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Dan Crawley

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Writer. Giver of care. Straight Down the Road (Ad Hoc Fiction) | The Wind, It Swirls (Cowboy Jamboree Press) | Blur (Cowboy Jamboree Press). Stories appear in very nice places. https://dancrawley.com/

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · Nov 8

Really proud of this little book. 🙂💙
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Blur: Crawley, Dan: 9798393434274: Amazon.com: Books

Blur [Crawley, Dan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Blur

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!! Please join us!! I am so excited 😍❤️🥰

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 20h

Very cool, Frances! Congrats! 🎉

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 2d

You guys still like starter packs, right? Be sure to browse our regularly updated guide of all our contributors and staff — it's writers all the way down! 💫

(Don't forget to reach out if you've ever appeared in OKD and you're not on here, and we'll add you)

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HAD @havehashad.com · 1d

This submission call opens in ~4 hours. 7pm ET!

Reminder / heads up for newbies: these generally open and close FAST! Minutes. Seconds!

There will be two links, each open for 77 submissions — one for prose and one for poetry.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 3d

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

The theme is "LUCK".

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry".

POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap.
PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece.
Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under.
Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry".
All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

It is wonderful seeing your writing today! Amazing work, Dina! 💙

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

"I remember the sharp sizzle of a match, the haze of smoke curling from my mother’s mouth like a sigh."

My lord, I love the use of sensory details in this brilliant piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...

Motel on the Edge of Everything

by Dawn Miller I remember the motel on the outskirts of town—brown-bricked and unexceptional, the neon sign by the highway missing the “L”. I remember the first-floor room I shared with my parents,…

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

"When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it."

Big love for this tiny perfection by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.claudineliterary.net/elenazhang

Elena Zhang | Call Me

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool! 🎉🎉🎉

Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I've just reached 1,800 free subscribers on my Substack! I know that we are all bombarded with great and not-so-great content every day, so thank you for finding value in my writing craft analysis and writing tips!

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Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling | Tommy Dean | Substack

Welcome to Good Trouble, where I love to break down writing craft and highlight great writing and entertaining stories. Click to read Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling, by Tommy Dean, a Substack p...

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 2d

Send me your work!

Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

"If you ask me about love, I’ll show you late winter light on the farmland—some liminal thing."

I really love this extraordinary piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

Departures
by Dina L. Relles
handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry.

I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again.

I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate.

You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday morning on the Lost Goldmine trail.

A saguaro in the foreground, mountains in the back.

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Francinewitte @francinewitte.bsky.social · 4d

iCYMI-Prose Garden Reading-0ctober 4, 2025

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Prose Garden Reading October 4, 2025

YouTube video by Francine Witte

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 4d

We’re all dreamers; we don’t know who we are.

Some machine made us; machine of the world, the constricting family.
Then back to the world, polished by soft whips.

We dream; we don’t remember.
Louise Glück
#poetry #writer

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 4d

Crazy beauty. 🖤

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 3d

"Anyway, I remember walking home after getting my beer, the leaves crunching under my feet, all the colors, the susurrus,...."

My lord, what a brilliant story! Those last lines, wow! By @jennystalter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI today we're featuring Divine Intervention by Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/05/d...

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 3d

Lesle Lewis

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The End of Love We kiss farewell like a final goodbye.
Were the very last of the Love People.
Old love junk washes up in the mangroves.

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 5d

The Last Minute Club is open tomorrow 5th Oct, the final day of our 31st Award.All entrants tomorrow get a LMC badge. Can you guess the colour this time? A few samples of previous ones below. Winner gets a free entry to the award. Reply here. Results tomorrow
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 4d

This is so cool, Gillian! Yay! Congrats! 🎉💙🎉

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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 6d

My story projected onto the Fremantle Port Authority building at Fremantle Harbour as part of the inaugural Totally Lit Festival. So proud! Loved seeing all the micros projected into beautiful Walyalup for this gorgeous celebration of storytelling

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 4d

Hospice nurses were miracles for my dad and me, right up to the very end. I instantly consider all hospice nurses family. I love all of you, Lisa, with a love you can't measure, you can't hold in your arms b/c there is so much. 💙🤗💙

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 4d

‘Tis the time of year to remember my lifelong Cubs fan hospice patient w dementia. Good morning, Bill! I’d say every Tuesday & Thursday. Did u hear the Cubs won the World Series? And he would beam in amazement & his wife would giggle w delight.

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 4d

We've been at this for a little more than 15 years, now, as a niche within a niche, and slow going. Perseverence is the key, but we're still a niche within a niche. Please visit us! And we love every submission.

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Gone Lawn 61 : corn moon

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 4d

"He thought it was cool—like the word 'cool' used to be cool."

I really love this moment! Awesome writing by @sherrieflick.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Whatever — Ghost Parachute

Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool. Sammy asked for a Coke and Don’s dad said, “Whatever,” and Sammy didn’t know if ...

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 4d

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 4d

There's just ONE MONTH left until the release of @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's upcoming collection, BITTER OVER SWEET!

With advance praise from @megankkakimoto.bsky.social, author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN’S NIGHTMARE, don't miss out on preordering a copy today! buff.ly/oBUnI6T
@susanschulman.bsky.social