Keith Woodruff
@keithwoodruff.bsky.social
Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together. Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Identity Theory, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
Once upon a poem, all I wrote were haiku and tanka. I loved the concentrated images many of which later found their way into my flash. Saigyo's a fav. Thought I had all the translations but just discovered this from 2021. Here's a prose poem I wrote him www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ3/Woodru...
I'm in😎 Got my prompts from @trashcatlit.bsky.social and used my swap this morning. This will be the first time I have ever written to a prompt.
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · last wk.aaaaand we're off! The Trashcan Generator is ready for your Trashie selections and deliver prompts back to you 🦝 We have a handful of new prompts in among those bins. Get prompted before 8pm on 6th August. Look out for Swapsies Day on the 4th. trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro... #submissioncalls
In an essay, poet John Haines, who went off grid to homestead in the Alaskan wilderness and wrote poems about it, inverted the phrase "sense of place" to "place of sense" for those places that flood the senses and live in us. Reading these gems, I am reminded of that and of my own place of sense.
Sending children through the mail. Chekhov and Bowie. It’s all here. Big happy to appear in @yourimpossiblevoice.com wrote this with the house and mailbox in mind where I lived in my teens in the Michigan countryside. Much thanks to @keithjpowell.com
Your Impossible Voice@yourimpossiblevoice.com · 2w ago"hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can’t get warm in winter. You can see me peeking out the window above the flower bed, looking like a nomad in my furred coat hood." #flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
Wow, this just kinda undoes me. So lovely … definitely need to check out Terrega.
Raven@ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 2w agoEtude in E Minor by Francisco Tárrega 🎸 by me
Extreme embalming, if you haven’t heard of it, is where you prop and stage a scene with your dead self on display… what would your scene be? This appeared on Bending Genres before I found Bluesky. So better late than never, here’s my extreme embalming flash bendinggenres.com/the-dead-wom...
The Dead Woman is Playing the Violin
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As I have mentioned, I am always interested in how writers approach political subject matter -- David Ray did it very well I think. Here, from the way back machine, is a review I wrote of his work. If you don't know his work, Bluesky this is David, David this is Bluesky. rattle.com/music-of-tim...
MUSIC OF TIME: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by David Ray - Rattle: Poetry
Review by Keith Woodruff Backwaters Press 3502 North 52nd St. Omaha, NE 68104-3506 ISBN 0978578244 2006, 364 pp., $25.00 http://thebackwaterspress.com […]
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Our "vacation" is done! Time for more submissions: www.doesithavepockets.com/subs #litmags #literarycommunity
I love it when new books arrive just in time for the weekend. After reading Mr. Polaski Always Said www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2024-fl... decided I had better get this from @marioaliberto3.bsky.social
We have a great new story today from @cwtellstales.bsky.social! Check out “Uhura Among the Stars.” lost-balloon.com/2026/07/08/u...
Uhura Among the Stars by Claudia Wair
Charlotte babysat her three young cousins after school until their parents got home from work. She was only 16, but to the children, she was a grown-up. She made them play quietly while she did her…
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Hey! I have a paragraph up at www.paragraphplanet.com ... the average grocery cart holds six cubic feet of stuff, including a brindled dog thanks to @paragraphplanet.bsky.social for selecting this
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Let’s go fly a kite! 🪁 Thrilled to have a new flash in the fabulous @fictivedream.bsky.social, which is celebrating 10 years of championing short and short-short stories. Laura has created such a wonderfully-curated journal, and I’m so proud to be featured. Enjoy! 💛 fictivedream.com/2026/07/03/k...
Kyle as Kite
by James Montgomery HE’S SWEPT AWAY SUDDENLY. After a one-hour car journey became four. After two emergency toilet stops for their three- and six-year-olds, plus one more to refuel with bags of gia…
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I think a lot about how to approach politics ... that daily dispiriting shit show ... in my writing and was especially proud of this one. Happy almost Birthday America. A repost for Renee Good. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/keit...
Keith Woodruff — Does It Have Pockets
The Headlines
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Am so grateful to @rfpress.bsky.social - what a wonderful mix of work! including a postcard to Shakespeare from yours truly! I love the hug this journal gives. It makes writing worthwhile. www.roifaineantpress.com/post/postcar... thanks to the editors and especially @kelkel.bsky.social
"Postcard/brief candle" by Keith Woodruff
Postcard Brief CandleDear William, the weather's unbeautiful and I wish you were here, because I need to strut and fret a little. I know you know this loss, so father to father I want to ...
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There I was minding my own business when this comes along and punches me right in the heart. 🙂 very sweet beautiful writing from @imbutashadow.bsky.social in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social
Dishsoap Quarterly@dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 2mo agoWonderfully grounded, dreamy piece up this week about, well, dreams. Sink into "Waiting on a Dream" from @imbutashadow.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/6-23-26
New work in the summer issue of NUNUM .... "Immaculate Grief" online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/ajpy/#...
NUNUM Summer 2026 Volume 9, Issue 2
Anna Mantzaris, Gargi Mehra, Janel Comeau, Keith Woodruff, Mr. Young, and Pravy Jha have come together to give us NUNUM’s Summer 2026 issue.
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I’m trying to find something clever to say about this clever and truthful piece on deep unending grief and its connection to The Bard, and all I can do is cry. Read “Postcard/brief candle” by Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social on Sunday 6/28. Unbelievably Unexpected.
Honored to have work in the June issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ... this one's for you little dude😉
Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 2mo agoHave you seen our June issue? pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... Cover Art JANELLE PAULINO Fiction @keithwoodruff.bsky.social @suttonstrother.bsky.social TRAVIS FLATT ANTHONY BROWN Nonfiction LAUREN GIARD REBECCA WATKINS JESSE LACY Prose Poetry BEN STARR @ezhang77.bsky.social JOY YIN
Here we go. Summer time, summer time, sum sum summertime. It feels like 115 at the moment, guess that is why my AC decided to stroke out three hours ago. Pray for me.🫠
Great interview here with EIC Eirene Eleni duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Duotrope's Interview with Temple in a City
Read Duotrope's editor interview with Temple in a City to learn what they're looking for and gain more insight into this publication.
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Temple in a city@templeinacity.bsky.social · 2mo agoDid you know?
Fish and frogs find their way into my writing a bit. Like this poem in the current Bear Review bearreview.com/br/v12-2-kei...
Volume 12.2 — Bear Review
Keith Woodruff / Live Bait / Published May 2026
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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
the solstice is almost upon us! You know what that means! a new @identitytheory.bsky.social micro issue is coming!!!
Rawhead is open to submissions for Issue 04. Send us your best visual art, creative nonfiction, fiction, hybrid pieces, and poetry. rawhead.submittable.com/submit ( Featured art by A. Morgan McKendry, Rawhead, Issue 02) #litmag #submissionsopen #artcommunity #rawheadjournal #writingcommunity
