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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio

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Writer, Librarian ✍🏻: Baltimore Review, Hunger Mountain, The Forge, Porter House Review, Passages North, Reckon Review, jmww, Okay Donkey, X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel +++/ BSF 2023 https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · Aug 31

An honor to be a finalist! Thank you so much, @psmokejournal.bsky.social 🙏💚💜💙❤️

Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest has come to an end! We'd like to thank everyone for their submissions- it made our job so hard! Without further ado, here are our winners!

2025 Summer Editor's Prize
Poetry Winner: "The Odds" by Emily Portillo. Finalists: Sean Cho A. for "A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" and Sarah Moore for "Vampire Wife"
Flash Winner: "Orange Juice" by David Cohen. Finalists: Rosaleen Lynch for "Bodies of Water", Eileen Frankel Tomarchio for "Sad Library Things", and Kim Magowan for "On Her Way to the Corner Store"
Fiction Winner: "Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras. Finalists: Emily Drew for "Terminal Break", Erin Striff for "Sustainable Living", and Gretta Trafficante for "Penny's Head"
Congratulations to all the winners, and we thank everyone for their submissions! Sincerely, Peatsmoke Journal

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 7h

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 14h

So beautiful and affecting 💔

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 19h

Ahh, this is so brilliant, Emily! 💭👫🤯

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 19h

This is wonderful, Cheryl. Congrats on the @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social pub! ⛈️🙏💃🏻🖤

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant!

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, Melissa, fantastic recognition! 😍💥👏

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 1d

Love the ache and sweep in these gorgeous still lifes, Dina. Congratulations to you! ☺️🙏

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 1d

Old stomping grounds. Methinks I’ll be there! ☺️

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, dear Melissa 🥰

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, @tracierenee.bsky.social ☺️🙏🌼

Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations, Eileen! What a powerful and beautiful piece that captures so much in such few words. Well done.

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 6d

Oh thank you for those kind words, Tracie! I’m so glad you enjoyed the flash 🥰

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for this BotN nomination, @reckonreview.bsky.social! So glad to have a home in your stellar journal. 🥰🙏

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful, Melissa 💜💚💙🌋

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 7d

A pert beauty, Melissa! 😻

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 9d

There needs to be a “just kidding” mock-journal that’s always open, its sole function to be the best freaking story tweak/ edit/ revision tool that exists. 😉

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 13d

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction

gooseberry-pie.com/open-for-sub...

Open For Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions. Responses usually in less than two weeks. BTW, our editor loves when an animal pops up in a story.

gooseberry-pie.com

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Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social · 17d

Today we wanted to take a moment to celebrate all of the incredible people who contribute to making Chestnut Review the publication that it is. It is because of all the individuals who work at CR that we can continue to find and share amazing stories, art, and poetry. Thank you all!

#chestnutreview

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18d

Several times this year more than 100,000 people have been out in the streets in particular cities to protest this regime and the NYT & MSM barely covered those protests. I wonder why [I don't actually so no need to respond].

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 18d

Phantom Thread 📜

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 19d

Will always be proud that my oddball movie-set craft services story found a home in Maudlin House. 🎥🎬🍩☕️❤️

maudlinhouse.net/crafty/

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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 19d

We don’t follow genre, we follow obsession. If it lingers in the mind, it belongs at Maudlin House...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 21d

God bless her. The days when small cities like Grand Forks had papers that could afford dedicated food columnists, sports columnists, and movie critics were better days.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d

Marilyn Hagerty, a food columnist who startled the online world with an earnestly detail-oriented and nonjudgmental appraisal of a North Dakota Olive Garden, and who was startled in turn when the review racked up more than one million page views, has died. She was 99.

Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral, Dies at 99

“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” she wrote from North Dakota. And suddenly the national media made her a celebrity.

nyti.ms

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Birthday! 🥳🎂🎊

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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 22d

So very sorry, Elizabeth. Sending deepest sympathy. 😔