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Doric Literary
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An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory) https://doric-literary.com/
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 1d
#literary #journal Transparency Time!

On the 279th day of the year, Doric Literary has just received & responded to our 1000th submission since going live on January 1, 2025! 👀

No fee. Token payment. FAST RESPONSE!
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Screen shot of Doric Literary's submission statistics from January 1 until today: submissions: 1000 accepted: 28 withdrawn: 2 (after 8 & 10 days waiting) upper tier decline: 121 standard decline: 833 lowest tier decline (sent work contrary to guidelines): 16 (began tracking lowest tier in April, after 446 submissions) acceptance rate: 2.80% longest response time - acceptance: 19 days (waited for requested rewrite) longest response time - decline: 9 days average response time: 1.63 days Submission tracker stats: Chill Subs: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 2 days (11 reports) Duotrope: 4.65% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.4 days (86 reports)* Submission Grinder: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.08 days (36 reports) *Doric Literary's response time is the 5th fastest in Duotrope's fiction database! Note: Doric Literary has not accepted any solicited work since going live on January 1, 2025.
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 5h
Your Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” editors want your multi-genre writing & creative work! Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial! 👥
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 1d
#literary #journal Transparency Time!

On the 279th day of the year, Doric Literary has just received & responded to our 1000th submission since going live on January 1, 2025! 👀

No fee. Token payment. FAST RESPONSE!
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Screen shot of Doric Literary's submission statistics from January 1 until today: submissions: 1000 accepted: 28 withdrawn: 2 (after 8 & 10 days waiting) upper tier decline: 121 standard decline: 833 lowest tier decline (sent work contrary to guidelines): 16 (began tracking lowest tier in April, after 446 submissions) acceptance rate: 2.80% longest response time - acceptance: 19 days (waited for requested rewrite) longest response time - decline: 9 days average response time: 1.63 days Submission tracker stats: Chill Subs: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 2 days (11 reports) Duotrope: 4.65% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.4 days (86 reports)* Submission Grinder: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.08 days (36 reports) *Doric Literary's response time is the 5th fastest in Duotrope's fiction database! Note: Doric Literary has not accepted any solicited work since going live on January 1, 2025.
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Joyful Sage @joyfulsage.bsky.social · 2d
This is lovely.

“Maybe if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return”
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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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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 1d
#literary #journal Transparency Time!

On the 279th day of the year, Doric Literary has just received & responded to our 1000th submission since going live on January 1, 2025! 👀

No fee. Token payment. FAST RESPONSE!
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Screen shot of Doric Literary's submission statistics from January 1 until today: submissions: 1000 accepted: 28 withdrawn: 2 (after 8 & 10 days waiting) upper tier decline: 121 standard decline: 833 lowest tier decline (sent work contrary to guidelines): 16 (began tracking lowest tier in April, after 446 submissions) acceptance rate: 2.80% longest response time - acceptance: 19 days (waited for requested rewrite) longest response time - decline: 9 days average response time: 1.63 days Submission tracker stats: Chill Subs: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 2 days (11 reports) Duotrope: 4.65% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.4 days (86 reports)* Submission Grinder: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.08 days (36 reports) *Doric Literary's response time is the 5th fastest in Duotrope's fiction database! Note: Doric Literary has not accepted any solicited work since going live on January 1, 2025.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 3d
A perfect short story for Sunday reading!

"Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy" by Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social fully delivers on the promise of its excellent and inspired title. It's a thoroughly entertaining read!
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Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy
Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 3d
Find refuge - in Norway - during your Sunday reading!

"Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann has stunning twists and spiraling consequences as it explores regret and redemption.
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Refuge
Regret, he’s learning again, swells until it assumes the shape of sin.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 4d
. . . and there we are on the @duotrope.com Smart Search List of the Day: Literary Short Story Journals that Pay!

Click the image below to see the list.
Click here to see our guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 4d
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Literary Short Stories feat. @afterdinnerconversation.com @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Literary Short Stories feat. @afterdinnerconversation.com @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/paying-literary-short-stories-6Li0DX2X
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 4d
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Literary Short Stories feat. @afterdinnerconversation.com @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Literary Short Stories feat. @afterdinnerconversation.com @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/paying-literary-short-stories-6Li0DX2X
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 7d
October 1: New fiction at Doric Literary!

"Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann has stunning twists, and spiraling consequences, when a Norwegian man invites a distressed stranger into his home.

Check out this stunner about regret & redemption!
doric-literary.com/2025/10/01/r...
Refuge
Regret, he’s learning again, swells until it assumes the shape of sin.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 7d
October 1: New fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou!

"Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy" by @happilander.bsky.social is a hilarious new short story about the challenges a therapist faces from her client: a poet!

This one will brighten your day!

doric-literary.com/2025/10/01/c...
Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy
Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 7d
It's a beautiful fall day in October.
The temperature is right for reading.
And we just happen to have some new work for you all.

Short fiction by @happilander.bsky.social & Franz Jørgen Neumann!
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A screenshot of the Doric Literary website showing our Greek Temple logo and featuring the links to our two newest short stories: "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy" by Mileva Anastasiadou & "Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d
I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...
title: Maybe Mary author: Anna Vangala Jones a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple title: Maybe Mary author: Anna Vangala Jones a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple quote from story: “She says she doesn’t want to talk about the disappearance. Anything but that is fine.”
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 7d
It's a beautiful fall day in October.
The temperature is right for reading.
And we just happen to have some new work for you all.

Short fiction by @happilander.bsky.social & Franz Jørgen Neumann!
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A screenshot of the Doric Literary website showing our Greek Temple logo and featuring the links to our two newest short stories: "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy" by Mileva Anastasiadou & "Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann.
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NPR @npr.org · 7d
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 8d
Want to hear @alinaetc.bsky.social and I read from our new books? Want to listen to us chat about the similarities and differences between poetry and prose collections, and the craft/process that goes into writing and publishing them? 👀🥰

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Virtual Craft Chat w/ Hannah Grieco & Alina Stefanescu - The Writer's Center
The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of writing! We’re joined by fiction writer Hannah Grieco and poet Alina Stefanescu for a cross-genre discussion about their new collect...
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 7d
October 1: New fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou!

"Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy" by @happilander.bsky.social is a hilarious new short story about the challenges a therapist faces from her client: a poet!

This one will brighten your day!

doric-literary.com/2025/10/01/c...
Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy
Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 7d
October 1: New fiction at Doric Literary!

"Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann has stunning twists, and spiraling consequences, when a Norwegian man invites a distressed stranger into his home.

Check out this stunner about regret & redemption!
doric-literary.com/2025/10/01/r...
Refuge
Regret, he’s learning again, swells until it assumes the shape of sin.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 9d
September has been great at Doric Literary. We've published 2 brilliant new works & opened up 2 wonderful stories to an online audience for the 1st time. For well-written, collection-worthy fiction, with solid plotlines & satisfying conclusions, visit us:
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Screenshot of the Doric Literary website showing our Greek temple logo and the four stories we published this month: "Harvest" by Vanessa Blakeslee, "Weintraub's Disorder" by Yvonne Fein, "Beach Voices" by Mick Bennett, & "Bar Back" by Joe Baumann.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 9d
Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

We are breathlessly awaiting the release of wonderful new work by @happilander.bsky.social

You are going to love it!
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In white text on a sky blue background is a quote from Mileva Anastasiadou's new story "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy." "Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry."
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 9d
Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

Set in Norway, "Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann, is a hopeful and beautifully written story about regret and redemption, split-second decisions and spiraling consequences.

Do not miss this one!
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Image shows white text on a sky blue background; a quote from Franz Jørgen Neumann's short story, "Refuge." "Regret, he’s learning again, swells until it assumes the shape of sin."
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 9d
I have a story coming up in a couple days on the wonderful @doricliterary.bsky.social and I couldn't be more excited!
It's been so nice working with @courtlandavenue.bsky.social on it! So grateful for everything 💖💖💖
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 9d
Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

We are breathlessly awaiting the release of wonderful new work by @happilander.bsky.social

You are going to love it!
doric-literary.com
In white text on a sky blue background is a quote from Mileva Anastasiadou's new story "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy." "Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry."
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Dave Gregory @courtlandavenue.bsky.social · 9d
Being #editor of a #literary #journal listed on the @duotrope.com ranking of the "25 Fastest Fiction Publishers" is like a singer-songwriter having a song on the #Billboard Hot 100 music chart.

@doricliterary.bsky.social debuted at #11.

MY HUMBLE LITTLE JOURNAL IS NOW #5!!
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Screenshot of Duotrope's list of the 25 fastest fiction publications, showing Doric Literary in the #5 position with a mean average response time of a mere 1.4 days.
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 9d
Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

Set in Norway, "Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann, is a hopeful and beautifully written story about regret and redemption, split-second decisions and spiraling consequences.

Do not miss this one!
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Image shows white text on a sky blue background; a quote from Franz Jørgen Neumann's short story, "Refuge." "Regret, he’s learning again, swells until it assumes the shape of sin."
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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Jul 8
"He knows she'd never allow him into her life but he dreams of her tripping into his: reveling in sloth on her days off, nothing but eating, napping, masturbating, binging TV—the rewards for making it through another week’s shifts." - Franz Jørgen Neumann mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 9d
Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

We are breathlessly awaiting the release of wonderful new work by @happilander.bsky.social

You are going to love it!
doric-literary.com
In white text on a sky blue background is a quote from Mileva Anastasiadou's new story "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy." "Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry."
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