Thanks @necessaryfiction.com and @twodollarradio.bsky.social—I had fun covering this one!

ABSENCE by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/abse...

Thanks @artwife.bsky.social for having us on!

Check out the latest episode of the @artwife.bsky.social podcast to hear our Editors talk a bit about the journal! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. G’Lines and open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories

Finally, rounding out our Issue Six release, an excerpt from novelist Yara Zgheib's delectable new project "Why Paris." Read it below! #writing #writer #fiction #novel lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/w...

Check out our Summer Quarterly at @lespritlit.bsky.social #dallowayday

And finally, check out the entirety of our latest Quarterly newsletter, including A Commentary from Editor D. W. White! mailchi.mp/e70e834d5ce7...

...and Carolyn R. Russell's "Awake at the Wheel." lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/06/18/a...

A Wednesday in mid-June...sounds like a perfect time for our Summer Quarterly. Happy #dallowayday everyone! We have two new works of fiction in this issue, Iris Rosenberg's "Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble"... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/06/18/w...

Michael Thériault's "An Invitation to the Gulls" is a shape-shifting, voice-driven story of memory and place, and is next up in our Issue Six release. Read it below! #writing #writer #fiction #shortstory lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/a...

Continuing our Issue Six release countdown (countup?) is Andrew Lorenzen's hilarious and ontologically troubling story "Object Permanence." Check it out! #writing #writer #fiction #shortstory lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/o...

KK Fiorrucci's short story "The Difference," an atmospheric consideration of Guernsey, continues our Issue Six release! Check it out here! lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/t... #writing #writer #fiction #shortstory

Just four days left to submit to this year's Dalloway Prize for Short Prose! #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction

Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release! Check it out below! @colmoshea.bsky.social #fiction #shortstory #writing

The Grand Prize Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration was Art O'Connor's "Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree," and is also next up in our Issue Six release! lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h... #fiction #shortstory #writing #creativewriting

We are thrilled to announce the results of our fourth annual poetry contest. Ezra Fox’s “What the Darkness Render’s on the Question of Passing” was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the $1,000 prize. Details below: buff.ly/yTcJiyw #writingcommunity

A few weeks left for our short prose prize! We’ve gotten some great entries so far and still have plenty of room on our shortlist to fill out. We’re looking for sharp, surprising writing that rests comfortably just beyond convention. Fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid, up to 5k. Send us your best!

Explore and enjoy the fine work in @lespritlit.bsky.social Issue 6, out just lately. My story An Invitation to the Gulls, which descends a bottle through verse and violence to the titular invitation at its bottom, tags along. lespritliteraryreview.org/issue-six/

Danielle Barr's NOTHINGBERGERS is the first chapter of her new project, and a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Find it in Issue Six! @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/n... #litmag #shortstory #novel #excerpt #creativewriting

Our next Issue Six release was a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Read "Twilight in the Amphitheatre," by Andy Bodinger below! @andyandybodinger.bsky.social lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/t... #litmag #shortstory #fiction #creativewriting

If you've received an old email from us today, please ignore! Our gmail happily decided to re-send about 50 old emails for no reason at all, right when we're getting ready for our reading tonight. Sorry for the confusion!

Alaina Hammond’s “Forgive Me, Kurt” is our next I6 release, a funny, slyly poignant flash fiction! lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/f... #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting

Jessica Anne's essay "Generative Grammar" is next up on our I6 release; perfect timing for Mother's Day. Thoughts on Celebration, Choice, and Red Sauce. lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/g... #litmag #essay #creativenonfiction #creativewriting

Check out the conversation with and creative piece by our Issue Six Featured Writer, Nataliya Deleva! Nataliya talks to us about her work, her writing process, moving between languages, and her literary ancestry. lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/a... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/y...

Hi y'all - I've a #photo in the new issue of L'Esprit Literary Review, paired w/ a #story by Michael Edman. See the photo. Read the story Thanks @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social @lespritlit.bsky.social #shortstory #booksky #photosky #filmsky #literary #literature #Laphotographie #cafes #paris #bnw #hi

Michael Edman's BLUEBIRD is a very cool, willowy look at the tensions between a couple in Paris. With an excellent rendering of Saint Sulpice as well! #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/b...

Check out our latest book review at @lespritlit.bsky.social, a piece on form and the new marriage plot (?) in Maggie Armstrong’s OLD ROMANTICS! Written by Devyn Andrews! Buy the book from @biblioasis.bsky.social #bookreview #literature lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/05/04/f...

Our Spring Quarterly newsletter is live! Bon printemps ! mailchi.mp/28634bded423...

Iron Oak Editions writing workshops are a mix of a craft lecture, a discussion, and a writing exercise. “The Art of the Opening: What is an Opening to Do?” with Albert Liau begins May 10th. Details in the link below. Seats are limited, so sign up today! buff.ly/p3snak9 #writingcommunity

“Killing is an exchange meant to save me, flatten my queerness until it looks like a boot print.” Excerpt from “Hunting” by Josiah Patterson. It appears in our new Ecobloomspaces anthology. Order a copy now at our website shop. Read the full poem here: buff.ly/dptEgDa #writingcommunity

Issue Six is live over at @lespritlit.bsky.social ! Thanks to all our great readers and contributors for supporting our sixth full issue! lespritliteraryreview.org/issue-six/

Issue Six is here! Starting off is Neil Weiner’s sharp and funny flash piece “Deja Vu All Over Again." lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/d... #flashfiction #shortstory #writing #writingcommunity

Our next piece in Issue Six is Nate Connolly’s autotheoretical essay “When I Write “I”: The Disabled Body and the Myth of Narcissus”. #creativewriting #essay #literature lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/25/w...

Much like this excellent, windy bus, our submission window is wide open. lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... Send us words! #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction #essays #literature

Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest! $500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry. Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction lespritliteraryreview.org/2025-clariss...

Want to know more about how your writing is being read? Not sure where to begin your revision process? Personalized feedback written by editors is available at L'Esprit. Guidelines here: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #writingcommunity #litmag #fiction #nonfiction #CallForSubmissions

We’re excited to announce that Issue Six of L'Esprit will be launched on April 27th with a reading by our contributors! Join us on Zoom to celebrate our latest issue, including the winners and finalists of our first contest. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WritingCommunity #fiction #litmag

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social (Fiction Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to fee-based submissions. #amwriting

New publisher listing for: Clarissa Dalloway Prize for Short Prose @lespritlit.bsky.social (Fiction Nonfiction; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity

Check out our contest call on @clmporg.bsky.social! www.clmp.org/members/open... #fiction #nonfiction #amwriting #literature #publishing #callforsubmissions

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting

From D.W. White, a short story about the immovable weight of grief. Read “After Ilium” in ARTWIFE Magazine.

My most recent fiction publication is a piece from my MS-in-progress, about death and philosophy and art and the beach. Thanks @artwife.bsky.social for publishing “After Ilium”! www.artwifemag.com/short-storie... #fiction #shortstory #writing #literature

We’re excited to announce that Issue Six will be launched on April 27th with a reading by our contributors! Join us on Zoom to celebrate all the great writing from our latest full issue, including the winners and finalists of our first contest. Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My friends at @lespritlit.bsky.social are running a contest! L’Esprit is reading now for the Clarissa Dalloway Prize. The $500 prize will be awarded to the best piece of fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid work under 5,000 words. More: lespritliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

I'm very excited about this contest, our second one at L'Esprit. Our first contest recieved so much great work; I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes in this time. We're trying something a bit different, with a broader call open to both fiction and nonfiction. Send us your best!

Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest! $500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry. Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction lespritliteraryreview.org/2025-clariss...

This was a lot of fun to do! Congrats @rebeccafishow.bsky.social

"I like to entertain the idea that there are possibilities outside taken-for-granted terms of the real.” @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social's interview with Rebecca Fishow on her new book “How To Love A Black Hole"(@conium.bsky.social) is out now! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/07/f...