Just pre-ordered my copy of @kiklodge.bsky.social's #flashfiction collection The Bully in My Pillow. Where… 'A man walks into a bar with an Erection Taser™ his girlfriend has made him wear. A Foley artist recreates the soundtrack of his splintered heart…’ Can’t wait, Kik! 🥰

Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 4d ago

The doors to KikWorld™ open in 10 days. Get your ticket to enter this surreal, sublime, sexy & unsettling land today. @kiklodge.bsky.social @jeromefage.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Did you know @kiklodge.bsky.social has a new collection incoming? How lucky we all are! What a thing of beauty, too - that illustration!!! Pre-order here www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

The Bully in My Pillow | Stanchion

A man walks into a bar with an Erection Taser™ his girlfriend has made him wear. A grieving mother clings to the memory of her son’s imaginary friend. A Foley artist recreates the soundtrack of his sp...

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What about all the other boys in these stats? Stupendous poem by @holliemcnish.bsky.social

Workshop tomorrow, anyone? It’s with the maestro Matt Kendrick on how childhood shapes us into the odd monuments we are. Book below! @mattkendrick.bsky.social

What is Learnt in the Cradle: How our childhoods affect our adult selves | MattKendrick.co.uk

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OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

The doors to KikWorld™ open in 10 days. Get your ticket to enter this surreal, sublime, sexy & unsettling land today. @kiklodge.bsky.social @jeromefage.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

The Bully in My Pillow | Stanchion

A man walks into a bar with an Erection Taser™ his girlfriend has made him wear. A grieving mother clings to the memory of her son’s imaginary friend. A Foley artist recreates the soundtrack of his sp...

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Ten days to go before publication of this weird little creature. I bow down in advance to all you pre-orderers and kiss your little toes. @stanchion.bsky.social

The Bully in My Pillow | Stanchion

A man walks into a bar with an Erection Taser™ his girlfriend has made him wear. A grieving mother clings to the memory of her son’s imaginary friend. A Foley artist recreates the soundtrack of his sp...

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@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is open for submissions: Artwork for our cover and/or to accompany published pieces of fiction. Fiction with 6 sentences and no more than 400 words. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Submissions Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...

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Gotta be the best bookshop in rural France, this. A feast of nooks, books and crannies, whatever crannies are

submissions will be open on Saturday August 1st, at 9am central, until our monthly cap is met we will open all categories with a cap higher than usual, so more ppl get a chance to send their work -- things fill up very quickly. xray.submittable.com/submit

Check out this wonderful issue of -ette. Grateful and happy to be in it ❤️

-ette review@ettereview.bsky.social · last wk.

New issue, new podcast, new call for submissions! -ette’s 2026 summer issue features fresh, new work by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social @christophercitro.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/

Oh the whispered beauty in this… @ettereview.bsky.social

Meg Pokrass | -ette-review

Meg Pokrass in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026

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Who's hungry? We are! Submissions are open for Gone Lawn 67. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

We’ll be opening for submissions soon! (Theme: suffragette). Join our mailing list or follow us here for updates

That was the most football football I've ever watched (positive)

Just pre-ordered my copy @kiklodge.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼 BTW @stanchion.bsky.social has very good rates for shipping to the UK. Support indie publishers and small presses ❤️💙💜

Kik Lodge@kiklodge.bsky.social · last mo.

Getting giddyingly close… 😬

One hell of a poetry collection, freshly out

Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Shit hot find in the olive tree this morning

Salinger made me want to be a writer too

‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75

JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffected teenager remains as fresh and transgressive as ever

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I’d never heard of a doozy before

Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Next book up is a doozy from @kiklodge.bsky.social. you've never experienced anything like this.

Give your tired mind the rest of the summer off. It's all reruns in there now anyway.

This is the the kindest, most wonderful testimonial. What a lovely, lovely thing to say. It is SUCH a pleasure to mentor you, Tracie!! That's the thing - I am SO LUCKY to get to work with SO MANY brilliant writers - makes my job so much easier! 🤩🤩🤩

Tracie Adams@tracieadams.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do you ever wake up and make brilliant decisions? Yeah me neither. Except that one time I decided to hire @mattkendrick.bsky.social as my mentor. Now life is frolicking unicorns, bubbling blossoms of foxy foxgloves in verdant meadows, and blackberry jam in five gallon buckets. I want this for you.👇🏼

"I believe...that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it. Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can." ~ Chinua Achebe

Join the Stanchion Book Club right now for just $12 a month & I'll send you @real-immirage.bsky.social's The Moose Lottery today, The Bully in My Pillow by @kiklodge.bsky.social in Aug, then @spencerfleury.bsky.social's The Shitbird w/ an exclusive Book Club goodie: a military dogtag on 30" chain.

Positively cock-a-hoop about having a story accepted by @bulbregion.bsky.social

Cool Rooster in Sunglasses

ALT: Cool Rooster in Sunglasses

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Working with Jeff and Katie on the editing, tweaks and lay-out of my collection has been the best experience. So human and meticulous with lashings of enthusiasm. When the submission window is open again, go for it. Your work will be in the safest of hands. @stanchion.bsky.social

Submissions close tomorrow, July 10th. Don’t forget to send your work through before it’s late!

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Word on the street is that we'll reopen for submissions in about a month! 🚨 July 6 through 10, open for five days. Fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between. Save the date. Spread the word.

New Writing Prize below - two great organisations. Please share :)

2026 Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize in Association with The Stinging Fly - Irish Writers Centre

Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.

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