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Sydney Koeplin

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Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 11h ago

honored to be nominated!

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 2d ago

JMWW Best Small Fictions Nominations Congrats and good luck to our nominees! Click on the links to re-read their stories.

The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Outside, the moon hangs like a wax seal above the mountain line, gibbous and brimming, threatening to drip onto the ridges." In today's miCRo, @skoeplin.bsky.social explores faith and belief. Link in thread.

A woman with long hair and red lipstick smiling softly. She is standing in the middle of a garden

MissReadsALot @theresjustnopo1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

HOW WE DISAPPEAR

I am in the store touching things.

Linen napkins, a blue bowl.

The world is on fire and I am choosing between two kinds of soap.

Everyone here is doing this, filling carts with small comforts while somewhere a child
goes to bed hungry, while the earth heats,
while men make decisions about who gets to live.

I know what this is, this careful arranging
while everything collapses.
This is how we survive.

And also how we disappear.

By Alessandra Olanow

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thrilled to be in this lovely issue! pitheadchapel.com/watersnakes/

Watersnakes

Sydney Koeplin Later, they will debate who saw the snake first. The girls won’t agree on whose shout warned of the danger in the water, though Renee will insist that whoever it was screamed like a …

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

Our September issue is live! Art: Trevor Cunnington Fiction: @erinvachon.bsky.social @mpershan.bsky.social Lisa Beech Hartz @skoeplin.bsky.social Nonfiction: Shara Sinor Alexa Loftus Marin Smith Poetry: @Ediemeade.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Love this micro from @haley-souders.bsky.social

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The sun crests over him. I watch the brown-gray body as it shifts tall grass. The raised head. Dad’s on the porch with a gun in his pocket and whiskey riding his breath. He tells me to go on already—the field is safe." - Haley Souders mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 6mo ago

picked this up at AWP and forgot to post about it hehe.. fun to finally have a poem in print!

The cover art for Moon City Review Spring 2026

Playing Pretend

The smell of tar became Nevada dust
as we crossed the old bridge over Bunkerville ditch.
Brown dirt, khaki rock. Hell, even the river was brown.

At this point I can't remember what we thought we were doing,
but that desert felt like a door to where we could just be
brothers without all our history.

What is that expression about glass
houses, and throwing stones?
It goes you shattered me, Jacob,

or goes nowhere at all--besides, we hadn't
taken aim at each other for years. And we had to
stop because you hurt your shoulder

chucking one of the rocks too hard.
I wish we'd gotten smoother stones and skipped them,
or scrambled down to touch the water.

That'd make for a better story. Why am I always looking
for a better story? Say we hugged it out

on that little hill overlooking the Virgin River.
Say I flipped a nickel into your likeness on the muffler water,
then dove in after the long-drowned boy.

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 6mo ago

happy (and a bit harrowed) to have this poem out in the world. thanks @anthonyframe.bsky.social "I am wrong and you are wrong and I’m willing to say it, therefore I am a poet" --Rachel Zucker

Glass Poetry Press@glasspoetry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today on Glass! "THE LITANY FOR HEALING OF BODY IMAGE" by Nathan Fako (@nfako.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Nathan Fako

THE LITANY FOR HEALING OF BODY IMAGE

I hate that backwards man in the mirror with the uneven brows. He looks back at me, thirty years old now. He moves when I move. Flabby. I want to be clean, so I browse the internet. He browses the internet. No bisexual porn tonight. We work together to find a ninety-nine cent .pdf file for sale by Emily Wilson Ministries: THE LITANY FOR HEALING OF BODY IMAGE. I purchase it. He purchases it. I get on my knees on the carpet in the dark next to the bed. His phone makes a holy halation in the bedroom. I turn on healing frequencies. He tries not to hum along. I begin to read: Forgive me, Jesus, for the times I have looked in the mirror and hated your creation. He speaks in tandem with me. I want to be clean, so I continue to recite: Grant me the serenity to accept that you made my body to be different from the bodies of my friends. He starts to smell different. Of sage. I want to praise you, Jesus, for the hands you gave me. When I glance at my hands, my fingers wrapping the phone in the dark, clutching it like a torch, they are his hands. Of want. Of wider fingers. I want to beg of you, Jesus, the courage to look away from unrealistic body standards. I want to ask for your grace, Jesus, please allow me to love the fact that you make no mistakes. He wants a cigarette. He smells like them. I don’t want to feel his hands on me anymore, so I pray to Jesus for forgiveness. If I want to be clean, I won’t see my brother’s face in my face in the mirror. Our face. I won’t nightmare of the trailer. I won’t feel his hands. I won’t go somewhere else, while with my body he does what he did. I want to be clean. I want to ask your forgiveness, Jesus, for the times. For my sacred temple. For his sacred temple. Our sacred temple recites THE LITANY FOR HEALING OF BODY IMAGE in the bedroom in the dark while our fiance is asleep, but there is a halo around the phone, but there is a number of angels playing cards at the kitchen table, but w…

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 6mo ago

so happy to be in this issue with some fantastic poets and poems

The Shore@theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy spring from The Shore ! 🌱🌊ISSUE 29 HAS ARRIVED!🌱🌊 Dive in: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-29

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Honored to have a story in this beautiful issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social! You can read my monstrous little story here: phoebejournal.com/cryptids-of-...

Cryptids of Ohio - phoebe

Sydney Koeplin “I think we should have claws.” “Pinchers.” “Fangs!” “Fur.” We threw our ingredients into the twenty-gallon plastic tub we’d stolen from the Galliones’ backyard and dragged into the woo...

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phoebe journal@phoebejournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Issue 55.1 is now LIVE online! Go check out this wonderful issue by going to phoebe’s website. 🥳

Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Angela, in the basement” by Kelly McElroy is now up! Art by Becks Simpson flash-frog.com/2026/03/02/a...

Angela, in the basement by Kelly McElroy

The first time my mother takes my oldest sister down into the embalming room, I am hidden away upstairs, staring at my ceiling. My sister has just returned home from getting her degree in mortuary …

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Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Made myself sad thinking about Laika and decided to make others sad, too. New flash out with the wonderful @jmwwjournal.bsky.social!

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Flash Fiction: Laika by Sydney Koeplin I think about how the technicians kissed Laika’s wet nose before closing the hatch. How she trusted them, and they killed her anyway.

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 11mo ago

so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of

The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 11mo ago

“I realize no matter how many times she returns to the field and looks at me, I probably won’t feed her. I have nothing to offer.” From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako. ➡️ buff.ly/42ICoNU

Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We want to read your weird, wild, and wonderful work! Subs always open 🌾

Chill Subs@chillsubs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Went down a New Yorker research rabbit hole and now we’re all gonna get FAMOUS, friends! Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - that is one of our paid pieces. #writing #writingcommunity #litmags

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• The American Poetry Review + A top-ranked lit mag known for making careers

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• Poetry + A sprawling poetry paradise organized and designed with the reader front and center

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to have a ghostly micro out in this beautiful issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social!

Tiny Molecules@tinymolecules.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our Autumn Issue is here. 11 spooky stories to chill your bones. Read, enjoy, and share widely! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New Micro by Hannah Goss! "Seeking a companion. Need not be romantic; platonic is fine." fracturedlit.com/companion-wa...

Companion Wanted | Fractured

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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · last yr.

"When lightning cut the sky on the first day of school, in a perfect nerve extending from one end of the large classroom window to the other, Nora Stevens, grade 3, grabbed a fork" Jane Wageman's "Flash" trampset.org/flash-18d88f...

Flash

by Jane Wageman

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Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social · last yr.

The 25th annual Winter Wheat Writing Festival is open for workshop proposal submissions until September 24! Mid-American Review looks forward to seeing many of you at BGSU on November 6-8. Learn more at bgsu.edu/winterwheat or go directly to our proposals page: casit.bgsu.edu/winterwheat/...

Winter Wheat – The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · last yr.

At a vigil to honor the journalists in Gaza held today in Atlanta, it took the speakers over 20 minutes to read through the names of over 270 Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel during the War in Gaza, as identified by @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

Flowers placed on top of printouts of names of the over 270 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel during the War in Gaza

West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · last yr.

“You never imagine having to tell the owner of an Airbnb you found their pet, dead in the barn.” Excerpt from “Five Stars for the Beloved Dead" by @nfako.bsky.social, forthcoming in our Summer 2025 edition. Listen to Fako read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/yDfimx0 #writingcommunity

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · last yr.

hello i wrote this

West Trade Review@westtradereview.bsky.social · last yr.

“You never imagine having to tell the owner of an Airbnb you found their pet, dead in the barn.” Nathan Fako’s “Five Stars for the Beloved Dead," forthcoming in the Summer 2025 collection of Online Exclusives available in July. Read the poem at the link below: buff.ly/fhEKPSj #writingcommunity

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm honored to have won first place at the Toledo Museum of Art's annual Poetry Prize contest. I loved reading all the finalists' work and celebrating how art inspires other art 🌟 toledomuseum.org/learn/poetry...

Virginia Jaramillo's painting "Untitled" displays two large abstract shapes on a black background. One shape is orange, and the other is dark red, and there are two yellow lines that run through the painting.

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · last yr.

so excited to have a story in this gorgeous new issue of @mooncityreview.bsky.social!

Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to announce that BOTH of our genre editors, @skoeplin.bsky.social and @mmelayna.bsky.social, are finalists for the TMA Poetry Prize!

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · last yr.

from the wall above the grad printer, from the chorus of printer persona poems

Picture of a handwritten note that reads "these poems won't save us / but they remind me I'm not alone / we save ourselves"

Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social · last yr.

We're open for submissions and eager to read your words! Check out our guidelines here: casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanr...

Mid-american review is open for submissions in poetry, fiction, and CNF

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · last yr.

#HandsOff2025

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2y ago

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social · 2y ago

December afternoons call me to read Rilke