Issue 52 • Winter 2025 • Cleaver Magazine Fresh-Cut Lit & More ISSUE NO. 52 WINTER 2026 Want weekly writing tips, author interviews, and book reviews, plus four free quarterly issues sent directly to your inbox? Subscribe to Cleaver! It’s fre...

Happy to wrap up 2025 with micros in Cleaver Issue 52! www.cleavermagazine.com/issue-52-win...

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twenty-five — Tiny Molecules

A tiny work in Tiny Molecules. Thanks! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Thanks, Matt!

TELEPHONE Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. Is this cool or what? telephonegame.art And here I am in this vast web: telephonegame.art/artists/barb...

I'll be at hanging out at the Baltimore Review table at the Baltimore Book Festival most of this weekend, Sept. 13 and 14. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. Festival details: baltimorebookfest.com

Young Writers Guide to Publications Connect with publications for young writers. Discover contests and magazines that celebrate creativity in youth writers.

Might be a helpful resource: www.newpages.com/young-writer...

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Many thanks to Fictive Dream for publishing this dark little story.

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As promised, here’s a roadmap for NFFD (Saturday 14 June). Read with us, write with us or join us in person in Bath! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

Issue 32 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Christopher Jeffrey on Unsplash The first seven stories in Issue 32 were shortlisted for Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd annual writing competition. Old Girls and Palm Trees by Meg Pokrass is an illustr...

Happy to have some micro/flash works published in June. One today in Gooseberry Pie gooseberry-pie.com/issue-32/, one in Bright Flash on June 7, brightflash1000.com/2025/06/07/p..., and I'll be in the Flash Flood line-up on June 14. Great to be included with so many cool flash writers!

Barbara Westwood Diehl ~ Four Pieces After Math Were we ever the algebraic equation we thought we were. Symmetric at each step. A marriage of tuxedo, satin dress. Matched as brackets. As parentheses of veil, lapels, clasped hands. A m…

A big thanks to New World Writing Quarterly for publishing these four short works! An honor to be included with so many fine writers. @newworldwriting.bsky.social newworldwriting.net/barbara-west...

On Fostering Empathy Through Literary Arts with Barbara Diehl, EIC of The Baltimore Review "Take pleasure in writing. If it feels too much like work, find ways to make it playful."

A throwback chat Chill Subs published on March 11: subclub.substack.com/p/on-fosteri...

Presented a session on "Concision and Precision in Flash Fiction" at the ESWA Bay to Ocean Writers Conference on March 8. Huge thanks to @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social and the other fine people at the Eastern Shore Writers Association for inviting me!

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Volume 14, Issue 2 COVER ART BY NUALA MCEVOY   FICTION VILLAGE GREEN BY DAVID YOURDON THE BEAUTIFUL THING BY EMILY RINKEMA FERMENT BY L. SOVIERO THE SURVIVAL OF SEA GLASS BY SARAH PERRIN   NONFICTION THE BE…

Thanks to Pithead Chapel for publishing one of my short "women with wings" pieces today.

Thanks for reading!

Or So She Thinks — Ghost Parachute Unlike so much of her life now, the woman can grasp what’s happening when she listens to an audiobook. And she knows that, even if the ending isn’t the one she hopes for, it will make perfect sense. S...

Read "Or So She Thinks" written by @bdiehl.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.

"Whatever she is saying is clashing with the narrative. The assassin in the story needs silence while he prepares for this one last hit of his career."

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Thanks or including me!

FBOMB Global Flash Reading - December 6, 2024 YouTube video by Francine Witte

Enjoyed being in the company of fellow flash writers yesterday! The www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgkw...

Everything Everywhere All In One Place I’ve been writing these craft articles for quite a while now.

My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful!

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Haven’t stopped by here for a while. Since X has turned into such a train wreck, I’ll try posting more Baltimore Review updates here and see how it goes.

The Best Small Fictions Information and submission guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual anthology.

Super thrilled to have my work in Best Small Fictions among so many amazing writers. And a big thanks to @bdiehl.bsky.social at Baltimore Review for giving my story a home.

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Our spring issue is live! Hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue. And all submission categories are open until May 31. baltimorereview.org

Happy to have Kathy Flann as the final judge for Baltimore Review's summer contests (flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, prose poem)! www.kathyflann.com/bio

Our winter 2024 issue is live! Thanks to all these fine writers and everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org

Thanks to Poetry South for publishing my "bird app" poem. Fun to have apps for identifying birds and plants and constellations and other parts of the universe.

Congratulations to Baltimore Review fiction editor Lynn Stansbury, one of ten writers selected for the Poets & Writers 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors! And congratulations to all the writers in this cohort! Wishing them a wonderful experience.

The Baltimore Review's fall issue is live. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! baltimorereview.org

Downloaded The Best American Essays 2023 to my Kindle and spotted a Baltimore Review contributor in the list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022. Congratulations to Lucinda Cummings! baltimorereview.org/winter_2022/...