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Pithead Chapel

@pitheadchapel.bsky.social

Pithead Chapel (ISSN 2324-6243) is a monthly online literary journal and small press. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Founded 2012.

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Beth Gordon@bethgordonpoet.bsky.social · 2d ago

New poem up at @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/the-crone-pr...

The Crone Prays

Beth Gordon   Some days it’s easier to tell the people I love that there’s a palm reader in my head: a parlor of empty nests: a pile of rusted bikes. My heart is a tapestry of moonshine. It’s …

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Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · 3d ago

Brilliant stories in here One of them by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social ‘Once I read a poem she wrote about a girl who eats her own shadow to feel whole’ Captivating throughout

Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Zary Fekete@zaryfekete.bsky.social · 4d ago

Astonishing...but true:) I have a piece in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🥰 It is very humbling to be here with these incredible artists. Thank you!!! #writingcommunity

Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Volume 15, Issue 8

COVER ART BY JH LUCAS   FICTION ACTS OF GUILE, ACTS OF GRACE BY DODGE ZELKO ORPHANS BY SARP SOZDINLER BEARS BY JACOB SCHRODT THE KEEPING BY JEFFREY-MICHAEL KANE   NONFICTION Unknown Calle…

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Patricia Q. Bidar@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 4w ago

...her hand lifts, two fingers separating as if they remember the path: forehead, chest. The small private choreography that once meant: keep us safe. Her hand drops to her side. She sees me watching and her face closes, polite and empty. READ @ausiastsel.com in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

The Bread

Ausiàs Tsel   My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…

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Barbara McVeigh@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · last mo.

“The Sex Appeal of the Blues” by @deirdredanklin.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social The attraction of a great title…and long-fingered musicians. Oof - the last line of the second paragraph 🫣 Absolutely love the husband’s invented story. pitheadchapel.com/the-sex-appe...

The Sex Appeal of the Blues

Deirdre Danklin Seeking shelter from political podcasts, I started listening to the blues. I got kind of obsessed with watching a long-fingered musician play his guitar. My husband asked me what I …

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Dan Crawley@danbillyc.bsky.social · last mo.

"Nico considers calling, telling her mom she struck gold at a neighborhood lost-and-found, asking her to come right away, to not forget the hangers." An extraordinary piece of writing by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 💙💙💙 pitheadchapel.com/lost-and-fou...

Lost and Found

Katherine Plumhoff Before Nico moved to this apartment She spent two years in a children’s home, where the police sent her after she called them herself, and before that, she spent six years alone …

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Frances Orrok@francesorrok.bsky.social · last mo.

Thank you @sudhab.bsky.social and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for your Wigleaf top 50 longlist. So much reading, so much joy! For anyone whose peak overwhelm happens invisibly pre-9am, this one's for you: pitheadchapel.com/have-you-see... @kimmagowan.bsky.social ♥️

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Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · last mo.

Have 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

Volume 15, Issue 6

COVER ART BY JANELLE PAULINO   FICTION GRIEF WORK, LLC BY KEITH WOODRUFF BELLY BY SUTTON STROTHER THE CENTAUR DANCES THE GIDDY-UP BUCK BY TRAVIS FLATT PET LOVER BY ANTHONY BROWN   NONFICT…

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Timothy Boudreau@tcboudreau.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Chuck laughs in that smarmy way where you can’t quite tell if he’s laughing at you or with you..." The brilliant @suttonstrother.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

Sutton Strother@suttonstrother.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hi friends! I have a new story out today in the June issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social that can best be summarized as "divorced dad has a weird time at the YMCA" and I hope you'll give it a read! pitheadchapel.com/belly/