Candace Hartsuyker
@C_Hartsuyker
Writer, film noir lover, swimmer. In @ExpoReviewLit @Cheap_Pop @FracturedLit @AtlasandAlice @HungerJournal + more. In BSF 22, Best Micro 23, Wigleaf Top 50 '23
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Check out Southeast Review’s Writer’s Regimen, friends. It sounds wonderful. 30 days of inspiration! And I’m delighted to be one of the fiction contributors.❤️
Exciting news: we have increased our payment to contributors! We read on a rolling basis but if you send us your work within the next 3 weeks, you may just make it into our 4th issue.
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#Submissions #WritingCommuni
NEW POEM #124: 'Name Me, River' by Jessie Lynn McMains (Jessie Lynn McMains)
'Name me woman and I’ll open up my chest and show you the wind; April wind, its easterly flow.'
stonecirclereview.com/name-me-river/
#Poem #Poetry Community #Poetry #NewPoem
Ok deep breath, here goes! After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided to bring a new mag into the literary world, with two 🔥🔥writers and dear friends--Lakshmi (luck-shme) and Melissa Llanes Brownlee. Dedicated to my sister, Suma, who loved nature, art, and mindfulness, we present Literary Namjooning!
'It watches the ocean, peeling and windswept, sunken eyes and blunted beak. A cloak of feathers flapping around its neck, clapping with the storm.'
Paul Thompson in Gone Lawn, a journal of word-things
gonelawn.net/journal/issue5…
'A giant manta ray appears from cloudy nowhere, her white cephalic fins curled to headlights.'
Donna Vorreyer in Gone Lawn, a journal of word-things
gonelawn.net/journal/issue5…
'I don’t know where your thoughts go, or how long the folds in our palms will grow, or how the worm lives on the sea floor, why some planets freeze or boil, or what keeps me from coming back to you...'
Mikal Wix 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️🔥 in Gone Lawn, a journal of word-things
gonelawn.net/journal/issue5…
'Close by, a shy sky blue door with white trim frames a pink taffeta robe lounging about a teal radio.
Sheree Shatsky 🌻🇺🇦🎩 in Gone Lawn, a journal of word-things
gonelawn.net/journal/issue5…
'We prepare for the flood and the parade at the same time. Early in the morning we chop the braces of the big farmhouse porch clean through and lash it to fence posts with rope, like a proper boat.'
Ani King in Flash Frog
flash-frog.com/2024/03/25/the…
'Woama spins tales that they love — about the girl Tamang who jumped into the river to escape marrying against her wishes, and became a Hihu dolphin...'
Mandira Pattnaik in Parentheses Journal
parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/croco…
'Another me showed up at the house today. Same hair, just a little grayer. Same smile, a little biased toward the left.'
Kristy Crabtree ☮️🏳️🌈 in Parentheses Journal
parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/her-m…
'On nights of such promises, with her hand held in mine, I forgot to count how many sisters trailed behind me through our neighborhood. I forgot how bright, but also how readily, garlands of paper girls burn.'
Avra Margariti in Parentheses Journal
parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/burni…
'Track, track, track you down, baby, to pierce your body with a love arrow’s spell.'
✨Exodus Oktavia Brownlow✨ in Parentheses Journal
parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/pleas…
'I see now that it was fear. I see now that she was even more scared of nothingness than she was of death.'
Shannon Frost Greenstein (She/They) in Parentheses Journal
parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/the-l…
'We sit down together, my grandmother and my boyfriend and me. I eat quietly, so I won’t spook her, but I can’t control everything: the clink of metal forks on porcelain.'
Lindy Biller in Parentheses Journal
parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/kitch…
'You find something that could be the hollow shatter of someone’s tooth, show it to me in the cup of your gloved hand.'
Cathy Ulrich in Does It Have Pockets
doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cathy-…
My latest Book Riot post is live! In which I discuss my love for genre-blending short story collections, with work by Bora Chung, Kim Fu, Talia Kolluri, Kelly Link, Premee Mohamed, Doctora Malka Older, Brenda Peynado, Karin Tidbeck, Cathy Ulrich, and Helen Oyeyemi!
