"You are (were) his secret apartment." Loss and longing done beautifully by @j4prez.bsky.social! Read her flash fiction here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

How to Pick Up After Yourself After the Man who Gave you a Slice of his Life, Dies by Yi Jun Phung

C/W griefFirst, find pockets of time to cry, ideally in situations where no one can ask you what’s wrong. Slice a bunch of onions. Run the water faucet (if your husband bangs on the door, and asks wha...

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👀👀 watch this space—our nominees will be posted soon!

Best Microfiction@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · yesterday

We’ve reopened for submissions! The link is here. 5 nominations per magazine. Deadline is December 18th. Our judge is the acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem! www.bestmicrofiction.com

Our panel at the Singapore Writers Festival is called “Invisible Hands.” Hands! Get it? 20th Nov-come see us! #sgwritersfest @lit-namjooning.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

Do you feel like the week's dragging & it's only Tuesday? Feel like, "Perhaps the only time you were truly happy, was when you were four years old and climbed up in that big old glass cabinet." Read this beautifully absurd fiction by Per Olvmyr: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Glass Cabinets by Per Olvmyr

After looking around in the apartment you realize one very important thing.Perhaps the only time you were truly happy, was when you were four years old and climbed up in that big old glass cabinet.The...

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Another magazine that publishes gorgeous prose.

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

"When I say fell in love, I mean the way you love tangerines." A love story of a slightly different sort. Angeline Schellenberg imagines having coffee with SUGA of BTS in this beautifully poetic prose. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #bts

"When I say fell in love, I mean the way you love tangerines." A love story of a slightly different sort. Angeline Schellenberg imagines having coffee with SUGA of BTS in this beautifully poetic prose. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #bts

Coffee with SUGA at a Samoyed Café in Seoul by Angeline Schellenberg

I’ll write you a poem about tangerines. But I’m not ready to try it in Korean, so maybe anything will do. When I heard you started a music therapy centre for autistic children, I fell in love before I...

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"But later she brought them a picnic lunch to eat in the grove behind the old barn once they reached Oz." Of family recipes, grandma's lullabies, & passing down memories--so much beauty in @christyhartman.bsky.social's "Sour Cabbage Memories!" literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Sour Cabbage Memories by Christy Hartman

The sulphur reek of road-kill skunk stirs my sleeping daughter. In the rear-view mirror, I watch Lily’s nose scrunch, lips puckering against the smell. I sing her favourite lullaby as the sun dips bel...

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Thank you for including my night travels dispatch in your beautiful literary journal. 💙✨

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · last wk.

Start your week with this quiet stunner by @karinhedet.bsky.social. The prairies, the stars, and nearsightedness come together in this gorgeous essay. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Start your week with this quiet stunner by @karinhedet.bsky.social. The prairies, the stars, and nearsightedness come together in this gorgeous essay. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Stardust by Karin Hedetniemi

I was rolling north on Highway 2 towards Edmonton, driving alone in the silence of the prairies, homeward bound past sleeping canola, squinting through the windshield at a field of stars.My nearsighte...

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We’re so excited to go to the Singapore Writers Festival! If you’re around and want to go, pls DM @m-ixedbag.bsky.social for a discount code on the festival pass.

Mixed Bag@m-ixedbag.bsky.social · last wk.

Singapore Writers Festival is coming up and I’m on a panel with some fantastic writer-editors and we’re representing @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, @smokelong.bsky.social, @oysterriverpages.bsky.social, @anmlymag.bsky.social and @splitlipthemag.bsky.social! Do come! DM me for a discount code!

"There is a science of small things in tidepools." We loved the lyricism and the layering in @mrevanspoetry.bsky.social's "Catalina" in Issue 3. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutlliterary

Catalina by Michael Evans

There is a science of small things in tidepools. There is music. Neither explains what started this symphony—the ebb or the flow. By the stony aquarium, I note the rests and the beats while my classma...

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Happy pub day, @aniking.bsky.social!!

Ani King (they/them)@aniking.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s my book birthday!!!

Friends, I have a CNF in @alocasiamag.bsky.social. Many thanks to @sarahclark.bsky.social 🧡🙏🏾 the whole issue is 🔥 "Appa has removed them by the corms. They look like severed trunks. " alocasia.org/2026/10/19/s...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2w ago

ALOCASIA #21 is here w/ more queer planty writing as fall goes fallow and we begin to refreeze w/ Chella Courington, Tyler Lemley, Shon Mapp, Lawrence Schimel, Chloe Lim, Jax NTP, Kite Marsh, Cassandra Urquhart, Sumitra Singam, and Mary Beth Becker ALOCASIA.org

This is such a great #namjooning example--the pacing, the emotions, the layers! @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social's beautiful writing in Issue 3 of Lit Namjooning! Don't miss!

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Seized by the moment, the majesty of the one tree unobscured, you hugged me, and I hugged you..." A moving story of a lifetime told through land, gardens, and nature. @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social in Issue 3. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"Seized by the moment, the majesty of the one tree unobscured, you hugged me, and I hugged you..." A moving story of a lifetime told through land, gardens, and nature. @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social in Issue 3. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

The Long Goodbye by Kathy Prokhovnik

I didn’t know you could fall in love with a piece of land. But hand in hand I fell deeper and more deeply in love with you and with the land and the sky. I fell in love with your kind heart and with t...

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"I’ve been carrying on a long term affair with memory." Oh the layers, the beauty in this piece--something only @andrewbertaina.bsky.social could write. Read "Deciphering" in Issue 3. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"How can you keep a gift from another world?" Do not miss this beautiful ekphrastic by @lorettec.bsky.social in Issue 3. Truly feels like another world! Written after "Wolf" by Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (Poland) ca 1900. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I’m enamored with this piece. I have to believe that Joseph Campbell would approve. Reader hint: If the portion quoted above doesn’t speak to you, try this part, “This is the first true thing anyone has told you in years.”

“Here is what the water knows that you don’t: falling is not the problem. Falling is the whole point.” When a traveler connects with a landscape, beautiful things can emerge. This story is one of them by Mathieu Parsy in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Your mouth fills with mist. Your mouth fills with the mountain. You swallow it." If you need some perspective today, do read this fiction piece: "Foss" by Mathieu Parsy. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

gorgeous words about one of my favorite landscapes <3

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Your mouth fills with mist. Your mouth fills with the mountain. You swallow it." If you need some perspective today, do read this fiction piece: "Foss" by Mathieu Parsy. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Ooh, I like this. And a Canadian author to boot.

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Your mouth fills with mist. Your mouth fills with the mountain. You swallow it." If you need some perspective today, do read this fiction piece: "Foss" by Mathieu Parsy. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

How Cold the Morning, How Heavy the Waltz was the first story I wrote after my son died. It’s in my flash collection Songs from the Blimp Ruins, published by Silverbacked Punk. Here's a clip of me reading the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swh... The book is available here: shorturl.at/0rZqb

How Cold the Morning, How Heavy the Waltz (cw: death of a child)

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"Your mouth fills with mist. Your mouth fills with the mountain. You swallow it." If you need some perspective today, do read this fiction piece: "Foss" by Mathieu Parsy. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

“I wanted to use a quill pen too, wanted to immerse myself in heather, the spiky softness of it, the violet whirl, its mossy, clean scent.” Enjoy this gorgeously atmospheric jaunt along the moors by @bsherm36.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I came in search of the Brontes:" Down a winding path in Yorkshire, what will the main character find? Read @bsherm36.bsky.social's fabulous fiction piece in Issue 3! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

“Sometimes a dad’s job is to close his eyes and open his mouth, while his son drops things into his mouth.” The small joyful games between parent and child are beautifully displayed in Per Olvmyr’s essay in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4w ago

"His palindrome smile reveals everything." Per Olvmyr puts us in a warm, safe space between a father and his young son in this healing essay titled "In Swedish, the Word for Trust is a Palindrome." Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

I love how this narrative actually feels like a winding path with a satisfying ending! 💜

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I came in search of the Brontes:" Down a winding path in Yorkshire, what will the main character find? Read @bsherm36.bsky.social's fabulous fiction piece in Issue 3! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

"I came in search of the Brontes:" Down a winding path in Yorkshire, what will the main character find? Read @bsherm36.bsky.social's fabulous fiction piece in Issue 3! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

A Winding Path by Beth Sherman

I came in search of the Brontes: Emily, with her Gothic obsessions. Oft forgotten Anne. Charlotte, who outlived both of them. Purple drifts of heather sweeping across the moors in late summer. Solitar...

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4w ago

"His palindrome smile reveals everything." Per Olvmyr puts us in a warm, safe space between a father and his young son in this healing essay titled "In Swedish, the Word for Trust is a Palindrome." Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Hema Nataraju with some news frpm the Singapore Writers pre-festival event: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/108392...

I adore this essay by Per Olvmyr. I love how this seemingly everyday interaction between a father and son made me, a reader, feel so safe and completely in the moment. Do give it a read.

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4w ago

"His palindrome smile reveals everything." Per Olvmyr puts us in a warm, safe space between a father and his young son in this healing essay titled "In Swedish, the Word for Trust is a Palindrome." Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary