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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New how to story from my “Strange Instructions” series up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Best Microfiction 2026 is here! We’re so proud to see work by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social and @mattleibel.bsky.social that originally appeared in -ette! Congratulations also to -ette contributors Kathleen McGookey and Devan Murphy!

Front cover of Best Microfiction 2026. Book is sitting on wooden table. Cover illustration shows a line drawing of people sitting in a cafe. Text says Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, series editors, Diane Seuss, guest editor.

Table of contents for collection showing -ette contributors Jose Hernandez Diaz and Matt Leibel

Partial glimpse of opening lines of Matt Leibel’s How to Buy A Snow Globe

Partial glimpse of opening lines of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s The Search

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thanks Matt! Congrats on your chapbook as well!

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Happy to announce that my short fiction chapbook, "My Personal Brand", won the Eggtooth Editions Any Genre Chapbook Contest, and will be published later this year. Here's the announcement and an excerpt:

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Winners

Matt Leibel WINNER OF THE 2025 EGGTOOTH EDITIONS CHAPBOOK CONTEST FOR My Personal Brand Matt Leibel lives in San Francisco, where he works as a freelance copywriter and part-time tennis instructor.…

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

New totally normal story about a robot in a marching band. Thanks to @flashfrog.bsky.social and @lindamayhawkins.bsky.social

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks Linda for making this super fun art to go with my story!

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This comes out July 7. Cool to be included, insane lineup of good writers here. www.bestmicrofiction.com/books/2026.h...

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Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The 13th issue of Socrates on the Beach is up. Thank you to the writers and translators. socratesonthebeach.com

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Pleased to have a new story about life in a very odd small town in @leanmag.bsky.social the magazine for “non-protagonist-centered fiction”

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

new story "How to Go Through the Drive-Thru Car Wash Without Your Car"

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Matt Leibel | Burningword Literary Journal

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Excited for this nomination from the excellent (and awesomely-named) @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thanks Cole! And congrats to you too!

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I wrote about Garrett Caples’ “Proses” for this list of fave story collections 2025. A lot of good ones here. Two more I snuck in in the last few weeks: “Farthest South” by Ethan Rutherford and “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda.

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Short Story, Long's fave story collections of 2025!

Some fave short story collections, chosen by our contributors, some released this year, some just read and appreciated this year.

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees! Jessica Barlevi @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Devan Murphy Emma Raimondo Mathieu Cailler Laura Cronk @suzyeynon.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Here’s a little story I wrote about watching movies in (and out of) a theater. Thanks to David Galef and team at @vestalreview.bsky.social

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Our winter 2025 issue is here! vestalreview.net/issue-67 We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Psyched for this nomination! Thanks to the editors & congrats all.

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

New episode just dropped! @melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them. Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

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Episode 6 - Roulette: Take a Chance on Art

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Excited to share my story "How to Buy a Snowglobe" in the very cool-looking new issue of -ette. Thanks to @noramaynard.bsky.social and @bybethhahn.bsky.social for showcasing my work, and to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social for performing my story and interviewing me for her podcast!

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Issue 6: Fall 2025

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/ Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by: Laura Cronk @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Emma Raimondo

Lit mag issue cover showing croupier at roulette wheel. List of writers and stories in issue. Laura Cronk, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Suzy Eynon, Rachel Kowalsky, Matt Leibel, Emma Raimondo

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This is brilliant and insane—love it!

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

“…cats weave in and out of fence posts like specters in a horror movie” great atmosphere, eerie and timely

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Love the cadences here and the way the piece moves through time.

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I have two new "how-to" stories up in the excellent @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thanks for sharing, Dan! Look forward to checking out all of these links.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Some more Short Story, Long contributor lists (from Brittney Uecker, @mldon31.bsky.social, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @jeffchon.bsky.social, @magicmikewrites.bsky.social) of best & fave stories for the century (so far). Some really great, fun reading lists here. (A cpl of YOU even make appearances!)

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"25 for 25" — some more contributor lists

some more Short Story, Long contributors share some of their lists of "best" and favorite short stories from the last 25 years

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Received my copy of the new issue of Post Road, including my story "Crushed". Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue...

Cover of Post Road magazine #43 abstract painting in green, yellow, orange and blue

1st page of my story "Crushed" in Post Road #43. To read in its entirety go to https://www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/03/crushed-by-matt-leibel/

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Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Calvino sort of does this ("You are about to begin reading the new novel by Italo Calvino...") since narrator surely assumes multiple readers, but then the "reader" morphs into a single character. In a non-meta sense a way to pull it off might be, say, a story in the form of a commencement address.

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