“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...

🎧Listen to Melanie Hoopes interview Rachel—and bring the words to life in a reading—over at our companion podcast, pod-ette! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

In writer/pediatric ER doctor @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social’s stunner of an epistolary story, “Dear Dolores,” a doctor and a hospital billing clerk spin their wheels over email. Read it in our Roulette issue! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/kow...

The work in this new issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is just extraordinary. Cannot recommend it highly enough. 💚💙💜🧡❤️

“I call my dead cat, whisper his name into the plastic receiver.” In @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s “Landlines,” a one-way conversation on a disconnected phone spins a constellation of uncanny connections. Read it in our Roulette issue! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/eyn...

“‘Can I go with you?’ The woman in a ‘Frida Kahlo for President’ shirt asked, on a whim.” Read these two spinningly surrealistic charmers by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social: “When Do Dahlias Bloom?” & “The Search” in our new Roulette issue www.ettereview.com/fall2025/diaz/

“Why is my daughter chosen? Dancers do impossible things.” In Laura Cronk’s “The Chance,” the fate of humanity rests on one last, mythic game. Read it in our new Roulette issue! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/cro...

Blessèd Samhain, everyone! We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

A spooky story of mine 🛋️ www.pangyrus.com/fiction/back...

Uh-oh!

New episode just dropped! @melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them. Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

Excited to share my story "How to Buy a Snowglobe" in the very cool-looking new issue of -ette. Thanks to @noramaynard.bsky.social and @bybethhahn.bsky.social for showcasing my work, and to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social for performing my story and interviewing me for her podcast!

-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/ Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by: Laura Cronk @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Emma Raimondo

Just voted. As young woman walked up to the table, one of the poll workers announced loudly “First time voter here, folks!” The entire high school gymnasium broke out in cheers and applause 💙

We’ll be reopening for submissions for an unthemed issue tomorrow We 💙 flash, micros & prose poems <1000 words

Happy 9th foster-fail-aversary to Joey Ramone!

Excited to get an acceptance from @gonelawn.bsky.social !

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! 🍁🥧🇨🇦

Artists & writers — want to turn your visuals into stories? 🖌️✍️ Prompt: “A lost object.” Creative Writing for Visual Artists — spots still open! bit.ly/434InVZ @svanyc.bsky.social @nathanfoxy.bsky.social #CreativeWriting #ArtistsWhoWrite #CreativePractice #CreativeWriting #StoryPrompt

Watching that scene in The Hunger where Catherine Deneuve visits all her departed loves in coffins in her attic. Thinking of all my killed manuscript darlings and how they all stir ever so slightly when I reopen their files

My sister and I always used to hang around the magazine rack reading MAD while our mom grocery shopped. Today I had to stop and LOL again

Went to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live today at BAM with Stephen Colbert as special guest

Excited to get an acceptance from @hexliterary.bsky.social!