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Lena Kinder

@happilylenaaa.bsky.social
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Mediocre Maven | MA in Fiction at the University of Southern Mississippi | MFA in Poetry at Hollins University | Editor-in-Cheese of @folklorereview.bsky.social www.folklorereview.com

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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Outer space totally freaks me OUT! Thanks for reading (and writing about!!) One of Those Dead @staniforthmick.bsky.social @elsewherejournal.bsky.social
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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Love this poem from Sean Cho A. ~
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
April’s gone.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Read my story in @havehashad.com 💀
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Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thank you, @happilylenaaa.bsky.social for including my micro in this wonderful series! This one grew from a @welkinpress.bsky.social "Not Quite Accept"- thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the encouragement and kind words.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
First 💀 from @havehashad.com (catch me skipping through your nearest graveyard).
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This one really kept me up at night ~ thank you @keychild.bsky.social for letting this stray into your tower 🤍
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Love being alongside @aniking.bsky.social in this new issue 🤘🏻 go read Puppy now ~
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New strange, little piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🌀 “We came back for weeks to let the tree age us.” bendinggenres.com/the-tree-of-...
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The Tree of Aging
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“Every spring, when the forsythia would bloom, my mother would say, ‘Celeste is awake,’ and we would go outside and sit with her.” In Salt Hill issue 55💛
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Send me stuff to read 📖🐦‍⬛
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh, you~
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Two new poems in Luna Luna Magazine 🖤 www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...
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'it is the scent of death and it is a wolfish girl' — poetry by Lena Kinder
pray ; wish
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I have some words in @somewordslit.bsky.social today! somewords.boards.net/thread/93/le...
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Forthcoming in -> @somewordslit.bsky.social and @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🤘🏻
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
One of mine in @passagesnorth.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
THIN GOD
Thin God slipped into the crack in my eyelid, and that was how I came to know my mother.
Thin God promised me more time, but I knew Thin God always lied in the morning. Thin God convinced the aliens to cleave a cloud into a boy
and a girl. Instead, the aliens created a comedian and a bird. Thin God ate the aliens and gave me a baby. Thin God told me my story had a twist ending, but by the time I fell asleep with the baby in my arms, I forgot I was in a story at all.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The amount of notes (letters) I wrote to my friends in high school prepared me for graduate workshop.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Emerged from the depths of hell for the @havehashad.com call.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
kidna proud of saying this out loud tbh xraylitmag.com/its-kinda-pu...
I think the very idea of a “Great American Novel” is kinda dumb. In the parlance of Tacoma, or of Kevin via Tacoma, I kinda think Great American Novels “aren’t real.” That said, I have an ego. I have ambitions. I’m mostly a happy-go-lucky dork doofusing his way through life and writing, but I also want to have as many readers as possible, I want people to think highly of my writing, I want to be someone’s (many someone’s, ideally!) favorite writer, I want people to think the writing is “great.” I don’t normally wrestle with those contradictions that much irl, but I think it often then ends up on the page.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The best time to write weird shit is late at night when you’re delirious.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Vanishing
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It’s cold out here.
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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
new new: "Grand Jeté," by Sarah Chin: 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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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m the dime-store Timmy.
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Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"The only thing?" #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You should read these beautiful, eerie little fictions by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social 🌟
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Renee Good’s final words were, “I’m not mad at you.” Alex Pretti’s final act was protecting a woman who was being attacked. Abolish ICE.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The moon is out, and it is beautiful 🌙 @ezhang77.bsky.social + @tinywrenlit.bsky.social
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Three from me in @wigleaf.bsky.social 🖤
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/01/2026
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Made me think of you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social 💜
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/01/2026
Back in my day life didn't used to suck this much
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/01/2026
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Oooooooo!
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I was supposed to write tonight, but I dissociated instead.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This’ll be my first playthrough~
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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Exciting Frog week ahead: 1) We’ll be sharing our “Flash Frog by the numbers” for 2025. Even word lovers can appreciate a good stat or two!📈 2) The Blue Frog contest is in full swing! flash-frog.com/contest/ 🐸💙 3) We have a very special, exciting announcement on Tuesday… 👀
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Contest
The Blue Frog The Blue Frog is Flash Frog’s annual flash fiction contest. Taking place each January, the contest features a new theme based on what type of stories we wish we had seen more of…
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The moon is my girlfriend
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
It’s the end of the year, so here’s my sub stats! Rejections~ 44 👹 Acceptances~ 7 🌈 Total subs sent out~ 63 🤡
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
found an old chaotic edit (from 2020!) of a poem that was published earlier this year in @folklorereview.bsky.social #process
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My poem, “The Devil,” is in this wonderfully curated issue! Thank you for the inclusion @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 👹🫶🏻
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
+3 rejections this week (44 total)
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I’ve had 41 rejections out of 100 so far this year.
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Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We close in EIGHT days! (November 28th)! Don’t miss our submission window~ #fiction #poetry #flashfiction #nonfiction #art
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Don’t mind me. I’m just staring into my coffee, waiting for visions.
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Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Forthcoming in elsewhere with a little ghost story
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a cartoon drawing of a ghost with a surprised expression on its face
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a ghost with a surprised expression on its face
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
One of mine, “Lemons,” in @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
I lost my little sister near a lemon tree. The morning clouds shuddered
and made a life.
I patted my pockets for hours before giving up.
The lemons
were as big as throats.
It's easier to say sister than god.
It's easier to desire than pray.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 15/11/2025
second window's funds raised: a whopping $2,709.32, for a total of $3,628.88. you people rule! I've got lots of reading to do, I'll randomly select the merch winners when I'm done!
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