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📚A multi-genre lit journal & community CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥 Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Illumination”☀️ ExpositionReview.com

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 19d

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social as our guest judge.
Congratulations to our winners: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher, Liana Meffert! Read their flash here: tinyurl.com/Illumination405.

Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination" Winners - Exposition Review

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with the brilliant Melissa Llanes Brownlee as our guest judge. With a record number of submissions, we are pleased to finally share our...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2h

Your Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” editors want your multi-genre writing & creative work! Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial! 👥
@lilrensing.bsky.social @courtlandavenue.bsky.social @willwriteforchai.bsky.social @mellindak.bsky.social @monapily.bsky.social @briannasmykreder.bsky.social @annleee.bsky.social

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 21h

Add these #ExpoContributor and #ExpoFam books to your TBR list for Hispanic Heritage Month! Buy them in our @bookshop.org and earn a 10% commission for Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop.

Buying books not in your budget? Read their pieces in Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoIssues.

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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withdrawn: 2 (after 8 & 10 days waiting)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 · 2d

BIO: Richard A Perez Jr’s short stories have appeared in L.A. Affairs: 65 True Stories from the Los Angeles Times, The Missing Slate, @blinkink50.bsky.social & It All Dies Anyway: L.A., Jabberjaw & the End of an Era. He lives in the San Gabriel Valley, LA County & sometimes works at a restaurant.

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2d

“The earthquake weather peeps through the dusty half-drawn blinds.” So begins Richard A. Perez Jr’s nonfiction piece EARTHQUAKE WEATHER from our “Spring” issue. Read it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoEarthquake.

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2d

Of course!!!

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2d

Times are tough but Expo and this amazing #ExpoFam are a bright spot. We are so excited for another year of #ExpoReview and all the stories we will get to share. Check out what we’re doing: expositionreview.com, and join us as an #ExpoContributor here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

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Independent journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, art, & experimental narratives | Annual Issue | Flash Contests | We pay writers!

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend we retreated, our editorial board came together to talk about the past 10 years and the next 10. We gathered our EiCs and Section Editors for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” and kicked off our issue discussions both in-person and online…

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 3d

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
#ExpoReview @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 3d

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: bit.ly/This405.

#Flash405 @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 4d

… Her work has been published in Wingless Dreamer,
@thewritelaunch.bsky.social and the @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Festival.

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 4d

BIO: Meg Taylor is a poet from the Midwest whose work seeks clarity at the intersection of performance and truth. After years in the corporate world, she turned to poetry as a means of excavation unearthing what was long buried beneath spreadsheets and expectation…

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 4d

“The author’s use of this metaphor is perfect & that last line is gorgeous. I love that they have woven, in this darkness, change & the possibility of escape,” says #Flash405 judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social of Meg Taylor’s #Flash405 2nd-place winner. Read Meg’s flash poem here tinyurl.com/Chrysalis405

Chrysalis in the Dark - Exposition Review

by Meg Taylor 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Poetry I kept joy folded between tax returns, light too loud for the girl who learned to flinch. Still, something in me gnaws li...

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 4d

I made a very vibes based book trailer for Every Galaxy A Circle. I am proud of it.

Every Galaxy A Circle Book Trailer

YouTube video by Chloe Clark

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5d

Having a hard time keeping up with things in your daily life?

World outside seems upside down?

No longer enjoying the same things you once did?

Future feels dark and scary?

You may be experiencing fascism. Fortunately, there’s a cure!

#GeneralStrike #Protest #Resist #CommunityDefense #MutualAid

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 5d

We love supporting our #ExpoContributor fam! From readings to AWP panels, workshops to social/newsletter spotlights, we’re dedicated to helping creatives to share their voices.

We invite you to see what it feels like to be part of the #ExpoFam! Submit to “PARA/SOCIAL“: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!

Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review

Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 7d

Celebrate @loriyeg.bsky.social & read her piece THE EMPEROR’S DENTIST in Atlas and Alice: atlasandalice.com/2024/04/18/n.... Then read HOW TO SURVIVE A GENOCIDE in #ExpoReveiw: tinyurl.com/ExpoHow & listen to her #Transposition podcast BEFORE IT’S LOST: EXCAVATING HISTORY: tinyurl.com/ExpoTranspo

Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman

Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he he…

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats to #ExpoContributor @loriyeg.bsky.social on winning the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s 2024 Creative Writing Grant: armenianliterary.org/creative-wri..., AND for being selected as a finalist for @sundresspub.bsky.social’s Best of the Net for nonfiction!

Meet IALA's 2024 Creative Writing Grant Recipient and Runner Up - International Armenian Literary Alliance

Meet Lori Yeghiayan Friedman and Sarah Elgatian, the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s 2024 Creative Writing Grant recipient and runner up!

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 9d

BIO: Sophie Hoss loves the ocean and is in bed by 9 p.m. every night. She has received a @pushcartprize.bsky.social & her words are scattered around in @bombmag.bsky.social, @thebaffler.com, The Los Angeles Review, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, @wigleaf.bsky.social & elsewhere. sophiehosswriting.com

home | sophie hoss writing

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 9d

“Night battered the windows. Snow fell too, and some rain. I dreamt of swallowing river stones like lozenges. I held my breath backwards.“ Simple statements balanced with poetic language is flash at its finest. Read Sophie Hoss’s flash fiction NOCTURNE in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoNocturne.🌱

Nocturne - Exposition Review

by Sophie Hoss Flash Fiction Night battered the windows. Snow fell too, and some rain. I dreamt of swallowing river stones like lozenges. I held my breath backwards. I wanted to swim to the very bot...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 10d

And be sure to real @kaitquinn.com’s “POP!” poem: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-i.... It’s brilliant!!

July at the End of the World - Exposition Review

by Kait Quinn Poetry July’s throat roars open, and my thighs are back on that concrete, dandelion spine, fingers working the shredded cuffs of my jeans. I always needed something to busy my hands wi...

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 10d

“Exposition Review is literally a dream journal to work with.” Just ask #ExpoContributor @kaitquinn.com. Or look to the fact that we pay contributors, help w/ edits, nominate for prizes & promote contributors in our newsletter & on social. See for yourself! Submit to Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 11d

Love this piece! So excited for the novel! 🧑‍🚀📚

Grateful to have @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in the #ExpoFam!

Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 11d

It was such an honor and delight to find out this one won. A story that's important to the novel I'm working on and judged by one heckuva awesome writer.

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 12d

“In another life…” @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social’s mantra guides the reader through her Flash 405: “Illumination” 1st-place winner.

Guest judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social says, “I love the use of repetition and alternate timelines.”

Read ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE here: tinyurl.com/Absolute405

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 12d

Of course! Love this piece so much and look forward to reading more of your work!

Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 12d

…& check out @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social’s books in our @bookshop.org : bookshop.org/beta-search?....

BIO: Chloe N. Clark is the author of COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES, PATTERNS OF ORBIT & more. Her short story collection EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE is forthcoming from @jacklegpress.bsky.social.
#ExpoContributor

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