A beautiful, lyrical micro memoir for you today. Submissions open 3/1/26! SugarSugarSalt Lit Magazine - Excavating words. @https://open.substack.com/pub/sugarsugarsaltlit/p/todays-special-by-heain-joung?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

“I’ve heard this episode at least five times, but Chauncey yells out possibilities anyway, not one of them the least bit matchable…” So funny! Karen Craigo in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/in-2025-my-h...

”We are already gone but we’re still here, still chasing an Intermezzo, a pleasant break, a quick fix before we get back to work and life…” Mileva Anastasiadou In @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🌟 gooseberry-pie.com/sign-of-the-...

“Those were my stories you stole.” @kossworks.bsky.social in @GooseberryPie99 💛✨ gooseberry-pie.com/obituary-sis...

“…the horse we rode in on didn’t seem to mind that we didn’t seem to know what we signed up for.” @pdforan.bsky.social in @GooseberryPie99 ✨💛 gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...

One of my favorite writers with a nuanced & engrossing story.

New CNF today. Head over to Reckon to read "H.O.M.E." by Mireya Gonzalez-Looby.

I reactivated my account to share this extraordinary story about obsession by @dluntz.bsky.social - I hope a few someone’s will see my share & read it. A quote to follow…. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

A pleasure to be your issue mate!

It’s so cool to start off the new year with a short story published in @reckonreview.bsky.social , one of my favorite short stories magazines! Thanks to everyone at RR for the opportunity to publish in your pages! reckonreview.com/were-in-an-emergency-fiction-by-e-a-aymar/

We're starting 2026 with a bang. Head over to Reckon to read "We're in an Emergency" by the brilliant @eaaymar.bsky.social

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead." — Tennessee Williams SEND US YOUR SUFFERING WORDS. SUBS ARE OPEN. reckonreview.com/submissions/

A pleasure to be your issue mate!

We back at it, folks. On the docket from the fiction side — small-town murders, car-slinging crushes, and tricky corvids. #amreading #litmags

“They say the moan of his sax is sexy but she knows it’s lonely.” The Sax Player by @charhamrick.bsky.social in Flash Frontier flashfrontier.com/december-202...

Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Just saw this great idea. Staunch & consistent supporters of myself & others: @melostrom.bsky.social , @pdforan.bsky.social , @kathyfish.bsky.social 💛❤️💚

Helllooooo! Does anyone actually read this app? I have poetry, fiction, & memoir recommendations for your book lover gifting. Support independent press!

We are excited to share our nominees for Best Microfiction 2026: Margo Griffin & Amanda Ashworth! Best of luck & big hugs to these brilliant writers. See reckonreview.com/award-nomina... for links to their stories.

Virtual Reading on Monday 12/8/2025: Help raise funds to support the emergency response rooms in Sudan. Readers include Jericho Brown, Safia Elhillo, Lameese Badr, Natalie Shapero, Martha Collins, David Baker, Sandra Lim, Katie Peterson, and Ladan Osman. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/r...

“I use words like refinance, cold front, and energy efficient.” @ericscottryon.bsky.social in Whale Road Review 🙌 #flashfiction www.whaleroadreview.com/tryon/

Latest, featuring Beth Sherman in @fictivedream.bsky.social, @jamybond.bsky.social & Keith Woodruff in @bendinggenres.bsky.social, Pamela Painter in Milk Candy Rvw, Angelica Roman in @thecitronreview.bsky.social 🙌 + other stuff charlottehamrick.substack.com/p/small-bite...

Literal chills reading this piece. “Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor.”

SO good. 🙌 Idk this poet but wow. 1st pubbed poem in Rust & Moth is brilliant. Congrats @edithkrone.bsky.social

In case you’re interested - a wip. go.bsky.app/V5MfhyM

Gorgeous prose (as expected!) by @melostrom.bsky.social , a kind writer you should be following! 💛

Wonderful to see ELJ thriving!

Great news! All ELJ Editions books published after March 2025 are now available on Amazon, BN.com, and Bookshop.org, as well as ELJ’s website! Pick yourself up a book this Holiday season!

Latest… charlottehamrick.substack.com/p/book-news-...

“why borrow griefs from the future when the present horrors are more than enough.” @ronita.bsky.social 💛🙏 in FemAsia

“It’s been a long time since I stood in a Colorado river in a rainstorm skipping stones, certain I was in love with the man beside me instead of the man who lived states away. The Away Man’s voice on my answering machine—“ @jilltalbot.bsky.social in Sonora Review🙌 sonorareview.com/2025/11/04/s...

“… shuddering like a ghost rain in the leaves, like something lost and searching.” “If something similar happened to her, Nate — unlike Mr. Haskell — wouldn’t even try to protect Anna and her. Couldn’t. He was in Chicago.” @melostrom.bsky.social in Stone Canoe Journal

“…everybody shook their heads and tut-tutted and agreed she had always been trouble or a narcissist or too much of a goody-two-shoes…” Wow, so good - Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in ghost parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

“I dance like all of the cowards in cowboy movies. Caro Kennedy cries like all of the women who listen, from behind drawn curtains, to the gunfire from a duel in a dusty street.” 🙌 Gary Fincke in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

Today's new fiction, from Amelia Franz, will have your heart pounding.

An Extraordinary heart tug. Truly wonderful, Jen! @jenwithwords.bsky.social

New Wind & Root over at Reckon today from our columnist Brandy Renee McCann. I needed this one today.

New creative nonfiction at Reckon today from Cindy Sams. Come see!

“Writing has always been a way of understanding myself…” Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚

So good to talk with @ronita.bsky.social ! reckonreview.com/the-nitty-gr...

We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year. Read their stories here: reckonreview.com/award-nomina...

This issue is a treasure trove for flash fiction lovers. I’m savoring it! ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

We have new creative nonfiction from Katrina Ralbag over at Reckon. Come see.

“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)” A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social