Don't miss your opportunity to put your best work in front of one of the most passionate, author-friendly indie presses in the scene. Novellas have priority during this reading period! Shine up those cover letters, spellcheck and paginate that manuscript you put your whole heart into, and SUBMIT!

Woke up to an email every writer hopes to read: An indie press that I deeply admire requesting the full manuscript of my novella, Keel. My heart is full of gratitude, My stomach is ripe with nervous excitement. These are the kind of days we live for.

What an amazing opportunity - especially for writers and those passionate about our community! @bloominonionlit.bsky.social is talkin' the talk & walkin' the walk. This is what stewardship looks like. Don't see what you can take from indie lit, see what you can give! LFG!

I've been working on my third novella, Nor Lightsome Noon., which is a novella-in-flash - and I'm excited to say that I have now submitted my first-ever flash stories to @smokelong.bsky.social and @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. Alexa, play "Came Out Swinging" by The Wonder Years. Volume 11.

UPDATE: The application deadline for the 2027 FSG Writer’s Fellowship has been extended to July 13. The application period began on June 3, 2026, and will now end at 11:59 p.m. ET, July 13, 2026. More information about the fellowship and application process can be found at fsgfellowship.com

Went to submit a short story to @xraylitmag.bsky.social, upload my file, add tip jar tip, press submit: submission cap has been met. Submission opening time: 7:00 PM CTL Press submission button: 7:02 OM CTL lol Damn.

Exciting morning spent submitting my work to the amazing presses @splitlippress.com @conium.bsky.social @thesunmagazine.bsky.social @smallharborpub.bsky.social @electricliterature.com and Harpur Palate Literary Journal. Now, I have the great privilege to read some manuscripts for @thirtywestph.com

From my in-progress novella-in-flash, Nor Lightsome Noon. 15,000 words in!

Writers, please, research a press before submitting there. Read their mission statement, their about page, and spend some real time with their catalog. Be a good steward of your work and of the press. Everyone's time is valuable. This is a community, not a transaction. Act accordingly.

A very nice opening weekend for this book.

Welcome our latest member to TW! Dan Jones is an author of lyrical, voice-driven fiction & numinous poetry concerned with grief, faith, violence, memory, & spiritual fracture. Writing as Damn Jones, he is the author of two novellas, two short stories, & a poetry chap. @damnjones.bsky.social

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Another story of mine has seen the light of day. “Homecoming” a young adult woman returns home, only to leave the memories and traumas behind for good. See 1/2 of it here 👀 Give it a read at Sinkhole Quarterly issue 4, which is centered around rebellion. Thanks for reading and supporting. 🏚️🚗

@thirtywestph.com 2026 Book Manuscript submissions end Sunday July 5th! Do you have a manuscript that you're passionate about and believe may be a good fit for Thirty West? Then what are you waiting for? share.google/JIqUJbpLqed2... Novellas especially welcome!

Mail day! Support indie pressss like @reddirtpress.bsky.social. A home for Southern, rural short stories, poetry, novels, and the people who write them.

Pembroke Magazine. Let's go.

Author of two novellas, Propitiation. & Keel., the short story, "Sedna Says", and the poetry chapbook, Numinosity. Short story, "I Did Not Kill Aubrey Deacons.", to be featured in the upcoming July issue of @cre8space.bsky.social Porchlight: a Journal of Southern Literature.

Started my third novella last night and I'm about to write again on it. I'm so grateful for writing. It's entitled: Nor Lightsome Noon.

"And we spoke about the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost And which Psalms we had loved the most And then we all turned to dirt and dust"