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Anna Gates Ha

@annagatesha.bsky.social
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Writer. Words in Barrelhouse, Longleaf, Fractured Lit, Emerge, JMWW, Citron Review, Milk Candy, Literary Mama, and others. annagatesha.wixsite.com/annagatesha…

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Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This weekend we are offering free editorial feedback on a handful of entries. This is normally a paid service. If you're interested, submit in our open call category for free and just put a quick note in your cover letter that you're interested in editorial feedback. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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Broad Ripple Review Submission Manager
Submit to Broad Ripple Review. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
PSA! We're reading for The Smokey 2025. Grand Prize: $2500. Total Prize pot: At least $4700--guaranteed to be awarded! All entries read anonymously. Long list and shortlist announced. Share the love. We're rooting for you! Deadline May 10! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...
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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
No more secrets! I'm so excited to announce that I'm a literary agent with @roseclifflit.bsky.social and I'm open to queries on Friday! Huge thanks to @jessicaberg.bsky.social for the encouragement and mentorship! MSWL below!
Yellow and green font of a banner for Rosecliff Literary.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Love gets us through life 💕 And we're so in love with this new FEBRUARY ISSUE 💕: buff.ly/2Z36noR All the love and thanks to our Contributors! WORDS: Selen Ozturk, A.A. Tojino, Afri Arebu, Andy Chen ART: Kathleen Frank PLUS: Isabella Maria interviews Olivia Gatwood
A painting with bold strokes: a mountaintop with vibrant red, pink, orange, and yellow wildflowers and luscious foliage in the foreground. Clusters of rocks dot a meadow leading to a ridge with pink outcroppings, overcast with tumultuous clouds.
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others. Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
ICYMI: I edited an online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social and it's a flash of weird, magical light in an otherwise horrible and dark 2025. Iconic music celebs. Weird parenting chaos. 🔥 www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/b...
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Baby, One More Time — Barrelhouse
A themed online issue that explores what happens when parenting intersects with famous musicians. Entirely fictional, of course.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"When they were younger, she was something to chase; a ticket ripped from his hand by the wind, feet from the entrance to the show." Contributor @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social 's new flash "Already Echoing" is up now in @soflopojo.bsky.social ! Read it here: buff.ly/42C5nMV
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 03/02/2025
thinking of @annagatesha.bsky.social's Shakira inspired beauty over @barrelhouse.bsky.social
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Conjuring 2006, by Anna Gates Ha — Barrelhouse
I know I am approaching burnout because when the crows land in our front yard, it reminds me of what it was like to be young and drunk. To be buried in a mess of limbs, slick with glitter. To be carri...
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I have a story in Barrelhouse! A themed issue, curated by the wonderful @writesloud.bsky.social, called Baby, One More Time "that explores what happens when parenting intersects with famous musicians. Entirely fictional, of course." Check out my story, "Mississippi June"!
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Mississippi June, by DeMisty D. Bellinger — Barrelhouse
Regina smoked a borrowed Kool. She was tired, hot, feeling all the weight the Mississippi late June sky gave. Peter was back in jail, so it was just her and the kids, and now as she smoked every bit o...
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Calling all fiction writers! We are looking for stories between 1000 and 3000 words! Please send them our way! 😘 We can't wait to read you.😘
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Omg this story!! ❤️ www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/c...
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Conjuring 2006, by Anna Gates Ha — Barrelhouse
I know I am approaching burnout because when the crows land in our front yard, it reminds me of what it was like to be young and drunk. To be buried in a mess of limbs, slick with glitter. To be carri...
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Woke up to this wonderful news from my publisher @santafewriter.bsky.social!! My book made One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 list @msmagazine.com!! Wooohooooo!! msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...
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Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 - Ms. Magazine
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"what if she could collect each missing piece of herself like some goddess picking up scattered laundry" Read the stunning poem, IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE, THERE IS NOTHING I CANNOT DO, by @jillkitchen.bsky.social in our January Issue: buff.ly/40FGSNq
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
THIS SATURDAY! I’ll be reading from my debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) with the incredible talents of @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social and @anotherintro.bsky.socia! When: January 25th 5 pm (EST) Register here: anovelideaphilly.com/events/
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“Sometimes I try to overlay the man in front of me with the man I met in college. I try to remember the smell of his dorm room. The Phish posters. The menagerie of glass bongs on his windowsill…” @annagatesha.bsky.social | @barrelhouse.bsky.social www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/c...
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Conjuring 2006, by Anna Gates Ha — Barrelhouse
I know I am approaching burnout because when the crows land in our front yard, it reminds me of what it was like to be young and drunk. To be buried in a mess of limbs, slick with glitter. To be carri...
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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Had so much fun doing the cover art for @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest anthology of parenting stories with a musical twist in @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Can you spot the baby crow?? 🐦‍⬛ Be sure to click through to read all the stunning stories ❤️
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I share space with some awesome writers! Read my short story "Mississippi June," but read all the others, too!
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 17/01/2025
"I’m only married to him, I rationalize silently to the crows, pretty sure they can read my mind. Please don’t judge me." y'all. this story's hips don't lie ⚡⚡⚡⚡ sharp & biting -- don't miss @annagatesha.bsky.social's latest over at @barrelhouse.bsky.social
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Conjuring 2006, by Anna Gates Ha — Barrelhouse
I know I am approaching burnout because when the crows land in our front yard, it reminds me of what it was like to be young and drunk. To be buried in a mess of limbs, slick with glitter. To be carri...
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This opening story is just-
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a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a microphone with a sign that says things on it
ALT: a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a microphone with a sign that says things on it
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 17/01/2025
I’m so delighted to share my weirdo new story with you!!!! “My Pretties” over at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, edited by the marvelous @writesloud.bsky.social 🦇⚡️
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My Pretties, by K.C. Mead-Brewer — Barrelhouse
Deirdre has no idea how to stop this. Could just say ‘stop’ , she reminds herself, but no, look: Lisa’s already dimming the lights and everyone’s already setting aside their yellow squares of cake, p...
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Anna Gates Ha @annagatesha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So very excited to be in this issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social! And omg that cover art by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social 😍
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thrilled to share this new online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social! I love, love, LOVE these stories! www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/b...
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Baby, One More Time — Barrelhouse
Parenting-related Short Fiction That Somehow Involves Famous Musician Icons. Edited by Hannah Grieco
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Almost ready to share this new @barrelhouse.bsky.social issue with the world! 10 stories about parenting that mesh with famous musicians. Featuring
Alice Cooper, sad, ancient, in the driver's seat of an old car.Nina Simone, stunning, singing on a dark stage.A terrified Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.Shakira, belly dancing.
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Anna Gates Ha @annagatesha.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I just finished the first draft of a novel I’ve been working on for two years. Might actually end up being a novella. But still. First draft done 🥹
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