Hybrid in form and function, a new mystery from Lyss Wood #fiction #hybrid | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

"Jane wishes for their happiness, and assumes Hugh is wishing for something similar. Hugh wishes for a kayak." Taut and zinging, don't miss these two sublime new flash #fictions from @chelseastickle.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chel... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Sam didn’t want a lonesome egg. He wanted Marta to come back." Ends, beginnings, and everything in between in this fresh #fiction #longread from Steven Swiryn | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stev... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The best thing about curfew is breaking the law." Two gorgeous, new, intricately stitched #poems from @sjgrimm.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/susan... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I hadn’t noticed. My nose. My fingers. The knife. Who could say." Another weird & wild & wonderful piece of #fiction courtesy of #DIHPAlum @tombusillo.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"“Thou art a rotten worm, Braden. Be grateful that I speak to you, and do not banish you from my sight.”" With inky wit, a tale of the pandemic, grace, & our fave prophet, Braden, from @mrlwwrites.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mr-l... #fiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"If my body was a temple, I didn’t believe in God, and that was the most important thing I learned about myself growing up." Important, moving, & keenly thoughtful new #creativenonfiction from @abrickandawindow.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/andreea-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"It's been decades, and try as you might, her motives are still opaque" Two lushly atmospheric, immersive new poems from @lizdegregorio.bsky.social , new for February | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/liz-d... #poetry Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"“Yes, let’s all drink to Gail!” And then I remember I’m Gail, so I say, “I mean, let’s all drink to me!”" A darkly funny, powerful read for all of us living in 2026, new from #DIHPAlum @jekwriter.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess... #fiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Hot pink’s an extrovert’s color." Two brand-spanking-new #poems full of bright delight and crystalline moments courtesy of @carrieconners.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/carri... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"They call it chronically ill, but I call it paying attention. Give it time. Everything breaks." Voice, dynamism, urgency: Two new poems from Jillian Stacia | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jilli... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Short, bittersweet, perfect new #cnf from #DIHPalum & multi-disciplinary maven Louella Lester | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/louella-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"We sat in stunned silence, taking in his strange jumble of words, thinking we were merely witnessing a career engulfed in an act of spectacular self-immolation." #DIHPAlum @keithjpowell.com w/two madcap flashes | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/keit... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I don’t know when it will come back. I don’t know if I’ll be there to see it." Timely, urgent, profoundly moving; a trio of fresh poems from Rachel Beachy, new for February | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/rache... #mustread Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Any hack can grip their head and moan." DIHP kicks off February with phenomenal #longread #fiction full of wit, warmth, grief, and absurdity, brand new from Erin Finnerty | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/erin... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Massive congrats to our Best Small Fictions (shoutout to @altcurrent.bsky.social ) nominees for 2026 | @spencerwriting.bsky.social, @nomad-sw18.bsky.social, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @joannatheiss.com, & @kathyhoyle.bsky.social <3

New interview live! We chat with the effervescent @victoriamelekian.bsky.social about her new collection, happiness, dogs, and pockets (natch). | www.doesithavepockets.com/features/v-m... #interviews #poetry #dihpalumni

Our sincere congrats to @mizuki-yama.bsky.social for making the final list for the 2026 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology! Special thanks to Best Microfiction's superlative team: series editors Meg Pokrass & Gary Finke and guest editor Diane Seuss. <3

Today's listing of the day is: Does It Have Pockets?: A literary magazine @doesithavepockets.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity

Don't miss this month's Art & Hybrid gallery featuring the gorgeously vivid work of @courtneyb77.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrids #pureenergy

"Wind-inflated, paper teeth flicking, riding a wave of air." Bright and surreal, and bittersweet, E Ce Millier brings us fantastical new #fiction to bring in the new year | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/e-ce... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"survived the wrecks but walked away from all twelve steps" DIHP Alum Mark Jackley returns with three tiny, textured poems | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/mark-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Her laugh was startling. “Who told you it was performance art?”" A vibrant, sharp look at art, protest, and power in L.M. Conkling's newest #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/lm-c... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Jason surely didn’t want to disappoint Rachel in this new life; he had done a fair amount of that in their old one." We fell in love w/ this story instantly, deeply, completely. New #fiction by @fowleriter.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/davi... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I wrote down the recipe and put it somewhere I’d be sure to find it again, and accordingly, I haven’t seen it since." Funny, timely, and hopeful, don't miss this deliciously quirky new fiction from @katemaxlow.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kate... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"It was unanimous. Fun didn't move us one bit." Witty, wise, wonderful; three poems each gems form and tone, new from @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jr-wa... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Fingers stretched wide, he checks the precise proportions of crown, of brim." We've been excited to share this quietly magical piece from the day we read it ... beautiful new #flashfiction from @deniseb.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/deni... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The furthest I’ve been in this memory is dawn" Please don't miss these two outstanding #poems from @fakeourway.bsky.social (really, this time!) fresh for the new year | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/samue... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"No tool has ever existed to fix what happened to us." Two superlative new poems from @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social -- freshly immersive and achingly beautiful | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/laura... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"When I write I am trying to talk something through with myself that doesn’t feel available to me without the habitat of art." Remarkably voiced, singularly beautiful, two new CNF pieces from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-cla... #creativenonfiction #dihpalumni

"How sad, we say, when we first see dead Boxer in the zoo, because he looks sad, and we don’t hear his words, we only hear his tears." Powerful, painful, necessary new fiction from @happilander.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mile... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"You bought a kettle to boil water the Austrian way. A chopper to chop onions Austrianly." Three superlative new #poems from Lucas Wildner @wuucas.bsky.social -- the kind your editor sticks under the nose of everyone she adores | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/lucas...

"The stranger, lifted from the pavement’s numb oblivion, will not remember who was there. You are glad that it was you." An elegiac, explorative list of loss in this new creative nonfiction from DIHP alum Alice Ahearn | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/alice-ah... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"none of it comforts me as much as your hand at my side" Two gently poignant, splendidly vivid new #poems from Samuel Day Wharton @fakehistoryhunter.net | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/samue... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"While other children were learning that A is for apple and B is for banana, little Philbert soaked up words like circulation and dermatitis and elephantiasis." Eloquent, elegant fiction from @EmmetHirschMD | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/emme... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

This month, we interviewed the fantastic Lisa Low about her new chapbook, Late in the Day. Read our conversation & some sample poems | www.doesithavepockets.com/features/lis...

Sending our hopes & adorations & happy dances alongside our five nominees for Best Microfiction's 2026 anthology!

"I’ll never forget her first words: “I need twenty bucks.”" Funny and heartbreaking, with a voice like your best friend's, don't miss this new set of #flash #fiction from @tombusillo.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"...I ducked my head, waited for my father’s rage to spill from your lips." A trio of graceful, nuanced, and surprising #poems from Colleen Harris, new for December | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/colle... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The whoosh of you leaving the table still so fresh in my ears." An exquisite pair of new microfictions from the amazing @francinewitte.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/fran... #dihpalumni Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"...or forget you will die and feel the buzz reverberating bones as you touch the power grid." Three electrifying new #poems from John Cullen | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/john-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"...Hannah needs someone to explain communion before she asks if brisket wouldn’t be too sacrilegious." In a #cnf that your EIC wishes she had written, a sharp and hilarious piece from Amanda Mather | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/amanda-m... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"...she asks, “Do you want a bag?” like it’s a trick question, like there’s a right answer and I’ve already failed it..." Three breathtaking new #microfictions from Mizuki Yamamato @mizuki-yama.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Raise your hood, and everybody’s a mechanic." Inventive, heartbreaking, and deeply infused with subtle wit, #mustread new #fiction from @dfcohen.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/dani... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"The humming wasn’t so bad, a kind of airy trill like a towhee on the wing." Atmospheric and arresting as it dances between worlds, don't miss new flash #fiction from DIHP alumna @writesofkathryn.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kath... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Every picture-a-reminder of kids like Martin who spat in your Jello." @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social takes us on a journey through time, space, the five senses, and her yearbook in this wryly & richly drawn #cnf | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/liz-debeer Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"I don’t want him to be reasonable; I want him to say something I can fight with." @fionamckay.bsky.social 's beautifully deft new #fiction is all at once parenting, misunderstanding, and ever present change | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/fion... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"'I know women have a lot to do,' says the woman in the next seat" Two lifetimes in two universes in two poems, phenomenal new work from Rebecca Michels | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/rebec... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"Powdered lemonade was to fresh lemonade as Sophia Grey was to Marianne Dashwood—a sad and sorry substitute..." Darkly funny, brightly satirical, and very Jane, new #fiction from DIHP alum Kat Meads | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kat-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"...reliving ancient pep rallies in wooden bleachers, roar of all Septembers..." Coming of age at any age in two powerful, important new #poems from @jhdt.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jenni... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social