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@swwim.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:03 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines Allium: Elizabeth Garcia, Merna Dyer Skinner MER Folio: Pichchenda Bao Pinch Literary Journal: Leona Sevick, Lesley Wheeler, Shannon K. Winston Plume: Susan Aizenberg, Patricia Clark, Diane K. Martin Rat's Ass Review: Sarah Carleton, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Meg Freer Rattle Poets Respond: Janna Schledorn RockPaperPoem: Dagne Forrest, Jane Ann Fuller, Mary Beth Hines, Sonya Schneider, Melody Wilson Villain Era: Paula R. Hilton Whale Road Review: Dagne Forrest, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Katie Kemple, Anya Kirshbaum, Danielle Lemay, Annette Sisson, Lesley Wheeler Awards Mass Book Awards: Longlist: Carla Panciera, Catherine Strisik 2026 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize: Finalists: Pam Crow, Kathryn Weld Narrative Magazine's 18th Annual Poetry Contest: Finalists: Julia Kolchinsky 2026 ProForma Competition: Winner: Ellen Koombiyil; Shortlisted: Jen Karetnick*, Julia Kolchinsky 2026 RPP Poetry Contest: First Runner-Up: Dagne Forrest; Honorable Mention: Jane Ann Fuller, Melody Wilson Books Center for Humans & Nature, Sensoria anthology: Contributors: Elizabeth Bradfield, Lauren Camp, Brenda Cárdenas, Kai Coggin, Elizabeth Jacobson, Heather Swan The Ohio State University Press: Amy Thatcher, Weird Girl Seven Kitchens Press: VA Smith, Urbanity Features & Columns LitHub: Chelsea Rathburn Poetry Daily: Arah Ko Reviews LA Review of Books: Reviewer: Heather Treseler Publisher's Weekly: Reviewed: Erika Meitner Whale Road Review: Reviewer: Emma Bolden, Reviewer: Crystal Stone Interviews Be Less Careful: Jenny Browne Whale Road Review: Mary Ardery
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:30 PM

This event will be live-streamed on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

Join us in person or from wherever you are.

XO
SWWIM Team

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #SWWIMResidency #SWWIMReadingSeries #BleahPatterson #ZYasminWaheed

@littlemissbleah.bsky.social

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:03 PM

From “Ballad” by Kathleen Winter

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/9/ballad

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#SWWIMEveryDay #Poetry #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Inclusive #Community #KathleenWinter

Image of a woman's silhouetted face in profile with hair in a bun and a quote in bright blue "She wishes I would reinvent herself, take herself to task, to heart" by Kathleen Winter
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Sewn” by Melanie McCabe

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/8/sewn

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#SWWIMEveryDay #Poetry #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Inclusive #Community #MelanieMcCabe

Close-up image of a spool of magenta colored thread with a quote in pale yellow "The spool between my daughter and me unwinds and rolls out of reach" by Melanie McCabe
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:00 PM

2026 nominees

Jessica Barlevi
“Before”

Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
“New Baby Haibun”

heather emmanuel
“unattended”

Melissa Ginsburg
“The mother”

Pam Williams
“We Got Future”

#SWWIMEveryDay #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #BestSmallFictions

@blacklawrence.bsky.social

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Parable of the Claw Machine” by Samantha Strong Murphey

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/7/parable-of-the-claw-machine

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#SWWIMEveryDay #Poetry #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Inclusive #SamanthaStrongMurphey

Image of different colored rubber duckies with a quote in pale blue "when everyone in the arcade stops to witness the miracle of the duckies" by Samantha Strong Murphey
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:03 PM

From “A Plump Wife & A Big Barn Never Did Any Man Harm” by Jennifer Jackson Berry

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/6/a-plump-wife-amp-a-big-barn-never-did-any-man-harm

#SWWIMEveryDay #WomenPoets #Inclusive #JenniferJacksonBerry

Image of a a woman's thighs and lower legs in nylons and black boots under black shorts on outside steps with a quote in yellow "I could hurt him with a thunder thigh squeeze, a motorboat suffocation" by Jennifer Jackson Berry
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 1:01 PM

From “Self Portrait as a Bag of Breast Milk in a Restaurant Freezer” by Tyler Mills

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/5/self-portrait-as-a-bag-of-breast-milk-in-a-restaurant-freezer

#SWWIMEveryDay #WomenPoets #Inclusive #TylerMills

Close-up image of a rust-pink and orange dried autumn leaf with a quote in pale blue "I, too, once lived in the skin, near the tidal swish of veins. Tingled and pressed." by Tyler Mills
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:30 PM

This event will be live-streamed on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

Join us in person or from wherever you are.

XO
SWWIM Team

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #SWWIMResidency #SWWIMReadingSeries #BleahPatterson #ZYasminWaheed

@littlemissbleah.bsky.social

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:03 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines The American Poetry Review: Tiana Nobile Birdcoat Quarterly: Romana Iorga, Jill Kitchen** Calul Journal: Donna Spruijt-Metz Colorado Review: Laura Villareal Hole in the Head Review: M.L. Hedison, Judy Kaber, Abigail Michelini The Lake: Valy Steverlynck The Maine Review: Samantha Strong Murphey, Ellen June Wright Mezzo Cammin: Barbara Crooker, Stevie Edwards, Anne Graue Poetose: Tina Barry Quartet Journal: Christa Fairbrother, Luci Huhn, Jennifer Mills Kerr, ​​​​​Jill Michelle, Yiskah Rosenfeld, Cynthia Ventresca Sky Island Journal: Megan Stillwell Still Point Arts Quarterly: Karla Van Vliet Waxwing: Kelly Russell Agodon, Jenny Molberg Awards 2026 Boggs Contest Winners: Finalist: Rosa Godshall Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize: Runner-Up: Leah Falk The 2026 New England Poetry Club Contests: Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Finalist, Carolyn Oliver; Amy Lowell Prize: Winner, Anastasia Vassos Books Sheila-Na-Gig Editions: Jen Karetnick*, Domiciliary Features & Columns Associated Press: Jennifer Franklin Poetry Daily: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné Second Coming: Sarah Dickenson Snyder Reviews Brooklyn Rail: Reviewed: Arden Levine RHINO Reviews: Reviewer: Susanna Lang; Reviewed: Kelli Russell Agodon, Jenny Browne, Arden Levine, Elline Lipkin tweetspeak: Reviewed: Trish Hopkinson, Jen Karetnick* Interviews COMP: an interdisciplinary journal: Arden Levine Green Linden Press: Arden Levine Audio/Visual Spots & Podcasts The Slowdown: Erika Meitner *SWWIM Every Day Editors **SWWIM Every Day Readers & Staff ***SWWIM Every Day Contributing Editors-at-Large
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:03 PM

This is the last day of #LitMagWeek. Thank you for reading! As a reminder, new subscribers receive 40% off for an annual plan.

Link to subscribe valid through 10/2 at midnight: swwimmiami.substack.com/b7ac8eeb

Thank you for subscribing & supporting!

@clmporg.bsky.social

#SWWIMEveryDay

#LitMagWeek: Last chance to subscribe & support SWWIM for a discount!
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Blue Manatee” by Catherine Bowman

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/2/blue-manatee

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #CatherineBowman

Image of ripples of deep blue fabric and a quote in pale blue "Tonight, the sky the color of a velvet blue boot, thrifted, long lost" by Catherine Bowman
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:07 PM

Read our friends and collaborators at MER (Mom Egg Review) @merliterary.bsky.social !

(narrated by Mary Block, senior editor of SWWIM Every Day and SWWIM director of development)

@clmporg.bsky.social

#LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #MER #MomEggReview

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:04 PM

Throwback Thursday:

Do you remember Green Mountains Review? We do.

(narrated by Jen Karetnick @kavetchnik.bsky.social , SWWIM cofounder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day)

@clmporg.bsky.social

#LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #GreenMountainsReview

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Preoperative Love Poem” by Deborah Ager

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/1/preoperative-love-poem

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenPoets #Inclusive #DeborahAger

Image of seams of river bed and earth with reflections of sky and a quote in bright yellow "just your skin and my skin with their rivers of scars trickling, teaching our fingertips where to go every night" by Deborah Ager
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “A ball python keeps showing up in my dreams” by Maegan Gonzales

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/9/30/a-ball-python-keeps-showing-up-in-my-dreams

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Inclusive #MaeganGonzales

Image of a coiled snake in dark and pale green with a quote in pale blue "The father lets Iono coil three times around the little girl's unsuspicious neck. Her body tightens." by Maegan Gonzales
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 3:02 PM

Meet SWWIM!

(narrated by Catherine Esposito Prescott, SWWIM cofounder and editor-in-chief of SWWIM Every Day)

Photos by Chantal Lawrie.

#LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #WomenSupportingWomen

@swwim.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “All the Ways to Want Things” by Stacie Kiner

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/9/29/all-the-ways-to-want-things

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenPoets #Inclusive #StacieKiner #TuesdayPoem #TBT

Image of the earth blue and glowing with the bottom in the shadow of night with a quote in bright yellow "Our world slowly spinning unbuttons itself-- this is a difficult home" by Stacie Kiner
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 1:01 PM

From “Ancient Balm” by Regina Caggiano

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #Inclusive #AncientBalm #ReginaCaggiano #MondayPoem

Black and white image of a woman's open mouth with teeth showing and fingers touching chin with a quote in bright blue "and I know one day we'll argue for the last time about my mouth this nuisance, elemental, obstructive" by Regina Caggiano
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:02 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines Anacapa Review: Sarah Carey Cleaver Magazine: Lauren Camp Fish Barrel Review: Annie Diamond, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn Forget Cool: Mary Lou Buschi, Majda Gama, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Jill Kitchen**, Erin Murphy, Laura Passin, Leah Umansky, Donna Vorreyer fws: what we kept: a geography: Susan Michele Coronel, Jen Karetnick* Four Way Review: Emma Bolden, Jackie K. White ONE ART: a journal of poetry: Betsy Mars, Kathryn Petruccelli Painted Pebble Lit Mag: Sarah Seybold Plume: Nicole Cooley Silver Birch Press: Laurinda Lind, Leah Mueller Summerset Review: Jane Medved, Sarah Seybold Superpresent: Bernadette Geyer Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines The Threepenny Review: Leona Sevick West Trestle Review: Susan Cohen**, Jeni De La O, Christa Fairbrother, H. E. Fisher, Hilary King, Amy Miller, Joannie Stangeland, Melody Wilson Awards 4th Annual Codhill Press Guest Editor Series: Winner: Karen Earle National Poetry Series: Winners: Margaret Ray, Christell Victoria Roach***; Finalists: Ronda Piszk Broatch, Tin Fogdall 2026 Prime Number Award for Poetry: Runner-Up: Yiskah Rosenfeld Books Rockwood Press: Buffy Shutt, Annunciations Features & Columns Only Poems Poet of the Week: Cydni Thompson Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Features & Columns Poetry Town: Barbara Crooker Second Coming: Susana H. Case, Leslie Morris Reviews Anacapa Review: Reviewer: Heather Sellers Plume: Reviewer: Jane Zwart Summerset Review: Reviewer: Erin Murphy; Reviewed: Jane Zwart West Trestle Review: Reviewed: Rebecca Hart Olander Interviews Four Way Review: Arden Levine Audio/Visual Spots & Podcasts The Slowdown: Cynthia Marie Hoffman *SWWIM Every Day Editors **SWWIM Every Day Readers & Staff ***SWWIM Every Day Contributing Editors-at-Large **** SWWIM Emeritus Personnel
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