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Emily Hall

@emhall47.bsky.social
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Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD. linktr.ee/emhall47

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 6h
Many thanks to the editors of @thirtywestph.com for nominating my flash fiction piece The Teeth And Cloth Festival for The Best Of The Net. So thrilled to be included alongside such contributors and congratulations to all. A bit more about it here: substack.com/@shomedasgup... 💛
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The Best Of The Net Nomination For The Teeth And Cloth Festival
Thank you, Afterimages
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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 6h
The Weekly Five from the week of July 20 is live, featuring micromemoirs by Jenne Knight, Adrian Bresler, Swati Moheet Agrawal, Queen Esther, Cassie Lipton, Kristy Money @sonyaewan.bsky.social Abdurahiman Noushad, Elizabeth Jannuzzi @christinakapp.bsky.social @emhall47.bsky.social & Alane Balchunas.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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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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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 26/09/2026
Do you like reading *about* speculative fiction? Do you like revising and offering feedback? Do you have strong but civil opinions about comma placement? ARB could use your help!
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Call for Volunteer Editors!
The Ancillary Review of Books is looking to grow our editorial team!  ARB is an online magazine that publishes reviews and critical essays, centered on speculative fiction and related non-fict…
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow, I’m stunned that students’ scores weren’t improved by this administration. It’s almost like conservative voters didn’t know what the Dept of Education was. Huh. 🤔
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Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet
National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts
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Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My most recent publication in Northern Life magazine is set in Pendle in 1612 ✨🧙‍♀️✨ northernlifemagazine.co.uk/a-dark-corne...
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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We treated everything like it was either righteous or evil, and often we preferred the evil because it felt righteous." - Lilia Fetini mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A must-read piece for anyone who’s had to navigate the dull waters of office culture. 🦀 #flashfiction #flashinthefeed #writesky #fiction
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're all looking for a soft place to land. Kindness in hand, and art that carries a weary heart through. Friends, our submissions are open until 10-26. Come lighten your load and sit around the fire with us awhile. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Internet went out yesterday morning (we think our neighbor’s lawn service cut into our fiber). Not having constant access to the Internet feels so…freeing? I’d forgotten how quiet life can feel. ♥️
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/09/2026
Man, if the backrooms were filled with books, I wouldn’t be mad about being stuck there.
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Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My flash is out with Virgo Venus Press! www.virgovenuspress.com/press/cut-ou...
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cut-out hearts — virgo venus press
Grandma used to say I came from a line of cut-out hearts, like the banner hanging on the walls on Valentine’s Day. The IV bag dripped fluid into her, feeding her in molecules and sugar as she laid on ...
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thought I’d share that Short Reads is looking for flash cnf submissions. They PAY writers ($100 for original pieces, $25 for reprints). I had a super nice experience publishing with them, and thought I’d pass this on!! #writesky #creativenonfiction #shortreads @short-reads.
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Short Reads
Flash nonfiction, emailed every Wednesday.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Many thanks to The Palisades Review, which published my micro CNF piece, "Dead Ends." #creativenonfiction #writesky #flashcnf #flashwriting #writing #microcnf
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Dead Ends — By Emily Hall — The Palisades Review
In the end, I choose a random place on the map. The land juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a finger, and we joke that it’s beckoning us. Driving there, the GPS transforms into an endlessly refreshing ...
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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.
Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you so much for this, June! I appreciate it so much!! ♥️
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Many thanks to The Palisades Review, which published my micro CNF piece, "Dead Ends." #creativenonfiction #writesky #flashcnf #flashwriting #writing #microcnf
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Dead Ends — By Emily Hall — The Palisades Review
In the end, I choose a random place on the map. The land juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a finger, and we joke that it’s beckoning us. Driving there, the GPS transforms into an endlessly refreshing ...
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Amy Allen @amyavt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am over the moon to be nominated by @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for Best of the Net!!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you to @offbeatlit.bsky.social for nominating me for Best Small Fictions 2027!! 🎉 🙌🏻 #flashfiction #microfiction #writing #writesky
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Marlene Dietrich’s cover of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” came on, right as I was driving past the lakebed that’s dried up, thanks to the drought. What’s your dystopian moment of the day so far? 😬 #dystopian #climatechange
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Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thrilled to share “Burial at Sea,” 2nd place winner for the 2025 Micro Prize. Warm thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social, and judge Steve Almond for the generous words I’m stashing for those inevitable bouts of low-confidence! ☺️🙏🌊🦀 fracturedlit.com/burial-at-sea/
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Burial at Sea | Fractured
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New piece that's right with us, here, on that lovely cusp of summer and fall. Sink into "Green Music" by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/9-15-26
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😭 Thank you, @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
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The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open! @offbeatlit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here they are, our 2027 Best Small Fictions nominees! thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Best Small Fictions Nominations 2027
The Best Small Fictions anthology threw us a curve this year by combining the 2025-year nominations with another five eligible from January through July of 2026. The anthology will be coming out in…
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you to @offbeatlit.bsky.social for nominating me for Best Small Fictions 2027!! 🎉 🙌🏻 #flashfiction #microfiction #writing #writesky
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I once had an academic paper rejected because the author didn’t like that my title was “serious.” The reviewer went on to offer *pages* of alternatives and never actually critiqued my argument. I waited 8 months for that feedback. 😓
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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going to feature pieces on Asian/South Asian women, diaspora too, who are writing in any genre based on Asian/South Asian mythology, folklore, history, religion etc. If you belong, or know someone who does, please connect! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #womenwriters #authorsky
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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Donna Stonecipher
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My city’s lost a lot of Mom and Pop stores lately. Many restaurants, and a movie theater, collapsed over the last few months alone. But the bookstores today were bursting. I know I did my part. 🫡 #booksky #books #reading
Five books standing next to 2 plants Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
Yang Shuang-Zi, Taiwan Travelogue
Maxim Osipov, Kilometer 101
Magda Szabo, The Fawn
Kenan Orban, The Renovation
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dear everyone Hi, hi. Did you hear? Our new issue is out filled with tiny treasures to fill and ache your beautiful heart. Reclaim your time. Spend it in places that aim to restore you. Sincerely, old auntie TiaC. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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Enter Leaving, Temple in a City literary journal
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Heartbreaking piece with an absolutely gorgeous ending! #flashfiction #writesky #writing
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thank you for sharing my review!!
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A little plea @antiheroinchic.bsky.social
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thanks for these kind words, @danbillyc.bsky.social!
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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Someone made her hands that way, the stone lion thinks. And he knows this because someone made his paws that way too." Such a gorgeous story by @emhall47.bsky.social
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Do you live outside the USA and want to carry seven of my stories in your pocket? @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social has expanded their shipping options. Jakarta, Antarctica, no matter. You can! www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/well-b...
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We'll Be Birds - Lisa Thornton 4.25 x 5.5 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
Deftly switching between past and present, the seven stories in Lisa Thornton’s We’ll Be Birds have as much to do with memory as anything. In “All God’s Creatures,” an older man loses track of t...
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This issue looks incredible 🔥. Thanks to @templeinacity.bsky.social for including “Girl, 9, Speaks” ⬇️⬇️
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Sudha Subramanian @sudhasubraman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How wonderful! Honoured to share space with some of the best! Thank you @templeinacity.bsky.social for this moment!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you to @templeinacity.bsky.social for publishing my micro story, “The Stone Lion,” in its latest issue! Also, scroll down to see the real stone lion that inspired my piece! #microfiction #flashfiction #writesky #writing
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Published in Temple in a City literary journal
Micro fiction The stone lion by author Emily Hall. Published in Temple in a City literary journal Enter Leaving issue
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Filled with great names you know or will now meet @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @shonmapp.bsky.social @emhall47.bsky.social Angela Thorne, John Grey, @sudhasubraman.bsky.social @kerrybyrne.bsky.social @louisehurrell.bsky.social Detje Marcel
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our prose poetry call is open until the 10th. Some ideas that fit the theme of tenacity and difference... A plant surviving in a hostile environment 🌱 A spider whose web is repeatedly broken 🕸️ A street dog helps a lost child get home 🐕 trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro...
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Call for Prose Poems
Jimothy, the Seattle trash cat with short spine syndrome, has taken the internet by storm. We obviously love how adorable he is with his squished-up body and cheeky scamper, but also how incredibly…
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our Autumn Prompted Story issue is LIVE! 🦝 13 flash fiction written to blind-chosen prompts. Grab a cuppa and snacks, sit back and immerse yourself in the imagination and creativity of our 12 contributors 💜 trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... @joycebingham.bsky.social @jessebinger.bsky.social 1/2
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Prompted Stories Pop-Up Autumn 2026
We selected thirteen flash for the second prompted challenge of the year. These twelve writers showed amazing imagination and creativity with their prompts. Our Guest Readers for this issue were Le…
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My not so spooky ghost cow story is live. 🐮 Congrats to all the storytellers.Huge thanks to @therelphian.bsky.social for doing such an amazing job showcasing writers and their work😎 and to readers @leighloveday.bsky.social and @joclark.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/the-light-is...
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The Light is the Boy
Keith Woodruff Cow does not think of herself as haunting the barn. In the loft, she drifts above the bales, watches the blue swallows loop out and in. Waits for the boy to climb the rungs and pop t…
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you, @wirobooks.bsky.social, for publishing my review of White Elephant! #booksky #books #writesky #bookreview
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Please know that I am haunted by some stories we have declined. Please know that sometimes one sentence in your story that is not quite right for us lands in my jaw and will live there forever. Please know I realize you are sending us your heart.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The mom-and-pop store I went to had a little popcorn maker, so you could grab a warm bag as you left. Truly magical!! 🍿
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m guessing it’s because of the state of the world, but I’ve been loving eerie content lately. Husband and I are binging X-files for the first time, and I’m reading Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social! #booksky #books #weirdlit #tvshows #horrorsky
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