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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Picture this: Gandalf the Grey is standing beside you in a subway station. He tells you he’s the managing editor and poetry editor for a very cool, very chic lit journal. He wants you to submit. He also wants to tell you his recurring nightmares. What do you do next?

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Want to know what scares our editors? We’ve got you. We’ll be posting Q&A’s with them, exposing their recurring nightmares. Here’s the first is with our EIC ~ Lena Kinder 🖤

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You wake up in bed. It’s too dark to see clearly, but the figures around you can’t be human. Wait. This is not your room. It’s FR’s fifth issue call. Its theme is NIGHTMARES—recurring, corporate, and ontological… nightmares? Damn, that’s convoluted. You wake up again, screaming.

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We were totally wowed by the intensity of this story by Alyssa Blankenship. There’s so much to unpack here with desire and brutality… sometimes entanglement is best exemplified when things are pulled apart. 🥩

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Rats! Rats! Rats!!!! You absolutely must read this freaky story by @tomljanovic.bsky.social (wait, did we mention RATS???) 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The movement of love in this story from Will Peatman is a reminder to us that, we, like the trees, grow together, entangled like roots, and need that connection to survive.

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today, we woke from a dream about girls and garments and Gods only to find a real horror in our waking life. Thanks so much for that Devan Murphy, hope these little terrors haunt our readers too 💤

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Absolutely love works by and about mothers, and this poem from Sophia McGovern is a perfect illustration of mothers as artists (both in their craft and their children) 🩷

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As hares ourselves, we’ve fallen for this trap before 🐇 go read “Forest Witch Stew” by KJ Brydle ~

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Our ENTANGLED micro series is LIVE!! The pieces in here are so haunting and atmospheric—absolutely wowed! Go read and support the work of our contributors~ KJ Brydle Sophia McGovern Devan Murphy Will Peatman @tomljanovic.bsky.social Alyssa Blankenship

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s the last day to submit to our ENTANGLED micro call!!

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Here’s a Q&A with Matt on our ENTANGLED micro call ~

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Earbuds you can’t undo. A string of lights you can’t separate. Like Ouroboros, let your poem eat its own tail. Let your short story fold into itself. What truth or image might become untangled? ~ Matt wants to read your micro!

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Currently romancing Sebastian in honor of this story by Kristin Gustafson 🐸🩷

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“When the Old God saw that his hold on the people was slipping and the ancient stories had faded from memory, he sent a plague of frogs as punishment.” ~ Janel Comeau

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“The frog had asked for one kiss. Rogelito had laughed.” ~ Frank Brinker

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“It was a year of heavy drought. Toad decided to visit and sue Heaven.” ~ Khuê Thi

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Absolutely amazing final line from this poem by Wasima Khan ~

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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

FROGS (& other amphibians) is LIVE!! Go read and support the work of our wonderful contributors 🐸 ~ Sean Cho A. Wasima Khan Khuê Thi Frank Brinker @verybadllama.bsky.social @kristinthered.bsky.social