Yay, @esmepromise.bsky.social!! Working on this with you was a 2025 fav for me too!!

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025 What If Everything Is Already Ruined? by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/jessicaklimesh

Book mail!! Cannot wait to read!! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

Humans!!!!! What a gift of joy straight to my heart! We all know how tiring and hidden our work as editors and readers can be. How thrilling to be seen!! 💚😭💚 thank you @chillsubs.bsky.social for sharing this and thank you to the kind voter who left the comment!

Congratulations to all our nominees!! It has been an absolute honor to found Claudine and get to publish pieces of such quality! A dream come true. ✨ Extra shout out to @freybytheway.bsky.social: New Writer with a Pushcart nom!!! let’s goooooooo! 🔥

Excellent literature and hand-sewn volumes. 🤯 Friends, when I tell you the tactile and brain joy I’m feeling!

"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...

For those who like to keep up with the @claudinelitmag interns: Bubbles has found a home! 💚 As have Pickles and Moose. 💚Buttercup still waits tho. 🥺 Bay Area, humans, if you’re looking for a quality literary kitten, she’s at the peninsula humane society in Burlingame. 🤞🏼🤞🏼

“She used to be afraid of them, those unswerving cars, but she likes them better than the ones that stop, the ones that idle with their hazards blinking awaiting her slow approach.”

I must say, writer friends, reading your submissions has been the absolute best part of my year. What a gift! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Have you gotten yours?

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Get in!

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Do it! The SmokeLong Fellowship not only helped improve my writing, but it also made my hair glossier and my skin better*! *some statements may not be factual.

👻 “Eventually, and predictably, nudity doesn’t cut it. You can only look at so many boobs, so many butts, so much genitalia before you want to raise the stakes.” 👻

@jekwriter.bsky.social: “I peer out the front window and see a couple of neighbors waterskiing in the street and some kids playing Marco Polo.”

New micro CNF by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.” www.claudineliterary.net/heatheremman...

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🌟🐈‍⬛🌟: “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.”

@ezhang77.bsky.social: “When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it.”

“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”

“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”

✨🌟✨: “I always thought I’d see you again. But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.”

I am so excited for this to come out!

Our October issue drops on Monday!! 🎉 This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle. These are must-reads, humans! 📚🐈‍⬛💚 @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social

Would you look at this lineup? So chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social - @dehardy.bsky.social is so brilliant to work with! Can't wait for you to read my Dunedin story 💔. Congrats @jekwriter.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social Heather and Elizabeth!

This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.

Two amazing micro pieces by two amazing writers! @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!

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Send your beloved out of print subs to @abigailoswald.bsky.social! We want to print your book! ✨

Excited to talk about InkFoundry at the Sheep meeting this week! @erincairns.bsky.social has put together a great resource for finding stories to read. I love the tagging system. It's as easy as finding exactly what you want to read at AO3, but populated with top-notch original specfic!

Cannot wait!

This ⬇️ is the vibe right here, humans! Let’s gooooooooo!

Fantastic! @mynachang.bsky.social interviews @dehardy.bsky.social about the new lit mag Claudine! Love the section for emerging writers. mynachang.com/2025/09/05/e...

Banger! Loved learning more about Claudine and its EIC!

It’s true. I think this every time I open up [email protected]

Thank you, @mynachang.bsky.social!!!

“A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.’” — George Washington “You also had some very fine people on both sides.” — John Adams “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" — Alexander Hamilton

I've never sent out so many third-tier rejections (close to publication). So many killer flash in the queue these days. Keep sending your work. Our free submissions window is open until the end of the month!

thanks to everyone who has liked and shared this so far! reposting for those who may have missed it last night

Proud my fire season flash, What's Your Poison, is included!

Beyond thrilled to be in Ruby's pages. I hope you check it out. 🥧🍄🍾

"I said, “Hey, are you okay?” Our eyes connected for the first time, and you said, “Is anyone?” 💔❤️ Read this one by @tkrex.bsky.social in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

I have two stories in the new issue of amazing @literaryruby.bsky.social! And even better, so does my ridiculously talented daughter Nora! Thank you @april-bradley.bsky.social for publishing these. :) rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-...

"Yes, during Homecoming, he did erect a Confederate statue on the field while shouting a full-throated defense of eugenics into the loudspeaker. But what are we supposed to do? Buy entirely new sweatshirts?"

@tiffmzlee.bsky.social’s terrific CNF: “Through stilted translators and staticky early-2000s video quality, witnesses described how the sky lit up in flashes of red, violet, bright white. How they were told that the smoke was from a small fire at the plant, nothing to worry about.”

Seriously amazing CNF by @dianelp.bsky.social “Our family didn’t do things like get in the car and drive thirty miles, the same thirty miles our dad had just driven home from his job in the factory.”

"bodies blue like water or summer sky, blue as if Matisse painted them, blue like a uniform, blue like glass bottles and oxford shirts, blue like Dad’s eyes" Everyone go read this gorgeous story by @aniking.bsky.social!!

Just gorgeous work by @yana.quest “My reflection stared back up at me from the water. A skink? Bleeding orange hues from the setting sun lent a sparkle to my reflection incongruous with my dull finish.”