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Allison Field Bell

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
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Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY allisonfieldbell.com

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @chelseahannac.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, and @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social.
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The hour is fast approaching! Join us in launching @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s flash collection, STITCH, into the world!
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yay it’s here in time for @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s launch party tomorrow!! chestnutreview.com/product/stit...
Picture of the paperback chapbook “Stitch” by Allison Field Bell, from publisher Chestnut Review Chapbooks. The cover has a woman in warm clay tones wrapped in brown and ash toned tree and branches.
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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join hosts @chestnutreview.bsky.social and @marioaliberto3.bsky.social on Sunday, 9/27 at 4 p.m. CT in celebrating @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's new flash collection, STITCH! I'll read with @sfreligh.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social, and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social! Register in Comments.
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LAUNCH PARTY!!! @chestnutreview.bsky.social and @marioaliberto3.bsky.social host @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s launch of STITCH When: 9/27 at 5PM EST Readers: @sfreligh.bsky.social, @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social and me! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Robinson @ktrobinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Perusing this chapbook by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in the car during my son’s bass clarinet lesson! I remember when I first read the title story, “Stitch.” Just as powerful with a second reading.
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Robert Helfst is doing the best he can @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very proud to share my story about self-immolation has been published in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Issue 03! Check it out - there's tons of great authors here, including a couple of great pieces from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social (very cool to share a ToC with a former MFA classmate!) @rawhead
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social - Stitch - September 27 5:00 PM ET @aniking.bsky.social - Family Night - October 24 1:00 PM ET @claudiamonpere.bsky.social - The Periodic Family - November 14 1:00 PM ET
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did you know that @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social , @aniking.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social all have new books out, or about to come out? And that they're all going to have REMOTE BOOK LAUNCHES? I don't know if I can get to them all, but I'm darn well signing up! Congratulations all!
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Substack Post is Live! allisonfieldbell.substack.com/p/excuse-the...
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Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
JOIN US for @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social STITCH launch party with @chestnutreview.bsky.social on Sunday 9/27 5pm EST!!! REGISTER HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 18/09/2026
You can read the BSF nominated title story "Stitch" here okaydonkeymag.com/2024/08/09/s...
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Stitch by Allison Field Bell
Mary was the first to do it. She used silver thread, and we admired the biblical resonance of her name, her tight straight stitch. She started with the left eye, at the corner away from her nose. I…
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 18/09/2026
Congrats to OKD contributor @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social !
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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 18/09/2026
Our Friday Happy Hour host @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social has a new book out in the world!
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Katie Robinson @ktrobinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just ordered this collection! I always enjoy reading her work online. Can’t wait to dig in.
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Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal @writerclaytonb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In my latest Substack, I interview another of my favorite writers, Allison Field Bell. Check out the interview, then purchase her latest poetry collection: All That Blue from Finishing Line Press. Link in comments.
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My book is out wandering the world! bookshop.org/p/books/stit...
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Stitch
Allison Field Bell's debut flash fiction collection careens through California, Utah, Indiana, and the Southwest. In these stories, a woman transforms herself into a statue, two friends are suspended ...
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hi y’all! You know what would be rad? If you came to my remote launch party for Family Night on Oct 24 @1pm ET. More info in the alt text and at the registration link below. aniking.net/launchparty/
Image depicts event date information for the remote launch of Family Night by Ani King and features a full color picture of the book cover and black and white photos of Ani and their special guest readers. Event information is below: 

-- Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 1pm Eastern
-- Event Link to be provided after registration

Join Ani King for the launch of their debut flash fiction collection, Family Night: Stories (Mason Jar Press). Preorders are available at https://masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/family-night.

FAMILY NIGHT is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism. Ani King’s collected flash fiction stories explore relationships and connections: a teen girl attempting to summon her missing mother home with cigarette smoke and yacht rock songs; two sisters disputing how to care for an unhealthy elderly unicorn; a woman accidentally raising two daughters from the bones of her long-dead pet rabbits.

Ani will be joined by emcee and guest reader Katherine Plumhoff, with additional guests Claudia Monpere, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Allison Field Bell, and Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes. Come hang out with us and enjoy conversation, readings, and giveaways as we celebrate Family Night!

-- Please note we are only collecting your email in order to send the calendar invite and event link.

-- This event will also be recorded.
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New retreat is open for registration! Come write in the desert with @danadiehl.bsky.social & me! www.fieldworkswriting.com/tucson
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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 09/09/2026
Need some face-time with other writers? You’re in luck! Every Friday, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social hosts her “Friday Happy Hours with AFB” at 8–9 pm ET in our Discord. These free, 18+ happy hours are low stakes chances to share your work or just chat w/ other writers. We hope to see you there!
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TEXT: Friday Happy Hours with Allison Field Bell

Every Friday 8-9 PM ET

Chat & connect with fellow writers in #public-events in LMC's Discord

Open to everyone!
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s the final day to sign up for this awesome workshop with me & @aniking.bsky.social www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
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Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Get September 15th on your calendars! Stitch, a new chapbook from Allison Field Bell. #chestnutreview #chapbooksaturday #literarymagazine
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This month's #FromTheCoursesMouth features @smokelong.bsky.social @sfmontgomery.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/september-...
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September /October 26: Upcoming courses, workshops & events
Here’s what’s coming up from your your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents over the next couple of months.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Come workshop with us! It’s going to be so good!
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There are spots left in our Break the Rules Workshop! Come write with me & @aniking.bsky.social 💙 Please share widely! 🥰 www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For my next delve into the archives of @gonelawn.bsky.social for the Smokelong #archivechallenge I have selected this beautiful micro by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social So much here in so few words.. 🌳 🍊 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 55 : Allison Field Bell
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I read this when it first came out. Stunningly beautiful. 💔 @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social
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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 14/08/2026
Our Friday Happy Hour host!!
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Super excited for this Break the Rules intensive workshop! Join @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and I for three deep dives: breaking the rules with adjectives & adverbs, punctuation, and show vs. tell. www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
A nine-week combination workshop where we’ll learn three of writing’s most sacred rules and then smash them to pieces.

Thursdays 4-6 PM PST (on zoom)
September 10, 17, 24
October 1, 8, 22
November 5, 12, 19

sliding scale: $395-$695 (pay what you can afford)
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sneak peek of the incredible cover of my new collection forthcoming from @chestnutreview.bsky.social Cover art by the amazing Tejasi Thatte! Stories previously published by @smokelong.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com &more coming at ya Sept. 15!
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Speaking of @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social!! awesome piece out in Bull today! “George believes in Hemingway’s one true sentence. He worships espresso and travel and his own version of Buddhism.”
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’ve got a new piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social about writing, Greece, and Hemingway 💕
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Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“I want Artemis for my spirit, but she is aloof. She is all strength and stoicism where I am soft flesh and zero willpower. Artemis is like man to me. Like Hemingway.” Love these moments @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social captures here.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ICYMI, this fall @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and I are co-instructing a banger of an intensive workshop! This is a great deep dive, especially for short form writers who want to play and experiment with their work. www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
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Break the Rules — Field Works Writing
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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 02/08/2026
Every Friday night on Discord, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social will host her Friday Happy Hour from 8–9 pm ET. These free, weekly 18+ happy hours are low stakes chances to chat & connect w/ other writers. Join at discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN. We hope to see you there! Every Friday at the same time.
Friday Happy Hours
with Allison Field Bell
EVERY FRIDAY
8:00 to 9:00 pm EST
Chat and connect with fellow writers in #public-events in LMC's Discord
Open to everyone!
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My favorite thing to do when writing flash is whatever someone says we “can’t” or “shouldn’t” so this is gonna be so fun to co-teach with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social! It is in fact easier to obliterate a rule when you understand it really well - come find out!
BREAK THE RULES
WRITE FLASH WITH ALLIE AND ANI
A nine-week combination workshop where we’ll learn three of writing’s most sacred rules and then smash them to pieces.

Thursdays 4-6 PM PST (on zoom)
September 10, 17, 24
October 1, 8, 22
November 5, 12, 19

sliding scale: $395-$695 (pay what you can afford)
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Big news!!! @aniking.bsky.social & I are leading this amazing workshop together this fall! Sign up now & come break the rules with us!!! www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this brief interview to go along with my flash published in Milk Candy Review: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/07/13/t...
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Two Questions for Allison Field Bell
We recently published Allison Field Bell’s brilliant “Could Have Said No.” Here, we ask her two questions about her story: 1) This story is told as a series of “could haves,…
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
new flash up at milk candy review! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/07/09/c...
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COULD HAVE SAID NO ~ by Allison Field Bell
(CW: implied sexual assault) She could have said no. (She did eventually.) But she could have said no right away. Could have said no, I don’t want to leave the bar and go with you. Could have just …
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New headshots! 💕
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I've been enchanted with Waxwing's aesthetic ever since I read Dara Yen Elerath's The Tired Daughter. And now I have a story from my NIF up with them, too. ❤️ Thank you so much, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social.
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Swifties | Dawn Tasaka Steffler
From the second David gets out of the Uber, Taylor Swift's music scents the air like perfume, and his head bobs to the beat. See? This is going to be fun, he pep-talks himself.
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Over the moon to have this flash in Waxwing alongside so many writers I admire. Thank you @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and other editors. waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
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The Summers of Deep-Fried Fair Boys | Claudia Monpere
You meet the first one when you win a purple stuffed bunny at the ring toss and give it to his little cousin who is visiting from Georgia, up past bedtime.❡
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My new business website is live! Please share and give me a follow on Instagram! www.fieldworkswriting.com
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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"If they were here, there’d be three more leather jackets and two more motorcycles. At least 40 more tattoos. A handful of pills stashed in one purse. Three packs of cigarettes." READ @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social 's Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
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Aunt Joy Dies and Not Even Her Living Children Show Up — Ghost Parachute
The best thing about Joy was her grief. Two children dead in the same car accident. A corvette, a tree. Bobby and Jules. Bobby at 22, Jules at 18. I wasn’t alive then. I didn’t know Joy in the peak of...
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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Read "Aunt Joy Dies and Not Even Her Living Children Show Up" written by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The best thing about Joy was her grief." tinyurl.com/ynrejz72
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Aunt Joy Dies and Not Even Her Living Children Show Up — Ghost Parachute
The best thing about Joy was her grief. Two children dead in the same car accident. A corvette, a tree. Bobby and Jules. Bobby at 22, Jules at 18. I wasn’t alive then. I didn’t know Joy in the peak of...
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Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Amazing flash from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This offering!!! Tips & tricks for taking your dialogue to the next level! 2 hour craft talk & generative workshop ON ZOOM July 12: 10am-12pm PST 70$ or pay what you can afford (this is ALWAYS true at Field Works) Email fieldbellwriter@gmail.com to sign up now!
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New offering: deep dive into dialogue! July 12: 10am-12pm 💕
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"...and for a moment—afternoon light streaming in through the large bay windows, flowers on the coffee table purple and green—I feel almost like I live here." I dig your postcard! Congrats Allison! 🎉
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I won a thing!! @wigleaf.bsky.social Read my postcard here: wigleaf.com/202512afbdw....
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Bell: 'Dear Wigleaf'
Prose by Allison Field Bell
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