JAKE

Hey all, @beansbaker5.bsky.social here. After much deliberation, and many missed deadlines, we've decided to end submissions to JAKE indefinitely on Feb. 15th (two weeks from today). All open submissions will receive a response, and all announced/scheduled work will release, but we're winding down.

Heads up: JAKE's backend experienced a breach one of his contributors (thankfully) spotted this week. Almost 250 pieces were affected (had an LLM-sounding paragraph of advertising inserted). All should be fixed now, but if your piece is still messed up, email JAKE & he'll fix it.

This might be my last ever publication with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, so check out "Three Meals, Waterloo IL, Christmas 2025" now: jakethemag.com/three-meals-...

Just finished formatting the last few pieces we'll publish before the indefinite hiatus. Check out some of these titles, coming to you from some heavy hitters:

Just received my lucky number 13th acceptance from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for my prose poem "Three Meals, Waterloo, IL, Christmas 2025." Look forward to reading about my mediocre Christmas later this month!

All responses have been sent. Thank you!

Subs update. Fiction: 5 left Nonfiction: All Responses Sent Poetry: 30 left If you haven't heard back from JAKE, you'll hear this week.

Shoutout to Anthony Verdi for capturing these pics (and making me look kinda cool!) at @publishedbyjake.bsky.social’s total blast of a AWP Sat. night reading.

Thank you Terri Linn for capturing me and Ben's souls @terrilinndavis.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social

What a fucking beautiful night. Thank you everyone for coming to Death to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social ! I couldn't have asked for a better send off.

Hanging with @joshuatrentbrown.com and @noahpowers.bsky.social , a few of the minds behind the mag. Out reading started like four hours ago lmao

We have added another press to the RF chaos table. @invariablyso.bsky.social has their book from @querenciapress.bsky.social is here as well!

Check out this essay I wrote a couple few years ago about working a job where we tried to harvest rubber waste from old astroturf @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/my-summer-of...

pour one out for JAKE tonight

Tonight at Club Charles, 7 p.m.

I am waiting on a plane to leave Baltimore and have ceded the @rfpress.bsky.social table to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social whose got super cool chapbooks! T318. Enjoy today, writer peeps

Chilling at the Roi Faineant table!

Packed a small cardboard box w/author copies to put in my suitcase for Baltimore. Will probably do the same w/a few copies of the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social titles, so if you want one and see me around, I might be able to hook you up.

Ohhhh I’ll be there! Reading! I’m reading!

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Updated lineup with a few more friendly faces:

God I wish I wasn’t leaving early, GO to this

see you there xoxo

stoked for this!

Read my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Mother Karma by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social , out from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social , here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social , is Mother Karma going to break my heart? If so, tell me now so I can be prepared. 🥰 I mean, this is only page 2 and I'm already feeling the weight and the beauty of the book. Looking forward to spending my morning with it!

One night only! End of AWP!

Specifically contributors w/o plans. Hit up the DM's!

So... anyone going to be around in Baltimore Saturday night of AWP weekend?

⚡️Fast Flash Fiction Review: the brilliant Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam published by the excellent Jake! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

Thank you for submitting to JAKE. He encourages you to keep looking for your corner of the literary and artistic weird.

Subs close Sunday: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

I have two (very different) new things out! A poem about the joys of having your eyeballs mapped in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social: jakethemag.com/ode-to-retin... And an article on winter brook trout in the latest issue of Dark Skies Fly Fishing: darkskiesflyfishing.com

this piece that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social took was basically the genesis for, and forms a kind of backbone for, TACOMA! jakethemag.com/maps/

sad to hear (JAKE is great!) but so goes the world of literary journals. there are a handful with institutional support and/or mysterious money (tho fewer & fewer of even those), otherwise the lifespan is more often than not shorter than that of a large dog. love them similarly when they're around.

It's a tough time out there to be a lit mag, even if you're as kickass as JAKE. Treat yourself to some of the awesomeness before they go ungentle into that good night! They made a home for a story about a sad anarchist meeting Alien Jesus. They are beauty. Au revoir, l'ami.

Oh this is such sad news!

long live JAKE

Sorry to hear this news — JAKE kicks ass. Really hope it’ll be back someday 🌼

I will be forever grateful to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for publishing my CNF chapbook. Running a little mag, whether online, in print or both, is a tremendous commitment so I understand where the team is coming from even as I'll miss the publication.

Too bad, Jake was/is amazing.

The literary world just got a little less weird. You will be missed.