What we’re reading at FICTION! Staff & volunteers share what books got them though March. 📚
What are you all reading at the moment?
#fiction #fictionmag #springreading #readingnow #books #reading #literature #bookgram #fictionmageditors
While waiting to learn who the next winners of the #Pushcart Prize are, now's a great time to familiarize yourself with their 2025 edition! It features "Day Care" by #MaryGordon & gives a special mention to #GregorySpatz for "Brake." Both stories were originally published in FICTION No. 66!
In honor of Alice Hoffman's birthday you can buy the two back issues of FICTION from 1974 & 1976 containing stories by her, Grace Paley, Mario Vargas Llosa, & other amazing writers. Sale ends April 30th.
👉 Visit www.fictioninc.com/back-issues/... to buy.
#AliceHoffman #BookSale #LiteraryMagazine
Really digging @epiphanylit.bsky.social's latest issue & was pleasantly surprised to see a story by @jweirdo.bsky.social, one of our Managing Editor's professors from #QueensCollege! It's a beautifully written glimpse into the personal impact of the AIDs epidemic. Pics taken on #7train. #Groovy
It was such a pleasure talking with everybody at #AWP2026 about our host college’s MFA in Creative Writing. We are thankful for their support. Applications are OPEN until March 15th!
To learn more and apply 👉 citycollegemfa.commons.gc.cuny.edu
⭐ Flyer designed by our PCP intern, Nazaughn James.
We want to celebrate the fellow magazines that got us through the dirty snow piles of blizzards and endless cups of tea: @grantamag.bsky.social, @kenyonreview.bsky.social, @willowspringsmag.bsky.social, and @agnimagazine.bsky.social
#printpubpals #literaryjournal #reading
One of our editors got to read FICTION while overlooking a majestic Sicilian hillside, but you don’t have to go all the way to Europe to enjoy our latest issue. Visit www.fictioninc.com/issues/no66 to order a copy today! No. 66 features stories by #JoyceCarolOates #MaryGordon, & many others.
Do you love Fiction? Come visit us at #AWP and explore 50 years of excellence. Pick up an old issue and you might find an early story by #JoyceCarolOates, #DavidFosterWallace or #AliceHoffman. We also have bespoke merch: stickers, magnets, totes, shirts, mugs. See you in Baltimore!
#awp2026
'By using words well, writers strengthen their souls...
And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.’
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free General Short Stories feat. @willowswept.com @theforge.bsky.social @genrepunkmag.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com
City College will be holding a memorial service for our founder and editor-in-chief, Mark J. Mirsky on Thursday, February 26, at 5:30 p.m. Students & former students are especially welcome. #Markmirsky #ccny
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social and #MarkMirsky sat down at #CCNY in November 2024 to discuss #writing, #publishing, #DonaldBarthelme, and more.
🎥 To watch the full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5am...
heartbreaking to learn of the death of Mark Mirsky, longtime editor of Fiction Magazine, much-beloved professor at City College, friend to many writers & poets. a genuinely kind man, a true mensch, witty & erudite in conversation as well as in his remarkable prose. we will miss Mark terribly....
Happy Halloween from FICTION magazine! 🦇🎃👻
#fiction #fictionmagazine #fictionmag #print #printpublication #publishing #shortfiction #literaryjournal #literarymagazine #halloween
Support independent publishing by picking up our new Spooky FICTION Tote. Perfect for #Halloween or just carrying the latest issues of your favorite #litmags, this 13.4" x 13.4" cotton tote features collage art from past issues of FICTION.
Where to buy 👉 fictioninc.com/merch/totes
#bookmerch #tote
Find Nobel laureates in the pages of FICTION. 📚
#literarymagazines #literature #nobelprize #read #littlemagazines #magazine #samuelbeckett #thomasmann #isaacbashevissinger #peterhandke #jonfosse
#Vol5No1 of FICTION includes works by #FelisbertoHernandez, #CarlosMartinezMoreno, #MarioBenedetti, #JuanCarlosOnetti, as well as well as a piece #AdolfoBioyCasares and #JorgesLuisBorges that they published under the pen name, H. Bustos Domecq.
#BannedBooksWeek #BannedBooks #Borges #litmag
In the 70s, the Uruguayan gov. banned Marcha & jailed its editors & members of a literary jury who awarded 1st prize to a story deemed "obscene and subversive" by the new regime. In solitary, FICTION published five of their stories in translation in 1976.
More: www.fictioninc.com/back-issues/...
Here at FICTION we read banned books!
#BannedBooksWeek #ReadBannedBooks #FreedomToRead #LetFreedomReadDay #FreeTheBooks #JoyceCarolOates #FranzKafka #kafka #ChimamaNdangoziAdichie #Literature #Fiction
We're now open to read your manuscripts through October 31st. If you can't submit by the end of the month, not to worry; we'll be open again Jan. 1 - Jan. 31.
For full submission guidelines visit fictioninc.com/submit
#callforsubmissions #opencallforsubmissions #submissions #litmag #shortstories
