In researching various birds for the novel, I found this quote about young kingfishers that I am quite fond of.

"It’s the flapper dress, skirt hiked, strappy shoe flexed on the Roadster’s running board. You think you might look a little like her?" Brilliant shift from microscopic to wider view in this micro from @noramaynard.bsky.social

I’m excited to have a new micro in the Spring issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social Thanks to eds @marylynnreed.bsky.social & Lesley C Weston for including me moonparkreview.com/issue-35-spr...

Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social and @mizuki-yama.bsky.social for including “Not What the Living Think’ 😘

Cool stickers from our local izakaya, Lucky Cat

My great-grandparents w/ 2 of my granddad’s older sibs, Co. Limerick, around 1909. My great-grandma’s name was Sinaid O’Connor ☘️🇮🇪

Cat and mouse. Just found this old pic of 16-year-old me fresh from Disneyland with my grandmother’s elegant guy.

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Contributor copy of Moon City Review 2026! @mooncityreview.bsky.social Thank you to editor @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social for including my work. Looking forward to reading all the amazing writers in this issue!

Good gracious / cat is bodacious

AWP Book Inspector, Joey Ramone, says all volumes appear to be in good order! @sejalshah.bsky.social @marchxness.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @alternatingcu.bsky.social @mooncityreview.bsky.social

Take a postcard and send it to us! If you’re at AWP, stop by @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social (table T603) We’ll post our favorites here! (All work will be considered for publication too!)

Badge. Check. Tote bag. Check. Maryland crab button. Check.

Reading at 6 and 8 tonight alongside these wonderful writers!

Reading with these wonderful folks one week from today :).

Memory unspools in Adam McOmber’s “Things That Are Ghosts” READ it in our Winter issue and LISTEN to it read by special guest Ed Herbstman in our companion podcast, pod-ette, where @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats with Adam about his writing process www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m...

This looks amazing! Just signed up! @shipmanagency.bsky.social www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/work...

Time stops, slips, and speeds on a snowy highway in “Speak of the Woman” by Marc Kaufman READ it in -ette Issue 7 & LISTEN in pod-ette Episode 7, where @melaniehoopes.bsky.social chats with Marc about the decades-long journey he took with the work www.ettereview.com/winter2026/k...

When haves and have-nots collide…. We love all the leaps and pivots in this sharp, tiny gem, “Rubbing Elbows,” by Theodore Heil Theodore’s debut chapbook, Movements, is now available from Bottlecap Press! www.ettereview.com/winter2026/h...

Can’t, I’m smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo

Two prose poems by @laurencamp.bsky.social pulsing with quiet electricity: “The Bowl” & “A Spell Addressed to a Friend” Lauren served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate and is a past Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. www.ettereview.com/winter2026/c...

Brand new episode! Music by Chester Jankowski ❤️

New issue!

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Join us for our very first in-person reading! Featuring @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Laura Cronk Theodore Heil @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social Devan Murphy @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social

“It started with what everyone once thought I should hide: my scar.” This beauty by @noramaynard.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social.💙

"I could hide behind being a monster: I never had to speak." @noramaynard.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Leonard Cohen Iggy Pop JACK Quartet Barry Harris PJ Harvey

I’m excited to have a micro-excerpt from my novel-in-progress in this issue. Thrilled to be in such great company! Finding an under 200-word, freestanding section to extract and submit was a difficult —but rewarding—challenge. Big thank you to eds. @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social !

The moon and New York City

Annual Xmas viewing of Bell, Book and Candle 🐈‍⬛🌲🎥🗿

This is how it begins.

Belated Caturday Advent Calendar bsky.app/profile/drka...

Excited to have an acceptance from @moonparkreview.bsky.social !

It's #blackfriday here at the ILT: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2nd Dublin edn.) Two single-sided black pages face each other at pp. 56-57. "The ‘blackness’ is printed on both sides of the leaf with what appears to be a solid woodblock." The Laurence Sterne Trust

Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees! Jessica Barlevi @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Devan Murphy Emma Raimondo Mathieu Cailler Laura Cronk @suzyeynon.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner

Excited!!!

Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! Laura Cronk @suzyeynon.bsky.social @amyholman.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social Emma Raimondo Nora Esme Wagner

@jonmcgregor.bsky.social thank you for a great workshop Saturday and the helpful notes today! PS I think I might have found an available copy of your missing book online!

Subs close tomorrow, November 27!

Last call for 2025! One more week to submit!

Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️ Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words Deadline: November 27 No fee Click thru for full details ettereview.com/submit/

“When she tours a potential listing, she stands in front of the widest window and worries when an earthquake will hit.” Risk shakes up the beauty and stillness of the Hollywood Hills in “Death in Los Angeles,” a moody micro by Emma Raimondo Read it in our new issue! ettereview.com/fall2025/rai...

🎧Listen to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social Hoopes interview @mattleibel.bsky.social and read his story aloud in our companion podcast, pod-ette! open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

The past shrinks to miniature and nostalgia swirls in @mattleibel.bsky.social’s hypnotic micro, “How to Buy a Snow Globe.” Read it in our Roulette issue! ettereview.com/fall2025/lei...