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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 25/01/2025

*blows layer of dust off bluesky account We're also eligible for 2024 awards for semi-pro stuff. If'n, in all the current chaos, you wanted to throw a little love towards the little reading ghostie, perennial, outsider, underdog.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

post a short story you love @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com apparitionlit.com/bride-knife-... I still think about this story on a weekly basis.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Awards eligibility for 2024!! Honored to be published by @apexmag.bsky.social , @kaleidotrope.bsky.social , @apparitionlit.com , and @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this year ❤️ links to all stories can be found on my website!

Image with a list of award-eligible stories for Leah Ning for 2024:
"The Ferns and the Fiddleheads" (Apex Magazine), "On the Temporary Nature of Thunderstorms" (Kaleidotrope), "Rosewater, Clinging to the Tongue" (Apparition Lit), and "Calm, Quiet, Silence" (Crepuscular).

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Laura @lauraobrn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Finally ordered a physical copy of the @apparitionlit.com Resistance issue with my story in it. There she is now, wudja look at her 😭

The cover of Apparition Literary Magazine Issue 5: Resistance

My short story, In Silence I'll Sing, in Apparition Literary Magazine

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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It’s the most wonderful(?) time of the year…award eligibility post time! I have one poem out this year; ‘Replacement Rainforests’ (in @apparitionlit.com). Please keep it in mind if you’re nominating for 2025 awards 🙏

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · 29/11/2024

Poetry: "On brutal wing" (2021), one of my longest poems, is a blank-verse narrative which appeared in the brilliant @apparitionlit.com -- a magazine I'm really going to miss.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 07/12/2024

aaaaa!! i forgot once again (i had a major surgery 14 days after the magazine published), that i also had the *immense honor* of doing a *bucket list thing* and was Guest Editor for the @apparitionlit.com MERCURIAL ISSUE www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1G9MZL

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Apparition Lit, Issue 26: Mercurial (April 2024)

Amazon.com: Apparition Lit, Issue 26: Mercurial (April 2024) eBook : Kurella, Jordan, Child, Heather , Cooper, Marina , Kuye, Moriam E. , Mori, Arda , Osha, Jorja , Sengupta, Abhishek , Takács, Bogi , Teng, Emily Y. , Wade, Seth : Tienda Kindle

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Anne of all trades | 张韵 @anneliberton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Awards eligibility post 💜 This year I published 3 poems and 1 short story: Poems: ♠️ How Did I Die This Time? - @apparitionlit.com apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-di... ♠️ specular she (personal fave, @sfpoetry.bsky.social hiii) - @smallwondersmag.com smallwondersmag.com/piece/specul...

it's paper/plant-themed, with plants on opposite corners, yellowish paper as the background. Brown paper with the title 2024 eligibility. Then:
poetry: "how did i die this time?" - apparition lit; "specular she" - small wonders; "dad's recipe for never-keeping
short story: "six-month assessment on miracle fresh" - diabolical plots.

At the bottom, there's "@anneliberton"

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The first one in the series - "Anticaprice / Chemical Engineering Mage" in @apparitionlit.com in the issue guest-edited by @kurellian.bsky.social! (there is no particular reading order to those pieces and I might rearrange them entirely for a little book later.) apparitionlit.com/anticaprice-...

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A story full of longing for a thousand-year-old self but also for a new one. What do you do when you find yourself in stories that were not written for you? How do you reconcile original and translation into a third thing that bears your name? by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social in @apparitionlit.com

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 30/12/2024

Beautifully crafted prose rounds out our 2024 Flash Fiction competition - Dec winning story "We All Feed the Motherwood" by @akstories.bsky.social follows rituals of a society of murder trees. It is fitting as the last story we'll ever publish! Free online today! apparitionlit.com/we-all-feed-...

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Madeehah 🍉 ORPHAN PLANET OUT NOW! @madeehahwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Very honoured that the lovely folks at @apparitionlit.com have nominated my short story for the Pushcart Prize, I was not expecting this ☺️

An email that reads:

Hi Madeehah!

Thank you so much for working with us on the Harbinger issue. That story has swamped itself into our souls and will last throughout the end of time.

We are sending this message across time and space to let you know that the team tallied votes for our annual noms, and we are excited to nominate Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City for consideration in the Pushcart Prize for short fiction.

Best of luck, all our fingers and toes are crossed!

Stay well,

Rebecca, Amy, Clarke & Tacoma

Apparition Lit

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Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

So very honored to hear that my short story “The City and the Styrofoam Sea” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks to @apparitionlit.com for the nom! apparitionlit.com/the-city-and... Go, little story, go!

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Amy Henry Robinson @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Ok, one last go for Pushcart Prize nominations with a pass by the lucky (?) pineapple!! Good luck to the @apparitionlit.com noms!!

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Amy Henry Robinson @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This has really felt like a Midwest goodbye! My essay saying thank you, see ya later is free to read online today. THANK YOU to everyone who supported us, by cheering, sharing, submitting, reviewing, and subscribing. I've had the time of my life!! (*does the lift) apparitionlit.com/final-editor...

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 15/11/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Essay "See Ya Later" by Amy Henry Robinson apparitionlit.com/final-editorial-… @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social

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Text in black - See Ya Later by Amy Henry Robinson
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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 14/11/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Essay "The Stories I Tell Myself" by Jennifer Hudak apparitionlit.com/the-stories-i-te… @jenniferhudak.bsky.social

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Text in black - The Stories I Tell Myself by Jennifer Hudak
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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 12/11/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Thank you for Your Service" by August Cao apparitionlit.com/thank-you-for-yo…

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Text in black - Thank you for Your Service by August Cao
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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 11/11/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "The Pancake House at the End of the World" by L.M. Guay apparitionlit.com/the-pancake-hous… @nightgleaming.bsky.social

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Text in black - The Pancake House at the End of the World by L.M. Guay
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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 07/11/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Gutted" by Cameron E Quinn apparitionlit.com/gutted @thecameronquinn.bsky.social

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 04/11/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Skittering Within" by Kelsea Yu apparitionlit.com/skittering-withi… @anovelescape.bsky.social

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 31/10/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "How Did I Die This Time" by Anne Liberton apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-die-th… @anneliberton.bsky.social

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Text in black - How Did I Die This Time by Anne Liberton
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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I love the voice so much, I love this robot so much 😭

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 29/10/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "The Robot Malfunctions in Want of Locks and Braids" by Timi Sanni apparitionlit.com/the-robot-malfun… @timisanni.bsky.social

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Text in black - The Robot Malfunctions in Want of Locks and Braids by Timi Sanni
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Madeehah 🍉 ORPHAN PLANET OUT NOW! @madeehahwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

I loved writing this story and I'm so happy it found a perfect home in @apparitionlit.com's final issue. Give it a read if you're interested moons that mess up the world 😏🌛

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 28/10/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Estelle" by Carol Duncan apparitionlit.com/estelle/

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Amy Henry Robinson @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

The opening paragraph to this one is actually perfect. I promise you that you will not expect this story to end up where it does, but it is satisfying and you'll be nodding along.

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Amy Henry Robinson @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

This poem is a whole JOURNEY of FAFO for the rainforests. Of all the delightful writers we've worked with at @apparitionlit.com May is one of the most delightfulest. Honestly, read the poem (or listen to May read it!!) and you'll be like "hell, yeah... this is it."

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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

The forest has spoken! It also did a bunch of other things. Sorry, no take-backsies now.

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

This is a MUST READ 💙💙💙

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Rebecca Bennett @rebecca-b.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

This was something we tried to address at @apparitionlit.com by hiring guest editors for our issues. We wanted to: - teach what we knew - work with a range a diverse voices - pay for their work Every editor taught us something.

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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Proud (and a wee bit sad) to be part of @apparitionlit.com's last issue as well as its first. Replacement Rainforests spells out what might happen when bigwigs decide old growth can be replaced with something "better". (Spoiler: the forest thinks the same)

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 26/10/2024

Stave off hunger with the October flash fiction winning story The Bread of Life from Katherine Frain free to read online today!! apparitionlit.com/bread-of-life/

Bread: the matroness had sung to us of its thick golden shell. An inverse egg, all white in the center. If it grew anywhere, it would be in one of the gray palaces." BREAD OF LIFE

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 24/10/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Replacement Rainforests" by May Chong apparitionlit.com/replacement-rain… @maychong.bsky.social

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 23/10/2024

Very sad to see Apparition close their doors. They published one of my very first stories, and I loved working with their team. Rest well. You've worked hard. ♥️

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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

I can't tell you how having these works in this magazines changed me as an artist and changed the trajectory of my career as a writer. Apparition has meant so much to me and I can't overstate how much it was an honor to have hands and words in this finale. Love yourself. Read this magazine.

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Writers: repost a random story you're proud of. Earlier this year the wonderful @apparitionlit.com opened its pages to my odd little tale The Other Sky apparitionlit.com/the-other-sky/

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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I have a piece coming out in this one! @aureliusr2.bsky.social had such nice things to say about it in his editorial (seriously, thank you) and I'm taking steps to ensure...shall we say...that you can follow his provided suggestions. Soon. :3

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 21/10/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City" by Madeehah Reza apparitionlit.com/our-last-evening…

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 17/10/2024

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "The Siren’s Song" by Marilia Angeline apparitionlit.com/the-sirens-song/

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 15/10/2024

Issue 28: Harbinger, our final issue, is here! You can read the lovely editorial by guest editor Aurelius Raines II @aureliusr2.bsky.social online for free today at apparitionlit.com/harbinger-ed...

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 14/10/2024

Issue 28: Harbinger closes with a beautiful, bittersweet essay by co-founder and senior editor @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social. No one worked harder, and Apparition Lit wouldn't have made it 7 years without her (literal) blood, sweat, tears, encouragement, advocacy, and passion.

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Brown text - ESSAY: SEE YA LATER" BY AMY HENRY ROBINSON.
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Red text - "MY HEART IS IN THIS DIGITAL RECORD, BLOOD AND VISCERA ENTANGLED, WITH EACH EBOOK, ONLINE POST, BESPOKE AUDIO RECORDING."
White text - COVER ART BY ANNALISE JENSEN.

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Fun fact: Apparition Lit was my first paid publication, back in their first issue. I could not have asked for a more warm and supportive introduction to the industry. I am honored to appear in their final issue as well, and I will miss the mag more than I can say 💙

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Issue #2 will be edited by @speculativekane.bsky.social. A reader here at FF since the start of 2024, C.A. has been published in @apparitionlit.com. Full guidelines can be found at sarossf.com/submissions/

Saros Speculative Fiction, Issue #2 Editor: C.A. Kane

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 12/10/2024

We couldn't be happier to have Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social as our Harbinger guest essayist. She was a part of our first issue, is now part of our last, and, whether she knows it or not, is a founding member of our little Apparition Lit community.

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Essay: The Stories I Tell Myself By Jennifer Hudak
"Sometimes, I have the sense of my life splitting into different timelines as I’m living it."
Issue 28: Harbinger Coming October 15th!
Cover Art Annalise Jensen

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 09/10/2024

Check out this sneak peek of the ISSUE 28: HARBINGER short stories! Coming October 15th! 🧵1/ (ALT for all 6 images in thread attached to first image. Image text matches posts.)

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 08/10/2024

A portent of things to come in the (very near) future. The HARBINGER issue is almost a week away so it's time to release cover art with those who have been named as contributors. So it shall be written...

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L.M. Guay
Carol B. Duncan
Kelsea Yu
Cameron E Quinn
August Cao
Anne Liberton
Marilia Angeline
May Chong
Timi Sanni
Jennifer Hudak
Amy Henry Robinson

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 06/10/2024

Here's a little peek at the 6 poems coming your way in ISSUE 28: HARBINGER! 🧵 1/

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Apparition Literary Magazine @handle.invalid · 04/10/2024

We are so honored Angel @angelvleal.bsky.social chose to publish this piece with us! You can read LANGUAGE AS A FORM OF BREATH for free at apparitionlit.com/language-as-a-form-of-breath and support the SFPA @sfpoetry.bsky.social by purchasing their Rhysling Anthology at sfpoetry.com

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RHYSLING SHORT POEMS
@sfpapoetry
Second Place
"LANGUAGE AS A FORM OF BREATH"
ANGEL LEAL
APPARITION LIT OCT.
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