JR Fenn
@jrfenn.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Thank you to Off Assignment for working with me on this piece and for the gorgeous art! offassignment.com/witching-hou...
5 p.m. in Woolwich — Off Assignment
“5 p.m. is the hour when my baby fights sleep. The river at low tide smells of shellfish and mud. The city quiets as people get home. The odor of stir fries in hot oil and ovens crisping sausage...
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So happy to have this flash fiction, "Parenting Tips," in Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy. The call for the issue was: On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings. And with my favorite Earthrise picture to boot! www.bookxi.org/issue-xxi/#/...
Thanks to the team at the Wigleaf Top 50 for longlisting "Sockeye," published in @completesentence.bsky.social! The work that goes into this list is immense and I'm honored to be a part of it, alongside so many writers I admire.
Had 3 poems from my new MS Kielbasa appear in the Bulb Region this weekend! Here's one of them. Visit their site for the others!
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 5mo ago“A woman removes her hands and places them in a glass of water by her bed every night. In her dreams, her hands are a forest that she runs through.” Don’t miss David Wojciechowski’s (@mrwojorising.bsky.social) delightfully labyrinthine poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...
Staying awestruck with Artemis II with space-themed flash from our last two Flash 405 issues by @jrfenn.bsky.social, Laila Amado, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social & @melissalbennett.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25 & tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash24. Art: @reubenwu.bsky.social & @postwook.bsky.social.
Check our review of @jrfenn.bsky.social’s “Tiny Vessels”!! “An award-winning collection of seventeen stunning flash fictions that awe with their complexity and wow with their precision and prose.” www.claudineliterary.com/tinyvessels
Tiny Vessels | A Review
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Exciting news, FAM ✨ At our reading next Thursday, we'll be raffling 2 LIBRARY KIDS tote bags with goodies inside, including postcards, pens, & books from contributors @sfeycreates.bsky.social, @litmagreject.bsky.social, @jrfenn.bsky.social, Monica Brashears & the late Martha Silano 😘
It's release day for Tiny Vessels! Thank you so much to Rita Bullwinkel for this amazing introduction! mastersreview.com/tiny-vessels...
Thank you to Emelie Mano and the team at The Masters Review for this beautiful chapbook cover! Now available for pre-order at redmarepress.com/books/tinyve...
