Woohoo all these amazing writers, including my daughter Nora!

This is a fantastic issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and their entire staff, and to all these talented writers. pitheadchapel.com/2025/12/01/v...

“my brilliant brain behind my exquisite face is stupefied that you ever mattered to me a single iota” @kimmagowan.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan

My new book!!!! Grateful thanks to @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @mooncitypress.bsky.social and also Elisabeth Anderson for her weird and wonderful artwork. I love this cover so much!

“… (perhaps ‘feature’ isn’t the right word) …” “… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’” @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...

We're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025! Please join us in congratulating these stellar writers. Good luck everyone!

Thank you so much @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for the nomination! Congratulations everyone and good luck!!

I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, for the indisputably cool @lukerolfes.bsky.social and @jgallaher.bsky.social and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!

Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue! pitheadchapel.com/2025/11/01/v...

I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue! Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes. www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...

A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review! www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...

Michelle Ross and i have a weird new collaboration micro in wonderful The Ilanot Review: www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...

"furthermore, that our children, far from being perpetrators, are victims, too. Perhaps victims in a different sense than Ryan Gottfried, who we are relieved to hear has regained consciousness" by @kimmagowan.bsky.social from Milk Candy Review. milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/09/18/s...

I have a new story in awesome @bendinggenres.bsky.social, alongside many writers I love. Can't wait to read this issue! bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...

"Some slogans made no sense. A product could not be, logically, both 'new' and 'improved.'" A brand new delight from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in the super new issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🤩™️ bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...

A gem by Michelle Ross in New World Writing.

I have a new story in wonderful New World Writing! Many thanks to Kim Chinquee for taking this one: newworldwriting.net/kim-magowan-...

“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies” New micro from @kimmagowan.bsky.social !

I have a new story in awesome @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!). gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

"...that reminded me of my dad helping me put on my wobbly ice skates, before he left my mother for terrible Claudia,...." I love this stellar piece of writing by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙 gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

"and so I decided fuck the funeral, I just couldn’t deal..." @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social, packing an entire emotional world in six sentences ⚡ gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

A bittersweet gem from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

A great @kimmagowan.bsky.social story in the new Ghost Parachute! ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Thanks to Ghost Parachute and @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing my story in their 9th Anniversary Issue! Congrats them! Thanks to my pal @courtneyb77.bsky.social for her art, and to her and @kimmagowan.bsky.social for the reads. I'll post other stories soon! ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

"Instead of watering blown-out peonies, crocheting baby socks, and shopping at Home Depot, doing the things we were meant to do together, I was drowning my grief by fucking a series of bad men." @kimmagowan.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ⚡⚡

Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls." tinyurl.com/3ep2nhhb

"I’m relieved he ordered something easy, because though the dream has assigned me the role of bartender, it hasn’t accompanied that with any mixology knowledge." I love the way @kimmagowan.bsky.social writes! This stellar piece of writing in Ghost Parachute! 💙💙💙

Thrilled to have a new story in the kick-ass 9th anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute, alongside so many flash fiction superstars. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social for including me in this incredible issue! ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

We love some flash on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 😍 Contributor @kimmagowan.bsky.social published this story on parental outrage and what it means to be truly appalled in the Milk Candy Review: buff.ly/AG2gYdj

This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.

Cutleaf is the "listing of the day" -- and we're currently open for nonfiction subs (cap of 200) and collaboratively written short fiction. The latter will be selected by our guest collab writers @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross.

Who doesn't love a family story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? ❤️ Contributor @kimmagowan.bsky.social published a piece in @xraylitmag.bsky.social about sisterhood and loss: buff.ly/thno5fO

Please join us in congratulating our Best of the Net 2026 Nominees! Good luck everyone!

“‘Peer pressure’ implies that there is one particular peer who exerts the pressure (note the phrase is not ‘Peers pressure,’ the subject is singular).” Great story!

Just loved this very clever flash fiction piece by Kim Magowan -- I want to put all these parents on a one-way spaceship to Jupiter:

“When we look at that video that has been making its endless loops on Instagram and the other socials, round and round, we, like all of you, are appalled.” This stunner… @kimmagowan.bsky.social @milkcandyxx.bsky.social

I'm a big fan of a well-deployed first-person plural. Kim nails the voice here, and the timing couldn't feel more, well, "timely."

"In this context, we wonder if our fellow parents are familiar with the 'Observer Effect,' which postulates that there is no neutral way to 'see' a scene." I dig the way @kimmagowan.bsky.social put this story together! In Milk Candy Review! 💙💙💙

I have a new story in awesome Milk Candy Review! Grateful tahnks to Cathy Ulrich for publishing this one, and also to my @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness mates for reading a first draft. milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/09/18/s...

“What Monica’s husband doesn’t understand is that when he’s an asshole, it takes a while for Monica to bounce back. What he doesn’t understand is these slights embed themselves into her like splinters.” @kimmagowan.bsky.social with 2 @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

Love this story by @jjlofflin.bsky.social in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social! This is brilliant: www.smokelong.com/stories/on-o...

My daughter Nora has a story in @smokelong.bsky.social! Read Nora's story, and also her interview (she calls me out for not writing as much as her). So proud of this girl! www.smokelong.com/stories/anim...

"...now, she wants Amy to feel shitty. To confront her rigidity and selfishness. To brim with impossible regrets." @kimmagowan.bsky.social + @xraylitmag.bsky.social = ⚡⚡

"Because of course Cora would have hoped that the silver lining of dying is that Amy would want to see her." Oh, this strikes a chord. 💔 @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a new story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social!

Oof. This micro about playing Two Truths & a Lie by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social hits where it hurts. "Oscar faces Julia, clasps her hands & says, “I love you. I have always been faithful to you. I fooled around with your cousin Eve.” www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

I have two stories in the new issue of amazing @literaryruby.bsky.social! And even better, so does my ridiculously talented daughter Nora! Thank you @april-bradley.bsky.social for publishing these. :) rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-...

Cutleaf Journal will be open in Sept for collaboratively written short fiction up to 4k words. Guest editors for this call are @kimmagowan.bsky.social & Michelle Ross, who wrote a collab story in Cutleaf which you can check out here. Also included: an interview with them abt their process.

My daughter Nora Esme Wagner has a new story at Monkeybicycle. Thanks @jamestatehill.bsky.social for publishing this! This story was first drafted in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness: monkeybicycle.net/the-ocean-th...