Dan White
@dwhitethewriter.bsky.social
in mediam mentam. Publisher at Indirect Books // Editor at L’Esprit Literary Review // Prose Editor at West Trade Review // PhD Candidate at UIC Program for Writers
ABSENCE by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/abse...
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#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. G’Lines and open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories
Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
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Finally, rounding out our Issue Six release, an excerpt from novelist Yara Zgheib's delectable new project "Why Paris." Read it below! #writing #writer #fiction #novel lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/w...
Why Paris.
There is a chocolate shop in Paris. It is on an elegant street, with trees, in a building cut in blocks of cream Lutetian limestone. Three stories high — nearly all the buildings are on that street…
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Check out our Summer Quarterly at @lespritlit.bsky.social #dallowayday
L'Esprit Literary Review@lespritlit.bsky.social · last yr.A Wednesday in mid-June...sounds like a perfect time for our Summer Quarterly. Happy #dallowayday everyone! We have two new works of fiction in this issue, Iris Rosenberg's "Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble"... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/06/18/w...
And finally, check out the entirety of our latest Quarterly newsletter, including A Commentary from Editor D. W. White! mailchi.mp/e70e834d5ce7...
On Boundaries and Movement
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...and Carolyn R. Russell's "Awake at the Wheel." lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/06/18/a...
Awake at the Wheel
I gamble on a new day in the cold diaphanous dawn while my namesake, many crooked borders away, waits on consignment for proper prayers on his behalf. I think there are none, sacred or otherwise, t…
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A Wednesday in mid-June...sounds like a perfect time for our Summer Quarterly. Happy #dallowayday everyone! We have two new works of fiction in this issue, Iris Rosenberg's "Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble"... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/06/18/w...
Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble
You girls know a place with a good crowd. Have a big steak. Couple martinis. Cigarette smoke like in the real world. Don’t you think. Ditch all this beige. Grab a lipstick, you two’ll come wi…
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Michael Thériault's "An Invitation to the Gulls" is a shape-shifting, voice-driven story of memory and place, and is next up in our Issue Six release. Read it below! #writing #writer #fiction #shortstory lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/a...
An Invitation to the Gulls
First the snapping of the metal bits that hold the screw cap to the collar. Slowed down, deeper by it, amped up, it might be pealing of bells; joy down street and sidewalk. Slowed a bit more, their…
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Continuing our Issue Six release countdown (countup?) is Andrew Lorenzen's hilarious and ontologically troubling story "Object Permanence." Check it out! #writing #writer #fiction #shortstory lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/o...
Object Permanence
The eco-terrorist is zipping down the highway in a 1996 Ford Aerostar. He keeps laying on the brake, even though there’s hardly any traffic going East in the mid-afternoon. You’d think that’s out o…
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KK Fiorrucci's short story "The Difference," an atmospheric consideration of Guernsey, continues our Issue Six release! Check it out here! lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/t... #writing #writer #fiction #shortstory
The Difference
It is possible to walk from the south-east tip of Guernsey at Fermain Bay to the lumpy promontories at Vazon and Cobo in the north-west – a distance of seven or eight miles – without coming across …
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Just four days left to submit to this year's Dalloway Prize for Short Prose! #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction
L'Esprit Literary Review@lespritlit.bsky.social · last yr.Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest! $500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry. Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction lespritliteraryreview.org/2025-clariss...
Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release! Check it out below! @colmoshea.bsky.social #fiction #shortstory #writing
Colm O'Shea@colmoshea.bsky.social · last yr.My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...
The Grand Prize Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration was Art O'Connor's "Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree," and is also next up in our Issue Six release! lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h... #fiction #shortstory #writing #creativewriting
Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree
She seems to correspond intimately with the surrounding landscape: the snatches of wool on barbed wire; the hoofprints full of water; the crooked, hillside hawthorns—all seem somehow to acknowledge…
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We are thrilled to announce the results of our fourth annual poetry contest. Ezra Fox’s “What the Darkness Render’s on the Question of Passing” was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the $1,000 prize. Details below: buff.ly/yTcJiyw #writingcommunity
A few weeks left for our short prose prize! We’ve gotten some great entries so far and still have plenty of room on our shortlist to fill out. We’re looking for sharp, surprising writing that rests comfortably just beyond convention. Fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid, up to 5k. Send us your best!
L'Esprit Literary Review@lespritlit.bsky.social · last yr.Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest! $500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry. Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction lespritliteraryreview.org/2025-clariss...
Explore and enjoy the fine work in @lespritlit.bsky.social Issue 6, out just lately. My story An Invitation to the Gulls, which descends a bottle through verse and violence to the titular invitation at its bottom, tags along. lespritliteraryreview.org/issue-six/
Issue Six
Cover photo by Stephanie Klepacki on Unsplash Contents Deja Vu All Over Again, Neil Weiner When I Write “I”: The Disabled Body and the Myth of Narcissus, Nate Connolly Bluebird…
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Danielle Barr's NOTHINGBERGERS is the first chapter of her new project, and a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Find it in Issue Six! @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/n... #litmag #shortstory #novel #excerpt #creativewriting
Nothingbergers
I’m not sure whose bright idea it was to stick the old water tower next to the graveyard–how many boil water notices had there been on account of somebody’s mawmaw leeching her corpse juices into t…
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Our next Issue Six release was a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Read "Twilight in the Amphitheatre," by Andy Bodinger below! @andyandybodinger.bsky.social lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/t... #litmag #shortstory #fiction #creativewriting
Twilight in the Amphitheatre
I brought my girlfriend on a date to Art Hoe theatre to see an indie flick directed by and starring a rich girl I went to high school with. She, the rich girl, was known for her straight-A’s,…
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If you've received an old email from us today, please ignore! Our gmail happily decided to re-send about 50 old emails for no reason at all, right when we're getting ready for our reading tonight. Sorry for the confusion!
Alaina Hammond’s “Forgive Me, Kurt” is our next I6 release, a funny, slyly poignant flash fiction! lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/f... #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting
Forgive Me, Kurt
Because she respected the man so much, she wants to like his book. She really wants to. She recognizes his talent but can’t abide his formal choices.
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Jessica Anne's essay "Generative Grammar" is next up on our I6 release; perfect timing for Mother's Day. Thoughts on Celebration, Choice, and Red Sauce. lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/g... #litmag #essay #creativenonfiction #creativewriting
Generative Grammar
It was the leg cramps and the thirst that confirmed my pregnancy before my pregnancy was confirmed.
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Check out the conversation with and creative piece by our Issue Six Featured Writer, Nataliya Deleva! Nataliya talks to us about her work, her writing process, moving between languages, and her literary ancestry. lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/a... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/y...
A Conversation with Nataliya Deleva
The manuscript also aims to deconstruct the language of visibility and invisibility – both in the literal sense and in the societal context. What happens when people around you (including workplace…
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Hi y'all - I've a #photo in the new issue of L'Esprit Literary Review, paired w/ a #story by Michael Edman. See the photo. Read the story Thanks @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social @lespritlit.bsky.social #shortstory #booksky #photosky #filmsky #literary #literature #Laphotographie #cafes #paris #bnw #hi
Michael Edman's BLUEBIRD is a very cool, willowy look at the tensions between a couple in Paris. With an excellent rendering of Saint Sulpice as well! #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/b...
Bluebird
They are prone to many things. They are prone to squabbling, which for some is another way of conversing. They are prone to that and a few others. When the two speak, it is like listening to the fo…
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Check out our latest book review at @lespritlit.bsky.social, a piece on form and the new marriage plot (?) in Maggie Armstrong’s OLD ROMANTICS! Written by Devyn Andrews! Buy the book from @biblioasis.bsky.social #bookreview #literature lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/05/04/f...
For The Love Of Story
There’s an irresistible deadpan underpinning Irish writer Maggie Armstrong’s debut novel Old Romantics—if Armstrong’s title choice elicits any preliminary notions of sentimentality, just give her f…
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Our Spring Quarterly newsletter is live! Bon printemps ! mailchi.mp/28634bded423...
On Winter and Spring
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Iron Oak Editions writing workshops are a mix of a craft lecture, a discussion, and a writing exercise. “The Art of the Opening: What is an Opening to Do?” with Albert Liau begins May 10th. Details in the link below. Seats are limited, so sign up today! buff.ly/p3snak9 #writingcommunity
