"I kept the tooth in my pocket all night, feeling it through the fabric while I watched my parents orbit each other like two planets that forgot they were supposed to share gravity." Read "Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras! Art: “Ya Big Baboon” by Matthew Fertel

Not a trick, but rather a treat! We will be open for ALL genres October 30-31st!

"If he was the egg. Or the frying pan. Or the man he was, or could have been. All I know is this: he scrambled it anyway." Read the full "The Odds" by Emily Portillo on our website! Art: “Spring’s Coming” by Yan Jiang

When you clear the leaves, you'll see our Fall 2025 Issue is here! Featured Contest Winners 🍁"The Odds" by Emily Portillo (Poetry) 🍁"Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras (Fiction) 🍁"Orange Juice" by @dfcohen.bsky.social (Flash) Fiction 🍁"Terminal Break" by Emily Drew

The wait is over... Congratulations to our Best of Net 2026 nominees! Cortez @manateevanity.bsky.social Rachel Dorn Annastacia Stegall Sarah Burke Sullivan Jordan Eric Roy Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey Garth Pavell Ruby Wang Ara Deinde Sewkhy Tan

"Lucky for him something in me is like a sheep with a bell. But not all of me. And lately the clapper’s started going wonky, almost like an alarm." Read more of "Bitters" by Sarah Bess Jaffe on our website! Art: “Contrite Respite” by Brooke Walker

"The sun hit the cloudbank a fist’s width above the horizon and swelled enormously, pregnant with its own death, melting, bleeding, then spilling into the sea, metal and crucible as one..." - @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social "r/Hell" Art: “Harpies” by Rollin Jewett

“She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive. To recalculate your odds.” @andreabishop.bsky.social in @psmokejournal.bsky.social www.peatsmokejournal.com/summer-2025-...

It's almost sweater season... What's up your sleeve? We are OPEN for submissions for ALL genres!

"She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive." Read "Our Goldfinch Math Doesn't Add Up" by @andreabishop.bsky.social on our website! Art: “Queencard” by Lindsay Liang

An honor to be a finalist! Thank you so much, @psmokejournal.bsky.social 🙏💚💜💙❤️

Congrats to the winners of the @psmokejournal.bsky.social Summer Editor's Prize! 👏 Delighted to be a finalist & be included in the next issue, in such fine company! 🥰

Our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest has come to an end! We'd like to thank everyone for their submissions- it made our job so hard! Without further ado, here are our winners!

In case you've missed it... we are OPEN for art submissions!

"Paris and Pulitzer Prizes are good pearls for other pails. Only let me have eternity in the overalls of the ordinary." Read "Full on Empty" by Angela Townsend if you are feeling toot-avoidant! Art: "Lamb3" by Katie Lamb

Huge congratulations to Jennifer S. Lange for being selected for Best of Net 2025 with "Sticks and Stones" which was featured in our Winter 2024 Issue! Hurrah!

Calling all poets! We are reopening our 2025 Summer Editor's Contest for poetry through this Friday, 8/8! We can't wait to see what you send our way!

Check out some really cool work by emerging artists and writers! (Including myself, haha)

There are only a few hours left on our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest! Submit on our website!

We have been FLOODED with amazing pieces for our 2025 Summer Editor's Competition! Don't forget the competition closes tomorrow! We would love to hear from you!

So excited to be included in this lineup. Thanks @psmokejournal.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ Looking forward to reading the other stories.

"The party ends. The aftertaste lingers." Read "The Host Family" by Rachana Pathak on our website today for a story that lingers! Art: “Novalis 2025” by Milena Makani

Our Summer 2025 Issue is HERE! www.peatsmokejournal.com FLASH: ☀️Rachana Pathak ☀️Angela Townsend ☀️ @andreabishop.bsky.social FICTION: ☀️ @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social ☀️Sarah Bess Jaffe ☀️Caroline Okello ART: ☀️Rollin Jewett ☀️Brooke Walker ☀️Lindsay Liang ☀️Jennifer Lamb ☀️Subarna Talukder Bose

Our Summer 2025 Issue, launching TOMORROW, is definitely bringing the heat. Please enjoy this beautiful art piece, "Lamb3", by Jennifer Lamb which was selected for the cover!

We would like to extend a big congratulations to William Hawkins for being selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 with "How Well You Know the Art of Love" which was published in our Winter 2024 Issue!

In just a few short hours, our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest will be live! The contest will last from July 1st-August 1, 2025. Find more information on our pinned post and our website!

“Because you don’t have to be dead to leave a ghost.” If you need a hit to the heart, try “Eulogy for a Living Uncle”, a flash piece, by J. Condra Smith. Art: “8” by Migyoung Yun

OK having a good day so I'm posting one more—"When Stars Are Just Stars" started with a moment Mabel and I shared in Flagstaff then became something far different. Grateful to @psmokejournal.bsky.social for picking it up (oh gosh what is time) two years ago! www.peatsmokejournal.com/summer-2023-...

"Turtle Balloons" by Stephen Mirabito is great for a day of wonder in the relentless mundane. Check it out! “The census is coming up. There is a loophole to get out of any parking citation.” Art: “The Part of Dorothy’s Fever Dream that Went Untold” by Thad DeVassie

Read @pegahouji.bsky.social 's mind-reeling "Hayoula" on our site! "She reads her daughter’s books twice, running her index finger along the edges, hoarding all the paper cuts for herself. She scours the pages for Hayoula claw prints..." Art: “Llorando a Rodón en Butoh; 2” by Jorge Luna

We are closed for submissions until July 1st to ramp up for our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest which will run July 1-August 1, 2025! We are so excited for your entries!

Congratulations to our wonderfully talented contributors Tara Isabel Zambrano, @aniking.bsky.social , and Cathy Ulrich whose work was chosen for Best Small Fictions!

Sink your teeth into this flash by @aniking.bsky.social ! "Because Pastor said it doesn’t matter if our eyes are closed if we pray with our whole hearts, Tattletale, worry about your own eyes." Art: "Lure" by Madison Huffman

We are back OPEN for submissions! Submit on our website! www.peatsmokejournal.com/submit

A repetitive flash is always cool for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 😎 Flash Reader @aniking.bsky.social published a fast-paced story about waiting and longing in @psmokejournal.bsky.social : buff.ly/joi9gDd

My newest short story “Little Drama” is part of this fantastic issue! Thanks to Peatsmoke for giving it a home

Incredible news! Sammi Chiyao has been awarded the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers with "Corn Soup" which debuted in our Fall 2024 Issue! Congratulations, Sammi! Art: "Memory of Bliss" by Lindy Giusta

We are closed for submissions from today, May 1st, to May 15th! We can't wait to hear from you again soon!

"Reaction Times" by the brilliant @fionaemckayryan is featured in our latest issue! Here's a snippet👇 "A quick glance around shows her there’s no one to witness her motherhood." Read the full piece on our website. Art: “Colornea_2024” by Cynthia Yatchman

Thank you ❤️ to the lovely @psmokejournal.bsky.social for publishing this story And thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness where this story started and to editing month this year which made me make a revision spreadsheet and edit, edit, edit!!

Grateful to @psmokejournal.bsky.social for publishing "The Landing," which is part of a novel but I think stands alone as a story. Dig the art they paired with it. www.peatsmokejournal.com/spring-2025-...

Our Spring 2025 Issue is in bloom! Check out more of our features! POETRY 🌷Liam Chimba 🌷Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey 🌷Lauren Mallett 🌷Ben Groner III 🌷Garth Pavell 🌷Justin Lacour NONFICTION 🌷Simon Kelley 🌷 Annastacia Stegall ART 🌷Dominique Elliott 🌷Sewkhy Tan 🌷Thad DeVassie 🌷Cynthia Yatchman

Our Spring 2025 Issue is in bloom! www.peatsmokejournal.com FLASH 🌷 @fionamckay.bsky.social 🌷 @aniking.bsky.social 🌷 @pegahouji.bsky.social 🌷Stephen Mirabito 🌷J. Condra Smith FICTION 🌷Jamey Gallagher 🌷@manateevanity.bsky.social 🌷Brian Lynch 🌷Alan Ackman 🌷Ea Anderson

In less than 24 hours, our Spring 2025 Issue will be live! Get a taste of it with the cover art of the release: "Eternity And A Day" by Dominique Elliot!

PSA: Our Spring 2025 Issue will be live and ready to be devoured April 15th! We are so excited for you to get your hands on it. Stay tuned for more updates on the release!

Our noses have been BURIED in your submissions. We would like to thank everyone who sent in their amazing work! Now... back to the pages with more to come.

Whether you are looking to dive deeper into a story or art piece or looking for some advice for your own writing or art projects, our mini-interview section for our beloved contributors is a treasure trove! Check it out on our website!

I have two stories in this issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social (with audio so you can listen to me read it if you like) Both are from my forthcoming Novella-in-Flash, The Lives of the Dead. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness (October group) www.frazzledlit.com/p/zombies

In case you missed it, we are OPEN for submissions until March 31!