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Eirene Eleni
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This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com https://templeinacity.com

Lit in cool places. Most recently Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · Oct 20
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Eirene Gentle – ANMLY
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

Our #spotlight is on Veronica Tucker!

Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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It used to be that the birds
came in the shape of birds.

—Yee Heng Yeh
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Poem Without Birds by Yee Heng Yeh - Rattle: Poetry
Image: “Off Shore” by Mel Schnall. “Poem Without Birds” was written by Yee Heng Yeh for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, October 2025, and selected as the Editor’s Choice.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"How old is he now? About forty-three or forty-four, and he was a Libra, of that kind who doesn’t know the exact time of his birth."

—Ines Rodrigues translates Caio Fernando Abreu

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Ines Rodrigues translates Caio Fernando Abreu – ANMLY
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Delighted to share my latest published #poem 'Me Two' which went live at @librelit.bsky.social today! #femalerage #mentalhealth
Me Two
Clare O’Brien [ Click to expand ] Clare O’Brien grew up in London but moved 25 years ago to a house by a sea-loch in Scotland, which suits her much better. She is Poet In Residence at the Nat…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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fakeourway.bsky.social
What / is language when we look at the sky?
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived.

We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.

Details below:

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#writingcommunity
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” Author: Anna Vangala Jones An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Today is scary. My first poem has officially been published to Rust & Moth! It’s been such a weird and long road to get here but I’m a published writer (of sorts) now. I don’t know what to do now but be hopeful that you enjoy it. Thanks. Bless.
Screenshot of a web page. The words are a poem by Edith Krone titled “at work, the new guy asks” “you prefer she, right? i want to say that it is not really a preference, it just is, my life is not made up of preferences but if it was, i would simply prefer to not be here. i would prefer a cliffside, a Van Gogh landscape, a menagerie of colors so bright that my eyes could not focus, but mostly, i prefer to not see. if forced to, id prefer to see the world through my eyes and through my eyes i am six feet of stardust and Tennessee sunshine. we heard how in Van Gogh's Starry Night, you could tell the time through the stars but around here we mostly guess. in the night humidity, we tell time by the cricket's chirp and distant city lights--Marlboro smoke rising in place of us.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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And just like that, it’s time for SGP6 blurbs!! 🤩🫶🏻🪿 we love our contributors so so goosely (like dearly…) (listen some puns are better than others ok) and we are SO excited to honk honk honk away about how talented each of our artists are! 🤩🫶🏻🪿
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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🪿ISSUE SIX - ART & PHOTOGRAPHY🪿

ANATOMY OF A SILLY GOOSE by @g0thlawyer.bsky.social

Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/an...
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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A Huge and Grateful Thank You to @thecitronreview.bsky.social and editors @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social and @ambrommel.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my micro; Why They Still Make Sense!! 🥰🙏🏼💙 Congrats to all the nominees!
thecitronreview.bsky.social The Citron Review @thecitronreview.bsky.social · 23h
YAY! It's finally time for to share this year's nominees for the
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026 Anthology.
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Text: The Citron Review Best Microfiction Nominations. Image: Daisies
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Wondering which 48 stories and 28 poems Kaleidotrope published in 2025?

Well, friends, wonder no more!
Kaleidotrope 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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AND watch for our next full issue to drop in the first two weeks of December. We’ll reveal the contributors a little later but wow, it’s got angles and all kinds of interest. You are so talented, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Our nominees for the 2026 best microfictions anthology are here. The link is to all our nominations so far, with more to come so keep watching. Congratulations to all including today’s tiny gems.
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Best microfiction Elizabeth Rosen, Endeavor Slawka G. Scarso, And then she told Jack off Sumitra Singam, You-and-Kate in a field, loving me Vijayalakshmi Sridhar, I heard you became a father again Huina Zheng, The pin inside my body
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Remember our joy pop-up? It’s going to keep popping. We’re permanently opening subs for flashes of joy (well, as permanent as anything, which is not very but you get the idea). If we love it and it’s joyful we’ll add it to the issue. Like a little library of joy.
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TiaC Timely and JOY, always open If it's great and urgent now we'll publish it under TliaC Timely without waiting for a curated issue. And if it's joyful, send it our way. It may find itself in the ongoing JOY issue.
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Stoked about this honour. Thank you so much ‪@epistemiclit.bsky.social
epistemiclit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 2d
More award nominations!

Best Microfiction!
Best Microfiction 2025 Epistemic Literary logo LY FAULK — PIG FLU CHRIS COTTOM — BAND OF GOLD LORI CRAMER — SWEET GIRL JAMES B NICOLA — EVANGELICAL SUPPER BRONWEN GRIFFITHS — IF THE CONCRETE Background image: small green bookshelf with books on it in front of a large potted plant
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.

You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
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November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Chill Subs 3rd Annual Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards are back. Please consider a 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬!

We love what we do, and it would mean the world to us to be included again this year. Help spread the word!

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Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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i mean i wouldn't be mad...

cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social

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chillsubs.bsky.social Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 9d
It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
hexliterary.bsky.social hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 1d
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."

Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Please join us in welcoming ANMLY's new Features & Reviews Co-Editor, sara hammami!

sara h. hammami (she/her) is a librarian, book artist & poet fragmented between language(s) & is always thinking & dreaming of life underwater. she has poems living with DEAR Poetry Journal...
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"I would spare you the details of how I’m quad-lingual, speaking the Taiwanese dialect with my grandmother—a giveaway daughter whose only education was labour..."

—yating

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yating – ANMLY
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November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
psalteryandlyre.bsky.social Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 2d
"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles."

"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

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The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles
by Lisa Thornton
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November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
eireneeleni.bsky.social
I found this interesting and helpful. Maybe I’m used to banging my head against walls (I am) but I found it more enlightening than hopeless. We are always our own worst enemies but this offers insight into how to get a little more out of our own way. I’d be interested in other thoughts on it.
premeemohamed.com Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2d
(This basically is what I wrote ONE MESSAGE REMAINS about, depressingly enough.)
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
I interviewed psychologist John Jost about this. He was curious why history contains so many long periods in which massive groups of people are oppressed by relatively tiny groups -- when, on a purely physical basis, the oppressed could overwhelm oppressors at any time. They just tend not to. Why?
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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chillsubs.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of the day is looking through all the comments on our Best Lit Mag Awards votes, like this super sweet one left for @okaydonkeymag.com!

Click here to show your favorite lit mags + editors some love <3: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Okay Donkey is one of the lit mags that I always stop to read. The work is always stunning and full of heart. From their social media presence, it's also abundantly clear that they love celebrating the continued success of their contributors. Grateful for them and their continued work!
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM