"I could navigate this world without thinking. Anyone could. That’s how it was built." New fiction by Kara Panzer: "Spinning"
Spinning by Kara Panzer - Identity Theory
I could navigate this world without thinking. Anyone could.
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Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
“He looks at me with the eyes of a kennel dog, wet and pleading.” This piece by @mrsfanster.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social is amazing. www.identitytheory.com/baggage-gray/
Baggage by Fannie H. Gray - Identity Theory
Pack the pills first.
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Our 2027 Nominees for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions
2027 Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions Nominees
What made the cut?
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"voices echo between emptying aisles, shelves barren as before a typhoon" Read "Parting Gift," a new poem by @acadialogue.bsky.social
Parting Gift: A Poem by L. Acadia - Identity Theory
voices echo between emptying aisles
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Poets: For this submission call, we are searching for poetry on the theme of Nostos: Roots and Roads. We exist in an age of ephemerality and uncertainty. How can we find permanence in a world of constant movement?
New Poetry Call: The Ache for a Homecoming
Nostalgia and What Becomes of Our Writing
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More writing news: I'm so, so proud that this one made it into @identitytheory.bsky.social. Sometimes I feel I'm writing for an audience of one: a teenager with not many friends in her hometown and a folder full of unfinished drafts. This is fiction, but there's a bit of her (of us) in it.
The girl who bullied you in middle school dies at seventeen - Identity Theory
just like in that drunk driving awareness ad that used to play on TV when you were little.
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Free Submittable submissions are open for October. identitytheory.submittable.com/submit
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Identity Theory has published original literature—fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and more—online since 2000.Based in southern Nevada and featuring an international staff of three dozen editors, ...
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Submitted our nominations for this year's Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net anthologies tonight. You can see/read the nominees here while we work on a more formal/fancy announcement graphic:
Award Nominations - Identity Theory
We have nominated the following Identity Theory pieces for anthologies and awards in recent years.
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"The crowd merged our lanes, but you didn’t shy from the pull and turn of our arms’ slow collision." —Riley Richards, "I Thought I Saw You in Buenos Aires"
I Thought I Saw You in Buenos Aires - Identity Theory
I lived two lives while your dark hair dragged over my shoulder.
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"I take out my phone and try to post 'Hey guys, I think there’s been a misunderstanding here,' but my signal has dropped again, and so there’s nothing left to do except review all these very nice notes about me from people who think I’m dead." —"I Died" by Chris Scott
I Died - Identity Theory
I emerge from the forest to discover I died.
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"As I worked through the long process of revision, I found white space increasingly necessary for brief rest. For breath. To open a life that had closed in on me. To see silence in a new way." —Kristina Moriconi talks about her new book WHAT BECOMES OF A BODY with Chelsey Clammer
Kristina Moriconi Interview (Author of What Becomes of a Body)
Kristina Moriconi’s 'What Becomes of a Body' is a lyrical and fragmented exploration of how we recover after a serious physical trauma.
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Delighted to be part of this round up. Thank you @identitytheory.bsky.social & @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social, and happy #smallpoemsunday to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & all who celebrate. Read 2 more by me & short work by 8 other fab writers at www.identitytheory.com/section/micro/
Identity Theory@identitytheory.bsky.social · 4w agoJust published 10 new micros for the equinox!
Incredibly excited (and shocked) to be in this anthology! Also positive this is the only time I’ll share pages w/ Shirley Jackson, HP Lovecraft, Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, @benloory.bsky.social, Amy Hempel, Joyce Carol Oates, Joy Williams, Danielle Dutton, and @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social
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Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social & @identitytheory.bsky.social for including my microfiction “Mark Rothko’s Suicide Note” in the Fall micro issue. Just when I think I’ve gotten out of Rothko’s gravitational pull, he pulls me back in. www.identitytheory.com/mark-rothkos.... #microfiction
Mark Rothko’s Suicide Note - Identity Theory
I took the pills and slit my wrists because no one understood.
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I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.
I Died - Identity Theory
I emerge from the forest to discover I died.
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Today I’m thrilled to share an excerpt from FATHOM, my forthcoming poetry collection on invisible disability and drowning in chronic pain! Many thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social and @identitytheory.bsky.social for publishing a piece so close to my heart. www.identitytheory.com/after-the-di...
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Delighted to have a micro in the autumn equinox issue of @identitytheory.bsky.social! Massive thanks to micro editor Vic Nogay for believing in this piece! www.identitytheory.com/if-you-dont-...
If You Don't Spend, God Doesn't Listen - Identity Theory
The cashier points to the sign that reads NO PRAYER WITHOUT PURCHASE and says are you planning to buy something or what?
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Just published 10 new micros for the equinox!
Micro - Identity Theory
Prose up to 500 words. Poetry up to 9 lines.
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"My parents aren’t going to be okay with it. They’re really Catholic." Read "Devout," a new essay by Laura Mullen.
Devout by Laura Mullen - Identity Theory
It was a foreign concept to me, this idea that the religious commitment of people I barely knew would impact my life choices.
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Hello if you send your poetry to @identitytheory.bsky.social today I will sit here with my Diet Dr. Pepper and give you a reply today 🤲
Come edit with us! We're accepting staff applications for late 2026-27.
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Established in 2000, Identity Theory is an online magazine of literature and culture that has published hundreds of writers and thousands of creative works, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, revi...
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