Some excellent contributor news! Congrats to @roykesey.bsky.social

We’re looking for our next Assistant Director of Business & Development! Please note that this is a hybrid position requiring two in-person days per week in our Boston office. Find out more about the role and apply to join the Ploughshares team today: https://pshr.us/businessdirector

Wow look at this email I just received from the New Yorker

This week's story is "Walk It Forward" by @kimchinquee.bsky.social‬ necessaryfiction.com/stories/walk...

This week's story is "Walk It Forward" by @kimchinquee.bsky.social‬ necessaryfiction.com/stories/walk...

For anybody who wants to know about the shape of the story, or how I am really always trying to write the opening scene of Boogie Nights

New from contributor @badaude.bsky.social!

THE SUMMER HOUSE by Masashi Matsuie, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (Other Press). Reviewed by Mia Carroll. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

THE SUMMER HOUSE by Masashi Matsuie, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (Other Press). Reviewed by Mia Carroll. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Terrific writers in a great place, what's not to love?

This week's featured story is "The Highway Nanny" by @lizamonroy.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

This week's featured story is "The Highway Nanny" by @lizamonroy.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Some sad news about an important contributor to and booster of early online indie literary culture and small press publishing.

"An ode to language and memory, Child of Light is ... nominally about the arrival, in the nineteenth century, of widespread electrification in the United States but is also, and more deeply, about the competing claims of science and spirituality as ways of understanding reality."

CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender (@whiskeytit.com). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/chil...

If you're proficient in social media and possess a love for literary writing, get involved by volunteering for Pithead Chapel! Find application details at pitheadchapel.com/social-media-editor

CHILD OF LIGHT by Jesi Bender (@whiskeytit.com). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/chil...

Always love this stage of publication, when your book starts looking like a book! Coming in April 2026 from @masonjarpress.bsky.social!

Really excellent article by @chadwpost.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social on reviewing literature in translation -- which it's worth doing even if, like me, you're a monolingual born on a rock in the middle of the ocean. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Just sent our Saturday newsletter, a bit later than usual, and if you're wondering why it's because a dog fell asleep on me and you don't mess with that.

This week's featured story is "Skin Rips" by @tamj.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/skin...

So excited to share that Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM has been nominated for the National Book Award in Nonfiction! The books pubs September 30, but you can order your copy now through our distributor @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Link to follow . . .

So incredibly pleased that the lovely folk at @necessaryfiction.com gave a home to my story 'skin rips'. If you like small weird stories then it might be up your street! 🖤

This week's featured story is "Skin Rips" by @tamj.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/skin...

📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚 Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥

.@miriamgershow.bsky.social discusses her novel CLOSER (@regalhouse.bsky.social) with @laurahulthenthomas.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/interviews/p...

Today my debut novel THE BELLES is out in the world. What a wild journey it’s been so far. Left: my 4th grade author bio, where I hope to “papluse” a book one day. Right: Me and my published book.

AUDITION by Pip Adam (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Reviewed by Davis MacMillan (@thedavis.bsky.social).

Congratulations to our fiction editor @bookbent.bsky.social!

.@miriamgershow.bsky.social discusses her novel CLOSER (@regalhouse.bsky.social) with @laurahulthenthomas.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/interviews/p...

AUDITION by Pip Adam (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Reviewed by Davis MacMillan (@thedavis.bsky.social).

AUDITION by Pip Adam (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Reviewed by Davis MacMillan. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/audi...

A really happy outcome of writing a book about the conglomeration of publishing and the response of nonprofit and independent publishing would be if it helped even a just little bit to get any smart young people working at small presses

Local readers, recent contributor Case Kerns is in town tonight! necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

This has been getting shared all over, as it should be, but I'm grateful for @tmcallister.bsky.social's openness about what is a more typical experience for writers than the rare instant blockbuster career. It is certainly a whole lot closer to mine.

Them: Is this book in the room with us Me: actually yes

We are big fans of @windandbones.com and the work they do

This week's story is "Mall of America" by @terenabell.bsky.social‬ necessaryfiction.com/stories/mall...

Wrote for The Metropolitan Review about the pros & cons of working w/ small indie presses vs. big presses, the journey from almost being a big fancy author to being a medium unfancy author, and mid-career re-evaluation of what I want out of the writing life www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication. Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!

Boston-area folks, I am so excited to host a conversation with my dear friend @ambersparks.bsky.social about her new novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social on October 16. I hope you'll join us! www.harvard.com/event/amber-...

This week's story is "Mall of America" by @terenabell.bsky.social‬ necessaryfiction.com/stories/mall...

'HELEN OF NOWHERE is lyrical but succinct, and it’s playful without being pretentious.' Emily Hall reviews HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman for Necessary Fiction: necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hele... We are publishing HELEN OF NOWHERE in January 2026.

HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emhall47.bsky.social‬. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hele...

Thanks for publishing my review, @necessaryfiction.com ! I loved this book! #bookreview #booksky #writersky

Really loved Tom’s book, IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE, and we had a great chat about it earlier this summer. Excited the convo is out and for you all to read it (and his book!)!

HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emhall47.bsky.social‬. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hele...

How cool! This is the story the film is based on: necessaryfiction.com/stories/jenn...