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Third publication: Soul Poetry
January 14, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Congratulations @cuylermeade.bsky.social!
cuylermeade.bsky.social Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 1d
Such an honor to have this story I love nominated! Thank you to @trampset.bsky.social for believing in Margaret!
trampset.bsky.social trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 1d
Please help us congratulate our Best Small Fictions nominees @cuylermeade.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @jjlofflin.bsky.social & Joseph Randolph. You can read their nominated stories ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Delighted to have my second story in the wondrous Fictive Dream. It’s a tale of dreams, disillusionment, property capitalism, white privilege, neocolonialism and the importance of having a nice view. (There is definitely a bit of me in the main character. Don’t read if you’re from Wolverhampton FYI)
fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 4d
"I sat for a long time, sun-flooded, staring at my perfect square." Full Circle, Perfect Square by Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/01/11/f...
January 11, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Better watch those rubber duckies
bdemoney.bsky.social Barb DeMoney @bdemoney.bsky.social · 3d
My short horror story Quackers was published today by Rat Bag Lit. Please check it out if you have a minute. Thanks!
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Quackers
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January 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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"The thing about big sisters is that we little sisters want to be them."
Read the rest of @mmschreier.bsky.social 's story at FFO
January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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"A woman circles the track at the YMCA after work, around and around like a mouse on a wheel. Not a hamster, like one might expect. She’s far more mouse-like—anxious, prone to tachycardia, most active at night."

Read the rest of Sarah Lynn Hurd's first story of 2026 at Ghost Parachute:
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Hello and happy new year! I'm pleased to announce I'm returning to @clarkesworldmagazine.com with a sci-fi- weird- eco-horror short story that's OUT NOW!

It's called "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water."

Read here and subscribe! clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_0...
Out now! A post-apocalyptic sci-fi weird horror short story, "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water" by A.W. Prihandita. There's a picture of the magazine cover, Clarkesworld issue 232, featuring the torso of a huge robot covered in moss in a forest. In the background of the graphic, there are the words "new year, new story" in big fading text. “The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water” by A.W. Prihandita. It’s about a child in search of his lost parents, in a post-apocalyptic world where all adults have implanted computers that have been hijacked by an AI-gone-rogue. It’s also like Thanos’s “snap my fingers and half the world dies,” but in the context of modern AI’s ecocide, written in the style of weird horror and the aesthetics of the uncanny valley. 
Footnote: “Weird horror” is aspirational. I was reading a lot of Brian Evenson. I hope this is weird enough! You can read for free at clarkesworldmagazine.com, buy a digital copy or a print copy, AND subscribe to the magazine for more outstanding short fiction. If you like that scene from Pluribus where everyone speaks at the same time, saying the same thing, in the same cadence because they’ve been taken over by aliens—only in this story, it’s AI that has hijacked everyone around you. There’s a screen capture of the aforementioned scene, with the female lead character standing by a truck outside a hospital, a crowd of doctors, nurses, and other patients (none of whom are quite alive or conscious because they are victims of a virus that enables aliens to control them). The crowd chants as one, “We just wanna help, Carol.” If you like this opening paragraph of Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism: “A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. It might involve food, or a kind of love; it might be a fantasy of the good life, or a political project. It might rest on something sim-pler, too, like a new habit that promises to induce in you an improved way of being. These kinds of optimistic relation are not inherently cruel. They become cruel only when the object that draws your attachment actively impedes the aim that brought you to it initially.” ... and think our relation with Al is maybe, definitely, a relation of cruel optimism. As in, why do people hope Al will help them find connection-through chats, storytelling, advice, therapy, whatever-when all it has ever done is further sever us from our humanity, our fellow humans, and our land, leaving us alone and parched?
January 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Get yourself a copy! (Or follow along this month to read the stories online.)

I love the remarkably talented @aijiang.bsky.social so I’m excited to have my story—“Stairs for Mermaids”—included in this @flashfictiononline.bsky.social issue!
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Last year, Quill Hollow Writers had a total of 293 publications, 10 Pushcart nominations, and 13 Best of anthology nominations!
January 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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This came out a few days ago, but the second issue of Twist Magazine dropped with a ton of wonderful stories, including my second-place 500 story. It's great to be among such talented company. Download the issue here:
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Cover of Twist Magazine volume 2. It's titled "Twisted Tournament" with Cherryhoof, a pink unicorn mascot, wearing a blue boxing outfit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I'm in here twice! (a 500 & a 250)
In good company with some talented friendos.

And pssssst, there's something sneaky happening on page 31. 👀🎵

Thanks, Twist!
twistinthetale.bsky.social Twist in the Tale @twistinthetale.bsky.social · 29d
We are thrilled to share the second issue of the Twist Magazine.
Featuring the winners from the Twisted Tourney, winner interviews and a range of selected stories.

Read it here:
twistedtournament.com/magazine
December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social.

Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"She didn’t know why, beyond the fact that she felt sad and alone in the body-breaking kind of way, where it was all too big to fit, and the next moment was impossible and inevitable and deeply, deeply dangerous."

Read the rest of @lyss-b.bsky.social's story here:
lyss-b.bsky.social Lyss (they/them) @lyss-b.bsky.social · 29d
If your Tuesday needed some sapphic sadness, this one's got you covered.

And of course, a ginormous thanks to the bold and weird Rat Bag for giving this bold and weird story a home 🐀🧀🐀
ratbaglit.bsky.social Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · Dec 15
Today's story is "Grief in Glass" Lyss Buchthal.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Congratulations @sarlynh.bsky.social! A well-deserved nomination.
sarlynh.bsky.social sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · Dec 15
The biggest of thank yous to Laura at Fictive Dream for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions. So grateful to be thought of! <3
fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Dec 15
It's a joy to be nominating Playing Pretend by Sarah Lynn Hurd for Best Small Fictions 2026 @sarlynh.bsky.social #microfiction #nomination. If you missed it the first, here's another chance. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/07/14/m...
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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My first Pushcart nomination! I am beyond grateful and honored. Thank you so much @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for loving my story as much as I did 💚
Screenshot of five story and author names that have been nominated by Paranoid Tree Press for the Pushcart prize. The fourth story says "The Culling of the Forest, in Three Parts" with the author name "Melissa Jornd." There is an arrow pointing to the story name to clarify which one is mine.
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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“I would normally read a book to kill this awful, slowly creeping time, but it feels disrespectful, like a declaration that my life is so easy and carefree that I can relax in the fantasy of fiction.”

Read the rest of Jaime’s powerful story here:
jaimegill.bsky.social Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · Dec 12
Long time since I released a big beast into the wild but here is The Future Is Me, told from NHS waiting rooms during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The siblings are my most Northumbrian characters though a Colombian walked in from nowhere and kidnapped the story.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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There are stories that come along from time to time that, once you've read them, have given you not only the pleasure of being entertained and affected, but cause you to feel you know the world more than before you read it. I think of "The Wife of His Youth" often. This wonderful story is another.
jaimegill.bsky.social Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · Dec 12
Long time since I released a big beast into the wild but here is The Future Is Me, told from NHS waiting rooms during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The siblings are my most Northumbrian characters though a Colombian walked in from nowhere and kidnapped the story.
waccamawjournal.com/fiction/the-...
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I am in a book.
December 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Thrilled to be a 3rd place winner of the CRAFT Literary First Chapters Contest! The opening pages of my speculative horror novel + craft essay are now live.
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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mizuki-yama.bsky.social
Thank you Dana and team for nominating my tiny little poems at @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize 🙏🏻🥰 Congratulations to all!
tinywrenlit.bsky.social tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Dec 7
Congratulations to our wrensters nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2026!
Pushcart Prize Noms “stable dreams” by Natalie Korman Issue 8 “Words as Homing Pigeons Fly” by Merril D. Smith Issue 8 “Archipelago” by Steph Cheng Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility “Things My Body Has Held” by Mizuki Yamagen Issue 9 “Things I Can’t Translate” by Mizuki Yamagen Issue 9 “White Rabbit” by Elena Zhang The Moon, My Heart
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"grow.spread.infect.change.devour.".. Katherine Garrison's trio of poems.
katherinegarrison.bsky.social KGarrison @katherinegarrison.bsky.social · Dec 9
Very excited to have this trio of poems out today! Thanks @horrificscribs.bsky.social!
horrificscribs.bsky.social Horrific Scribblings @horrificscribs.bsky.social · Dec 9
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @katherinegarrison.bsky.social joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with _Approaching Dangers: Three Monstrous Poems_, which includes "Trolls!," "Bloodlust," and "The Spread of Incurable Things." Revel in the imagery! horrificscribblings.com

#darkpoetry #monsters #trolls #vampires #spores
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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My acerbicly tongue-in-cheek "How to Go From Book Idea To Literary Agent In Under One Year" just dropped in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social !

Want to write a book? Want a literary agent? Are you willing to sacrifice your sanity?

Have I got the article for you.

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How to Go from Book Idea to Acquiring a Literary Agent in Less Than One Year – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW
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December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I cannot quite believe it but my very small story "Receipt" has been nominated for the 2026 Best Microfiction Anthology! 🥳

Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚

Congratulations to all the nominees!
doesithavepockets.bsky.social Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · Dec 5
Sending our hopes & adorations & happy dances alongside our five nominees for Best Microfiction's 2026 anthology!
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Congratulations @exeterstevens.bsky.social!
exeterstevens.bsky.social Exeter T. Stevens @exeterstevens.bsky.social · Dec 7
I am happy to announce that my Alternative History story won the 2025 Autumn Writing Battle competition.
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM