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Emily Roth

@emilymroth.bsky.social
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librarian and fiction writer. winner of Reflex Fiction’s winter 2022 flash fiction competition, other words in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, and more.

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Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
WHAT?! Just learned that I have a story on the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. And logged in here to discover the last thing I posted was that story lol. Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social!! wigleaf.com
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w i g l e a f :  (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you @havehashad.com!! my first published story in uhhhhh a while 💀
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Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
So honored to have a story on the list!
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Lamniformes @lamniformes.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
I uh, went a lil too hard and wrote eight mini-essays about Barbenheimer, Satoshi Kon, Dmitri Shostakovich, and more. This one was a lot of work but it was the only way to get this tangled mess of ideas out of my head. Hope you enjoy it!
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The Summer of Barbenheimer
A Selected History of Art Under Constraint
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
My September newsletter is all about the levels of voice - author / narrative / character - how to shift between them, how to harness different voices etc. There's even a diagram and everything... prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/levels-of-...
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Levels of Voice
I often talk about writers needing to be Jacks (or Jills) of all trades. Yes, we are in the business of creating stories that make people think or feel or laugh. But in order to do that successfully w...
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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 02/08/2023
so now that everyone has seen oppenheimer might i recommend some 'light' reading by john hersey?
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Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.
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Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
I absolutely loved this new story by Kathy Fish!
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Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
Here’s one of my stories from SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/stories/when-the-…
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