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Lori Cramer

@loricramerwriter.bsky.social

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Writer of flash, micro, prose poetry. Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Nominated for Best Microfiction. Copy Editor. Baseball fan. She/her. https://loricramerfiction.wordpress.com

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thrilled and honored to have my micro, "Yard Sale," selected for the 2025 @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 longlist! Grateful to @laughingyeti.bsky.social and his team and to Hannah Cole Orsag and @heimatreview.bsky.social for publishing my story!

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 16h

Got the nicest rejection letter! #amwriting

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Heather Sweeney @heathersweeney.bsky.social · 1d

3 weeks from today my memoir CAMOUFLAGE will greet the world! Here’s some early praise from the amazing @estelleserasmus.bsky.social, author of Writing That Gets Noticed and TEDx speaker (among other things). You can read her full blurb that brought me to tears on October 28!

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

"I'd come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn't."

Read @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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Departures | matchbook

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 4d

wrote a paragraph. this novel should be done any decade now

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

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M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social · 5d

I'm guest editor for November at Punk Noir Magazine.
Submissions open October 15 and close October 21.
Theme: TIGHTROPE
1000 words max, all fiction genres, no poetry.
Send stories in a Word document, include a third person bio, to
[email protected]
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/

Submissions

NOVEMBER THEME SUBS OPEN OCTOBER 15! Photo by Thomas Forsberg on Pexels.com Tightrope … what comes to mind? Maybe you’re thinking of a song (Leon Russell, Janelle Monáe, Stevie Ray Vaughan …), a mo…

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much, Jenny!

Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, Lisa!

Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to receive my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! Big thanks to Eulogy Press for nominating my micro, "Reunions."
#amwriting #microfiction

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 8d

I've got a 275-word micro about a clueless songwriter in the September issue of 10 By 10 Flash Fiction Stories (pages 7-8). Thank you to editor Zvi A. Sesling.

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10 By 10 Flash – One Story Each from Ten Flash Fiction Authors

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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 10d

Doric Literary is open for fiction submissions (1000-8000 words).

We're approaching our 1000th submission of the year.

Free to submit
We nominate for major literary awards
Acceptance rate: 2.93%

We respond QUICKLY!!
We are now #5 @duotrope.com

Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

Screenshot of the fiction publishers with the top five fastest response times at Duotrope, showing Doric Literary at number five, with an average response time of 1.4 days.

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Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social · 11d

FREE submissions to @frazzledlit.bsky.social open on Oct 1st, for short stories, CNF, poetry and flash. So what are we looking for? Today, Laura talks about just that, in reference to poetry.
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Hurt us a little

In which Laura riffs on what we look for in poetry submissions

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 11d

One week from today!! Saturday, October 4th @ 8pm GMT.

Join me along with feature poets Rusty Rose, @petitecreature1.bsky.social and our wonderful host @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for the first of a @thebrokenspine.co.uk special Zoom Series #NotJustPretty!!

We Are #NotJustPretty
Hear and See Us
in the launch of this special 3-zoom series hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez Oct.4 8pm gmt/12pm pst
Feature Poets: Rusty Rose, Lucy Heuschen Feature Artist/Filmmaker: Jenny Wong
Open Mic Poets
We Are All, Tala Lillie
Upcoming:
Nov. 8 5pm pst/8 pm est: Featured: Phynne-Belle, Debby Segal, Sylvia Van Nooten, Open Mic Jan 24, 2026 8pm gmt/ 12pm pst: Featured: Cat Balaq, Laura Grevel, Fidel H. Walsh, Soheila Vahedi, Open Mic

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 12d

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

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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.

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 14d

"I wonder if you knew then
what a gift it was, the space you held for me--
soft, like a favorite sweater?"

Read @cake-girl.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social

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HANGING STARS -

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 16d

NEW ANTHOLOGY CALL!

After our upcoming Terry Allen incited anthology we were gonna cool it for a bit on our music-incited anthologies because we have a lot on our publishing plate here.

But eff it. Right now the world needs all the inspiration from Woody Guthrie it can get.

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 18d

still true

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 23d

We need more art for The Urge.
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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 18d

"'I just want her to be happy,' I say. 'I just want her to write poetry,' I say. CT pulls me into a hug. 'Or play basketball,' I say into his neck."

Read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com.

Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 19d

I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...

13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema

To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 21d

Tell three writers how much their work means to you.

Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 21d

In case anyone else feels like they're screaming into a void about their work these days, please remember there are countless readers who aren't on social media who have probably read + loved your work without ever saying a word.

(Another reason why having a website is so important.)

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Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social · 22d

💥🥓 Litmag News! 🥓💥

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 23d

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social

⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

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September 2025

Ten stories picked by Kathryn Silver-Hajo

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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you so much!

Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks, Bronwen!

Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks, Jenny!