shome dasgupta

@shomedasgupta.bsky.social

Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com

As the third anniversary of my sister's passing approaches, I can feel a giant wave of sadness (and regrets, once again) coming, building, and I find myself going back to two wonderful pieces - "What Feels like Destiny" by @jamybond.bsky.social in The Sun www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/249...

What Feels Like Destiny

There were seven thousand Peace Corps volunteers out there, in the most remote places of the world, and if something bad were to happen to any one of them during the night, something tragic, I would t...

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Looking forward to be in conversation about my novel The Imagined life with author Jeff Condran at the Six Bridges Book Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas on Sept 30. The event starts at 6 PM in the Ron Robinson Theater! I’d you’re in the Little Rock area, I’d love to see you! ❤️

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Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.

Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review