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Angela Joynes

@angelajoynes.bsky.social
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She/her Short Fiction writer, 🇨🇦 in TN. Pub in ILANOT REVIEW, WEST TRESTLE REVIEW, FICTIVE DREAM,SUSURRUS, SOUTH 85+. BA,MD, Certificate Creative ✍️, Nom Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📝 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2026 issue, Issue 16! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, and #CNF to @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Open for submissions through November 15th!
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am so thrilled to see my work in the gorgeous new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! I had the best time serving as Artist-in-Residence for it. Pls check out my portfolio & artist statement & read the amazing writing in this special issue! www.south85journal.com/artists-stat...
My photograph overlooking NYC from a train on a bridge with text overlaid: South 85 Out Now 

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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woohoo!! I’m so grateful my wee poison plant story has been nominated!!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesterday I got a rejection less than 7 hrs after submission! Boy, I guess they know what they don’t want! 😂
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great voice in this little flash!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great Story!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I just finished SILVER GIRL by @lesliepwriter.bsky.social Late to the party I know but what a party! This novel has incredible heart, voice, clever turns of phrase, and utterly unforgettable characters! ♥️ ♥️ ♥️
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When a book is more than a book… a handmade work of art by @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social a beautiful rendering of the hopes and dreams of women. Lyrical language and irresistible imagery!
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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How to Cook Lamb When All You Can Think Of Is Death by Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social rawlit.weebly.com/9_6.html Dying to See Oliver by Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social rawlit.weebly.com/9_8.html
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“Whether new or old, the hearth is often the gathering place.”
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whoa! Super grateful for this nomination! “Dying To See Oliver” was written in @mattkendrick.bsky.social Go With The Flow writing course. Thanks Matt and thanks @delgeo14.bsky.social !!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Wear the strappy sandals, he'd say, and I seriously had never heard a guy use that term” I love this story!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Very cool piece for its tiny size!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A story rejected 20+ times, inspired by my sister’s alopecia as a girl and her best friend’s love. Thanks ever so much to the beautiful Orange Rose Literary theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/08/22/b...
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“Bandana Girls” by Angela Joynes
The death-bed request had proven far harder to decline than an invitation to supper, Tupperware parties, or Rook games. Bix wrinkled her nose. Humid air and wet coats magnified the hospital’s usual…
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My latest! A story of alopecia, loyalty, friendship, and forgiveness. Very close to my ♥️ theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/08/22/b...
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“Bandana Girls” by Angela Joynes
The death-bed request had proven far harder to decline than an invitation to supper, Tupperware parties, or Rook games. Bix wrinkled her nose. Humid air and wet coats magnified the hospital’s usual…
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Book mail makes for a great day!! @stanchion.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yes!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Because I’m waiting in walkin clinic I had time for a longer story from one of my favorite journals Trouble is, now I’m crying. It soo good @westchesterreview.bsky.social www.westchesterreview.com/william-cass-1
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William Cass — The Westchester Review
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My favorite. ❤️ ❤️
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thanks to Laura Black one my favorite stories ever is back!!! Love, grief, and magic in one little pkg!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
😊 woohoo! An acceptance today for one my longer stories which is close to my heart because of my sister’s childhood alopecia. After many rejections and revisions, I’m glad I’ll soon be able to share. The story will appear in the elegant Orange Rose Literary Magazine 🙏 🙏 Can’t wait!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Murder Hotel is one of my favorites!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/dete... “We hang dripping for days on display, the dregs of society, the outcasts, the filthy needing to be detergentized” My speculative micro
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Detergentized by Angela Joynes
Flash Fiction: Detergentized
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I never thought of my dark poisonous-plant micro as a 🎃 read! Thank you!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My husband found this mushroom here in Tennesse. Lactarius indigo maybe? I think it’s exquisite!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My speculative feminist micro! Written in Kathy Fish’s flash extravaganza the ekphrastic prompt! @kathyfish.bsky.social
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Check out @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Madeleine Armstrong’s “On Duty”. Suits the deception theme. To a T!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Sheldon is bound and determined we don’t need a kid…He’s heard horror tales from his friends about no sleep, no sex, bawling, and bodily functions”. “Trust Me, Honey” my sex scene deception story. Once again thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social !!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thanks for the spotlight!!! I Might have a bit of a thing for Poisonous plants! 😉
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Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Cheers, Bluesky! Rock and a Hard Place #16 has dropped and features my story "Brighter Horizons." Special thanks to @suzjay11.bsky.social, @robdsmith.bsky.social and the entire @rhppress.bsky.social team! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX32LMC7
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have a new piece up at @bulbregion.bsky.social Many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for having me back! I'd love for you to read, "Dimensions." 💙 bulbregion.com/Dimensions-b...
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Dimensions, by Kathy Fish — The Bulb Region
Dimensions — Kathy Fish I WANDER THE ROOMS, THOUGH my house has become outsized and...
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I have a sexy deception story coming soon….
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thrilled to find “The Sweet Darkness” on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 long list! Thanks to all the judges and to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for publishing it. Congrats to all the writers on both lists 🎉 maudlinhouse.net/the-sweet-da...
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The Sweet Darkness
Broken pens, Bic lighters, and sticky dimes and pennies floated up through the cushions of the sofa and pinched the thighs of the teenagers who were all supposed to be somewhere else. Someone fiddled ...
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With apologies to all the nice Gordons out there, here’s my poison plant micro born in a @mattkendrick.bsky.social course!! Thanks @therelphian.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/bloodroot/
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Bloodroot
Angela Joynes Listen to Angela read her story On the flats along the Cold Stream among fiddleheads, violets, and trilliums, bloomed the delicate white flower Mama swore to be poison. I clung to my …
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Woohoo! Over the moon to find one of my stories on the Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social long list! My first time! Thanks to the team at @susurrusmag.bsky.social www.susurrusthemagazine.com/my-grandmoth...
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My Grandmother's Hands, — Susurrus
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Dying to See Oliver” was born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social GO WITH THE FLOW writing course, a stream of consciousness exercise. Thanks Matt!! rawlit.weebly.com/9_8.html
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“ We are always running out of time… ”
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
What can I say? I love poisonous plants! “Bloodroot “ coming soon. Thanks JP!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Woohoo! Happy to be a Trash Cat again!!
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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We are live! rawlit.weebly.com/issue9.html Contributors 2/3 Katie Hughbanks El Johnson Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social Karina Longo Siobhan Maher Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social Oormila V. Prahlad
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My story “Dying to See Oliver” is in this beautiful Raw Lit issue & fantastic art by @amymarques.bsky.social Thank you! Warning: death, loss of son, addiction, profanity rawlit.weebly.com/9_8.html
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“ We are always running out of time… ”
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When one gets paid for a micro in Mythic Picnic (yay) @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social naturally one uses the funds to take a workshop with the amazing @mattkendrick.bsky.social !!
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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Coming soon - Issue 9 Lifeline Sunsetting - Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social & Dying to See Oliver - Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The artwork by Amy Marques to go with my story is Perfection!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Woohoo! So excited to be in the upcoming Raw Lit issue with these amazing writers!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
With our good friends at a cocktail party to support Nashville Shakespeare Festival! It was a ‘Midsummer’ Night in pink!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
😊 😊 😊 waking up to an acceptance!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“The lungs, memory chests for held breaths.” Just a gorgeous list story!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A story about God…and chickens!!
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Wonderful stories here including @ninamiller.bsky.social 💔story told through a suture removal kit, and my little story about Aunt Ruby Rooster which was born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social Glorious Words. Thanks so much @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Super writing news! My short story collection PENNIES TO JUMP THE RAILS won 3rd prize in the fiction manuscript category of the Writers Federation of New Brunswick competition!! wfnb.ca/David-Adams-...
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The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick - David Adams Richards Prize
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A beautiful micro!
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