Michael Czyzniejewski
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
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Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
I have a story in this lovely new issue of
@southerninreview.bsky.social
with all these fantastic writers! Thanks to Ron Mitchell and the whole staff for the opportunity.
about 2 hours ago
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Congrats to
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
for winning the 2025
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Short Fiction Award! Her book, Dead Mother Card, will appear from MCP in 2027. She will receive the $1000 prize. Can't wait to work with her on this fabulous collection. Thanks to everyone who entered!
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Thanks to
@marylynnreed.bsky.social
and Lesley C. Weston at
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
for publishing this new story in their new summer issue! I'm honored to be a part of this great lineup!
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Figueroa
By Michael Czyzniejewski You know if Florez makes it anywhere near that basement, we’ll have no choice but to enact the Figueroa Protocol, meaning you can kiss your career, let alone that promotion…
https://moonparkreview.com/issue-36-summer-2026/figueroa/
7 days ago
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Michelle N Ross interviews Ryan Habermeyer about his new flashy obituaryish collection Necronauts at
@smokelong.bsky.social
!
www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
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An Interview with Ryan Habermeyer Necronauts - SmokeLong Quarterly
Interview by Michelle Ross MR: First, congratulations on Necronauts, Ryan! It’s a weird, wild ride of a book. The novel is composed of fragments, of flashes, if you will. I had the pleasure of publish...
https://www.smokelong.com/an-interview-with-ryan-habermeyer-necronauts/
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@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
with the goods in Ghost Parachute.
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In Her Dreams — Ghost Parachute
There was a racket in the yard. Hammers of some sort and starlings fighting on the wire that ran across the alley. The neighbors were hammering things again. The sound waves kept breaching her hull of...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2026-issue/in-her-dreams/
11 days ago
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Thanks to Sarp Sozdinler and
@bulbregion.bsky.social
for publishing this new story today! Thanks, too, to
@kimannjosouth.bsky.social
and
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
for the early eyes.
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Obituary, by Michael Czyzniejewski — The Bulb Region
Obituary — Michael Czyzniejewski SO, ON THE FIRST DAY, KEITH gave his summer school...
https://bulbregion.com/Obituary-by-Michael-Czyzniejewski
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Check out this fantastic new story by Michelle Ross from Ghost Parachute!
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I Mistook a Fly for My Cat — Ghost Parachute
I was brushing my teeth before work, and the fly was buzzing about my head much the way my cat buzzes about the sink when I brush my teeth before bed. I heard myself say, “Hey, Zazu.” I’ve mistaken my...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2026-issue/i-mistook-a-fly-for-my-cat/
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Ghost Parachute's new issue includes ...
@pamelapainter.bsky.social
,
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
,
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
,
@sherrieflick.bsky.social
,
@jhhwriter.bsky.social
,
@kiptain.bsky.social
,
@renukarag.bsky.social
, and
@swethaamit.bsky.social
. Congrats!
ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...
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June 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2026-issue/
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Last day to enter the
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Short Fiction Award competition!
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Moon City Press - The 2026 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/338810/the-2026-moon-city-short-fiction-award
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Last day to enter the 2026
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Poetry Award competition!
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Moon City Press - The 2026 Moon City Poetry Award
• The Moon City Poetry Award is for an original collection of poems written in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual poems in the collection may be published in periodicals or may ...
https://mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/338811/the-2026-moon-city-poetry-award
14 days ago
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New
@smokelong.bsky.social
! Kate Horsley,
@travisflatt.bsky.social
, and
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
, L.A. Strycker, Ellen Garard, Kate Catinella, Christopher Lee Chilton, Audrey Obuobisa-Darko, Joshua Geller Schwartz, Lane Michael Stanley, Murray Dunsmore, and
@mamiewilloughby.bsky.social
.
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Issue Ninety-Two - SmokeLong Quarterly
https://www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety-two/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSc4BZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFNcjRuMFFqdENqZGhSOVlac3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtwE1QBnXhsHoNpNEUwqLEOF7j7dTrCeCxUCgdyNVawZ-HZ_wpD-YiWBXen0_aem__Ona_HGnuAxEdkmdVWj6qA
14 days ago
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Stoked to be in this issue of
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
with three new stories! Thanks to
@jhhwriter.bsky.social
for giving me all this space, alongside writers I admire like Candace Hartsuyker, Amy Allen,
@chelseastickle.bsky.social
, and
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
.
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-43/
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Issue 43 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Cock’s Comb by Michael Czyzniejewski Locket by Michael Czyzniejewski Romance by Michael Czyzniejewski She Wants the Table on the Side of the Road by Wendy Elizabeth Wallace Homecoming by Amy Allen U...
https://gooseberry-pie.com/issue-43/
18 days ago
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New
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
! Congrats to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
,
@brttnyblm.bsky.social
, and
@karenkay.bsky.social
for another fantastic issue!
pitheadchapel.com/2026/06/01/v...
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Volume 15, Issue 6
COVER ART BY JANELLE PAULINO  FICTION GRIEF WORK, LLC BY KEITH WOODRUFF BELLY BY SUTTON STROTHER THE CENTAUR DANCES THE GIDDY-UP BUCK BY TRAVIS FLATT PET LOVER BY ANTHONY BROWN  NONFICT…
https://pitheadchapel.com/2026/06/01/volume-15-issue-6/
20 days ago
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New story, "Sleepover," in the new
@southeastreview.bsky.social
! Thanks to Neal Hammons and the whole staff for putting me alongside these terrific writers in this terrific-looking issue!
20 days ago
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Ten days left to enter the 2026
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Short Fiction Award competition!
mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/33881...
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Moon City Press - The 2026 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/338810/the-2026-moon-city-short-fiction-award
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Ten days left to enter the 2026
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Moon City Poetry Award competition!
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Moon City Press - The 2026 Moon City Poetry Award
• The Moon City Poetry Award is for an original collection of poems written in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual poems in the collection may be published in periodicals or may ...
https://mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/338811/the-2026-moon-city-poetry-award
24 days ago
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Fantastic book mail from
@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
and
@night-parrot-press.bsky.social
!
about 1 month ago
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@mooncitypress.bsky.social
congratulates these 11 authors, finalists in our 2025 Short Fiction Award:
@tcboudreau.bsky.social
Bergita Bugarija
@dinahcox.bsky.social
Sarah Faulkner Carrie Grinstead Aatif Rashid
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Anna Schachner Maura Stanton Zachary Vickers Francine Witte
about 1 month ago
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Congrats to
@rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social
for being selected for
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social
2026 for her
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
story, "That's All the Time We Have." Thanks,
@megpokrass.bsky.social
&
@gary79.bsky.social
!
about 1 month ago
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The editors of
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
congratulate these 11 authors as finalists for the 2025 Moon City Poetry Award: Mike Burwell Jules Foshee John Isles Paul MartĂnez-Pompa Linda Michel-Cassidy Lynne Potts Liz Robbins Caleb Scott Marjorie Stelmach John Schneider Francine Witte
about 1 month ago
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Thanks to
@erinvachon.bsky.social
at
@smokelong.bsky.social
for interviewing
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
about her new
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
flash collection, The Last Day!
www.smokelong.com/obscure-shap...
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“Obscure Shapes Crouch in the Dark”: Review of Kim Magowan’s The Last Day: Stories - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reviewed by Erin Vachon In the titular story to Kim Magowan’s The Last Day [Moon City Press, March 2026], a narrator finds a High Voltage dahlia that looks like a crimson loofah. She texts her husband...
https://www.smokelong.com/obscure-shapes-crouch-in-the-dark-review-of-kim-magowans-the-last-day-stories/?fbclid=IwY2xjawR6n-tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeF92Ed29z-sGR89DwhILdBMPOwYR0VPi9IzHV6bgg_ikP5NLZaafGR0jW6mc_aem_YYIVf6R9jpRzSt4jyYQ6uQ
about 1 month ago
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Anyone put together a new Creative Writing program in the last year or two and going to AWP in Chicago? Looking for participants for a panel proposal. Looking mostly for academic/academy programs but also would consider private programs, as well as makeovers/revamps.
about 1 month ago
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Great book mail today from
@housleydave.bsky.social
and
@masonjarpress.bsky.social
!
about 1 month ago
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New interview with
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
author
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
about her new collection, The Last Day, with
@lukerolfes.bsky.social
at
@laurelreview.bsky.social
!
laurelreview.org/kim-magowan
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Laurel Review - Kim Magowan
https://laurelreview.org/kim-magowan
about 1 month ago
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Amazing review of
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World and interview with author
@joelhans.com
up at Story Magazine!
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Elegies for an Age of Disenchantment: A Review of Joel Hans’s The Bedtime Emptying of Our World – Story
Elegies for an Age of Disenchantment: A Review of Joel Hans’s The Bedtime Emptying of Our World
https://www.storymagazine.org/joel-hans-interview-the-bedtime-emptying-of-our-world-review/
about 2 months ago
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Congrats
@brettpribble.bsky.social
and
@genevievetyrrell.bsky.social
at Ghost Parachute! Gary Fincke,
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
,
@francinewitte.bsky.social
,
@andreamarcusa.bsky.social
,
@amymarques.bsky.social
,
@itssonoemi.bsky.social
,
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
.
ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...
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May 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/may-2026-issue/
about 2 months ago
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New
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
! Congrats to editors
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
,
@brttnyblm.bsky.social
,
@karenkay.bsky.social
, etc., for another great issue!
pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v...
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Volume 15, Issue 5
COVER ART BY DEEMS ORTEGA  FICTION SHADOW DANCING BY REBECCA TIGER NO OBITS BY JAIME GILL MARGARITA RITA TA TA BY SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK THE CHROME HORN BY MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE  NONFIC…
https://pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/volume-15-issue-5/
about 2 months ago
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Great book mail today with
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
!
about 2 months ago
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Thrilled to have a new story, "Post," up at
@centaurlit.bsky.social
! Thanks,
@lynnmundell.bsky.social
, for giving this the space!
centaurlit.com/post-by-mich...
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Post by Michael Czyzniejewski | Centaur
https://centaurlit.com/post-by-michael-czyzniejewski/
about 2 months ago
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What an honor it is to be in this new issue of
@centaurlit.bsky.social
with friends
@sfreligh.bsky.social
, Gary Fincke,
@matthewkendrick.bsky.social
, and a couple of other writers who are new to me. Thanks,
@lynnmundell.bsky.social
!
centaurlit.com
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Centaur | Home to the Hybrid
https://centaurlit.com/
about 2 months ago
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My friend and colleague
@jennifermurvin.bsky.social
is reading tonight on the Missouri State University campus! Come on out to hear work from her new book, Real California Living, if you can make it!
2 months ago
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Thanks to
@keithjpowell.com
,
@livingjelly.bsky.social
,and everyone at
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
for publishing this new story of mine, "Courtship," on their awesome journal's site today!
yourimpossiblevoice.com/courtship/
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Courtship | Your Impossible Voice
By Michael Czyzniejewski — I wish I’d known you were coming over so I was prepared, but you’re here now and all I have is three swigs of gin from the bottle hiding in my freezer and those chamomile te...
https://yourimpossiblevoice.com/courtship/
2 months ago
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Alum Jessica Turcat will be reading tonight, April 16, at 7 p.m., CT, at Missouri State University in Karls 102 on campus. Come on out and hear this talented poet read from her new book!
2 months ago
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Alum Jessica Turcat will be reading at Missouri State University on Thursday, April 16, in Karls 102 at 7 p.m., CT, on campus. Come on out and hear this talented poet read from her new book!
3 months ago
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I have a new story up in
@claudineliterary.bsky.social
! Thanks to
@dehardy.bsky.social
and her crew for publishing this piece in their fab new issue!
www.claudineliterary.com/michaelczyzn...
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Michael Czyzniejewski | Visitation
https://www.claudineliterary.com/michaelczyzniejewski
3 months ago
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Getting ready for Saturday.
3 months ago
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Grateful to Matthew Pitt and everyone at descant for publishing this new story of mine in their latest issue!
3 months ago
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reposted by
Michael Czyzniejewski
Lisa Thornton
3 months ago
Something beautiful ⬇️
add a skeleton here at some point
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Illini!
3 months ago
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Let's fucking go!
3 months ago
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Damn straight they do.
3 months ago
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Let’s go!
3 months ago
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Full day. ❤️💙🧡
3 months ago
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Thanks to Robert Shapard for choosing the
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
piece by
@audrakerrbrown.bsky.social
, "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space," for this year's edition of The Best Small Fictions from
@altcurrent.bsky.social
! Thanks, too, to series editors Nathan Leslie and Michelle Elvy.
3 months ago
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Thanks to Robert Shapard for choosing my story from Cleaver Magazine for The Best Small Fictions
@altcurrent.bsky.social
! Thanks, too, to series editors Nathan Leslie and Michelle Elvy, as well as
@karenrile.bsky.social
,
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
and Andrea Caswell for taking it originally!
3 months ago
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Let's fucking go! I-L-L!
@illinimbb.bsky.social
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Here's an info sheet for the new MFA program in Creative Writing at Missouri State University! Drop us a line if you have questions, but we are looking for students for THIS FALL for a fully funded program!
3 months ago
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Stoked to be in the new Alaska Quarterly Review! So much good work here, by so many great writers and friends, just an honor to be in these pages!
3 months ago
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New
@smokelong.bsky.social
! So many fantastic flashes—and interviews, too!
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Issue Ninety-One - SmokeLong Quarterly
https://www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety-one/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQnppVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeP0g3pmV27v3og3BnVkX-JFJNQb9IpPURRt4let-eM5H-LTLuQ0TrRhZrW6o_aem_Zh59NhkOhOXf67B4cpqDNg
3 months ago
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Students and professors! MissouriState has a new, fully funded MFA in Creative Writing and we're looking for students for THIS FALL. Come study with me and my amazing colleagues and work with
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
and
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
! Contact us with questions today!
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