Time to polish up your essays! 📝 ⚡ 💡 Electric Literature will open for submissions in ✨Personal Narrative✨ on Monday, December 1! All submissions will be accepted through our Submittable page. Portal closes at 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 14, or when we receive 500 submissions.

"Damn this old house, each room stacked with books and dusty lamps. When I hear the rattle of your pills, I know you are awake." Do NOT miss Eileen Toomey in @flashthecourt.

"She looked at him over the breakfast she cooked and the toast...and wondered if her winds had died down too. It was a big house after all on a big ranch and the corral was not so far away. And it was impossible to know for sure when the bucking stopped, if it ever had. " It's Robert Scotallaro!

Get out/in there!

We know that if the tables were flipped, the media would unanimously call this a "red wave" and a huge referendum on the sitting Dem president. Would be the dominant story for months.

"This is me grabbing your wrist and urging you to: Look! This is city wide. This is you locked into your screen. This is a result of low-staffing. This is our daughter smiling." Holy toledo! Check out Allison Powell's 1st place gem from June's Bath Flash Award!

“I have a chance to forge my path with Little Hansel and his daddy, with his handlebar mustache and golden hair. I will learn what I am about in the deep pine green and cornflower blue of Humboldt County. I will ...” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

We are now open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!

💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡 Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025! We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!

OMG, this triple shot from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social !! ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

Get it.

Looking forward to reading——

October submission stats: 375 received 7 accepted 1.87% acceptance rate We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted. trampset.org/submissions-...

"your father’s body will tell you when it ends." Read this micro by j. j. pena.

A banger! Great job, Myna!!

It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions

"No ghoul marches quite like the boys in blue with their tactical gear and weapons far more powerful than shields and arrows." READ @brettpribble.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social

Even amidst all these declines, in a f#$l%- it-all-mood,after two huge hydrocortisone shots and a boozy lunch with writer darlings.

Get in!

Great online mag and prompt!!

Get in!

Holy toledo!! This one is a tough gem! And just look at the art, too.

Holy toledo!! This one is a tough gem! And just look at the art, too.

if you, like me, are in the US and stably employed, consider giving (or giving more) to your local food pantry/rescue/bank next paycheck. shutdown means SNAP benefits won't go out and those places are already stretched thin. give money, they know how to stretch a dollar 10x as far as you do.

A startling, candid tale by Glaucester's Rebecca Klassen in @januaryhouselit.bsky.social. Somebody, Please Think of the Children januaryhouselit.com/2025/10/24/s...

#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...

"They want to gather the collective wisdom of every woman surviving on an island, sailing on a life raft, battling a burning house, being surrounded on all sides. They want to experience everything. " Catching up by reading @kmagee29.bsky.social 's "Caring for Your Local Woman," from Waxwing Lit!

"Fingertips snag on a ripped seam, and he pushes until stitches release and the shark’s insides fall apart just like the silvery body of the trout his dad cleaned when the three of them camped by the lake before everything changed." Superb work! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social

"They want to gather the collective wisdom of every woman surviving on an island, sailing on a life raft, battling a burning house, being surrounded on all sides. They want to experience everything. " Catching up by reading @kmagee29.bsky.social 's "Caring for Your Local Woman," from Waxwing Lit!

"She served it on a tray with the best silverware and a lace napkin. “Oh no,” she said, “I forgot the daisies.” (Daisy: mangoes mixed with honey and apricots, a hint of cream.)" Two dazzlers by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in Ilanot Review! www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...

"Fingertips snag on a ripped seam, and he pushes until stitches release and the shark’s insides fall apart just like the silvery body of the trout his dad cleaned when the three of them camped by the lake before everything changed." Superb work! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social

Not sure I can handle this Wally Lamb book.

Illuminating!

Submissions are open for Issue 8 until the 30th day of October in the year 2025! Deal us some literary gold & other precious metals! Full guidelines right here 👇🏻🙂‍↕️ www.themerseyreview.com/submit

Throwback to Bristol, 2023!

Mood: Angelica Huston in a submarine at the bottom of the sea, looking out from a porthole and taking a sad drag from a cigarette. #thelifeaquatic I read a poem today that made me think of this indelible image.

Check it out!!

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social and @kimsrogers.bsky.social , have you seen this?

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If you like this, you might like my new comics collection! You can buy it (direct from the publisher) here: www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage

Writers and readers, check this out! (And Aubrey's substack, too.)

"The average son reaches into holes around the flower garden, pulling out handfuls of mud and snakes that twist and roll and wrap around his wrists like bracelets." More from fearless @lmariharris.bsky.social, this one from @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute.

He looks in the rearview mirror. She shifts in her seat and studies the back of the car. “They’re so beautiful when they’re sleeping.” Revisiting @shortstorytoday.bsky.social 's interview with my friend, @lmariharris.bsky.social ! AND THIS UNSETTLING GEM FROM @flashfrog.bsky.social !

"Nowadays, I suck on sour drops / to stop flashbacks, heart firing as fast as that boy’s drum kit and his long-gone reign / of percussion. Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies." READ @erinvachon.bsky.social

Thank you, @bendinggenres.bsky.social and @swethaamit.bsky.social! It was fun being interviewed. Click the link to see a funny photo of my face--which was called "impish." bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...