Goodbye, 2025! 4425 subs received in 2025 73 accepted 1.50% acceptance rate We're grateful to you all! Stay tuned for exciting updates in 2026!

Thrilled that The Sunlight Press ranked #7 on the 2026 FISH (Finest Indie Story House) rankings! Special thanks to contributor and judge Sabrina Hicks for letting us know. www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....

In January 2026, The Sunlight Press will celebrate its 10th year! We couldn't do it without your support. Thank YOU! Find out more about our year end news and Microfiction nominees in our latest Editors' Note. bit.ly/4oQjPs9

new new: 2nd of '26: "Boy Detective," by Cameron Vanderwerf: wigleaf.com

In The Village, Scott Garson talks about wigleaf and what he's always wanted to tell submitters. Not a Villager? It just take a couple of minutes to join. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/94878282

The brilliant @charliefish.bsky.social's second annual FISH list is out! 4,000 magazines, 14 different criteria, all indie lit goodness. Check it out here: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Experimental Flash Fiction feat. @pinehillsreview.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Please join us in congratulating our Best Small Fictions 2026 nominees: @saipradhan.bsky.social, @francinewitte.bsky.social, @laurabesley.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and @happilander.bsky.social 😍 Read their stories here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/proje... #namjooning

In The Village, Scott Garson talks about wigleaf and what he's always wanted to tell submitters. Not a Villager? It just take a couple of minutes to join. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/94878282

‪For anyone just joining us, here's a roundup of our values, community and plans✨ Although we value meeting in person, we also host quarterly online open mics so anyone can take part, wherever they are💛 #writingcommunity #europe

Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...

🗞️ NEWSFLASH 🗞️ Our competition is officially open! All need-to-knows at bridportprize.org.uk

Submissions are OPEN for our 2026 flash fiction, poetry, short story and novel prizes! 📝⭐ Don't forget, you may also be eligible for our Young Writer Award, Dorset Award or Never Too Late Award (you don't need to enter these separately). All info at bridportprize.org.uk

For the next two weeks, you can find us trying to leave family functions early, staring at the wall, and feeling guilty about not writing BUT YA WON’T FIND US ON HERE. We’re taking a holiday hiatus, see you in 2026. Love you so very much, thank you for being here <3

The holidays are upon us, and we continue to be enraptured by gratitude for this weird and wonderful life. Here at OKD, we're especially grateful for our many staff readers who enable us to treat every submitted piece with care. Learn more about our readers at okaydonkeymag.com/masthead/.

Well, well, well... the donkey has sprouted a tail fin and jumped right into spot #8 on Charlie Fish's 2026 FISH List of lively independent literary magazines. We're so excited that we might just perform some water tricks alongside the donkey! See the full list at buff.ly/G8FaEQK.

OKD is open again for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

Happy New Year from OKD! 🎊 Our first newsletter of the year is… a Q&A with our editors! If you’ve ever wondered about the importance of cover letters or what factors contribute to a decision on your submission, look no further. Read on for more from OKD: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/you-asked-...

Struggling to revise your draft? Registration is now open for Kathy Fish’s 3-in-90 Workshops, including a *bonus* workshop with OKD fiction editor Steve Chang and former Guernica editor Autumn Watts on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 1 pm ET. Sign up by Jan. 12 for early bird pricing!: buff.ly/PWVRCqK

“...Here come the honeycombs. Flare ups of black / holes. My deadness in the hollows of circles and hexagons. / Do you want to eat me? I ask them.” “Quack” by Julliette Holliday, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/01/02/q...

Happy holidays from all of us at WTAW Press! 🎁 A special thank you to everyone who has supported our authors and us this giving season. 🙏 Our end-of-year fundraiser comes to a close in one week. Donate today with the link in our bio!

As we start a new year, we want to extend our deepest thanks to our end-of-year donors. Your generosity helps WTAW Press continue working toward a more equitable, representative publishing world—one that listens to, uplifts, and honors a diverse array of writers.

Tomorrow, @keslentz.bsky.social Kristine Esser Slentz is going on tour for FACE-TO-FACES. Indianapolis and New York City. Who’s coming out for a signed copy and pics??

Wow brand new books

2025 is long gone now... Our 10th year has concluded. The new era has just begun. See you on the other side!

Starting tomorrow. Let’s get literate together

Thirty West Refresher - 2026 Fast facts, Books & Chapbooks, actionable ways you can help, open positions. Year 11 is going to be great. Join us on our journey.

INCOMING!!! Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: on Jan 8, we'll be opening for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Novel/Novella Book Editor! Our beloved Kate Finegan is stepping down this year from her position (which she initiated for us in 2020!).

Application is now live! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/34211...

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!

Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social. Good luck!

Congratulations to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees: @kelliborges2.bsky.social, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, Julia Coursey, @amymarques.bsky.social, and @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social. Good luck!

Congrats and good luck to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions nominees! @mynachang.bsky.social, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, @kellypedro.bsky.social, @erinvachon.bsky.social, Nora Wagner

Looking for gorgeous poetry? Check out the latest issue of Jarnal, available now! masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylover #poems #poets #fiction #shortstory #memoir #creativenonfiction #writerscommunity #readmore #literarymagazine #litjournal #literaryjournal

Submissions Are Now Open! We are reading Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction, and Poetry now through January 15th. Send us your best!

Best Small Fictions Nominations We are pleased to announce our 2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations!

Congratulations to Lauren D. Woods, author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make Believe, and to Sunni Brown Wilkinson, author of Rodeo--both have been longlisted for PEN America Literary Awards! We’re thrilled to celebrate both of these incredible honors!

"This breathtaking collection by Salvatore Pane forces us to reflect deeply on the Italian American experience." Thanks to Italian Americana for the incredible review of THE NEOREALIST IN WINTER in their Winter issue! Check out the full review here: https://loom.ly/HL2wy1A

I talk about bear consciousness, bear context, bear longing, and bear consequences in I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES with host and producer Kara Holsopple at The Allegheny Front, a great environmental show aired and streamed on WESA - 90.5 🐻 @autumnhouse.org @wesa.fm #booksky #flashfiction

New year, new AHP Fiction Prize! The final judge is the incredible Amber Sparks. Submit your full-length book of fiction (novels, novellas, and short story collections) today. Check out the guidelines here: https://loom.ly/OpLNtDg #submissioncall #fiction #amwriting #indiepress #bookpublication

The January batch of Early Reviewers is live! Enter to win one of 2,976 copies of 227 titles. This month we've got exciting new titles from @alcovepress.bsky.social, @autumnhouse.org, @henryholtbooks.bsky.social, @unvpress.bsky.social, @unmpress.bsky.social & more! #💙📚 #Booksky

I need to be off the internet today, friends. But here’s a post I’m sharing from November, 2021. I’ve linked lots of stories if you need some silence and beauty today, too. Take care, all. xx open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

We're crossing all our appendages for Wyatt Bonikowski's "Conflagration Kills Five" for the Shirley Jackson Award!

New Flash Fiction Review Deadline for Issue #40 January 15th! newflashfiction.com/submit/

We're halfway to our annual subscription/donation goal for 2026--thanks so much to those who have already subscribed/given! Please consider subscribing for 2026 and receiving our books AND helping us publish more innovative hybrid genre work: rosemetalpress.com/support-rose...

In our morning reading: a playlist from Molly Gaudry, Thurston Moore on the year in music, and more. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/12/29/m...

Good mail day whenever the latest from Rose Metal Press hits my porch. Happy New Year. @rosemetalpress.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social

The micro-excerpt issue, #63, is closed to submissions. Thanks to all who submitted! This one is scheduled for January 18. If we haven't gotten back to you about your submission, yet, we will soon. Always open to submissions for cover art and other media, by the way! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...