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Joanna Theiss
@joannatheiss.com
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Writer of weird things sitting with a cat in Washington, DC
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I love @thedodgemag.bsky.social for their nature/animal writing. They open for poetry in February.
(and very sorry about your cat 💔)
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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welkinprize.bsky.social
Today's shortlisted story is "Pattern" by
David Anson Lee. A micro that uses anadiplosis to such great effect:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Pattern | MattKendrick.co.uk
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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rebb003.bsky.social
Kind of a big day for me, folks. I never thought my first published book would be a how-to guide for parental death, but here we are. It’s well-researched, it’s funny, and it’s officially available for pre-order: www.deadparentswhatnow.com/book
My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A Panic-Free Guide to the Practicalities of Death — My Parents Are Dead: What Now?
Pre-order the My Parents Are Dead: What Now? book! Available January 6, 2026 from Quirk Books.
www.deadparentswhatnow.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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kcmeadbrewer.com
oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason??

sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Thank you, Cole! You too!
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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doesithavepockets.bsky.social
Massive congrats to our Best Small Fictions (shoutout to @altcurrent.bsky.social ) nominees for 2026 | @spencerwriting.bsky.social, @nomad-sw18.bsky.social, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @joannatheiss.com, & @kathyhoyle.bsky.social <3
January 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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New writing up at @artwife.bsky.social today! Thank you for including it
CW: sex, dog poop
www.artwifemag.com/short-storie...
Not About a Threesome by Joanna Theiss — ARTWIFE
Short story published in ARTWIFE literary and arts magazine
www.artwifemag.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
docs.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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This seems like a cool opportunity, for Baltimore City writers
@hopkinsreview.bsky.social
hopkinsreview.com/fmri-writing...
fMRI Writing Prize — The Hopkins Review
fiction Made to Read & Investigate: a new flash fiction contest for Baltimore City's adult and youth writers.
hopkinsreview.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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In case you haven't heard, the National Portrait Gallery has deleted reference to Trump's first-term impeachments. Thankfully, Citizen Historians is out here preserving the original:
www.citizenhistorians.org/exhibit-chan...
Exhibit Changes | Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian
www.citizenhistorians.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Ancient archaeological sites inadvertently provide refuges for wildlife & plants 🌺 I love this! "In Italy, rare orchids flower around an Etruscan necropolis. In the ancient Greek religious centre of Delphi, researchers found what they believe is a new species of snail.." www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The animals saved in Greece's ancient accidental 'arks'
Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe harbours for plants and animals.
www.bbc.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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🥰
January 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Thank you, Kik!
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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kathyhoyle.bsky.social
Absolutely delighted to be nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026. Huge thanks to the editors at Does It Have Pockets for choosing my work!! And congratulations to my fellow nominees. 🎉🎉🎉 You can read my story here - www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kath...
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Thank you, Cole!
January 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Thank you thank you to EIC Camille Griep & the team at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions 2026.

It's set in East Berlin and celebrates the night the Berlin Wall came down: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
graphic with tree and moody background listing nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026: Spencer Nitkey, Kathy Hoyle, Joanna Theiss, Matt Leibel, Cole Beauchamp
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Things are largely shitacious today except this is not: a Best Small Fictions nomination from @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
along with these lovely writers!!
Coastal background with tree and words announcing Does It Have Pockets nominations for Best Small Fictions
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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anatrecord.bsky.social
KNM-ER 64061, most complete Homo habilis skeleton yet (Koobi Fora) shows primitive limb proportions: long forearms, thick cortices, small body mass & ~160 cm stature. Upper limbs like early Homo, but proportions differ from H. erectus
Grine et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Love this, Tina!
January 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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msatris.bsky.social
Essay is out now! Thanks to great edits from Gerald, who graciously accepted my hella late submission, and lots of smart people who read it and talked to me about all the ideas here: it's much better than anything I'd have made sitting in a room by myself. www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...
January 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Oh, how I wish "for my sins" was an expression I could use as an American
January 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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templeinacity.bsky.social
What’s happened to Grandma! @joannatheiss.com with a meaningful, whimsical tale.
templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...
You're on top of the world until you're not, until you totter past your granddaughter's room and hear her asking a Magic 8 Ball if Grandma will ever come back. Outlook not so good. Until her little friends visit and your goosey excretions stain the trains of their taffeta dresses. Until you remember that geese aren't made for company.
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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westtradereview.bsky.social
We’re excited to present the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Nathan Erwin, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @ewenglass.bsky.social, and @andhow.bsky.social among others; fiction by Janine A. Willis; CNF by @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social

Read it here:
West Trade Review Online Exclusives Winter 2025
West Trade Review: Fearless. Crafted. Authentically Human.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM