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Eirene Eleni

@eireneeleni.bsky.social
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This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales. eirenegentle.com templeinacity.com In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.

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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What exactly would cause this?
A tree stump looking absolutely shredded with no charring.
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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Entering BFFA before deadline 5th Oct ? Check out Karen’s post for tips on entering flash contests!
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Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a gorgeous surprise! Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social I’m bursting with excitement. Congratulations to all you fab poets, thrilled to be in your company💖🥰🥳🥳🥳🥳🙏🎉
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Black Bough Poetry (@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social)
Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The last issue of Ghost Parachute was stunning. Just checked the contributor list for this one and it’s got a ridiculously long list of ALL THE BEST WRITERS. Going to shut myself away for a long time with a pot of tea and read all the words. ❤️
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m thrilled to get a 2nd Best of the Net nomination from @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social & its brilliant editor @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Congratulations to all the nominees, whose work you can find👇. Here’s my recording of my nominated poem Brahms Variations #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity #botn
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Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Woohoo! It's a dream to be in Ghost Parachute w/ my weird little rhesus monkey story! Immense thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social for welcoming me into the 10th Anniversary issue w/ so many writers I admire, and thanks to Brett J Barr for the gorgeous artwork. ❤️❤️❤️ ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
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Primate Signaling — Ghost Parachute
Bob and I are at the zoo, checking out the macaques from the wide viewing window, when I notice a muscular man in a tiger t-shirt checking out Bob’s ass. And even though coming here on a token date wa...
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2027 Best of the Net nominees. You can find links to their poems here: stonecirclereview.com/awards-and-n... Please take a moment to enjoy their work again. And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck. #BotN #BestOfTheNet
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 01/10/2026
Okay, rolling out our Best Of The Net @bestofthenet.bsky.social nominations. Here they go. Check em out, and thanks everyone for helping make DTJ a great place for great reads! #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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Best Of The Net Nominations by Victor D Sandiego
Here at DTJ HQ we announce our nominations for Best Of The Net
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Then they added self-checkouts by @eireneeleni.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...
Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle. 'A tiny girl the size of a thumb hangs out by the cash at the discount mart. She has thick hair like a curtain tie and makes sour faces at the things you buy.'
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The final batch of the latest wave of new Featured Creators are now live. What an amazing month it has been. You can get a little taster of what the pieces are about here, but really you should check out the full pieces because they are faaaab! www.fullhouseliterary.com/featured-cre...
FEATURED CREATOR, Spotlight part 3. Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Kalliste Hardy, Eirene Gentle, Purbasha Roy, Manuel A. Melendez, Kristine Chang, George Brooks, Joshua Zeitler, Ella B. Winters
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 29/09/2026
Thanks everyone who's helped make DTJ a lovely fun and interesting place in 2026. We're pleased to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations! @bigjosh84.bsky.social @eireneeleni.bsky.social #writingcommunity Best to all and #stay #blessed
Best New Fictions Nominations, Basking in the Glory of Self-Defeat
After Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, Vacation, Coke Bottle Wizard, and
Where Falling Stars Land
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thrilled to be included in @flightlit.bsky.social! Thanks to Frances and Will for their careful editing. Check out the whole 1st birthday issue here ⬇️ 🍻
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This tiny girl would like a word www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...
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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If anyone has a few seconds for a tiny touch of poetry, I appreciate you jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Poetry: World unmade by Eirene Gentle
Six days of burnt bulbs. Of whispers, no vowels and nothing
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What does it mean when you find a cat whisker on the upstairs couch when you don’t have a cat and haven’t been anywhere there’s a cat
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Honoured my poem "Survivorship" has been nominated by The Ilanot Review for the @sundresspub.bsky.social 2027 Best of the Net Anthology🔥 My thanks to Managing Editor Marcela Sulak and the team at The Ilanot Review. What a lovely gift! Congratulations and best of luck to all the nominees! #BoTN
The Ilanot Review 2027 Best of the Net Anthology nominations.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Poetry: World unmade by Eirene Gentle
Six days of burnt bulbs. Of whispers, no vowels and nothing
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
World unmade
Six days of burnt bulbs.  Of whispers, no vowels and nothing to swallow. We remade torches into fireworks, so pretty, above.
Six dangling days of nuzzling commas, a string of ands and no plug to light them. Just this skin, laid gently on us. I left a candy wrapper for the seagulls, the crinkly kind that's hard to tear.
There's
no sweetness in the wrapper, or gull, or us. We shuttered windows
and lit up sky though we couldn't see it. We shush-laughed together, calling like schoolkids. 'Are you there?' 'Are you there?'
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A poem in JMWW!! By me! Woah. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Poetry: World unmade by Eirene Gentle
Six days of burnt bulbs. Of whispers, no vowels and nothing
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Announcing our nominees for this year’s Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay #MonarchQueerLiteraryAwards @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @romymorreo.bsky.social @nehas.bsky.social @angelvleal.bsky.social @lyfaulk.bsky.social
MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARD
NOMINATIONS
FICTION
COLE BEAUCHAMP WHEN MY DEAD AUNT JOINS ME ON THE PROTEST MARCH
ROMY MORREO | INFESTATION

ART
NEHA SAMPAT A? Or B?

POETRY
ANGEL LEAL | MY MOTHER TOLD ME SHE SAW SPIRITS ALL AROUND HER
LY FAULK | IJUST WANT TO TALK

Background image of a monarch butterfly alighting on a pillar
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The tiny girl wears heart-shaped glasses because she watches you with love. She wants you to know that. @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...
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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So happy to have this little micro in Full House literary today. Thank you, @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social , a joy to be here. www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...
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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary
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Viridine Literary @viridinelit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Overjoyed by this nomination for our EIC!
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So happy to have this little micro in Full House literary today. Thank you, @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social , a joy to be here. www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...
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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm having trouble talking myself into the feeling this whole thing ain't broken... but I have a new poem called "Hickory Hill," published in Oyster River Pages' glorious annual issue, and I'd be thrilled if you read it (or listened to me read it) www.oysterriverpages.com/edie-meade
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"Hickory Hill," Poetry by Edie Meade — Oyster River Pages
“Hickory Hill” by Edie Meade is a haunting, visceral prose poem that confronts a devastating tragedy while questioning poetry’s ability to hold, witness, or make meaning from it.
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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to all the Issue 35 contributors! The full issue is available here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-35
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Check out our nominees for Best Small Fiction 2027! #BestSmallFiction Kelly Murashige @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Rachel Rodman Kira Coleman
Best Small
Fiction 2027
KELLY MURASHIGE | EVEN A WORM
COLE BEAUCHAMP I WHEN MY DEAD AUNT JOINS ME ON THE PROTEST MARCH
RACHEL RODMAN | MY BIRTH STORY
KIRA COLEMAN | AN ORDINARY OCCURRENCE IN THE KITCHEN
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@rawheadjournal.bsky.social always one of my favorite journals to dig through! New issue alive and kicking
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we'll be reopening for new work on october 1 💜🌀💜🌀💜🌀💜
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve got a new poem in the September issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. It’s about the daughter my mother always wanted and the sister I dreamt of having.
IN THE FOREST OF MY OWN TEARS I SUDDENLY REMEMBER WANDA

It's the name my mother would've given her daughter if she ever had one instead of yet another son. Wanda.
I used to dream of climbing trees together & playing wizard of the forest together, though not in the forest of my tears.
This was always in the forest of my laughter. Always, despite how sad I got at times that my mother didn't get to have you.
Back then I climbed trees every day. These days I'm lost in the thickets of my phone. The other week I kept missing calls, turns out I forgot to turn off "do not disturb." Eventually I remembered, but couldn't remember how to actually do it, to say, Yes, I want to be disturbed again-by my phone, & by the world, I guess.
Then I googled it, instead of just asking Jeff (I think you would like Jeff), because I didn't want it to be a whole production again, a customer service situation, except between lovers, & I am the worstcustomer & the worst lover when trying to figure out my own phone. True, I'm a bit (Jeff would say a lot) of a Luddite. Well, a Luddite who's a screen fiend, & isn't that the perfect storm, wait, is that the right proverb, is it an idiom, I think you would know, Wanda. & now I'm remembering French class, how I adored learning new idiomatic expressions— lifit's Idiomatic Expressions Time! That's what happened in my head. How often I wished, Wanda, that you were at school with me. Say, only a year above me, but wise & capable of forming really cool sentences in French, & you'd never tease me in any language, or just a little, for what went on in my head. & after school we'd race from the bus to our favorite tree, though already we were a tad old to be playing like that, we'd play, we'd climb, we'd take turns being wizard of the forest, & laugh, we'd laugh so vast. At some point in our tree, you'd tell me which boy you liked, if any. Then I'd chime in with which one, or ones I liked. & though I could guess, & now know, thanks to my best friend Sam (you'd like him too), that having sisters can be very complicated, including or especially big sisters,back then I believed, needed to think that I could tell you every big thing. I could tell my sister, & then it was okay for a while that I couldn't tell anyone else in the family, it was alright because I had you. You, Wanda, & maybe that's sort of what she was thinking, believing, too, in her own forest early mornings or late at night, up in her own magical oak, when my mother was dreaming so hard about you.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love this journal. It has so much heart, so much to give. If you have something that seems right for it, please send it their way. This place is beautiful in the best ways.
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So apparently I write poems now and here are three that Jagged Edge very kindly took. The line breaks (I’m a bit chuffed with them) work best on desktop. I also like “Where is the slip inside you that allows an ugly man in” hope you do too 🧡 www.jaggededge.org/read/three-p...
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Three Poems by Sumitra Singam — jagged edge
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are so very honored to announce our 2026 nominations for The Best Small Fictions. Congrats to all the nominees!! Fingers and toes (and toe beans) crossed!! 🐈‍⬛🔥💚🤞🏼 @melissacuisine.bsky.social @aresjb.bsky.social @eireneeleni.bsky.social @suzannehicks.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social
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Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Any chance y'all want to vote for my collaborative work with the intergalactic C.J. Prince? #poetry
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did you know that we are enjoying the gentle breeze from a wide open free submissions window? Until September 30th.
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Pusheen Window
Alt: Three fluffy cats looking through a window overlooking the sea. A gentle breeze is tickling the curtains.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘My parents weren’t even alive when this song came out’ a barista says and half the room dies a slow writhing death
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don’t think this Hanged Man tarot card put the effort in
Track pants hung upside down to dry
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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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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 09/09/2026
Today I am imagining a friendlier and more loving world 🧡 💚
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New Microfiction by @cbigs.bsky.social ! 🐈‍⬛ www.claudineliterary.com/colemanbigelow
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I had a little essay out this summer in @stanchion.bsky.social. I'll have a short story out this month in @trampset.bsky.social. And just got word that I'll have a prose poem out in October with @bendinggenres.bsky.social! I've missed this. Lit mags forever. ❤️
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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm a bit teared up this morning already & this really got me going! I could so relate to this. Great story @fionamckay.bsky.social
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social best paired with a rum and ginger. Coming to an internet near you in Sept 12. Read on your fave window seat, stare out often and contemplate the meaning of things 🧡
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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Delighted to have two new poems in the latest lovely issue of @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social that just came out yesterday: www.birdcoatquarterly.com
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Current Issue | Birdcoat Quarterly
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to beestung's Best of the Net nominees in poetry for 2027! Willow Sipling sterling-elizabeth arcadia Loren Maria Guay Jay Délise Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin Read their work at beestungmag.com
Cockscomb pink background with yellow foreground. Text reads beestung 2027 best of the net. Willow Sipling
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Loren Maria Guay
Jay Délise
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Always a delight to read @frazzledlit.bsky.social
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This will be fabulous! 💕🎉
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