Brett Biebel
@brettbbl.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, sports fan. Best Small Fictions (2021), Best Microfiction (2022, 2023, 2024), Wigleaf Top 50 (2021).
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This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Yellow Gifts" by
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Yellow Gifts" by
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...
Yeah, this one's a must read. From @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social and A Strange Object. Believe the hype.
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NORTH SUN
By Ethan Rutherford. From "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and en...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Yeah, this one's a must read. From @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social and A Strange Object. Believe the hype.
store.deepvellum.org/products/nor...
store.deepvellum.org/products/nor...
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
College basketball gets more like the NBA every year. More scoring, fewer slow-it-down teams, threes and layups. On the one hand, I miss the wider variety of styles. On the other, a bunch of great games less than a week in.
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
College basketball gets more like the NBA every year. More scoring, fewer slow-it-down teams, threes and layups. On the one hand, I miss the wider variety of styles. On the other, a bunch of great games less than a week in.
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Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...
Words:
NINA Y. MORAGON
HAL WRIGHT
@meliseliz.bsky.social
RACHEL EPHRAIM
MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
JENNY CHU
CAROL ROSE LITTLE
Cover art:
SUSAN POLLET
Words:
NINA Y. MORAGON
HAL WRIGHT
@meliseliz.bsky.social
RACHEL EPHRAIM
MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
JENNY CHU
CAROL ROSE LITTLE
Cover art:
SUSAN POLLET
Volume 14, Issue 11
COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM NONF…
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November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...
Words:
NINA Y. MORAGON
HAL WRIGHT
@meliseliz.bsky.social
RACHEL EPHRAIM
MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
JENNY CHU
CAROL ROSE LITTLE
Cover art:
SUSAN POLLET
Words:
NINA Y. MORAGON
HAL WRIGHT
@meliseliz.bsky.social
RACHEL EPHRAIM
MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
JENNY CHU
CAROL ROSE LITTLE
Cover art:
SUSAN POLLET
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It's the final countdown: There are just 3 DAYS until the release of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social!
Check out the @libraryjournal.bsky.social's full review right here: buff.ly/pPjL8Mr
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uZYHrA4
@susanschulman.bsky.social
Check out the @libraryjournal.bsky.social's full review right here: buff.ly/pPjL8Mr
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uZYHrA4
@susanschulman.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Check out my @fracturedlit.bsky.social interview by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
Please enjoy this interview w Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social about her amazing new collection, Bitter Over Sweet, 2023 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. LINKS to her book and to her AMAZING launch on Nov 7 w Deesha Philyaw & Avitus Carle are in the interview.
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured
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October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Check out my @fracturedlit.bsky.social interview by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
Hockey in a nutshell!
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hockey in a nutshell!
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FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3
So happy to have a micro here today! What a lineup!
Our fall 2025 issue is live! Includes a micro section this time along with poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction. baltimorereview.org
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So happy to have a micro here today! What a lineup!
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We've been trying to figure out how Ben writes pieces that feel fun and sometimes even silly but also ultimately moving and profound.
Many hypotheses! But maybe the answer is just: magic.
Really looking forward to diving in deeper this Sunday
Many hypotheses! But maybe the answer is just: magic.
Really looking forward to diving in deeper this Sunday
This Sunday, Oct 19 at 8PM ET!
We'll be chatting with our favorite fabulist @benloory.bsky.social about clarity, craft, and caring in our members-only Discord server.
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We'll be chatting with our favorite fabulist @benloory.bsky.social about clarity, craft, and caring in our members-only Discord server.
Not a member? Not a problem.
Just subscribe to our newsletter for a 1-month trial 🔥
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October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We've been trying to figure out how Ben writes pieces that feel fun and sometimes even silly but also ultimately moving and profound.
Many hypotheses! But maybe the answer is just: magic.
Really looking forward to diving in deeper this Sunday
Many hypotheses! But maybe the answer is just: magic.
Really looking forward to diving in deeper this Sunday
ICYMI! Thrilled to be in these digital pages today.
"If you’re not rich or famous or powerful, then you’re just you, the guy nobody wants to hear whine." - @brettbbl.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
ICYMI! Thrilled to be in these digital pages today.
I love @mrbullbull.bsky.social. And I really love being in their digital pages. Hope you'll give it a read!
"If you’re not rich or famous or powerful, then you’re just you, the guy nobody wants to hear whine." - @brettbbl.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I love @mrbullbull.bsky.social. And I really love being in their digital pages. Hope you'll give it a read!
Say the line.
A composed, electric outing from Jacob Misiorowski, who was basically asked to shoulder the heaviest load in a do-or-die Game 5.
It brings me back to when I visited Nashville last August to see what the kid was made of. The answer was in this quote.
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It brings me back to when I visited Nashville last August to see what the kid was made of. The answer was in this quote.
www.jsonline.com/story/sports...
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Say the line.
Yeah, this is funny and odd and poignant. Read as soon as it comes across your feed.
"Brandy is a fine girl. She does not, however, make a good wife.
And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped."
Everything @clairehopple.bsky.social writes is so surprising and exciting
And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped."
Everything @clairehopple.bsky.social writes is so surprising and exciting
BIG DEAL - Farewell Transmission
By Claire Hopple Brandy is a fine girl. She does not, however, make a good wife. And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped. She’d been married to a drug lord for a n...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Yeah, this is funny and odd and poignant. Read as soon as it comes across your feed.
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
How can you not be Romantic about baseball?
October 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How can you not be Romantic about baseball?
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Upcoming submission call!
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Upcoming submission call!
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
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Stoked for October! Let's do this💪
Ready to write? Our October plans are here!
Enjoy a 1-month free trial + daily accountability + 2 events with our fave writer of touching (and occasionally creepy) fables and tales: @benloory.bsky.social
Plus prompts from @kathyfish.bsky.social😲+ more
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Enjoy a 1-month free trial + daily accountability + 2 events with our fave writer of touching (and occasionally creepy) fables and tales: @benloory.bsky.social
Plus prompts from @kathyfish.bsky.social😲+ more
litmatchcollective.beehiiv.com/p/preview-ou...
Ready to write your best stuff? Preview our plans for October!
1-month free trial, daily accountability, special events with Ben Loory and more.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Stoked for October! Let's do this💪
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anyway go see One Battle After Another in a movie theater, I know we said this about Oppenheimer but I mean it for real with this one, there are cinematographic and audio mixing things that are essential to the experience and you won't get it at home
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
anyway go see One Battle After Another in a movie theater, I know we said this about Oppenheimer but I mean it for real with this one, there are cinematographic and audio mixing things that are essential to the experience and you won't get it at home
Saw One Battle After Another today. Great film. Nails the spirit of Pynchon. I'm sure it'll get sucked up into the culture wars, but there's plenty of heartfelt complexity there for anyone willing to look.
September 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Saw One Battle After Another today. Great film. Nails the spirit of Pynchon. I'm sure it'll get sucked up into the culture wars, but there's plenty of heartfelt complexity there for anyone willing to look.
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The cat is the best part of this cuz notice how it is NOT HELPING
But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.
But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.
Do you struggle to write because you can't find the time or motivation to get started? Fun fact: Sometimes it's better to suffer together!
Join LMC and our next Guided Writing Studio this Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8pm ET in the Campground Commons: litmatchcollective.com/campground-commons
Join LMC and our next Guided Writing Studio this Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8pm ET in the Campground Commons: litmatchcollective.com/campground-commons
September 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The cat is the best part of this cuz notice how it is NOT HELPING
But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.
But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.
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I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
September 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
Spoke about CTE with my lit and sports class today, before seeing this news. These cases are gutting. And they are the result of years of rampant denialism and systematic efforts to put money and entertainment above human life. As in many other areas, we've normalized convenient indifference.
RIP Rudi. 15 years ago, ESPN talks about this all week. NFL pregame shows too. Now none of them give a fuck. Too awash in gambling cash to risk pulling back the curtain. It's just "the price we pay" even though the yipping heads & team owners don't have to pay it. www.huffpost.com/entry/rudi-j...
Bengals' Record-Breaking Rusher Dies At 45
He also ran for more than 1,000 yards in three straight seasons.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Spoke about CTE with my lit and sports class today, before seeing this news. These cases are gutting. And they are the result of years of rampant denialism and systematic efforts to put money and entertainment above human life. As in many other areas, we've normalized convenient indifference.
Pretty sure defiance is my literary love language. I love how this piece turns it triumphant and tragic.
"Everybody in line is bigger than me. Earlier a teenager in a bright yellow shirt walked past and said I looked too small to ride. Ever since then my mom has been saying, “We’re getting you on this fucking ride.”"
🎢 today from Katie Orr!!
https://www.havehashad.com/kqd9q
🎢 today from Katie Orr!!
https://www.havehashad.com/kqd9q
57 inches by Katie Orr
We’re standing in line for the Pittsburgh Plunge. My mom’s favorite. I’ve never been on it because I’m just a kid. It’s the hottest day all summer and this is the only water ride at Kennywood so the…
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September 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Pretty sure defiance is my literary love language. I love how this piece turns it triumphant and tragic.