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Dan White

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in mediam mentam. Publisher at Indirect Books // Editor at L’Esprit Literary Review // Prose Editor at West Trade Review // PhD Candidate at UIC Program for Writers

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Dan White @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks @artwife.bsky.social for having us on!

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out the latest episode of the @artwife.bsky.social podcast to hear our Editors talk a bit about the journal!

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The ARTWIFE Podcast

Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · The ARTWIFE Podcast is a monthly show hosted by ARTWIFE co-founder Hannah Harlee. Join us as we discuss the craft of writing and the life of the artist, featuring in...

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Dan White @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social · Jul 19

Merci !

Dan White @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thanks @necessaryfiction.com and @twodollarradio.bsky.social—I had fun covering this one!

Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · Jul 14

ABSENCE by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/abse...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · Jul 14

ABSENCE by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/abse...

Dan White @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks @artwife.bsky.social for having us on!

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out the latest episode of the @artwife.bsky.social podcast to hear our Editors talk a bit about the journal!

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The ARTWIFE Podcast

Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · The ARTWIFE Podcast is a monthly show hosted by ARTWIFE co-founder Hannah Harlee. Join us as we discuss the craft of writing and the life of the artist, featuring in...

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out the latest episode of the @artwife.bsky.social podcast to hear our Editors talk a bit about the journal!

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The ARTWIFE Podcast

Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · The ARTWIFE Podcast is a monthly show hosted by ARTWIFE co-founder Hannah Harlee. Join us as we discuss the craft of writing and the life of the artist, featuring in...

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines and open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories

Submission Guidelines

L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

Finally, rounding out our Issue Six release, an excerpt from novelist Yara Zgheib's delectable new project "Why Paris." Read it below!

#writing
#writer
#fiction
#novel

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There is a chocolate shop in Paris. It is on an elegant street, with trees, in a building cut in blocks of cream Lutetian limestone. Three stories high — nearly all the buildings are on that street…

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Dan White @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social · Jun 18

Check out our Summer Quarterly at @lespritlit.bsky.social

#dallowayday

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

A Wednesday in mid-June...sounds like a perfect time for our Summer Quarterly. Happy #dallowayday everyone!

We have two new works of fiction in this issue, Iris Rosenberg's "Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble"...

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Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble

You girls know a place with a good crowd. Have a big steak. Couple martinis. Cigarette smoke like in the real world. Don’t you think. Ditch all this beige. Grab a lipstick, you two’ll come wi…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

And finally, check out the entirety of our latest Quarterly newsletter, including A Commentary from Editor D. W. White!

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On Boundaries and Movement

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

...and Carolyn R. Russell's "Awake at the Wheel."

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Awake at the Wheel

I gamble on a new day in the cold diaphanous dawn while my namesake, many crooked borders away, waits on consignment for proper prayers on his behalf. I think there are none, sacred or otherwise, t…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

A Wednesday in mid-June...sounds like a perfect time for our Summer Quarterly. Happy #dallowayday everyone!

We have two new works of fiction in this issue, Iris Rosenberg's "Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble"...

lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/06/18/w...

Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble

You girls know a place with a good crowd. Have a big steak. Couple martinis. Cigarette smoke like in the real world. Don’t you think. Ditch all this beige. Grab a lipstick, you two’ll come wi…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 13

Michael Thériault's "An Invitation to the Gulls" is a shape-shifting, voice-driven story of memory and place, and is next up in our Issue Six release.

Read it below!

#writing
#writer
#fiction
#shortstory

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An Invitation to the Gulls

First the snapping of the metal bits that hold the screw cap to the collar. Slowed down, deeper by it, amped up, it might be pealing of bells; joy down street and sidewalk. Slowed a bit more, their…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 31

Continuing our Issue Six release countdown (countup?) is Andrew Lorenzen's hilarious and ontologically troubling story "Object Permanence."

Check it out!

#writing
#writer
#fiction
#shortstory

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Object Permanence

The eco-terrorist is zipping down the highway in a 1996 Ford Aerostar. He keeps laying on the brake, even though there’s hardly any traffic going East in the mid-afternoon. You’d think that’s out o…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 12

KK Fiorrucci's short story "The Difference," an atmospheric consideration of Guernsey, continues our Issue Six release!

Check it out here!

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#writing
#writer
#fiction
#shortstory

It is possible to walk from the south-east tip of Guernsey at Fermain Bay to the lumpy promontories at Vazon and Cobo in the north-west – a distance of seven or eight miles – without coming across …

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jun 4

Just four days left to submit to this year's Dalloway Prize for Short Prose!

#callforsubmissions
#fiction
#nonfiction

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Apr 4

Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest!

$500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry.

Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social

Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social

#callforsubmissions
#fiction
#nonfiction

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2025 Clarissa Dalloway Prize for Short Prose

L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Diane Josefowicz I’m interested in writing that takes risks, and I’m especially interested in risky choices of style, voice, register, and point…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 22

Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!

Check it out below!

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#fiction #shortstory #writing

Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · May 19

My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...

My eyes are closed. I am in my body. My eyes open. It is morning. Early. I am awake. I know where I am, when I am. I am in the cottage in the Welsh countryside. I am in bed. I am facing the wall, l…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 25

The Grand Prize Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration was Art O'Connor's "Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree," and is also next up in our Issue Six release!

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#fiction #shortstory #writing #creativewriting

Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree

She seems to correspond intimately with the surrounding landscape: the snatches of wool on barbed wire; the hoofprints full of water; the crooked, hillside hawthorns—all seem somehow to acknowledge…

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · May 20

We are thrilled to announce the results of our fourth annual poetry contest. Ezra Fox’s “What the Darkness Render’s on the Question of Passing” was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the $1,000 prize.

Details below:

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 21

A few weeks left for our short prose prize!

We’ve gotten some great entries so far and still have plenty of room on our shortlist to fill out.

We’re looking for sharp, surprising writing that rests comfortably just beyond convention. Fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid, up to 5k.

Send us your best!

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Apr 4

Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest!

$500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry.

Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social

Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social

#callforsubmissions
#fiction
#nonfiction

lespritliteraryreview.org/2025-clariss...

2025 Clarissa Dalloway Prize for Short Prose

L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Diane Josefowicz I’m interested in writing that takes risks, and I’m especially interested in risky choices of style, voice, register, and point…

lespritliteraryreview.org

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · May 16

Explore and enjoy the fine work in @lespritlit.bsky.social Issue 6, out just lately. My story An Invitation to the Gulls, which descends a bottle through verse and violence to the titular invitation at its bottom, tags along.

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Cover photo by Stephanie Klepacki on Unsplash Contents Deja Vu All Over Again, Neil Weiner When I Write “I”: The Disabled Body and the Myth of Narcissus, Nate Connolly Bluebird…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 16

Danielle Barr's NOTHINGBERGERS is the first chapter of her new project, and a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Find it in Issue Six!

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#litmag
#shortstory
#novel
#excerpt
#creativewriting

I’m not sure whose bright idea it was to stick the old water tower next to the graveyard–how many boil water notices had there been on account of somebody’s mawmaw leeching her corpse juices into t…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 17

Our next Issue Six release was a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Read "Twilight in the Amphitheatre," by Andy Bodinger below!

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#shortstory
#fiction
#creativewriting

Twilight in the Amphitheatre

I brought my girlfriend on a date to Art Hoe theatre to see an indie flick directed by and starring a rich girl I went to high school with. She, the rich girl, was known for her straight-A’s,…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 13

If you've received an old email from us today, please ignore! Our gmail happily decided to re-send about 50 old emails for no reason at all, right when we're getting ready for our reading tonight. Sorry for the confusion!

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 9

Alaina Hammond’s “Forgive Me, Kurt” is our next I6 release, a funny, slyly poignant flash fiction!

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#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting

Forgive Me, Kurt

Because she respected the man so much, she wants to like his book. She really wants to. She recognizes his talent but can’t abide his formal choices.

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 11

Jessica Anne's essay "Generative Grammar" is next up on our I6 release; perfect timing for Mother's Day.

Thoughts on Celebration, Choice, and Red Sauce.

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#essay
#creativenonfiction
#creativewriting

Generative Grammar

It was the leg cramps and the thirst that confirmed my pregnancy before my pregnancy was confirmed.

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