Taylor Franson-Thiel
@TaylorFranson
Poetry MFA candidate at GMU | EIC of @BRAWL_Lit | Poetry Editor @PhoebeJournal | BONE VALLEY HYMNAL 2025
I’m excited to announce that my debut poetry collection is officially forthcoming! March 2025 with @EmergeJournal “Bone Valley Hymnal” is a deeply personal and special collection centered on themes on lineage, religion, and gender and I am so excited to share it with y’all

For the month of July, all writers of color can submit to swamp pink fee-free. *Please limit submissions to one per genre.
I just finished my last BVH reading last night (shout out the Utah Poetry Slam for being so rad). And I have 20 signed author copies left! $15 (includes shipping) for anyone who wants em!
Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: The sun is a disembodied thought: An Interview with @MattBroaddus Read here: poems.com/features/what-…
Thank you @jockeycornsilk for interviewing me and thank you to @Poetry_Daily for featuring my work!
Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: The sun is a disembodied thought: An Interview with @MattBroaddus Read here: poems.com/features/what-…
We're halfway through our break. Subs reopen in Aug. Poetry, fiction, CNF. Free sub option always. We pay $30/piece. We want to read your work! And....we've been rereading our catalogue for awards season. It's that time again! lmari
Just accepted a poem that made me cry, reevaluate my existential doom, and want to write a poem. This is why I do what I do. Please keep submitting, you never know the magazine reader or editor that will read your work and be moved to tears or have a pivotal shift in thinking.
20 days left to submit to us! Send us something that terrifies you to say out loud. Something that only your living room has heard whispered. Something you can't sweep under the rug anymore. beavermag.org/submit/
WILDNESS. Open for submissions! 📝 poetry · fiction · non-fiction → readwildness.com/submit
ICYMI. Wildness, Issue No. 38 is out… 🩷 ↓↓↓
Issue No. 38 of WILDNESS is out! 🧶 Featuring new work from @phlat_soda, @HariAlluri, @saudsleypoet, @TaylorFranson, @kryleef, @richardsiken + 🧡 readwildness.com/38
Issue 19 has been made & sequenced, and is utterly spectacular. This means all 407 submissions have been personally responded to (with one exception) in a mere 16 days. 22 acceptances. 5 continents. ToC coming soon. Now I need to sell it 😬 Only $10! stanchionzine.com/product-page/s…
🚨New Brawler Upgrade Unlocked: Team Taylor🚨 The world sucks. This poem from @deutschbitte may not fix it, but it also may make you feel a tiny bit better! Stay safe. Think about penguins eating fries if it makes you feel happy.
Today’s Featured Poem: “the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublication Read here: poems.com/poem/the-city-…
"And if I want the day to break me, what then?" Wow. A fantastic opening to a fantastic poem by @TaylorFranson.
Here is a direct link to my new poems from @wildnessjournal if you'd like to take a read! My poetry has really shifted directions lately and it's new and exciting but also weird. readwildness.com/38/franson-thi…
No submission fee!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ I came third in the fiction contest and I have nothing but praise for the team at the Hudson Review. I strongly encourage you to submit!
Our #poetrycontest is open! 1st prize: $1000 + publication, 2nd & 3rd: $500 + publication. Submit up to 5 poems; manuscripts accepted electronically at hudsonreview.com/submissions or by mail to 33 W 67th St, NY, NY 10023. Ends July 31, 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/53wketha
Today’s Featured Poem: “Drunk” by Noelle Kocot from Ascent Of The Mothers published by Wave Books. Read here: poems.com/poem/drunk/
Shō Poetry Journal is offering fee-free submissions for BIPOC poets on July 4! Submissions are capped at 75. Native American and Indigenous Canadian poets, our fee-free submission portal for you remains open until September 1.
Our #poetrycontest is open! 1st prize: $1000 + publication, 2nd & 3rd: $500 + publication. Submit up to 5 poems; manuscripts accepted electronically at hudsonreview.com/submissions or by mail to 33 W 67th St, NY, NY 10023. Ends July 31, 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/53wketha
We are proud to introduce our second anthology, "My Death Is Not a Song for You to Sing," featuring new voices from the community. Mohammed Moussa, Gaza Poets Society buymeacoffee.com/gazapoets/e/37…
I have three excerpts from a long poem I’ve been working on in the new issue of @RougarouJournal 🪦🪦 rougarou.org/excerpt-from-w…