Thank you for the amazing, overwhelming response to our call for #volunteer Layout Designers for the #MockingOwlRoost! We received way more applications than we could easily consider, so we'll be at it for a while narrowing down the list. We are so grateful for your enthusiasm and support! We look forward to adding some of you to the #team soon!
New #poetry at the #MockingOwlRoost - Watch Thief, by @blushroses.bsky.social "I’ve unplugged from dark matter…every breath is a protest thing…I still care about people.
Trying to fall asleep, I wonder
about the sincerity of those
who wear their spots on their clothes…" Read on at: https://shorturl.at/5KwhG
The #MockingOwlRoost is #openforsubmissions - and we'd love to get some of your #bookreviews to share with the world. #Books as old as 5 years past are particularly welcome, though we will review older books on occasion. Learn more: https://shorturl.at/MKnPO
The #MockingOwlRoost is #openforsubmissions! We're looking for some great pop culture content. #bookreviews #filmreviews #tvreviews #theatrereviews #deepdives #retrospectives #gamereviews #popculturefiction #essays - whatever you've got, we'd love to see it! https://shorturl.at/jophg
Hello you beautiful #writingcommunity! The #MockingOwlRoost is currently #openforsubmissions for our magazine and blog. We're looking for some great #fiction #creativenonfiction recorded #performances and other creative works outside our mag themes, too! Learn more: https://shorturl.at/Gyvau
The #MockingOwlRoost is currently expanding our #volunteer team! And right now, we're specifically looking for those interested in design work for the #layout and #socialmedia images. An artist eye and willing spirit are required, but no experience needed! Learn more: https://shorturl.at/Mfk2j
The #MockingOwlRoost is #openforsubmissions and looking for your #fiction #creativenonfiction #poetry and #artwork themed towards exploration and nature for our "Wide, Wild World" magazine issue for 2026. Learn more:
Need a little poetry today? Check out this fantastic piece by #CLSSandoval - "Our time may have gotten away from us". Find it in a Poetry Special of the #MockingOwlRoost
https://shorturl.at/EzDeW - Page 13
"I must have been absent the day they taught mythology. It was never introduced in school. I didn’t know my Titans from my Olympians, my Helios from my Hermes, but at every turn, I found them referenced..."
Read the #prizewinning #essay at the #MockingOwlRoost -
https://shorturl.at/VJpL0 Page 23
"Wearing boots? What did that have to do with Nashville? I don’t wear boots now. My location wasn’t going to change that. And I sure as hell wasn’t ever going to carry a Rebel flag..."
Read the #microessay at the #MockingOwlRoost - Writing Memories.
https://shorturl.at/o32Zp
The #MockingOwlRoost is #openforsubmissions for our #blog and #magazine issues & while our magazine issues have themes, our blog is wide open for topics, vibes, and themes of all kind - (almost) any genre welcome! Send along #shortstories & #flashfiction for possible publication.
We're busy over here at the #MockingOwlRoost - commissioning for the second half of 2025 and into 2026. But we're also #recruiting for awesome #volunteer #copyeditors who will love our contributors as much as we do! No experience necessary! Learn more:
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/recruiting/
Has a novel or film ever inspired you to #travel? We'd love to read about it at the #MockingOwlRoost for our #creativetravel #blog series. We're #openforsubmissions & eager to read your creatively-inspired travel tales, whether they're memories, essays, or suggestions for others!
"When have the best laid plans ever gone right? Mark Stevens shares with us how gloriously bad even the most thought-out bucket list trip can go in It Was a Good Plan and Then the World Spun Upside Down..." -- Read the #bookreview at the #MockingOwlRoost - https://shorturl.at/idZ5F
The #MockingOwlRoost - an art & lit mag - is #openforsubmissions! Send us your #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #artwork and other #creativeworks for consideration. We're open for both blog and magazine issues right now.
Learn more: https://shorturl.at/KKyDx
The executive #director and #producer at the #MockingOwlRoost is looking for #video & #audio #performancepieces as well as #scripts for the team to consider producing this year. Send 'em our way! We're #openforsubs
The #MockingOwlRoost is #openforsubmissions now to May 19!
We're looking for #fiction #poetry #visualart #nonfiction #performingarts #scripts and others for our magazine and blog.
Review our guidelines and form for more information: https://shorturl.at/NDjI4
If you need some good reads, check out the offerings from #MockingOwlRoost! We've got #fiction, #poetry, #bookreviews, #deepdives, #essays, #creativenonfiction, #poetryreadings, #audiodramas, and much more - all for FREE on the blog and in our beautifully crafted #magazine! Enjoy!
"There isn’t a way
To be both known
And invisible
To be seen
And hide the secret stories
In a misspent sacrifice..."
Listen to the #poetryreading from #poet #RachelLoughlin and #actor #SueCook at the #MockingOwlRoost - https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/known-poetry-reading/
Need a little heartwarming visual art today? Check out several pieces in the latest issue of the #MockingOwlRoost -- where everything's all about #dragons! https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/dragon-scales/ Page 10 for the full Dragon's Flight by #PatriciaBraga
