Reviewing new deltas since 1985. Housed at LSU MFA (@LSUCWprogram). Issue 15.1 live @ ndrmag.org / tweets by @jalengjwrites
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IT'S TIME! ⏳✨ We’re now open for submissions in all genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid, and artwork!
To give your work the attention it deserves, we're capping our fiction and poetry submissions at 200.
We’re also offering 50 *free*
submissions for BIPOC writers!
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We're *thrilled* to announce the finalists for our 2025 Chapbook Competition 🐊✨💚 AND beyond grateful for all the incredible collections we've had the pleasure of reading for this. Y’all make our jobs harder every year!
Let’s raise a glass to these finalists!
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Your new favorite chapbook is almost here! ✨Introducing BLOOD-FLEX, by Ajanaé Dawkins @MoonsAtDusk — winner of our 2024 Chapbook Competition, selected by Ashley M. Jones! Much gratitude to Ajanaé Dawkins and Iyana Hill for designing the beautiful cover.🩸Preorder link below!
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Remember when I told y’all my chapbook won @ndrmag ‘s contest? Wrote this for the eldest daughters. The fast tailed girls. The ones who became their mommas lil friends. For the ones with FINE mommas. Those who grew up with their mommas.
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BIG NEWS! For the first time, Delta Mouth is welcoming a 10th author, and it's Deesha Philyaw! Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, soon to be an HBO Max series, Deesha will join us in Baton Rouge this March. We can't wait!
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And the lineup keeps growing! Our 9th author for Delta Mouth 2025 is Dr. Taylor Byas! 🎉 Taylor’s debut, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, has won numerous awards, and her next collection, Resting Bitch Face, is coming August 2025. We can’t wait to hear her amazing work!
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We’re not done yet! Our 8th author on our lineup is Jami Nakamura Lin! 📖 Author of the award-winning The Night Parade, Jami’s work blends memoir and mythology, earning recognition from Boston Globe, New York Magazine, and more. We’re so excited to have her at Delta Mouth 2025!
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We’re thrilled to welcome Alejandro Heredia to Delta Mouth 2025! A Bronx-born writer and LAMBDA Literary fellow, he’s received support from the Dominican Studies Institute and Black Mountain Institute. His debut novel, Loca, is on the way. Don’t miss him at this year’s festival!
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Denne Michele Norris is coming to Delta Mouth 2025! 🎉 Editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, Denne also co-hosts Food 4 Thot, and her debut novel, When The Harvest Comes, arrives in April 2025. We can’t wait to welcome her to this year’s festival!
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Minda Honey is joining Delta Mouth 2025! Her work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more. Her debut memoir, The Heartbreak Years, is an intimate portrait of a Black woman navigating love, identity, and self-discovery. We’re so excited to welcome her to LA!
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José Olivarez will make his way to Baton Rouge this March for Delta Mouth 2025! José is the acclaimed author of Promises of Gold and Citizen Illegal. His work speaks to identity, language, and belonging with power and heart. We’re thrilled to have him at this year’s festival!
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Nicole Cooley is coming to Delta Mouth 2025! A New Orleans native and award-winning poet, Nicole’s latest collection, Mother Water Ash (LSU Press), continues her powerful exploration of place, memory, and resilience. We’re so excited to welcome her to this year’s festival!
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noam keim is joining the 2025 Delta Mouth lineup!🎉 A trauma worker, medicine maker, and flâneur freak based in Philadelphia, noam’s writing explores antizionism, healing, queerness, colonialism, and reverence for the land. Don’t miss them at this year’s festival!
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Chapbook competition submissions are open this Saturday, and general submissions for all genres open February 15th!!! 🌟
Lots of industry badies opened for submissions this week. I mean badies in a good way…. goodies? Ick, no.
Whatever PLACES TO SEND YOUR WRITING THIS WEEEEEK
Find them all on chillsubs.com/browse
ALT 16 of your favorite lit mags just opened for submissions 1 Planet Scumm 2 Southword Journal 3 Waxwing Literary Journal 4 Gulf Stream Magazine 5 Lunch Ticket 6 Mudroom 7 The London Magazine 8 Flash Point SF 9 New Delta Review 10 BODY 11 Indiana Review 12 ZYZZYVA 13 Swamp Pink 14 Vestal Review 15 Identity Theory 16 32 Poems
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🍬Submissions for our 14th Annual Chapbook Competition are open THIS SATURDAY, and will be judged by the brilliant @DorotheaLasky ✨
🍬 Find our guidelines at ndrmag.org, and set yourself a reminder to submit starting on February 8th!
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LOOK ALIVE! Our latest issue is out now, on our new and improved website! ndrmag.org 🎀
Ft. new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, and hybrid work from @DentzShira, @Sofielafille, @sapellosun, @altgnon, and so many more! 💞
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Delta Mouth 2025 is bringing the best in literature to Baton Rouge!🐊We’re thrilled to welcome Vanessa Saunders to our lineup. She is the author of The Flat Woman, winner of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Join us in March to celebrate her innovative storytelling!
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