We are delighted to announce our nominations for Best Spiritual Literature and grateful for the incredible writers we've been able to feature this year!

Our Fall 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring new fiction, poetry, translation, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Read now on our website, linked in our bio!

Finally, our noms for Best Microfiction! Congrats to @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social

Hello all! We are currently looking for a volunteer Associate CNF Editor! If you're interested, use the link below to apply: forms.gle/zstJpp3B66JF...

The Dodge is so excited to share our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize! We're so grateful to our amazing community of writers and have been honored to share their work this year.

...And one more round! Here are our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2025. A huge thank you again to all the incredible writers we've been able to feature this [email protected] @clinforth.bsky.social @saipradhan.bsky.social

Such an honor to be nominated by the lovely folks over at @thedodgemag.bsky.social , and in such great company! 🐋

What a dream! Thank you for creating space for fiction. 🦋

Finally, our noms for Best Microfiction! Congrats to @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social

#3 "Two Dreams" chosen by champion of the unusual @addisonzeller.bsky.social for @thedodgemag.bsky.social. Fiction about climate change usually winds up being about parents feeling guilty just like modern stories about parenting are all at least soft "cli-fi." www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...

Petrichor (short story about time travel) @thedodgemag.bsky.social www.thedodgemag.com/ulricahume1

...And one more round! Here are our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2025. A huge thank you again to all the incredible writers we've been able to feature this [email protected] @clinforth.bsky.social @saipradhan.bsky.social

The Dodge is so excited to share our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize! We're so grateful to our amazing community of writers and have been honored to share their work this year.

Hello all! We are currently looking for a volunteer Associate CNF Editor! If you're interested, use the link below to apply: forms.gle/zstJpp3B66JF...

Happy Wednesday! We're excited to feature Peggi Habets and two of her pieces: "Smile They Told Her" and "The Secret Lives of Plants". See the rest of her artwork in our Fall 2025 Issue on our website, linked in our bio!

Happy Saturday! We're excited to show you a piece of the non-fiction submission from our Fall 2025 Issue! Please enjoy this excerpt from Marta Regn's lovely piece, "What Water Dissolves", and make sure to read the rest of her story and our issue on our website, linked in our bio.

Happy Wednesday! We're excited to feature the final poem from our Fall 2025 Issue! Please enjoy Theodore Worozbyt's lovely poem "Bird in the Wood", and make sure to read the rest of his poem and our issue on our website, linked in our bio. @theo23rd.bsky.social

We're excited to feature Justin Rigamonti @jrigamonti.bsky.social and his poem "Kiss Math" from our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Keep reading Justin's poem and the rest of our issue on our website, linked in our bio!

Heads up...Our poetry and fiction teams will no longer be accepting submissions after November 20th. Want to submit a piece? The link to submit is in our bio (and submissions are free)!

This week we're happy to feature another wonderful poem, "lesser celandine", by Kathleen Hellen! Read the rest of her work and our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW on our website, linked in bio!

Heads up...Our poetry and fiction teams will no longer be accepting submissions after November 20th. Want to submit a piece? The link to submit is in our bio (and submissions are free)!

We're excited to feature the wonderful poem "Passenger" by Kelle Groom from our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Read the rest of her poem and our full Issue on our website, linked in bio!

Happy Wednesday! Today, we're featuring Spencer Eckart and his poem "Mother Bird" from our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Check out the rest of his lovely poem and our current issue on our website, linked in bio!

Today we're featuring Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social and her phenomenal fiction piece "Invasion Force" from our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Read her work and check out the rest of our current issue on our website, linked in our bio!

The hole can swallow anything—an SUV, a person, a folding chair. It can swallow whole neighborhoods. The asphalt cracking and sliding into its center. Christmas decorations. The river between us.

Fungal spread from a spore's perspective. How flies, sheep, humans, and bullets brought Clathrus archeri to Europe. Read INVASION FORCE in @thedodgemag.bsky.social!

Today we're featuring Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social and her phenomenal fiction piece "Invasion Force" from our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Read her work and check out the rest of our current issue on our website, linked in our bio!

Today we're delighted to feature Shannon Salter and her story "Bella," in our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Read her story and more on our website, linked in our bio.

Happy Saturday! Today we're featuring Derrick Martin-Campbell @dmartincampbell.bsky.social and his new fiction "Two Dreams" in our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Check out his piece on our website, linked in our bio.

New story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up now on @thedodgemag.bsky.social 🦟

Today we're excited to feature Henry Hietala and his story "Smoke" from our Fall 2025 Issue, OUT NOW! Read the full piece and our latest issue on our website, linked in our bio!

Please join us in congratulating JoeAnn Hart, whose piece "Ah!" was selected for the Orison Books Best Spiritual Literature Anthology! Originally published in our Fall 2024 Issue, you can read the rest of her story on our website, linked in our bio. Congrats JoeAnn!

Today we're excited to feature Mish Gajewski-Zambataro and her story "The Champion" from our Fall 2025 Issue, OUT NOW! Read the rest of her story and our latest issue on our website, linked in our bio!

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Today we're excited to feature Mish Gajewski-Zambataro and her story "The Champion" from our Fall 2025 Issue, OUT NOW! Read the rest of her story and our latest issue on our website, linked in our bio!

We're excited to kick off our featured author posts of the Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Today we're featuring Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and his piece "The Whale Dreams". Read more on our website, linked in our bio!

TWO DREAMS, Dad-talking-to-his-kid-in-bed flash melodrama that everyone liked in @thedodgemag.bsky.social www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...

We are excited to announce our nominations of "Dream Studies" by Susan DeFreitas and "The North American Blizzard of 1996" by Jon Doughboy for the O. Henry Award! Read their full work on our website, linked in our bio!

Reposting my very good and moving new dad-sploitation story “Two Dreams” in the fall issue of the @thedodgemag.bsky.social. I have so far only read @katharinetyndall.bsky.social’s surprising and humbling ”Invasion Force” and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social’s beautiful The Whale Dreams but I mean

ICYMI: new fiction up @thedodgemag.bsky.social www.thedodgemag.com/andrewbertai...

“The whale dreams itself a harvest. The whale dreams itself a graveyard.” 🐋 Sink, seep, and settle into this breathless wonder by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @thedodgemag.bsky.social that made my heart ache for whales.

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social and @kimsrogers.bsky.social , have you seen this?

For the evening crowd New flash up @thedodgemag.bsky.social www.thedodgemag.com/andrewbertai...

Love love this & love whales!! www.thedodgemag.com/andrewbertai...

"When the whale awakes, it’s not sure if it’s a whale who dreamed itself a butterfly or a butterfly who dreamed itself a whale." I really love how @andrewbertaina.bsky.social created this gem in the @thedodgemag.bsky.social 💙💙💙

We're excited to kick off our featured author posts of the Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Today we're featuring Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and his piece "The Whale Dreams". Read more on our website, linked in our bio!

A true-ish story of war and fungal spread, INVASION FORCE tells of how Clathrus archeri, a fungus known as the Devil's Fingers, reached Europe from Aotearoa New Zealand in 1914. Out now in The Dodge! Pictured: clathrus archeri growing near Bornheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen.