Love this story HAD by the super-talented Glenn Orgias ! 'Your rating in the post-apocalypse is very much determined by your changing fortunes in the pre-apocalypse.' It's awesome — so excited to see it. Congrats Glenn!

This chokes me up every single time.

And this is why I can’t leave Twitter (read the whole thread!):

Congratulations to Nathan Xie, awarded 3rd place in the SmokeLong Workshop Prize 2023 by judge Jasmine Sawers! His story, “The Last Norwegian Wolf”, was published in The Rumpus and can be read here: therumpus.net/2023/05/15/rum…

Ada Limón:

Anybody else?

Congrats to Melissa Llanes Brownlee — her wonderful SKIN & BONE is in Best Small Fictions! 'Tita counts the shells spiraling beside her. Their bleached bodies, remnants of once-living creatures...' Check it out!

Congratulations to the wonderful @nathrxie ! His story about Tiananmen Square has been published in The Southern Review !

Can you help out the wonderful Nathan Xie ?!? Bring on the heartbreak poems!

Have you heard the good word about the International Rejection Competition? Step right up and check 'er out! reneebibby.com/rejectioncompe…

Aco Sopov, translated by Grau and Kramer from the Macedonian

My top 24 best poems read in 2023.

#16
This slick Jazzy Dionisio D. Martinez love poem

Charlie Parker: Almost Like Being in Love

These are the shadows of water when water
is thick and no longer transparent.
They are everywhere - on the walls,
across the ceiling.

I only know what Pernod is from reading Hemingway as an undergrad. Our prof had to tell us what it was. He said the wormwood in it was rumored to cause impotence so they banned it. Wikipedia doesn’t seem to verify that though…anyone else hear that story re The Sun Also Rises? x.com/jerichobrown/s…

Well this struck a nerve.

Yay Nathan Xie! Love this story, and so excited for you!

My name is Kristin Song.

On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months.

At the hospital, the ER doctor slid

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, competition/submission fees, membership, critiques, books—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like and share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose.

i’d like to welcome everybody to december with the greatest poem of all time

Check out these great micros by Melissa Llanes Brownlee in CRAFT ! 'Pua knows no one cares. She's sure all the other kids' arms are scratched black and blue too, their brown skin hiding all sins.' —Sacrament

New SmokeLong Quarterly! Great new flash prose by Dhyanna Raffi-David, Sara Hills, Ani King, Barbara Diggs, Emily Rinkema, Madeline Anthes, Kik Lodge, Joy Castro, Maureen Langloss, Amy Bobeda is writing about folktales&publicpolicy, Mara Aguilar-Erdman, Natalie Warther, and E.A. Aymar. Enjoy!

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