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Angie McCullagh

@angiemccullagh.bsky.social
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Work in: The Sun Magazine, Colorado Review, Off Assignment, Wigleaf, The Razor, The Independent, Wired, HuffPost, Writer's Digest, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, One Story Conf '23, Bread Loaf '25, she/her, BLM angiemccullagh.weebly.com

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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What a delight!
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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Preorders are officially open for my new collection, This Fear We Harbor from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social ! This Fear We Harbor is a flash fiction collection that explores what happens after a rupture, a violence, or a moment that cannot be undone. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/this-...
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This Fear We Harbor by Tommy Dean | Flash Fiction Collection — Unsolicited Press
Shop This Fear We Harbor by Tommy Dean, a literary flash fiction collection exploring violence, fear, family, memory, moral consequence, and what happens after the moments that change us. Published by...
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘In a private browser he scanned video after video of girls who looked just like Sabrina with bottomless throats and buoyant breasts.’ Fiction by Halle Hill. granta.com/year-of-the-...
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The Year of the Rat | Halle Hill | Granta
‘Opening lines delivered on the apps frequently began with “lift UP the cap and let me see”. Or “Is that your bitch?”’ A short story by Halle Hill.
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Washington State: I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Oppose TransAlta's coal to gas conversion permit. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Oppose TransAlta's coal to gas conversion permit
We should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure in 2026. Please make a comment opposing the TransAlta coal to gas conversion. Washington State Department of Ecology should mandate a full EIS ...
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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our latest issue contains stories from @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, @emilynemens.bsky.social, and Will Boast: A young man faces crossroads in the Upper Penninsula. A teacher grapples with a tragedy. A painter in Amsterdam confronts a sudden mystery. Read + subscribe for new fiction and much more…
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ZYZZYVA No. 132 Spring 2026 – ZYZZYVA
ISSUE 132 181 Pages In This Issue: Nonfiction “Saguaro in the Sea” by Sophia Acuña: on surfing and indigeneity in Southern California, told through collage. “Care Directive” by Sarah Matsui: a dau...
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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our submission window is almost here, so prepare those packets, and send us something you can't wait to get out there. We're excited to see what you send our way. Keep your eyes on our submission guidelines for our new folio themes, too! kenyonreview.org/submit/
Kenyon Review submissions open September 1–30.
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/08/2026
⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI
The background is a neon lightning bolt sign against a dark brown and black wall. The full white Rumpus logo is within the sign. At the bottom are the words Coming Soon Flash Fridays writteni n black against a white cutout.
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Beautiful breathless flash!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm so optimistic about my book club novel with a light speculative thread that it's scaring me a little. #writingcommunity
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Be sure to bookmark our #PrideMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
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A Reading List for Pride Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by…
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hi! 👋 I am not in Wigleaf's Top 50 list. But I'm happy for everyone who is!
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I relished last week learning from Rebecca Makkai at Lighthouse’s LitFest in Denver.
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Andre Dubus III just introduced himself to me in the bathroom line at Lighthouse Litfest. I love this place!
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Learning so much from Rebecca Makkai's workshop at Lighthouse in Denver this week! 📝
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Rough draft finished! 📝
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Our community's most bookmarked lit mags that publish nonfiction, from #1-138. Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/ultima...
THE ULTIMATE LIST OF PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR NONFICTION

Split Lip Magazine
The Adroit Journal
Chestnut Review
Baltimore Review
The Sun
AGNI
The Drift
Ploughshares
The Paris Review
SmokeLong Quarterly
The Offing
CRAFT Literary
Gulf Coast
Guernica
ONLY POEMS
Kenyon Review
The Baffler
Black Fox Lit Mag
Electric Literature
Colorado Review
The Missouri Review
The Cincinnati Review
Poetry
Boulevard
The Rumpus
Ninth Letter
Passages North
Georgia Review
Swamp Pink
Bennington Review
The Threepenny Review
trampset
Clarkesworld
New England Review
The American Poetry Review
n+1
Barrelhouse
The Common
Conjunctions
Shenandoah
Indiana Review
Cult Magazine
Iowa Review
The Masters Review
Foglifter Journal & Press
Black Warrior Review
Beaver Magazine
The /temz/ Review
The Bitchin’ Kitsch
fifth wheel press
North American Review
Harper's
A Public Space
Brevity
Broken Antler
TriQuarterly
Narrative Magazine
Bending Genres
Star 82 Review
The Yale Review
The Deadlands
Ecotone
Propagule
Taco Bell QuarterlyThe Malahat Review
X-R-A-Y
Across the Margin
The Southern Review
Virginia Quarterly Review
3:AM Magazine
LitMag
Blue Earth Review
ALOCASIA
Bellevue Literary 
MudRoom
Waxwing Literary
Strange Horizons
Sewanee Review
Prairie Schooner
Pithead Chapel
Room
BULLSHIT LIT
Bloodletter
Booth
DIAGRAM
Citron Review
Pinch
phoebe
Banshee
Write or Die
Bat City Review
The Florida Review & Aquifer
Haven Speculative
Copper Nickel
Sundog Lit
Grain
Fairy Tale Review
The Massachusetts Review
PRISM
The Ex-Puritan
Alaska Quarterly Review
West Trade Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
Southeast Review
Variant Lit
Scrawl Place
A-minor Magazine
Hobart
The London Magazine
WILDNESS. a literary journal
Hippocampus Magazine
Salt Hill Journal
New Ohio Review
Apple Valley Review
Exist Otherwise
The Forge
Mslexia Magazine
After Happy Hour Review
F(r)iction
Nashville Review
Redivider Journal
The Emerson Review
Blue Marble Review
Paranoid Tree Press
Eunoia Review
Lucky Jefferson
Grist
Poetry Online (poetry.onl)
West Branch
Cutleaf
Hayden's Ferry Review
Consequence
New Letters
Arc Poetry
Chicago Quarterly Review
Astrolabe
Storm Cellar
American Literary Review
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Twelfth is one of the weirdest looking words in the English language.
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
For some reason I can't get this Nextdoor post out of my head. The cadence! Maybe I'll write a short story about it.
They're nesting now all them nests are full of eggs and herons
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hooray! The essay I wrote specifically with Off Assignment in mind is up today. And the accompanying artwork is gorgeous. offassignment.com/witching-hou... #writingcommunity
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5:51 p.m. in Svalbarðseyri — Off Assignment
“5:51 p.m. in Svalbarðseyri is the smell of sheep dung wafting in the louvered window of our rented tiny house with a fjord view and a two-burner cooktop.”
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today is a full manuscript request day. :)
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's been a two rejection day. So far. 👯‍♀️
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I have a new short story out at Lit Magazine. I was about to give up on this one just before they accepted it. They handled it with great care and led me through edits to make it stronger. www.litmagazine.org/goodbye-from...
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Goodbye from the Edge of the World – LIT
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
After a huge novel revision based on feedback from an excellent Reedsy editor and a polish with help from the amazing @mariegoyette.bsky.social, I'm requerying my psychological thriller. Ack!
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I just got a story acceptance that will inspire you once I explain how it happened. It'll come out in Mid-March and I'll tell you then! #writingcommunity
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/02/2026
"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"
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I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Email from every single platform I've logged into a billion times on my laptop: We noticed you've signed in from a new device! 😜
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Essay acceptance from the very publication I had in mind while writing it!
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A bit of professional news: my story Green Freak (The Sun, 2019) appears in this anthology and writing textbook published by Bloomsbury. It was released late last week. www.amazon.com/Environmenta...
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Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Buy Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology: Read Books Reviews - Amazon.com
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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
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The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#seattle Spring is coming!
Daffodils in the sun
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you live near Chicago, and you’re a writer, musician, or visual artist between 18-30, apply to Luminarts for a $10,000 fellowship plus ongoing support. I love serving on the board of this amazing organization, & want these grants going to brilliant young writers 🧵 luminarts.submittable.com/submit
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Luminarts Cultural Foundation Application Manager
Luminarts Cultural Foundation FellowshipApplications for open. Fellowship Programs are listed below. For general questions about program eligibility please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page or...
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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
For the first time since this kind of astonishing list came out, we're open for subs. Don't know how long it will last. cliffordgarstang.com/2026-literar...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/01/2026
"Some workers work indoors. Some workers work outdoors. Some work in unmarked Chevy Tahoes, doing jobs that Fascist Busytown residents are encouraged to ignore."
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Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day in Fascist Busytown?
Welcome to Fascist Busytown. My, what a compliant, orderly town! In Fascist Busytown, everyone works. Working is important. Work makes everything r...
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 16/01/2026
Random but putting it out there that if you need someone for a conference, panel, reading, podcast, etc., I’d be interested! I’ve been consumed by my day job and would love the chance to talk to people about writing 💕
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Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is amazing and makes me proud to have grown up in Minnesota.
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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
hm I hate to say it but it's actually very helpful when writers include the LinkedIn in their email signature these days. very easy way to help me tell that you are a human not a bot and a journalist/freelance writer not a comms person.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What are you doing in March? Why not write some mind-blowing micros with us? www.smokelong.com/smokelongs-m...
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SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
In its third year, The March Micro Marathon will be, as usual, a prompt-a-day whirlwind for 24 days. You’ll exchange drafts of micro fiction, non-fiction, and prose poetry in small groups and gather f...
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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
They didn’t just hate Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, and Kamala Harris. They hate me. They hate you. They hate any woman who isn’t performing attractive feminine submission for their pleasure.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/01/2026
"I started bringing books with me onto the train, inside the bodega, to the park, just pretty much anywhere people could see me and wonder, 'How can someone so conventionally attractive also have intellectual pursuits?'"
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I Started Reading Performatively, and Turns Out Books Are Pretty Good
It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-g...
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I was searching for examples of breathless sentence flash fiction and came across this beauty by @kimmagowan.bsky.social this morning. Swoon www.craftliterary.com/2020/11/06/v...
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The Vibe Tonight by Kim Magowan - CRAFT
Louisa and I are drinking wine while my husband Carl, who is the cook (I used to think I could cook but that’s before I met Carl, who is a much better cook, picky about his food and opinionated…
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Seattleites, do you all know about this place? I can't wait to go. #Seattle #Booklovers www.theinkdrinker.com
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The Ink Drinker
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“Short lines create torque, longer lines create glide.” - @kathyfish.bsky.social
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 12/12/2025
All the great litmags in one list. go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I went on a wine and abortion pill run today. :D Not having an abortion, but need the Misoprostol for an endometrial scope. I wonder if I'd be able to get it if I lived in a red state. Cheers!
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