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📚A multi-genre lit journal & community CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥 Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Illumination”☀️ ExpositionReview.com

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 22d

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social as our guest judge.
Congratulations to our winners: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher, Liana Meffert! Read their flash here: tinyurl.com/Illumination405.

Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination" Winners - Exposition Review

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with the brilliant Melissa Llanes Brownlee as our guest judge. With a record number of submissions, we are pleased to finally share our...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 50m

We are beyond excited to welcome Rebecca Luxton as our new co-Editor-in-Chief! She’s a founding editor of Expo, is our board, and has been our longtime Experimental Editor—so “PARA/SOCIAL” is ready to push some limits! Send Rebecca your work: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

The countdown starts now: BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be releasing in 25 DAYS!

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 17h

…@theforge.bsky.social, Atlas and Alice, @100wordstory.bsky.social, Literary Namjooning, and @trashcatlit.bsky.social. She lives in the U.K’.s Black Country region.

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 17h

BIO: @francesgapper.bsky.social’s work has been published in four @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthologies and lit mags including @yourimpossiblevoice.com, @trampset.bsky.social, @splonk.bsky.social, @wigleaf.bsky.social…

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 17h

Find out why Flash 405: “Illumination” guest judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social is going all exclamation mark over @francesgapper.bsky.social’s flash fiction retelling of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, WOOSH! Read it here: tinyurl.com/Woosh405.

Whoosh! - Exposition Review

by Frances Gapper Honorable Mention – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction Arthur says: ‘You use too many exclamation marks.’ He has a scholar’s melancholy and often groans aloud. Putting my...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 20h

#ExpoContributor Spotlight on @ggsilverman.bsky.social’s cover reveal for THE BLOOD YEAR DAUGHTER, which contains her #ExpoReview piece! Take a sneak peek: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-i...!

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! So excited!

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Mellinda Hensley @mellindak.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, that’s me!

If you write short scripts, stage plays, (or anything else tbh), submit it to us!

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2d

Your Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” editors want your multi-genre writing & creative work! Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial! 👥
@lilrensing.bsky.social @courtlandavenue.bsky.social @willwriteforchai.bsky.social @mellindak.bsky.social @monapily.bsky.social @briannasmykreder.bsky.social @annleee.bsky.social

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing!

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 2d

In this set, The Honey Witch by Kathryn McMahon in @pseudopod.org ; For The Pollinators by A D Sui in @seizethepress.bsky.social ; and Tell The Bees by Varsha Venkatash /5 in @expositionreview.bsky.social nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/03/marc...

March Story Update

Ten stories I read back in 2024. How long ago that seems. **** 1. Nine Tenths Of The Law by K J Parker in Beneath Ceaseless Skies It turn...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2d

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 3d

Add these #ExpoContributor and #ExpoFam books to your TBR list for Hispanic Heritage Month! Buy them in our @bookshop.org and earn a 10% commission for Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop.

Buying books not in your budget? Read their pieces in Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoIssues.

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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 4d

#literary #journal Transparency Time!

On the 279th day of the year, Doric Literary has just received & responded to our 1000th submission since going live on January 1, 2025! 👀

No fee. Token payment. FAST RESPONSE!
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

Screen shot of Doric Literary's submission statistics from January 1 until today:

submissions: 1000
accepted: 28
withdrawn: 2 (after 8 & 10 days waiting)
upper tier decline: 121
standard decline: 833
lowest tier decline (sent work contrary to guidelines): 16 (began tracking lowest tier in April, after 446 submissions)

acceptance rate: 2.80%
longest response time - acceptance: 19 days (waited for requested rewrite)
longest response time - decline: 9 days
average response time: 1.63 days

Submission tracker stats:
Chill Subs: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 2 days (11 reports)
Duotrope: 4.65% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.4 days (86 reports)*
Submission Grinder: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.08 days (36 reports)

*Doric Literary's response time is the 5th fastest in Duotrope's fiction database!

Note: Doric Literary has not accepted any solicited work since going live on January 1, 2025.

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 4d

BIO: Richard A Perez Jr’s short stories have appeared in L.A. Affairs: 65 True Stories from the Los Angeles Times, The Missing Slate, @blinkink50.bsky.social & It All Dies Anyway: L.A., Jabberjaw & the End of an Era. He lives in the San Gabriel Valley, LA County & sometimes works at a restaurant.

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 4d

“The earthquake weather peeps through the dusty half-drawn blinds.” So begins Richard A. Perez Jr’s nonfiction piece EARTHQUAKE WEATHER from our “Spring” issue. Read it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoEarthquake.

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 5d

Of course!!!

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 5d

Times are tough but Expo and this amazing #ExpoFam are a bright spot. We are so excited for another year of #ExpoReview and all the stories we will get to share. Check out what we’re doing: expositionreview.com, and join us as an #ExpoContributor here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

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Independent journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, art, & experimental narratives | Annual Issue | Flash Contests | We pay writers!

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 5d

This weekend we retreated, our editorial board came together to talk about the past 10 years and the next 10. We gathered our EiCs and Section Editors for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” and kicked off our issue discussions both in-person and online…

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 6d

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
#ExpoReview @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 6d

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: bit.ly/This405.

#Flash405 @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 7d

… Her work has been published in Wingless Dreamer,
@thewritelaunch.bsky.social and the @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Festival.

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 7d

BIO: Meg Taylor is a poet from the Midwest whose work seeks clarity at the intersection of performance and truth. After years in the corporate world, she turned to poetry as a means of excavation unearthing what was long buried beneath spreadsheets and expectation…

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 7d

“The author’s use of this metaphor is perfect & that last line is gorgeous. I love that they have woven, in this darkness, change & the possibility of escape,” says #Flash405 judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social of Meg Taylor’s #Flash405 2nd-place winner. Read Meg’s flash poem here tinyurl.com/Chrysalis405

Chrysalis in the Dark - Exposition Review

by Meg Taylor 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Poetry I kept joy folded between tax returns, light too loud for the girl who learned to flinch. Still, something in me gnaws li...

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 7d

I made a very vibes based book trailer for Every Galaxy A Circle. I am proud of it.

Every Galaxy A Circle Book Trailer

YouTube video by Chloe Clark

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8d

Having a hard time keeping up with things in your daily life?

World outside seems upside down?

No longer enjoying the same things you once did?

Future feels dark and scary?

You may be experiencing fascism. Fortunately, there’s a cure!

#GeneralStrike #Protest #Resist #CommunityDefense #MutualAid

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