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We're thrilled to announce Issue 2, "Abandon Hope"

We're thrilled to announce Issue 2, "Abandon Hope" is live! Check out abandonjournal.com

#abandonjournal #abandonhope #litmag #writingcommunity

Guys we are so excited to launch Issue 2, Abandon

Guys we are so excited to launch Issue 2, Abandon Hope. It's coming this week! But we have a surprise SPECIAL ISSUE!!

Respect the process! "I work very painfully. I s

Respect the process!

"I work very painfully. I stop a lot of what I write and retype everything four, five, six times." -- James Michener, in a 1972 interview

Issue 2 is coming. Abandon hope. #abandonjournal

Issue 2 is coming.
Abandon hope.

#abandonjournal
#litmags

"What I want is to be willing to fail rather than

"What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate."⠀
- James Dickey⠀
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Writing prompt for Issue #3 ("Abandon Time"): Time

Writing prompt for Issue #3 ("Abandon Time"): Time is an illusion. Space is a delusion. Spacetime is a destination.

Submissions are open: https://bit.ly/3E11gLr (no fee, paid market)

#writingprompts #abandonjournal #amwriting #callforsubmissions #abandontime #spacetime

"With writing, you get caught up in the rhythm. Th

"With writing, you get caught up in the rhythm. That's when it really gets to be complete play."

- Madeleine L'Engle, 1982 (author of A Wrinkle In Time)

#abandonjournal #onwriting #writingquotes #writers #awrinkleintime #writingadvice

"I love painting seas and oceans, perhaps because

"I love painting seas and oceans, perhaps because within such vast expanses there are no people."⠀
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Check out "Storm Over Pacific," the cover of our inaugural issue, by Judith Skillman⠀
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@judithskillman54⠀

Kate Winslet always reminded me of my mom. Maybe t

Kate Winslet always reminded me of my mom. Maybe that's why, even to this day, I get defensive of Rose from Titanic when people call her stupid...⠀
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from "Rose By Any Other Name," by Cora Dawn Taylor, flash nonfiction in Issue 1⠀
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https://bit.ly/3C0jf2H⠀

Her brown eyes,⠀
how a fig⠀
considers itself.⠀
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Check out this Roland Barthes-inspired poem "Observer of the Patient," by Matthew Schmidt in our first issue: https://bit.ly/3lgjaBA ⠀

Check out a series of 5 processed digital images f

Check out a series of 5 processed digital images from artist Patty Paine in Issue 1 of Abandon Journal⠀
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@negative_recovery_project⠀
@patty_paine⠀

"Ten years passed, and he did not return nor send

"Ten years passed, and he did not return nor send any letters." ⠀
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Find out what happens when the pride of the village leaves for America and doesn't come back. From "The Bird That Carried One Hundred Messages To America," by Abuchi Modilim in Issue 1⠀
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@abuchimodilim⠀

This time, I'm in control. I am the shapeshifter.

This time, I'm in control. I am the shapeshifter. I am the human grotesque.⠀
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From "Revenge Scene," by Sheleen McElhinney in Issue 1⠀
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@sheleenmcelhinney⠀

The strands of your hair on the bathroom tiles are

The strands of your hair on the bathroom tiles aren’t sketching defeat. that’s you spitting disease in the face with another day you’ve woken up to. that’s you singing to the graveyard, a little out of tune: not today, honey. ⠀
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from "i do not want to wait until it's too late" by Fransivan MacKenzie⠀
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@fransivanmackenzie⠀

"Before the headaches began, I thought myself stur

"Before the headaches began, I thought myself sturdy: firm in my foundations, set square like a saltbox house."⠀
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from "The Rupture," by Elizabeth Kaye Cook in Issue 1⠀

It’s summer and I lie in bed watching the ceilin

It’s summer and I lie in bed watching the ceiling fan and listening to the pain pump sewn into my shoulder pump its medicine every ten seconds.

from "Alan Rickman and the Mermaids of the Conch Republic," by Megan D. Henson

a folksy, gruesome opera / of gauze and malcontent

a folksy, gruesome opera / of gauze and malcontent.⠀
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from "Several someones" by DS Maolaolai in issue 1.⠀
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It's all about the lifestyle strategist in this un

It's all about the lifestyle strategist in this unsettling poem, by Gerald Yelle, our first issue⠀
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https://bit.ly/3Df63sm⠀
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Death doesn't care if you waste a canvas, waste a

Death doesn't care if you waste a canvas, waste a thousand canvases. Choose a good frame.⠀
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from "You can't make them love you, no matter how artfully you betray yourself" poetry by Jerry Dennis in our first issue⠀

Abandon Form with "oh Manifesto" featured in Issue

Abandon Form with "oh Manifesto" featured in Issue 1 by K. James D'Agostino⠀
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https://bit.ly/3Dkdsqs ⠀

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