MicroLit Reviews features Jonathan Everitt's insightful exploration of Erin Malone's poetry collection, Site of Disappearance, a striking and memorable work of art. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Today's flash reading: Flâneuse by Carrie Cooperider! "I notice these things. I notice the people with missing teeth and the women with makeup that’s too much but not enough to cover the bruises. I notice..." birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Flash News Friday! Congrats to our Pushcart nominees: Elizabeth Ziemska, Carrie Cooperider Donnetrice Allison, Lorraine Comanor, Jean Hey, and Dawn Tasaka Steffler !

“Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to read.”—Kenzaburo Oe buff.ly/46Z8AFJ

Congrats to our Best Microfiction nominees! John R Coats Suzanne Hicks (she/her) Sarah Oakes and Suzanne Bjornson!

“All novelists are eavesdroppers—we listen like mad.” —Penelope Lively buff.ly/46lSwNq

"The fog is not burning off this morning. / No hint of sun. The voice in my head / Is about dusk light." "The Call," by Elaine F. Chapman out today. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Congrats to Liz Ziemska and Carrie Cooperider -- we nominated their fabulous stories for Best American Short Stories!

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Nancy Lynée Woo writes about carrie nassif 's poetry collection: "Carrie Nassif’s lithopaedion births itself through moody, atmospheric, earthy language as the speaker traverses a country landscape in search of an absent mother." birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Congrats to your Best Small Fictions nominees! John R Coats Carrie Cooperider Patti Jazanoski Sarah Oakes Mandira Pattnaik

Diving into the week before Christmas we're delighted to offer up Mark Wallace's review of John West's Lessons and Carols! ""All the modest ceremonies of our lives pay tribute to our need for order." birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

"Slowly, we ventured out in our Airstream trailer, the silvery hull a mirror of America…" -- American Diorama by Thomas Schabarum is our latest publication in MicroLit Almanac. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Welcome to Flash News Friday! Tell us your news -- and we think you'll enjoy reading Les Schofield's review of Jehanne Dubrow's Exhibitions. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Our first review of 2024: Carlene Gadapee takes a look at @DianeMehta's Tiny Extravaganzas. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

"Eclipsed by Hunger," looks at Erika Nichols-Frazer's FEED ME and asks about what happens "what happens when a young girl’s relationship to food, a body’s nourishment, is interrupted"? By Jessica Binkley. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

Check out the review of Sarah Freligh's A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN by Allison Renner Writes! birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

"& things ring abstract and constructed on this voyage, making me wonder more than ever if I do create my reality after all." Read "the thing about circular journeys" by Talia Hope Levy in MicroLit Almanac. birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…

A deep look at Brian Turner's THE WILD DELIGHT OF WILD THINGS by Miriam O'Neal. "... the starting place of grief’s pilgrimage and the “you” for whom this wild long journey through the physical universe as well as the metaverse of the heart is undertaken." birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman…