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04.03.2026 21:59
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join EastOver Press, Porphyry Press, and TrioHouse Press for an off-site event, Friday, March 6, 7-9pm. Free food, cash bar! More details below:
This is awesome
very happy to share our booth w you, Jonathan, and @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!
short story review of "Cabin 28" by @marythor.bsky.social published in BULL. A dark, eerie story set, appropriately, at a cabin in the woods.
check out the review here: read-short-stories.com
(also, check out some of the other reviews from earlier this month)... #readshortstories
happy birthday! what a beauty of a pie!
yes, it is something!
a new review up today. This one comes from @caelyncobb.bsky.social "Time Management" published in Short Story, Long. It's a fascinating tale that examines corporate life, ambition, coffee, cubicles, and notions of time.
review here: read-short-stories.com
congrats to @yasminadinmadden.bsky.social whose debut collection "You Know Nothing" is now available!
here's a "highway romance" for your Valentine's day. also, the first time I've ever had a story published on New Year's day. thank you, again, @doricliterary.bsky.social for giving this one a home.
flash fiction Friday review of "Sometimes Grief is a Moonrise" by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. The piece is a heartache of complicated emotional processing. Read my brief review here:
read-short-stories.com
Extremely honored to be lonlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize!
Read Sophie Newman’s interview with “Tacoma” author Aaron Burch. They talk about the last 20 years of the literary scene, writerly obsession, autofiction, and more.
buff.ly/wOBxFyz
new issue of Cutleaf, featuring poems by Richie Hoffman, an essay by Matthew Sidney Parsons, and a short story by Kate Finlinson.
Read them here: cutleafjournal.com
for anyone not watching football, here's a review of Bob Johnson's latest short story, "The Train to Union Station," published in the new lit journal @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
The review along with a link to Bob's story:
read-short-stories.com
old joy -- damn fine story
Please help me get the word out about our lovely lit journal!
www.south85journal.com/submissions/
wonderful news -- congrats!
congrats, Terry, that's great news! Thinking of you and all my Twin Cities friends/family on a daily basis. Writing/calling/donating.
This book is now out in the world and I’m jazzed to have a story in it.
eastoverpress.com/book/an-anth...
new issue of Cutleaf, featuring an essay by Jim Huff, poems by Judy Kaber, and a new short story by @georgesingleton.bsky.social
cutleafjournal.com
Two Doric columns frame a blue field with the following text written in white: Doric Literary We both admitted that we wanted to be something more than we were: people who could make things happen for ourselves, others, the community. To matter. But it was so overwhelming to think about and to know where to begin. "Des Moines" by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
Here's a brilliant story we published on New Year's Day.
If you were indisposed at that time, now's your chance to read this wonderful work about a road trip romance with music, dance, ashes, and a family reunion.
Link in bio. #DesMoines @keithlesmeister.bsky.social
a brief review of Pardeep Toor's tense and uneasy story "Dinner Party" published in @greatriverreview.com. Also, Toor's debut story collection is coming out this April. Review here:
read-short-stories.com
it was a pleasure to interview @tayyba.bsky.social about her debut story collection "Talking with Boys" -- a beautiful collection published last week with @blacklawrence.bsky.social.
new issue of Cutleaf, which features an essay by Chrissie Anderson Peters, poems by Clayton Adam Clark, and a short story by Daniel Abiva Hunt.
cutleafjournal.com
“I was an innertube on the Lazy River of life, allowing it to spin me around, slow me down, bump me against the edges, and then dump me into whatever cesspool of piss water awaited.”
Incredible piece of fiction here. I already feel the ache of missing the characters. Read this.
thank you for saying so -- I appreciate it!
Really thrilled to see, The Shape of Things, will be included in the Best Microfiction of 2026 as chosen by Diane Seuss!
Special thanks to the Heavy Feather Review for publishing it and to my 804 retreat friends who I wrote this for after a prompt :).
excellent opportunity in Minneapolis.
