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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 20/08/2026

"My first love as a writer is short stories. It’s always been my first loyalty." The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: @kimhartweldin.bsky.social interviews @jessrow.bsky.social about Storyknife (@eccobooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/GwGvYVn

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 29/04/2026

"Verbs are so versatile.... They’re the words we use to describe being, becoming, appearing, the state of existing in the world and the whole circus of it." @kimhartweldin.bsky.social interviews @sarahlkaufman.bsky.social about Verb Your Enthusiasm (@penguinpress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/kIpPZDp

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social

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Nicholas Claro @nicholas-claro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.

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Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

my essay about Angela Carter's mysterious unfinished Jane Eyre sequel is featured in this anthology! so happy to be in the company of so many writers I admire ☺️ happy pub day to everyone, and thank you as always to @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 22/05/2025

Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL! The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

don’t touch that it’s my emotional support nameless first person present tense unreliable narrator

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is so upsetting 📚

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“A true roadside attraction was a brainchild of an individual with a vision. These people were usually oddball folks who lived in rural areas.” Jane Stern on roadside attractions.

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The End of Roadside Attractions - The Paris Review

“Is there a connection between dinosaurs and Jesus? When it comes to roadside attractions, the answer is yes!”

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My short story “Escape Hatch” is up on The Ana Issue #16 and is very inspired by Kate Folk (in particular “The Bone Ward”). www.wearetheana.com/issue-16

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A question I’ve had for myself the last year or so: Will I always be this sad?

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

James Baldwin. I’ve been thinking about this for a year.

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Lifesaving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.
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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

For Shirley Jackson's birthday, here are two lovely breakdowns of her openings to "Hill House" and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" that I like to show my creative writing students. First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...

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Shirley Jackson’s Sublime First Paragraph in ‘Hill House,’ Annotated

Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer can work into almost any conversation, no matter the topic, his affection for the first paragraph…

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today I'm reading Rebecca Van Laer's short story "Self-care" from Oyez Review Issues 51. I love how she explores the tendency to heal through self-avoidance and expensive health habits, and perhaps most importantly, relationships with others. @rebeccavl.bsky.social medium.com/oyez-review/...

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Oyez Review Volume 51

2024 issue of Oyez Review.

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hope everyone stays safe and firm out their with their boundaries over the holidays

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I wrote a memoir called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, a book that is very sad but also (I think) very funny whose most recent Goodreads review claims the content made someone physically sick 🤩 bookshop.org/p/books/long...

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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir a book by T. Kira Madden

"The book I wish I'd had growing up." -Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle Finalist:...

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Some great short story writers on here!

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

order some books directly from a small press or independent bookstore, i promise there are few better feelings than directly supporting a small press or independent bookstore

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I read @tonytula.com story “The Feminist” this morning after listening to him speak in Morning Writing Club yesterday and highly recommend! The shoulder pads part made me laugh out loud (literally). www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fic...

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The Feminist | Tony Tulathimutte

His friends, mostly female, told him he was refreshingly attentive and trustworthy for a boy. Meanwhile he is grateful for the knowledge that female was best used as an adjective, that sexism harms me...

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 11/11/2024

Also, we are reviving our Bluesky coupon code: use BSKY for 40% off (YES 40% OFF EVERYTHING, INCL. PREORDERS) at Split/Lip Press now through Mon 11/18. Reshare this post and we'll randomly pick a winner to receive a free copy of Hold Me on pub day! splitlippress.com/store

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Store | Split/Lip Press

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

“Always a part of her craves the solitude that will let her mind calm down and her memory surface.” From “The Forester’s Daughter” by Claire Keegan.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 11/11/2024

So! In case you weren't following us elsewhere (or missed our posts due to DIMINISHING RETURNS on the other site), we're in the final weeks of our nonfiction/hybrid full-length books submissions period! We'd love to read yours before December 1! splitlippress.submittable.com

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

My short story “UFO Welcome Center” is out today on BULL and I’d love it if you’d read it 👽🛸

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

I have a new short story up today called “Something to Live For” in the punk issue of Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape by Michigan Quarterly Review and it would mean a lot if you would read it! Shoutout to Kimberly King Parsons for coaching me on this one and to Josh Olivier for the edits!

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Today is the last day to submit your short story/flash fiction manuscript to @splitlippress.bsky.social!

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Issue 1 of Black Lily zine available for pre-order now! I’m so proud to have my little goth story in here Check out Black Lily zine on instagram for more info. 🖤

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

I’m so excited to join the @reckonreview.bsky.social team as. First Reader for Fiction. Subs are open!

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Loving these strange, modern fairy tales from Kelly Link’s latest collection.

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️ presents “Good People Doing Bad Things,” a free, virtual workshop with Janice Lobo Sapigao this Friday, December 1, at 12 PM EST. Sign up at the link in our bio!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Today, at 3 pm, I am at the Chicago Humanities festival in conversation with Lindsay Hunter: www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...

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Roxane Gay with Lindsay Hunter

A conversation on politics, feminism, and everything in between

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 04/11/2023

Our 8th birthday is almost here. Thirty West is giving/gifting a free book with any book purchase through our site. Chapbooks, paperbacks, and even hardcovers from our personal libraries. This November only. No strings attached. Just place an order and we will email you.

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Book Shop — Thirty West Publishing House

Shop our vast selection of hand-made chapbooks, novels, and story or poetry collections.

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Don’t talk to me or my daughter again

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Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Hypervigilance: My husband walked up quietly behind me while I was pouring a cup of coffee and I screamed. He knows better! Always in fight or flight mode. Be careful approaching me without announcing your presence or I might fight you.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

1 more day (I think!) until @flanaganfilm.bsky.social’s Fall of the House of Usher starts & I’m so happy I almost can’t stand it. There should be a word for how you feel about something you’ve been waiting for, right on the eve of its arrival—not exactly anticipation, but the feeling of imminence.

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Brittany Terwilliger @brttnyblm.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

You know what to do: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

Top 10 reasons why you should submit a story to Pithead Chapel’s annual short story contest:

1: You’re supporting a journal that loves you (we do)

2: The amazing Sequoia Nagamatsu is judging

3: All stories are also considered for inclusion in the journal, even if they don’t place in the contest

4: You could win $500 and the submission fee is only $10

5: Discounted submissions for BIPOC writers

6: Quick turnaround, we announce winners within 6 weeks of the contest deadline

7: We judge blind, no preferential treatment for established authors

8: Any type of short fiction is welcome, as long as it’s under 4,000 words

9: You still have 5 more weeks to get your story ready: deadline Oct 31

10: We can’t wait to promote your work!

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