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I’m writing a short story collection about Canadian soldiers in the Afghanistan War. @TheNewQuarterly.bsky.social published one of those stories yesterday! I’ve been a fan of TNQ for a while, so I’m thrilled to see my words in its pages. #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub #LitMag #AmWriting #BookSky

Excerpt from Brittany Amos' short story "The Love Language of Roaches" published in Issue 178 of The New Quarterly.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Brittany Amos' "The Love Language of Roaches" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-lo...

#readersofbluesky #fiction #amreading

Re-opening: Ivo Review Ivo Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/ivo-review-39094 #amwriting

Ivo Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com #amwriting

“Favor” “My death is in the second drawer.”

“My death is in the second drawer.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

ICYMI today we're featuring Honeysuckle by Sophie Isham #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy

April 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

Start your week with our most recent release: “Ten and Out” by Myna Chang!
And if you’re looking for inspo for our current call for noir stories, this is a great example of what we love.
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
@mynachang.bsky.social
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Honoured to contribute a story to this issue alongside a group of outstanding writers and poets.

“The Call of the Void” is part of a collection in progress about Canadian soldiers in the Afghanistan War. The linked stories explore themes of combat, relationships, grief, and military culture.

Amid Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula Your country's memory is short. But know this:     We can still hear the planes, their death-knell hum—

Today's Feature:

Our Readers on Poems from Poetry Daily including "Amid Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula" by Franny Choi published by @parisreview.bsky.social

Read here:
poems.com/poem/amid-ri...

We are seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.

Send us work that uniquely explores April’s theme of blossoming.

Details:

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#writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting

"The poem said the imperfect is so hot in us, / and I replied yes—I’m devout and flammable"

Read Traci Brimhall's poem, "Two Truths and a Lie," in the Spring 2026 issue of Ploughshares: https://pshares.org/issue-article/two-truths-and-a-lie/

In all fairness, Toyota has a strong connection to the arts — didn’t Brendan Kennelly himself advertise their cars? And the fact he didn’t actually drive didn’t matter a hoot.

“...whose longest professional experience was working as a marketing and events manager at a Toyota dealership in Ireland…”

Casey Jones and the Cleveland Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo By Brian White

Today's story is "Casey Jones and the Cleveland Half-step Uptown Toodeloo" by Brian White.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros #stonerstories

Art by Rosaire Appel. Intersecting freewritten lines mixed with pieces of text collage over paper bag texture.

petrichor 30, our 10th Anniversary issue, is here! feat. CAConrad, Rosaire Appel, Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Sy Hoahwah, Orchid Tierney and many more!
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NER & the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference are thrilled to announce the selection of Abigail Dembo as the recipient of the 12th annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. Abigail's poems “The Night and its Boat,” “Later,” & “The Handcart” appeared in NER 46.3-4.

Congratulations to Abigail!

Announcement that The New Quarterly's Spring 2026 issue "The Slowdown" is now live at tnq.ca

Our spring issue is now live on our website and available for purchase! 🎉

Issue 178: The Slowdown features new Dispatches essays and shortlisted essays from our 2025 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.

Grab your copy today: shorturl.at/PhJ5K

#newreleases #litmags #amreading

The cover for this week’s issue is “West Fourth,” by Christoph Niemann. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/050khd

Submissions open April 1st. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Before submitting, please review our submissions guidelines at the link below:

buff.ly/KNI6u75

#writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting

Women by Erika Schmidt

Women has a Film Noir feeling to it. Cinema and literature have a big influence in what I do. Creating images that can have a story or narrative is something that I quite enjoy.

Read our interview with Erika on MoonLitGetaway.com/blog
#Photography #Artwork #Art #VisualArt

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

—J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Books #BookSky

"I went to an old people's home. I asked an old lady with a Zimmer frame. "Do you know who I am?" She replied, "Ask the Matron, she'll tell you."

Frank Carson

Read "The Ghost of Chuck Wong" by Bart Edelman on: MoonLitGetaway.com/new-poetry/the-ghost-of-chuck-wong

#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #LitMag #5amWritersClub

Three Micros — The Argyle Literary Magazine Micro-Fiction by Mikki Aronoff “The man with no eyes and ears who tunes pianos tap-tap-taps at our door at the creaky-crack of dawn and plunks his satchel of tools down next to the spinet.”

Micro-fiction "The Prodigy Maker" by Mikki Aronoff

“The man with no eyes and ears who tunes pianos tap-tap-taps at our door at the creaky-crack of dawn and plunks his satchel of tools down next to the spinet.”

www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-06-buc...

In our feature story 'Sick', Caleb Eldridge shows what happens when we nurture a dark seed within.


🧛‍♂️ Sean Sims continues his tale of the rogue vampire

🔫 Stuart Bush-Harris deals with a mother who is there but also not

📰 B.G. Smith avoids a deadly fate, at what cost

Beruit: A Literary City A Look Back At The City's Amazingly Rich History. By James Hartley.

A look at the long, illustrious literary history of a city by the sea
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##beruit #lebanon #history

#writingprompt #writing #inspiration

Lemon Tea and Lost Biscuits – Free Flash Fiction Ramesh still lived in his family’s old house in Gangarampur of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal, where the bamboo groves bent low in every season, and neighbours remembered everyone’s childhoo...

Lemon Tea and Lost Biscuits
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Dr Goutam Bhattacharyya

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction

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We almost forgot April is Trash Cat Lit's 2nd birthday! Two years since we were birthed from a bin desperate for treasures. It's been a cracking ride so far, thank you to everyone who submits and supports this wee mag.
We will be mostly eating snacksies today 🦝
Stay Trashy 💜

"And I ask you to repeat that verb, sucking, and you do while making eye contact..." Honeysuckle by Sophie Isham #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/04/20/m...