Dina L. Relles
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writer • editor • road-tripper dinarelles.com
if you need me, i’ll be reading jack gilbert poems by lake wallenpaupack
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Anna Vangala Jones
about 1 month ago
I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
& the
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
editors ♡
bendinggenres.com/dishes/
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Anna Vangala Jones
about 2 months ago
find someone who loves you the way I love my own rough drafts immediately after writing them
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get someone who looks at you like timothy olyphant looks at jennifer garner in catch and release
about 2 months ago
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Sabrina Hicks
3 months ago
It’s my pub day!! I appreciate the support of this literary community. Get your copy today! Thank you to AV
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Beth Gilstrap (she/her)
3 months ago
There Is News Along The Ohio River is #8 with a bullet! Come on friends, let’s move it up for April! Thanks to everyone who has purchased, read, shared, or sent me a kind note about it. I really am getting a lot of positive feedback. Go little book, go! 😘
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i want that pick-you-up-at-the-airport kind of love
3 months ago
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SarahJSloat
4 months ago
stay tender somehow a reminder from
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Anna Vangala Jones
5 months ago
I’ll never manage to pull it off every day but any morning that starts with me reading & writing is always the best
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late February and all i do is tap little texts to my ex-boyfriend in the winter storm
5 months ago
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Anna Vangala Jones
5 months ago
I have a tiny new micro today in
@bulbregion.bsky.social
. grateful to
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
& any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃
bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪
5 months ago
AWP 💥 BALTIMORE 🚨 Mark your calendars‼️ It’s all happening on March 4. See you there?
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i miss you most when it snows
6 months ago
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Split/Lip Press
6 months ago
DEADLINE EXTENSION! We've had several folks reach out who'd appreciate a little more time to get their applications together. So we're extending the application window through 11:59pm CT on January 18th. Use your holiday weekend wisely!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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the damn shame of it is how hard it is to find a man who can spell
6 months ago
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The Bulb Region
6 months ago
THE BULB REGION is now online! 🚀🚀🚀 Make sure to read our four inaugural pieces at:
www.bulbregion.com
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why isn’t it hopeful romantic
6 months ago
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matchbook literary magazine
6 months ago
Subs are open until Jan 12!
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Submit to matchbook (a project of matchbook literary magazine). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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Dan Crawley
6 months ago
"I’m having an affair with distance. The morning house is settled and known. I sip coffee, listen to the lonely call of the 4am freight train,...." My lord. I love, love this piece by
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
so much. In
@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
💙💙💙
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Mechanical Pencils | matchbook
https://www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/mechanical-pencils
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said i love you to a stranger outside the thrift store the other day
6 months ago
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Nate's Myth
6 months ago
how am I supposed to take a year seriously when it starts on a Thursday
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maybe they call it yearning because it persists year after year after year
6 months ago
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HAD
7 months ago
start the new year off with this little poem of heartbreak & beauty & hope Bre D'Alessio South
https://www.havehashad.com/0kwmp
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Sarabande Books
7 months ago
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
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Split/Lip Press
7 months ago
GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor
@egreenberg.bsky.social
+ our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!
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i’m sorting through old fragments of texts + ephemera & am thoughtful about this bit by Sarah Manguso: “I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.” i’m not there yet. endless love to all of you ruminating on + reveling in another ending 🤎
7 months ago
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just over here reading old love letters and listening to sad songs and crashing coffee cups to the ground as the year is about to turn
7 months ago
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R.E.M.
7 months ago
Michael, NYC 1986 📸 Ebet Roberts
@michaelstipe.bsky.social
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Anna Vangala Jones
7 months ago
after submitting & publishing only one or zero stories per year since my book four years ago, I am proud to say I had 9 new stories (+1 reprint) published in some very wonderful journals in 2025. thanks so much to the editors & readers. you can find links at my website:
annavangalajones.com/writing/
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Noemi Press
7 months ago
Submissions for the 2026 Noemi Press Book Award open on January 2nd Get those manuscripts ready, poets!
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phillip crymble
7 months ago
A reminder from Charles Olson, who was born on this day in 1910
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Lori Cramer
7 months ago
"Every day, I drive by the tattoo parlor I don't go in for the tattoo I'll never get." Read
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
in
@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
. And don't forget to read the Author's Note.
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matchbook | Home
https://matchbooklitmag.com
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Timothy C Goodwin
7 months ago
“How madly I will love any faraway thing” made me stop reading, look out the window, and dream of a life where I wrote such killer lines. An incredible piece by
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
in
@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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i wrote this piece long ago +
@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
was kind enough to give it new life, which somehow suits all this year-end wistfulness. grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍
add a skeleton here at some point
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i don’t know who i am if i’m not falling in love
7 months ago
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HAD
7 months ago
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year. open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.) especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings" all genre 500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
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🤎💔
7 months ago
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i love how the diner is always open
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pirates, but pronounced like pilates
7 months ago
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Miriam Gershow
8 months ago
Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!! My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
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Pat Foran
8 months ago
“Many years ago, I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)” “If you ask me about love, I’ll..”
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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Departures | matchbook
https://www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
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always sit at the bar
8 months ago
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Anna Vangala Jones
8 months ago
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to
@aaronburch.bsky.social
, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
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“The moment we are living in may be lovely, but if we ‘can’t wait’ for some other time, do we miss it?” — Naomi Shihab Nye
8 months ago
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lovely prominent placement for
@ambersparks.bsky.social
at
@strandbookstore.bsky.social
UWS!
8 months ago
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Catherine Rockwood
8 months ago
If you want a _very_ brief poem this morning,
@havehashad.com
and I can provide.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/in-...
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HAD
8 months ago
got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
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Emma Sloley
8 months ago
This
@literaryhub.bsky.social
glory days of Literary Twitter bracket is very amusing if you, like me, were way too online in a very specific book nerd way back in the day - if the words bad art friend, shitty media men & cat person mean anything to you, go vote! 😊
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What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 3*
Welcome to the third day of voting! We’re down to just 16, and it’s getting harder for me to discern how this thing will shake out, to be honest. Unsurprisingly, a few top seeds remain—bad art frie…
https://lithub.com/what-was-literary-twitter-the-bracket-day-3/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KAE9KBGG1DN03R4ACXS9TR5Z&_kx=54zGYzSVJ4iidpYaPzmmvdyOdmdoPHILVFr6_QPAh7o.U5D8ER
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i love you like the first snow of the season
8 months ago
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