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Please note: Bolts of Silk iclosed to submissions in 2014 i

Thanks to all the poets and readers who helped to make Bolts of Silk a lovely poetry journal to edit over the years.

This site will remain up as an archive.

Bolts of Silk was edited by

Juliet Wilson

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