Wild Roof Journal
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WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
Read the full intro note & the rest of the issue here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34 Thanks to @lisadellaporta.bsky.social for setting the scene!
It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34
Selection from WRJ's Spring issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-33-gal...
Read our new guest essay here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saying-yes...
Excerpt from Amy Smith’s poem from Spring 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-33
Check Sarah Kilgallon's new essay, "If Creating Could Only Be So Simple" wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/if-creatin...
Have you ever tried to get a book published? . . . And tried, and tried, and felt like scrapping the whole thing!? Then this week’s feature is for you. Anne Marie Wells shares the story of how her travel memoir Happy Iceland came to fruition. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-no-tha...
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof... Read 2 poems from Maria Giesbrecht's forthcoming collection, A Little Feral. Thanks to @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @selenamercuri.bsky.social
Read the new Spring issue (and color-coded introductory note) here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-33 / @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social
It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-33
Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town. Read an excerpt from the book here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-fall-d...
In the new Notebook Navigation, we dive into the opening paragraphs of Don DeLillo's 1985 classic White Noise, emphasizing the precise use of language—a deep attentiveness that we can, perhaps, carry into our own writing. Get the full post: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...
Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world. Get it here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t... @ellisedenauthor.bsky.social
Check out our new interview with Sophia Indelicato & Bethany Cutkomp, who share their insights into @thomasonianmag.bsky.social, a publication showcasing knowledge about the natural world from the minds who pay it the most attention. wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/plotting-t...
New post! Check out a preview of Candice Kelsey's new poetry collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/into-the-w... @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social
Wild Roof Journal | Winter 2026 issue: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
In this episode, @rachelturney.bsky.social joins host Aaron Lelito to talk about how to maintain an organized chaos while writing, the influence of music in her new work & the dilemma of publishing poems about family. Rachel closes us out with a piece called "Meditation." wildroofjournal.podbean.com
On this Wild Roof Podcast episode, authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about creative nonfiction as a genre and cultivating awe in our daily lives. Get the full clip here: youtu.be/9rpOBi03c_Y?...
Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors! Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
For today’s post, I asked some of WRJ’s friends and collaborators to offer a few of their favorites from 2025. Check out the list here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/notebook-n...