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- TIME TO SUBMIT TO BRUISER PROBABLY
- #170 IN POETRY #338 OVERALL NOT ON THE NF/FICTION/FLASH LISTS FOR SOME REASON SUBMIT TO BRUISERThe 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
- That fake genderqueer POC writer sent us his dumb fucking manuscript last year, calling it "pretty wild, controversial, and exceptional." I read it out of curiosity and beyond being snarky and self-important, it sucks shit. Fuck that guy. Don't make him famous.
- French New Wave is alive! @alexL_E_I found it in New York Film dispatch from a Luc Moullet retrospective and the launch of the ultra-cinephilic magazine Narrow Margin
- LET'S GET PHYSICAL: ANNOUNCING BRUISER ZINES Submissions open NOW through September 15. bruisermag.com/zines
- Your job hates you. Make art on the clock. Submit it to BRUISER.
- We want essays on the weird shit happening where you live, your creative communities, all the sick art your friends make. Club nights, punk gigs, pro wrestling matches, art shows, whatever. Get involved in interesting things and write about them. Submit to BRUISER.
- I promise your poetry doesn't have to be profound to be good
- BRUISER is on a fucking insane run rn
- ATTN ALL BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS: BRUISER managing editor @JoshShepard got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs. To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills. ↓
- "Citizen Sleeper: Notes Toward a New Cyberpunk," a book critic's perspective on a small game that makes an enormous contribution to a played-out genre @CitizenSleeper bruisermag.com/citizen-sleepe…
- Poetry is good









