Write against the grain. A journal of new and innovative work published by MFA candidates at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Boulder, CO
Joined June 2010
TIMBER is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2025 #PushcartPrize. Congratulations to: Jackie Craven @kgindermaur @Lachenmeyer @ModerTim @remirecchialit @Toscano200 Read their work at timberjournal.org!
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A reminder that we are open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024!
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Our poetry cap has been reached, but we're still open for prose subs! Send us your genre-bendy, your lyrical, your unconventional prose baby that hasn't found a home elsewhere!
WINTER IS COMING. SUBS NOW OPEN FOR LGBTQIA+ & DISABLED WRITERS 🚇subs open for all writers OCT 16 🚇subs close DEC 1 ~ never any fees ~ we accept prose & poetry, including text-based visuals ~ always looking for experimental & hybrid concoctions ~
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WINTER IS COMING. SUBS NOW OPEN FOR LGBTQIA+ & DISABLED WRITERS 🚇subs open for all writers OCT 16 🚇subs close DEC 1 ~ never any fees ~ we accept prose & poetry, including text-based visuals ~ always looking for experimental & hybrid concoctions ~
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Nostalgic for warmer nights, hometown shenanigans, & that “comfortable kind of nonsense.” @mirventures featured in Issue 14.2 read more & get ready to submit @ timberjournal.org
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Writers! We are still open for submissions!! Send us your work and find our submission FAQ at pinchjournal.submittable.com… Submission deadlines- Sept 30 for Poetry, Oct 1 for Fiction, and Oct 31 for Nonfiction!
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Here’s “The First Day of Autumn” published in Timber Journal & in “Bad Mexican, Bad American” (Acre Books, 2024).
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“God sobs in my arms, but He could do better” // new from Melanie Goulish in TIMBER summer issue 🤝
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Nicholas Alti is playing with words in issue 14.2 (out now!)
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IT’S HERE!!! LAUNCH DAY!!! A RAT WAS BORN TODAY!!! 🐀🖤
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Lyndsie never misses! Honored to have "The Dizzy Room" (@NightmareMag) included on this thoughtful list of genre-bending sci-fi tales 👾
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So proud of our previous poetry editor!
author copies? author copies!!
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book promo @ the austin museum of ice cream spotted 👁️👁️🐀 do as the pic says, preorder here: gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-…
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Wow?? My horror-is-an-ESL-game-you’re-forced-to-play story, “The Dizzy Room,” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction! Thank you @NightmareMag, @wnwagner, jurors, readers. And big congrats to all the nominees! shirleyjacksonawards.org/202…
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ratman is PHYSICAL now, i received my proof this week 👀🐀 t-minus three months to launch!! preorder your copy here! gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-…
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Check out this praise for one of TIMBER’s last poetry editors and their forthcoming collection!
Author Bri Gonzalez has just finished their MFA (congrats!) & is already doing big things. A debut collection? A blurb from Eugenia Leigh???? AMAZING! Preorder today at GAMEOVERBOOKS.COM
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The graceful prose of Sayantani Roy @sayan_tani_r's "Almost-Friend" seeps into the liminal spaces, and lingers Read "Almost-Friend" today in Issue 14.1! timberjournal.org/archive/al…
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Jacqui Zeng's "Queers in Love at the End of the World" is achingly beautiful. Read it here: timberjournal.org/archive/qu…
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FYI to all our horse girlies...you're going to love Ellen Welcker's poem "IN WHICH THE HORSE" Read it here in Issue 14.1 timberjournal.org/archive/in…
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More excellent work from our past contributor @sherttt
My second poem in @ANMLY_LIT, "A Canon of Constraints"! 🔥🎆 "We carry scars that we keep picking into cicatrices, where we are circling a moot point like hawk with a clover in its claws / I know they are called talons but after the war, is our existence not a misnomer?"
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