@benjaminstarr

poetry reader @dishsoapquart

 Los Angeles, CA
benstarrwrites.com
Joined September 2025
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Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially into: grasshoppers, marsh, buttons, cleaning out houses, the apothecary diaries, mundanity, sushi, video games, mythical creatures, sonnets, deliveries, cnf, natural disaster, and nails.
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Sweet, clever flash piece up this week. Open "Intruder" from @jordyndamatoo and make sure you sit far enough away that whoever's haunting your house can catch a glimpse at this fire writing too. Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-20…
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PSAs. Please share. Our next free-submissions window opens on Nov 16. We're also reading for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest until Nov 15 and The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship until Dec 15. SmokeLong will always have free-submissions windows.
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Just finished this. Truly excellent, the perfect amount of weird
Ben Niespodziany ☁️🐋@neonpajamasOct 16
one day after Uncle Time's release, we've sold out of copies! you can pre-order the restock or find me at a reading in Chicago gasherpress.com/product-page…

Uncle Time | Gasher Press

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Staff meeting: We’re open for 45 more days before our December break. Get those subs in! Reading for Jan and Feb 2027.
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benstarr@benjaminstarrOct 16
Replying to @benjaminstarr
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got some new words up as part of Rat Bag Lit’s anniversary! Link 👇
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ratbaglit.substack.com/p/ann…
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Wonderfully playful flash up this week. You should def swipe right on "Let's Keep it Online" from @AmyAllenVT Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-13…
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HAD@havehadhavehadOct 14
☠️ 🎃 👻 call for spooky stuff tomorrow, from Aaron & Crow 👻 🎃 ☠️ • 800 words or fewer • for micros & poetry, up to 3 pieces (<800 total) allowed • open to all genre • Subs will open on Thursday, October 15 @ 4pm ET • Submissions capped at 200 havehashad.submittable.com/s…
Spooky HADtober Let's get spooky for October! Specifics: 800 words or fewer for micros & poetry, up to 3 pieces (<800 total) allowed open to all genre Subs will open on Thursday, October 15 @ 4pm ET Submissions capped at 200 💀 👻 🎃 — Aaron & Crow

ALT Spooky HADtober Let's get spooky for October! Specifics: 800 words or fewer for micros & poetry, up to 3 pieces (<800 total) allowed open to all genre Subs will open on Thursday, October 15 @ 4pm ET Submissions capped at 200 💀 👻 🎃 — Aaron & Crow

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Totally forgot to announce that we've turned 16! So you really should submit to us just because. eunoiareview.wordpress.com/s…

Submissions

Eunoia Review accepts submissions of original, previously unpublished poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction on a rolling basis. The journal accepts reprints, but you must retain or have regained…

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HAD@havehadhavehadOct 10
Open for the first 100 submissions, RIGHT NOW. * 300 word max * only submit one piece; if micros or poems, two are ok * open to all genre * no theme havehashad.submittable.com/s…
spontaneous October Saturday pop-up call! Submissions open right now! (Now = Noon ET, Saturday, October 10) 100 submissions, and then they'll close. 300 word max only submit one piece; if micros or poems, two are ok open to all genre no theme Might not get to these until tonight or tomorrow morning, but still going to shoot to reply to everyone in <24 hours (by noon tomorrow, Sunday, 10/11). Thanks. 💀💀💀 Aaron

ALT spontaneous October Saturday pop-up call! Submissions open right now! (Now = Noon ET, Saturday, October 10) 100 submissions, and then they'll close. 300 word max only submit one piece; if micros or poems, two are ok open to all genre no theme Might not get to these until tonight or tomorrow morning, but still going to shoot to reply to everyone in <24 hours (by noon tomorrow, Sunday, 10/11). Thanks. 💀💀💀 Aaron

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honored to be included with so many of my favorite writers - thanks @luckycreature
Shawn Scott Smith@luckycreatureOct 10
Let's celebrate Saturday with some #muckymondays #pushcart nominees. Congrats @alexandranaught @evoripclaw @norabird @TheDarkestStar_ @BurialMagazine @benjaminstarr muckymondays.neocities.org/a…
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might be my favorite of the had haikus so far
HAD@havehadhavehadOct 9
today from @xoliverlandx ! havehashad.com/hadposts/eye
October 9, 2026 Eye Oliver Land My mother asked me was I speaking to someone anyone at all

ALT October 9, 2026 Eye Oliver Land My mother asked me was I speaking to someone anyone at all

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the furio of prose poems
The Disappointed Housewife-SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN@offbeatlitOct 8
An ode to Furio from The Sopranos ... or at least to his shirts. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

the beautiful silk shirts of famed tv mobster furio giunta ~ prose poem by Masha Kurbatova

On The Sopranos, my favorite character is Furio. I like him for his silk shirts, his collared shirts, his tiger-striped shirts, his floral-patterned shirts, his wide and open v-neck shirts where Je…

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Wonderful flash up this week that captures the corporate grind a little too accurately. But maybe with a bit of a twist. Grab your magnifying glass and investigate "Keep This Machine Running" from Nick Porisch Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-6-…
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benstarr@benjaminstarrOct 5
new piece in the latest issue of unbroken link 👇
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benstarr@benjaminstarrOct 5
Replying to @benjaminstarr
theunjournals.com/unbroken51

Unbroken | Issue 51 | Fall 2026

Prose poems for y'all.

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Big shoutout to our @genrepunkmag awards nominees! @imbutashadow @justin_karcher @Access_Cop @Ohkaynow41187 @myrmiidons @WriterLeeFlatt @femibakare_ and other wonderful people not on this platform :)
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new piece in the latest issue of unbroken link 👇
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theunjournals.com/unbroken51

Unbroken | Issue 51 | Fall 2026

Prose poems for y'all.

theunjournals.com
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