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Submissions Are Open Until 7/15 MER will be open until July 15, 2025 for literary and art submissions to our annual print issue on the theme of Mother and Family. All submissions are through Submittable. We publish poetry (up to 3 poems, no more…

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Submissions Are Open at MER 4/23 – 7/15! We are seeking poetry (1-3 poems), fiction and nonfiction (up to 1000 words) and art for a themed issue on Mothers and Family. Often mothers are the nuclei of families—of the legacies,…

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Get a print copy! ($18) Get a PDF copy ($5) Editor-in-Chief Marjorie Tesser Poetry Editors Jennifer Martelli Cindy Veach Prose Co-Editor J.L. Scott The issue features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art Emily Adams-Aucoin, Eneida Alcalde, Anne…

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SWWIM, MER, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, & Cultivating Voices present: Off site. On purpose. Thursday, March 27, 2025, 7:00 PM MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St., Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Free Admission – Doors Open at 6:30)  SWWIM,…

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Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart Prize nominees: POETRY Doralee Brooks, “Hips” Carolina Hotchandani, “Chiaroscuro” Hilary King, “Investigations” Natalie Solmer, “I Am a Great Lake” FICTION Cheryl J. Fish, “A Seven-Year-Old Left Alone Shivering” NONFICTION Cheliss Thayer, “Co-Sleeper”

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 Congrats to our nominees! POETRY Anna Abraham Gasaway – The Kenmore Refrigerator Elinor Ann Walker – I will hunger Nicole Greaves – Scars R. Erica Doyle – Wander Caridad Moro-Gronlier – For My 21-Year-Old Son, Who Cals Me on The…

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