Poem up this week with incredible voice and such lovely, striking imagery. Take a seat, hug a pillow if you need to, and enjoy "Closure" by Ashley Varela
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-10-26
Jeffrey Heath Still Life With Lithium and Light This morning, the honey caught in the jar’s rim glows from within, a cathedral window rendered in clover and glass. I watch it tremble when I reach past, hand not quite steady. No grand lurch, just the quiet rehearsal of what I might become by noon. There are days I am a house with all the lights on, radiant, overdrawn. The mirror won’t meet my eyes.
Emails bloom like algae, texts left on read. I pace the rooms for no reason but momentum. Then the dimmer switch draws down— not darkness, exactly, but a kind of unspeaking, a silence lowered over every gesture. Still, the coffee cup holds heat, the shirts tumble dry. Sometimes I think the world forgives me by being indifferent.
The tide doesn’t care what shape the moon is in, only that it keeps its strange appointments. I’ve come to rest in the minor key of maintenance: three white pills quietly waiting on the counter. I’ve learned to say today I am upright, as though that were a kind of prayer to gravity, to incandescence, to the low, gold light wobbling in the jar.
Quietly lovely poem up for y'all this week. Take a deep breath and sink into "Still Life With Lithium and Light" from Jeffrey Heath.
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-3-26
March goes out like a lamb and comes in with a ton of sub opportunities, so take advantage of a few that just opened:
@rustandmoth.bsky.social
@variantlit.bsky.social
@thetemzreview.bsky.social
@trashcatlit.bsky.social
@sillygoosepress.bsky.social
@necksnapmag.bsky.social
@xraylitmag.bsky.social
A new sentimental flash from me at the amazing @lostballoon.bsky.social
Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: infinity, cats, the cold, evenings, Magic: The Gathering, ancient history, yearning, chronic illness, sports, hydroponics, apocalypse, run on sentences, bugs, and omens
Weird, wonderful, and incredibly human piece up this week. Enjoy "Clearance Aisle" from @softpromises.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-24-26
Gorgeous, devastating poem up this week. Sink into the damp, earthy smell of "Nocturne for the Flowers" by @mjyoungwrites.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-17-26
Gorgeous piece about cabbages and your place in the world. Lose yourself in "Wake" from @m-demarco-words.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-10-26
Beautiful flash piece up today that flows so incredibly well from one sentence to the next. Try saying "Kijiji Couch" five times fast, then give @lindsaymcdonald.bsky.social's lovely piece a read.
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-3-26
Have you been following Dishsoap and thought to yourself: 'wow, super cool people must run that awesome lit mag'??? Yes. They do. And we want EVEN MORE! STAFF APPS OPEN!!!
Application form w/ more info: forms.gle/qmAFGjDJW2jK...
Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: birds, boys, unmowed lawns, She-Ra, winter weather, poems with really long titles, fishing but only in video games, garages and other semi-liminal spaces, arts & crafts, lineage, and pieces with exactly 116 words
LAST DAY OF WINTER WHIMSY WEB SERIES! And we're ending with a bang:
Take a gander at SONNET AS LIST OF THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR PARTNER DURING THE SUMMER INSTEAD OF HAVING SEX by the one and only @zreayellers.bsky.social here:
sillygoosepress.com/winter-whims...
Flash that's absolutely jam-packed with lovely imagery and meditations on the universally harrowing experience that is a break-up. Enjoy "What Work" from @wildflowerred.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-27-26
Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: snow, trains, rainforests, houseplants, the queer experience^tm, cutting boards, boots, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the meaning of home, February, ekphrasis, evenings, and pavement
Wonderous little Michigan-oriented flash up this week. Hook, line, and sink into "The Great Metro Detroit Flood" from @vernorsofficial.bsky.social:
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-20-26
Actually jaw-dropping imagery in the poem that's up for y'all this week. Read, and then proceed to get blown away by "Cargo" from Daniel Kim.
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-13-26
We're starting Dishsoap's 2026 off right with a lovely, voice-y, dog-filled micro. Stay in bed a little longer and read "Description is one thing among a number of things" from @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-6-26
It's been a wild year, thank you so much to everyone that's submitted, read, or engaged with us in any way. Before diving headfirst into the new year, we wanted to give y'all a little look behind the curtain at what Dishsoap's been up to in 2025 :)
Funky little poem that's half narrative, half musing, and completely wonderful. Hop into "did you know kramer’s name was originally kessler?" from Ben Starr
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-30-25
Congratulations to our nominees for Best Microfiction 2026!!! All of the pieces are absolutely fire, 100% go give them a read if you missed any :)
Piece up this week with a momentum build so strong you'll have lost your breath by the end of it. Ready, set, go read "Tennis Players" from @alicerowilson.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-16-25
wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: burnout, snow, giraffes, Undertale, airports, pothos, highland cattle, illness, buried things (real and metaphorical), Jojo's, birds, daydreaming, and fire
Gorgeous shortie up today. Savor "The Marriage" from @ezhang77.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-2-25
Lovely piece that scopes absolutely wonderfully across time + space up for y'all this week. Enjoy "fossils" from @kmhanslik.bsky.social
Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-25-25
It's our first year doing this, but -- here's our nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize! If you haven't checked these lovely pieces out already, you should go give them a read :)
Incredibly voice-y and hilarious piece that meanders in absolutely mesmerizing patterns. Enjoy "In Fields and Bookshelves and Pockets" from @hmwilson.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-18-25
Gorgeous little poem up today that features ducks, among other things. Enjoy "Imagine a Future Where Nobody Has to Hide Their Tenderness" by @justinkarcher.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-28-25
Beat Silksong last night and it reminded me how badly I want to see more pieces about video games in the sub q! AA, AAA, Indie, Flash, only found in the recesses of your mind-- send it in!!!
Vivid, nostalgic piece that scopes through time and space wonderfully up on the site this week. Enjoy "2014, reframed" from Michelle Li
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-21-25
Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: trucks, berries of all kinds, birds, quatrains, niche hobbies, survival, birds, tv shows and movies, birds, the vastness of the ocean, snowstorms, prose poems, working a 9 to 5, and birds.
