Exciting turn of events! We have a guest editor for the next four days. Please meet Parker. She loves microprose and long naps. Parker’s duties will include helping us read subs while looking awesome.

Reminder: one week left to hop in our inbox for the April Issue! Submissions always free! Microfiction & CNF

ICYMI “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

ICYMI “I pull off the road on the southern edge of Santa Clara, the valley that used to be known for its fruit and not electronics” @melissacuisine.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/melissaflore...

ICYMI Check out our review of “Girlmine” by Erica Soon Olsen!! “These stories cloak the reader in folklore and beg us to sit and consider the desires of rock trolls who roll their mineral bodies across oceans and struggle across continents to reunite with their humans.”

ICYMI. Check out our review of Keegan Lawler’s “My Own Private Idaho.” “The first essay, “Country Queer,” begins with a quiet truth. In rural, woodsy places, it’s not the big animals that are likely to get you (bears and such). It’s the ticks.” www.claudineliterary.net/myownprivate...

Staff mtg: Intern season is coming!!!! 🌟🙀🌟 Maybe as soon as February.🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 We’re reading for our April issue now until Jan 30th. Get your subs in! 🌟🐈‍⬛🌟 Take a look at Claudine’s Werd Nerdz, our new quarterly series. www.claudineliterary.net/claudineswer...

Great opportunity! A month of micro writing . . . which means you'll have lots and lots to sub to us! 🐈‍⬛💚

I am a human and also a nerd and also aware of the awesomeness that is @claudineliterary.bsky.social and I will be at all 4 sessions rocking my inner nerd (which I wear on the outside)

Human nerdz, rejoice!! 🐈‍⬛🤓🐈‍⬛ Check out our new series!!! (More details on our site) Sign up, repost, help us get the word out!!🙏🏼 It’s a class AND a fundraiser—all proceeds go to paying our writers and keeping our Claudine going. 🐈‍⬛💚🐈‍⬛

Omg! Thats us!! 🐈‍⬛💚🐈‍⬛

That’s us! 🐈‍⬛💚

Thank you so much @claudineliterary.bsky.social

New Classes! Jan. 24th, Feb. 21st, & March 21st. Register for all three this week and get a deep discount! Also offering a FREE bonus revision workshop from @litmatchcollective.com experts Steve Chang & Autumn Watts! 💙 www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90?ut...

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