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Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 3d

Such a beautiful piece, Francine. We’re so happy that you sent it our way!

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 3d

"...but her husband seemed so in love with her, always bringing her marigold and holly, and she was afraid to touch that. Afraid it would melt the winter in which they lived."

from "Another Winter" by Francine Witt
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Issue 32 | Elina Kumra – LEON Literary Review

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 5d

"My father drives like memory itself: sudden acceleration, unexplained stops. At checkpoints, he switches between Arabic, French, English, calibrating survival to the soldier’s accent. “Canadian passport,” he says"

fr "Cartography of Ruin" by Elina Kumra
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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 6d

There are 10 days left in our fall 2025 poetry reading period.
🍁 Pumpkin-spice pantoums? Apple-cider sonnets?

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 10

Intrepid writers of poetry - send us your daring, dreamy, provocative, beautifully unexpected verse! Our reading period is open to Poetry (only Poetry this time) through October 15th.
leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 10

Intrepid writers of poetry - send us your daring, dreamy, provocative, beautifully unexpected verse! Our reading period is open to Poetry (only Poetry this time) through October 15th.
leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

Issue 32 | Mikki Aronoff – LEON Literary Review

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 9d

"Something’s bothering my brother and everyone I know is afraid to ask him what’s wrong. He acts like he’s mad at the whole world and flings and hurls things around."

from "Smokey Says It’s Up to Us Now to Put Out Fires" by Mikki Aronoff
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Issue 32 | Amy Bates – LEON Literary Review

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 10d

Wow! The selection process was a challenge! We’ve had the privilege of publishing so many outstanding writers this past year. Thank you, everyone :)

Good luck to our 2025 Best of the Net nominees!

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 12d

"...how to find the room, whether to bring a book, whether to call my brother, Sam, now or later, whether I should sneak in a visit to my demented husband on the way home. The crows have given way to songbirds."

From "Imposter" by Amy Bates
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Issue 32 | Fergus Sinnott – LEON Literary Review

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 16d

"...she would try to think about the past, and would only be able to feel twinges and movements in certain parts of her body, as if an insect had landed on her bare arm with its light, spindly little legs..."

from "The Other Room" by Fergus Sinnott
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Issue 32 | Elaine Maguire O’Connor – LEON Literary Review

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 18d

"I seen a production of The Crucible one time back home in the community centre, so I know what these Yanks are like when they take agin you. Mad hoors altogether."

from "Snapped" by Elaine Maguire O’Connor
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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 21d

Agreed! :)

Issue 32 | Elena Zhang – LEON Literary Review

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 21d

On the night your space shuttle launches, I walk outside to my backyard and tilt my head heavenward. I imagine seeing the stellar nurseries glowing pink and red, pulsing with newborn stars, as heavy as my love..

Ghost Nebula, Elena Zhang
@ezhang77.bsky.social
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Issue 32 | Andrew Bertaina – LEON Literary Review

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 25d

"He was saying to his daughter, now fourteen, now in the throes of things he didn’t want to write in essays, that the clouds were stunning as they floated across a deep blue sky..."

from "Dutch Golden Age" by Andrew Bertaina
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
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Issue 32 | Cheryl Pappas – LEON Literary Review

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 29d

"and I’m after the impossible place, the blank place, the place before I saw you..."

from "I met you there" by Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social
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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 10

Intrepid writers of poetry - send us your daring, dreamy, provocative, beautifully unexpected verse! Our reading period is open to Poetry (only Poetry this time) through October 15th.
leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 8

Issue 32 is LIVE NOW! We can’t get over this amazing lineup!
Mikki Aronoff
Amy Bates
Andrew Bertaina
Andy Bodinger
Wendy BooydeGraaff
Claire Breslow
Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Elina Kumra
Tali Libenstein
Elaine Maguire O’Connor
Cheryl Pappas
Fergus Sinnott
Francine Witte
Elena Zhang
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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 3

Beautifully constructed micro - you’ll never see it coming!

Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to see my very short fiction "Laconic" up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social -- a beautiful issue!
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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 3

An absolute beauty!

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · Sep 2

ICYMI new essay up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

Intrepid writers of poetry - send us your daring, dreamy, provocative, beautifully unexpected verse! Our reading period is open to Poetry (only Poetry this time) from September 1st through October 15th.
leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re so proud to publish your work, Cheryl! Always inventive, always amazing! Thanks for sending it our way 🩷

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you for sending it to us, Elena! It’s a beautiful piece!

Issue 31| Luci Huhn – LEON Literary Review

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Aug 29

"...I taste the meat. I taste the pink, plant-
based not-meat. I notice that some of us are pink-faced,
as if the day were warm, that some of us are cool as olives..."

from "Pot Luck" by Luci Huhn
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Issue 31 | Kathy Nelson – LEON Literary Review

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Aug 26

All riotous and flaming, I remember wild azaleas
burning coral, copper, nearly crimson,
coy among the leafing birches and sugar maples.
Does the dogwood still bloom?
Everything seeks sunshine...

from "Abecedarian: My Great Grandmother Writes" by Kathy Nelson
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Issue 31 | Margaret LeMay – LEON Literary Review

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Aug 18

"...routine borne not out of need

but aloneness, an algorithm, a furnace

of switches and clicks, footfall

and rose clippings. Wakes at a voice

that is missing, turning his small face..."

from "Wakes, stumbles the haze out of"
by Margaret LeMay
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