New fiction today from Walker Minot. Walker Minot is a remote office drone by day and a father, husband, cat dad, writer, and co-fiction editor of Loblolly Press by morning, noon, and night. He lives in Waynesville, North Carolina.
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New Fiction Today! Sarp Sozdinler is a writer based between Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His stories have been included to anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. He serves as the editor of The Bulb Region. @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
We are so, so proud of these folks, and so honored that they trusted us with their work. Our nominations for Best of the Net, read them here: reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social September 2025 work by Beth Konkoski, Chad Foret, Jane Yager, Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez @charhamrick.bsky.social @jennystalter.bsky.social @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
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Publishes 6-sentence stories 2nd Thursday every month. No more than 400 words. Submissions always open. Never a fee. Editor, Jeff Harvey (@jhhwriter.bsky.social) https://gooseberry-pie.com/submissio...
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Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/
New Wind & Root today from Special Guest Jessica Slee! She is a Claymore Award Winner, and in 2022 she was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and the First Pages Prize. She was recognized in the Honor Roll of The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024.
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The Auraist was kind enough to interview me about my debut collection, “Coyote Girl,” which they chose as Best Book of the Month. If you want to read about how much I hate AI or some of my stylistic choices, then read below! open.substack.com/pub/auraist/...
New fiction for you today. Come over and read "Live Long and Prosper" by William Cass. Cass has had over 400 short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines. His three short story collections were all published by Wising Up Press.
“'When you’ve been alive as long as I have, you realize that there really isn’t much more to life after a certain point, so you’ve got to create that forward momentum on your own.’” bloodlines & branches & man-eating trees & @dango-ramen.bsky.social in Cutleaf cutleafjournal.com/content/bare...
Bare Branches - Cutleaf Journal
When I was thirteen, Pam, a family friend’s daughter, told me she was a “bare branches” child, meaning the bloodline would die with her. A dead end. Pam
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"The bell on the door jangled as he walked in fifteen minutes late, cool as a nectar cream snowball. He wore a seersucker suit and a litigator smirk." @charhamrick.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social www.roifaineantpress.com/post/don-t-c...
"Don't Care Guilty" by Charlotte Hamrick
We ate them on a muggy Spring afternoon. I skipped out from work saying I had a legal appointment, not entirely untrue. Sweat trickled down my belly and tickled my underarms during the two-block walk....
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"I felt my face pinking like I’d been caught breaching some precious culinary law. Then I thought, Smartass lawyer." Big love for this piece of writing by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/don-t-c...
"Don't Care Guilty" by Charlotte Hamrick
We ate them on a muggy Spring afternoon. I skipped out from work saying I had a legal appointment, not entirely untrue. Sweat trickled down my belly and tickled my underarms during the two-block walk....
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Hugs & thanks to the incredible team at @rfpress.bsky.social for supporting & publishing my little New Orleans-centric fiction. Y’all are the best! 💋
Betcha thought we forgot ya. NEVER. It's that time again, folks. 97 is live. Let the future ghosts of your past self know. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #writingcommunity
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"He sends her outdated email pictures of herself, the ones he took when she wasn’t looking, the sly smile, the crease of her brow, the moon curved of her cheek, the twisted curl of her hair." @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social returns to The Bulb Region with a haunting story. 🔗 below!
I’ve got a tiny micro at the very cool @plaguecircus.bsky.social! plaguecircuspress.com/my-suitcase-...
“When it comes to micro memoir, it works for what I aim to achieve in much of my writing, which is to capture the emotional truth of an experience.” reckonreview.com/the-nitty-gr...
THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH JAMY BOND – Reckon Review
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A huge, HUGE (!!!) thanks to @meaganlucas.bsky.social and the team at @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing my creepy-ass, lead-paint story, “Communion.” (Seriously, I owe them an insane amount of bourbon and brownies for this.) reckonreview.com/communion-fi...
To celebrate 4 years (4 years!!) of THE NITTY GRITTY, our Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick interviewed the fabulous writer, Jamy Bond. Come see!
New fiction today! Bowlin is the author of the collection, Ghosts Caught on Film. His short fiction & essays appear in places like Best American Mystery & Suspense, TriQuarterly, Barrelhouse, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, & Salt Hill. He lives & teaches & rides trains in MA. @barrettbowlin.bsky.social
"We Had Something Beautiful," originally published by CRAFT is live at SugarSugarSalt! Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social for giving my piece about a workplace mutiny new life and thank you again, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social for believing in the story. 🙏 sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/we-had-som...
We Had Something Beautiful by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
We Had Something Beautiful
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“The roller derby girls are sharp elbows and muscular thighs and tight spandex shorts.” 🙌 @chartsuyker.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💛 gooseberry-pie.com/when-youre-t...
When You're the Roller Derby Girls - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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It’s pub day for my (mostly) flash fiction collection Songs from the Blimp Ruins. Thank you @alkratz.bsky.social & Silverbacked Punk for bringing it to life. It's available here: qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Signed copies also available (message me) My heart is cheered here www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf22...
Honored to be the first in this new feature. Thanks, Gooseberry Pie!
@charhamrick.bsky.social’s piece “Distant Disaster” from 9/19/2024 is @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social’s Story of the Week, From our Archives. gooseberry-pie.com/distant-disa...
I'm beyond thrilled to contribute to @reckonreview.bsky.social as a Wind & Root columnist. Many thanks to @meaganlucas.bsky.social and Charlotte Smith Hamrick for this opportunity! reckonreview.com/chronically-...
CHRONICALLY WRITING: Making Time to Write with Chronic Illness | by Jessica Cory – Reckon Review
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