#IrishHeritageMonth #WomensHistoryMonth MELISSA FITZPATRICK @melissafitz.bsky.social was the cover artist for Issue 5: Resistance. See her artwork, “Speak Truth, Speak Fire” 1/ epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

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There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

The March 2026 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/y9cbkfs9

Monday Morning, 9:05am Outside Reproductive Choices, South London @madeleinewrite.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

The houses on Sixth Street are identical, white teeth in a jaw that never closes. @fadingbetty.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

…there is only one American & he is a boy in a failing man's body… templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...

So goooooood!!!!

Sweet hours left for last-second deadline folk.

Final day to submit for our spring issue. Flash micro poetry art, letters or mix and match any 3 of these. International authors welcome, new authors welcome, established authors welcome, angry despairing or joy-filled welcome. In other words, you are welcome. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

"Today, you’re urging me to eat soggy, cold, cheese-denuded pizza in my leaky car." @sudhab.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social with this righteous rage piece that isn't really about pizza 🧡🧡🔥

"The sting of his leaving has almost scabbed over now, crusted layers of hurt sloughing from shiny pink skin underneath." This fractured CNF in @templeinacity.bsky.social by @cake-girl.bsky.social is raw, tender, skilful 🧡🧡🧡

"She shakes my hand and I absorb the chalk dust deep inside her, powder-dry, stained with the smell of school dinners." We never really leave school, do we? @joycebingham.bsky.social with another amazing piece in @templeinacity.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

Subs for our ever-growing Joy issue are always open because Joy is vital sustenance for the work of being alive and tending to others. Joy is nutriment. Send us your defiant joy, learned joy, exuberant joy, escape joy, any kind of joy, you’re the boss here templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Final day to submit for our spring issue. Flash micro poetry art, letters or mix and match any 3 of these. International authors welcome, new authors welcome, established authors welcome, angry despairing or joy-filled welcome. In other words, you are welcome. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Love this micro by @lorifontanes.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social "It’s funny how life can keep going like a zombie that hasn’t tasted salt. That’s what happens when you give salt to resurrected corpses. They remember they’re dead and return to their graves." templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

It’s easy to feel helpless against the enormity of world trauma. Sometimes it helps to write. Sometimes it’s a temporary lifeline between writer and words and words and reader. We’re open for spring subs for another day or so. Joy issue always open for subs. But… templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

SO lovely! Bravo, @ruralunease.bsky.social

This really moved me, @verybadllama.bsky.social

"Much later in our failed marriage, I understood you turn into a Bollywood hero when you’re trying to score." Great story, @sudhab.bsky.social - and that ending!

Edith thought of her son, Callum, forced into her then snatched away, red faced and squalling, without her having any say. So good, @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social

Assigned Reading "When it was too hard Edith thought of her son, Callum, forced into her then snatched away, red faced and squalling, without her having any say. "Who knew what had happened to him."

Oh this is so so good @madeleinewrite.bsky.social 💔 Such a great story and so needed right now. Had (male) friends who did this at college in the late 80s, when things could get violent. Go Edith!

"Laura fishes rubber bands out of drawers and steals them from counters of the stores. She likes the faded ones best, likes how they stretch" A wonderful sense of propulsion to this piece from @pamavoledo.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Love this story by @judydarley.bsky.social for @templeinacity.bsky.social. "Small talk didn’t interest her – what she wanted was deep dives where the only light came from biofluorescence."

Subs open but closing soon. Send us what you love by March 1 for consideration in our spring issue. Your micros flash poetry art and letters here? It could be. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Oooh, those micros look good on you. Suit up in micro, flash and poetry. It’s all here for you. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Loss and love in this tender story told completely in dialogue. By @kevinhogg33.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

‘At the aquarium he was in his element, naming fish species with a joy that was almost reverent.’ Beautiful story of connection by @judydarley.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Round and around in this @rickreut.bsky.social poem. templeinacity.com/poetry-by-ri...

Stillness and beauty in this Zadie McGrath poem. templeinacity.com/poetry-by-za...

It is with great excitement that we announce the finalists for the twelfth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers: Michael Carson, Joel Cuthbertson, Tom DeBeauchamp, Abigail Dembo, Maja Lukic, and Paul S. Ukrainets. Learn more about them here: nereview.com/announcing-t...

We've recruited three lovely new readers but we'd like three or four more, particularly if you consider yourself underrepresented in the literary world. Not essential though. We just want good readers. Get in touch at [email protected]

A new sentimental flash from me at the amazing @lostballoon.bsky.social

for those who missed my micro #fiction last week, a Dear John letter from weird hell 😳

Will you LOOK at the time! Just five days or so left to submit to our spring issue. Open for micro flash poetry letters and art. We can’t wait to see your work. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

You’ve done a lot, the burdens of life are everywhere but what’s that calling, fresh micro flash and poetry to remind you of a common cause, a human heart, the warmth of living. All in one little lit mag! Our gift to you. The gift of all writers in it, to you. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Read ‘em and think about weeping then remember no way, I’m alive and look at that, what a poem by Bart Edelman templeinacity.com/poetry-by-ba...

‘Hi John, not that your name is John but in case anyone ever finds this, plausible deniability that I didn’t destroy your life even though I might have.’ Wow what a micro launch by @lorifontanes.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

‘If Sam were to walk away from all of this tomorrow, the fish might stand a chance.’ Story of a song and a life by Kendra Cardin. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

So many kinds of love and caring in this warm story of caring and compassion by @ruralunease.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

‘you will leave him the first time it happens you’ll be gone by the end of the day not into a bed at some shelter but moved into your very own place’ Fervent and heart aching by @verybadllama.bsky.social templeinacity.com/poetry-by-ja...

"Sometimes, Trista likes to say last year, when I was seven, my father ran away with the circus...she knows it sounds like he’s a performer, not just the person who travels ahead of the circus, putting up posters in shop windows" A heartbreaking CNF by @cake-girl.bsky.social

"The rubber band ball is at least a ton, she estimates. She rolls it on her trailer into town at the mayor’s request." What a weird and wonderful story by @pamavoledo.bsky.social!

I was right there with the narrator in this one. @joycebingham.bsky.social deftly capturing all our still-vivid school humiliations

"Much later in our failed marriage, I understood you turn into a Bollywood hero when you’re trying to score." Contributor @sudhab.bsky.social has a story up in @templeinacity.bsky.social 💕 Find it here: buff.ly/SJrrz3z

ICYMI: My micro, “This Kind of Freedom,” about a young woman suffering from long Covid and remembering a harsh experience during the pandemic, is one of two pieces I’m honored to have in the new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

Subs still OPEN until March 1 for our spring issue. Micro flash poetry letters and art all welcome. Writers from anywhere and of all experience welcome. Make your debut here or celebrate your 200th publishing. Sim subs welcome (of course). Mix & match. Be you. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Dress up in lit, it goes with everything. Spilling with micro flash and poetry. Can you hear it calling? It stops when you pick it up. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

‘She stayed that way for a long time, utterly still, strange for any child to be, eyes fixed on the blue night.’ A dark, delightful historical Irish chiller by @wizardhill.bsky.social templeinacity.com/fiction-by-s...