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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 29/09/2026

5,000 words into a new commercial/upmarket speculative fiction novel. Can’t share much yet, but I’m glad the project is finally underway in earnest. When you’re writing something new, do you tell folks about it or keep the details to yourself? Let me know in the comments!

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Party Skull Celebration

ALT: Party Skull Celebration

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JoJoKC 💙🏳️‍🌈 | Queertauqua @jpe1974.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you have LGBTQ+ family or friends and still defend this administration while it rolls back their protections, spare us the “I love you” speeches. Love without standing up for someone’s equal rights rings pretty damn hollow. #LGBTQ #LGBTQRights #CivilRights

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A "monstrous injustice": Trump admin announces pro-LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination rule ends tomorrow - LGBTQ Nation

LGBTQ+ advocates denounced the administration for rescinding the rule without any public comment period.

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 28/09/2026

How you know you’ve been watching too much Gordon Ramsay…😂 Wild mushroom risotto with pan-fried scallops (in a 2nd gen HexClad pan, no less). #cooking #food #foodie

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our Halloween Horror flash call is now OPEN! 🦝 We're looking for biohazardous stories between 100 and 1000 words until 11th October. Get inspired and informed here, sub link is at the bottom of the page trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio...

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Call for Biohazard Horror

For our first Halloween issue, we want HORROR flash with a biohazardous flavour and a speculative seasoning and a speculative seasoning. There are many subgenres in horror storytelling, and we&#821…

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MIDLVLMAG @midlvlmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🫸 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN 🫷 Issue no. 9 - Human Capital Submission window: 9/1/26 - 10/31/26 Reading / acceptance window: 9/15/26 - 11/15/26 Paying $25 USD per accepted piece Send us Poetry, Fiction, and CNF midlvlmag.com/submissionguide

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our new submission call is now OPEN! 🦝 Prose poetry up to 300 words. Any genre. Celebrating tenacity and difference 💜 Visit our sub page for guidelines, inspo and sub link trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro... Deadline: 10th September, 8pm (BST)

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tonight we celebrate our 2025 print anthology - What Comes to Light - with a two hour evening of readings. Ten wonderful writers will share their gorgeous stories about finding treasure in unexpected places. You can still register to join us up until 4pm today (BST). forms.gle/y9Z4ekenXA7f...

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's now just one week until our evening of readings 🦝 Come along and listen to eleven wonderful stories celebrating treasure in unexpected places. Register for a slot at this Zoom event via link on our Home page trashcatlit.com 1/2

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 18/08/2026

Grateful to have won an excellence in teaching award today at Cuyahoga Community College! The student and faculty/staff nominations that were shared at our Convocation event were really touching. I’ll keep working to live up to such kind words. 💙 #teaching #highered

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/08/2026

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

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Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What are you reading this weekend?

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 14/08/2026

Share a poem you wrote

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We published our first paperback anthology in 2025 to raise funds for The Wildlife Trusts. The book is also available to read free on our website. On the 29th of August, we're hosting an evening of readings from the anthology via Zoom and would love to have you join us 🦝 1/2

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 12/08/2026

My biggest achievement this year so far… S-class living ship in No Man’s Sky! Woot woot! Thank you SO much for the player who gifted me the void egg at the Anomaly that eventually hatched into this rare ship. #grateful #nomanssky #gaming

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 09/08/2026

SCROLL OF PEACE: An MLA TRRPG Made my first TTRPG with colleague Garrett Munro (co-founder of TabletopEDU) to teach college students MLA format in an engaging way while also practicing other strategic thinking, communication, and resource mgmt skills! #teaching #ttrpg #gamedesign #highered #games

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

With our August challenge underway, we're thinking about what's still to come at Trash Cat Lit. Here is a post summarising the rest of our 2026 sub calls. Pencil us in if something takes your fancy 🦝 trashcatlit.com/2026/08/02/a...

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A Plethora of Sub Calls Still to Come in 2026

As we head into August and focus on our popular Prompted Stories challenge, we’re also excited for the rest of the year. We have no less than FOUR more submission opportunities before the end…

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Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We want your stories! The 2026 Larry Brown Short Story Award is officially open for submissions 1st prize: $500 Guest judge: Deesha Philyaw More info: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

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Viridine Literary @viridinelit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

☆OPEN TO SUBS☆ Send us your deer-themed poems, short stories, essays, scripts, and art. Free to submit. Short subs window = faster response times. Other forest folk are also welcome here. forms.gle/n68VR5R2RrDy...

Background: Several deer grazing in a field
Text: OPEN FOR DEER. ONE WEEK ONLY.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

aaaaand we're off! The Trashcan Generator is ready for your Trashie selections and deliver prompts back to you 🦝 We have a handful of new prompts in among those bins. Get prompted before 8pm on 6th August. Look out for Swapsies Day on the 4th. trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro... #submissioncalls

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 28/07/2026

Made a Moroccan Fish Tagine with white fish tonight over couscous, though strictly speaking, I made it in a Dutch oven instead of a tagine. My family seemed to enjoy it more with a mild harissa rather than the hotter one. #cooking #food

Fish tagine in a bowl with couscous, peppers, onions, white fish, chickpeas, and cherry tomatoes.

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Submissions close soon. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/YZQXetj #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 22/07/2026

It’s been fun getting back into some research over the past couple weeks. Me and my little boy, Mr. Bojangles (Bo). Some new, exciting stuff coming out soon! #dogs #academiclife #goldendoodle

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today we're spotlighting Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social and his layered micro 🦝 We loved how landscape was used as a character - both nostalgic and raw - in a tiny piece packed with emotion. Reader Leigh said: "hints of things unspoken" Read and listen: trashcatlit.com/the-tragedy-...

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 08/07/2026

Thoroughly enjoying Matt Cain’s latest novel, The Castle of Stories, from Pansy Books, a new UK-based indie #LGBTQ publisher! Gorgeous prose. Funny! In short: a gem. Check it out here: pansybooks.co.uk/books/the-ca... Available on Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #fiction #newfiction

Mike Piero sitting on a white couch reading Matt Cain’s novel The Castle of Stories.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/06/2026

The Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai on his notoriously long sentences, our estrangement from beauty, and why he would “never voluntarily reread” one of his books. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails

The Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai on his notoriously long sentences, our estrangement from beauty, and why he would “never voluntarily reread” one of his books.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We have three more days of teasers for our summer issue, coming 1st July 🦝 Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social packs his micro with vivid landscape, nostalgia and regret Carlotta Dale @carlottadale.bsky.social blends LA realism with fantasy as her MC becomes curious about a neighbour's tree

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 23/06/2026

Pleased to see my book review of Stålenhag’s Sunset at Zero Point appear in Rain Taxi! Check it out in their summer print issue. Also, meet Bojangles (Bo), who showed his support by trying to eat my contributor copy. 🤪 Check out Rain Taxi here: raintaxi.com #dogs #puppy #Stålenhag #bookreview

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 19/06/2026

Meet Mr. Bojangles (Bo), our 10-week old mini Goldendoodle. 🥰 #dogs #dogsofsky #puppies #puppy

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

3/3 Our final spotlight today from What Comes to Light, our amazing 27-story anthology 🦝 In The Pearl, Mike Piero @mikepiero.org's MC reflects on time spent with a lost relative and, in the collecting of her strange things, learns much more about her trashcatlit.com/read-what-co...

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 16/06/2026

Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Yucatán, México, one of the 7 Wonders of the World. Absolutely stunning, breathtaking architecture. The El Castillo pyramid takes the sound of claps and transforms it into the call of the quetzal bird. Then there’s the Great Ball Court, 2x size of a football field.

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 10/06/2026

New story out in Soundings East!Alternating between past and present, the autobiographically-inflected “Rituals” tells a story of an unconventional baptism and its implications 25 years later on parenting. Grateful to the editors! www.salemstate.edu/campus-life/... (print only)

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Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social · 09/04/2026

I'm doing a virtual performance of my play about the healing power of Doctor Who on Saturday, July 18th at 3pm Eastern USA Time (8pm UK) and tickets can be had for a measly $5 donation. Details at the link. #DoctorWho #Theater #TheatreSky #mentalhealth #healing DoctorWhoSavedMyLife.eventbrite.com

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Doctor Who Saved My Life

A virtual play about the healing power of Doctor Who.

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 15/04/2026

New #poem out today in Midway Journal! Check out "Exclusion Zone" here: midwayjournal.com/exclusion-zo... The poem responds to Russia’s war against Ukraine, particularly the drone strike that hit Chernobyl’s dome on Feb. 14, 2025, as it intersects with personal queer histories of exclusion zones.

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

‘It is not too early in the war to discern nostalgic references to earlier wars. All wars refer back.’ ‘Human Moments in World War III’ by Don DeLillo. granta.com/human-moment...

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Human Moments in World War III | Don DeLillo | Granta Magazine

‘Happiness is not a fact of this experience, at least not to the extent that one is bold enough to speak of it.’ Fiction by Don DeLillo in Granta 11.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It has begun! The Prompt Generator is now on until 6th April. Get your prompts and start percolating story ideas. Subs open on the 21st April. That's Trash Cat's prompted stories challenge - have a go! 🦝 Get prompted here: trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissioncalls #litsubmissions

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Send your work to these awesome mags, and send your work to us, too! We're open through April 1!

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: carrots, fathers, doorways, chronotopes, apocalypse, long drives, ink, baked goods, seasons, habits, magical realism, appointments, poems from fiction writers (and vice versa), ekphrasis, and origin stories.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Anyone here near Collingswood NJ? Come out to the public library on Wednesday night to hear me talk about and read from my book!

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 11/03/2026

Feels good to write some new poetry today after months of overwork. Next up—some new fiction. I’ve learned over the past year what matters most to me, something I’m forever re-learning, it seems. Perhaps academic schedules require such repetition of what might be plainly obvious in other spaces.

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 14/02/2026

Played a great new game today w/ my partner: Fog of Love! It’s a 2-player romantic comedy, relationship simulation board game! Very fun! Thanks, @floodgategames.bsky.social, for this gem we enjoyed this Valentine’s Day! Even our cat, Lyra, enjoyed the box sleeve. 😁 Looking forward to playing more!🤗

Fog of love game sleeve with a grey cat poking her head through.

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Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org · 09/02/2026

Can’t think of anything better than watching Werckmeister Harmonies by the late Hungarian filmmaker, Béla Tarr, a film based on Krasznahorkai’s stunning novel, The Melancholy of Resistance. Check out the novel here: www.ndbooks.com/book/the-mel... Film here: www.criterion.com/films/33388-... #film