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**Submissions are open!** We'll be open until Jan 13th! matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

Our website will say submissions are closed, but our Duosuma page will accept submissions until midnight est! duotrope.com/duosuma/submit…

"My therapist says, Crawl beneath the rusted gate that warns No Trespassing." New fiction: "Directions" by Michelle Ross matchbooklitmag.com/mb/ross/direct…

"We were having breakfast and the spoon was dripping with honey." New fiction: "Queen" by Nora Nadjarian aka Nora Nadjarian matchbooklitmag.com/mb/nadjarian/q…

"Or how about this: I knew it wasn’t going to work with my boyfriend a few days after Ronnie James Dio died." New fiction: "Only Count In One" by Amy Rossi matchbooklitmag.com/mb/rossi/only-…

"Like any unacknowledged feeling, it grew into something much bigger, rolled around inside me until it snowballed, hard-packed and heavy." SLM's Former Managing Editor Amy Rossi's new flash "Only Count In One" is out in matchbook! Read it here: buff.ly/4gWtqJJ

"Split peach, bitten autumnal predawn. A few planets still visible here and there. No moon, no sun yet. Flocks of pigeons congregate and flurry from turret to turret." New nonfiction: "The Land Before Fame" by Shaawan Francis Keahna matchbooklitmag.com/mb/keahna/the-…

"The darkling beetle was wingless and nocturnal. Well-adjusted to drought. Trickster insect, lured and balmed by grain." New fiction: "Lover of No Light" by Elisa Luna Ady aka elisa matchbooklitmag.com/mb/ady/lover-o…

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"They want to see Venice flood again in miniature, seawater reaching a little higher each year." New CNF: "When Can We Go Back" by Abbie Kiefer aka Abbie Kiefer matchbooklitmag.com/mb/kiefer/when…

**Submissions open for matchbook June 23!**

Weird question. Anyone know any indie presses that will publish previously published novels? Like one that had a tiny run and is now out of print?

We repeat:

Submissions open! Until June 30! matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

“The coat closet at Aunt Belinda’s was always colder than the rest of the house.” New fiction: “So Then We Planted Her a Rosebush” by Kathryn Kulpa aka K is for KATE Who Was Struck with an Axe matchbooklitmag.com/mb/kulpa/so-th…

"She doesn’t turn onto Jewel. She keeps going. Straight. Takes her chances." New fiction: "Speed" by Diane Gottlieb aka Diane Gottlieb matchbooklitmag.com/mb/gottlieb/sp…

"The sky is so big here, you say, stretching your arms wide as we wade through the tall grass at the base of the basalt cliffs." New fiction: "We are always talking about the light" by Kate Lavelle aka kate lavelle matchbooklitmag.com/mb/lavelle/we-…

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