Check out our review of Erica Soon Olsen’s “Girlmine”! “Girlmine by Erica Soon Olsen is a gorgeously wrought, fabulist exploration of capitalistic expansion and gendered life in the American West.” www.claudineliterary.net/girlmine

Check out our review of Keegan Lawler’s “My Own Private Idaho.” “In four essays, Keegan Lawler’s My Own Private Idaho brilliantly stitches a seamless, wholehearted bildungsroman about his experience as a bisexual kid growing up amid overt homophobia.” www.claudineliterary.net/myownprivate...

🌟New Writer Microfiction by Bri Rose-Baker!!!🌟 “It’s working for dollars that shrink into quarters, then pennies—like pulling smaller and smaller handkerchiefs from your sleeve. Reverse magic.” www.claudineliterary.net/brirosebaker

New Ashton Russell CNF! “He says, look at my oceans, see my coastal towns, how pretty, so much culture. But I see rundown places with no one looking out for the people inside them.” www.claudineliterary.net/ashtonrussell

New Nemi Iringe-Koko CNF! “Did the orange sting your eyes?” I asked. He laughed too quickly; the kind of laugh people use when they’re trying to convince the world that they’re fine.” www.claudineliterary.net/nemiiringekoko

New Ada Pelonia! “Mommy will make it go away, love.” The sentence stumbled to run off my mouth as I spouted more assuring phrases that sounded flat in my ears. www.claudineliterary.net/adapelonia

New Melissa Flores Anderson! @melissacuisine.bsky.social “I want to move out of the cold, away from the icy mornings, the sharpness of winter, to step away from homeness, momness, wifeness, to have a moment to be something fresh and glowing.” www.claudineliterary.net/melissaflore...

May your New Year be filled with microprose.🐈‍⬛

Happy New Year, humans. It’s raining here. ☔️ Claudine is getting antsy. Send her something to reeeeeeead! Subs are officially open.

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Sharpen those pencils, humans. Claudine opens back up Jan 1! Get ready to send her something curious, clever. . . and quick. 💚🐈‍⬛💚 As always: free to sub, paying market.

One week from today. Let’s goooooooo! ❄️🐈‍⬛🔥

🌟ICYMI🌟 Claudine’s review of Keith J. Powell’s “Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them! @keithjpowell.com This chapbook “is a tour de force of twenty-two stories about love, sex, and the gulf between the two.” www.claudineliterary.net/sweetnothing...

A highlight of my year, this review!

🌟ICYMI🌟 Our review of Travis Flatt’s Five Stories! @travisflatt.bsky.social “Travis Flatt’s Five Stories delivers wry, yet heartfelt storytelling that's ripe with spot-on dialogue and deliciously dysfunctional twists.” www.claudineliterary.net/fivestories

🌟ICYMI🌟 CNF by Susan L. Lin! @susanllin.bsky.social “Still, the unmeasurable ingredients of homecooked meals remained shrouded in silence within the walls of our home, unspoken sentiments displaced by harsh criticisms that left me vulnerable, never invincible.” www.claudineliterary.net/susanllin

🌟ICYMI🌟 CNF by Femi Bakare! “One for the heart that skips. Two for the bones that bend. Three for the mind that forgets my name but remembers the recipe for pounded yam.” www.claudineliterary.net/femibakare

🌟ICYMI🌟 Microfiction by Kim Magowan! @kimmagowan.bsky.social “I got a revenge face, slightly resembling DeAnna Vacario’s but much prettier, with teeth pearly-white as piano keys.” www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan

Thank you to the excellent humans who gave us one of their votes in the @chillsubs.bsky.social contest! We’re thrilled for a showing this lovely in our first year. We hope to make you proud for the long-haul!! 🌟🐈‍⬛🌟

🌟ICYMI🌟 Microfiction by Jeff Harvey! @jhhwriter.bsky.social “I used the money I’d made to move to San Francisco where I met Todd at The Rawhide and he invited me to share his apartment as long as I cooked breakfast” www.claudineliterary.net/jeffharvey

Staff meeting: Claudine-in-a-tree month is the best month!

weekly talk story about @publisherswkly.bsky.social review, @clmporg.bsky.social s fiction of 2025 list, and @claudineliterary.bsky.social BMF nom... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

We are excited to announce our new author, Ani King! Ani's debut book, FAMILY NIGHT, a collection of flash fiction filled with magical realism, will be released in Fall 2026. Join us in welcoming Ani to MJP! @aniking.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social #flashfiction #debutauthor #magicalrealism

Staff meeting: Today’s topic? Funding a lit mag. 😅 Everybody does it different. Here’s how Claudine does it. . . b/c we pay our writers, but we don’t charge for submissions—ever. . . so how’s that going to work long-term? A thread! (And a teaser) www.claudineliterary.net/claudineswer...

Honored to celebrate our BMF nominees! 🐈‍⬛🎉 @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to share our Best Small Fictions Nominees! @jekwriter.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social

Check out our review: Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them by Keith J. Powell is a tour de force of twenty-two stories about love, sex, and the gulf between the two. ​ @keithjpowell.com www.claudineliterary.net/sweetnothing...

Check out our review: “Travis Flatt’s Five Stories delivers wry, yet heartfelt storytelling that's ripe with spot-on dialogue and deliciously dysfunctional twists.” @travisflatt.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/fivestories

New Writer Spotlight 💡 “There’s an application half-finished on my laptop for an MFA program, but I can’t make myself click submit. Sometimes, being small and still feels like the only intelligent choice.” @javajnkie.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/mariharrison

“My father meant “invincible,” of course, but for once I failed to correct his imprecise English because I believed he had, entirely by chance, stumbled across a hidden truth of my childhood.” @susanllin.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/susanllin

🐈‍⬛😭🐈‍⬛. Thank you!!!!!

“One for the heart that skips. Two for the bones that bend. Three for the mind that forgets my name but remembers the recipe for pounded yam.” www.claudineliterary.net/femibakare

“my brilliant brain behind my exquisite face is stupefied that you ever mattered to me a single iota” @kimmagowan.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan

Staff meeting: Happy December, humans! We are CLOSED for subs this month. Looking at 2025 numbers, we got 1049 subs, for a 3.3% acceptance rate. Thank you for making our first calendar year such a success!! 🐈‍⬛🔥💚 We reopen for subs Jan 1.

“My ex-boyfriend Jack (Jack from Buffalo, not Jack from Encino) swiped three cases of poppers from Eddie’s Porn Emporium on Hollywood Boulevard and I started selling them out of the trunk of my Pinto” @jhhwriter.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/jeffharvey

Love this micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social! www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan

East Coast US midnight. First Monday of the month! 🐈‍⬛🎉🐈‍⬛ @jhhwriter.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @keithjpowell.com

🙀🐈‍⬛🙀 that’s us!! Thank you @duotrope.com

Thank you, @fiveminutelit.bsky.social!!

✨ICYMI✨ “Kulpa’s narrators skim the line between once and future worlds with such longing that the reader cannot help but desire to discover what magic might slumber in their own lives.” www.claudineliterary.net/foreverytowe...

Reviews dropping in one week! @keithjpowell.com @travisflatt.bsky.social

One week from today! @jhhwriter.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social

✨ICYMI✨ “In crafting Daisy, Eynon skillfully straddles the line between fiction and nonfiction. (And really, where does that line fall?)” www.claudineliterary.net/beingseen

✨ICYMI✨ “Do you remember when I took you to ballet? Do you remember President Sister Bishop’s Wife who first taught you that your body was a stick of gum?” @freybytheway.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/freylylark

**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.

✨ICYMI✨ “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

Thanks for giving my sad corvid story a home and so much love 💙💙💙 www.claudineliterary.net/aniking

What a lovely piece of meditation and expansion in @claudineliterary.bsky.social by the wonderful @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 🌊

Staff meeting: 11 more days until subs close for Dec. (Now reading for Feb & March issues) If you have a chapbook, especially if it’s coming out in 2026, hop on the interwebs and send us an email! We can’t review books we’ve not heard about . . . 😉🐈‍⬛ www.claudineliterary.net/info-on-revi...

✨ICYMI✨ “the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight” @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...