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Carsten ten Brink

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Wanderer without a country, writer in search of a phrase, visual artist hunting inspiration, geometer encircling polygons, photograph maker-taker. Uncontrolled dancer and struggling blues harmonica player. #writer #writingcommunity #fiction #non-fiction

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Submissions - The Massachusetts Review Submission Guidelines Submissions The Massachusetts Review 2025 – 2026 Submissions Period is now open.  If you have submitted to us online, please check that your spam filters do not block our email. You can add massrev@external.umass...

After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...

21.01.2026 16:48 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Nominations Best of the Net Pushcar t ​ Best Microfiction Prize The Best Small Fictions

Absolutely delighted that the excellent @heimatreview.bsky.social has nominated my piece 'The Day I Probably Murdered the Dollar' for a #Pushcart prize. Check out its website and, by the way, it's open for submissions until mid February. www.heimatreview.com/nominations....

20.12.2025 11:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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It costs just £2.50 to provide someone with clean water that will last for many decades. It costs just £95 to plant an orchard which will provide an income to five people as well as improving their farmland.

To make a donation that will go twice as far this Christmas visit www.jolibatrust.org.uk

15.12.2025 13:11 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Submissions close December 15th.

Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

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

buff.ly/3bpd8fr

#writingcommunity

08.12.2025 16:02 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Xingu wrestler in body paint and ceremonial garb in front of an Afukuri village oca house in Brazil's Mato Grosso

Xingu wrestler in body paint and ceremonial garb in front of an Afukuri village oca house in Brazil's Mato Grosso

I was delighted to win the Latin American Travel Photography #Prize (at a dedicated #LatAm event from the lovely people at Bradt Travel Guides). A week sleeping in a tent in the village of Afukuri (in Brazil's Mato Grosso) gave me the chance to observe the Xingu's daily lives and their rituals

12.11.2025 17:23 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We’ve had a record year for submissions this year and will be closing our Regular Reading Period early! Send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and longform works by November 15, 2025 at 12pm EST for the chance to be featured in a future issue of Ploughshares. https://pshares.org/submit

10.09.2025 15:58 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Hush, child, and Submit.

The Urge is open for subs til Sept 22!

engineidling.net

13.09.2025 15:02 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼

#writingcommunity

13.09.2025 15:08 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
The Manchester Review Logo

The Manchester Review Logo

Submission Open

15th September to 15th of October 2025

Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

16.09.2025 08:10 👍 39 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
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Our annual short story contest is open NOW through October 31st. Send us your best!

Find all guidelines here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown

06.08.2025 13:16 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
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HFR is open for submissions! ✏️📩🎨 Send us your poems, stories, flash, and creative nonfiction! hfr.submittable.com/submit

15.06.2025 16:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
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ANMLY Submission Manager **ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap40

16.06.2025 14:46 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Submit – LEON Literary Review

Let the countdown begin! 3 days left in our submission period! Send us your flash, fiction, poetry, and cnf!

And be safe out there, oh fearless makers of a more beautiful world. We love you all.

leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

12.06.2025 19:45 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! Lehane I know and he is top notch. Sallis rings a vague bell and McIlvanney is totally new to me

08.06.2025 19:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux books set in Louisiana. For me, he and John Connolly are the lyrical writers in the genre. Anyone think of someone like that to recommend for me?
I wish I could write like that!

05.06.2025 21:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Day I Probably Murdered The Dollar By Carsten ten Brink May 5, 2025

Delighted to have a piece of personal writing, "The Day I Probably Murdered the Dollar" in @heimatreview.bsky.social
Issue 9. This narrative weaves two visits to a small African country, that of an explorer relative, with my more recent visit on his trail. www.heimatreview.com/the-day-i-pr...

05.06.2025 14:53 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rest your voice and get well

02.06.2025 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I received feedback on a short story WIP today. Once again, insightful and actionable comments from a reader who took the time to engage with the text. Highly recommended if you're staring at a story and wondering how to crank it up a level

28.05.2025 08:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Submit – LEON Literary Review

Intrepid writers of poetry, fiction, flash, and cnf - send us your daring, dreamy, provocative, poignant, gorgeous work! Show us what could only have come from you!

We are open for submission until June 15th.
leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

23.05.2025 21:53 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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✨OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS✨

Send us your poems, stories, and nonfiction pieces by June 30. Contributors will receive publication in Mississippi Review 53.3, $50*, and two free copies!

15.05.2025 13:30 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Just saw that ANMLY made this list! And now we're open for new work!!

06.05.2025 21:08 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Delighted to have my short story 'Polished' in @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social Vol X "In the Company of Strangers" #amwriting static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08...

05.05.2025 21:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Submit – LEON Literary Review

We are open for submissions! Please send us your beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting, hilarious, unexpected, honestly awesome flash, fiction, and, and poetry!
We can’t wait to read what could only have come from you :)

leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

02.05.2025 15:12 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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The Spring Mare - Thin Skin I was five years old that spring. The clacks and scratches of twigs landing on and then sliding down the roof tiles woke me, as they did every day, and I listened as the pre-dawn winds flew their last...

Delighted to have 'The Spring Mare, a Cold War Fable' published by @thin-skin.bsky.social. In Japan, too young to know about the #PragueSpring, I listened to US Armed Forces radio as my only English language station. The #ColdWar was never far away. #amwriting
thin-skin.com/shortstory/t...

30.04.2025 10:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

btw we open for new work on may 1 💜

28.04.2025 23:37 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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We're open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstories and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

29.04.2025 10:04 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
blue background with yellow & gold highlighting. Text: Electric Lit Submissions Call: The Commuter & Personal Narrative. Open 4/21 - 4/27 or until cap is reached. Each capped at 750 submissions. More info on EL's Submittable page

blue background with yellow & gold highlighting. Text: Electric Lit Submissions Call: The Commuter & Personal Narrative. Open 4/21 - 4/27 or until cap is reached. Each capped at 750 submissions. More info on EL's Submittable page

Submissions for The Commuter and Personal Narrative open in one week! Get ready to send us your best. buff.ly/5jrE0YZ

15.04.2025 16:04 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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We're open to submissions of microfiction up to 400w so why not check us out #microfiction #translations #writingcommunity. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

01.04.2025 10:21 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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Submissions Open! #comelaydownINK

Send us your weird, obscure, hybrid, or work you're unsure what to do with. We want to take a look. We like different; give us something with a new take!

Submit here:
inkinthirds.org/submissions/

01.04.2025 13:02 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0