Shuffled Playlist on Young Love (Not Spotify Premium because we’re too poor for that) - Exposition Review by Rayne Alarcio Poetry   Vibrato, legato, tremolo. Keyboard karaoke; Jukebox of Youth. Wish to be: Someone to You. You Make Me Smile, so Kiss Me beneath Vanilla Twilight. Shut Up and Dance beneath Gr...

…and find @raynealarcio.bsky.social’s #ExpoReview poem here: tinyurl.com/ExpoShuffled…

Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

Flash 405 submissions close tonight!! Send your “Oops”-themed short-form writing in any genre to Heather Vaughan now: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

#Flash405 #ExpoReview #writingcontest #writerslife #callforsubmissions

Exposition Review Co-Editor-in-Chief @lilrensing.bsky.social #ExpoRecommends A LETTER TO THE GIRL WHO LIVED HERE BEFORE ME by Satvik Soni.

Read the full recommendation & all of our “PARA/SOCIAL” Expo Recommends here:
Tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco

#ExpoReview #parasocial

Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor" Winners - Exposition Review In her call for submissions for our February 2025 Flash 405 contest, “Anchor”, judge Ashley Moon asked for stories about what “holds you down.” We received many incredible entries, but the winners of ...

First up, we have Ashley Moon’s February 2025 “Anchor” contest featuring flash fiction and experimental works from @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social, and Abigail Mills. Click to our stories to read: expositionreview.com/2025/05/flas...
#ExpoReview #Flash405

Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

We’re kicking off another year of #Flash405 with #ExpoReview ’s own Heather Vaughan! See’s selected the theme “Oops” for her writing contest, which is now open through March 5, 2026.

Read about rules & theme: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

#shortform #writingcontest #callforsubmissions

Read our Flash 405: “Normal” winners, with flash fiction, nonfiction, and experimental writing by Tara Dugan, JR Fenn, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, and Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25.

#ExpoReview #flashfiction

#ExpoReview Associate Fiction Editor Yuya Hattori #ExpoRecommends THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social) by @jamiljankochai.bsky.social. Check out his review and get your copy of the book here: tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco.

#readingrecommendation #books

Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction   In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say miracle. Her father drives her home and says all the things they will do to celebrate. He tucks her in… Continue reading Absolute Magnitude →

Get her book in our #ExpoContributor @bookshop.org, and read her #Flash405 flash fiction winner ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE while you wait for it to arrive: expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...

#scifi #ExpoRecommends #ExpoReview

Flash 405: 2025 Issue - Exposition Review Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners. To celebrate these award-winning works, we’ve collected them together in our Flas...

Time take time to reread our “Quitting”-themed flash fiction and flash nonfiction winners, now featured in our Flash 405: 2025 Issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25
@glossyruin.bsky.social
@refaelpaulo.bsky.social @scmart.bsky.social @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social #Flash405 #ExpoReview #ExpoContributor

Flash 405: 2025 Issue - Exposition Review Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners. To celebrate these award-winning works, we’ve collected them together in our Flas...

With our 2025 #Flash405 issue published, we’re looking back at all of last year’s contests, starting with Ashley Moon’s “Anchor” theme. Read flash fiction & flash experimental by @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social & @abigail-mills.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25.

#ExpoReview

We have some very exciting things in store for 2026, and we can’t wait to share them with you! Thanks for being a part of the #ExpoFam! Stay tuned!

#ExpoReview

…Her creative work has been published in F(r)iction, an imprint of Brink Literacy Project, and her research has been published in Cognitive Development, a peer-reviewed journal of psychology.

#fiction #litmag #read #ExpoContributor #ExpoReview

Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...

Exposition Review, Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” submissions for visual art and comics close on December 31. We’re a paying market and can’t wait to see your work! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!

#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #art #comics

Vol. X: "Spring" - Exposition Review Vol. X: “Spring” raises hope. For relief from grief. In the resilience of both nature and urban communities. With the sight of a Nike sneaker floating in on the Pacific tide. The stories and art and e...

We are proud to announce our nominees for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award! Congrats to @lawrencebridges.bsky.social, nicole fellah, and Karan Kapoor. Read their pieces in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring.

#ExpoReview #ExpoContributor #ExpoFam

“PARA/SOCIAL suggests closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact.” Send us your PARA/ SOCIAL-themed writing and creative pursuits in any genre by 12/15. We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag

Savoring - Exposition Review by Victoria Buitron Nonfiction   Dirty hominy. That’s what we call it. Mote sucio. Plump maize garnered with pork gravy. There was a kiosk in my hometown where motorcyclists, jaywalkers, the young and...

Continue the celebration with @victoriawrites.bsky.social’s #ExpoReview piece SAVORING about sense loss from COVID in our “Hunger” issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoSavoring.

Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" Winners - Exposition Review Our August Flash 405 contest invited us to consider flash stories on the theme of normal—but the response we received to this prompt was anything but! After an amazing year of Flash 405 contests, this...

Help us congratulate the newest writers of the #ExpoFam! Read experimental flash by Tara Dugan, flash fiction by JR Fenn and @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and flash nonfiction by Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley: tinyurl.com/Normal405.

#Flash405 #ExpoReview #ExpoContributor
#Normal

The Hungry - Exposition Review by Emily Altman Comic       Emily Altman is an illustrator from rural Missouri. She received her BFA in Illustration from the University of Central Missouri in 2012 and her MFA in Illustration with Di...

In last night’s “PARA/SOCIAL” reading meeting, Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski took us on a journey through horror within her genres. She shone a spotlight on #ExpoReview pieces THE HUNGRY by Emily Altman: bit.ly/ExpoHungry…

Less than 10 days left to submit to Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” and get guaranteed feedback from our editorial team! Submit in any genre here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!

#ExpoReview #CallforSubmissions

#ExpoContributor Spotlight on @ggsilverman.bsky.social’s cover reveal for THE BLOOD YEAR DAUGHTER, which contains her #ExpoReview piece! Take a sneak peek: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-i...!

Exposition Review - Exposition Review Independent journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, art, & experimental narratives | Annual Issue | Flash Contests | We pay writers!

Times are tough but Expo and this amazing #ExpoFam are a bright spot. We are so excited for another year of #ExpoReview and all the stories we will get to share. Check out what we’re doing: expositionreview.com, and join us as an #ExpoContributor here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
#ExpoReview @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring” Launch - Exposition Review As we head into autumn, we’re fondly looking back on the summer launch of our “Spring” issue! Exposition Review Vol. X raises hope. For relief from grief. In the resilience of both nature and urban co...

As we head into autumn, we’re fondly looking back on the summer launch of our “Spring” issue! After months of sowing seeds, nurturing sprouts & harvesting final pieces, we gathered at Village Well to celebrate “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10SpringLaunch.

#ExpoReview #literarycommunity #ExpoPresents

Call for Entries: Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" - Exposition Review Mark your calendars–Flash 405 will re-open for submissions on August 4! Our Flash 405 writing contest is a celebration of extraordinary short-form narratives, accepting work in multiple genres, from p...

Only 3 days left to submit your multi-genre flash writing to judge Kiana Shaley’s “Normal”-themed Flash 405 writing contest! Details: tinyurl.com/FlashNormal.

#Flash405 #ExpoReview #callforsubmissions

The Most Just - Exposition Review by Alanna McFall Stageplay   (Plain Text Version)       Alanna McFall is a novelist and playwright based in Oakland, California. Her paranormal road-trip novel, The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circ...

Find out who is the most just in Alanna McFall’s stageplay THE MOST JUST from Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoTheMost.

#ExpoReview #ExpoContributor

Exchange - Exposition Review by Mike Bove Poetry   Anger evaporates on the open table beside an empty glass. My mother is dead. At the end of August, heat recedes at last. We push windows open to let cool air pour in at night. Th...

This poem howls. Read @mikebove.bsky.social’s EXCHANGE from #ExpoReview: Vol. X: “Spring” here: tinyurl.com/ExpoExchange.

In the Morning, I Hear Singing … - Exposition Review by Lio Min Fiction   Yoona doesn’t scare easily. But when she spots Marisol sitting under the flickering halo of the block’s lone streetlamp, she gasps. Catches it at the last moment and coughs it out...

…And of course, check out BEATING HEART BABY and Lio’s #ExpoReview “Lines” piece IN THE MORNING I HEAR SINGING…: tinyurl.com/ExpoInThe.

Did you miss Lisa Novick reading from her nonfiction piece NESTING MATERIAL at our #ExpoPresents: “Spring” Launch Party & Reading at Village Well? We’ve got you covered. Explore an LA school garden as a metaphor for humanity and nature in #ExpoReview, Vol.: X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoNesting. 🌱🍃🪺

Is It Cake? - Exposition Review by Sally DeWind Flash Fiction   Have you seen it? It’s unbelievably dumb. One of those baking-competition-reality-game-show kind of things. Contestants must bake cakes that look convincingly like othe...

Is it cake? Find out in Sally DeWind’s flash fiction piece IS IT CAKE? from #ExpoReview. Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoCake!

I’m beyond grateful for 10 years of @expositionreview.bsky.social! It’s bliss to see what this team does year after year. It’s a dark time, but this is a joy I give into over & over. Please, enjoy the labor of our love with #ExpoReview: Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! 🌱 #ExpoFam