Audi Locus

Shoutout to our Editor @maudiemichelle.com for being named the 2025 Ephraim Tyler Poet of the Year by POETIC X.

At Audi Locus, we don’t just curate great art, we make it! 🖋️🔥

Number 6! 🥰

Next issue coming at the end of January and our next submission period begins in April (theme TBA)!

Audi Locus is art! Poets, check it out!

Eeeeee! Thank you! 💞

CONGRATS @audilocus.bsky.social !!
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We are so honored to be ranked #6 on the @chillsubs.bsky.social Hidden Gem List! Thank you to our contributors and readers for recognizing our crisp blend of liminal and surreal poetry and art.

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Who's gonna send me something on January 5?

It's amazing how a few weeks away from a poem makes you see the cracks in it. Time is the best editor. Patience is better than any craft book.

🔥 The 2026 FISH List is out! Audi Locus jumped nearly 100 points from last year. That’s not luck; that's doing the work.

For the uninitiated: the FISH List ranks thousands of indie lit-mags, weighing submission practices, longevity, and editorial rigor to point you toward venues worth your words.

Time and time in the same sentence. This is why I prefer typing on pc over phone. 😅

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First time I actually licked an envelope in quite some time. Sending off our very first batch of Pushcart Prize nominations! It’s been a solid first year of publishing. Proud of the work we’ve put out and the writers who trusted us with it. Here’s to the next one.

You can submit up to 5 mags! And what's really cool, regardless of "winning," is that the tags y'all pick will help label the lit mags in Chillsubs for easier navigation and visibility!

here is the shorter of yesterday's 2 poems from Kara Knickerbocker

Promotional graphic from "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2". At the top, a large blue quotation mark and the text "what is the Greek word for grief you didn't earn" followed by another blue quotation mark. Below, against a painting of a woman with brown hair looking out a window at city buildings and holding a cup, is the title "“ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)” By Tess Ezzy" and "Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 2"

In our "Witness" issue, Tess Ezzy turns the eye inward and asks the hard questions: "what is the Greek word / for grief you didn’t earn".

Read "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)", one of our Pushcart noms, here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

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Proud to feature this piece by Barnaby Blue in the "Witness" issue! 👁️💘

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We'd love to be one of your five! 😍

It's time to vote for Best Lit Mag in the ChillSubs Community Favorites Awards!

If our work has ever hit you sideways, cracked something open, or lit a little fuse, take a moment and nominate us.

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Type Audi Locus, choose a few tags, hit submit.

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The countdown is on. One week left to submit your work for Audi Locus Volume 2, Issue 1. We’re looking for poetry and art that demands to be heard and remembered.

Deadline: November 30
Weblink: www.audilocus.com

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Audi Locus, A Journal of Poetry, announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations from Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2. Issue 1 nominations are: "The Pope Graces Buc-ee's with his Divine Presence" by Dutch Simmons, "Apples" by Meghan Albizo, and "People Keep Dying So I Keep Writing About It" by Sofiya Ivanova. Issue 2 nominations are: "The Tent" by Rowan Tate, "Unsilenced Ghosts" by Isabelle Ruby, and "ΚΡΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΕΣΥ (you hold this)" by Tess Ezzy.

We are bursting with pride to announce our six nominees for the 2025 Pushcart Prize!

Huge congrats to: Dutch Simmons, Meghan Albizo, Sofiya Ivanova, Rowan Tate, Isabelle Ruby, and Tess Ezzy.

Read all the nominated poems and the full issues now at www.audilocus.com

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So excited about the submissions coming in and am currently digging through Issues 1 and 2 for Pushcart nominations!

A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."

Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

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This seems a great time to pipe up with a #Conrad4Congress! There's a working-class guy running against Mike Johnson in Louisiana (@conrad4congress.bsky.social). ✊💞

Working on balance.

an honour to be included❤️

Thank you for contributing! 💞✨

A surreal and striking submission graphic. A woman stands in a dry, golden field of tall grass against a bright blue sky. Her head is replaced by a brass-rimmed circular mirror that reflects the clouds and blue sky, obscuring her face. The text is placed over the image: "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS" and "SEND YOUR EXISTENTIAL, YOUR SURREAL, YOUR WEIRD" at the top. The categories "POETRY, ART, MUSIC" are stacked on the right. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "OCT 01 - NOV 30" and a footer gives the website "www.audilocus.com/submissions."

Audi Locus is seeking work that explores the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. Don't be afraid to send us your most mind-bending pieces.

➡️ Guidelines: www.audilocus.com/submissions

#OpenSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Surrealism #Existential #LiteraryJournal #Poetry

A quote graphic from the poem "watching too much news" by Angela Arnold. The quote reads: "now there is only a seeping a crawling: terrors of world of the madness in us"

What happens when we are constantly forced to witness the world's pain? @angelaarnold777.bsky.social captures the creeping anxiety in "watching too much news." A deeply resonant piece for our time.

Read the poem here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

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