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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 27d

“I was a fearful child and can sometimes be a fearful adult, but I’m still fearless in my writing, so I know there’s that other person inside me.”

—Judy Blume, interviewed by Lena Dunham

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A Conversation with Judy Blume - Believer Magazine

My mother gave me all of her childhood books: the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, the copy of Daddy’s Little Girl that, legend has it, was marked with the tears my grandmother shed while reading this somew...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 27d

Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie

Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social

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Issue 35 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Jeff Harvey Stories Gooseberry Pie’s nominations for Best of the Net 2026: Check out Flash Fiction Institute a new flash fiction educational and community hub offering virtual classes, craft ...

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · 28d

If you’ve been thinking about sending us anything created with genAI . . . don’t. But all human submissions are welcome!

Cut-paper design of barfing robot on purple background; text reads MAKE ART, NOT SLOP.

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great response so far—we’d love to see more flash (fiction and non) and prose poems, but we’ll read whatever you’ve got ready!

Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are back from summer hiatus and open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, flash, poetry, and more. We are excited to read your words! www.roanokereview.org/submit

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · Sep 1

Happy first of the month! OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap. Learn more about what we're looking for, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 31

💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚

This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.

If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...

#SFF #Horror

Inner Worlds cover with acid green masthead and artwork showing a part of a Black person's face in dark blue with a glitchy texture, surrounded by flame like shapes like heatvision hotspots, with green and yellow edges and bright scarlet centres. The person's gaze is very intense, and seems hurt, wary, angry.

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Sep 1

We've had another month of superb #shortstories. Our thanks to @rbhardy3rd.bsky.social Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, Martha Keller, Beatriu Delaveda, J.D. Strunk, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @lkardos.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are back from summer hiatus and open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, flash, poetry, and more. We are excited to read your words! www.roanokereview.org/submit

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are back from summer hiatus and open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, flash, poetry, and more. We are excited to read your words! www.roanokereview.org/submit

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · Jun 11

We wouldn’t consider this work previously published because it hasn’t been shared publicly. Workshops are great! No downside here 😀

Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · Jun 11

➡️ Litmag editors, your thoughts? From time to time, I use my Substack for workshopping (paid subscribers only). The drafts posted are ONLY visible to that group. Would you consider those stories "previously published?" I'll be encouraging folks to delete their stories once the workshop concludes.

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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · May 1

WE ARE LIVE!!!!

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Blood+Honey

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · May 1

This year’s Young Writers Issue is live! Read the winning entries of the 2025 High School Fiction and Poetry Contest: www.roanokereview.org/2025-young-w...

2025 Young Writers Issue — Roanoke Review

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Jersey Devil Press @jerseydevilpress.bsky.social · May 1

Issue 128 has popped out of the earth like a grasping zombie limb or possibly a buttercup! Share it with your most discerning chums:

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Issue 128, April 2025

Mine 17, Randy Brooks”elevator shaft darkens / going down / a joker’s light” Hugs Hunny and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Alessandra Nysether-Santos”If I was a drag queen, …

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Apr 26

The answer is write more, unfortunately

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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · Apr 26

Happy Saturday!

A drawing of a crow in a dress stirring a pot.

Caption: I don’t need a recipe for disaster. I usually just eyeball it.

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Defenestration Magazine @defenestrationmag.bsky.social · Apr 20

Defenestration is once again open to short story and poetry submissions. We're reading for our August 2025 issue: bit.ly/105Enuu

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · Apr 20

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Roanoke Review @roanokereview.bsky.social · Apr 2

From "Something Wicked, This Way Goes" by Vaishnavi Pusapati. Check out the whole poem in the Roanoke Review website!

RR website: www.roanokereview.org/poetry2024/v...

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Mar 10

Better hustle. #FlashVillain early-bird period ends in about 12 hours. #writingcontest

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a green parakeet is standing on a glass table next to a pile of books .

ALT: a green parakeet is standing on a glass table next to a pile of books .

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Mar 10

We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · Mar 2

A lesser-known power of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' is where it comes in its collection.

Spoilers, but I suspect you know how 'The Lottery' ends. It's famous for a reason.

But this is important: Jackson arranged the collection it was named after, and she chose the arrangement. 1/

Battered vintage-looking book cover.

Text: 'Shirley Jackson. the most haunting writer of our time.
The Lottery
Adventures of the Daemon Lover'

The cover is deep black; in the right corner cluster a crumpled scrap of paper and a handful of stones.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Mar 2

It's Sunday night, so here is a Villanelle about Villanelle from Killing Eve.

It's called Villanelle Villanelle & it's featured in the latest @hogriverpress.bsky.social 🐖

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · Feb 4

Issue 20 Spotlight @emcwritesthings.bsky.social 🧡

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Feb 4

"Or the jealousy of hair. Shaking the last note out of the green guitar, expanding the muscles of the throat under a mirror of your ten-story window."

—Robin Arble

Two Poems by Robin Arble – beestung

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚨⏰ CLOSING TODAY!!⏰🚨

The Blue Frog flash fiction prize closes tonight at 11:59pm PST.

Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · Jan 1

🚨The Blue Frog is now open!

Theme: Voice
Guest Judge: Gina Chung
Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social

$5 entry fee // $700 in prizes!!

flash-frog.com/contest/

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