Taco Bell Quarterly

18 Nov 2024

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

My advice to getting an agent is to run up to them screaming that you're the Taco Bell Quarterly and let them know that you just DMed them too.

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I was excitedly clicking who was liking what on every post and following them, when the only thing everybody was doing was putting a Taco Bell reference in their writing and submitting it to a WordPress site, I didn't let the devastation of that stop me from myself and my worst impulses

Just make something and have fun and maybe your stupid dream will come true

My advice to getting an agent is to run up to them screaming that you're the Taco Bell Quarterly and let them know that you just DMed them too.

It helps if you published their friend! But I didn't know this. When the agent clicked heart on a contributor's post, I got overexcited and imagined TBQ was being "perused" by literary agents now. We were on issue 2, it was 2020, and I am delusional. I'm announcing my book tomorrow!

Will books survive this modern era? They survive all eras. People will write in ink made from soot and paper made from skin. If books aren't around, we're not around! The obituaries they write are their own.

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie)

And that's where books come from and how they are made. Then the literary stork delivers the readers

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@ligerlillie.bsky.social

Can now confirm this is what getting a poem shortlisted feels like

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The only prize for you is more writing

niketruthsays.bsky.social

Because I have feelings about my feelings

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mānas 🤎 🇵🇸

@annihilationofcaste.net

burn computer

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Editing tip: set the whole thing on fire

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@niketruthsays.bsky.social

the ashes may give inspiration

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Editing tip: set the whole thing on fire

Editing tip: set the whole thing on fire

I am so powerful my therapist once broke the boundaries of the therapeutic relationship to confide they were also a writer and had been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul

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qevium ⸸

@qevium.bsky.social

*blows dust off my English degree* this shit rules

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Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

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Deb Courtney

@debcourtney.bsky.social

Yeah. @tacobellquarterly.org always sticks the landing

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Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

The only prize for you is more writing

Nothing is real except the fact that you are going to die, you can truly do anything you want before that point

Rawdog your book. No outlines, no writing schedule, no clue what’s next

My ADHD ass didn't even organize the citations, I just bookmarked everything and figured I'd remember everything and find it later. I actually don't recommend this though. It was painful when later came

I don't recommend anything except putting Taco Bell in your work

Send it to Kirkus and let them know the star is expected and “strongly advised”

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Lucie Brooks

@luciebrooks.bsky.social

@tacobellquarterly.org new story idea just dropped

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Proud to rep as the most official looking Taco Bell account on here, fuck all of this and everything, Amen

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Taco Bell Quarterly looks like the annoying little newsletter that keeps everyone up to date on the newest collabs and menu items

@pretensesoup.bsky.social

I am kind of low-key excited about the upcoming birthday cake empanadas in a collab with milk bar. It'll probably make you shit yourself and cost $4.49 for two little deep fried assturds with creme, but it will have sprinkles and I'm a simp

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E. H. Lupton

What an excellent use of form, of title and poem in counterpoint, of humor, of everything.

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Alex Ashpool

@alexashpool.bsky.social

Art only a human could make.

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Connor Anderson

@connorwa.bsky.social

This is my Tom Holland "Umbrella" lip sync.

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@octopushearts.bsky.social

I think about this poem all the time.

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Love seeing this making the rounds again and will always retweet. We published one of the greatest poems of all time, as seen in the most prestigious literary magazine of all time:

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@almostwriting.bsky.social

Fun fact I've always been notoriously slow at replying to submissions and this sat in our inbox when the fucker died. A shame, he could have seen it if I was faster

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John Elizabeth Stintzi

@jestintzi.bsky.social

😇

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Korrine Crawford

The most writerly thing is to look back on situations and think, “I could write it better.”

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I'm like this not because I barely understand social situations but because I understand them all too well after I deconstruct them 10,000 times and begin to think of it as a kind of narrative I could have fixed

What if I'm like this because I'm a writer and then no one can tell there's something wrong with me

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I do not feel embarrassment. I feel art.

What if I'm like this because I'm a writer and then no one can tell there's something wrong with me

Oh it's just a character I'm workshopping in my next brilliant piece of work and not a deep seated wound I've been carrying since childhood

Don't worry, none of this is real and I have no feelings when there's a potential essay anecdote to save me from feeling pain. This works better than drugs. Trust me

I don't want a job. I want to be a writer. and if writing never becomes my job I never have to work. I haven't figured out the money part of the plan yet, I'm planning just to die first and then I won't have to write anymore. I have it all figured out. Just follow me for more tips

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