ISSUE 11 | SUMMER 2026
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ISSUE 11
After some self-imposed technical difficulties, submissions are open again! We have a 75 submission cap for the month, which will close once it’s reached and will remain closed until next month! Submit your work! We look forward to reading
we are so excited to announce the addition of @isabelyijimenez to our editorial team! Isabel will serve as the Poetry Editor for the journal. They are an artist, writer, and curator whose work examines the materiality and genealogy of place and the
As you may have noticed, Broken Lens Journal has been on hiatus since last winter. While the reasons for the unannounced hiatus were varied and personal, we are aware of the importance of maintaining regular communication with the poets, writers and
@dervq is a writer from Monaghan Ireland based in Amsterdam NL. Her poems have been published with Trasna, Abridged, Hooghly Review, MASK Literary Magazine, Hidden Peak Press among others. She placed 2nd in Litro’s Surreal and Strange Prose Poe
Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, Kathleen Hellen’s work has appeared widely in such journals as Arts & Letters, The Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Evergreen Review, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, New Letters,
@michael_t_young_poet’s fourth collection, Mountain Climbing a River, will be published by Broadstone Media in late 2025. His third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a Fe
@norman.fischer.779 has been publishing poetry since the 1970's. His latest book is the serial poem Through a Window (Roof). Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013 in 2017. He lives on the coast of northern California, not far from San F
Shira Dentz (@shirablazing) is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books; winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize), and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poe
Aiden “A.J.” Brown (@inthefallofasparrow) is an LA-based writer, multimedia artist, and Aquarius rising. Their work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Hobart Pulp, and Dream Boy Book Club among others. Their debut anthology
Cordelia Hanemann, writer and artist, currently co-hosts Summer Poets, a poetry critique group in Raleigh, NC. Retired English professor emerita, she conducts occasional poetry workshops and is active with youth poetry in the North Carolina Poetry So
Giorgia Pavlidou (@enjoyyourneurosis) is a psychotherapist turned writer and painter who lived in the Benelux, Los Angeles, and India where she studied Urdu Literature at Lucknow University. She also holds degrees in Sanskrit, Anthropology, and recei
Tejaswinee Roychowdhury (@tejaswineeroychowdhury) lives in India and is a lawyer, writer and the founding editor of The Hooghly Review. She was recently selected for the Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2023 (Pippa Rann Books, 2024), nominated for the 2025
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