Our Best Microfiction nominations are in~ @ezhang77.bsky.social “Bone Fishing” @jbstone.bsky.social “It Happened at Midnight” Read ‘em both in our “Skeletal” micro series!

We’d love to see more nonfiction and art in our sub portal (: #callforsubmissions #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #art

If the spirits come to you this All Hallow’s Eve, don’t freak out. We just asked them to remind you we’re open for subs~

Ooooooooo, our inbox is on fiiiiiiiire (keep ‘em coming)!

Go read this piece by Bobby Crace—it’s 🔥!!

Go read this story by Elena Zhang right now!! 🎣

Our skeletal micro series is LIVE!! Go rifle through these (phenomenal) skeletons with us and celebrate these (amazing) writers~ @bobbycrace.bsky.social @jbstone.bsky.social @emilygoldsmith.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social 💀🦴 #literaryjournal #microfiction #micropoetry #microseries

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SUB CALL—Winter Solstice | Dead of Winter: We want your dead of winter—your isolation, your frozen-in-time, your icy touch. We want the clocks to stop, to feel the danger of the cold. Give us frostbite. Give us whiteouts. Give us . . . yetis.

Two days left 🥳

If you see a skull in this strawberry moon, it’s your sign to submit to our micro series 🌝

I see you micro poets 😜

You’re still up? Might as well send us micro. The creatures of the night demand it.

Surprise! 🎉 we’re starting a micro series, and it’s open NOW! Our first theme is “SKELETAL” 💀, and these calls cap at 100 subs (so don’t miss out)! Visit our website for more guidelines or just slide through and read ‘em here ~ #folklorereview #callforsubmissions #microfiction #micropoetrey

Our Best of the Net nominations~

@chillsubs.bsky.social has a cool, new feature where you can rate your experience with lit mags—so please share your experience with us! 👻

Read @tadasborne.bsky.social ‘s poems (now!) ~ 🌜—Ode to My Father Photographing the Moon Each Night 💛—Ode to My Father Watching Pokémon 2000

“The Huldra, the text read, is a forest spirit and seductress. She is beautiful, but under her long dress she hides a tail, usually that of a cow, but sometimes a fox. The Huldra can also have a hollow back like a rotted-out tree” — @kerimiller.bsky.social ‘s short story “Norwegian Wedding Dance” 💃🏻

Read @neonpajamas.bsky.social ‘s poems now~~ “The wolf holds a ball of yarn in its mouth.] This is not a metaphor. This is not a fetch” —The Wolf 🐺 “They arrived in town with one million leaves eating at their skin. They asked abstract riddles, impossible puzzles” —караконджул 👹

Check out Autumn Rozario Hall’s collection in our third issue!

“As a child, I imagined the yakshini—beautiful and terrible, with backward-facing feet and an insatiable hunger for mischief—perched among the highest branches, watching us with eyes that glowed in the dark” — @hafsarizvi.bsky.social ‘s CNF “The Mango Tree Whispers.”

“4.) Avoid perfect circles of natural objects. Oh, you’re pretty sure you already wandered through a circle of goose feathers?” — KM Baysal’s flash “Tips for Meandering in the (Fairy) Woods While Nursing a Broken Heart” 🧚‍♀️

“The previous owner had been exuberant in their plantings, and the bottom edge of our property is filled with young birches. I was worried they would grow up and block our view, and suggested cutting them down, but my husband had protested” —from Hillary McDonald‘s short story “The Leaf” 🍃

Ahhhhhh! Congrats, @aniking.bsky.social !! We 🫶🏻 you!!

“I am an aging dragon, fire-spent, crack-tooth’d, ashy-throated, / with tattered wings and crippled claws;”— from A. Waller Hastings‘ poem “My Life as a Chinese Restaurant Placemat1” 🐉

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Check out Sophie Jonas-Hill’s art in issue 3!

“Dead, slimy fish decorated this leviathan and knowing that to this raised place the dead come along to call it home, I shivered from a chill not caused by the cold sea breeze” — Joseph Eli Occeño’s flash, “That Thing in the Sea” 🦑

“Pick ‘em when they ask to be picked, says she. Sara, who has won so many gardening contests, people no longer seek her participation. Because of her taciturn responses and general failure to share her magic, she is no longer sought after” — Joanne Godley‘s flash, “Root Tender”

“Mama said she don’t believe in mood rings, but there’s a whole lotta things Mama don’t believe in, like washing hair every night, or throwing food away just cause the packaging say to” — Jamie Good’s short story, “What Makes a Sound Like That” ✨

“Fireworks make gold ornaments in the sky, and some of them rain down on roofs catching fire. It would be magical if it didn’t ruin half the town.” — read Lenny DellaRocca’s poem, “The Flashing of Tambourines” in issue 3 now!

“The Huldra, the text read, is a forest spirit and seductress. She is beautiful, but under her long dress she hides a tail, usually that of a cow, but sometimes a fox. The Huldra can also have a hollow back like a rotted-out tree.” Go read!!

“There are two perspectives on this. One is that nature is so robust that no matter what happens, it will come back to its original state. Maybe by disturbing the disturbance.” And the other…? Folklore, ecosystems, and balance. @swati2610.bsky.social in @folklorereview.bsky.social

From creation folklore to ecological paradoxes, one thread remains - the delicate balance between nature and us. Read my piece ‘The Balance of Chaos’ @folklorereview.bsky.social ✨️ www.folklorereview.com/swati-singh-... ✨️ #writingcommunity #nature

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I am super excited to feature my nonfiction @folklorereview.bsky.social and thank you so much for the opportunity <3!! #folklore #nonfiction #writing

Issue 3 is LIVE! Spread the news! Like! Share! And, of course, check out all on the phenomenal work in this (amazingggg) issue!! 🥳 #folklorereview #folklore #literary #literaryfiction #prose #poetry #art #nonfiction #flash

Issue 3 is launching June 20th (for the summer solstice, OF COURSE)!!! 😜

Decision letters are going out! We had to make some hard decisions for this issue, especially since we had more submission than expected (we 🫶🏻 you all for that)! We’re so excited for this issue and can’t wait for you all to check it out June 20th!

subs are CLOSED!!! Thanks to everyone who submitted! We had a REALLY great turnout and can’t wait to start reading!

HEY! OUR SUBS CLOSE TOMORROW!! SO, UM, GO SUBMIT!!!

HEY! Our mailbox has been filling up so much with your (fantastic) work that we had to make an update to the submission deadline so that we can give each piece careful consideration for this issue! WE LOVE THIS ENERGY, so please keep sending us your work until May 4th (our new deadline)!!

I've got a newsletter coming out on Monday (link in bio) - including Part 1 of a new course exploring the how, where and why of submitting your writing to mags and anthologies. + Writing prompts, sub opps, & shoutouts to @exposedbonemag.bsky.social @sjtownend.bsky.social @folklorereview.bsky.social

Spread the word! 🗣️

Our managing editor (Lena) and flash editor (Gideon) went to the University of Southern Mississippi for Creative Writing Day and made these masterpieces. They’re refrigerator worthy, right? (yes.) Also, SEND US YOUR WORK! We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 😜

We wanted to make some prompts that are very open to interpretation (one words will be coming your way). Here’s the first: breakfast🥞 Let us know what that sparks for you (and if you like this prompt style/ what else you’d like to see from us)! #literary #literarymagazine #prompt

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