Congratulations to Jessica Barlevi (“Forest of Light,” spring 2025) and @triciaknoll.bsky.social (“The Only Explanation,” (winter 2025) for making the Long List!

Best Microfiction 2026 is here! We’re so proud to see work by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social and @mattleibel.bsky.social that originally appeared in -ette! Congratulations also to -ette contributors Kathleen McGookey and Devan Murphy!

yay, I just received my personalized "Best Microfiction 2026" banner! Love it. The anthology will publish July 7th so keep an eye out for it... Thanks to the Editors at Ette Review and the team at "Best Microfiction" including judge, the iconic Diane Seuss...

This comes out July 7. Cool to be included, insane lineup of good writers here. www.bestmicrofiction.com/books/2026.h...

Thanks @chillsubs for including us on their list of litmags that nominate for the Pushcart Prize and don’t charge sub fees!

Thank you, @smokelong.bsky.social for including us!!! We’ll be re-opening for subs in June for our fall suffragette- themed issue (and for an unthemed issue too!)

Congratulations to Lucy Zhang @dango-ramen.bsky.social, whose story from our Cassette issue, “Layered House,” is now available in print in Best Small Fictions 2025 @altcurrent.bsky.social

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Take a postcard and send it to us! If you’re at AWP, stop by @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social (table T603) We’ll post our favorites here! (All work will be considered for publication too!)

Take a postcard and send it to us! If you’re at AWP, stop by @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social (table T603) We’ll post our favorites here! (All work will be considered for publication too!)

Tonight at 6! Our AWP offsite!

Join us for our very first in-person reading! Featuring @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Laura Cronk Theodore Heil @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social Devan Murphy @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social

Memory unspools in Adam McOmber’s “Things That Are Ghosts” READ it in our Winter issue and LISTEN to it read by special guest Ed Herbstman in our companion podcast, pod-ette, where @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats with Adam about his writing process www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m...

“The closest I came to a time machine was at a library in downtown Pittsburgh, where the inside of every book smelled like rain.” “On Impossibility” A stunner by poet, writer & practicing physician @nataliemarino.bsky.social www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m... www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m...

"One must judge the lichen by the moss; one must judge the moss by the lichen" Charmers indeed! So much to ponder and unpick in these brilliantly original micros from @yukondawn.bsky.social

Two deep-rooted charmers on plant communication (yes, there are emails!) by @yukondawn.bsky.social : “Leaf Rust” and “Lichen on Moss.” Read them in our Winter issue www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m... Dawn won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize for her poetry collection, Northerny

Time stops, slips, and speeds on a snowy highway in “Speak of the Woman” by Marc Kaufman READ it in -ette Issue 7 & LISTEN in pod-ette Episode 7, where @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats with Marc about the decades-long journey he took with the work www.ettereview.com/winter2026/k...

When haves and have-nots collide…. We love all the leaps and pivots in this sharp, tiny gem, “Rubbing Elbows,” by Theodore Heil Theodore’s debut chapbook, Movements, is now available from Bottlecap Press! www.ettereview.com/winter2026/h...

New issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is breathtaking. ❤️

Two prose poems by @laurencamp.bsky.social pulsing with quiet electricity: “The Bowl” & “A Spell Addressed to a Friend” Lauren served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate and is a past Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. www.ettereview.com/winter2026/c...

So happy to be in the mix!

We've published over 50 amazing writers so far! You can now browse and search them in our brand new Writer Index ettereview.com/index/

New episode of pod-ette! Time Keeps on Slippin’ @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats w/ Adam McOmber & Marc Kaufman and reads from their work. Original music by Chester Jankowski open.spotify.com/episode/2hgi...

Issue 7 is now live! With new work by: Lauren Camp Theodore Heil Marc Kaufman @yukondawn.bsky.social @nataliemarino.bsky.social Adam McOmber www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

New issue and newsletter dropping soon! Join our mailing list here ⬇️ sendfox.com/ettereview

Our 5th and final 💞for today, about a nostalgic love for a place: “How to Buy a Snow Globe” by @mattleibel.bsky.social —and we just realized Liebel means “beloved” or “dear” in German— We ❤️our dear, beloved writers readers & pod-ette listeners! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/lei...

No. 4 💌: Love and memory. Two gorgeous prose poems by Kathleen McGookey “At the Far Edge” 🐦‍⬛ “Night Has Done Its Part” ✨ www.ettereview.com/fall2024/mcg...

No. 3 💘 is a tiny marvel from our Planchette issue “Telepathy” by @karenmcpherson.bsky.social www.ettereview.com/winter2025/m...

Valentines 💕 from our archives, part deux. This funny, achy love song of a story by @amygcb.bsky.social from our Cassette issue “Love Her Tender” www.ettereview.com/archive/wint...

For Valentines Day, sending you all love from our archives 💌 We’ll start with these two beauties from our very first issue by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social “If I Could Remake the World” “My Lover and I” www.ettereview.com/archive/fall... (1 of 5, stay tuned for more 💕….)

Join us for our very first in-person reading! Featuring @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Laura Cronk Theodore Heil @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social Devan Murphy @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social

Congratulations to @josehernandezdz.bsky.social and @mattleibel.bsky.social, whose stories have been selected by Dianne Seuss for Best Microfiction 2026! www.bestmicrofiction.com?fbclid=IwAR0...

Really excited to have my story, "How to Buy a Snowglobe", published in @ettereview.bsky.social, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026!

Grateful to @ettereview.bsky.social for the nomination for "Landlines"

Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees! Jessica Barlevi @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Devan Murphy Emma Raimondo Mathieu Cailler Laura Cronk @suzyeynon.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner

Artwork by -ette co-editor & illustrator @bybethhahn.bsky.social. We’re getting ready to send the originals out to our 2025 writers 💌

Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! Laura Cronk @suzyeynon.bsky.social @amyholman.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social Emma Raimondo Nora Esme Wagner

Subs close tomorrow, November 27!

Last call for 2025! One more week to submit!

For sub calls and other occasional -ette updates, join our list! Link here: sendfox.com/ettereview

What fun!! An actual roulette wheel to spin!! Your prize? Fantastic readings!! 😎

A lovely poetic piece by @suzyeynon.bsky.social: ettereview.com/fall2025/eyn...

Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️ Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words Deadline: November 27 No fee Click thru for full details ettereview.com/submit/

“When she tours a potential listing, she stands in front of the widest window and worries when an earthquake will hit.” Risk shakes up the beauty and stillness of the Hollywood Hills in “Death in Los Angeles,” a moody micro by Emma Raimondo Read it in our new issue! ettereview.com/fall2025/rai...

“I call my dead cat on the wind phone…” This beauty by @suzyeynon.bsky.social in @ettereview.bsky.social.❤️

"But different laws apply here: you’ll survive. This is your new life." A surreal and feel-good micro. Love this one! @mattleibel.bsky.social

The past shrinks to miniature and nostalgia swirls in @mattleibel.bsky.social’s hypnotic micro, “How to Buy a Snow Globe.” Read it in our Roulette issue! ettereview.com/fall2025/lei...

In writer/pediatric ER doctor @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social’s stunner of an epistolary story, “Dear Dolores,” a doctor and a hospital billing clerk spin their wheels over email. Read it in our Roulette issue! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/kow...

“I call my dead cat, whisper his name into the plastic receiver.” In @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s “Landlines,” a one-way conversation on a disconnected phone spins a constellation of uncanny connections. Read it in our Roulette issue! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/eyn...