Saturday Shout-Out ~ July 12, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
Welcome to our new edition of Saturday Shout-Outs.
This series is one way we connect with the larger creative community and help promote other literary publications. As a writer, it’s can be tough to get published, so we want to call attention to it when your work gets launched out into the world!
In these bi-weekly posts, you’ll see new publications from Wild Roof Journal’s contributors and friends. We’ll also let you know about intriguing submission opportunities that are currently open. If you’ve been published recently and want it to appear on an upcoming Shout-Out post, tell us about it here.
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Door Is A Jar has published Issue 35 for summer, and editors Maxwell Bauman and Dominique Grate hosted an online reading to launch the issue. Among the readers are Dan Wiencek (“After Fiction”), Alex Carrigan (“I’ll Flagellate Myself, Thank You”), Hayley Shucker (“Unidentified Fierce Object”), and WRJ’s EIC Aaron Lelito (“Room Tone”).
View the full playlist of readings here:
Resurrection Mag has just published its fourth issue, with two publications we want to shout out. Seven of Nicholas Trandahl’s photographs are featured in the issue. Nicholas’ poetry has been published in WRJ (most recently “The Pronghorn” in Issue 27).
You can also read James Diaz’s poems “That’s Just How It Goes” and “On The Way To Therapy, I List Every Reason.”
WRJ previously published Aaron Beck’s poem “No ass was ever seen seeking a stream or fountain with such desire” in Issue 26. Now, The Argyle has published his digital chapbook, SMEOP, which Aaron describes as a melodrama about a trans man’s first love.
Waxing & Waning has published its 15th issue, themed around “The Earthly, The Ethereal.” You can view Yana Sakellion’s short film “Pereselenije: Movement 1,” read Spencer Stepniewski’s short story “Winds Like Ghosts,” and read Max Oyler’s creative non-fiction piece “Do pagan gods like macarons?”
The Marrow features “the finest new international poetry from emerging and established poets,” and they have published their fourth issue, with two publications we want to shout out. You can now read John Tessitore’s latest poem, “Hospital Time” and Chelsea Fanning’s poem “Wolves.”
You can see more from John on his Substack and check out Chelsea’s forthcoming poetry collection, To Love a Fierceness So Bright.
Timothy Loftus has recently received two publications. londemere lit has published his non-fiction piece “Tracks in the Snow” in its fourth issue. The Keepthings, a journal that publishes stories of lost loved ones inspired by the things they left behind, has published his essay “Dutch’s Spoon.”
WRJ published a segment from Vasectomajestic from Jacob Schepers in Issue 29. Now, MEMEZINE has published another snippet from Vasectomajestic as a featured poem.
You can also see Jacob’s interview with us here.
Submission Opportunities
Molecule: a tiny lit mag is an online magazine (with a print option) publishing poetry, prose, plays, interviews, reviews, and visual art twice annually. All work is 50 words or less (including titles, interview questions, etc.). Submission deadline for the fall issue ends on July 15. Submit work through Submittable. There is no fee, but leaving a tip in the tip jar is appreciated. For more information and to review past issues of Molecule, click here.
Claudine is a new monthly online literary magazine featuring a fiction micro, a creative nonfiction micro, a micro by a new writer (who has published three or fewer pieces) and a prose chapbook review. Word count for all categories is up to 400 words. Claudine is looking for stunning prose that makes them ache and images that linger. Pay is $25 upon publication. Claudine does not charge a submission fee and will accept simultaneous submissions. For more information on this new lit mag and how to submit through their website link, click here.
Streetlight Magazine is hosting a poetry contest. Entry fee is $10 for up to three poems of any subject. The first prize is $150, the second prize is $100, and both winners will be published in an upcoming issue of Streetlight Magazine. Submit through Submittable. The deadline for submissions is July 14. All entries will be considered for publication in Streetlight Magazine. For more information on this poetry contest, click here.
Streetlight also accepts submissions to their quarterly online magazine of poetry, fiction, essay/memoir, and art and photography. Their mission is to publish exceptional talent, both new and established, from our region and across the country. Submission fee for the magazine is $3. Click here for more information and to read past issues.
The Argyle Literary Magazine is open for CNF and Digital Art submissions until August 31. The editors state: “We are looking for original, unpublished work; however, we are also all about reprinting strong pieces that aren't done making their “rounds” (just let us know where reprints they were originally published and acknowledge you currently retain the rights to them).” They are open for pitches for articles, interview, and reviews as well. See full guidelines here.
Congratulations to all in this edition of Saturday Shout-Outs! Happy reading, writing, and submitting!
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