✨ICYMI✨ “My cat frowns because she’s not happy and she squints because she needs glasses.” — @happilander.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛🤓 www.claudineliterary.net/milevaanasta...

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Staff meeting: we’re supposed to be reading submissions right now. . . 🤷🏻‍♀️🐈‍⬛

Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈‍⬛🏆🐈‍⬛ @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social

A reminder about my class Reading Flash for @flashfictioninst.bsky.social, on Sunday, November 23, from 6 to 8pm ET. flashfictioninstitute.com/product/read...

"fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight, ears underwater, the world muted except for the hiss of waves pushing pebbles up the beach" Gorgeous, joyful CNF @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

Humans, we are so pleased to share a new feature with you: Claudine’s Bookshelf! Easily scroll through our ever-growing list of recommended chapbooks to find your next great read!! Please consider passing this along to your book-loving friends. 💚🐈‍⬛📚🙏🏼 www.claudineliterary.net/bookshelf

Thrilling news, humans! Buttercup claimed a family over the weekend, which means all Claudine interns have found forever literary homes. 🐈‍⬛💚🐈‍⬛

Chapbook review: @writesofkathryn.bsky.social’s “For Every Tower, a Princess” 📚🐈‍⬛📚 “The five flash fictions in Kathryn Kulpa’s For Every Tower, A Princess cast a dreamlike spell, luring you with folklore into magical realms you won’t want to leave.” www.claudineliterary.net/foreverytowe...

Chapbook Review: @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s Being Seen 📚🐈‍⬛📚 “Being Seen by Suzy Eynon is a brilliant, wry exploration of what it means to be visible to the people in charge of your healthcare.” www.claudineliterary.net/beingseen

New Writer Spotlight ✨🐈‍⬛✨ Micro CNF by Frey Lylark! @freybytheway.bsky.social “My mother could have had a trans child, once. Instead, she has a messenger account that I don’t check anymore.” www.claudineliterary.net/freylylark

New micro CNF by Majella Pinto 💚🐈‍⬛💚 “I saw Grandma in the auditorium stand up to get my attention. She waved at me. I pretended not to see her so my friends wouldn’t ask me why Grandma was attending instead of you” www.claudineliterary.net/majellapinto

New micro CNF by Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 💚🐈‍⬛💚 “I remember a classmate in P.E. who thought that everyone says namaste because it means ‘here we are’ in Greek” www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

New Microfiction by Zach Murphy! “the daughter has been throwing away the sandwiches . . . she says “It was delicious” when the mother asks if she enjoyed it, and the wind intensifies, and the hole in the ceiling expands” 💚🐈‍⬛💚 www.claudineliterary.net/zachmurphy

New Microfiction by @happilander.bsky.social 💚🐈‍⬛💚 My cat has been weird lately. I tell the vet that she’s not after mice, doesn’t sneak out of the house, spends much time on the sofa,  Napping? Reading.  💚🐈‍⬛💚 www.claudineliterary.net/milevaanasta...

New micros by: Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social Zach Murphy Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Majella Pinto Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social Enjoy, humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚 Claudineliterary.com

Last day in the office for Coco before she's off to her forever literary home! We will miss you, Coco! You have been an excellent intern. One of the very best!

Staff meeting: welcome to Nov, humans!we’re now reading for February. Free subs, paying market. Micro fiction & CNF. We’re open for subs until the end of this month and then we’ll take a hiatus for Dec. New issue drops Monday!! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Staff mtg: Friday is the last day we’ll look at subs for our Jan issue. . . then on to Feb! Also, last week in the office for Coco. No one climbs screen doors like you, little Coco-bean. You will be missed!

One week from today, humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚 @happilander.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social

Huge intern news! Coco has one more week with us . . . and then she will go directly to her forever home. At a meet & greet today, Coco quickly claimed a lovely woman and her 14-year-old daughter as her humans, and we’re so very excited for our little coco-nut!

Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @suzyeynon.bsky.social and For Every Tower, A Princess by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social. We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf! 📚🐈‍⬛📚

✨Find your next great read!✨ Check out our review of “The Missing Girl” by Jacqueline Doyle. @jacqdoyle.bsky.social “We watch, gobsmacked, as Doyle twists and turns her characters through situation after problematic situation.” Read the whole review here: www.claudineliterary.net/themissinggirl

Humans, it’s a hair less than two week until our next issue. ✨spoiler✨ The moment you’ve hoped for is coming!! There will . . .finally. . . be a cat-centered micro. Yup! 🐈‍⬛💚🐈‍⬛ we’re excited too! Issue drops Nov 3rd.

✨Your next great read!✨ Check out our review of “Cold Toast” by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris: “Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.” Read the full review here: www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast

✨ICYMI✨ “Friday Night Is” — a new micro creative nonfiction by Sumitra Singam! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.” Read it here: www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

✨ICYMI✨ “What if Everything Is Already Ruined?” New Microfiction by Jessica Klimesh! @jekwriter.bsky.social “And if we drown, that science test doesn’t matter anyway.” Read it here: www.claudineliterary.net/jessicaklimesh

“There was no detachable heart.” Oh, just read this brief beauty full of restless longing from @ezhang77.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social.

✨ICYMI✨ New Microfiction by Elena Zhang! @ezhang77.bsky.social “no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t rub the longing off its face. The painted eyes looked past me.” 💚🐈‍⬛💚 www.claudineliterary.net/elenazhang

✨ICYMI✨ New micro creative nonfiction by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.” 🐈‍⬛🏳️‍🌈 www.claudineliterary.net/heatheremman...

Thinking about 2026 writing goals already? How awesome would it be to have a piece published the first Monday of the year? Microfiction and Micro CNF. Free subs, paying market. Now reading for January 2026! 🎉🐈‍⬛🎉

ICYMI: “I sit by her on the bench, bike wheels spinning on their side, sending shimmers back to the sun. You look so beautiful in this light, I say.” New Writer microfiction by Elizabeth Gjelten! www.claudineliterary.net/elizabethgje... ✨🐈‍⬛✨

Our staff is dreaming of your micro CNF, humans! Help make their nap-time visions a reality. 💚🐈‍⬛💚 Submissions always free.

Friday feels. 💚🐈‍⬛💚 Claudine is a paws-on mentor. Intern Coco is a fast learner. Send them a micro to read! Submissions always free.

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🙏🏼🐈‍⬛🙏🏼 thank you!

Friday night is cigarette-in-hand, tits out, turning away from the front door when you clock his dirty blonde flop, angle the drink so it spills over, and you have to lick the sticky sweetness off your fingers. and that ending... @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Thank you @dehardy.bsky.social and @claudineliterary.bsky.social for your generous review of my flash chapbook THE MISSING GIRL (@blacklawrence.bsky.social)! Take a look at the stellar microprose and glowing review of @kazbarwrites.bsky.social's chapbook as well!

Yessssss, it’s that time again!!

@jekwriter.bsky.social: “I peer out the front window and see a couple of neighbors waterskiing in the street and some kids playing Marco Polo.”

New micro CNF by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.” www.claudineliterary.net/heatheremman...

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🌟🐈‍⬛🌟: “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.”

@ezhang77.bsky.social: “When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it.”

“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”

“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”

✨🌟✨: “I always thought I’d see you again. But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.”

New Writer Spotlight! ✨🐈‍⬛✨ Microfiction by Elizabeth Gjelten. Check it out! www.claudineliterary.net/elizabethgje...

Check out our review of The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle. 🫥👧🏻🐈‍⬛ @jacqdoyle.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/themissinggirl