"Love in The Sims 3 / Is a matter of repetition. Love in the Empire of Evil / Is never good." (Wash Hands With Evil Soap // Nicole Dirks)
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-11-25/evil/
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
feel free to shout out any I missed below :)
@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
@livinapress.bsky.social
@trashcatlit.bsky.social
@turningleafjournal.bsky.social
@rough-diamond1.bsky.social
@epistemiclit.bsky.social
@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social
@adimagazine.bsky.social
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
"If you see ducks in an unusual location / it’s possible they have built a nest and laid eggs." (Imagine a Future Where Nobody Has to Hide Their Tenderness // @justinkarcher.bsky.social)
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-28-25
Barophobiar The superhero could not find a cure for his lice. Invisibility streamed dreams into his scalp. Flying burned his hair into skin. At night, the superhero slept inside the walls. He was never alone, and that was the way he liked it. When it rained, the dawn chorus woke the villains, and the superhero stood on the brink of a volcano to find out what was true.
One of mine in @periodicities.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Yep!
Subs open March 1st this, subs open March 1st that—out subs are ALWAYS open! We love February!! Get a response BY March 1st if u send work now :)
So good!!!
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
“Each washer was in use. Each timer reported 42 minutes left in the cycle. Each churned and rattled against the floor” (Whirlpool // @macmurraywrites.bsky.social)
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-7-25/whirl...
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Poems feat. @dishsoapquart.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Thanks to Dishsoap for publishing my story--
Weird, wonderful, and incredibly human piece up this week. Enjoy "Clearance Aisle" from @softpromises.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-24-26
Def give this a read if you missed it earlier this week!!!
Wondering what to submit??? This week we’re especially vibing with: pigeons, fog, frozen bodies of water, Dark Souls, rainforests, domesticity, electricity, citrus, search histories, smells, ebay, poems that start and end with the same letter, confessions, and fences
I pour / my bare body into cloth
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
If u missed this make sure to give it a read!
"...everyone rerouted all the planes and put up speakers playing predatory sounds to warn the birds and there was this sense of Okay: The Great List Of Things To Avoid, Updated" (They fired up the laser // @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social)
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-31-24/laser/
Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: snow, hadestown, kitchens, how-tos, hot air balloons, meadows and plains, succulents, video games, magical realism, love poems, text exchanges, pieces that are one really long sentence, and alternate realities.
Thank you for this generosity, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social!
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
dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-27-26
I really like the quietness of this story by Stephanie Rick published by @dishsoapquart.bsky.social
Happy friday! Here’s a few places you should check out if u haven’t already!
@cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
@the-engine-idling.bsky.social
@underscoremag.bsky.social
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social
The results of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize are finally here! We have 11 wonderful finalists. And (drumroll):
Third Prize winner: @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
Second Prize: @travisflatt.bsky.social
First Prize: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social ⭐
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Dark teal background for graphic of mustard/gold prize cup with stars behind. Text: The SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop Prize. 2nd place: Travis Flatt
Here is Travis Flatt's @travisflatt.bsky.social story from @dishsoapquart.bsky.social, “Cadillacs on the Moon”, which won second place in this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize for published stories begun in an SLQ workshop: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-4-25
