We are an online literary space for previously published work.

Bulb Culture Collective publishes only previously published writing on our website twice weekly, a weekly post exploring a contributor post in more detail, and occasional eZines curated to various themes. 

L.M. Cole

Jared Povanda

Bulb Culture Collective

Previously published work only! 

Arbor Day

Michelle is a writer and attorney, living outside of Washington, D.C. with her family and zoo of animals. 

Michelle is a writer and attorney, living outside of Washington, D.C. with her family, dogs, cat, turtle, and fish. 

Crystal Taylor is a neurodivergent writer and poet from Texas. Her most recent and upcoming work lives in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Rust & Moth, ONE ART, and other sacred spaces. Crystal is active on most social platforms @CrystalTaylorSA

Short Multipurpose DPA, R&M, OA

Crystal Taylor is a writer, poet and birdwatcher from Texas. Her recent work lives in Rust & Moth, Anti-heroin Chic, Gargoyle, wildspace., and other sacred places. Engage with her on most social media platforms @CrystalTaylorSA.

All Purpose 

Crystal Taylor is a writer, poet and birdwatcher from Texas. Her recent work lives in Rust & Moth, Maudlin House, wildspace. Dishsoap Quarterly, and other sacred places. She has been nominated for Best of the Net for her poem, “Pearls”. Engage with her on most social media platforms @CrystalTaylorSA.

Poetry

Crystal Taylor is a writer, poet and birdwatcher from Texas. Her recent nonfiction work lives in Anti-heroin Chic, Gargoyle Magazine, Roi Finéant and other sacred places. Engage with her on most social media platforms @CrystalTaylorSA.

Crystal Taylor is a writer, poet and birdwatcher from Texas. Her words live in Maudlin House, wildspace., Gargoyle Magazine, and other sacred places. She was nominated for Best of the Net for her poem, “Pearls”. She is active on most social media @CrystalTaylorSA.

Fiction 

C.M. Crockford is an autistic/ADHD writer and editor originally from New England. He currently lives in Philadelphia with his cat Wally.

C.M. Crockford is an autistic/ADHD writer and editor who's lived in Philadelphia since 2017. His work has been featured in 3views, Vastarien, Neologism Poetry Journal, and Better than Starbucks among others. Birdsongs, his debut poetry collection, will be out in March 2024 via Alien Alien Buddha Press.

Emily Benson lives in Western New York with her husband and two sons. Her work has been featured in The CryptoNaturalist podcast, Deep Wild Journal, Gastropoda, Literary Mama, Moist Poetry Journal, Paddler Press, and others. Read more at www.emilybensonpoet.com.

"Outside, the rain falls softly, but relentlessly, icy needles colliding and melting against the glass window. Inside, the rumpled bed sheets are a cocoon for naked bodies tangled together, the heat between them hellfire and heaven."

When It Rains

Republished in Bulb Culture Collective, 2022

Searching for a Place to Sell Animal Bones I Found Inside Animals

When you hit the carnival,

slick with sweat

in Philadelphia summer,

You eat food

battered beyond

recognition,

The Wheel By The Ocean

Scar Tissue

Sepulcher 

The First Time I Killed

In Quasimodo's jostling stone-cobbled street
From the gulls' wings upon the river's soft thrum
Through the colombes ...

Hailflake

Based on excerpts from The Aberdeen Bestiary and a Medieval recipe for roast goose. 

The Feast of Fabian According to Theobald The Pious

Blind Love is a piece about a blind man who falls in love with someone they hear across the park.

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