Michael Czyzniejewski
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Thanks to @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social, Angela Brommel, and everyone at @thecitronreview.bsky.social for nominating me for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thanks to @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social, Angela Brommel, and everyone at @thecitronreview.bsky.social for nominating me for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social!
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and everyone at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new piece, "Hello." Stoked!
hello — Blood+Honey
by Michael Czyzniejewski “ Whisenhunt explained he’d just learned the word Hello hadn’t been invented until the early 1800s, and for decades, was considered vulgar slang, big-time commoner ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and everyone at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new piece, "Hello." Stoked!
Lovely book mail today from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and @sfwp.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Lovely book mail today from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and @sfwp.bsky.social!
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @jhhwriter.bsky.social for nominating my story "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." for The Best Small Fictions. In such great company here, too! @writesofkathryn.bsky.social, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @jhhwriter.bsky.social for nominating my story "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." for The Best Small Fictions. In such great company here, too! @writesofkathryn.bsky.social, etc.
Thanks to @lukerolfes.bsky.social, @jgallaher.bsky.social, and everyone at Greentower Press for putting me in the new Laurel Review! I get to be with @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, @aimeeparkison.bsky.social, @webbish6.bsky.social, and so many other friends and talents!
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Thanks to @lukerolfes.bsky.social, @jgallaher.bsky.social, and everyone at Greentower Press for putting me in the new Laurel Review! I get to be with @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, @aimeeparkison.bsky.social, @webbish6.bsky.social, and so many other friends and talents!
Picked up these two gems by @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social when he visited Springfield this past weekend!
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Picked up these two gems by @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social when he visited Springfield this past weekend!
Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by @kimmagowan.bsky.social, part of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon!
Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by @kimmagowan.bsky.social, part of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon!
Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Cover reveal: My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from @mooncitypress.bsky.social on January 6. Preorder link coming soon!
Art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
Art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Cover reveal: My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from @mooncitypress.bsky.social on January 6. Preorder link coming soon!
Art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
Art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
Got to read at Northwest Missouri State this past week with my friend and colleague @jennifermurvin.bsky.social! Thanks to @lukerolfes.bsky.social, @jgallaher.bsky.social, Daniel Biegelson, and the whole Maryville gang for being the BEST hosts!
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Got to read at Northwest Missouri State this past week with my friend and colleague @jennifermurvin.bsky.social! Thanks to @lukerolfes.bsky.social, @jgallaher.bsky.social, Daniel Biegelson, and the whole Maryville gang for being the BEST hosts!
Missouri Poets Laureate David L. Harrison, @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social, and @karenkay.bsky.social meet up in Springfield!
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Missouri Poets Laureate David L. Harrison, @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social, and @karenkay.bsky.social meet up in Springfield!
I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, for the indisputably cool @lukerolfes.bsky.social and @jgallaher.bsky.social and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, for the indisputably cool @lukerolfes.bsky.social and @jgallaher.bsky.social and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!
Kudos to @keithlesmeister.bsky.social and his staff. Cutleaf is a really nice journal.
5.21 - Cutleaf Journal
The signal of an object jogs the memory of the narrator in Lucile Barker’s “Green Grolsch Bottle.” Andy Fogle remembers the past and an imagined future, in
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November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Kudos to @keithlesmeister.bsky.social and his staff. Cutleaf is a really nice journal.
Good book mail today thanks to Lydia Millet!
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Good book mail today thanks to Lydia Millet!
Awesome new piece by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute, with equally fantastic art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social!
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Sex In Public: A Triptych — Ghost Parachute
Hustling She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed. And he wallpapers the back of his many fish ...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Awesome new piece by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute, with equally fantastic art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social!
ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
Congrats to my student Taylor Ward on their publication in @dogyardmag.com!
dogyard mag
"Thaw"
by Taylor Ward
www.dogyardmag.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Congrats to my student Taylor Ward on their publication in @dogyardmag.com!
Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!
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Volume 14, Issue 11
COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM &nbs…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!
pitheadchapel.com/2025/11/01/v...
pitheadchapel.com/2025/11/01/v...
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey
by Michael Czyzniejewski “ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!
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www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...
A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!
www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...
www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...
What a visit at Missouri State with poet and alum Amber Isaac, who met with students, visited old haunts, and gave a killer reading from her new book, Peppermint. Thanks to Sara Burge for the intro and to the Springfield Regional Arts Council and the MSU Department of English for sponsoring!
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What a visit at Missouri State with poet and alum Amber Isaac, who met with students, visited old haunts, and gave a killer reading from her new book, Peppermint. Thanks to Sara Burge for the intro and to the Springfield Regional Arts Council and the MSU Department of English for sponsoring!
So happy to be in this remarkable issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her students. Nice to be alongside friends Gary Fincke, @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social, @woodardwriter.bsky.social, and many other talented writers!
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Fall | Winter 2025 | South 85 Journal
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October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
So happy to be in this remarkable issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her students. Nice to be alongside friends Gary Fincke, @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social, @woodardwriter.bsky.social, and many other talented writers!
www.south85journal.com/fall-winter-...
www.south85journal.com/fall-winter-...
I love this new @kimmagowan.bsky.social story up at New World Writing!
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Kim Magowan ~ A Series of Lukes - New World Writing Quarterly
What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next
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October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I love this new @kimmagowan.bsky.social story up at New World Writing!
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