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We publish flash fiction and non-fiction narratives (<500 words) on self-care aka #namjooning. Editors: @m-ixedbag.bsky.social, @lakshgiri.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litn… literarynamjooning@gmail.com

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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 4h
There is something so soothing in the rhythm of this piece. Do read!
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"If I were reviewing last summer, I would say it was about becoming." A beautiful, meditative essay on summers past and growing older and up by Devika Bahadur. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Sunscreen, Sorrows, Summer by Devika Bahadur
“And then one fairy night, May became June.”I have always liked that line by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is the sort of thing you notice only when you pay attention. It is like one day the air changes and...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lovely launch party this morning with our brilliant issue 3 writers reading their work and talking about what inspired them to write their stories. A great big thank you to everyone who showed up and brought their stories to life! What an honor it is to publish your words and worlds! 💜💜💜
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Michael R. Evans @mrevanspoetry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What are you doing in a couple of hours? Join us on the Zoom party at 9:00 EST. (register from the link below) I'll be reading my favorite piece titled "Catalina."
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our Issue 3 launch party is soon! Register here, if you haven’t already: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Lit Nam Issue 3 Launch Party. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Lit Nam Issue 3 Launch Party. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A hospital room, a puzzle, and the regrets of grief--all in this beautiful piece by @amaliag.bsky.social. Do read "Hourglass" and be ready to feel. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Hourglass by Amalia Gladhart
When Sadie was sick, I used to do puzzles with her. Not with her, exactly. She was too tired to sit up or concentrate much, and the chemo gave her brain fog. But I’d do a puzzle on a card table beside...
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“People only see the juicy bits in the world, glue them to themselves for protection.” School bus musings (and of course, Batman) by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every morning, for almost a month. A grey and pink hand taps gently at my window... His tongue lolls out as soon as he sees the banana on my desk. I open the window—I always open the window. After a bit of small talk, he gets his breakfast. Gorgeous prose. Govind Gupta @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tomorrow night! Come join the authors and editors of Lit Namjooning celebrate the third issue! I'll be reading my CNF "Of all the landscapes..." and I can't wait to hear the other stories/essays. I love hearing an author's words come alive when they read them. ❤️ Oct 2, 9 pm EST. Link below.
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My wife, who grabbed my arm this morning, her lips pursed tight like Lady Jane’s, and hissed that she wanted a divorce. My son’s bouncing, his hand jiggling against the cage of my fingers. “Is he really going to chop off her head?” So good! @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is something about Pat's writing that is inexplicable. Solid but fleeting. Abstract but right in front of you. Touchable. Lighting up your brain, turning it into a gd Christmas tree. Absolutely delighted to see 2 of his pieces in this issue. @pdforan.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I pass a row of masks on the wall. Their black mesh faces are silent, waiting to be chosen. I think of all the masks I have worn: daughter, tom-boy, Indian, American, woman, doctor, wife, mother. Here, I’m me, the fencer. @ninamiller.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People only see the juicy bits in the world, glue them to themselves for protection. I know the danger, but I want someone to chomp down hard, to maybe even chip a tooth on the pit, to say, “Hey, that’s you, right?” I didn't see this hit coming @willmusgrove.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just found this mag, and I'm over the moon. 💚 It's such a treat when something you love in one part of your life crosses over into another part of your life. #writing #reading #namjooning
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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Sammy loves action movies. It’s what we mostly talk about. The bus hits a pothole, and Sammy jumps in his seat. I picture him as an explosion blowing Gotham to bits as a too-cool Batman walks away in the opposite direction." Love this new story from Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social!
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I usually post links to really great pieces individually but in the case of this issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social everything's wonderful. So I'm just gonna recommend that you read all of it. #FlashInTheFeed
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See you there?
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social will be representing Lit Namjooning and @smokelong.bsky.social at this year's Singapore Writers Festival! We're so excited to make our SWF debut! If you're in Singapore on Nov 20, do come! More details about the panel here: www.singaporewritersfestival.com/programmes/i...
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Invisible Hands: Curating Contemporary Writing from Singapore
Discover 10 days of talks, panels, and performances that celebrate stories in every form. Filter by language, genre, or programme type \u2013 and make the most of your SG Culture Pass with eligible ev...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is happening soon! Come and hear our wonderful authors read their work! Also, meet with Lit Nam editors. Bring your friends!
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The peach pit in my stomach cracks open." This is a piece only @willmusgrove.bsky.social could've written! Loneliness and the need to be seen in "Bus Windows." Gorgeous, moving work. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Bus Windows by Will Musgrove
I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’re going to Singapore Writers Festival, y’all! 💜💜
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The lingering smell of sweat and rubber, the taste of Windex in the air, makes me relax within this calm before the storm.” Finding zen moments in…fencing? Yep! Read this new piece by @ninamiller.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“You say: One day.” Get lost in this beauty by @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Author Spotlight's on! @ninamiller.bsky.social writes a wonderfully meditative essay on "salle-itude" she finds while fencing! Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran
after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...
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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love this with all the love @patforan.bsky.social
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Kissing, Still" by the amazing @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. So beautiful (and kinda hot, I think).🔥
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran
after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Have you registered yet? Issue 1 & 2 authors, we hope to see y'all too! <3
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@madeleinewrite.bsky.social expertly braids history & art with a moving story in "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey." This took me down an amazing history rabbit hole. That's what great writing (and art) does to you, I guess. Read Madeleine's piece here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As the third anniversary of my sister's passing approaches, I can feel a giant wave of sadness (and regrets, once again) coming, building, and I find myself going back to two wonderful pieces - "What Feels like Destiny" by @jamybond.bsky.social in The Sun www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/249...
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What Feels Like Destiny
There were seven thousand Peace Corps volunteers out there, in the most remote places of the world, and if something bad were to happen to any one of them during the night, something tragic, I would t...
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're having a party and you're invited!
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — the wall behind us, the one we lean on. The one between us. The one you don’t mention" I'm just so in awe of @pdforan.bsky.social's writing. This is ANOTHER stunner: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran
after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good news, everyone! (yes, it's a Futurama reference). We're celebrating our Issue 3 authors with a LAUNCH PARTY!! Do come, hear them read their work, chat with Lit Nam Eds, and have a generally good literary time! Friday, Oct 2, 9:00 PM EST. Registration link : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I fell in love with your kind heart and with the heavy summer beetles that buzz loudly at night" Wonderfully evocative piece from @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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The Long Goodbye by Kathy Prokhovnik
I didn’t know you could fall in love with a piece of land. But hand in hand I fell deeper and more deeply in love with you and with the land and the sky. I fell in love with your kind heart and with t...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The sulphur reek of road-kill skunk stirs my sleeping daughter. In the rear-view mirror, I watch Lily’s nose scrunch, lips puckering against the smell" Richly layered writing from @christyhartman.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Sour Cabbage Memories by Christy Hartman
The sulphur reek of road-kill skunk stirs my sleeping daughter. In the rear-view mirror, I watch Lily’s nose scrunch, lips puckering against the smell. I sing her favourite lullaby as the sun dips bel...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Only masochists and mooncalves have three babies in five years, right?" Fantastically creative piece from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social I love this one so much: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Of all the landscapes her life has led her through by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"When Sadie was sick, I used to do puzzles with her. Not with her, exactly. She was too tired to sit up or concentrate much" A piece full of so much poise and contemplation from @amaliag.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"People only see the juicy bits in the world, glue them to themselves for protection. I know the danger, but I want someone to chomp down hard" Such evocative sense of character and scene from @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Bus Windows by Will Musgrove
I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"I’ve been carrying on a long term affair with memory. I think, lately, about thinking..." I love how much there is between the cracks of this piece by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"In this New Zealand, I felt the fidelity-for-shit moon, and I heard, felt and heard, a little night music" Oh wow. This piece by @patforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social A must read: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At first it seems @pdforan.bsky.social is out to break your heart... then you realize he's working to heal it, with chisel & hammer, knocking off calcified pieces around your heart so you can feel more fully. Love this story. His book offers more. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art by Mary Cassatt, ca 1884 from the National Gallery of Art public domain: www.nga.gov/artworks/521...
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Children Playing on the Beach by Mary Cassatt
By the time Cassatt exhibited this painting at the eighth and final impressionist exhibition in 1886, her reputation as a painter of mothers and children had been well established. Critics had long co...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Monday morning in Singapore. Let's turn on the author spotlight, shall we? It's on the talented @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and her moving NF piece. And that title! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/....
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Of all the landscapes her life has led her through by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“She understands now why crones and wizards live on mountaintops.” A beautiful story of landscapes and families and distances by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“But she had to teach them how to not need her so much, didn’t she?” @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Because of all the raggedy people in our unfinished house smelling of sawdust, cigarettes, and beer, I loved you best.” @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“When I finally meet him—standing in all of his glory, carrying a mountain—he is, somehow, also kind.” Govind Gupta in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So much to relate with in this piece (for me, personally). Love this piece <3
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