Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction. In the spring issue, just released, you can read wonderful poetry and prose, as well as my answers to insightful questions by Lachlan Applegate, on craft, peril, and the present moment. 010
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Many thanks to Alice Hoffman and the editors @pshares.bsky.social for seeing the beauty and peril in my story, "Keep You Safe," winner of the 151
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Looking to build your physical library? Willing to give these 5 literary novels to a good home. I'll cover shipping to a mutual in contiguous US. 201
Reposted by Barbara LockJohn Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 13/07/2025It’s a Sunday afternoon in the dead center of the year. Life barrels along. Best of times, worst of times, y’all know the score. Please consider checking out my two new books this year: Boxcutters has been out in the world for two months and Feast is but a month away! 0117
Reposted by Barbara LockPloughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Celebrate Summerween with Ploughshares! Join us at 6pm on July 16th at Trident Booksellers in Boston, MA, for the launch of our sinister Summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Victor LaValle and filled with werewolves, monsters, and more. Register here: pshr.us/sinistersummerlaunch 073
Reposted by Barbara LockSuzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025My first book will be out May 2026 🖤 105715
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025At church today we sang Get Together by The Youngbloods. You know how it goes: Come on, people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now 000
Reposted by Barbara LockPloughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Our sinister Summer 2025 issue is out now! Guest-edited by Victor LaValle, this issue features prose by Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S. A. Cosby, Joanna Pearson, Carolyn Ferrell, and more. Grab your copy today: pshr.us/summer25 094
Reposted by Barbara LockPloughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 09/07/2025We are pleased to present Ramona Ausubel with the annual Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction for her story, “Perfect Numbers,” published in the Summer 2024 issue. Read the full announcement and a profile in our Summer 2025 issue: pshr.us/summer25 042
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Reading @nadiabulkin.bsky.social in @pshares.bsky.social edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social : "She has never had therapy. Doctors take five minutes, and exorcisms take five days, and she figures this is a good compromise." 151
Reposted by Barbara LockBarbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Will you be in Boston next Wednesday? Come out to hear us read from Sinister Summer, edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social. 041
Reposted by Barbara LockTRossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025@variantlit.bsky.social’s own @barbaralockmd.bsky.social Her story’s sunlit-subtle menace will have you looking over your shoulder in a literary way! 162
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Thanks, John!! I'm so grateful for your enthusiasm and for publishing "The Story of Girls" in Cold Signal, one of my best and favorite stories so far! 010
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Will you be in Boston next Wednesday? Come out to hear us read from Sinister Summer, edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social. 041
Reposted by Barbara LockEmily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 30/06/2025What an honor! Thanks @variantlit.bsky.social for seeing something in this story! 0103
Reposted by Barbara LockTori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Have you read our newest issue yet?!? 032
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025The masterful narrative and metaphoric content of Vittorio Ottaviani's work takes my breath away. 010
Reposted by Barbara LockVariant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Celebrating new work from one of our poetry readers! 041
Reposted by Barbara LockBOObara Byar 👻👻 @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Thrilled to share the cover of #MOTEL, the anthology I'm editing for @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social 3134
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 09/11/2023Just referred a learner to this piece today after she said she didn’t want to write surreal nonfiction. 🤔 110
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Reading Thomas Merton's anti-poem, "Original Child Bomb." 010
Reposted by Barbara LockJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Join me @writesloud.bsky.social and friends for a moment of peace and poetry this Friday. All donations are for humanitarian aid via Doctors without Borders. PoetsforPeace.Eventbrite.com 13617
Reposted by Barbara LockWill Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Have a new flash in @havehashad.com today about Slappy, the dummy from the Goosebumps books. Check it out. Link to the story: www.havehashad.com 2184
Reposted by Barbara LockElizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social · 24/10/2023The butterflies in my stomach can attest that this is happening tonight www.eyeoftheheartcenter.org/conversationseyeoftheheartcenter.orgConversations — Eye of The Heart Center 042
Reposted by Barbara LockKatie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 20/10/2023The new journal my grad students and I are creating has gotten a flood of poetry and fiction submissions (yay!), but the editors are especially hoping for more open genre (hybrid, multimedia) and nonfiction pieces too! Send them some good longform work! 13921
Reposted by Barbara LockBOObara Byar 👻👻 @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 19/10/2023If you'd like to vote for my story PEACE PROCESS for Irish Short Story of the Year, please vote here: The short story category is at the bottom of the page. Your support is much appreciated and anyone can vote! www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/irishbookawards.ieVote - Irish Book AwardsAN POST IRISH BOOk AWARDS Public Vote 2023 Vote for your favourite books of the year here and win €100 of National Book Tokens Scroll down and vote for the book you would like to win each award cate... 243
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 19/10/2023It’s a wonderful story, Barbara! Congratulations on the recognition! 210
Reposted by Barbara LockTRossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 19/10/2023@barbarabyar.bsky.social’s story is stunning. If you haven’t yet read it, it’s here: variantlit.com/peace-process/variantlit.comPeace ProcessVisit the post for more. 183
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 17/10/2023My best canned flow activity, the one I used after having to contend with murder(s) (yes—as a doctor, yes plural) was guitar hero. Guitar Hero was so therapeutic. Dreamt about guitar hero instead of, you know 110
Reposted by Barbara LockDan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2023"I moved onto the windowsill. Jack moved into my room. He nicknamed me squirt." Big love for this #flashfiction by @willmusgrove.bsky.social 💙💙💙 172
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 13/10/2023What, no pithy or just-controversial-enough clickbait? 110
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 11/10/2023It’s a wonderful essay, @abigailmyers.bsky.social 030
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2023Once, when I was transitioning from one job to another, I sought the advice of a dean who was also a psychologist. She asked me:  when you were 13, what did you think you would be when you grew up?  The she said: each night, just before bed, write a list of what you did that day that you enjoyed. 000
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2023Morning. Son tells me to be a wide receiver and I catch the ball through the fog, touch down in the driveway. In my noticing, I forget to have opinions. 000
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2023Write a poem, then nap for a while. Inspect the crawling insects. Stare down a cat staring down a squirrel. 040
Reposted by Barbara LockTRossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2023In case anyone’s up for it, here’s an exciting literary event being held this Friday in Hartford in a cool art gallery to boot! A panel of six 2023 O Henry Award winners (including David Ryan), with series editor Jenny Minton and prize judge Lauren Groff! www.riverbendbookshop.com/event/bestsh... 043
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Friend tried to grow moss by putting some in a blender with buttermilk and pouring the glop into the cracks in the walk. Do I know if it worked? No. But I'm very attracted to the idea of it. 100
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2023"...in any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean." ARTHUR KOESTLER 020
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social · 20/09/2023“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.” MILAN KUNDERA 040