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Gabriella Paz Hoggatt

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One time i saw a whale shark, that was pretty cool. Writer. 🇵🇭 Find me in: BarBar, Midwest Weird, Peatsmoke Journal, Ninth Letter [they/them]

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Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Aug 2

Check out some really cool work by emerging artists and writers! (Including myself, haha)

Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our Summer 2025 Issue is HERE! www.peatsmokejournal.com
FLASH:
☀️Rachana Pathak
☀️Angela Townsend
☀️ @andreabishop.bsky.social
FICTION:
☀️ @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social
☀️Sarah Bess Jaffe
☀️Caroline Okello
ART:
☀️Rollin Jewett
☀️Brooke Walker
☀️Lindsay Liang
☀️Jennifer Lamb
☀️Subarna Talukder Bose

Peatsmoke

Peatsmoke is a literary journal committed to publishing fresh and exciting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

www.peatsmokejournal.com

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Ninth Letter @ninthletter.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're open for print AND web submissions & eager to read your work! No theme for the print edition. "Performance" theme for web edition. Link in bio for guidelines & details!
#creativewriting #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction #litmag

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Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Aug 2

Check out some really cool work by emerging artists and writers! (Including myself, haha)

Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Peatsmoke

Peatsmoke is a literary journal committed to publishing fresh and exciting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

www.peatsmokejournal.com

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Ninth Letter @ninthletter.bsky.social · May 3

(23 of you) asked, we listened! The 2025 9L Literary Awards deadlines is extended until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Last chance to win 1 of 3 $1000 prizes + publication. Stay tuned as we drop free web access to 2024 winners all week. We can't wait to read your work!

Text reads: Ninth Letter Literary Awards in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, deadline is extended to May 10. $3,000 in prizes. Entry includes free print subscription.

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Ninth Letter @ninthletter.bsky.social · Mar 6

📣 Announcing our annual Literary Awards and this year’s fantastic judges 📣

Send us your unpublished work and get a free 1-year subscription to Ninth Letter—oh and the chance to win $1,000!

Deadline: Midnight, April 30th. For more information, link in bio ✨

Ninth Letter Literary Awards in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction, submissions open March 1st, $3,000 dollars in prizes

K-Ming Chang is the Guest Judge for Fiction. She is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and others. Her latest books are Organ Meats (One World, 2023) and Cecilia (Coffee House Press, 2024), and her next two books are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

Jane Wong is the Guest Judge for Creative Non-Fiction. Jane Wong is the author of the debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, out now from Tin House (2023). She is also the author of two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James (2021) and Overpour from Action Books (2016). She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems and essays can be found in places such as The New York Times, Best American Poetry 2015, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, POETRY, and others.

Derrick Austin is the Guest Judge for Poetry. Derrick Austin is the author of Tenderness (BOA Editions, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016), a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and others. His third collection, This Elegance, is forthcoming in Spring 2026. A Cave Canem fellow, he is the recipient of a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, and an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · Mar 20

I already knew they had my stuff. The last time I complained about it I got called an "ideas landlord" for believing I should get paid for the work they stole.

Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · Mar 20

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Mar 12

"Carnation" is out now with Midwest Weird! Listen on their website or wherever you get your podcasts.

www.midwestweird.com/post/carnati...

Top text reads "Carnation."
Below, there is a red and black illustration of a headless woman's torso and arms. She is wearing an Edwardian-style dress with a high neck collar and puffy shoulders.
At the bottom of the image, text reads "Gabriella Paz Hoggatt"

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Mar 7

every public bathroom should have a vacant/occupied sign i cant keep jiggling locked door handles

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Feb 2

Libraries are good for you, and research agrees.

It’s official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects t…

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Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Feb 2

Dead cells‼️ absolutely rife with little love letters to other games

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Jan 13

Somehow ive procrastinated my fun creative work by making slideshows for my job

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Jan 9

Do you think dogs know we mourn them when they go. They know we love them. But do you think.

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Jan 6

Adobo ✅️ star trek ❌️ (im watching the unsleeping city instead)

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Jan 5

Snowed in. Time for star trek and adobo.

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Jan 2

Surely this will be the crossword puzzle that fixes me

Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social · Jan 1

This piece will be featured in BarBar Magazine's upcoming print anthology, but if you'd like to read it now, check out my story "Incivilizado" here: bebarbar.com/2024/09/25/i...