Congratulations to our brilliant and intrepid @kimchinquee.bsky.social, whose work is included in the new Pushcart anthology! Much love to you Kim ❤️❤️❤️❤️

We're so pleased to congratulate Michelle Ross! Her story, "People in Elevators," published in our Fall 2025 issue, has won a Pushcart Prize!! newworldwriting.net/michelle-ros...

Michelle Ross ~ People in Elevators - New World Writing Quarterly

People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also

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This week's story is "Walk It Forward" by @kimchinquee.bsky.social‬ necessaryfiction.com/stories/walk...

Delighted to publish four superb new fictions by Kim Chinquee in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/07/10/f... Cc: @kimchinquee.bsky.social

Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-7/ Words @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @kimchinquee.bsky.social RENESHA DHANRAJ WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN TROY ANDERSON @danbillyc.bsky.social @theresegleason @claudiamonpere.bsky.social BRITTANY REDD TARA SHEA BURKE Art JACELYN YAP

Received today: an inscribed copy of Kim Chinquee's CONTACT WITH THE WILD (Madhat Press), which includes several pieces I originally published in BIG OTHER! Kudos and thanks, Kim! Cc: @kimchinquee.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's writers who made the @wigleaf.bsky.social long list this year! "Breaking Bread" by @kimchinquee.bsky.social "Within / Without" by @amykdebellis.bsky.social "The Curse" by @kimmagowan.bsky.social

Thanks to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff for putting this story in their new issue! So glad to be there with @kimchinquee.bsky.social, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, @danbillyc.bsky.social, and so many other talented authors! pitheadchapel.com/freytags-dia...

Freytag’s Diaphragm

Michael Czyzniejewski   The day I turned twenty-nine, it hit me: I should be with Freytag. I should spend the whole night with Freytag. I should maybe even get serious about Freytag. Definitel…

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Many congratulations to Robert Scotellaro! His piece "Carnivorous Roads" has been selected to appear in the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology published by Alternating Current Press. Congratulations, Robert! newworldwriting.net/robert-scote...

We are thrilled to congratulate our Pushcart Prize winners! Dave Newman has won a Pushcart Prize for "The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became a Med Tech." newworldwriting.net/dave-newman-... Francine Witte has won a Pushcart Prize for "Plate Spinner." newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...

I have won a Pushcart Prize for my story “Plate Spinner,” from New World Writing. Thank you editor, Kim Chinquee for the nomination. Shoutout to SmokeLong summer workshop where this was written. newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...

Francine Witte ~ Plate Spinner

I was probably eleven when my father started spinning plates. He’d been watching The Ed Sullivan Show and in between Petula Clark and Sergio Franchi, there was a man, all tuxed-up, spinning fifteen…

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Please note: NWWQ is open for submissions now through April 1st 2025. newworldwriting.net/nwwq-april-2... We look forward to reading your work!

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful @kimchinquee.bsky.social. Enjoy. Flashboulevard.wordpress.com

Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity

Best Microfiction

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

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New on our mainpage: “What the Earth Presents,” by Kim Chinquee: wigleaf.com @kimchinquee.bsky.social

Geneva and Lulu saying hi to Bluesky!