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An award-winning journal of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, interviews, and hybrid work, published by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
2 years
big news: we're now accepting submissions!!! send us your best fiction, prose, poetry and translations anytime between now and December 15. happy submitting – we can't wait to read your work ✨📚
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Washington Square Review is… 🥁🥁🥁 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🥳 Submit your work! And visit our website for more info on submissions for Issue 53 & our New Voices Award! Links in our bio!
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Washington Square Review
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Send us your poetry, fiction, translations, and creative nonfiction before Feb. 1! Click the link in our bio to head to our website and Submittable page. We look forward to reading your work.
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Washington Square Review
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OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS📣 Visit our website for more information on how to submit to the New Voices Award and Issue 52!
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Washington Square Review
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Free submission day TOMORROW! Submit to the New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers, without paying the fee. We will post the link tomorrow until 11:59 pm ET. Keep an eye on our Instagram story for more free submission days before the deadline
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General submissions are open!📣 Visit our website for submission guidelines. We can’t wait to read your work!
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Washington Square Review
8 months
Need a sign to submit your fiction to our New Voices Award? How about a free submission day… TOMORROW! We will post the link until 11:59 pm EST. Visit our website for more details on the New Voices Award.
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Washington Square Review
8 years
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” —Wisława Szymborska
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Washington Square Review
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We are open for submissions to the New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers! The deadline to submit is January 15th at 5 p.m. ET. Visit our website for more information!
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Washington Square Review
7 months
Issue 52 deadline closing in 4 days! Keep submitting! Visit our website for more info.
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Washington Square Review
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You’ve got one more day to submit to the New Voices Award! Submissions close tomorrow at 5 pm EST.
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Washington Square Review
2 years
We’ve made the (hard!) decision to not open for submissions this summer/fall. The past few sub periods, we’ve been lucky to receive a great increase in submissions, & we want to carefully consider them all. We plan to re-open this winter & can’t wait to read your words then!
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
5 years
so, we’re trying to make some new literary journal friends! please respond with any journals that you love. we’d love to get to know more about them 😊🐦💕!
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
3 years
It's officially here! Issue 46 is out in the world, and we couldn't be more grateful to our entire team and contributors. We have genre-themed days this entire week, so stay tuned for surprises (and some opportunities to win prizes). Stunning cover art by Madeleine Bialke!
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Washington Square Review
11 months
We're thrilled to announce The Washington Square Review's inaugural New Voices Award is open now! Terrance Hayes will select the winning poet for a $1,500 prize. Send us your poems until *Nov. 15*
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Washington Square Review
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DEADLINE EXTENDED📣 The New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers, will now close on 1/18 at 11:59 pm EST. Keep submitting your fiction! Visit our website for more information.
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6 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT📣 New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers Accepting only fiction for this round $1,500 prize and publication Submit submit submit! (Visit our website for more details)
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Washington Square Review
8 years
"The most beautiful part / of your body / is wherever / your mother's shadow falls." - Ocean Vuong, 'Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong'
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Washington Square Review
5 years
“Linear time is not a reflection of how I feel in this body. I don’t think that past versions of me are gone, and I don’t think that future versions of me aren’t with me right now.” ⁣ ⁣ Check out Charis Caputo’s interview with @morganapple , live on our site now! 🐦💕
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Washington Square Review
8 years
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. —C.D. Wright, a lion lost in 2016
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Washington Square Review
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We’re so thrilled to announce the inaugural winner of the New Voices Award! Andrew Chi Keong Yim’s poems will be featured in our Spring issue along with an interview conducted by Terrance Hayes. Swipe to see our finalists, honorable mentions, & an excerpt from Yim’s poem, “Thaw.”
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
11 months
We’ve extended our submission deadline to October 25th. Keep sending us your stuff!
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Washington Square Review
8 years
Anne Carson as the literary witch she truly is. 🌋 @ElectricLit postcards for sale at #AWP16
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Washington Square Review
8 years
Congrats to our beloved faculty member Sharon Olds on receiving the Wallace Stevens Award from The Academy of American Poets! @POETSorg
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Washington Square Review
8 years
"She is the house." - Anne Sexton at the Women's March on NYC
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Washington Square Review
5 years
Washington Square Review is accepting creative nonfiction submissions for the first time! We look forward to considering your creative nonfiction submissions! The deadline is October 15. This is a huge step in our journal’s history, and you may just be a part of it! 🐦💕
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Washington Square Review
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NEW VOICES AWARD. TWO MORE DAYS TO SUBMIT. The deadline is on THURSDAY 1/18 at 11:59 pm EST. Visit our website for more details.
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Washington Square Review
8 years
"I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are still together." - @warsan_shire
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Washington Square Review
7 months
LAST DAY TO SUBMIT TO ISSUE 52! The deadline is 11:59 pm EST tonight. Visit our website for more info.
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Washington Square Review
8 years
Amy Hempel and @heyteebs killed it tonight. If you missed the launch, grab the issue and a beer to recreate it.
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Washington Square Review
4 years
"She called me 'darl' and for the longest time I thought she was calling me 'doll' . . . I bet I wouldn't know them now if I passed them on the street." "Today When I Asked You About a Couple We Knew in Canberra" by Kathy Fish ~Issue 45, Spring 2020
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Washington Square Review
8 years
"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." Pablo Neruda 🌸
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Washington Square Review
4 months
Join us for readings and refreshments Thursday April 25th to celebrate the release of Issue 51! Here’s a sneak peak at the cover art by Woo Hannah. All are welcome! RSVP here:
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
8 years
Issue 37 in the flesh!
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Washington Square Review
4 years
Huge congratulations to our Books Editor, JinJin Xu , for the publication of her poetry chapbook, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife. Details about the launch event can be found in @jinxshoe ’s bio!
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Washington Square Review
5 years
Don't forget: we're currently accepting submissions! Our open reading period ends on October 15th — so send over your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or translations soon ⌛️ We love reading new work! 🥳
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Washington Square Review
8 years
Amy Hempel explains that her latest story "The Chicane" was thirty years in the making. (Read it in issue 37!)
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Washington Square Review
6 years
What journals do you read for inspiration? — we love @joylandfiction , @NoTokensJournal , @APublicSpace , @OneStory , @hobartpulp , truly too many to count!
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Washington Square Review
4 years
Last call for submissions! Send us your poetry, fiction, translations, and creative nonfiction before Feb. 1. Click the link in our bio to head to our website and Submittable page. We can't wait to read your work!
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Washington Square Review
3 years
🚨 Submissions open on December 15! Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TRANSLATIONS Check the website for submission guidelines: Good luck!
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Washington Square Review
3 years
Hear Carla Sofia Ferreira read from her Issue 46 poem "Elegy with Azeite e Pão de Ló" (and see her cat!) @csferreira08
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Washington Square Review
1 year
Check out our latest online feature: a conversation between @maslenbode and @fannychoir , author of "Floating, Brilliant Gone," "Soft Science," & most recently, "The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On."
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Washington Square Review
1 year
WSR Issue 49 is about to arrive — it’s time to celebrate! 🎉 Please join us the evening of Thursday, May 4 at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers’ House for a reading and party to mark the release of our Summer 2023 issue. RSVP at the link in our bio to reserve your spot!
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
9 years
"It kind of feels like I keep writing the same thing but maybe I just keep being the same person." -- @_chelsea_martin Ditto.
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Washington Square Review
2 years
Hey #awp2022 ! We’re here at booths 641 & 643 with @NYUCWP . We need to give Joan Pigion’s friend a name — throw out suggestions here, or stop by and tell us in person!
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
5 years
🗣🚨 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! Send us your best work! 🐦💕
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Rebecca Saltzman
5 years
Washington Square Review @on_squ opens for submissions tomorrow! Send me your short fiction with crisp writing, compelling characters and un-boring plot.
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Washington Square Review
8 years
"How many places in the / body were made to be destroyed / once?" - Sharon Olds, "Ode to the Hymen"
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Washington Square Review
2 years
Washington Square Review Magazine LAUNCH PARTY Double issue 47/48 RSVP
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Washington Square Review
8 years
"Every dream is a dream about having a body. Every body is the sound of alienation." - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza @sadqueer4life in ONSQU 37
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Washington Square Review
3 years
Submissions are now open for WSR's next issue! 🤩 Send us your quirky short stories, epic poems, risky nonfiction, and eye-opening translations before October 15. We want to read anything and everything! Link in bio.
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Washington Square Review
9 years
Submissions are open until October 15th! Send us your best words
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Washington Square Review
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"My theory is that a poem is troubled into its making. It’s not a thing that blooms; it’s a thing that wounds.” -- Lucie Brock-Broido
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Washington Square Review
9 years
Like when he said I am no good I am no good Goodness is not the point anymore Holding on to things Now that's the point - @DorotheaLasky
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Washington Square Review
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Issue 51 will be out TOMORROW! We’ll be celebrating in the evening with some wonderful readings from contributors and refreshments. All are welcome! RSVP here:
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
10 years
Your peers aren't your competition. Your competition is silence, the Void. Writing is hard work -- existential advice from @EduardoCCorral
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Washington Square Review
2 years
Now live, on our website: @liwendyxu reviews "All This Could Be Different," the acclaimed debut novel by @smathewss ! Head to the link in our bio to give it a read 📚
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@on_squ
Washington Square Review
6 years
Our submittable is now open!! Please send us your lovliest words 🥳✨🎉
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Washington Square Review
5 years
we are so EXCITED to be accepting creative nonfiction submissions for the first time, EVER!!! 🤩❤️🎉 you have the chance to be a part of a historic moment for us! our deadline is October 15th. our staff looks forward to reading & considering your creative nonfiction pieces! 🐦💕
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Washington Square Review
6 years
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS TOMORROW! (October 15th) send us your lovely, weird, beautiful, words 🧠
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Washington Square Review
5 years
Our Fall Issue drops next Friday...⏱️Come celebrate with us at our Issue 44 Launch Party on Oct. 25 featuring the incomparable @NK_Adjei , @patriphobe , and @hannahtinti 🎉
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Washington Square Review
9 years
I think we are starved for the sound of poetry. —Sarah Ruhl
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Washington Square Review
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HAPPIEST of birthdays to our amazing managing editor! We appreciate you beyond words. Have the best day 🐦🎉🎂🎈!
@literarytswift
Alisson “sigh” Wood
5 years
It’s my birthday!! The big 3-6!! 🎂 and all I want for my birthday is pre-orders for my book BEING LOLITA ❤️🕶
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Washington Square Review
9 years
"If your Nerve, deny you — Go above your Nerve — " — Emily Dickinson
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Washington Square Review
4 years
We have big news! For the first time at Washington Square Review, The Book Reviews Editors are welcoming reviews and pitches of titles of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works. Check out our Instagram and Facebook pages for guidelines. Deadline: Ongoing
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Washington Square Review
8 years
#37 lookin good in good company at @poetshouse w/ @PoetryFound @LAReviewofBooks @MassReview & more literary friends
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Washington Square Review
7 years
Submissions for our fall issue close Thursday, February 1st. We love reading your work, don’t miss your chance to submit!
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Washington Square Review
5 years
Who has submissions for us? Head over to and send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction now through Feb. 1! We can't wait to read your beautiful words 🥳
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Washington Square Review
8 years
Have you seen our newest issue? On the cover is beautiful artwork by the beautiful @maddsnacks . Thanks Maddie!
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Washington Square Review
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@morganapple rocking the Red Room at @nyukgb
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Washington Square Review
4 years
thinking of everyone during this frightening time. I hope that you are doing things that bring you joy, even though things feel heavy. reading is a source of joy for me, and I am grateful to everyone who submits, reads, and makes time for the world of words. thank you 🐦💕
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Washington Square Review
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🐦 Submissions for fiction, poetry, translations, and creative non fiction are open through October 15! You read that right! For the first time, we are accepting creative non fiction submissions! We look forward to reading your work! ✨
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Washington Square Review
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⁣ISSUE 44 is out, TODAY 🎉! ⠀ Meet Hannah Tinti ( @hannahtinti ), one of tonight’s featured readers!⠀ ⠀ ⁣Hannah Tinti is an author, editor, and teacher.⠀ ⠀ We can’t wait for the launch of Issue 44 tonight at 7 PM at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House! 🐦💕🥳
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Washington Square Review
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Our launch party is this Saturday at @NYUCWP , ft. readings by Amy Hempel & @heyteebs !
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Washington Square Review
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The first draft (of many) of Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art"
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Our open reading period ends TOMORROW, October 15th — so send over your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations soon ⌛️ We look forward to considering your work 🐦💕
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Washington Square Review
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Five questions with @DorotheaLasky !!!
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Washington Square Review
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A fascinating conversation between poets Neha Mulay and Robert Wood Lynn. Lynn's collection "Mothman Apologia" was the recipient of the 2021 Yale Younger Poets Award. @RobertWoodLynn @nehamulaypoet @NYUCWP @yalepress @buttonpoetry #poetry
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Visit our website to read the full version of “Her Last Letter, Year after Year” by Nathalie Handal in Issue 50.
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"I've always thought that as a poet you don't have to be honest at all" — @DorotheaLasky (in a panel on confessional poetry) #AWP16
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"Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying." - Claudia Rankine
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"The dead have certain obligations. Is one of them to remember us? Do you find that offensive?" - Joy Williams, 'The Quick & the Dead'
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The first 25 years of Washington Square Review in a birdhouse @poetshouse #onsquawk
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"There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry." —Mark Strand Happy #NationalPoetryMonth !
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"if there are angels, they are flies who hover over our privacies, kissing us with mouths that have kissed other wounds." Aracelis Girmay
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Pushcart Prize happenings are always so delightful 🛒🏆! Thank you so much, @kikipetrosino , for contributing this beautifully haunting poem to the Washington Square Review 🐦💕!
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Washington Square Review
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"This is similar to how I think about poems, their ability to say what is unknown" ~ JinJin Xu. Check out our interview (link in bio) with our Books Editor JinJin Xu and her experience publishing her first chapbook with Radix Media. Congrats, JinJin!
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Washington Square Review
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SO much love and work went into Issue 45! We are so grateful to our contributors, staff, and readers who help make the world of words wonderful on a day to day basis 🐦💕
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“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.” ―Maggie Nelson, Bluets
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