavement displaces us. Please give it a read:
Shon@ShonMappSep 5
If cryptic ethereal poems aren't your thing, keep it moving. tinyurl.com/3mj3mxx4
"Pariah" by Shon Mapp

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Some people treat this writing thing like it’s an Olympic sport. And it shows.
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If you ever suggest that we warm-up with sprints, the friendship is over.
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The trouble with AI is that it convinces the masses there's no use in trying. Learning isn't a waste of time. Creating isn't a waste of time. What are they spending that time on anyway? Tik tok?
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stop putting cognitive justice in quotation marks
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If I had one piece of flash fiction writing advice this week, it would be: Resist the urge to give a story a trick ending or a cheap final punch-line ending. I've noticed over the years that these endings usually disappoint readers in our queue & are often the reason they vote no
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BIM is a legacy literary journal that prints the Caribbean creative imagination without apology. I have three poems published in its May 2026 issue about my observations as flâneur in The Hague. See full issue here: bimmag.org/stories
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If cryptic ethereal poems aren't your thing, keep it moving. tinyurl.com/3mj3mxx4
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As an immigrant, grieving a parent can leave you feeling even more disconnected from self, culture, and family.
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You guys…I just bagged my third skull!!! And this incredibly sweet, personal acceptance from the guest editor is everything 😭 🙏 😭 Thank you so much, @havehadhavehad
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