Check out my new story wigleaf.com/202611dramat.... There's also a "postcard" linked at the end.
Manzella: 'The Dramatic Story'
Fiction by Abby Manzella
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Abby Manzella
@abbymanzella.bsky.social
Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
Wigleaf@wigleaf.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm so please to have this piece up at Wigleaf under the fabulous editing of Scott Garson. This story is part of my forthcoming short story collection out in February! Let's keep the monsters at bay!
Wigleaf@wigleaf.bsky.social · 2d agonew on our mainpage: “The Dramatic Story,” by Abby Manzella: wigleaf.com
Fantastic collection! Everyone go and preorder! Congratulations, @abbymanzella.bsky.social 💜
Abby Manzella@abbymanzella.bsky.social · 3w agoMy short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, is now available for preorder on my press's website: www.uwsp.edu/school-of-hu... Go to the link and then scroll to and click on my book cover. Thanks to Cornerstone Press and to @kathyfish.bsky.social for reading and sharing her kind words!
My short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, is now available for preorder on my press's website: www.uwsp.edu/school-of-hu... Go to the link and then scroll to and click on my book cover. Thanks to Cornerstone Press and to @kathyfish.bsky.social for reading and sharing her kind words!
Have you preordered your copy of The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay? It releases on Tuesday! Only 5 more days to get free US shipping on your preorder w/ code LYRICFREESHIP! @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social have edited a stunner! rosemetalpress.com/books/field-...
passages north presents our best small fiction nominations: Abby Manzella “Sheepskin” Kevin Chesser “Plinth” Sydney Koeplin “One Bite” Dr. Robin Silbergleid “[All my lesbian lovers]” Michael Bazzett “An Oral History of the Flat Earth” so excited to nominate these wonderful pieces!!
A biting little "Amuse-Bouche" of mine that Lunch Ticket just published. lunchticket.org/a-usual/
As Usual - Lunch Ticket
In this piece of flash prose, Abby Manzella writes about the anguish of a young student witnessing the inhumane arrest of her parents.
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Yesterday I came home to the Advanced Reader Copies of my forthcoming short story collection! We are on our way! If you are a reviewer/interviewer please be in touch, and I will see if I can get you one.
I am happy to announce I am a Poets & Writers Fiction Fellow for my forthcoming short story collection RIPPLES INTO THE WILD! debutiful.net/2026/09/15/a...
Announcing the 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort - Debutiful
Poets & Writers has announced the Fall 2026 fiction cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early-career writers. The program gives selected writers the chance to work with an experienc...
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I am doing some reading right now. What is your favorite small press piece you read or wrote in 2026? If you have the link, that's even better.
I am thrilled to share the cover reveal of my short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, which is coming out in February. Check it out, and the interview I did with DEBUTIFUL about the experience! debutiful.net/2026/08/31/s...
See the cover for Ripples into the Wild by Abby Manzella - Debutiful
In her debut short story collection, Ripples into the Wild, Abby Manzella explores man-made disasters, climate change, the pandemic, and imagined future catastrophes. Moving between realism and the sp...
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Wrapping up @smokelong.bsky.social’s #ArchiveChallenge with @abbymanzella.bsky.social’s “Intervals on the Beach at Dusk” in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Love the tension between the narrator’s theoretical knowledge and the stress that inhibits her music-making. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/seven...
Issue Seventeen — Tiny Molecules
Issue 17 - Autumn 2023
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Check out my latest book recommendations. abbymanzella.substack.com/p/books-on-a...
Books on Animals
The Stories that Look Outward
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I had the pleasure of chatting with the ever-lovely Beth Ann Fennelly about her latest work of micro-memoir. Check it out! www.craftliterary.com/2026/07/31/i...
Interview: Beth Ann Fennelly - CRAFT
A few years ago, when I was developing a graduate course on flash writing, I knew that I wanted to include Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (2017) because it showed how brevity ...
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I'm starting a Substack: writing and animals and the outdoors! This pose is what happens when I sing to the wild rabbits. Come check it out and subscribe for the fun to come! abbymanzella.substack.com/p/starting-t...
Starting Things
I’ve been meaning to start a Substack, and now, at the start of July, seems as good a time as any for things to begin.
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Mist morning light outside my window while I am at The Porches in Virginia on a Nancy Ludmerer Flash Nonfiction Fellowship to finish my book of micro memoirs.
Settling into my flash fellowship retreat at The Porches in Virginia!
At the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, I am slowing down and paying attention as Maggie Smith advises. (The orange is apparently to attract orioles.)
What are your favorite memoirs and why? I am looking for some broad reading.
The Unbound Book Festival is one of my favorite weekends in Columbia. Tales on the road by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ir.bsky.social, @bjsoloy.bsky.social, @nancycrochiere.bsky.social, and @samuelkolawole.bsky.social led by @caylinct.bsky.social. .
Really stoked etc etc to be included in this flash fiction reading!!! If you are in and around mid Missourah and heading to Unbound next week, come hang! Ft. @abbymanzella.bsky.social, Ayotola Tehingbola, @ruthjoffre.bsky.social, @wigleaf.bsky.social, and myself!
I'm glad to have my recent micro-memoir from MoonPark Review listed in this week's Memoir Monday. memoirland.substack.com/p/memoir-mon...
Memoir Monday Roundup 3/30/26
A compendium of stellar personal essays. PLUS: Scroll down to the bottom for so many great workshops, calls for submissions, and a conference....
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I'm pleased that my short story "Sheepskin" is in the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social. It's about frustration, dogs, and paint colors! Check out the print copy!
Happy to share my new, quiet piece with you as I drink my coffee. moonparkreview.com/issue-35-spr...
The Perfect Temperature of Coffee
By Abby Manzella My husband is grading in the other room; I’m reading on the sofa. My own grades have just been submitted. In this free moment, I have no interest in turning on the news to be bomb…
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