Our poetry nominees for Best of Net: Quinn Rennerfeldt, Gbolahan Badmus, B. Montemayor, @suzchef.bsky.social LC Gutierrez, & Rowan Tate

Our fiction nominees for Best of Net: Nancy Connors & @sarlynh.bsky.social

Our Best of Net CNF nominees Rebecca Tiger & Angela Townsend!

Our Best of Net nominations!

What a month we had! We're still furiously reading through subs, so thank you for trusting us! Our August stats: 741 subs received 7 accepted 0.94% acceptance rate

"I remember a story he wrote about seaglass, followed by the words of Dybek whispered as foreplay. It isn’t easy to fall in love. There has to be strangeness." Avra Elliott's "Strange Like Me" trampset.org/strange-like...

"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison." @lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog" trampset.org/china-dog-68...

"I reach for it — the hand, the bloom, she disappears — fucile is a gun, a letter away from futile." Theodore Heil's "Dreambreak (Stanza Means Room)" trampset.org/dreambreak-s...

"I pretended Johnny Cash was my father and my father, like Johnny Cash, was finally dead so I could finally forgive him all the ways that he’d been mean and dismissive to me" @thedrevlow.bsky.social's "The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire" trampset.org/the-ghost-of...

"Because the sky still hangs its blue between the bombs. Because your mother’s voice is a compass needle trembling north." Oladosu Michael Emerald's "Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns" trampset.org/reasons-to-s...

"when the beluga shows up and offers me her child / first i have to learn the sign language for no and sonar for madness" Clifton Gachagua's "off to saint lucia" trampset.org/off-to-saint...

"we were happy under our dictator, unaware of the world, mistaking tadpoles for fish, skinning rabbits, stealing molasses from freight trains" Kanda Zinguri's "Arafats in D" trampset.org/arafats-in-d...

Our September issue is now live! trampset.org

My Autumn series of workshops open for bookings!! Hope there's something in here that catches your eye 🧐

We're back open to subs!

Friday will be here before you know it. Polish those subs & give us the feels.

We crossed 700 followers finally on this site! Let's keep it going! Reminder we reopen for subs next week. This month has flown by. Free sub option always available, and we pay $30/piece.

This month's #Mondettes picked by @jenwithwords.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Jenny made these brilliant picks 🪴Two fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/july-2025

We're halfway through our break. Subs reopen in Aug. Poetry, fiction, CNF. Free sub option always. We pay $30/piece. We want to read your work! And....we've been rereading our catalogue for awards season. It's that time again!

Our June stats: 418 submissions received 6 accepted 1.44% acceptance rate Reminder we are closed until roughly Aug 1st. (But we're actively reading for awards season!)

Huge congrats to our contributors on the Wigleaf Top 50 this year!

"I can’t give up on humanity, because when I drive by Taco Bell at ten p.m. on a Wednesday, the chalupa line wraps around the building twice." Angela Townsend's "The People Persevere" trampset.org/the-people-p...

"Memory has teeth. It bites. The venom is sweet — thick as syrup bled from old sins." Sabyasachi Roy's "Conversion Myth" trampset.org/conversion-m...

"Mother, forgive me for I have pluck-pulled petals from their stems, swept dirt beneath the altar steps, let the bees drown in a glass of sugared tea." Rowan Tate's "Anatomies" trampset.org/anatomies-bd...

"Go to church with her: don’t pretend that the holy water burns you when you walk in; don’t keep your eyes open during prayer; don’t put your pocket lint in the donation hat" Jordyn Damato's "The Process" trampset.org/the-process-...

"Whatever happened to Richard looking hot as hell in his bomber jacket, Marissa partying in a tutu, Lola marching for climate justice?" @nomad-sw18.bsky.social's "The things Shauna never knows, the things she does" trampset.org/the-things-s...

"and squeeze into it in the fitting room. Walking out I feel like a better man" @justinkarcher.bsky.social's "At Goodwill I Find a Tiny President Kamala Harris Shirt Hanging on the Kids Rack" trampset.org/at-goodwill-...

"A herd of deer slide-steps down the hillock of our yard, five Gene Kellys dancing, not in rain, not singing." Ace Boggess' "Don't Get the Wrong Idea" trampset.org/dont-get-the...

"Momma lights a Winston and says Miss Jasper next door doesn’t have kids since she never hooked a husband" @jhhwriter.bsky.social's "Miss Jasper" trampset.org/miss-jasper-...

"He whispered; we don’t need to know long-term efficacy of the treatment. Just touch me, he said, smiling" Gordon Taylor's "The Treatment Was an Infusion of Loam" trampset.org/the-treatmen...

Our June issue drops tomorrow! Featuring Gordon Taylor, @jhhwriter.bsky.social Ace Boggess, @justinkarcher.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Jordyn Damato, Rowan Tate, Sabyasachi Roy, & Angela Townsend. 🔥

Just finished this phenomenal latest collection from @writesofkathryn.bsky.social from Gold Line Press. You want this book, trust me. Wow. dornsife.usc.edu/goldlinepres...

Thank you all for the submissions! We are now closed until early August. In the meantime, we'll be reading subs & gearing up for awards season, starting w/ Best of Net.

Reminder we close later today for subs until Aug. We'll still be working behind the scenes, though, reading & responding to subs that make it in before we close.

Sorry for the short notice, but personal schedules have changed. We will shut down Friday night, so get those subs in while you can!

Reminder we're still accepting subs until the end of June. Then we close down for July. Free sub option always. We pay $30/piece. Guidelines here > trampset.org/submissions-...

Is there a flash story that you consider, not just good, but truly beautiful? #flashfiction

You still have time to submit before we close for the month of July. Free sub option always available. We pay $30/piece. Please read guidelines here > trampset.org/submissions-...

"The taxidermist liked to position her mother near the kitchen table while she made dinner, describing how her day had gone" @bsherm36.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review with a stunner x.com/moonrabbitca...

You are going to love our new piece by @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social! Check out “The Great Girl Evaporation of 2022.” lost-balloon.com/2025/06/04/t...

Our May submission stats, along with our guidelines if you'd like to submit. We'd love the chance to read your work.

"The elderly shuffle in slow arithmetic. Children dart with expertise, like minnows through the throng." "I see the world outside" by Snehal Bhadani trampset.org/i-see-the-wo...

"When she smiled, bells rang. When she yawned, wheels spun. When she kissed the air, rubber burned." "The Displaced Story" by @tombusillo.bsky.social trampset.org/the-displace...

"They held a parade in your honor, but you hadn’t vanished yet." "A Brief History of Your Absence" by Spencer Eckart trampset.org/a-brief-hist...

"I mailed my voice to the wrong decade / it came back wearing bell-bottoms and asking for my father" "the body forgets in parentheses" by @mollymemine.bsky.social trampset.org/the-body-for...

"The shadow knows I’m obsessed with Patti Smith’s Horses. Shouts DANCE LIKE YOU MEAN IT." "Behind the Siren" by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social trampset.org/behind-the-s...

"She maintains a beauty tendered like that of a felled tree consumed already from beneath." "A Note from Mom’s Hospital to Excuse My Absence" by LC Gutierrez trampset.org/a-note-from-...

"It’s a quiet time for the children, while the caterpillars are building their chrysalides, attached to the stomach walls." "Butterfly Time" by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social trampset.org/butterfly-ti...

"I find her behind the church, tiny in the dirt, curled up like a seashell." "The Baby" by @amykdebellis.bsky.social trampset.org/the-baby-297...

"Scott pops a wheelie in the schoolyard. And another. We watch until Marky rides up, ridiculous, on a tricycle." "Poppin" by Jeanne-Marie Fleming trampset.org/poppin-f2b0d...