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Does It Have Pockets
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
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Our sincere congrats to @mizuki-yama.bsky.social for making the final list for the 2026 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology! Special thanks to Best Microfiction's superlative team: series editors Meg Pokrass & Gary Finke and guest editor Diane Seuss. <3
January 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Today's listing of the day is: Does It Have Pockets?: A literary magazine @doesithavepockets.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Does It Have Pockets?: A literary magazine @doesithavepockets.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity
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January 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Don't miss this month's Art & Hybrid gallery featuring the gorgeously vivid work of @courtneyb77.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrids #pureenergy
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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"Wind-inflated, paper teeth flicking, riding a wave of air."

Bright and surreal, and bittersweet, E Ce Millier brings us fantastical new #fiction to bring in the new year | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/e-ce...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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"survived
the wrecks
but walked away
from all twelve steps"

DIHP Alum Mark Jackley returns with three tiny, textured poems | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/mark-...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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"Her laugh was startling. “Who told you it was performance art?”"

A vibrant, sharp look at art, protest, and power in L.M. Conkling's newest #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/lm-c...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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"Jason surely didn’t want to disappoint Rachel in this new life; he had done a fair amount of that in their old one."

We fell in love w/ this story instantly, deeply, completely. New #fiction by @fowleriter.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/davi...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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"I wrote down the recipe and put it somewhere I’d be sure to find it again, and accordingly, I haven’t seen it since."

Funny, timely, and hopeful, don't miss this deliciously quirky new fiction from @katemaxlow.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kate...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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"It was unanimous.
Fun didn't move us one bit."

Witty, wise, wonderful; three poems each gems form and tone, new from @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jr-wa...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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"Fingers stretched wide, he checks the precise proportions of crown, of brim."

We've been excited to share this quietly magical piece from the day we read it ... beautiful new #flashfiction from @deniseb.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/deni...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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"The furthest
I’ve been in this memory
is dawn"

Please don't miss these two outstanding #poems from @fakeourway.bsky.social (really, this time!) fresh for the new year | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/samue...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"No tool has ever existed
to fix what happened to us."

Two superlative new poems from @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social -- freshly immersive and achingly beautiful | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/laura...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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"When I write I am trying to talk something through with myself that doesn’t feel available to me without the habitat of art."

Remarkably voiced, singularly beautiful, two new CNF pieces from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-cla... #creativenonfiction #dihpalumni
January 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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"How sad, we say, when we first see dead Boxer in the zoo, because he looks sad, and we don’t hear his words, we only hear his tears."

Powerful, painful, necessary new fiction from @happilander.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mile...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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"You bought a kettle
to boil water the Austrian way.
A chopper
to chop onions Austrianly."

Three superlative new #poems from Lucas Wildner @wuucas.bsky.social -- the kind your editor sticks under the nose of everyone she adores | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/lucas...
January 5, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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"The stranger, lifted from the pavement’s numb oblivion, will not remember who was there. You are glad that it was you."

An elegiac, explorative list of loss in this new creative nonfiction from DIHP alum Alice Ahearn | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/alice-ah...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"none of it comforts me as much
as your hand at my side"

Two gently poignant, splendidly vivid new #poems from Samuel Day Wharton @fakehistoryhunter.net | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/samue...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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"While other children were learning that A is for apple and B is for banana, little Philbert soaked up words like circulation and dermatitis and elephantiasis."

Eloquent, elegant fiction from @EmmetHirschMD | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/emme...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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This month, we interviewed the fantastic Lisa Low about her new chapbook, Late in the Day. Read our conversation & some sample poems | www.doesithavepockets.com/features/lis...
A Conversation with Lisa Low — Does It Have Pockets
www.doesithavepockets.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Sending our hopes & adorations & happy dances alongside our five nominees for Best Microfiction's 2026 anthology!
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"I’ll never forget her first words:
“I need twenty bucks.”"

Funny and heartbreaking, with a voice like your best friend's, don't miss this new set of #flash #fiction from @tombusillo.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"...I ducked my head,
waited for my father’s rage
to spill from your lips."

A trio of graceful, nuanced, and surprising #poems from Colleen Harris, new for December | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/colle...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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"The whoosh of you leaving the table still so fresh in my ears."

An exquisite pair of new microfictions from the amazing @francinewitte.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/fran... #dihpalumni

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"...or forget you will die
and feel the buzz reverberating
bones as you touch the power grid."

Three electrifying new #poems from John Cullen | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/john-...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"...Hannah needs someone to explain communion before she asks if brisket wouldn’t be too sacrilegious."

In a #cnf that your EIC wishes she had written, a sharp and hilarious piece from Amanda Mather | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/amanda-m...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM