Kudos and congratulations to our 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees. Find their work and the other great literature of 2025 at doesithavepockets.com <3 #literarycommunity Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The picture within the frame changes every week, ranging from the news clip of the President pardoning a turkey to a bird’s eye view of our town." Words, wings, war in this dynamic new #fiction from Sarp Sozdinler | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarp... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"There are no other cars on the road. Haven’t been since the rumours infected the headlines, since they told us to travel only when necessary." Martyn Rosser's realistic new #fiction tackles Covid & much, much more | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mart... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Rain on his face, mingled with dirt, and a week of stubble. Wild man. Storm man. We had to let him in but hesitated because of what he carried." Vivid, weighty, poignant -- new #cnf from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... #dihpalum Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"“No, I’m not trying to hide it. It’s the law, if you carry a bottle, it’s got to be in a paper bag.”" One tiny, pulsing micro & one propulsive, can't miss #flash #fiction from Tom Hedt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The letters were a little shaky, but the “you” was underlined with a firm hand." Two brightly brilliant, cinematic little micros from phebej.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb... #fiction #dihpalumni Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"A whorling of all of the wishes I have ever made/ The lullaby beneath my body" The body as metaphor, the poem as elixir; don't miss these two stunning new poems from Sarah Scarberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sarah... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Equally puzzling was the sound. Sometimes loud. Sometimes soft, like spring breeze." Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Beauty keeps balking at my balking at beauty –" Part prose poem, part breath, part song, part moment, one exquisite new #mustread #creativenonfiction from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-clark Art @sethpartnow.bsky.social

"If she approaches you, don’t run. Hold very still and try your best to answer her riddles." A cautionary, fantastic tale told through social posts in this witty new #fiction from @rheatellstales.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Years ago she moved inland, promising/ it was only for a few years./ You know this story." DIHP alumna @allcheesedinner.bsky.social returns with two quietly fierce, graceful new #poems for our November issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/merie... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"She never made it outside in time to see how dregs of trash managed to fly from the truck and land on her specific lawn every week." A delightful dose of magical realism in new #fiction from @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The Dog was raised by man. Beautiful, imperfect,/ flatulent, man. Stealing leftovers like a bindle-carrying/ vagabond." A pair of breathtaking, fresh-voiced #poems from Ben Starr | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ben-s... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"But things took a tailspin when I forwarded him my “Ezekiel, Mississippi Letters,” my account of this shitbag town and what all goes on here." We celebrate the return of the singular @dirtbagwriting.bsky.social #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"looking for that crimson stain of belonging/ only for it to show up dingy and brown" Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I started to make mixed media collages using the same themes I work with in my writing: gender, history, language, and the human body." Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...

We are proud to announce the stunners who comprise our 2026 @monarch.gay nomination slate. Read them all once again (or for the 1st time!) at doesithavepockets.com | #literarycommunity Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social

We're featuring the winning entries in this year's Write on the Sound contest! Congrats to @terahs.bsky.social (#fiction), @joyarcher.bsky.social (#cnf), & Nancy Knowles (#poetry) on their beautiful works| www.doesithavepockets.com/features/202... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Our October month's Art & Hybrids gallery features the winsome and deep-hearted photography of the marvelous Dale Scherfling | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

"You didn't tell your husband. There were spaces in which to do it. But they all felt like Sunday nights: unhappy and existential." Don't miss this immersive, urgent flash #fiction from @ronburch.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ron-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Old pain. We recycle. Me. Me! my voice, soundless. I want to participate—" Two cinematic stories in two fresh-voiced, effervescent #poems from Gail Goepfert | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/gail-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"You put me away that night, into a dusty corner where I could humiliate you no more." A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"He’s supposed to be writing a novel but only ever reads Chapter One." Part time travel, part song, a truly special piece of #fiction from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Three minutes can seem like an eternity when you’re shaking a cocktail, so pretend like you’re Tom Cruise in that stupid movie" A #creativenonfiction recipe for drinks &/or ghosts, immersively curated by Eileen Toomey | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/eileen-t... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"what a throat, so wide with song" Each a perfect melding of form and prose, two incredible new #poems from @druwalker.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/andre... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Each of us is alone, but we’re together in loneliness: isn’t that enough?" Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Yesterday I mis-tagged the incredible @jaimegill.bsky.social whilst promoting his fan-f***ing-tastic new fiction, "The Hate Baby.". (Mea culpa!) Please read & give the real Jaime his much deserved flowers 💐: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"....You and I sat together too long in a room without chairs." Three breath-giving, generously crystalline new #poems from Bob Kirkley | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/bob-k... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Janice has come to understand what all the groaning is about. She does talk about the fucking mammoth a lot." This roundhouse kick of a story by @jessdawn.bsky.social *is* about a mammoth, but so much more: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess... #fiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"... for a moment we all just stood there for a bit, under the bright heat of the sun, a steady stream of traffic buzzing by us." Sweeping, unnerving, abyssal, a brand new #longread from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... #fiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you." Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

“Remember, there’s a full floor directly beneath you.” I look down again and tut-tut. He’s a liar." How sure can we be of the ground below? Timely, unsettling new #cnf from @colettepjd.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/colette-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I am not the neon frisbee/ abandoned at the hem/ of tide-wash." Words & worlds & so much more in these gorgeous new #poems from Alicia Wright, new for October | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alici... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Before I knew it he was handing me a little piece of plastic and saying in his oily voice, I Hope You Like Pancakes, Kid." Sharply clever, infinitely unique, #pocketyAF, brilliant new #fiction from Olivia Sawatzki: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/oliv... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Coming this weekend, Pockets heads to Indie Lit Fest! @FrostburgState #marylandorbust #ohbaltimore More info here: www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Congrats to our amazing Best of the Net '26 candidates. We send your ballots off with all our digits crossed! #pocketyasheck

Join @anchalastudio.bsky.social and @camillethegriep.bsky.social discussing the ins and outs of creating a literary journal. Check out more of the Frostburg State Indie Lit Fest in MD here: www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l... #ontheroadagain

"“Well then, what do you kids these days call their best buds?” “Gruzz,” Grandson nods." Magical realism winding its way through the finest prose in this new #fiction from Beth Hendrickson | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/beth... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Into the whorl of my ear she pronounced her burden." Two stunning reprints from the fabulous pen of James Kangas #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/james... #welcomebackjames Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The questions are too heavy for this early, that being eleven in the morning." Sept's #fiction #longread is as surreal/ beautiful& witty/abyssal. Eleventy-seven billion stars to this new one from @ccarrel.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"But before that we will count down to the new year, drink from glasses of champagne at a colorful bar." Using all the perfect tenses, a poignant new #cnf from @jackiegoyette.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/jacqueli... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"... a parfait of emotions/all bottled up, squeezed like toothpaste from the bottom of the/tube ..." Delighted for the DIHP return of @ashevillebiowriter.bsky.social | His transcendent verse always a welcome gulp of fresh air | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/john-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Deep dimples, puka shell choker, and hair as feathery as ostrich wings. I was as wild for him as anyone who didn’t know what sex was or could be." Swirling w/music & lyricism, fantastic new #creativenonfiction from Tess Kelly | doesithavepockets.com/cnf/tess-kelly Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"A phone number, an errand, a name, Scrawled into clammy flesh, smeared, lost forever" A cinematic, intricate story poem from Anthony DeGregorio, new in our September #poetry collection | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/antho...

"They taunted my mother, these small pockets of sweetness that were never meant for us." Immersive and powerful, new short #fiction from Scott Madison | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/scot... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I’m back on my bullshit again: watching murder television as a form of salvation." Two tiny, dense supernovas from DIHP alum @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/beth-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"In the center, on a harsh white background, an unfinished sentence mid-way through a metaphor, the pulsing cursor like a beating heart." Writing about writing in the best way; new from @eladhaber.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elad... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"We always seemed to separate in the courtyard; I'd go one way, he'd go the other. Like an elderly couple at the mall." For a dose of sunshine, meet Starsky in our new Art & Hybrid gallery, essay & photos by @laurasartdumpster.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrids/laura-rebecca

"Don’t try to stick things to other things in the first place." New in September #fiction, two terrific, tiny "How-Tos" from the wonderful @mattleibel.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/matt... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social