Does It Have Pockets
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
The DIHP Team hopes you'll help celebrate our wide community of hardworking lit mags & their teams by checking into the annual @chillsubs.bsky.social 2025 best litmags poll! It's fun, informative, & helps your writing peers. <3 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The DIHP Team hopes you'll help celebrate our wide community of hardworking lit mags & their teams by checking into the annual @chillsubs.bsky.social 2025 best litmags poll! It's fun, informative, & helps your writing peers. <3 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Short Stories feat. @hudsonreview.bsky.social @prairiefiremag.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Short Stories feat. @hudsonreview.bsky.social @prairiefiremag.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/paying-short-stories-0yEDiBS2
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November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Short Stories feat. @hudsonreview.bsky.social @prairiefiremag.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
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It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
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So proud my story The Hate Baby is shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. There’s a slim chance of a prize but better yet it’ll appear in one of their gorgeous anthologies. Thank you
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So proud my story The Hate Baby is shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. There’s a slim chance of a prize but better yet it’ll appear in one of their gorgeous anthologies. Thank you
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
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@haleydirenzo.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social — “I do not know
what it is to be a mother
but I think it must be something
like a wild thing, capable of carnage
but offering mercy”
As a mother — wow. Yes!
#EpistemicLitFamily
www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
what it is to be a mother
but I think it must be something
like a wild thing, capable of carnage
but offering mercy”
As a mother — wow. Yes!
#EpistemicLitFamily
www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Haley DiRenzo — Does It Have Pockets
Mother | Your Blood and Mine
www.doesithavepockets.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
@haleydirenzo.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social — “I do not know
what it is to be a mother
but I think it must be something
like a wild thing, capable of carnage
but offering mercy”
As a mother — wow. Yes!
#EpistemicLitFamily
www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
what it is to be a mother
but I think it must be something
like a wild thing, capable of carnage
but offering mercy”
As a mother — wow. Yes!
#EpistemicLitFamily
www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
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@doesithavepockets.bsky.social is an online literary magazine with an emphasis on the uncategorizable. If you’ve ever thought, “I’m not sure where this piece belongs,” try them! Stop by table 518 at the #AWP26 Bookfair to say hi!
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social is an online literary magazine with an emphasis on the uncategorizable. If you’ve ever thought, “I’m not sure where this piece belongs,” try them! Stop by table 518 at the #AWP26 Bookfair to say hi!
Kudos and congratulations to our 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees. Find their work and the other great literature of 2025 at doesithavepockets.com <3 #literarycommunity
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Kudos and congratulations to our 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees. Find their work and the other great literature of 2025 at doesithavepockets.com <3 #literarycommunity
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"The picture within the frame changes every week, ranging from the news clip of the President pardoning a turkey to a bird’s eye view of our town."
Words, wings, war in this dynamic new #fiction from Sarp Sozdinler | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarp...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Words, wings, war in this dynamic new #fiction from Sarp Sozdinler | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarp...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"The picture within the frame changes every week, ranging from the news clip of the President pardoning a turkey to a bird’s eye view of our town."
Words, wings, war in this dynamic new #fiction from Sarp Sozdinler | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarp...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Words, wings, war in this dynamic new #fiction from Sarp Sozdinler | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarp...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"There are no other cars on the road. Haven’t been since the rumours infected the headlines, since they told us to travel only when necessary."
Martyn Rosser's realistic new #fiction tackles Covid & much, much more | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mart...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Martyn Rosser's realistic new #fiction tackles Covid & much, much more | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mart...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Martyn Rosser — Does It Have Pockets
We Have All the Time in the World Wide Web
www.doesithavepockets.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"There are no other cars on the road. Haven’t been since the rumours infected the headlines, since they told us to travel only when necessary."
Martyn Rosser's realistic new #fiction tackles Covid & much, much more | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mart...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Martyn Rosser's realistic new #fiction tackles Covid & much, much more | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mart...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"Rain on his face, mingled with dirt, and a week of stubble. Wild man. Storm man. We had to let him in but hesitated because of what he carried."
Vivid, weighty, poignant -- new #cnf from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... #dihpalum
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Vivid, weighty, poignant -- new #cnf from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... #dihpalum
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Rain on his face, mingled with dirt, and a week of stubble. Wild man. Storm man. We had to let him in but hesitated because of what he carried."
Vivid, weighty, poignant -- new #cnf from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... #dihpalum
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Vivid, weighty, poignant -- new #cnf from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... #dihpalum
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"“No, I’m not trying to hide it. It’s the law, if you carry a bottle, it’s got to be in a paper bag.”"
One tiny, pulsing micro & one propulsive, can't miss #flash #fiction from Tom Hedt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
One tiny, pulsing micro & one propulsive, can't miss #flash #fiction from Tom Hedt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"“No, I’m not trying to hide it. It’s the law, if you carry a bottle, it’s got to be in a paper bag.”"
One tiny, pulsing micro & one propulsive, can't miss #flash #fiction from Tom Hedt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
One tiny, pulsing micro & one propulsive, can't miss #flash #fiction from Tom Hedt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"The letters were a little shaky, but the “you” was underlined with a firm hand."
Two brightly brilliant, cinematic little micros from phebej.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb... #fiction #dihpalumni
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Two brightly brilliant, cinematic little micros from phebej.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb... #fiction #dihpalumni
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"The letters were a little shaky, but the “you” was underlined with a firm hand."
Two brightly brilliant, cinematic little micros from phebej.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb... #fiction #dihpalumni
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Two brightly brilliant, cinematic little micros from phebej.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb... #fiction #dihpalumni
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"A whorling of all of the wishes I have ever made/
The lullaby beneath my body"
The body as metaphor, the poem as elixir; don't miss these two stunning new poems from Sarah Scarberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sarah...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
The lullaby beneath my body"
The body as metaphor, the poem as elixir; don't miss these two stunning new poems from Sarah Scarberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sarah...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"A whorling of all of the wishes I have ever made/
The lullaby beneath my body"
The body as metaphor, the poem as elixir; don't miss these two stunning new poems from Sarah Scarberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sarah...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
The lullaby beneath my body"
The body as metaphor, the poem as elixir; don't miss these two stunning new poems from Sarah Scarberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sarah...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"Equally puzzling was the sound. Sometimes loud. Sometimes soft, like spring breeze."
Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Equally puzzling was the sound. Sometimes loud. Sometimes soft, like spring breeze."
Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"Beauty keeps balking at my balking at beauty –"
Part prose poem, part breath, part song, part moment, one exquisite new #mustread #creativenonfiction from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-clark
Art @sethpartnow.bsky.social
Part prose poem, part breath, part song, part moment, one exquisite new #mustread #creativenonfiction from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-clark
Art @sethpartnow.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Beauty keeps balking at my balking at beauty –"
Part prose poem, part breath, part song, part moment, one exquisite new #mustread #creativenonfiction from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-clark
Art @sethpartnow.bsky.social
Part prose poem, part breath, part song, part moment, one exquisite new #mustread #creativenonfiction from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-clark
Art @sethpartnow.bsky.social
"If she approaches you, don’t run. Hold very still and try your best to answer her riddles."
A cautionary, fantastic tale told through social posts in this witty new #fiction from @rheatellstales.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A cautionary, fantastic tale told through social posts in this witty new #fiction from @rheatellstales.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"If she approaches you, don’t run. Hold very still and try your best to answer her riddles."
A cautionary, fantastic tale told through social posts in this witty new #fiction from @rheatellstales.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A cautionary, fantastic tale told through social posts in this witty new #fiction from @rheatellstales.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"Years ago she moved inland, promising/
it was only for a few years./
You know this story."
DIHP alumna @allcheesedinner.bsky.social returns with two quietly fierce, graceful new #poems for our November issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/merie...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
it was only for a few years./
You know this story."
DIHP alumna @allcheesedinner.bsky.social returns with two quietly fierce, graceful new #poems for our November issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/merie...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Years ago she moved inland, promising/
it was only for a few years./
You know this story."
DIHP alumna @allcheesedinner.bsky.social returns with two quietly fierce, graceful new #poems for our November issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/merie...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
it was only for a few years./
You know this story."
DIHP alumna @allcheesedinner.bsky.social returns with two quietly fierce, graceful new #poems for our November issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/merie...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"She never made it outside in time to see how dregs of trash managed to fly from the truck and land on her specific lawn every week."
A delightful dose of magical realism in new #fiction from @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A delightful dose of magical realism in new #fiction from @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"She never made it outside in time to see how dregs of trash managed to fly from the truck and land on her specific lawn every week."
A delightful dose of magical realism in new #fiction from @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A delightful dose of magical realism in new #fiction from @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"The Dog was raised by man. Beautiful, imperfect,/
flatulent, man. Stealing leftovers like a bindle-carrying/
vagabond."
A pair of breathtaking, fresh-voiced #poems from Ben Starr | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ben-s...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
flatulent, man. Stealing leftovers like a bindle-carrying/
vagabond."
A pair of breathtaking, fresh-voiced #poems from Ben Starr | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ben-s...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"The Dog was raised by man. Beautiful, imperfect,/
flatulent, man. Stealing leftovers like a bindle-carrying/
vagabond."
A pair of breathtaking, fresh-voiced #poems from Ben Starr | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ben-s...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
flatulent, man. Stealing leftovers like a bindle-carrying/
vagabond."
A pair of breathtaking, fresh-voiced #poems from Ben Starr | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ben-s...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"But things took a tailspin when I forwarded him my “Ezekiel, Mississippi Letters,” my account of this shitbag town and what all goes on here."
We celebrate the return of the singular @dirtbagwriting.bsky.social #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
We celebrate the return of the singular @dirtbagwriting.bsky.social #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"But things took a tailspin when I forwarded him my “Ezekiel, Mississippi Letters,” my account of this shitbag town and what all goes on here."
We celebrate the return of the singular @dirtbagwriting.bsky.social #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
We celebrate the return of the singular @dirtbagwriting.bsky.social #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"looking for that crimson stain of belonging/
only for it to show up dingy and brown"
Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
only for it to show up dingy and brown"
Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"looking for that crimson stain of belonging/
only for it to show up dingy and brown"
Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
only for it to show up dingy and brown"
Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
"I started to make mixed media collages using the same themes I work with in my writing: gender, history, language, and the human body."
Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...
Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...
Luanne Castle | November 2025 — Does It Have Pockets
www.doesithavepockets.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"I started to make mixed media collages using the same themes I work with in my writing: gender, history, language, and the human body."
Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...
Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...
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So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here:
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here:
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
We are proud to announce the stunners who comprise our 2026 @monarch.gay nomination slate. Read them all once again (or for the 1st time!) at doesithavepockets.com | #literarycommunity
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We are proud to announce the stunners who comprise our 2026 @monarch.gay nomination slate. Read them all once again (or for the 1st time!) at doesithavepockets.com | #literarycommunity
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
We're featuring the winning entries in this year's Write on the Sound contest! Congrats to @terahs.bsky.social (#fiction), @joyarcher.bsky.social (#cnf), & Nancy Knowles (#poetry) on their beautiful works| www.doesithavepockets.com/features/202...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We're featuring the winning entries in this year's Write on the Sound contest! Congrats to @terahs.bsky.social (#fiction), @joyarcher.bsky.social (#cnf), & Nancy Knowles (#poetry) on their beautiful works| www.doesithavepockets.com/features/202...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social