Aaaah, how I remember the vodka cruiser nights! Love how this piece lands me in a nostalgic era even as the ending reminds us of the transactions of youth. Check out @pleomorphic2.bsky.social piece in @claudineliterary.bsky.social !

This perfect, evocative piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social “We sing like we’ve written every word, belting out the chorus of “I don’t wants,” shaking our heads like wet dogs and slamming into each other.” ⚒️🇩🇪🧡🧡🧡

“Friday night is Vodka Cruisers and lollies, beer and cigarettes” Wild Friday nights and other assorted impacts on the heart. Read @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Friday night is cigarette-in-hand, tits out, turning away from the front door when you clock his dirty blonde flop, angle the drink so it spills over, and you have to lick the sticky sweetness off your fingers. and that ending... @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!

New micro CNF by Sumitra Singam! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

@ezhang77.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social “I liked it alright, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t rub the longing off its face.” 🧡🧡🧡 www.claudineliterary.net/elenazhang

@jekwriter.bsky.social with another 🔥micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social “My toes crowd together, punching raw against the sides.” www.claudineliterary.net/jessicaklimesh

Ooooffff this micro by Elizabeth Gjelten in @claudineliterary.bsky.social “But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.” 🧡🧡🧡 www.claudineliterary.net/elizabethgje...

This CNF by Heather Emmanuel in @claudineliterary.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 “It’s her name that tickles your tongue between brief breaths.” www.claudineliterary.net/heatheremman...

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe) Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡 www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

Read this nostalgic little gut punch of a CNF by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social !!

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social …there’s enough 🔥🔥🔥 in this piece to obliterate a Dunedin winter

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe) Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡 www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

Oh this amazing write by @jennystalter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social - masterful characterisation and backstory without giving us any “After the lady started screaming, I thought about a billboard I saw outside this one church.” 🧡🧡🧡

Have just pre-ordered this sure to be amazing book by @fbereaud.bsky.social pubbed by @stanchion.bsky.social!! You should too!

ON RIGHT NOW

"She shows us her stories in swirling lava, better than any cartoon." Another banger by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in GP

I have been this mother in this tunnel. Thank you @ninaschuyler.bsky.social for this piece of brilliance in GP "I was the mother, but where was my duffel bag of knowledge for being trapped in a tunnel? "

Who wants this much-rejected story about gaslighting featuring the merest sprinkling of magic? I think it’s okay, it’s had some tiereds. Just a fit issue - it’s a bit zoomed out and brushstrokey

Working on layout for issue 7.

Take that George Cultural Appropriation Lucas

Yessss! Join the Yeah Nah chats! Open to all who want to attend. Check in with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social I'm working through the next one but I should be back for Nov! 🎉

Congrats @emmikhor.bsky.social for landing this amazing story with @fictivedream.bsky.social! "On a bus one day, she sits next to an ancient bundle of gathered contours. " Want to hang with awesome writers? Come along to Yeah Nah this Thurs 7pm Melb time. Deets: bsky.app/profile/pleo...

Looking forward to hosting Yeah Nah, a zoom gathering of flash writers (& poets) this Thursday. Want to join? Here’s the rego link. A bit scared of people? Yeah, me too 🤣 but writing community is worth it.

Would you look at this lineup? So chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social - @dehardy.bsky.social is so brilliant to work with! Can't wait for you to read my Dunedin story 💔. Congrats @jekwriter.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social Heather and Elizabeth!

Sorry, we’ve been quiet. It’s been a crazy weekend and Monday. More author spotlights coming soon! - Hema

Every time I read this I get blown away!!!

There's queer lit, then there's THIS. An amazing piece @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - congratulations!

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulati...

"When you en garde your business card and ask me for mine, my feet have already turned into a bitter, hard-shelled pointed end plate, a telson at the end secreting musky and glandular." Love this winning story @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

I hope you check out this banger from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social!!

'As my body segments, pairs of hairy legs sprouting from each one, spiracles to breathe breathe breathe your oily-sweet pheromones' Fabulous story from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

Thank you so much, @jhhwriter.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for picking the weirdest queer-ass story I have ever written. It was such a thrill to win this contest. Thanks for pinging this round again 🧡🏳️‍🌈

Listen how’s your Sunday going? This encapsulates mine:

Just watched the recording of an amazing @taniahershman.bsky.social workshop "The Art of the Swerve" and once again Tania has made me write something completely bonkers and weird which I am about to inflict upon unsuspecting editors (please blame Tania!) Thank you, Tania! Love your workshops!

“let lovers swing from your fleshy chandelier.” The always awesome @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡🧡

I’m not sure my neurodiverse brain can cope with a tiered. Which category out of the two do I put it in?

See you there?

Yeah Nah is on again next week! Thurs 2 Oct 7pm Melb time, hosted by the amazing @kathrynreese.bsky.social this time. Rego link in quote skeet 🧡

“If you can’t find love, there is always parchment.” @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Glorious @kiklodge.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social “she’s not the one who decides, it’s the powers that be, and she taps the surveillance camera above her asymmetrical bob.”🔥

This absolute heartbreaker by @jmgatford.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social “You don't know yet that you will feel the track-rattling impact in your guts every time you pass through a tunnel for the next ten years.” Oh 💔💔💔

I WILL BE THERE (possibly bleary-eyed because of timing)! This is such a great cause @smokelong.bsky.social and @sundresspub.bsky.social 🧡

The Urge is open for poetry and art! Deadline: Sept 22nd! engineidling.net

We need more art for The Urge. Engineidling.net

@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social with 5 food poems in her particular, startling vernacular “collateral scattered as cumin seeds/for flatbread.” “its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased” “You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god” 🧡🧡🧡🔥🔥🔥

"and she is writhing formless through the worlds, stars, tears shimmering, inner space, strobe lights, angels” Persephone and the Boy Angel of Romford by @kathrynreese.bsky.social and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Love this piece of weirdness by @troubledcure.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com “I was no longer useful in the world, he was not sure I had ever been.” 🧡🧡🧡😽https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-halvorssen-last-night-i-dreamt-my-cat-ate-me

Love this piece of defiant cakey love “Then you licked the smear of jam off my nose as I kissed your softness to my tongue.” @joycebingham.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com 🧡🧡🧡🎂