• start the car & get in—it's time for the trip of a lifetime. under heavy skies, streets cleave the land, tongues whisper myths, & wind turns these grasses to sea. follow the call, wherever it may lead. #perhappenedmag issue 2: ROAD TRIP has arrived: perhappened.com/issue2roadtrip.html. 🛣️✨ #perhappened #roadtrip #issue2 #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    start the car & get in—it's time for the trip of a lifetime. under heavy skies, streets cleave the land, tongues whisper myths, & wind turns these grasses to sea. follow the call, wherever it may lead. #perhappenedmag issue 2: ROAD TRIP has arrived: perhappened.com/issue2roadtrip.html. 🛣️✨ #perhappened #roadtrip #issue2 #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • we're honored and delighted to announce our #2020 @sundresspublications best of the net award nominees for #poetry & #prose! congratulations to #CARNIVAL contributors taylor byas, karen steiger, colin lubner, oluwatobi ezekiel poroye, timothy ojo, jenny mitchell, renee agatep, & ashley bullen cutting. 💖 #bestofthenet #botn #award #nominees #nomination #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    we're honored and delighted to announce our #2020 @sundresspublications best of the net award nominees for #poetry & #prose! congratulations to #CARNIVAL contributors taylor byas, karen steiger, colin lubner, oluwatobi ezekiel poroye, timothy ojo, jenny mitchell, renee agatep, & ashley bullen cutting. 💖 #bestofthenet #botn #award #nominees #nomination #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • it's now been 2 weeks since our inaugural issue, #CARNIVAL, made its grand debut! 🎠🎡🎢 thank you to everyone who donated, signed petitions, and supported #BlackLivesMatter for initial access, and thank you to the incredible Black contributors whom we showcased in our #spotlight series. 💖 now that our in-depth spotlights have concluded, we'll be promoting each piece from issue 1 throughout the end of the month (6/20-6/30)! every day, we'll be highlighting six fantastic pieces that make up the eleven "attractions"/sections of our stunning CARNIVAL over on #twitter. are you ready? follow the link in our bio for the thread. ⬆️ (our web client won't let us upload all the photos on here, sorry!) #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    it's now been 2 weeks since our inaugural issue, #CARNIVAL, made its grand debut! 🎠🎡🎢 thank you to everyone who donated, signed petitions, and supported #BlackLivesMatter for initial access, and thank you to the incredible Black contributors whom we showcased in our #spotlight series. 💖 now that our in-depth spotlights have concluded, we'll be promoting each piece from issue 1 throughout the end of the month (6/20-6/30)! every day, we'll be highlighting six fantastic pieces that make up the eleven "attractions"/sections of our stunning CARNIVAL over on #twitter. are you ready? follow the link in our bio for the thread. ⬆️ (our web client won't let us upload all the photos on here, sorry!) #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • our twelfth and final spotlight of issue 1 goes to the moving, transcendent "mobile maps" by oluwatobi ezekiel poroye, a celebration of home and tale of survival. 🗺 "we reach out to it as though / we're a cathedral in waiting." read: https://www.perhappened.com/mobilemapsoluwatobiporoye.html 🎠🎡🎢 oluwatobi is an economist, teacher and poet. his works explore the concept of home and leaving, silence, grief and adulthood in africa. he writes somewhere in ogun, nigeria. alongside this piece, oluwatobi chose to promote three causes & people he believes in: 🤍 #BLM / #BlackLivesMatter, 🤍 @mhiz_adorable90, a dental nurse, fashion designer, skit maker and entrepreneur, and 🤍 @klickphics, a graphics designer, creative writer and public speaker. #perhappened #perhappenedmag #carnival #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    our twelfth and final spotlight of issue 1 goes to the moving, transcendent "mobile maps" by oluwatobi ezekiel poroye, a celebration of home and tale of survival. 🗺 "we reach out to it as though / we're a cathedral in waiting." read: https://www.perhappened.com/mobilemapsoluwatobiporoye.html 🎠🎡🎢 oluwatobi is an economist, teacher and poet. his works explore the concept of home and leaving, silence, grief and adulthood in africa. he writes somewhere in ogun, nigeria. alongside this piece, oluwatobi chose to promote three causes & people he believes in: 🤍 #BLM / #BlackLivesMatter, 🤍 @mhiz_adorable90, a dental nurse, fashion designer, skit maker and entrepreneur, and 🤍 @klickphics, a graphics designer, creative writer and public speaker. #perhappened #perhappenedmag #carnival #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • the eleventh spotlight of issue 1: #CARNIVAL belongs to jide badmus, whose poem "blackout" is an intimate, sensuous journey between two bodies and souls. 🛏✨ "Last night we wore skins of war. / Fighter jets roared in our heads." read: https://www.perhappened.com/blackoutjidebadmus.html 🎠🎡🎢 jide is an electrical engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful. badmus explores themes around sensuality and healing. he writes from lagos, nigeria. you can reach him on twitter @ twitter.com/bardmus, instagram @instajhide. alongside his piece, jide has chosen to promote serendipity healthcare foundation's "help a child" clean water campaign for nigerian children (globalgiving.org/projects/water-for-5000-children-in-nigeria), as well as his poetry collection "scripture," available to purchase NOW on amazon (amazon.com/Scripture-Jide-Badmus/dp/9785556042). 🤍 #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    the eleventh spotlight of issue 1: #CARNIVAL belongs to jide badmus, whose poem "blackout" is an intimate, sensuous journey between two bodies and souls. 🛏✨ "Last night we wore skins of war. / Fighter jets roared in our heads." read: https://www.perhappened.com/blackoutjidebadmus.html 🎠🎡🎢 jide is an electrical engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful. badmus explores themes around sensuality and healing. he writes from lagos, nigeria. you can reach him on twitter @ twitter.com/bardmus, instagram @instajhide. alongside his piece, jide has chosen to promote serendipity healthcare foundation's "help a child" clean water campaign for nigerian children (globalgiving.org/projects/water-for-5000-children-in-nigeria), as well as his poetry collection "scripture," available to purchase NOW on amazon (amazon.com/Scripture-Jide-Badmus/dp/9785556042). 🤍 #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • our tenth spotlight of this debut issue is praise osawaru's illuminating piece "sleeping streets," which will light up the hidden city within you. 🛣 "You see, your body is a city, too, / & unfamiliar people wander in, like birds" read: https://www.perhappened.com/sleepingstreetspraiseosawaru.html 🎠🎡🎢 praise is a nigerian writer & poet studying at the university of benin, nigeria. his works have appeared in african writer, ngiga review, praxis magazine & elsewhere. he was longlisted for african writers award 2019 & shortlisted for 2019 kreative diadem creative writing contest. say hello on instagram/twitter: @wordsmithpraise. twitter: twitter.com/wordsmithpraise. alongside this piece, praise chose to feature three causes close to his heart: 🤍 the mirabel centre (mirabelcentre.org), 🤍 stand to end rape/s.t.e.r. (standtoendrape.org), & 🤍 #BlackLivesMatter, specifically this carrd with resources to help: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co. #perhappened #perhappenedmag #carnival #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    our tenth spotlight of this debut issue is praise osawaru's illuminating piece "sleeping streets," which will light up the hidden city within you. 🛣 "You see, your body is a city, too, / & unfamiliar people wander in, like birds" read: https://www.perhappened.com/sleepingstreetspraiseosawaru.html 🎠🎡🎢 praise is a nigerian writer & poet studying at the university of benin, nigeria. his works have appeared in african writer, ngiga review, praxis magazine & elsewhere. he was longlisted for african writers award 2019 & shortlisted for 2019 kreative diadem creative writing contest. say hello on instagram/twitter: @wordsmithpraise. twitter: twitter.com/wordsmithpraise. alongside this piece, praise chose to feature three causes close to his heart: 🤍 the mirabel centre (mirabelcentre.org), 🤍 stand to end rape/s.t.e.r. (standtoendrape.org), & 🤍 #BlackLivesMatter, specifically this carrd with resources to help: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co. #perhappened #perhappenedmag #carnival #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • the ninth spotlight of issue 1: #CARNIVAL is "becoming darkness" by temidayo jacob, a rumination on birthdays, bonds, and dark nights. 🌌 "my birth-carnival is in a few days & the only thing i'll be celebrating is failure —" read: https://www.perhappened.com/becomingdarknesstemidayojacob.html 🎠🎡🎢 temidayo is a sociologist who writes from the north central part of nigeria. he is the author of "beauty of ashes." temidayo's work has appeared and is forthcoming on rattle, outcast magazine, lucent dreaming, the temz review, kissing dynamite, and others. you can reach him on twitter @BoyUntouched. alongside his piece, temidayo has chosen to promote his startup, foenix press, which provides digital solutions to people, including: digital publishing, video editing, graphic designs, content writing, web development, etc. follow foenix press on twitter @FoenixPress & at foenixpress.com. 🤍 #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    the ninth spotlight of issue 1: #CARNIVAL is "becoming darkness" by temidayo jacob, a rumination on birthdays, bonds, and dark nights. 🌌 "my birth-carnival is in a few days & the only thing i'll be celebrating is failure —" read: https://www.perhappened.com/becomingdarknesstemidayojacob.html 🎠🎡🎢 temidayo is a sociologist who writes from the north central part of nigeria. he is the author of "beauty of ashes." temidayo's work has appeared and is forthcoming on rattle, outcast magazine, lucent dreaming, the temz review, kissing dynamite, and others. you can reach him on twitter @BoyUntouched. alongside his piece, temidayo has chosen to promote his startup, foenix press, which provides digital solutions to people, including: digital publishing, video editing, graphic designs, content writing, web development, etc. follow foenix press on twitter @FoenixPress & at foenixpress.com. 🤍 #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
  • #summer's sure to be a scorcher. #perhappenedmag issue 3: #HEATWAVE flares to life this august. ☀🔥✨ subs open 7/7! ✍🧡 (art: aleah dye 🎨) #perhappened #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submissions #submit
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    #summer's sure to be a scorcher. #perhappenedmag issue 3: #HEATWAVE flares to life this august. ☀🔥✨ subs open 7/7! ✍🧡 (art: aleah dye 🎨) #perhappened #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submissions #submit
  • our eighth shoutout of issue 1: #CARNIVAL is the brilliant "when we first reach" by jenny mitchell, an incisive study on tradition & the cost of progress. ☁ "Them never think to say we dress up bright to keep the sun / alive in this dull place." read: https://www.perhappened.com/firstreachjennymitchell.html 🎠🎡🎢 jenny was joint winner of the geoff stevens’ memorial poetry prize in 2019. her work has been broadcast on radio 4 and bbc 2, and published in the rialto, the interpreter’s house, under the radar etc. a debut collection, "her lost language" (indigo dreams publishing) was poetry kit book of the month november 2019. link to purchase "her lost language"—https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/jenny-mitchell/4594685475. alongside her piece, jenny has chosen to promote the following causes: 🤍 #BlackLivesMatter 🤍 #BlackWomen 🤍 #windrushscandal #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit
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    our eighth shoutout of issue 1: #CARNIVAL is the brilliant "when we first reach" by jenny mitchell, an incisive study on tradition & the cost of progress. ☁ "Them never think to say we dress up bright to keep the sun / alive in this dull place." read: https://www.perhappened.com/firstreachjennymitchell.html 🎠🎡🎢 jenny was joint winner of the geoff stevens’ memorial poetry prize in 2019. her work has been broadcast on radio 4 and bbc 2, and published in the rialto, the interpreter’s house, under the radar etc. a debut collection, "her lost language" (indigo dreams publishing) was poetry kit book of the month november 2019. link to purchase "her lost language"—https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/jenny-mitchell/4594685475. alongside her piece, jenny has chosen to promote the following causes: 🤍 #BlackLivesMatter 🤍 #BlackWomen 🤍 #windrushscandal #perhappened #perhappenedmag #litmag #journal #poetry #prose #fiction #cnf #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #submit