We're all aflutter! Our new issue has landed—featuring #microfiction and #poetry by: 
 @adelegallogly.bsky.social @loricramerwriter.bsky.social @feistybluegecko.bsky.social @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social @stevenlempriere.bsky.social & many more!🦉❣️ www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe... #quickreads

This week, Jacelyn Yap takes in Japan's waterways, and Marshall Moore lands at the world's gateway to Japan. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

Absolutely delighted to have a story in The Bare Bones Book of Humour. Goodness knows there's proper need for a book of laughs. Many thanks to @ankitrajojha.bsky.social for selecting my king and his conundrum tale...Roll on 2026! @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

Honored to be on the contributor list for the inaugural @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Poetry Special!

Looking forward to being a part of the inaugural Poetry Special for the Hooghly Review edited by the inimitable Sanjeev Sethi. I recommend The Hooghly Review for writers to submit to for their highly respectful submissions process. 🙏🏻 #PoetrySpecial #TheHooghlyReview @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

Delighted to be amongst some wonderful poetry friends in this beautiful and exciting issue from @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

We present to you the list of contributors for FICTILE FEELINGS, our inaugural Poetry Special, edited by Sanjeev Sethi. This stunner drops on October 3. Stay tuned! ✨

𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, our poetry special guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi, releases on October 3, 2025. Here's the front cover with a photograph by Jacelyn Yap.

Due to an overwhelming response, we have moved up the deadline. Please send your poems for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi by August 24. We look forward to your best poems. 📖

A teeny-tiny Substack newsletter should have landed in your inboxes. thehooghlyreview.substack.com/p/guest-edit...

Weekly Features submissions are closed until further announcement. Please keep an eye on our website, newsletter, and social media for updates on when we reopen. Submissions for our ASAP Corner (reviews only) remain open. thehooghlyreview.com/announcement...

So glad to have this support @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social. I am (obviously) biased but this book is special with @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie and Ed @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social

Our founding editor, Tejaswinee, with THR contributor @ronita.bsky.social, one of the writers featured in Grieving Hope, ed. @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. It was our pleasure writing a blurb for this beautiful collection. Get your copy from the ELJ Editons website: elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/

We are pleased to announce the submission call for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi. Guidelines are in the attached poster and on our website. thehooghlyreview.com/call-for-sub... We look forward to your best poems. 📖 #WritingCommunity #poetry

The character sketch we provided is only to help you understand Atlas A. So you have a baseline for character development. It's not intended to restrict plot. You can absolutely do anything you want with Atlas. We look forward to your stories! thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...

Thank you @authorspublish.com for hosting our submission call! Complete guidelines: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...

Except for regular and special issue release weeks, this week could be our busiest yet with a book review, a film review, a web series review, and four weekly features (two forthcoming this Sunday) published within eight days. Do visit our website. thehooghlyreview.com

We're grateful to Commonwealth Foundation Creatives and Authors Publish for hosting our submission call for “The Many Lives of Atlas A.” If you have been looking for an opportunity to flex your creative muscles, this is the opportunity for you! Details: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...

Our July newsletter is LIVE. Song title prompts, sub calls including ours and @claudineliterary.bsky.social @bulbculture.bsky.social & @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Quick Reads from @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social & @bobbycrace.bsky.social 🧵1/2 trashcatlit.com/2025/07/23/h...

The Beehive is ready. If you're a litmag / anthology editor with a submission call you'd like writers to know about, feel free to email us before we send out our upcoming newsletter this weekend!

And thanks again to @melostrom.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social, @tejaswineerc.bsky.social, @ankitrajojha.bsky.social @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social and other writers for their beautiful blurbs for the Grieving Hope anthology @emergejournal.bsky.social

We had a great time recording our Bookbot Theory episode, which is now on YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music. Do watch or listen to our conversation with the wonderful host Namrata. YouTube: youtu.be/mH6EpuUYO6U Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6VM7... Amazon Music: shorturl.at/RVGba

Building our writing community with @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

We're building THE BEEHIVE, a free and quick database, easily accessible to creatives looking for places to submit their work. If you are an editor/publisher, send us your submission calls; we’ll host/share them on our website, socials and newsletter. thehooghlyreview.com/the-beehive/

Writers, storytellers, what Atlas do you have for us? Tragedy-struck Atlas? Adventurous Atlas? Romeo Atlas? Morally grey Atlas? Crime Lord Atlas? A-combination-and-more Atlas? Your editors are curious. Send in your stories by August 15. thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...

We love what we do. And we'd love it all the more if you read what we do. thehooghlyreview.com/issues/

We were on the Bookbot podcast last week with Namrata, the charming host and Kitaab editor. Stay tuned for the episode.

On today's Weekly Features: Amita Basu braves the workplace, and James Sennott and Alba Blanco set the stage on fire. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu... Our publishing concerns, current calls and submission guidelines can be accessed here: thehooghlyreview.com/submissions/

We were invited on a podcast and we had great fun discussing with our lovely host the nuts and bolts of indie publishing as we see it. Video out soon.

Submissions are open for our forthcoming short story anthology, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑨.📝 Send us your 800–3500 word stories featuring Atlas A, whose backstory and character sketch are on our website. Guidelines 👇 thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...

Submissions are open for our forthcoming short story anthology, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑨.📝 Send us your 800–3500 word stories featuring Atlas A, whose backstory and character sketch are on our website. Guidelines 👇 thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...

On today's Weekly Features: Saraswati Nagpal struggles to appease Saraswati with Annapurna at her back, and Maureen Tai resolves to fix time, one Duracell at a time. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

Thank you to the @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social editors for giving my story such a wonderful home! I recommend checking out their sub calls and weekly edition requests! Nina recommended, Dante approved! 😊🙏

"I’d come to terms with being single at thirty. It wasn’t the shame it used to be" Wonderful slice of humour from @ninamiller.bsky.social in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/thehoog...

We're stoked to find 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝑺𝒐 𝑫𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 by @ninamiller.bsky.social on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist! You can read Nina’s story here: thehooghlyreview.com/the-not-so-d...

Congratulations to the top 50 and those Longlisted as well! Honored to be longlisted for my humour piece from @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social that was born from a @twistinthetale.bsky.social contest prompt. Funny tale FTW! Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social @laughingyeti.bsky.social and the reading team!

At times like this it’s so important. And I love @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for providing such a great platform for that 🧡🧡🧡

Hope you remember!

We have a new logo. 🖤

Submissions are open! Send your stories to 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒓 (ed. Ankit Raj Ojha), 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 (ed. Tejaswinee Roychowdhury), or both! Guidelines: barebonespublishing.in/submissions/

I am so pleased to announce that my culture essay, "How To Go From Idea To Acquiring A Literary Agent In Less Than One Year" will be featured in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social this winter. I love working with this wonderful magazine, and I hope you all enjoy this self-depreciating essay.

My short story ‘Mister Bubbles’ is in the @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social this week as part of their weekly humour feature. You can read it on their fantastic website below. And thank you to @ankitrajojha.bsky.social for helping me put it together! thehooghlyreview.com/mister-bubbl...

On today's Weekly Features: Candice M. Kelsey muses on kith and kin, and Mark Daniel Taylor comes unstuck in time. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu... Our publishing concerns, current calls and submission guidelines can be accessed here: thehooghlyreview.com/submissions/

Hope y'all are working on this! We're eager to gather around the bonfire and hear about the many lives of Atlas A! #WritingCommunity #submissioncall #Fiction #ShortStories

Our editor, Ankit Raj Ojha, is curating The Bare Bones Book of Humour, a print anthology of humorous short fiction & CNF, with Bare Bones Publishing. 500-2000 words Subs open June 15 to August 15 Guidelines: barebonespublishing.in/2025/05/29/c... Send him your best humour writing!

Absolutely delighted to feature in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social with my humorous tale about a silly King with a bad golf swing who sends his three sons on a quest to save his castle--and is presented with a solution no one expected! Enjoy a quick fun read perfect for the extended weekend (Hurray!).

"Microsonnet for the municipality sweepers," an ekphrastic piece after Antara Mukherjee's photo of this mural in Mussoorie, India; published in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social's "Murals" special issue late last year thehooghlyreview.com/issues/murals/

I have a short story up in The Hooghly Review today, so, if you have a couple of spare minutes, click in and give it a read. Thanks to @ankitrajojha.bsky.social‬ and the @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social‬ crew! thehooghlyreview.com/franks-hair-...

On today's Weekly Features: Anthony Kane Evans sells a silky smooth story, and Sherry Morris embarks on a quest for our times. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu... @uksherka.bsky.social @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social

Started writing yet? 📢 We're seeking vivid, eclectic stories for 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑨, our themed anthology. Stories should feature Atlas A as main/supporting character; Atlas' backstory is in the guidelines.