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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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So beautiful!!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks, Russ!!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Me too!! It was so inventive!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Read “Beauty of the Husband” a few years ago and it was incredible. Much deserved! #booksky #books
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My dog’s pure happiness after taking a walk is always something wonderful to behold. ♥️ #dogs #poodles
My brown poodle standing in a grass patch.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My dog’s pure happiness after taking a walk is always something wonderful to behold. ♥️ #dogs #poodles
My brown poodle standing in a grass patch.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
20 years ago people would have known these people were crazy and moved on. Now they’re given a platform.
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Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a cnf micro, in the new beautiful issue of @emergejournal.bsky.social A grateful thank you to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for including it and shout-out to @mattkendrick.bsky.social in whose wonderful "Go With The Flow" workshop it was born. emergeliteraryjournal.com/a-suitcase-f...
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A Suitcase Full of Memory
by Karen Crawford You used to say why isn't my son here, and I might have asked the same question if I wasn't married to him, and he wasn't married to his job, but he's here now…
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Such a lovely piece!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks, Louise!!!
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Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 06/10/2026
It’s Pub Day for Objects of Desire! 💙 We’re so jazzed to see these funny, strange, tender, and surprising stories out in the world. Join us in celebrating Adam O’Fallon Price and his first short story collection! @adamoprice.bsky.social #indiepress #shortstories #literaryfiction
Copy of Objects of Desire held high in a moment of joyous celebration. Blue sky as the background. Author Adam O'Fallon Price is holding a copy of his collection, OBJECTS OF DESIRE. He is barefoot and sitting beside a ceramic Halloween pumpkin that grins, sharing in Adam's success.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks, Keith!! I really appreciate this!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you so much, Pam!!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you so much for this nomination, @epistemiclit.bsky.social! It’s an honor to be in such great company! #writing #microfiction #flashfiction #writesky
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you!!!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You know, life hasn’t felt too easy lately. The Cornell case brought back bad grad school memories. Jury duty triggered worse memories. I’ve hated what I’ve written over the last week or so. But this dumb sign has made me so happy. Find happiness wherever you can, friends!
A tin Snoopy sign amongst my plants
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Am honored to get a Best of the Net nomination from DMQ for my prose poem "Shoes". www.dmqreview.com/woodruffsp26 Congrats to all nominees and best of luck and thank you to the editors for selecting Shoes!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s actually called Foreign Fruit—I confused the names of the titles and double checked. 😭 But definitely check it out!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love food histories! Lenore Newman’s Lost Feast about extinct foods is sooooo good. I’m reading Katie Oh’s Bitter Orange right now, an exploration of what it means for something to be a native fruit.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love that you reveal your age at the end. Girls experience so much torment, so young, and we’re blamed for everything that’s done to us. 💔
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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not all book review sections are dying. @wirobooks.bsky.social is thriving! At the 15th anniversary party, I finally got to ask Kitty Kelley about that legendary box of fish heads sent to Jonathan Yardley: roncharles.substack.com/i/218268260/...
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For Friday, a love letter to my violent friends - a reprint - is up @bulbculture.bsky.social and huge thanks to Jared for such kind words
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Passages North @passagesnorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it’s the first of the month!! and that means: passages north free submissions are back open!! submit your work with no cost!! hurry before we hit our cap ✏️
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, I think the pacing is very successful, so that the ending is a surprise but not a cheap jolt. It makes it tragic rather than exploitative!
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely phenomenal story, @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social. I fully appreciate how this story manages to be horrifying, complex, and quiet, all at the same time. #flashfiction #fiction #writesky #writing
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve had this happen, albeit from my time in academia. I reported him to the faculty, who didn’t seem surprised. Years later, I found one of them praising his book as an important contribution to the field. Meanwhile, I left academia to escape it all. 😐
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man, if these kids couldn’t make it, what hope do the rest of us have? 😔
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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so beautiful! ♥️
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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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many congratulations! 🎊🎈
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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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow, some of these are really bad choices! And GoT has some really cringe moments…
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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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such a good piece! And deeply, deeply relatable!!
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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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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I know. I also love that he first was showing that photo op with Trump and then, as gas prices climbed, he stopped running that ad. 🤔
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m so tired of all the Whatley ads. I feel like they play every few minutes on YouTube.
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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 · 20/09/2026
I really liked this, Pam!
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