Daniel Gene Barlekamp
@dgbarlekamp.bsky.social
Short story writer. Poet. Fan of ghosts, monsters, and local legends.
ICYMI, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest will open for entries on August 1st! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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Cool experimental / #horror short from Curtis Harrington, 1946. Not gonna lie, the hallway shots gave me chills, and I may have jumped at least once. #classichorror #liminalspaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGO...
Fragment of Seeking 1946 - Curtis Harrington
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We are open throughout August for submissions from young authors (under 20 by end of August) escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...
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Sorry to hear that D.C. mainstay Gargoyle Magazine is closing its doors in August after half a century. RIP. Hope they keep the archives active for another 50 years. #litmags #literature #writing #contemporaryliterature gargoylemagazine.com
Gargoyle Magazine
A DC-based literary magazine
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Between Stations Trapped on a stalled Tube train, an aspirational stylist and a death cleaner dissect curated lives and raw mortality. voxmeditantis.com/2026/07/29/b...
Between Stations
Trapped on a stalled Tube train, an aspirational stylist and a death cleaner dissect curated lives and raw mortality.
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Deer in the Forest by German painter Eugen Krüger (1832-1876)
Proud to have my #poem "Absence" featured in the July/August issue of Eclectica. Read here for free: shorturl.at/ANy5O "In front of me, a seagull, the last inhabitant of this island, ascends from the wet rocks, four meters into its flight, then five, then six." #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers
Absence—Daniel Gene Barlekamp—Eclectica Magazine v30n3
Poetry by Daniel Gene Barlekamp, Eclectica Magazine v30n3
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“So you, my little boy, my little girl— we will go along together, chat together. At midday you will eat before me, at night we will rest in the same place. […] And Heaven’s treatment will seem most kind.“ —Sugawara no Michizane (845 -903) #poetry #Japanesepoetry #family
2nd baby came early, so I’m a little behind, but thank you to Synkroniciti for the Featured Artist writeup! This magazine does so much for its #artists and #writers. #litmags #litmagspotlight shorturl.at/5txTn
Expectations Featured Artist Daniel Gene Barlekamp
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome back writer and poet Daniel Gene Barlekamp of Massachusetts, who first appeared with us in Belonging and later returned for Haunting. His new poem, “In the Waitin…
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Five days left to submit to Molecule! Send us your micro-masterpieces. #Poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction, plays, interviews, #bookreviews under 50 words all welcome. moleculetinylitmag.art.blog/how-to-submit/ #microfiction #micropoetry
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What can I submit to Molecule? Molecule accepts submissions of poetry, prose (fiction & non-fiction) plays, reviews and interviews in 50 words or less (including titles and interview questions)…
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Read our new guest post by Alex Dodt here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/birds-and-... He shares the inspiration for the poem "Two Birds, No Stone," which was published in WRJ's Spring Issue.
Birds and Stones and Me and You
A guest post from Alex Dodt
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Issue 102 of Streetcake Magazine is live! A have a weird little poem in here called “Gray Area.“ Check it out: shorturl.at/oVCgu. “You are the fading dome light, the fuzzy signal, the static as I drive through the valley…” #poetry #experimentalpoetry #contemporarypoetry
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The most current issue of our exciting and innovative writing magazine, including biographies for our talented writers.
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My beautiful contributor copy of Chthonic Matter Quarterly has arrived! Get yours here: chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatt...
New publisher listing for: Cabbage Patch Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Cabbage Patch Literary Magazine
New publisher listing for: Cabbage Patch Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
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For our fifth Shortlist Saturday, we present a poem steeped in dread and despair, After Watching Horror Movies on a Summer Night, 1998 by Daniel Gene Barlekamp @dgbarlekamp.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/after-w...
After Watching Horror Movies on a Summer Night, 1998 by Daniel Gene Barlekamp
Through the crack in my bedroom door, I hear someone say, “It’s as still as death out there.” The metaphor loses me. The dead are never still [...]
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Boris Groh (Ukrainian Artist, born 1994) "Night Walking", 2017. Ink, Brushes, Paper, Size n.d. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
New issue of Synkroniciti is out, this time on the theme of Expectations. As always, the design and layout (and, of course, the art and writing inside) is gorgeous. The cover alone is worth the price of admission! Check it out here: shorturl.at/TZmce #litmags #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art
So, I try to read every #litmag and anthology I'm featured in. Some of them grab me, some don't. Whims of the Wilderness did. #Poetry readers, you could do a lot worse than to sign up for their free newsletter or subscribe if you can spare it. Let's keep this one alive. shorturl.at/D8yXU
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Nice reflection from Julia Madsen of @gothicquill.bsky.social on the preciousness of time, why #writers do what we do, and the hunt for meaning and connection in the age of AI and vapid-content overload. #writingcommunity shorturl.at/3hlG8
Tired of all the hyperreality? Me too.
Our lives are inundated with artificiality and fake shit. Thankfully, we have our writing.
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Calling all micro-geniuses. Molecule is now open to submissions of #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction, #plays, #bookreviews, and #interviews, all in 50 words or less. Always free to #submit, closes July 15th. #litmags #opentosubmissions shorturl.at/wctUP
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What can I submit to Molecule? Molecule accepts submissions of poetry, prose (fiction & non-fiction) plays, reviews and interviews in 50 words or less (including titles and interview questions)…
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Thrilled to have my poem "Ripples from a Stone Dropped in the Sewer" featured in beautiful Issue 2 of Whims of the Wilderness: shorturl.at/TPpu5 #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers
Ripples from a Stone Dropped | Whims of the Wilderness
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Dawn at Lake Yamanaka, 1931. Coloured Woodblock.
“The egret straightens himself, looks to the right and then left, looks up at the chandelier over the dining-room table, flies up onto the Medusa-shaped lights, and perches along the stem of her braids.” —“Emergency Room” by Bram Gunther. Art by Tanya Marcuse. evergreenreview.com/read/emergen...
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Evergreen Review
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"It was Sunday when the twins drove into town and saw it, the damnable statue, which was so wide as to plug the underpass, and which they likened to their mother, who on the necessity of marriage had become quite immovable." Today on ergot.: 'Photopsia' @ckliu.com www.ergot.press/authors/C.K....
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innovative + experimental horror
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Today's poem is a set of instructions, a story, and a reminder that we are the storytellers and that is an incredible thing. Ali Trotta brings us "When Death Comes, Look to The Tower." Go on, don't look away:
When Death Comes, Look to The Tower - Small Wonders
Stone-sighted and gleaming, / the bones rattle / as you shake them
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"A fragment of the night, kicking, kicking, at the gnawing teeth of the earth." -Henry Dumas, from "Fon" Dumas' short #fiction is incredible. Available for borrow on Internet Archive (shorturl.at/zDWbn) and in this cool edition from Coffee House Press (shorturl.at/FD5Xk). #shortstories
Ark of bones, and other stories : Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xviii, 116 p. 25 cm
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