"Sometimes, it is enough to be on the outside looking in, watching drama unfold from a distance; other times, a meaningful relationship is built between reader and poet. The poems in Mangrove by @billhollands.bsky.social effectively straddle the gap between these two experiences."

Honored to be include in Best Microfiction 2026 (out July 7)! Many thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social and @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social!

@emergejournal.bsky.social is looking for subs for a 2027 desk calendar. "ELJ Editions is creating a beautiful tear-away desk calendar for 2027, featuring one powerful piece of micro fiction or nonfiction daily. We’d love you to be part of it!" eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/34116...

ELJ Editions - Your Daily Micro, 2027

ELJ  Editions is creating a beautiful tear-away desk calendar for 2027, featuring one powerful piece of micro fiction or nonfiction daily. We’d love you to be part of it!  Guidelines:  Send u...

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Excited to have some stories in next year’s @emergejournal.bsky.social calendar. Love this idea. Big thanks to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social and team and hope to see your stories in there too! #microfiction #calendar

“I dream about other places…” This beauty by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social!💙

Charlotte Hamrick@charhamrick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social & @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for including my CNF in their new issue. Love this journal! emergeliteraryjournal.com/storm-warnin...

"you think of the drift of days, the detachment of epidermis and fur, the bloat, the active and advanced decomposition, the eventual skeleton" such exquisite tenderness in this piece by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social

Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to have my flash fiction in the lovely @emergejournal.bsky.social. Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/oats-and-tas...

“… they were a display of action and release where my dreams waited for a bolt of lightning to strike …” @charhamrick.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/storm-warnin...

Storm Warnings & Shapeshifting

by Charlotte Hamrick I’m sitting in the carport of my childhood home sometime in the 1970s. I’m barefoot because it’s summer and I’m often barefoot in summer, the soles of my feet toughened from wa…

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“… the girl reads her poem about Oats. You think of how tenderly the girl must have laid Oats into the little flannel lined box and you think of the drift of days …” @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/oats-and-tas...

Oats and Tasha

by Claudia Monpere You meet the eight-year-old girl and her mother who live next door when they dash through your back yard chasing their escaped chickens, the clucking chaos a golden spiral spinni…

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"I started hiding in my room. Not because I was scared—he seemed harmless. I just wanted the chores done" Great use of the speculative in this tiny gem from @rachelmhollis.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social to explore raw human emotion

Rachel M. Hollis (she/her)@rachelmhollis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“My Ghost” is live at @emergejournal.bsky.social. Thank you for giving it a home among so many great stories. emergeliteraryjournal.com/my-ghost/

"She tells you she has a pet rat. You laugh and say you did too until your beloved Tasha died, and there is an instant ionic bond between you and the girl,...." I really love this piece of writing by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to have my flash fiction in the lovely @emergejournal.bsky.social. Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/oats-and-tas...

No fractured ulna bone in the forearm, no nasal fracture, no cracked ribs. Just perfect tiny bones sleeping ..... This is fabulous, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social ! @emergejournal.bsky.social

Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to have my flash fiction in the lovely @emergejournal.bsky.social. Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/oats-and-tas...

"Although physically I’m tied to this place and time, I’m mentally unbound in a place where my imagination soars. Storms are often a conduit." I love this piece of writing by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Charlotte Hamrick@charhamrick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social & @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for including my CNF in their new issue. Love this journal! emergeliteraryjournal.com/storm-warnin...

"When he set a piece on my plate, my throat tightened. No one had cooked for me in a long time. Not since the house went quiet for good." This extraordinary piece of writing by @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙 emergeliteraryjournal.com/my-ghost/

My Ghost

by Rachel M. Hollis I’d never believed in ghosts, at least not the translucent, floating kind. But there he was on a Tuesday morning, folding my shirts in the laundry room. The instant he saw me, h…

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‘…there is an instant ionic bond between you and the girl… as you trade stories about rodent salt stones and Himalayan salt licks.’ Such a beautifully-rendered relationship in this new one from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social 🐀 emergeliteraryjournal.com/oats-and-tas...

Oats and Tasha

by Claudia Monpere You meet the eight-year-old girl and her mother who live next door when they dash through your back yard chasing their escaped chickens, the clucking chaos a golden spiral spinni…

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Delighted to have my flash fiction in the lovely @emergejournal.bsky.social. Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/oats-and-tas...

Oats and Tasha

by Claudia Monpere You meet the eight-year-old girl and her mother who live next door when they dash through your back yard chasing their escaped chickens, the clucking chaos a golden spiral spinni…

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Issue 36 of Emerge Literary Journal, an all prose issue, is LIVE and it is phenomenal! Check it out! Shout out to @DianeGotAuthor for her tremendous work in curating and editing! emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...

Current Issue | Issue 36

Emerge Literary Journal: 2026 Editor’s Note Welcome to Emerge Literary Journal’s Issue 36! What a joy and honor it has been to put together this gorgeous collection of fiction and creative no…

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Mikki Aronoff and I are chuffed to share a bit of dark humor by way of our newest collaboration! Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social! Poppy started getting frisky in @megpokrass.bsky.social's "Cozy Winter Retreat." 🐾💜🐾 emergeliteraryjournal.com/poppy-sashay...

Poppy Sashays Back

by Mikki Aronoff and Kathryn Silver-Hajo And she’s whole again. Sassy. Play with me! Play! Poppy’s lying at my feet, splaying her front paws out on the rug, mouth stretched wide, tongue lolling. Is…

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I realize everything is terrible. Still, I'd love for you to read a #CNF of mine in @emergejournal.bsky.social. This one's got Cher, Stephen Sondheim, sad moms, high school drama, giants, witches, etc. The whole issue is great! emergeliteraryjournal.com/everything-i...

HAPPY PUB DAY to Emily Koss and PRIMAL HOUSE! elj-editions.com/primal-house/ Grab a copy today!

Primal House | ELJ Editions

When our narrator’s house is reclaimed by the wilderness, she embarks with her Pooch on a rambling and rollicking journey. She meets undead deer and living skeletons, travels through dream worlds and ...

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HAPPY PUB DAY to Luanne Castle and SCRAP! elj-editions.com/scrap-salvag... Grab a copy today!

Scrap: Salvaging a Family | ELJ Editions

Scrap: Salvaging a Family is a hybrid flash memoir tracing the long shadow of childhood fear and the complexities of forgiving a dying parent. As a daughter uncovers her father’s painful origins, she ...

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After numerous queries, we’ve decided to open up #submissions for 2027 publication for #novels only. We will only take two manuscripts on and there is a $25 reading fee. Responses within four months. eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/28766...

ELJ Editions - Manuscripts: Novels

Not to exceed 120,000 words. "A story is a complete dramatic action..." ~ Flannery O'Connor   We want quality fiction that grabs us and  doesn't let go. Stories we wish we had written. We're looking  ...

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Delphinium Gospel (by @denzelscott.bsky.social, ELJ Editions) & Prayer for the Living (by Ben Okri, @akashicbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #read

Excited to announce Heather Mackay Young will be joining @dianegotauthor and Emerge Literary Journal’s Masthead as Poetry Editor! Heather will also be editing a themed poetry anthology for ELJ Editions in late 2026. Welcome Heather!

My. Novelette. Is. Live. Which means I'm freaking out because people might read it and I might die of embarrassment but also, I'm freaking out because a person might actually read it. Huge thank you to @emergejournal.bsky.social for making my dreams come true. Order your copy here: a.co/d/0b5BfkX4.

While our poetry editor grieves the recent loss of a parent, we’ve decided to suspend poetry and Esperanza submissions to Emerge Literary Journal this issue. We will read and decide on what’s already in the queue for the next issue. Our hearts go out to Alisha at this time.

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My long-titled, very short story that appeared in @emergejournal.bsky.social has been nominated! Read it here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/that-time-i-...

That Time I Was Almost Hypnotized by the School of Bait Fish Under the Dock as I Told You About the Abortion I Got When I Was Forty-Nine

by Elizabeth Rosen The only sounds as we sat on the dock, mother and daughter, our backs to the rising sun and bare legs dangling over the weathered boards of the pier, were the occasional splashes…

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"enough to ignore the desks stacked against the walls and the picture books of Noah’s ark spilling from the shelves" Love the way this builds through anaphora; from the always brilliant @ezhang77.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/do-you-want-...

Do You Want to Become a Wolf

by Elena Zhang Yes, enough to follow the boy my age down to the church basement, enough to forget our parents singing to God with their arms up as we go below, enough to ignore the desks stacked ag…

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Something long form is brewing with @emergejournal.bsky.social ! New slipstream novelette (a bit fo sci-fi, a bit of fantasy) coming out in February. Some early details here elj-editions.com/a-way-back/