Bradley David Waters
@bradley-david.com
Writer. Mostly poetics. Sr editor at JMWW. Apple grower, chicken adopter, wildlife habitat-er. Garden/kitchen things in LA & North Bay.
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Eyebrows are so weird. Two hedges planted in the forehead. Wiggling around because for some reason emotions are stationed in there. We don’t have them on our wrists, yet we talk with our hands.
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Eyebrows are so weird. Two hedges planted in the forehead. Wiggling around because for some reason emotions are stationed in there. We don’t have them on our wrists, yet we talk with our hands.
One of your turkeys will contain an Epstein thumb drive, the key to Elton John’s house in Reseda, and Martha Stewart’s secret mashed potato recipe. Go deep.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
One of your turkeys will contain an Epstein thumb drive, the key to Elton John’s house in Reseda, and Martha Stewart’s secret mashed potato recipe. Go deep.
Reposted by Bradley David Waters
"when they sew up the tattered fabric of my life i hope that they tell tales not just of living death but of feeling the rich golden silk of being born in the seas of love"
Blended & Beyond: karna, critical condition by Arya Vishin
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Blended & Beyond: karna, critical condition by Arya Vishin
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Blended & Beyond: karna, critical condition by Arya Vishin
when they sew up the tattered fabric of my life i hope that they tell tales not just of living death but of feeling the rich golden silk of being born in the seas of love
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November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"when they sew up the tattered fabric of my life i hope that they tell tales not just of living death but of feeling the rich golden silk of being born in the seas of love"
Blended & Beyond: karna, critical condition by Arya Vishin
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/b...
Blended & Beyond: karna, critical condition by Arya Vishin
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/b...
👏 Three fab nDada pieces by Maudie Bryant today at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
"And now for something completely different, work by Maudie Bryant."
Blended & Beyond: defiant stones; heavy treasures; bathtub vignette by Maudie Bryant
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Blended & Beyond: defiant stones; heavy treasures; bathtub vignette by Maudie Bryant
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/b...
Blended & Beyond: defiant stones; heavy treasures; bathtub vignette by Maudie Bryant
And now for something completely different, work by Maudie Bryant.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
👏 Three fab nDada pieces by Maudie Bryant today at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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glue pennies everywhere
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
glue pennies everywhere
Still about a dozen submission opportunities open between now and the new year. My free list for poetry or hybrid, full-length or chapbook
(all of my substack content is free)
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
(all of my substack content is free)
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
Poetry & Hybrid Manuscript Submission Opportunities
Actively updated list of full-length & chapbook reading periods
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Still about a dozen submission opportunities open between now and the new year. My free list for poetry or hybrid, full-length or chapbook
(all of my substack content is free)
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
(all of my substack content is free)
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
Outdoor reading of “Bore Report Part Fore” from @exactingclam.bsky.social #17, Summer 2025
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Outdoor reading of “Bore Report Part Fore” from @exactingclam.bsky.social #17, Summer 2025
JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15
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JMWW Submission Manager
jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, hybrid work, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly. We are happy you found us!We want to see your work, but don't be all stalke...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15
jmww.submittable.com/submit
jmww.submittable.com/submit
Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW. For our first, Keith Woodruff writes about Dead Baby.
"There are no seasons four floors up."
Blended & Beyond: Brenda B; Employee Handbook by Keith Woodruff
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Blended & Beyond: Brenda B; Employee Handbook by Keith Woodruff
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Blended & Beyond: Brenda B; Employee Handbook by Keith Woodruff
There are no seasons four floors up.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Blended & Beyond is now a regular feature at JMWW. For our first, Keith Woodruff writes about Dead Baby.
Gosh, Sally. Our balloon is swell, but that bear’s balloon doesn’t look so well!
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Gosh, Sally. Our balloon is swell, but that bear’s balloon doesn’t look so well!
Classic children’s whimsy. Back when every bedtime was Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Classic children’s whimsy. Back when every bedtime was Halloween.
Reposted by Bradley David Waters
www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.
Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Submission Guidelines - Terrain.org
The 2024 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize seeks a book of poetry. Submissions are open from September 15 - November 15.
www.terrain.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.
Th headlines I’m not seeing:
Katie Porter and the typical double standard of being a woman who speaks truth, demands better, & doesn’t sit politely while bullshit happens to & around her
Dear Katie: Everybody gets pissed. Stay in it
Mens gotcha hot mic leaks get them elected with rallying cries
Katie Porter and the typical double standard of being a woman who speaks truth, demands better, & doesn’t sit politely while bullshit happens to & around her
Dear Katie: Everybody gets pissed. Stay in it
Mens gotcha hot mic leaks get them elected with rallying cries
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Th headlines I’m not seeing:
Katie Porter and the typical double standard of being a woman who speaks truth, demands better, & doesn’t sit politely while bullshit happens to & around her
Dear Katie: Everybody gets pissed. Stay in it
Mens gotcha hot mic leaks get them elected with rallying cries
Katie Porter and the typical double standard of being a woman who speaks truth, demands better, & doesn’t sit politely while bullshit happens to & around her
Dear Katie: Everybody gets pissed. Stay in it
Mens gotcha hot mic leaks get them elected with rallying cries
Hoping this was a wrong number
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hoping this was a wrong number
10 poetry & hybrid manuscript submission opportunities closing this week.
Free list on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...
Free list on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...
Poetry & Hybrid Manuscript Submission Opportunities
Actively updated list of full-length & chapbook reading periods
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
10 poetry & hybrid manuscript submission opportunities closing this week.
Free list on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...
Free list on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/bradleyd...
Books are beautiful, let them be aesthetic. We wear jewelry, so hold books
Books are bodies. Keep hands & opinions off others’ unless invited
Books are safety nets & support devices. Objects we hide behind, cloak within, flirt from. Good.
Snobbery & elitism are performative. They ban things.
Books are bodies. Keep hands & opinions off others’ unless invited
Books are safety nets & support devices. Objects we hide behind, cloak within, flirt from. Good.
Snobbery & elitism are performative. They ban things.
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Books are beautiful, let them be aesthetic. We wear jewelry, so hold books
Books are bodies. Keep hands & opinions off others’ unless invited
Books are safety nets & support devices. Objects we hide behind, cloak within, flirt from. Good.
Snobbery & elitism are performative. They ban things.
Books are bodies. Keep hands & opinions off others’ unless invited
Books are safety nets & support devices. Objects we hide behind, cloak within, flirt from. Good.
Snobbery & elitism are performative. They ban things.
Do Not Thump Moray Eels For Ripeness
October 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Do Not Thump Moray Eels For Ripeness
No amount of pepper, anywhere ever, has come out of this style shaker. Go ahead and pound on it.
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No amount of pepper, anywhere ever, has come out of this style shaker. Go ahead and pound on it.
I’m The Beatles of just sitting here waiting.
October 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I’m The Beatles of just sitting here waiting.
Corner lashes really tangling today. Every blink a tousle. Odds on lowers which is surprising but I love an underdog story.
October 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Corner lashes really tangling today. Every blink a tousle. Odds on lowers which is surprising but I love an underdog story.
Poems are dangerous. If that sounds hyperbolic, take a stab at writing the one that scares you. Worse yet, where will you put it?
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Poems are dangerous. If that sounds hyperbolic, take a stab at writing the one that scares you. Worse yet, where will you put it?
October 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Writers are inhaling their turbulence and repackaging it as arrows. How neatly defiant. Language has them looking so tired & fragile. Soggy flannel scarecrows with spilling straw guts. You can put lipstick on them.
We are the scary lot.
Writers, steady on.
We are the scary lot.
Writers, steady on.
October 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Writers are inhaling their turbulence and repackaging it as arrows. How neatly defiant. Language has them looking so tired & fragile. Soggy flannel scarecrows with spilling straw guts. You can put lipstick on them.
We are the scary lot.
Writers, steady on.
We are the scary lot.
Writers, steady on.
Currently 22 manuscript submission opportunities on my activity updated list. October has the most.
Know of others? Comment below. List is only for full-length and chapbook poetry or hybrid. Open now or upcoming.
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
Know of others? Comment below. List is only for full-length and chapbook poetry or hybrid. Open now or upcoming.
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
Poetry & Hybrid Manuscript Submission Opportunities
Full-length & chapbook reading periods for Aug 1 through November 30
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Currently 22 manuscript submission opportunities on my activity updated list. October has the most.
Know of others? Comment below. List is only for full-length and chapbook poetry or hybrid. Open now or upcoming.
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
Know of others? Comment below. List is only for full-length and chapbook poetry or hybrid. Open now or upcoming.
bradleydavidwaters.substack.com/p/poetry-and...