Mark your calendars! You are cordially invited to the Zoom reading for my chapbook Survival Skills on July 2nd. There will be some kickass writers reading for it. Info 👇 www.sandandgravelpress.com/liz-rosen-ch...

You have... one week.

Staff meeting: We just accepted the first piece for our September BIRTHDAY issue. 🎉 yup, that’s right, Claudine will be turning 1 soon!!!! 🎂 Also, last week in the office for Sami & Charles. They will be missed, and yet their love of 5am wake-ups will not. 💚🙃🐈‍⬛

Virtual book launch this Thursday for I’M THE UNDERTOW!! 👇🏼🌊👇🏼

New micro CNF by Meg Pokrass!! “Your self-appointed job was to sample the juice of the oranges and to scout for enemies.” www.claudineliterary.com/megpokrass

New Writer Microfiction by Jane Brooks!!! @janebrookswrites.bsky.social “Mom said Grandpa Reese’s death was an accident. She came out to meet me on their front lawn. She had not been crying.” www.claudineliterary.com/janebrooks

New micro CNF by Anson Tong!! @ansonjtong.com “I’m down to one living grandparent, and he lives on the other side of the world, and I’m nervous to talk to him because we didn’t tell him that his son, my father, died three years ago.” www.claudineliterary.com/ansontong

New Microfiction by Ziggy Schutz!!! @ziggyschutz.bsky.social “Let our honeymoon take us to the ocean, to fields with blooms in colours we will name after each other, rivers that race with a language all our own.” www.claudineliterary.com/ziggyschutz

Read our review T Guzman’s Ghost Mom!! @tguzman.bsky.social “Guzman’s prose feels so lived in it’s easy to forget you don’t personally know his characters.” www.claudineliterary.com/ghostmom

New Microfiction by Angela James!!!! @olangela.bsky.social “my then husband suggested we try porn to spice things up, with me insisting, as the one with taste, on making the selection” www.claudineliterary.com/angelajames

Humans, our June issue is live! FYI, it’s 🔥 @olangela.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @ansonjtong.com @janebrookswrites.bsky.social @tguzman.bsky.social Claudineliterary.com

MONDAY 🐈‍⬛ MONDAY 🐈‍⬛ MONDAY!!! @olangela.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @ansonjtong.com @tguzman.bsky.social @janebrookswrites.bsky.social

That’s us! Micro CNF, yes, please!! 🐈‍⬛

ICYMI The Sound A Girl Makes in Open Country by Ari Cordovero “At thirteen, the world taught me my body was an interruption. ‘Please,’ my teacher said, meaning the boy who shook his desk with his lust. ‘Cover up.’” www.claudineliterary.com/aricordovero

ICYMI “Okinawan Diaspora: a haibun” by Shareen Murayama! “If I were my grandmother, leaving my motherland, would someone on deck mistake my heart’s tempo for a paarankuu drum, like a dirge to my ancestors?” www.claudineliterary.com/shareenmuray...

ICYMI “Location Not Found” by Michelle Chadwell “I’ve lost one pair of keys, got them recopied, then found the original pair, then lost the recopied pair somewhere on a trip to New York.” www.claudineliterary.com/michellechad...

ICYMI “The Molt” by Iwobi Thabo! “When the boy turned seventeen, his skin began to peel. It started behind the ears, thin flakes curling like dried petals, revealing a shimmer beneath.” www.claudineliterary.com/iwobithabo

ICYMI—“The End.” by @eireneeleni.bsky.social “it wasn’t a grown woman it was a young girl and they got flustered but it wasn’t their business except it wasn’t a girl it was a young boy so they wondered what’s wrong with this world” www.claudineliterary.com/eirenegentle

This month's #Mondettes picked by @aniking.bsky.social is on the theme of "embracing the animal as a way to bring out the human." ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis 🪴Ten fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/may-2026

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Was a pleasure nerding with you!! 🤓🐈‍⬛💚

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Staff meeting: we need to train the interns. Send them something to reeeeead!! Micro-fiction & CNF. Free to submit.

Last call, Nerdz! 🤓🐈‍⬛ Hop in our messages by Friday at noon pacific to join in!!!!

Mark your calendars. Thirty West is opening for book manuscripts on May 23 thirtywestph.com/submit

Sammi & Charles (mustache) have hit the ground running with their new jobs! If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. So true, so true. 🐈‍⬛

If you have 3 minutes, spend them reading this FABULOUS piece by @eireneeleni.bsky.social. "They kept an old lady in the attic and no one cared except it wasn't an old lady..." www.claudineliterary.com/eirenegentle #WritingCommunity #FlashLit

Mark your calendars! 👇

Preorders of Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social are shipping this week!

Staff meeting: new interns on Monday! Please meet Charles and Sammi. We fully expect them to turn our office into complete chaos. 🙃 We’re reading for August and starting to think about our September issue which will be our birthday issue!! 🎉 yup, we’re turning ONE!! 🎉🎂🙀🔥🐈‍⬛

Join us May 16th!!!!

New interview with @ericscottryon.bsky.social about his new novel, I'M THE UNDERTOW!

Check out our review of Sumitra Singam’s “Mother Karma”!!! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social “Singam’s mastery of the flash form is on full display. Brilliant extended metaphors. Stunning use of refrain. And hermit crab flash galore!” www.claudineliterary.com/motherkarma

New Writer CNF by Ari Cordovero!! “Then my daughter arrived. She cries like weather, too. Whole, unapologetic. When her face scrunches, two instincts rise: hush her, let her live. I choose the second.” www.claudineliterary.com/aricordovero

New Micro CNF by Shareen Murayama!! @ambusypoeming.bsky.social “There are teeth in the ocean attached to mouths like self-cleaning ovens. There are citizens disappearing on land.” www.claudineliterary.com/shareenmuray...

Micro CNF by Michelle Chadwell! “I had to put an AirTag in my pocket the night I reconnected with the Earth, so my friends wouldn’t lose me to the elements.” www.claudineliterary.com/michellechad...

New Microfiction by Iwobi Thabo! “he was a fish, or maybe a bird, but never entirely either—something in between, something that could slip through currents and clouds alike.” www.claudineliterary.com/iwobithabo

New microfiction by Eirene Gentle! @eireneeleni.bsky.social “except it wasn’t a man it was a boy so they . . . gave the captors parole except it wasn’t a boy it was a girl so they acquitted the captors” www.claudineliterary.com/eirenegentle

Our May issue is now live! Original microprose by Eileen Gentle, Iwobi Thabo, Michelle Chadwell, Shareen Murayama, and Ari Cordovero. Review of Sumitra Singam’s Mother Karma. Enjoy, humans!!! 🐈‍⬛💚🐈‍⬛ www.claudineliterary.com

Calling all nerdz! 🤓🐈‍⬛ May 16!! Wherever you live, one of the two sessions will line up with your time zone!

🐈‍⬛🔥🐈‍⬛ Thrilled to find this little gem in @mynachang.bsky.social’s Flash Round-up!! Thank you for reading and spreading the 💚!!

ICYMI Check out our review of Cheryl Pappas's “The Clarity of Hunger” “A masterful meditation on hunger and the myriad emotions it evokes.” www.claudineliterary.com/theclarityof...

ICYMI Check our review of Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar's “Skin Over Milk” 💚🐈‍⬛💚 “A cathartic family saga, told through a dozen bite-sized chapters, about nine-year-old Chutki and her older sisters.” www.claudineliterary.com/skinovermilk

Monday, humans. Monday!!! @eireneeleni.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

ICYMI Micro CNF by Shell St. James! @michelle-weaver.bsky.social “I should have known from the start it would never work out because I’m an earth sign and you’re an air sign, and the only thing we ever had in common was our love for water.” www.claudineliterary.com/shellstjames

ICYMI Micro CNF by Reem Faruqi! @reemfaruqi.bsky.social “She looks at us one by one, asks What do you call your father?, and we look at her and we freeze.” www.claudineliterary.com/reemfaruqi

ICYMI Microfiction by Camille Margot Wagner! “There’s another improv class. Better. With a ballerina, a bass player, and a college student. They take smoke breaks and get Italian food after.” www.claudineliterary.com/camillemargo...

ICYMI Microfiction by Chris Scott! “Everything the same except this time there are three dozen different flavors of Coke” @iamchrisscott.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/chrisscott

So good!! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

ICYMI Microfiction by Michael Czyzniejewski “I turn around to rinse yams off a spoon and he’s just there, in my kitchen, in his fucking coveralls and wallet chain and filthy ball cap and Howard Hughes beard” @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/michaelczyzn...