The Writer's Den
Jackie BluuA chill space and community platform offering resources for writers & other support, all with a slight dose of humanness.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 40 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 20 days ago |
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Writing Gigs
Pitch Fail Club is “the Substack for freelance journalists who want to know why editors say no, what makes a great pitch, and how to avoid freelance pitching mistakes.” They’re commissioning two short essays from freelance journalists about...
Lit R&R
Headlands Center for the Arts (application fee is $35 until May 4 and $45 thereafter)
What’s Lit?
Xochitl Gonzalez with Jacqueline Woodson
05/04/2026 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm EDT \ Author event + signing \ Free
Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene | 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Colloquy #21: Experimental Translation
05/05/2026...
Calling for You!
Stone’s Throw. Genre: “We’re looking for dark fiction, crime and noir, length between 1,000 and 2,000 words.” Payment: $25. Deadline: May 4, 2026. Open to submissions the first three days of every month.
Prairie Fire. Genre: Creative nonfi...
Writing Practice
Lost in Familiar Places - a poetry prompt (source: pw.org)
Australian author Gerald Murnane talks about being drawn to the “bewildering and at the same time satisfying feeling” of getting lost in familiar places in an interview in the Win...
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Jackie is an essayist & part-time poet. She manages the Writer’s Den, a community for writers, and Word Vomit, a personal litscape. She writes about the human experience, from the mundane to the extraordinary.
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