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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥
Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Normal”🧍
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥
Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Normal”🧍
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Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics; give personalized feedback to work submitted by 10/31 & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Happy Thanksgiving! As always, we’re grateful for you, our #ExpoFam! Sending gratitude to our contributors, readers, editorial team, and literary community for making us #morethanalitjournal!
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! As always, we’re grateful for you, our #ExpoFam! Sending gratitude to our contributors, readers, editorial team, and literary community for making us #morethanalitjournal!
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Over the moon to be included by Tejaswinee & Ankit, the editors at The Houghly Review, in this group of fantastic writers. Many thanks!
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Over the moon to be included by Tejaswinee & Ankit, the editors at The Houghly Review, in this group of fantastic writers. Many thanks!
“PARA/SOCIAL suggests closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact.” Send us your PARA/ SOCIAL-themed writing and creative pursuits in any genre by 12/15. We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“PARA/SOCIAL suggests closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact.” Send us your PARA/ SOCIAL-themed writing and creative pursuits in any genre by 12/15. We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
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ICYMI, Myna Chang recently sat down with Melissa Llanes Brownlee to discuss her latest collection, BITTER OVER SWEET! buff.ly/teB3epy
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November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ICYMI, Myna Chang recently sat down with Melissa Llanes Brownlee to discuss her latest collection, BITTER OVER SWEET! buff.ly/teB3epy
Get BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uaVHtkD
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Get BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uaVHtkD
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Cassandra’s story is a great example of “connection without contact”-it’s an intimate thing knowing someone’s fate while they remain in the dark. @willwriteforchai.bsky.social’s #ExpoRecommends @gwenekirby.bsky.social’s SHIT CASSANDRA SAW (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Cassandra’s story is a great example of “connection without contact”-it’s an intimate thing knowing someone’s fate while they remain in the dark. @willwriteforchai.bsky.social’s #ExpoRecommends @gwenekirby.bsky.social’s SHIT CASSANDRA SAW (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco
FOR FRANK O’HARA places us in LA’s Hammer Museum, winding us through an exhibition as well as poet Craig Cotter’s thoughts on Frank O’Hara’s life and his own. Read Craig’s poem from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoForFrank (link in bio).
For Frank O’Hara - Exposition Review
by Craig Cotter Poetry I’m in the ORANGES and SARDINES exhibit at the Hammer in one of the 4 comfy chairs (other 3 empty) with your WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, orange title, black the rest as you loved ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
FOR FRANK O’HARA places us in LA’s Hammer Museum, winding us through an exhibition as well as poet Craig Cotter’s thoughts on Frank O’Hara’s life and his own. Read Craig’s poem from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoForFrank (link in bio).
Expo’s Nonfiction Editor Heather Vaughan is looking for literal interpretation of the “PARA/SOCIAL” theme. She’s interested in the belonging theme, in stories about connection, loneliness, technology, turning inward & human connection. Send Heather your nonfiction writing: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Expo’s Nonfiction Editor Heather Vaughan is looking for literal interpretation of the “PARA/SOCIAL” theme. She’s interested in the belonging theme, in stories about connection, loneliness, technology, turning inward & human connection. Send Heather your nonfiction writing: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial
Are you asking yourself “What should I read/watch/listen to next?” Expo has you covered with our “PARA/SOCIAL” #ExpoRecommends. Find your next favorite read/watch/viewing experience, while getting to know our editors’ tastes. Enjoy: tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco.
Expo Recommends: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
What should I read next? It’s a question we all ask ourselves time and again. Even with the countless stories, poems, essays, scripts, art, comics, and films to discover, to fall in love with or to detest, it can be a challenge to choose. Enter Expo Recommends, a curated selection of readings brought to you… Continue reading Expo Recommends: “PARA/SOCIAL” →
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November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Are you asking yourself “What should I read/watch/listen to next?” Expo has you covered with our “PARA/SOCIAL” #ExpoRecommends. Find your next favorite read/watch/viewing experience, while getting to know our editors’ tastes. Enjoy: tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco.
“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
Stories for a Daughter - Exposition Review
by Mizuki Honorable Mention – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Fiction Daughter, the trees used to scream in August. The Minmin Kami shaking the pines until the air fractured. Aburazemi spread their oil-sheen wings, while the Higurashi Priest sang the dusk sorrow-song, rising and falling like prayer. If you pressed your hand to the… Continue reading Stories for a Daughter →
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
"We Want to Feel Something." A Chat with Annlee Ellingson, Managing Editor of Exposition Review
"We publish everything."
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November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
We adore our Poetry Editor Kiana Shaley. She’s was our Poetry Editor for Vol. X: “Spring” and has been bringing her energy to Expo for years! She judged this year’s August Flash 405: “Normal” writing competition (& you can read her thoughtful comments & the winners here: tinyurl.com/Normal405).
Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" Winners - Exposition Review
Our August Flash 405 contest invited us to consider flash stories on the theme of normal—but the response we received to this prompt was anything but! After an amazing year of Flash 405 contests, this...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We adore our Poetry Editor Kiana Shaley. She’s was our Poetry Editor for Vol. X: “Spring” and has been bringing her energy to Expo for years! She judged this year’s August Flash 405: “Normal” writing competition (& you can read her thoughtful comments & the winners here: tinyurl.com/Normal405).
“What’s not to love?” asks Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley about JR Fenn’s second-place-winning fiction piece. Read THE LAST CINEMATOGRAPHER IN SPACE here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
The Last Cinematographer in Space - Exposition Review
by JR Fenn 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Fiction It wasn’t the tilting planets the cinematographer filmed, or the asteroids drifting along, pitted and missing hunks at their ed...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“What’s not to love?” asks Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley about JR Fenn’s second-place-winning fiction piece. Read THE LAST CINEMATOGRAPHER IN SPACE here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
We are so excited to announce our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees! Help us celebrate our fiction, nonfiction, and arts & comics contributors by reading/viewing their works in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! Congrats to all!
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are so excited to announce our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees! Help us celebrate our fiction, nonfiction, and arts & comics contributors by reading/viewing their works in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! Congrats to all!
“To write into ‘PARA/SOCIAL’ is to explore the edges where community becomes illusion, and illusion shapes community.” Send us your submissions in any genre by 12/31! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“To write into ‘PARA/SOCIAL’ is to explore the edges where community becomes illusion, and illusion shapes community.” Send us your submissions in any genre by 12/31! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!
Save the Dates! November Interviews & Info Sessions!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!
Death and meaning and the occult and love and loss blend in Briana Courtney’s THE SHAPE YOUR BRAIN MAKES. Read her fiction from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoTheShape.
The Shape Your Brain Makes - Exposition Review
by Briana Courtney Fiction The shape your brain makes when it gets chucked off the edge of Death Bridge is supposed to resemble the form you’ll take in the next life. It’s important for mourners to ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Death and meaning and the occult and love and loss blend in Briana Courtney’s THE SHAPE YOUR BRAIN MAKES. Read her fiction from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoTheShape.
Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski is ready for your submissions! Send them to her by December 15! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski is ready for your submissions! Send them to her by December 15! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
“Some reasons to love this piece:
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
People Places Things - Exposition Review
by Tara Dugan 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Experimental Donkey Kong Short bright tie against hairy chest making animal sounds when breaking whatever he can throw. In the corne...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Some reasons to love this piece:
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
Happy #pubday to #ExpoContributor @victoriawrites.bsky.social and UNBURYING THE BONES! This book of poetry serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling—but always present. Get it in our @bookshop.org:
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Unburying the Bones: Poems Volume 1
Poems Volume 1
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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy #pubday to #ExpoContributor @victoriawrites.bsky.social and UNBURYING THE BONES! This book of poetry serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling—but always present. Get it in our @bookshop.org:
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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We’re accepting submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We’re accepting submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Happy pub day to #ExpoFam member @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & BITTER OVER SWEET! We are beyond excited for this novel exploring the lives of real Hawaiians (and for the fact that it’s published by our friends over at @sfwp.bsky.social)! Get your copy in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/bitt...
Bitter Over Sweet
Check out Bitter Over Sweet - Hawaiian native Tita works to escape a vicious cycle of poverty and abuse, only to realize along the way that life can not only be better, it can be whatever she wants it...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Happy pub day to #ExpoFam member @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & BITTER OVER SWEET! We are beyond excited for this novel exploring the lives of real Hawaiians (and for the fact that it’s published by our friends over at @sfwp.bsky.social)! Get your copy in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/bitt...