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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 05/02/2024
hey hey! check out this fabulous issue! including a breathless little runaway story from me ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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FEATURED STORY: The Chase | K.C. Mead-Brewer - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
K.C. Mead-Brewer is an author living in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland. She writes mostly weird, dark fiction, the kind of stories that love flashlights,
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Issue 8 is LIVE! Featuring work by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @demisty.bsky.social, and so many more! Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com
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Dayna Copeland is a romantic and edgy mixed-media artist, a published essayist and professional performer. A cancer mom and an elementary teacher, she is
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Heading to AWP? Join us Wednesday night in an on/offsite reading in the convention center hotel! Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
“A girl like that could do it in her sleep:
that look, immortalized in that romance, the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.” Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/selfie-jenni...
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Selfie | Jennifer Keith - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Jennifer Keith is a web content writer for Johns Hopkins Medicine and plays bass for the rock band Batworth Stone. Her poems have appeared in Sewanee
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
“I am flesh and bone. fiber and liquids.
a mind. I understand people see me
like bodiless heads in circus sideshows
surrounded by hard, distorting glass.” @mehpoeting.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/invisible-ma...
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Invisible Man (Two Views) | MEH - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
“Throughout that long lonely decade, wasn't l a fraying cord, shorting out every electric outlet, burn marks charring each wall? Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —” Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/abandon-kath...
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Abandon | Katherine Gekker - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Katherine Gekker is the author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things (Glass Lyre Press). She serves as Delmarva Review's Poetry Assistant Editor. Her poetry
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Not sure how many people will see this? But here's my list of 2023 pubs. It's short! But that's okay, I edited an anthology and finished my thesis! (Yay!) To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social. I'm so proud of this book! alansquirepublishing.com/bookstore/al...
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Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away - Alan Squire Publishing
Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot […]
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Cameron Cueva Clarke @cameronecclarke.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Writer friends! I'm fiction editor at The ASP Bulletin from @alansquirepub.bsky.social and we're accepting submissions through Christmas! Submit here: theaspbulletin.com/submissions/
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
"this is not the moment i have been waiting for - hades is a mother's hospital waiting room, a dreadful place where restless soles pace, where twenty minutes feels like twenty years waiting..." Michelle Evans | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/first-place-...
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FIRST PLACE: anticlea [ante-clee-ah] n. queen of ithaca and mother to odysseus | Michele Evans - Ala...
Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for her school's literary magazine, Unbound.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 28/11/2023
I’m so honored to have a story included on this fantastic nominations list 💚🦇
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
"Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat." @readinstead.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/contextualiz...
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Contextualizing a Forest Fire Continually Burning | Jared Beloff - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
after Erika Meitner's "Outside the Frame"
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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!! we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰 @alansquirepub theaspbulletin.com/submissions/
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
"I wanted the wolves to let me stay where I was, to let me keep what I had. If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step around it. If mold grew in the gutters, I’d breathe the spores." Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/alecto-megan...
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Thrilled to have a short story included in this new @alansquirepub.bsky.social anthology alongside some of my favorite writers. Many thanks to editor @writesloud.bsky.social for this powerhouse collection!
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
"you and me, together, in a house that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath. two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses running around our knees - not a single child in sight." Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/the-immigran...
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the immigrant dream | Ishanee Chanda - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Ishanee Chanda is a prose writer and poet from Dallas, Texas. She is the author or two books of poetry titled Oh, these walls, they crumble and The Overflow.
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Look what finally came! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social and @alansquirepub.bsky.social!!
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
So excited that @alansquirepub.bsky.social has nominated my bitty story, ROLE MODEL, for inclusion in the Best Microfiction anthology! Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Woooohooo!! Thank you so much @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com/buttons/
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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social for giving this oddball of a story a chance, and good luck to all the nominees!
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life. Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed heart ghastly white beating interdimensional if seen through cardiologist eyes." @adrianf.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social t.co/gCM8nA6izI
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SECOND PLACE: Emerald Echocardiogram | Adrian Dallas Frandle - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life.
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Congratulations to all of our nominees! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Join us this Saturday!! writer.org/event/alread...
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
REMINDER! The ASP Bulletin opens for submissions tomorrow!! Our next issue will launch right before AWP! theaspbulletin.com/submissions/
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!! theaspbulletin.com
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"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!! theaspbulletin.com
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"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Saturday's launch was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came! (And to our amazing authors!) Hope to see our DC friends on December 2nd! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 20/11/2023
I was so sad to miss the NYC reading & launch of the anthology ALREADY GONE: 40 STORIES OF RUNNING AWAY edited by the fabulous @writesloud.bsky.social @alansquirepub.bsky.social; I’m so honored to have a story included 🦇⚡️
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Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away - Alan Squire Publishing
Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot […]
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Saturday's launch was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came! (And to our amazing authors!) Hope to see our DC friends on December 2nd! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
weekly talk story about CLMP, @alansquirepub.bsky.social, @writesloud.bsky.social, and swamp pink www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Going to AWP?? Save the date! We're hosting a reading on Wednesday night, Feb 7th, featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!
Save the date! A reading at the Convention Center Marriott (Room TBA) at 7PM!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
I've waited all year for this day! 😭 Hope to hang with many of you on Saturday at The Gin Mill! ❤️
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Today's the day! ALREADY GONE is here!! DC and NYC friends, we'll see you at our book launches! Everyone else, stay tuned for upcoming book tour events!
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
"I was six, in first grade curling cursive when Kennedy died and my father arrived at the schoolyard in our good used Ford, and said, oh honey, shook his head." @saycarey1.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/third-place-...
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THIRD PLACE: The Trees in Dealey Plaza Seemed Distressed | Sarah Carey - Alan Squire Publishing Bull...
Sarah Carey is a graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Five
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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
BEYOND excited to share this news with all the talented writers i know and invite you to submit work!! our new reading period is opening soon!
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
TOMORROW! 🔥 Featuring this stunner by @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social!
A graphic about the anthology ALREADY GONE, which comes out Tuesday, 11/14.

Includes a quote from Aubrey Hirsch's story "Times He Touched Her in the Night"

"Lot's hands on her shoulders, when he wakes her to tell her it's time to run."
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
ALREADY GONE comes out on Tuesday!!! Featuring an amazing short story by @ambersparks.bsky.social! Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/alre...
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/honorable-me...
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
We have MORE NEWS! Our new senior fiction editor is Cameron Cueva Clarke! Cameron is a proud Latino theatre artist, fiction writer, playwright, editor, and professional goofball. Cameron founded the off-Broadway NYC theatre company Company of Fools and is an MFA candidate at Randolph College.
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
We have NEWS!! Our new senior creative nonfiction editor is @irleywrites.bsky.social! Shirley Chan has been published in HAD, Longleaf Review, Paranoid Tree, Roi Fainéant, and other publications. She is currently writing a joyful memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant.
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life." Second Place Winner: @adrianf.bsky.social 's Emerald Echocardiogram theaspbulletin.com/second-place...
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SECOND PLACE: Emerald Echocardiogram | Adrian Dallas Frandle - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life.
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
ASP editor @writesloud.bsky.social will discuss ALREADY GONE, and anthologies in general, at #AWP this year! Check out her panel on Thursday, February 8th. "Centering the Margin: Editors on Editing Anthologies"
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat. Contextualizing a Forest Fire Continually Burning by @readinstead.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/contextualiz...
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Contextualizing a Forest Fire Continually Burning | Jared Beloff - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
after Erika Meitner's "Outside the Frame"
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Zach Powers @zachpowers.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I got a story up in here!
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
ONE WEEK AWAY! Pre-orders are critical for books, y'all. And this collection is 🔥! bookshop.org/p/books/alre...
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
"you and me, together, in a house that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath" THE IMMIGRANT DREAM by Ishanee Chanda theaspbulletin.com/the-immigran...
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the immigrant dream | Ishanee Chanda - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Ishanee Chanda is a prose writer and poet from Dallas, Texas. She is the author or two books of poetry titled Oh, these walls, they crumble and The Overflow.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Who's in NYC? Would love to see you in real life!! ❤️
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Rachel Paris Wimer @rachelwimer.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
ICYMI, check out my piece about body-shaming, a Louise Glück poem, and physical and emotional drowning. Thanks to @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social for giving it a home. 💙💙💙
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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Would love to see some of you there!!
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
In less than two weeks! NYC friends, please join us!! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
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Alan Squire Publishing @alansquirepub.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
This is how I know he loves me, in his own way—hidden in the dark of night so that I couldn’t see his emotions. @rachelwimer.bsky.social's A BODY OF WATER theaspbulletin.com/a-body-of-wa...
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A Body of Water | Rachel Paris Wimer - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
For a long time, I thought about Ruth every time I saw a body of water. She was wearing pink shorts and a lavender t-shirt. It was the first time I noticed
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