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Anna Vangala Jones

@anniejowrites.bsky.social
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author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc. annavangalajones.com

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have a new story “Tomatoes and Oil Paintings” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. grateful to any of you who read this one + @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for giving it a home 🍅 🎨 fracturedlit.com/tomatoes-and...
Tomatoes and Oil Paintings
by Anna Vangala Jones
Fractured Lit
Excerpt of story: “The woman waters the plants in her garden before she leaves for her morning walk. The man sits at his easel, painting, before he leaves for his morning walk. Once outside, both glance at their watches and quicken their pace to avoid being late.”
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
excited to be in @havehashad.com again with a tiny micro about a bar for ghosts. grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social + any of you who read it 💀 🍻 👻 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...
at the top is a drawing of skulls
Title: Where Everybody Knows How You Died
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Text of story: I like to ghost watch as I nurse my scotch. It's funny, scotch made me cough and sputter when I was a person but the burn is nice now—the warmth makes you feel alive. The bar is crowded tonight. Hit & Run Victim is arm wrestling Bungee Jump Splat (he tried to be known as Thrill Seeker but we were all too hung up on the splat.) Choked on a Chicken Wing While Living Alone is sitting at the piano, hands hovering over the keys but not touching them. Leaned Too Far Over the Yellow Line to See if the L Train Was Coming & Fell Onto the Tracks at the Exact Wrong Moment is dancing by herself, swaying to the music Choked on a Chicken Wing isn't playing. Fell Asleep & Didn’t Wake Up asks me if he can bum a cig so I go join him for a smoke. He knows I'm Abducted, Buried in the Woods, & Never Found but is polite enough to pretend he thinks I'm Lung Cancer. He asks if I ever miss it. Life, I'm assuming. I don't answer. Me neither, he says. We cheers with our cigarettes and look up at the night sky as mist floats through the moonlight.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/
Journal: Bending Genres, Issue 51
Title of story: Dishes
Author: Anna Vangala Jones

Text of story: “Louisa, my coworker, keeps telling me about this studio where you decorate dishes before standing on the rooftop to fling them at the ground—she says it’s therapeutic. Better than actual therapy. You wouldn’t be the only widow there, she assures me, lots of widows. She explains it’s nice because you get the soothing, artistic activity first and then there is the destruction. The ability to shatter into oblivion the beauty you’ve just created. Before anyone else can take it from you or ruin it. It sounds strange but I’d try almost anything at this point. I insist on going alone. The ceramic pieces are premade. We spend the first visit painting them and then they get glazed and fired in the kiln. We return a week later to admire our finished products before heading up several flights of stairs to the roof and throwing them as hard as we can at the vacant lot below. There’s not a lot of socializing that happens. I paint my teacup periwinkle and white while I lie to the old woman next to me about my husband by pretending he’s at home and still alive. “Does he question why you come here?” she asks. “My kids don’t get it. It’s good for my anger but they don’t understand what I’m so angry about. Neither do I,” she admits, “but I know I am and this helps.” I don’t tell him I’m here, I say. I like being able to tell her some truth. The day the dishes are ready, we don’t speak a word to each other or anyone else. Just indulge in the violence together and alone. I don’t notice anyone else’s debris but my own. I only see tiny periwinkle and white fragments sparkling on the pavement like millions of stars in distant galaxies.”
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
according to my notes app, I tried to type up some nonsense story ideas all about elevators at 4:11am?? truly don’t remember this or what I was thinking or trying to say so let’s pretend it would’ve been great
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ICYMI New story in trampset. Lots of good things in trampset.
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy to have three haiku up in @havehashad.com today!
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027
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Deal Report
FIELD OF WANT
By Amorak Huey
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Cofounder of River River Books and professor at Bowling Green State University Amorak Huey's FIELD OF WANT, which explores distance, desire, and geography-in particular the fields of Ohio and the American Midwest-featuring the syntax of place, the light of the moon, the isolation of being alive, to Etruscan Press, for publication in April 2028.
Poetry
September 28, 2026Screenshot of the first page of a book contract between Cornerstone Press and Amorak Huey for Definition of Elegy: New and Collected Prose Poems
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this morning composing an ode to my coffee counts as writing
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives”
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
so thrilled my story, “Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)” has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions anthology with these other wonderful stories from @bulbregion.bsky.social. thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social 📬 💌
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
this is my first time ever being selected for the Wigleaf Top 50! so thrilled & delighted. thank you to @sudhab.bsky.social, Scott Garson + the @wigleaf.bsky.social team, @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, & @havehashad.com 💀 🪦 🤍
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions

Series Editor: Sudha Balagopal — "Writers produced an astonishing treasure trove of stories this year..." 

Selecting Editor: Andrew Porter — "Occasions such as this always feel like a gift to me..."

Anna Vangala Jones story “Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic” from HAD was selected At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is the pub date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. 
Below that is the text of the story: “—we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.”
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m back in @bulbregion.bsky.social with “Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)” ♡ grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social + all of you who read this story 💌 📬 bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...
Journal: The Bulb Region
Title: Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Image: an open mailbox in black & white
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Excerpt of the story: “When the mailboxes started appearing all over town—the ones in which you could send letters to your dead that they’d be able to receive and read—we all regarded it as something dangerous. Those who had dabbled in ouija boards and harmless playful witchcraft in childhood were somewhat less concerned while others saw the new magical objects as being placed there by the devil. First of all, none of us knew where they came from. But the label slapped across each of them was clear.

‘Letters for your dead?’”a periwinkle background color
text & image in white
Prose
Title: Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Image: open mailbox
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...
title: Maybe Mary
author: Anna Vangala Jones

a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple title: Maybe Mary
author: Anna Vangala Jones

a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple 

quote from story: “She says she doesn’t want to talk about the disappearance. Anything but that is fine.”
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: March 31, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid by Anna Vangala Jones. 
Below that is the text of the opening lines of the story: “Everyone’s heard the rumors that when you die, they take you into a house you’ve never seen before—real dilapidated and creepy for added effect maybe—and in each room, they make you watch people from throughout the course of your life reading or listening to all the things you’ve wanted to say to them when you were alive but never did. Letters, emails, notes in books, burned CDs, text messages, silent moments”
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 31/08/2026
@anniejowrites.bsky.social has a wonderful story in the THIRTY WEST BEST OF 10 YEARS VOL 01. Starting literally in the middle, “Echo” is a standout tale from Anna’s story book, TURMERIC & SUGAR: STORIES. Both are available now 🐘
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I have a new story “The Yellow Door” in @burialmagazine.bsky.social! so grateful to Zack for giving it a wonderful home & any of you who read this one 🪦 🌲 🚪 💛 burialmagazine.neocities.org/theyellowdoor
Title: The Yellow Door

Author: Anna Vangala Jones

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Seated around the table holding hands, we opened our eyes to look at Jyoti’s empty chair, disappointed that our seance had failed to bring her back. We were lost after her unexpected death, me especially. She’d been the voice of our little group. We were a body without a mouth. The next night we set up the ouija board, our fingers as light as a feather on the heart shaped planchette for communicating with the dead, begging Jyoti to guide us toward some kind of ghostly reunion. To our collective shock, it began to glide over the letters until it produced the helpful instruction, Go to our tree tomorrow morning.

We knew she meant the sycamore tree in the woods where we’d gather to smoke, drink, and talk for hours. We arrived, all on time for once, and found a yellow door waiting for us in the center of the trunk.

“We should not open that,” Betsy said.

“But she’s in there,” I said. “She told us to come.”

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
delighted to be back in Rejection Letters with my new story “The Funerals” — so grateful to @kevinmkearney.bsky.social for his thoughtful edits, D.T., & any of you who read it in @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🪦 ♡ rejection-letters.com/2026/07/07/t...
Title: The Funerals
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Image: a narrow alleyway behind a bar with a lit up red neon sign. nearby is a large tree under a gloomy sky.
Excerpt from the story: “For years, they’d all taken bets on who would be next. I tried not to resent anyone who guessed me. ‘We’re sorry, Diya,’ they said as they collected their winnings. ‘Where do you want the funeral?’

It began with Jill. After her divorce was final, she sent us formal invitations that insisted we wear black dresses and heels. At the cemetery, she placed flowers at the base of a tree before saying a few words. She claimed she did it to be funny, but she seemed to take the proceedings pretty seriously. Around the midway point, we went from finding the whole thing annoying to cathartic, finally telling her all our unspoken truths about their doomed trajectory as high school sweethearts turned bitter divorcees. We’ve since paid our respects at a mini-golf place, where Sarah’s first date had gone horribly but she married him anyway, and an old abandoned building, home to the lousy apartment Kavita and her ex had once shared. The last one was a bonfire in which Melanie torched every memory and smiled at the leaping flames. The funerals help us mourn and celebrate these endings. The drinks let us temporarily forget. Merlot at a classy restaurant after Jill’s. Yuengling at a dive bar after Sarah’s. Soju at a karaoke lounge after Kavita’s. Root beer floats at a drive-in movie after Melanie’s.”
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
I have a new story in Short Story Long today! it’s about the mystery of people you come across often but can’t truly know. many thanks to wonderful editor @aaronburch.bsky.social, Zoë Petersen for the lovely art, & any of you who read it ♡
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The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier by Anna Vangala Jones
"He was beautiful but not in the way of a movie star or something. Beautiful in the regular person way. Beautiful to us."
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I have a new story up at @rejectionlit.bsky.social today! it’s about friendship breakups and the living ghosts that haunt us. so grateful to amazing editor @kevinmkearney.bsky.social & any of you who read it ♡ rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/n...
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Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones)
I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
hi bluesky! I wrote Turmeric & Sugar—a book about love, loneliness, obsession, ghosts, the surreal + the real, & longing. @tananarivedue.bsky.social calls it “an impressive debut by a writer with a clear vision into the human heart.” @thirtywestph.bsky.social www.thirtywestph.com/shop/turmeri...
A book sits on a bench surrounded by flowers and leaves. The book title is Turmeric & Sugar: Stories and the author is Anna Vangala Jones. The original cover design shows maroon curtains drawn to reveal a window overlooking an elephant and an ocean with choppy waves. The elephant is blue like the sky full of white wispy clouds. The artist is Carolyn Brandt.
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The mid-autumn festival is this week, so it’s the perfect time to get a copy of my mini-chapbook, full of tiny poems inspired by Chinese folklore www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...
Cover of chapbook The Moon, My Heart
poems by Elena Zhang, the cover is the moon with pink blossoms in the foreground The Moon, My Heart
In this story, Chang'e opens her mouth and I eat the egg inside.
Yolk sun in white moon.
I finally understand what Teresa Teng meant when she sang the moon represents my heart.
She meant immortal mothers and birthday gifts, and the starlit waning of time.
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm delighted to be in @trampset.bsky.social with so many writers I admire. Kick off your Harvest Moon weekend with this issue.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if you don’t take a blurry photo of the moon on your phone from a moving car, did its ethereal beauty even exist
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
maybe my halloween costume this year will be someone who finishes writing their book
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
had decided to stop sending my fiction out again for a while & right when I do, I get a yes for a story from one of my favorite journals. a real “just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” situation every time
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Jennifer Wortman @wrefinnej.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have a new book coming into the world! Many thanks to Thirty West and Josh. I’m thrilled to be in the company of so many great writers.
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.
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I Died - Identity Theory
I emerge from the forest to discover I died.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wrote a book of poetry! It’s called DEATH DOMESTIC, coming soon from @altcurrent.bsky.social. Really looking forward to working with Leah on this.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
starting my day off with a walk puts me in such a good mood, literally smiling & saying good morning to some crows
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
me posting online: oh man my first draft is such a mess 😅 me by myself: but…is this the best thing I’ve ever written??
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
spending my one wild & precious life on my silly phone while looking longingly at my beloved stack of books beside me waiting to be read
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 02/04/2026
beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡
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Even After You’re Gone, by K.C. Mead-Brewer — The Bulb Region
Even After You’re Gone — K.C. Mead-Brewer RIPLEY’S CAT IS A SMALL CAT. Here,...
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to have a new poem in the beautiful Sweet Lit.💙
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This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…
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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
✨Light Chemical Sea | Unboxing Video✨ Only a few more months until 'Light Chemical Sea' is officially released on November 10, 2026. youtu.be/PJ9zOu6cZ_4
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Light Chemical Sea | Unboxing Video
YouTube video by jenwithwords
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"You’ve never understood a river roars inside my head, that decades later I can still hear the frenzied storm that destroyed the suspension bridge at home,...." I love this phenomenal piece of writing by @sudhab.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙 gooseberry-pie.com/capilano/
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Capilano - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ll be really happy if you can read & share my new CNF piece in ergot press, “Desire is a Map I Keep Folding the Wrong Way Up.” Please & thank you! 🔗 in the comments.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 14/09/2026
Nice write-up in Kirkus www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
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Keanu Reeves To Adapt Thrillers by Oliver Lowe | Kirkus Reviews
The actor will produce and star in the film ‘Kill Current.’
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So happy to have new work up at literary namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
not now, novel. mommy is writing another short story right now
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's a great weekend to read The Cellar Below the Cellar, while not hating me! Come for the misery potluck, stay for the relatively clean water. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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The Cellar Below the Cellar
A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless auroras. When a wild solar storm wipes out ...
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So proud to have my story Apogee as one of the stories nominated by @doricliterary.bsky.social for the O. Henry.
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Apogee
Finally, another manned mission to Mars. How he’d glowed with excitement.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran
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This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have a new flash in the latest issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. Check it out if you wanna but make sure to read all the other amazing authors in this issue. And thanks to Literary Namjooning for giving this piece such an awesome home! 💙 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Bus Windows by Will Musgrove
I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it’s cry listening to my sad songs playlist o clock
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
swinging like a pendulum between loving the book I’ve just written & being terrified for anyone to read it ever
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Delighted to have a flash in the wonderful @necessaryfiction.com. A special thanks to fiction editor Lacey Dunham.❤️
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have some copies of my newest mini chapbook to give away! “A City Bursts Inside Me,” full of 12 tiny city poems. DM me for a copy!
Copies of a small chapbook titled “a city bursts inside me” sitting next to a plant in a winky mushroom pot
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