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@emergejournal.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:01 PM

Suburban life turns surreal in Domesticated Creatures by Thad DeVassie: more than sixty interconnected short pieces featuring a man, his donkey and a reaper.

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The full Domesticated Creatures cover on a midnight-blue ELJ background. Its artwork shows a woman beside a flower-crowned donkey-headed figure, surrounded by small figures and rabbits. White lettering reads “Domesticated Creatures” and “Thad DeVassie.” The title and author repeat below the cover, beside the silver ELJ bird at bottom right.

@emergejournal.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:01 AM

Digging Up Bones: Reflections on Trauma & Recovery brings together 41 essays, edited by Diane Gottlieb.

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Digging Up Bones cover, intact within a silver frame on midnight blue. A black figure stands in rippling rings of orange, yellow and pink. The cover reads “Reflections on Trauma and Recovery,” “Edited by Diane Gottlieb” and “Foreword by Jehanne Dubrow.” Beneath it are the subtitle, editor credit and ELJ motto; the silver ELJ bird is at bottom right.

@emergejournal.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:01 AM

Reel Love: Celebrating Cinematic Soulmates opens for submissions November 1. Previously unpublished fiction, CNF or poetry about a movie, TV series or actor that changed your life. Edited by Diane Gottlieb. Fiction/CNF: 1,500 words max. Poetry: 2 pages max. Save the date.

Diane Gottlieb’s supplied Reel Love artwork, shown intact on a midnight-blue ELJ frame: coils of film surround a silver reel, with the words “Reel Love,” “Celebrating Cinematic Soulmates” and “Edited by Diane Gottlieb.” The frame reads “Submissions open November 1” and “Edited by Diane Gottlieb,” with the silver ELJ bird at bottom right.

@emergejournal.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:00 PM

Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 37, is now live: poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction for fall, with magic, humor, acceptance and loss.

Join us on the page: emergeliteraryjournal.com/issue-37/