Fiction

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

Photo by Freepix by Joanathan Cardew We gave each other words to spell. Sexy words like frangipane and assimilate, words with weird workings, woke words, wobbly words, words like blancmange you wouldn...

Photo by Jake Oates on Unsplash Stories Congratulation to Didi Wood and Jessical Klimesh for having their stories selected for Best Microfiction 2025!

Photo by ifer endahl on Unsplash by Jonathan Cardew You stand there, framed in green. I know you have a story to attend to. Your shoulders are rounded, your steps light. You don’t even flinch at the b...

Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

In this folio to accompany issue 21.2, five writers explore the craft of writing about sex.

“This is a sharp, wise, aching beauty of a collection. In these pages, Cheryl Pappas gifts us with afterflowers, an old woman frozen in place, beasts and witches lying in wait, a king who blithely dre...

by Jesse Lee Kercheval Told in a series of stories that blend boldly expressionistic and dreamlike colors with spare and unflinching text, French Girl is Jesse Lee Kercheval’s debut graphic memoir....

Flash Fiction by Jonathan Cardew

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

I started writing a post about the profound and overwhelming sadness I’ve felt since the election. But writing that post felt too profoundly and overwhelmingly sad! Impossible even. Then, somehow, I e...

Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions for its 2025 issues. Responses usually in less than two weeks. And between you and me, our editor loves when an anima...