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Mixed Bag
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Writer, Mom, Polyglot. 아포방포. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 1d
"A Circus of Songs" by Shome Dasgupta--a quietly moving non-fiction giving us a poetic peek into the author's internal world. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 5d
“I buy a pen and a lottery ticket at the tabacchi in town, pause in front of notebooks and magnets, faded postcards of the city, Macerata scrawled across them, ready to be postmarked.”

A wonderful vicarious wander by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 5d
"Daylight Savings" by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social--a delightful non-fiction piece exploring an Italian town along with the author's introspection on seasons and impermanence. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 5d
Hooray, @maxpasakorn.bsky.social!!! 💜💜💜
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5d
Max Pasakorn's poem GHAZAL FOR MY GAY ASS is nominated for Best of the Net 2026! 👏 This time last year, they shared just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/MnczoQ9
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 5d
"Daylight Savings" by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social--a delightful non-fiction piece exploring an Italian town along with the author's introspection on seasons and impermanence. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 7d
"Dog" by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social--a brilliant, breathless meditation about humans and dogs, desires, and what happiness really means. Read Here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Dog by Michael Czyzniejewski
If the only way that I can exist is to make sure that I take the dog on his walk and feed the dog and then feed the cats and make sure the dog doesn’t eat the cat food, or the cats, for that matter, a...
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 8d
October card pull. This is…good? Can I breathe easy for a bit?
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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you so much, @jhhwriter.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for picking the weirdest queer-ass story I have ever written. It was such a thrill to win this contest. Thanks for pinging this round again 🧡🏳️‍🌈
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d
ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

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The Undulating Movement Of The Predatory Arthropod At The 10-Year College Reunion - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo be Pexels.com: Cottonbro by Sumitra Singam When you walk into the reunion with your husband like a phalanx and your apple-pie-posed photos of your 2.3 kids and dog like armour, I kick my heels o...
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Aug 28
Previously published or unpublished, fiction or nonfiction (or anything in between), 250 words or fewer, deadline Nov 15. The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 13d
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 13d
"Responsible adulthood has been wobbling since you died, your absence a silence that keeps finding new rooms." Feeling this in my bones. @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 15d
"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—"

We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌
The Hand's Aperture by Mizuki Yamagen
There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—like a channel grown curious and turning back on itself. Last week it was a mosquito bite: a temporary river...
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 14d
“For this slice of afternoon, like a perfectly tart orange slice, the freedom to trickle is not only okay, but beloved.”

Settle into this quiet afternoon scene and the bodies that inhabit it. Quiet and gorgeous by @maxpasakorn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 14d
On the surface, this nonfiction piece by @maxpasakorn.bsky.social seems like a peek into their cozy weekend, but there's so much simmering beneath it. Case in point--the line we've picked. So powerful! Read "Restful Self-Portrait" here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 14d
Yeah Nah is on again next week! Thurs 2 Oct 7pm Melb time, hosted by the amazing @kathrynreese.bsky.social this time. Rego link in quote skeet 🧡
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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Sep 4
YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 14d
On the surface, this nonfiction piece by @maxpasakorn.bsky.social seems like a peek into their cozy weekend, but there's so much simmering beneath it. Case in point--the line we've picked. So powerful! Read "Restful Self-Portrait" here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

#namjooning
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 16d
"The Now of All Things" by Francine Witte is a beautiful, aching moment between a recently separated couple. The details the narrator now notices are brilliant. This is a must-read. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/th…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 20d
A gecko on a canvas, its moves rising and depressing. The canvas is askew, but it's still art. Brilliant use of metaphor told from a unique POV. Read "Come Alive Again" by @saipradhan.bsky.social in Issue 2. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/co…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 22d
A runaway mother buys a hardware store and what happens next is you're nodding along saying "omfg, yes" all the way till the end. Belinda Rowe stuns with "Flying the Nest" in Issue 2. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/fl…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 22d
A runaway mother buys a hardware store and what happens next is you're nodding along saying "omfg, yes" all the way till the end. Belinda Rowe stuns with "Flying the Nest" in Issue 2. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/fl…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 24d
ICYMI, Our 2nd issue is out now. Take a short break, dig in, and breathe with these pieces.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 26d
📢📢 Issue 2 is LIVE! Chock-full of literary deliciousness. We hope you will enjoy (and share!)
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 24d
"out here it’s either a corn year or a bean year and nothing about the flat-as-a-pancake terrain allows anything to sneak up on you." Love how this soars with hope and beauty @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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This One Comes With its own set of Obstacles, Said the Real Estate Agent by Lisa Thornton
When it’s misty, you’re likely to spot deer in the cemetery. The sound of the train travels through the air and arrives at your windows louder, amplitudes leaping on water molecules, I guess. I think ...
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 24d
Rest well with this restful nonfiction piece on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 Poetry reader and contributor @maxpasakorn.bsky.social published this lovely self portrait in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social: buff.ly/W50Nfl0
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 25d
"I need to sneak out of my own bed just to get downstairs and actually do the things that I need to do, so many things that a normal person should do without having to worry about a dog" Love! @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Dog by Michael Czyzniejewski
If the only way that I can exist is to make sure that I take the dog on his walk and feed the dog and then feed the cats and make sure the dog doesn’t eat the cat food, or the cats, for that matter, a...
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 24d
"She wallpapered the hallways with notes in every
color of the rainbow—you got this, i believe in you, you are stronger than you think." Stunning @tracieadams.bsky.social
I'll never see a sticky note in the same way.
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Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul by Tracie Adams
It took a while for the encouragement to kick in, to move past the shame of it and accept thewords as the gift they were. And it was shameful, my fifteen-year-old daughter so afraid that her mom would...
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 25d
"you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus" What a gem @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Surfer Girl by Kathryn Kulpa
For Brian WilsonWhen you roll tumbled from the waves like a de-fuzzed towel from a dryer, fingers dragging sand from your mermaid hair gone free, stretched-out scrunchie lost to the waves, and you jel...
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 25d
"I tell you that wait is a future word, and I’d appreciate you not using it." Stunning story. Nobody writes breakups like @francinewitte.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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The Now of All Things by Francine Witte
I am talking to you from the now of all things, the universe and our bodies and the momentbefore all our cells shift, but you are examining the furniture. Reminding me that the movers are coming tomor...
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 24d
Thank you for this! I’m so tired of people trying to turn this into “everything happens for a reason” and other nonsense. It really is total fucking bullshit.
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