This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Yellow Gifts" by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...

Yeah, this one's a must read. From @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social and A Strange Object. Believe the hype. store.deepvellum.org/products/nor...

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

College basketball gets more like the NBA every year. More scoring, fewer slow-it-down teams, threes and layups. On the one hand, I miss the wider variety of styles. On the other, a bunch of great games less than a week in.

Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is... Words: NINA Y. MORAGON HAL WRIGHT @meliseliz.bsky.social RACHEL EPHRAIM MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA @mooninabucket.bsky.social JENNY CHU CAROL ROSE LITTLE Cover art: SUSAN POLLET

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Check out my @fracturedlit.bsky.social interview by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

Hockey in a nutshell!

FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3

So happy to have a micro here today! What a lineup!

We've been trying to figure out how Ben writes pieces that feel fun and sometimes even silly but also ultimately moving and profound. Many hypotheses! But maybe the answer is just: magic. Really looking forward to diving in deeper this Sunday

ICYMI! Thrilled to be in these digital pages today.

I love @mrbullbull.bsky.social. And I really love being in their digital pages. Hope you'll give it a read!

Say the line.

Yeah, this is funny and odd and poignant. Read as soon as it comes across your feed.

Read this brilliant story in class today. I love every word. www.ceasecows.com/2023/05/18/t...

How can you not be Romantic about baseball?

Upcoming submission call! Theme "LUCK" In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry" guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

Stoked for October! Let's do this💪

anyway go see One Battle After Another in a movie theater, I know we said this about Oppenheimer but I mean it for real with this one, there are cinematographic and audio mixing things that are essential to the experience and you won't get it at home

Saw One Battle After Another today. Great film. Nails the spirit of Pynchon. I'm sure it'll get sucked up into the culture wars, but there's plenty of heartfelt complexity there for anyone willing to look.

The cat is the best part of this cuz notice how it is NOT HELPING But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

Spoke about CTE with my lit and sports class today, before seeing this news. These cases are gutting. And they are the result of years of rampant denialism and systematic efforts to put money and entertainment above human life. As in many other areas, we've normalized convenient indifference.

Pretty sure defiance is my literary love language. I love how this piece turns it triumphant and tragic.

And ICYMI and want to read it, I had this flash fiction out about space and time and other chances

I expect nothing less from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, but that seems kind of absurd, because things less than this are still brilliant and shiny and explosive. What I'm saying is this is all those things and more. I'm glad I read it today.

@kimmagowan.bsky.social is crushing this shit. If you need a little catharsis in your day (and if you don't, please teach me how you live), here's the right dose. Fiction fucking rules.

Nominated by @trampset.bsky.social for Best of the Net! #EpistemucLitFamily

The sky is raining popcorn! The carpet’s crying, the parrot won’t speak. Someone must have forgotten to traduce Josef K. This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

This floored me this morning. I didn't realize hospitals smelled like mashed potatoes, but they do. Also, the way the narrator is brought right up to the edge of epiphany. A great kind of flash.

This is a great story.

This one has an ending you can feel coming, which is why you want to stretch out the scenes that precede it and live in the details you can smell. They are vivid, and they make the slow, unfolding of tragedy almost bearable.

It wasn't easy, but here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2026!

Wrapping up Blurb Week for @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's GRAPHIC RAGE with love from @robhollywood.bsky.social, who will be joining Aubrey for conversation during her SLP Zoom launch on October 7th at 7pm CT--register for this free event at the link in our tree! www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage

This was my favorite thing today. I love the paragraph in the middle where a movie on the TV yields to a movie in the main character's head, illustrating the experience of a third character with all the force of reality. The tone swerves between profound significant and casual care-free, and it rips

stoked to be hosting a Very Literary Chat with @aaronburch.bsky.social and @jeffchon.bsky.social this Thursday, 9/11 at 6pm Pacific over at litmatchcollective.com come chat with us!

Annie Proulx, national treasure

Second day of Blurb Week for GRAPHIC RAGE by @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social, who'll be in conversation with the provider of these kind words, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social TONIGHT: 7:30pm at @stjoesny.bsky.social! (details on Maggie's page—she + Saeed Jones are touring for their book THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT)

Morning fiction! The best part about this one is how it goes from so physically aware (even paranoid) to so metaphysically surreal and back and around again. I don't know where I am at the end, but I like being there, even though it's a trap.

Baseball champagne problems: when you absolutely SHOULD win the division, but it's a long way before you DO win the division. It's all downside risk.

Alright, let's do two today. This one rips with my favorite kind of premise. Take an idea and gut it to its bones. And, in the midst of fill-in-the-blanks and brackets within parentheses (God, I love parentheses), there is that gorgeous detail about life as member of grocery store softball team.

Trying to post one of these a day to keep sane. Love the language here. "Odd dialect of vitals" such a good line. And the way this piece becomes almost a horror, the narrator haunted by guilt rather than corporeal form. Thanks, Andrea, and the ever-brilliant YIV.

Remember in Office Space when Michael Bolton is like, "Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks." Yup. He really, really does.

Really felt this one this afternoon. Some stories have a great last line. Some (like this one) have a great last line every line.

I'm a sucker for fast food shit (also, this would be great even if I weren't).

I think the US Open should give every fan a sandwich tomorrow. Worst case scenario, everyone watches the match a little less hungry, right?

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