'...still when Jake calls I feel a lurch in my chest that makes me understand why apothecaries and poets once believed that emotions reside in the heart.' Stunner by @kimmagowan.bsky.social @passagesnorth.bsky.social #fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

‘…I feel a lurch in my chest that makes me understand why apothecaries and poets once believed that emotions reside in the heart.’ A tiny beauty from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @passagesnorth.bsky.social 🎶 www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

As a sci-fi conceit, Jamie A.M.’s “𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” (𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡) hints at its world-destroying-horrors enough to establish huge stakes, but it clothes them in the distance of a million light years away, in the benign tutelage of family tradition (mom's a star eater, too). @passagesnorth.bsky.social

🍃 Announcing the winner of our Waasnode Fiction Award: Crystal Odelle for “The Big Show”! This short will be published in our next print edition of Passages North. Thank you to this year’s Waasnode judge Megan Milks for their careful consideration and choosing our winner.

🍀 Here they are! Congrats to our Waasnode Fiction Award finalists! The winner will be announced soon. Huge shout out to our wonderful fiction team for narrowing the list and our judge Megan Milks for reading these fantastic selections! 🦕

OMG! Still in shock

🦋 Announcing the winner of our Neutrino Short-Short Award: Benjamin Niespodziany for “Inside the Inside”! This short will be published in our next print edition of Passages North. Thank you to this year’s Neutrino judge Zachary Schomburg for his careful consideration and choosing our winner.

“I want to take something that tilts their universe a few more degrees. Something they can’t simply shrug away.” Brilliant flash from @ericscottryon.bsky.social in @passagesnorth.bsky.social www.passagesnorth.com/the-things-w...

So excited and honored to be in this newest issue of the always wonderful @passagesnorth.bsky.social!! 🙏🏼 Story can also be found online! 👇🏼 www.passagesnorth.com/the-things-w...

"Maybe I like that my impact will be felt far after I’m gone." The way this story escalates is priceless! Poignant and darkly fun. @ericscottryon.bsky.social @passagesnorth.bsky.social

Thank you to Angela Voras-Hills for sharing the origin of "Zack Morris is a Grade-A Douchebag" (which wins best poetry title of the year award) published in @passagesnorth.bsky.social & check out the picture of her getting off the bus in kindergarten! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poems-orig...

Good morning on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🌞 If you like short pieces with a lotta ❤️ then catch Memoir Editor @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social's "Top Surgery Triptych" in Issue 47 of @passagesnorth.bsky.social: buff.ly/8PSGCLj

🦪 NEW bonus content just dropped!! Check out today’s poem, “A Flock of Scallops” by Zebulon Huset!! Link to read: www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

obsessed with the new @passagesnorth.bsky.social, my road trip story (possibly my favorite vehicle, pun intended, for conflict — let me lock those characters up!!), & the incredible work of my issuemates, including @ericscottryon.bsky.social, @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social & @liamhegarty.bsky.social

Many thanks to @passagesnorth.bsky.social for sharing my short piece, “At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base,” online! Read the full piece here! #flashprose #flashcnf #writersky #micro #booksky

💫 Issue 47 is now live on our website!! Select pieces are available to read online!! Check them out and support our awesome contributors!! www.passagesnorth.com/issue-47

💫 CONTESTS CLOSING SOON! 💫 More information (submission guidelines, interviews with our lovely judges) available on our website! Link to the Submission Page: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/

🌭 NEW BONUS CONTENT!! Check out Paula Brancato’s “Chuffalo Buffalo” now live on our website! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

@passagesnorth.bsky.social is a dream pub for me because it's one of, like, three lit mags I'd actually heard of before I started doing all this. And here it is: "I Don't Need Your Whole Life Story," a piece about a guy who fakes his own death and it works so great he just keeps doing it.

oh look who has a short story in the latest @passagesnorth.bsky.social 👀 if you like light erotomania and/or heteropessimism, this one is for you!

Our free submission option is now available!! Link: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/16393...

It’s been a long wait, but just got my beautiful issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social 😍 And someone drew me a mango 🥹🥭

💫 CONTESTS CLOSING SOON! 💫 More information (submission guidelines, interviews with our lovely judges) available on our website! Link to the Submission Page: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/

Copy of @passagesnorth.bsky.social with a poem of mine showed up recently. Thought I'd share.

Check out Lys Grainer’s “The Dog on the Stairs” now live on our website!! @lysgranier.bsky.social thank you for this wonderful short! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

Beyond proud to have my flash hybrid piece, At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base,” out at @passagesnorth.bsky.social. This piece was a tribute to my fellow military brat classmates. ♥️ #writersky #writesky #cnf #flashprose

🦢 Check out James D’Agostino’s “American Molten” up now on our website! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

I'm pleased that my short story "Sheepskin" is in the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social. It's about frustration, dogs, and paint colors! Check out the print copy!

Thrilled to hold the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social with my piece “Your Gods” published alongside the words of some brilliant writers. #amwriting #literaryjournals

Tomorrow, two new pieces will be available on the website (one being a comic strip), but before then, don’t miss these two amazing prose poems by The Bulb Region writer Elena Zhang (@ezhang77.bsky.social), recently published in @passagesnorth.bsky.social. www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display... Check it out on the passages website! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why. Read it now on our website! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

Hey you! You should go pre-order Anthony Thomas Lombardi's debut "murmurations"! Anthony was a contributor for our 43 issue. Preorder here: www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page...

Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “'On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel' is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the genre so enticing." Check it out below! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

Today's the day! I know you've been procrastinating on getting those poems/essays/short-shorts submission ready, but speak now or forever hold your peace!

Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize! Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests

Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take." Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

Act fast! Only 5 days left to submit to our poetry and CNF contests! passagesnorth.com/contests

Back by popular demand! Show off your exquisite taste in literary magazines this summer! Snag a Passages North t-shirt or baseball cap today! We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast! Check out the link in our bio to find the store!

Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury. www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

We are so thrilled to see contributor @erindorney.bsky.social new book "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" out in the world from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social !! Congrats, Erin!!!

We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North! More info at passagesnorth.com/contests

Shorts team lead Jordan Vines on today’s short: "Apocalypse is a genre all too familiar. And yet, “The Movie Theater at the End of the World” invites us to experience the end like a good film: tinged with nostalgia; a blissful memory of how the world used to be." Check it out at passagesnorth.com

Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15

Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen. Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com

WE LOVE THIS SHORT-SHORT ABOUT DAD SHORTS!!!!

Delighted to be in this issue with so many great writers!

Issue 46 of Passages North is now available! Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more! Get your copy today!

That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!

Get your poems and essays ready! Passages North's CNF and poetry prizes open this weekend! Check out passagesnorth.com/contests for more info!