Two recent news stories (plus revisiting a couple of these characters in my new piece in @bigscorelit.bsky.social ) have me thinking about "Goliath" from @roanokereview.bsky.social 2022:
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“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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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
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/
Cut-paper design of barfing robot on purple background; text reads MAKE ART, NOT SLOP.
If you’ve been thinking about sending us anything created with genAI . . . don’t. But all human submissions are welcome!
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!
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
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.
💚💫 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
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/
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
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
We wouldn’t consider this work previously published because it hasn’t been shared publicly. Workshops are great! No downside here 😀
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...
Issue 128 has popped out of the earth like a grasping zombie limb or possibly a buttercup! Share it with your most discerning chums:
www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=8984
The answer is write more, unfortunately
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.
Happy Saturday!
Defenestration is once again open to short story and poetry submissions. We're reading for our August 2025 issue: bit.ly/105Enuu
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...
Better hustle. #FlashVillain early-bird period ends in about 12 hours. #writingcontest
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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!
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.
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/
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 🐖
Issue 20 Spotlight @emcwritesthings.bsky.social 🧡
"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
🚨⏰ CLOSING TODAY!!⏰🚨
The Blue Frog flash fiction prize closes tonight at 11:59pm PST.
Issue 127 has ventured out of the cave and is crawling with words—quake, gasp, and be amazed!
www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=8958
“Persona is just one among many materials: oil, marble, video, content, form, self. The real art is always below the surface.”
—Ross Simonini’s essay on the power of artistic persona
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