Betty
@fadingbetty.bsky.social
EdD, poet, author, debate coach, speech coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, gamer
I've been really excited about this one! New short story out today on the Midwest Weird podcast that you can listen to or read here: www.midwestweird.com/post/before-... (totally suggest reading it and not listening to my voice for 20 minutes, but I guess I did okay.)
Midwest Weird | Betty Stanton
Today on Midwest Weird: “Before the Rain" by Betty Stanton.Buy Betty a coffee in support of her work! Be sure to leave a message and note who it's for : ) Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Pushcart nomina...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I've been really excited about this one! New short story out today on the Midwest Weird podcast that you can listen to or read here: www.midwestweird.com/post/before-... (totally suggest reading it and not listening to my voice for 20 minutes, but I guess I did okay.)
Oh, I'm dumb at navigation. The new poem is also just here: www.biwomenquarterly.com/curtain-call/
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh, I'm dumb at navigation. The new poem is also just here: www.biwomenquarterly.com/curtain-call/
New poem out in the Winter issue of Bi Women Quarterly (page 16 if you want to go straight to it) www.biwomenquarterly.com/issues/
Issue Navigation - Bi Women Quarterly
Every issue of Bi Women Quarterly has a theme which coincides with a different aspect of the bisexual+ experience. Check out the links below to explore these different themes (listed in chronological ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New poem out in the Winter issue of Bi Women Quarterly (page 16 if you want to go straight to it) www.biwomenquarterly.com/issues/
New poem out today with @pictura.bsky.social heyzine.com/flip-book/00...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
New poem out today with @pictura.bsky.social heyzine.com/flip-book/00...
Now that it's the 1st I can share that my piece Westport has been nominated by Bright Flash Literary Review for this year's Pushcart Prize. Read it and leave me a comment if you're bored. lol. brightflash1000.com/2025/08/01/w...
Westport
By Betty Stanton I Her mouth smells of liquor and wind. She wears strength like a jacket—borrowed, too big in the shoulders—the rain echoing on concrete like prophecy. Inside, coffee is bitter as …
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December 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Now that it's the 1st I can share that my piece Westport has been nominated by Bright Flash Literary Review for this year's Pushcart Prize. Read it and leave me a comment if you're bored. lol. brightflash1000.com/2025/08/01/w...
Reposted by Betty
Over 120 publications re-opened today, including @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @marshhawkpress.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @kenyonreview.bsky.social @wapress.bsky.social @allegropoetry.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...
Re-openings for December 01, 2025
Over 120 publications re-opened today, including @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @marshhawkpress.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @kenyonreview.bsky.social @wapress.bsky.social @allegropoetry.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social https://duotrope.com/news/publishing/
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December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Over 120 publications re-opened today, including @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @marshhawkpress.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @kenyonreview.bsky.social @wapress.bsky.social @allegropoetry.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...
New piece of flash out in @newfeathers.bsky.social today! www.newfeathersanthology.com/the-second-c...
The Second Cup
The Second Cup Betty Stanton Every afternoon at four, she makes tea for two. After the funeral she started it to remember, as...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
New piece of flash out in @newfeathers.bsky.social today! www.newfeathersanthology.com/the-second-c...
Hey! That's my game! Thank you @urbanbohemian.com for the mention :)
I attended one of the #RPG Designer Meet & Greet session at #PAXUnplugged this year and saw some interesting games! #CardGame #TTRPG #TabletopGames #PAXU
Thank you to @brianliberge.bsky.social for the reminder and glad to meet @bizzy-brie.bsky.social & @kyngvee.bsky.social while I was there! 💖
Thank you to @brianliberge.bsky.social for the reminder and glad to meet @bizzy-brie.bsky.social & @kyngvee.bsky.social while I was there! 💖
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hey! That's my game! Thank you @urbanbohemian.com for the mention :)
Reposted by Betty
Rascal says its a quiet week but there's only five days left in the Last Kiss backerkit campaign! How is that not the headline?! (/jk I love @rascal.news )
We're edging slowly closer to getting a little taste of Hawkmoth King in the game as a stretch goal!
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We're edging slowly closer to getting a little taste of Hawkmoth King in the game as a stretch goal!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
Last Kiss
Ever feel like the world is out to get you? It is.
A TTRPG of unheroic teens facing down the end of the inevitable world. You're the main character, with all the misery that entails. How will you mak...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Rascal says its a quiet week but there's only five days left in the Last Kiss backerkit campaign! How is that not the headline?! (/jk I love @rascal.news )
We're edging slowly closer to getting a little taste of Hawkmoth King in the game as a stretch goal!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
We're edging slowly closer to getting a little taste of Hawkmoth King in the game as a stretch goal!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
Had an excellent time @ #PAXU - got to run some games, talk to people about the game I wrote, meet new friends, and see a lot of great friends I only get to see once a year. Always one of the best weekends of the year. Wish we had something similar close! We head home tomorrow morning.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Had an excellent time @ #PAXU - got to run some games, talk to people about the game I wrote, meet new friends, and see a lot of great friends I only get to see once a year. Always one of the best weekends of the year. Wish we had something similar close! We head home tomorrow morning.
I sit on the editorial board for Ivo. Submit to us! We're also running a 10 Minute Monologue contest to be published in this third issue.
Ivo Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Ivo Review
Ivo Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/ivo-review-39094 #amwriting
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November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I sit on the editorial board for Ivo. Submit to us! We're also running a 10 Minute Monologue contest to be published in this third issue.
New poem out www.discretionarylove.com/honeyed/
Honeyed, Discretionary Love
She bowed to him happily, handing over her honor like a cloak she would never wear again, to a stranger who stroked her hunger until it bloomed across her...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New poem out www.discretionarylove.com/honeyed/
I'll be presenting The Open Book at this on Saturday morning! Come see me!
If you want to know why people are still making new games, and want to encourage them to keep going, visit the RPG Designer Meet and Greet, Saturday Morning at #PAXUnplugged.
10 AM, and 11 AM. All attendees welcome #ttrpg
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10 AM, and 11 AM. All attendees welcome #ttrpg
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November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'll be presenting The Open Book at this on Saturday morning! Come see me!
I had a poem that was an honorable mention in 2022 in the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards.. It has now been anthologized along with the other winners and honorable mentions for that contest for the last few years in this anthology www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...
New Volume Collects 60+ Col. Darron L. Wright Award-winning Stories & Poems
Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance ( www.LineOfAdvance.org ) have announced a new, second volume collecti...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I had a poem that was an honorable mention in 2022 in the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards.. It has now been anthologized along with the other winners and honorable mentions for that contest for the last few years in this anthology www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...
And another story out today at Rooted: stayrootedent.com/rooted-in-se...
Rooted in: Rite
Rooted in: Rite is Rooted Literary Magazine’s inaugural Halloween Anthology. It’s a collection of poems, essays, short stories, and art that captures what Rites mean to us.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And another story out today at Rooted: stayrootedent.com/rooted-in-se...
The story that I worked on after my terrible airport experiences this summer just won a horror prize for Halloween. talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/ho...
Horror Tropes Contest Winners | Tales from the Moonlit Path
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November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The story that I worked on after my terrible airport experiences this summer just won a horror prize for Halloween. talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/ho...
Two short poems out at the Fib Review. I've never tried this form before I saw this journal, and they were fun to work with. www.musepiepress.com/fibreview/be...
the fib review - Betty Stanton
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November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Two short poems out at the Fib Review. I've never tried this form before I saw this journal, and they were fun to work with. www.musepiepress.com/fibreview/be...
New poem from my new chapbook project in Circle of Salt today circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com
Circle of Salt
Send up to 3 unpublished pieces of magickal poetry (including esoteriku), prose, personal essay, original art, reviews, recipes, tips, etc. to Kelly Sauvage Moyer at [email protected].
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October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
New poem from my new chapbook project in Circle of Salt today circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com
New poem out in this issue of @viridinelit.bsky.social!
☆ ISSUE 04: CONTAGION IS OUT ☆
Dive into some stunning new poetry and fiction as the nights draw in and chills seep into the air. View and download the issue for free on our site: viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit/...
Dive into some stunning new poetry and fiction as the nights draw in and chills seep into the air. View and download the issue for free on our site: viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit/...
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
New poem out in this issue of @viridinelit.bsky.social!
Short story out @ Macrame Literary Journal
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The Doctor Dreams of Heaven - Literary Journal
The Doctor Dreams of Heaven, a short story by author Betty Stanton, published in the Fall 2025 issue of Macrame Literary Journal.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Short story out @ Macrame Literary Journal
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New (old) poem @ bitter melon review. thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/l...
Lichtenberg Scars | Betty Stanton
There are different ways a person can bestruck – a side splash or ground currentlicking at the fragile lightning rod of skintransformed into circuit. A person struckbecomes something new, becomes a…
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October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New (old) poem @ bitter melon review. thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/l...
New piece @ Would Up Literary woundupliterary.com/2025/10/06/w...
WAITING FOR THE LIGHT
I Rain again. It steams on walkways, hisses on skin, peels sinew from bone. No one screams. We stare up, blank and blistered, asking each other the same questions. &nb…
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October 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New piece @ Would Up Literary woundupliterary.com/2025/10/06/w...
Also two poems from my new chapbook series out in Sextet! sextet.co.uk/betty-stanton/
Betty Stanton – SEXTET
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October 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Also two poems from my new chapbook series out in Sextet! sextet.co.uk/betty-stanton/
New piece out at Five on the Fifth from a story I started in college in a challenge based writing workshop and then forgot about for 20 years. www.fiveonthefifth.com/vol-10-issue...
Vol. 10 Issue 11 - Cover Page — Five on the Fifth
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October 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New piece out at Five on the Fifth from a story I started in college in a challenge based writing workshop and then forgot about for 20 years. www.fiveonthefifth.com/vol-10-issue...
I gave a box of D&D minis and dice that have been sitting in my office for four years and a bunch of old maps to a group of boys who play D&D in the hallway after school today. This is what it feels like to be the cool teacher.
October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I gave a box of D&D minis and dice that have been sitting in my office for four years and a bunch of old maps to a group of boys who play D&D in the hallway after school today. This is what it feels like to be the cool teacher.