Gone Lawn is open to submissions for #68! Send us your gems and your garden animals now or whenever you feel like it, so long as it's not so long that it gets lost in the shaw. That happens sometimes, you know! The shaw is risky! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

I never linked this piece on social media because I was worried about what men might see it and if one of the men in one of the stories might come across it. I was scared of them but I was also protecting them. I’m done with that now. www.aqreview.org/vol-38-numbe...

MOTHER STORY by Allison Field Bell — Alaska Quarterly Review

I t’s the moment you wake up in your dorm room on the floor, your clothes on, your shoes off, a sleeping bag draped over you. You don’t know how you got there, to your dorm room, to the floor. You rem...

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Enjoy the poems and micros in this Heartbeats Anthology by @micromancemagazine.bsky.social and La Rotonde Review. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I pass a row of masks on the wall. Their black mesh faces are silent, waiting to be chosen. I think of all the masks I have worn: daughter, tom-boy, Indian, American, woman, doctor, wife, mother. Here, I’m me, the fencer. @ninamiller.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 6d ago

Author Spotlight's on! @ninamiller.bsky.social writes a wonderfully meditative essay on "salle-itude" she finds while fencing! Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Truly honored to share that our Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50, 2027 will be the talented @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social whose stories have won two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. More at jaichakrabarti.com

Subs open @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Send us something☀️ gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Submissions Submission Guidelines PLEASE READ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES THOROUGHLY AS THEY’VE BEEN UPDATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2026. Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences...

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“these women don’t gasp for breath between sets or take sips of water, they just power through, the lines of their muscles long and sinuous” Only @pleomorphic2.bsky.social can turn a gym moment into something nostalgic and beautiful in @trashcatlit.bsky.social

Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 7d ago

Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...

*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

We're happy to announce our nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions! You can read them all here: www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations @barlowadams.bsky.social @nataliamartinez.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @caseyreiland.bsky.social and more!

I am one of the 1342 writers to whom @rfpress.bsky.social gave an early chance, and I will be forever grateful. They're an amazingly supportive bunch who publish 🔥. Read and sub!

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*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

“I must do this so my bones are not cobwebs and keep holding me up but it will all ache so much later in front of the TV with the chocolate and the wine”

Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 7d ago

Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...

Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...

Maybe There is Nothing That I Can Do

Sumitra Singam Listen to Sumitra read her prose poem The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on over the speakers and they remember studying…

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Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 7d ago

Our very first prose poetry issue is NOW LIVE 🦝 Twenty absolute stunners for you to savour. Huge thanks to Jude Potts @judepickledplum.bsky.social for her reading assistance. We'll start highlighting these beauts soon. For now, grab a brew and lose yourself 💜 trashcatlit.com/prose-poetry... 1/2

“The lingering smell of sweat and rubber, the taste of Windex in the air, makes me relax within this calm before the storm.” Finding zen moments in…fencing? Yep! Read this new piece by @ninamiller.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 6d ago

Author Spotlight's on! @ninamiller.bsky.social writes a wonderfully meditative essay on "salle-itude" she finds while fencing! Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Author Spotlight's on! @ninamiller.bsky.social writes a wonderfully meditative essay on "salle-itude" she finds while fencing! Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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ICYMI my latest drabble up now @theprideroars.bsky.social ! Check it out now for tomorrow there will be something new to enjoy. #writingcommunity

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"She held court, delivering honeyed words of praise that had Beatrice hungry for more." Read "A Ballet Queen's Hunger" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in The Pride Roars today! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ba...

Drabble contest alert!!! The annual Halloween Drabble contest at Dead Languages Podcast is live!!! Muahahahahaha! Deadline: Oct 18th midnight Word limit: 100 words Theme: corrupt writing groups/associations (don't use real people's names) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2026 DLP Drabble Contest

It's that time of the year again! Time for the feral DLP drabble contest! Deadline: Oct 18th midnight Word limit: 100 words Theme: corrupt writing groups/associations (don't use real people's names ...

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My friend John Penoyar was the inspiration for my new story up at Flash Fiction Mag today. It's called "Still Life with Floating Apple." Hope you enjoy it. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/09...

So excited to be in this issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social and particularly to be teasered with my mate @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social!! Grab a tinny and your cork hat! We’re off on an Aussie adventure! 🦘🧡🧡🧡

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More teasings for our first prose poem issue, coming Monday 🦝 @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social gives us a vast fragment of love in one piece, and the sea, senses, & structure in her second 💜 Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social gives us relatable pain, momentum and acceptance in the yoga studio 💜

"She held court, delivering honeyed words of praise that had Beatrice hungry for more." Read "A Ballet Queen's Hunger" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in The Pride Roars today! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ba...

A Ballet Queen's Hunger / Nina Miller

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Thank you @nycmidnight.bsky.social for the prompts that inspired an Honorable Mention in their recent 100w competition finals! Read it here @theprideroars.bsky.social !! #WritingCommunity

The Pride Roars@theprideroars.bsky.social · 2w ago

"She held court, delivering honeyed words of praise that had Beatrice hungry for more." Read "A Ballet Queen's Hunger" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in The Pride Roars today! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ba...

"Because of all the raggedy people in our unfinished house smelling of sawdust, cigarettes, and beer, I loved you best." The spotlight's on Nicole Brogdon - nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social and her fabulous Space Sisters against the world. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I have a story about keeping busy yet staying present in the lovely new Issue 3 of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. Please check it out, and all the other wonderful pieces. I’m fortunate to be in such good company. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"In June, we stumble down by the red walls of the canyon. Who made the marks on the walls of our heart?" I love this brilliant writing (the sensory details!) by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Andrew Bertaina@andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3w ago

So happy to have new work up at literary namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran

This New Zealand by Pat Foran

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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"We’ve finished the wine and in the vine overhead, sinewy stripes in black, coral, and white snake through the drooping bruised flowers." Emily Macdonald brings in the longing in her piece "Stay In Sheets" @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Stay in Sheets by Emily Macdonald

“Stay in bed,” I sing to you. A line from our favourite song.“Stay in sheets,” you reply, and we laugh and tumble again, tangle in white cotton.When my breathing slows, I lie back under your arm, eyes...

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"... I appreciate people who witness instead of repair, like people who do not rush discomfort away. It feels profoundly comforting being seen without being corrected." Read Sunscreen, Sorrows, Summer by Devika Bahadur @lit-namjooning.bsky.social !! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Sunscreen, Sorrows, Summer by Devika Bahadur

“And then one fairy night, May became June.”I have always liked that line by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is the sort of thing you notice only when you pay attention. It is like one day the air changes and...

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Another beautiful moment to read and to experience up @lit-namjooning.bsky.social ! Foss by Mathieu Parsy. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Foss by Mathieu Parsy

The waterfall doesn’t care that you’re here.This is the first true thing anyone has told you in years.You drove nine hours. You ate gas station bread. You pissed behind a lava rock that had been cooli...

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I have a story about being seen (and not) in Issue 3 of the lovely @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. It’s a response to a song David Bowie wrote after seeing (lore sez) two lovers furtively kissing. TYVM @m-ixedbag.bsky.social & team ❤️ for giving it a home. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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Got a story in the latest, gorgeous issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, inspired by my son's reaction to this painting at the National Gallery. About to dig into the rest of the issue, can see a lot of familiar names there - can't wait! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Madeleine Armstrong

Lady Jane gropes for the chopping block, her hand as small and delicate as my son’s, onlyhis is hot and sticky and hers looks cool as porcelain.His fingers tighten on mine. “Is she scared?”“It’s just ...

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