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FEATURED STORY: The Chase | K.C. Mead-Brewer - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

K.C. Mead-Brewer is an author living in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland. She writes mostly weird, dark fiction, the kind of stories that love flashlights,

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Issue 8 is LIVE! Featuring work by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @demisty.bsky.social, and so many more! Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com

Issue 8 is LIVE! Featuring work by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @demisty.bsky.social, and so many more! Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com

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Dayna Copeland is a romantic and edgy mixed-media artist, a published essayist and professional performer. A cancer mom and an elementary teacher, she is

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Heading to AWP? Join us Wednesday night in an on/offsite reading in the convention center hotel! Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!

“A girl like that could do it in her sleep:
that look, immortalized in that romance, the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.” Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/selfie-jenni...

Selfie | Jennifer Keith - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

Jennifer Keith is a web content writer for Johns Hopkins Medicine and plays bass for the rock band Batworth Stone. Her poems have appeared in Sewanee

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“I am flesh and bone. fiber and liquids.
a mind. I understand people see me
like bodiless heads in circus sideshows
surrounded by hard, distorting glass.” @mehpoeting.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/invisible-ma...

Invisible Man (Two Views) | MEH - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

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“Throughout that long lonely decade, wasn't l a fraying cord, shorting out every electric outlet, burn marks charring each wall? Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —” Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/abandon-kath...

Abandon | Katherine Gekker - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

Katherine Gekker is the author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things (Glass Lyre Press). She serves as Delmarva Review's Poetry Assistant Editor. Her poetry

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Not sure how many people will see this? But here's my list of 2023 pubs. It's short! But that's okay, I edited an anthology and finished my thesis! (Yay!) To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social. I'm so proud of this book! alansquirepublishing.com/bookstore/al...

Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away - Alan Squire Publishing

Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot […]

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Writer friends! I'm fiction editor at The ASP Bulletin from @alansquirepub.bsky.social and we're accepting submissions through Christmas! Submit here: theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

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"this is not the moment i have been waiting for - hades is a mother's hospital waiting room, a dreadful place where restless soles pace, where twenty minutes feels like twenty years waiting..." Michelle Evans | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/first-place-...

FIRST PLACE: anticlea [ante-clee-ah] n. queen of ithaca and mother to odysseus | Michele Evans - Ala...

Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for her school's literary magazine, Unbound.

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I’m so honored to have a story included on this fantastic nominations list 💚🦇

Alan Squire Publishing@alansquirepub.bsky.social · 3y ago

Congratulations to all of our nominees! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social

"Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat." @readinstead.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/contextualiz...

Contextualizing a Forest Fire Continually Burning | Jared Beloff - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

after Erika Meitner's "Outside the Frame"

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excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!! we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰 @alansquirepub theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

"I wanted the wolves to let me stay where I was, to let me keep what I had. If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step around it. If mold grew in the gutters, I’d breathe the spores." Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/alecto-megan...

Alecto | Megan Alpert - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

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Thrilled to have a short story included in this new @alansquirepub.bsky.social anthology alongside some of my favorite writers. Many thanks to editor @writesloud.bsky.social for this powerhouse collection!

"you and me, together, in a house that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath. two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses running around our knees - not a single child in sight." Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/the-immigran...

the immigrant dream | Ishanee Chanda - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

Ishanee Chanda is a prose writer and poet from Dallas, Texas. She is the author or two books of poetry titled Oh, these walls, they crumble and The Overflow.

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Look what finally came! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social and @alansquirepub.bsky.social!!

So excited that @alansquirepub.bsky.social has nominated my bitty story, ROLE MODEL, for inclusion in the Best Microfiction anthology! Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!

Woooohooo!! Thank you so much @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com/buttons/

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Congratulations to all of our nominees! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social

Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social for giving this oddball of a story a chance, and good luck to all the nominees!

Alan Squire Publishing@alansquirepub.bsky.social · 3y ago

Congratulations to all of our nominees! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social

"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life. Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed heart ghastly white beating interdimensional if seen through cardiologist eyes." @adrianf.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social t.co/gCM8nA6izI

SECOND PLACE: Emerald Echocardiogram | Adrian Dallas Frandle - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin

If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life.

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Congratulations to all of our nominees! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social

Join us this Saturday!! writer.org/event/alread...

REMINDER! The ASP Bulletin opens for submissions tomorrow!! Our next issue will launch right before AWP! theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

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The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!! theaspbulletin.com

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"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a

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The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!! theaspbulletin.com

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"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a

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Saturday's launch was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came! (And to our amazing authors!) Hope to see our DC friends on December 2nd! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social

I was so sad to miss the NYC reading & launch of the anthology ALREADY GONE: 40 STORIES OF RUNNING AWAY edited by the fabulous @writesloud.bsky.social @alansquirepub.bsky.social; I’m so honored to have a story included 🦇⚡️

Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away - Alan Squire Publishing

Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot […]

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Saturday's launch was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came! (And to our amazing authors!) Hope to see our DC friends on December 2nd! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social

weekly talk story about CLMP, @alansquirepub.bsky.social, @writesloud.bsky.social, and swamp pink www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Going to AWP?? Save the date! We're hosting a reading on Wednesday night, Feb 7th, featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!