Michael Czyzniejewski
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
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Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Awesome interview at Laurel Review with
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
poet
@tms2072.bsky.social
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Laurel Review - Tina Schumann
https://laurelreview.org/tina-schumann?fbclid=IwY2xjawNDo_tleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFDM0pZSWpyR2R3UTBHU2lEAR6l3SquQ6Kw6hKWDtjy2X63vRpvzF0y4LWLlG0EJcyN7_quAyHtnUgLv4c0AA_aem_vwIcrk_Lby0PcsYipI-q5g
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You should definitely read this amazing flash essay by
@aimee-bender.bsky.social
in the latest issue of
@smokelong.bsky.social
! And check out my interview with Aimee about it, link in the comments.
www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...
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Organs - SmokeLong Quarterly
Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs. You cannot safely empty them slowly, explains the doctor, as they hook hi...
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/organs/
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@mooncitypress.bsky.social
poet
@tms2072.bsky.social
is doing a virtual poetry reading tonight for the Missouri State University English Department at 7 p.m., CT. The Zoom Webinar address is in the attached flier. Come on out and hear Tina read her fabulous poems!
6 days ago
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Thanks to
@davidestringel.bsky.social
and everyone at
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
for publishing my new story!
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just an idea — Blood+Honey
by  Michael Czyzniejewski “  So, my idea, for down in the station, in the background, is we have the shoeshine booth, yeah, but instead of shoeshines, guys polishing shoes, we have guys polishi...
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/just-an-idea
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@mooncitypress.bsky.social
author
@tms2072.bsky.social
reads this coming Wed., Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, come watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attachment, but the Webinar link is
missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436
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Amazing new issue of
@smokelong.bsky.social
! With new flash narratives by
@aimee-bender.bsky.social
,
@jjlofflin.bsky.social
, Nora Esme Wagner, Colette Love Hilliard, Sagar Nair, L.F. Khouri, Vaibhavi Kerkar, Christina Tudor, Mary Ann McGuigan, and AJ O’Reilly!
www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
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Issue Eighty-Nine - SmokeLong Quarterly
https://www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty-nine/
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Thanks to Hema Nataraju, Lakshmi Iyer, and
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
for including my new story in this fantastic new issue of
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social
alongside many great pieces!
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Dog by Michael Czyzniejewski
If the only way that I can exist is to make sure that I take the dog on his walk and feed the dog and then feed the cats and make sure the dog doesn’t eat the cat food, or the cats, for that matter, a...
https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/dog-by-michael-czyzniejewski
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The amazing
@sfreligh.bsky.social
zooms into my grad fiction workshop to talk Other Emergencies.
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Thanks, Mario! Glad you liked it.
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25 days ago
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Ha! Glad I could deliver.
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Oh yeah. Love this one!
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Thanks, Jenny!
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Thank you!
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Thanks to
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
and Benjamin Drevlow for publishing this karate story of mine today! Grateful!
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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Karate Obligations | MrBullBull
https://mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-fiction/karate-obligations/
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So grateful to
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
and Benjamin Drevlow for giving this one a home!
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Some new
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
in the new ‪@literaryruby.bsky.social‬! Great issue, with ‪@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ‬, ‪@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social‬, ‪@tcboudreau.bsky.social‬,
@sudhab.bsky.social
, and others, too. Congrats to the whole Ruby crew!
rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...
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ISSUE SIX
September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…
https://rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-issue-six-food-stories/#kim-magowan
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Congratulations to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
,
@brttnyblm.bsky.social
,
@karenkay.bsky.social
, and the whole
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
staff on another great issue! New work by
@aaronburch.bsky.social
,
@dawnwriter.bsky.social
, and a bunch of other talented folks.
pitheadchapel.com/2025/09/01/v...
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Volume 14, Issue 9
COVER ART BY AL KRATZ  FICTION THE BOWLING STORY BY AARON BURCH BLUR BY DAWN MILLER MOM-G BY CHARLES GROSEL UNCLE HURT BY PATRICK STRICKLAND  NONFICTION ADOPTING FROM FOSTER CARE IN EIG…
https://pitheadchapel.com/2025/09/01/volume-14-issue-9/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMi_ChleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFjbkt0MTlWbGEwb3FBRnJZAR6f73Zhs8OjVY_KvXmn4n7GFP27_gTV8tDq_yi3rFl12Yge7msYTbmof4yo2w_aem_dSV99QxY5VMuezuIFi3BoQ
29 days ago
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@brettpribble.bsky.social
delivers another Ghost Parachute! Work by
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
,
@jennystalter.bsky.social
,
@francinewitte.bsky.social
,
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
,
@maeganpoland.bsky.social
, and many others!. Art by
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
, too!
ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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September 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/september-2025-issue/
29 days ago
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A thing I'm going to be in soon. Thanks,
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social
!
about 1 month ago
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Nice new issue of
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
! Congrats to Editor
@jhhwriter.bsky.social
and all the contributors!
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-34/
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Issue 34 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Guy Biederman Stories Congratulations to Jessica Klimesh for having her story Too Good To Be True selected as one of the fiction stories in Best of the Net 2025 Anthology. Issue 34 includes p...
https://gooseberry-pie.com/issue-34/
about 2 months ago
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This issue of
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
that
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
,
@karenkay.bsky.social
,
@brttnyblm.bsky.social
, etc., have put out is really great! Work by
@marybid.bsky.social
,
@lesliepwriter.bsky.social
, and a lot of other talented writers.
pitheadchapel.com/2025/08/01/v...
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Volume 14, Issue 8
COVER ART BY ERNEST WILLIAMSON III  FICTION TEN MILES OF A RIVER BY THOMAS MIXON HAVE YOU SEEN ME? BY FRANCES ORROK DEADBOLT BY ROSS FEELER LUCKY ENOUGH BY LESLIE PIETRZYK  NONFI…
https://pitheadchapel.com/2025/08/01/volume-14-issue-8/
about 2 months ago
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@michelleross.bsky.social
with a new story up at Monkeybicycle!
monkeybicycle.net/a-certain-id...
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A Certain Idea of Myself
https://monkeybicycle.net/a-certain-idea-of-myself/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL_TWRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjzNbDG3YDco0ojtNaxaCVn0_Uhd9tuaWNv2Vh_YcHugNUsBcBaCpiWuTHIv_aem_3-ftmuO-1hYeYiiI_3c9gw
about 2 months ago
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@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
with a fantastic new piece in
@theforge.bsky.social
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Places I’ll Never See Again - The Forge Literary Magazine
Places I’ll Never See Again, nonfiction by Andrew Bertaina
https://forgelitmag.com/2025/08/04/places-ill-never-see-again/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL-9I9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsEkgOuSqImEwE7aL4BuWXLKAAlP7bBYrnhelzWLk1SwjFb_UoP1SGGHYZ2w_aem_SxCximLeRwfhN6Wde06htg
about 2 months ago
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Michelle Ross in the new Ghost Parachute!
ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
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The Same Impasse — Ghost Parachute
The last item in the truck was a chair. Enormous. Ugly. Uncomfortable. A relic of his previous relationship I’d asked him to leave behind. My home rejected it, too. He said, “It’s the angle. Let’s try...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/august-2025-issue/the-same-impasse/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL7J-5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsr9hWqKxooC8eY5JrB4-nP-3Y0aHrbaO0JPUvjOAalpZ8Wv6rbW-buk9hy9_aem_0DJv6fHBwjzOpQhOIE7rTA
about 2 months ago
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@kelliborges2.bsky.social
with a great micro at the new
@centaurlit.bsky.social
!
centaurlit.com/we-dont-meet...
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We Don’t Meet in Buda by Kelli Short Borges | Centaur
https://centaurlit.com/we-dont-meet-in-buda-by-kelli-short-borges/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL6_hhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvqWF5zmWnaasHJhkMWhn55F4UGjuNTdc5Ni1uSKD9TTdp61uhsGi2p93_Bg_aem_ikTCDWjiug1up7Ds0SZy8w
about 2 months ago
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What a great piece by
@sfreligh.bsky.social
in the new Ghost Parachute!
ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
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Supernova — Ghost Parachute
For Friday show and tell, Rita shares what she found in the gutter on the way to school. She walks head down and finds many things: single mittens, discarded fast food boxes and once a soggy five-doll...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/august-2025-issue/supernova/
about 2 months ago
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@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
with a fab micro in the new Ghost Parachute!
ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
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I Dreamed A Father — Ghost Parachute
I once found a hole in the universe while wandering around my neighborhood after dark—dogs barking, couples huddled in their living rooms in harbors of television light, and me, finding a black hole i...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/august-2025-issue/i-dreamed-a-father/
about 2 months ago
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New
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
at the new
@centaurlit.bsky.social
!
centaurlit.com/again-by-kim...
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(again) by Kim Magowan | Centaur
https://centaurlit.com/again-by-kim-magowan/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL6E3lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHr8ytLM0lCx5nJ7ME7AaQMez_NFu63K5b85up5ZrfTTb75YLdfyDtlLEFdAF_aem_0Apo2KWomnWvSUyxb3xuCQ
about 2 months ago
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A great new story by
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
in the fab new Ghost Parachute!
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Wet Wings — Ghost Parachute
Once he had a lover, but she moved. And Harold closes the curtains against the sun now. The curtains are sheer so that the traffic on the street outside can still be seen moving past his window, alter...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/august-2025-issue/wet-wings/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL6A3FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHobuLlxpHPIdBIku4-vh-PLwJWhKcVUq9a1oWq4TF8N4VHugWV4Zobx1prhv_aem_JaqwUXTTsHu0brLNwculXg
about 2 months ago
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Thanks to
@kimchinquee.bsky.social
and everyone at
@newworldwriting.bsky.social
for publishing this new story! Thanks, too, to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
for early eyes. Happy to share space with writers like Pablo Piñero Stillmann.
newworldwriting.net/michael-czyz...
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Michael Czyzniejewski ~ Demons
Mom was selling her house, the house we’d grown up in, me and my five siblings. Dad had recently passed; property taxes were going up. At that point, it was just Mom and my brother, Kent, and too m…
https://newworldwriting.net/michael-czyzniejewski-demons/
3 months ago
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Thanks to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and the entire
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
staff for putting this story in their new issue! So glad to be there with
@kimchinquee.bsky.social
,
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
,
@danbillyc.bsky.social
, and so many other talented authors!
pitheadchapel.com/freytags-dia...
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Freytag’s Diaphragm
Michael Czyzniejewski  The day I turned twenty-nine, it hit me: I should be with Freytag. I should spend the whole night with Freytag. I should maybe even get serious about Freytag. Definitel…
https://pitheadchapel.com/freytags-diaphragm/
3 months ago
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reposted by
Michael Czyzniejewski
SmokeLong Quarterly
3 months ago
Thank you to our 2025 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows! Read what they have to say about their experience this year—and find out how to apply for the 2026 Fellowships—here:
www.smokelong.com/thank-you-to...
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A pleasant surprise on this overcast Saturday! Thanks to Scott Garson and
@laughingyeti.bsky.social
and
samanito.bsky.social‬
and everyone a
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al for reading the first draft, too!
3 months ago
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Some new
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
at
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
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Body and Soul
By Kim Magowan My wife was pissed at me because when she sneezed, I did not say “Bless you!” For context: she was downstairs, I was upstairs. It was the second time in rapid succession that Anna sn…
https://moonparkreview.com/issue-32-summer-2025/body-and-soul/
3 months ago
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Today is the last day to enter the
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Poetry Award and Moon City Short Fiction competitions!
mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit
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Moon City Press Submission Manager
Moon City Press is an independent press, housed within Missouri State University's Department of English, that sponsors the Moon City Poetry Award and the Moon City Short Fiction Award, annual competi...
https://mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit
4 months ago
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A new story of mine, "Bread and Butter," is up at Cutleaf today! Thanks to
@keithlesmeister.bsky.social
and everyone there for publishing my work!
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Bread and Butter - Cutleaf Journal
They call me into HR: One of Costello’s proposals was tagged, a scenario for the training manual. Elise asks me to sit. She offers a slice of cucumber, which
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4 months ago
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Congratulations to
@joelhans.bsky.social
for being named winner of the 2024
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Short Fiction Award for his story collection, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World. This collection will be published by MCP later this year and Hans will receive the $1000 prize.
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Honored to have "Her Heart Was a Chipmunk" from Cleaver selected for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thanks to Robert Shapard, Nathan Leslie, and Michelle Elvy for this honor, and of course to ‪@karenrile.bsky.social‬,
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
, and Andrea Caswell!
altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...
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The Best Small Fictions
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
https://altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fictions/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKbNaFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFOQmo4aW9iT3czWWJHcUZuAR5jJ94bp47Np62nfx2cj_Uh5p8Ixkkl2VDuCOAKeAg4QSKg9xDlZG7GbvqQJQ_aem_XpH3nhQ_aMM9WP2dFBewXg
4 months ago
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Congrats to
@audrakerrbrown.bsky.social
, whose story "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space" from
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
2025, has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thanks to RobertShapard, Nathan Leslie, and MichelleElvy for this honor!
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The Best Small Fictions
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
https://altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fictions/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKbNaFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFOQmo4aW9iT3czWWJHcUZuAR5jJ94bp47Np62nfx2cj_Uh5p8Ixkkl2VDuCOAKeAg4QSKg9xDlZG7GbvqQJQ_aem_XpH3nhQ_aMM9WP2dFBewXg
4 months ago
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One month left to submit to the 2025
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Short Fiction Award!
mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/32401...
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Moon City Press - The 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award
• The Moon City Short Fiction Award is for an original collection of short fiction, written originally in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual pieces in the collection may be publ...
https://mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/324014/the-2025-moon-city-short-fiction-award
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@mooncitypress.bsky.social
'24 Short Fiction finalists
@sudhab.bsky.social
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
Famous Chukwuemeka
@elissafield.bsky.social
Carrie Grinstead
@joelhans.bsky.social
@abbymanzella.bsky.social
@magicmikewrites.bsky.social
Matthew Purdy
@jenn-rossmann.bsky.social
Zachary Vickers
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Gorgeous writing
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
2025. Still reading & thrilled to be included with superb writers
@lmariharris.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@tcboudreau.bsky.social
@csquareh.bsky.social
@kellypedro.bsky.social
@mynachang.bsky.social
@ Huge thanks
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
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Happy to see my little story, "Hitchhiker 49," in the new issue of The Citron Review! Thanks to JR Walsh and everyone there for including me. Proud to have my work in such a great issue, alongside so many talented authors.
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Hitchhiker 49
by Michael Czyzniejewski My first lie was that you could trust me, a liar’s frequent opener. But you needed that donkey so bad, you believed a stranger in a turtleneck and red Celica was headed to …
https://citronreview.com/2025/04/26/hitchhiker-49/
5 months ago
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Michael Czyzniejewski
SmokeLong Quarterly
5 months ago
We have workshop participants from all over the world. If you're writing in isolation, far away from a writing community, like I was in Munich for decades, SmokeLong Fitness might just be the international writing community you want.
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...
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SmokeLong Fitness - The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...
https://www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fitness-the-community-workshop/
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A cool new interview with
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social
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An Interview with Writer Avitus B. Carle
Smith Creative Writers Reading series brings author to Erie
https://www.eriereader.com/article/an-interview-with-writer-avitus-b-carle?fbclid=IwY2xjawJrghBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHmANPxw8_ileqp4FH4hu6OINYRxGOh94yjHfCa4eBm9bvHqvnVAQsi2qkzXJ_aem_mhxIhFWFk2Ur14iKsdsvrg
6 months ago
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Some new
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
!
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Kim Magowan ~ Recommendations
Last night, I had a dream in which my ex-girlfriend Pamela sent me an escalating series of outrageous requests. In her first email, the subject of which was REQUEST, Pamela informed me that she was…
https://newworldwriting.net/kim-magowan-recommendations/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJrgYpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHj6-OyPTcxa-t-vjCEjHH6y2jkgIWC9CWS0MkA34Jn7DvOkk1_RyO7VeuFQ9_aem_S-StjGJVPQz6V4Cz0hoqlw
6 months ago
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Thanks to
@vallielynnwatson.bsky.social
, Michael Robins, and everyone at The McNeese Review for publishing my new story, “Savior,” in its spectacular new issue! Glad to be alongside such writers and friends as Gary McDowell, Allison Blevins, and so many other talents!
6 months ago
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Here's a cool
@sgfcitizen.bsky.social
article on my superstar wife
@karenkay.bsky.social
and our friend, David Harrison, two Missouri Poet Laureates making poetry waves here in Springfield during National Poetry Month.
sgfcitizen.org/springfield-...
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Springfield poets laureate will be busy during National Poetry Month - Springfield Daily Citizen
April is National Poetry Month, and who better to advocate it in Springfield than two of the state’s poets laureate?
https://sgfcitizen.org/springfield-culture/springfield-poets-laureate-will-be-busy-during-national-poetry-month/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJiR4NleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHgSPQsuRQzJYe8lAfd-daUPxuQIG0wabF8SuAqzrnCvijZMUZvYY90KfbOTv_aem_4KV-HYrdGlga5Tx-cOnjxw
6 months ago
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The Missouri State University English Department is so excited to be hosting Jamel Brinkley for a reading tomorrow, April 4, at 6 p.m. here on the MSU campus, Ellis Hall 205, as part of the Maya Angelou Book Award! Giddy, actually. Free and open to the public.
6 months ago
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