BRILLIG: a micro lit mag

and a chance meeting

THIS THING IS SO COOL. I just received my copy of BRILLIG: a micro lit mag (Winter/Spring 2025).

I lucked across a call for submissions in a recent newsletter from the North Carolina Poetry Society, which described BRILLIG as a hand-crafted, limited-edition literary journal, show-casing poems that are “brilliant and big.” Truly. I submitted several pieces and waited to hear…

On a related note, I attended the recent Haiku Holiday, an annual tradition of the North Carolina Haiku Society. During coffee and pastries, I ended up chatting with a friendly soul from coastal Carolina. We swapped bird watching stories and tips. A short time later, she came speeding back across the room, “wait, you’re Matt Snyder? I’m Deborah, Deborah Doolittle! I accepted your work!”

Deborah is the editor of BRILLIG, and she actually had a proof copy of the magazine to share that day. What a beautiful handmade bookart, and I’m so delighted to have received my copy. The binding format is called “Dragon Scale,” in which the pages are tri-folds, arranged so that each page extends outward a little more than the previous page. The visible portion of each page is a brown-gold leaf pattern, the inner portion is plain white with black text. The cover is also handmade, with stylized images of a multi-color heron and black-and-white honey bees. It is big enough that all the pages fit inside.

I’ll happily share my copy with you, next I see you.

It’s an honor to share space with these wonderful poems and excellent poets. My pieces in the issue include Ghazal for sunrise, everything is music, and 3 haiku, one of which I’ll share here:

the quickening
of treetop ice melt…
sound of sun