BODY DOUBLE by Hanna Johansson, tr Kira Josefsson (@catapultbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by @bookbent.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/body...

Hey all! I have a couple more spots in my workshop on domestic fabulism if you want to join us! (Or watch it after, which also works!)

This week in our summer flash fiction series is "The Last Girl" by Jacob Dimpsey necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

This week in our summer flash fiction series is "The Last Girl" by Jacob Dimpsey necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

HORIZON HONG KONG by Xu Xi (Gaudy Boy). Reviewed by Mia Carroll. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hori...

new post at #theoryofstyle... towards a poetics of style writing.. my 2nd post, so reposts/free subscriptions v welcome... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis

Contributor @barrettbowlin.bsky.social has made me think of a new writing prompt: A random selector provides three academic articles in unrelated fields, from which you must draw while writing a story.

The first chapter of my novel ‘All Our Love’, in Science & Magic: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

This week's story is "Family Estate" by Ashley W. Cundiff necessaryfiction.com/stories/fami...

ICYMI: I offered a few recommendations for your summer TBR pile over at @necessaryfiction.com, and these appear alongside recs from all our editors, who have new faves of their own. Because you need more books, you always need more books... necessaryfiction.com/reviews/summ...

This week's story is "Family Estate" by Ashley W. Cundiff necessaryfiction.com/stories/fami...

WE WERE FORBIDDEN by Jacqueline Harpman, tr Ros Schwartz (@transitbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by Brianna Thompson. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/we-w...

Oh hey! This evening at 5:15 Central / 6:15 Eastern I'll be talking with Scott Simon about Man Overboard! on Open Book! www.scottsimonbooks.com/open-book

WE WERE FORBIDDEN by Jacqueline Harpman, tr Ros Schwartz (@transitbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by Brianna Thompson. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/we-w...

Do you need summer reading suggestions? Have you added to your TBR lately? The annual anti-summer summer reading list from Necessary Fiction is finally here! 😎☀️📚 With recs from me, @shimmer.bsky.social @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social and @mbailatj.bsky.social

This week's story is "Answering Emails" by Amy DeFlavis necessaryfiction.com/stories/answ...

This week's story is "Answering Emails" by Amy DeFlavis necessaryfiction.com/stories/answ...

icymi / lmk if you have any qs

FINAL, FINAL DAY TO GET 404 INK BOOKS! Shop is turned off Tuesday 30th June! www.404ink.com/shop

The @necessaryfiction.com editors have some books to recommend, I always love hearing what my colleagues @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social @shimmer.bsky.social & @bookbent.bsky.social have enjoyed, maybe you will too necessaryfiction.com/reviews/summ...

This week, our editors share some reading suggestions for the summer necessaryfiction.com/reviews/summ...

This week, our editors share some reading suggestions for the summer necessaryfiction.com/reviews/summ...

proof I can write things that don't involve mosquitoes or mailmen. "Trees In Winter" - published in @necessaryfiction.com

This week's story is "vs MFA" by Oscar Mancinas necessaryfiction.com/stories/vs-m...

This week's story is "vs MFA" by Oscar Mancinas necessaryfiction.com/stories/vs-m...

Amina Gautier talks to Serkan Görkemli about his story collection SWEET TOOTH AND OTHER STORIES (@kentuckypress.bsky.social). necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...

It’s the Barnes & Noble preorder sale! It’s the only one before THE BELLES paperback releases. Same cover, new blurb in front, hot author on the back. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-belles...

Some very exciting contributor news!

The Church of Divine Electricity by Emily Mitchell (@uwiscpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by Bradley Bazzle. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

The Church of Divine Electricity by Emily Mitchell (@uwiscpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by Bradley Bazzle. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Coming soooooooon….

for your Saturday delectation orionmagazine.org/article/maki...

New online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social guest-edited by MFA students at Temple University. The Aftermath!

I worked on a very fun semiquincentennial feature for this weekend's WSJ. The editors asked me to select 26 novels that tell a story about America's 250 year history. It's not a best-of list, but one that suggests a (necessarily branching) national narrative. Gift link! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Send us your work!!! We've got an enthusiastic faculty editor & reading team ~ all work comes from the queue ~ we nominate for prizes ~ $100 for 1 published piece Subs open through 8/1 south85journal.com

Restacking this one post, but if you click onto it you’ll get a run-down of all the short fiction published so far this year at 3:AM: twenty-odd stories in total. More to come in the second half of the year!

This week's story is "Saltwater Proof" by Khayelihle Benghu necessaryfiction.com/stories/salt...

If you're interested in using Scrivener but intimidated by it, this is a great chance to figure out, with expert help, how it might work for you.

This week's story is "Saltwater Proof" by Khayelihle Benghu necessaryfiction.com/stories/salt...

My fifth novel MAN OVERBOARD! comes out on Tuesday, July 7 & I'm doing a bunch of events to celebrate. Come say hi & scoop up a copy. I'll even sign it with a seahorse pen!

Congratulations to contributor @elizmccrack.bsky.social!

Big huge thanks to @barrettbowlin.bsky.social and @therumpus.net for posting this interview about ALIENS ATTACK!, the end of the world, literary fiction, David Bowie music and movies, Walter Tevis, and...the "Housley-verse?" therumpus.net/2026/06/15/w...

Just FYI in case you get an error message, our website is coming and going this morning due a service issue somewhere, not on our end. Hopefully it will be back to normal soon.

HIDDEN RIVER by Sara Lippmann (@tortoisebooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by @sarahholloway.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hidd...

Last day to enter the 2026 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award competition!

We are so thrilled that Molly Gaudry's Rose Metal book FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR is a finalist for a Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! Congrats to Molly and all the finalists, and we can't wait for the June 25 winner reveal!

Some very exciting news in our neck of the woods!

HIDDEN RIVER by Sara Lippmann (@tortoisebooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by @sarahholloway.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hidd...

This closes tomorrow. I hope you’re putting the final touches on that chapbook. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

“While there is no shortage of the number of literary magazine startups, the distinction with Nerve to Write is the essential nature of its existence.” Many thanks to @newpages.bsky.social for interviewing me about launching @nervetowrite.bsky.social! www.newpages.com/blog/magazin...