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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You will want to get your own copy of Spinning, the new Cowboy Jamboree Press tales by dazzling author @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social! These are unique and richly crafted tales told with vigor and depth.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Hey Trixie, Meet us at the Fernwood Cemetery this Sunday- we’ll be passing through." Wonderful use of the epistolary from @rgvaughan.bsky.social

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 10 Year Anniversary Issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

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October 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow, look at this ginormous 10-year anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute! I'm thrilled to be part of the line-up, and I can't wait to dig into all the stories! Check out my micro, "Shattered Across the Night!" And thanks to Brooksie C. Fontaine for the cool illustration!

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Shattered Across the Night — Ghost Parachute

The night is bitter. My teeth ache, frozen down to their roots. I prod them with my tongue. Sharp splinters blossom from each socket, like shattered kernels of hard winter corn. “Sheila?” No answer. W...

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi Charles, love that you compose these lists! Check out our journal, we often include queer writers or stories/ poems/ CNF. We're Bending Genres (@bendinggenres.bsky.social) www.bendinggenres.com

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Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join me and @rgvaughan.bsky.social and a whole bunch of other writing stars in the upcoming Bending Genres weekend workshop. You can write in your pajamas!

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love to see everyone, and cool looking space, friends!

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today on our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, Ashley Yang-Thompson interviews, and reviews Mark Leidner's new project Elegy for Pangea: bendinggenres.com/ashley-yang-...

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Ashley Yang-Thompson Interviews Mark Leidner/ Micro-review of Elegy for Pangea

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OOPS!!! I meant to come to the US Open LAST NIGHT!!!

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring The Pool Boy by Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/09/04/t...

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have some copies of my newest mini chapbook to give away! “A City Bursts Inside Me,” full of 12 tiny city poems. DM me for a copy!

Copies of a small chapbook titled “a city bursts inside me” sitting next to a plant in a winky mushroom pot

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my book is out next month! if you grab a copy, let me know, and I'll write you a personalized poem www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

"Made death new to me." - Hedgie Choi

book cover of Uncle Time by Benjamin Niespodziany, 2025 poetry chapbook prize winner

out on October 15, 2026 with Gasher Press

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Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Love seeing this new story, “At the gun show you say to me, You look good,” go live at trampset. Huge thanks to the editors for spotting it. Congrats to fellow writers in the issue, and thanks to my flash pack peeps who were early readers. www.trampset.org/post/at-the-...

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At the gun show you say to me, You look good | trampset

by Elissa Field...I eye one under glass in diesel green, iridescent like rainbows on petrol. Laser embossed handgrips in swirls of vining flowers. I’d fired yours at the range. First time I heard a sh...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/09/2026

A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art displays the fearsome, almost psychedelic works of an artist who was as much a spiritualist as an automatist. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans

There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender.

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fantastic NEON reading with these amazing writers, hosted by @neonpajamas.bsky.social!!! Lovely to be included and I appreciate the invite and inspiration!!! @clairehopple.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social @cardewjcardew.bsky.social @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social @jessicawalsh.bsky.social

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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a story today on Heavy Feather Review on grief and algebra and empty chairs, and about how we react to unsolvable equations, and I'd be so honored if you gave it a read ❤️ heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/a...

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“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou

Grief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the good ones. R.I.P. Wendell Berry 😪

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks so much, Duotrope! We were at Synergia Ranch, New Mexico, celebrating our second retreat of 2026. Magnificent writers and transformative work accomplished.

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bending Genres Retreat at Synergia Ranch with Robert Vaughan and Nancy Stohlman. Such talented writers, and inspiration abounds- sunrises, thunderstorms, coyotes, snakes, bunnies. Videos, hybrid work, art collages, false science, body, home, Geodome. @bendinggenres.bsky.social

Synergia Ranch, New Mexico. Bending Genres's Retreat #2- August 16- 22, 2026. Led by Robert Vaughan and Nancy Stohlman. Such an innovative, beautiful, loving group of writers! Snakes, coyotes, sunrises that take your breath away, cathartic storms, collage art, videos, transformation. Gratitude and treasures.

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thanks to all of the good people at Duotrope!

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Foster Trecost @fostertrecost.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So happy to be in the latest issue of Bending Generes. Thanks, Robert @rgvaughan.bsky.social! Lots of great stories in here. bendinggenres.com/the-dog-thou...

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The Dog, Though

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bending Genres Issue 52 is now LIVE!! Full of fascinating, amazing CNF, poetry and flash fiction. Check it out here: bendinggenres.com

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Current Issue

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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Many thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social for publishing my story, “Employee Complaint Form” in this issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. It features a Pegasus. What can be better than that!? #writesky #flashfiction #writing

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Employee Complaint Form

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fantastic poem, Chloe. Really strikes a deep nerve.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It me 🥺

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What a brilliant micro, Sara!!! Love this so much.

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's a beautiful story, Lisa! Thanks for sending us your always incredible work to be included in Bending in the Breeze!!!

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I haven't written for ages, so I'm delighted to have a story included in the Bending Genre anthology. Thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social & @amymarques.bsky.social My story, 'The Inn of Frozen Things' first ran in Atticus Review, then in the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50. www.amazon.com/dp/194502880...

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Bending in the Breeze: Vaughan, Robert, Marques, Amy: 9781945028809: Amazon.com: Books

Bending in the Breeze [Vaughan, Robert, Marques, Amy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bending in the Breeze

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Did you happen to watch the Lorne Michaels documentary? It was pretty interesting IMHO.

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Chicago!!! Sept 2 reading with these brilliant authors, thanks @neonpajamas.bsky.social who also runs @pizamapress.bsky.social putting out the best of the best strange writers/ books!!! Please come and bring friends!!!

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"he wore brown slacks to match his wheels, the fabric sagged, and his velour shirts always reeked of reefer and an island half submerged" Great sense of character and family dynamic in this micro from @rgvaughan.bsky.social

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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A nice list of journals, and for once, we're listed at the top! Congrats to all, and print this up to submit your best!!! Insider tip- read their latest issue first. BRAVO!

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Let’s go fly a kite! 🪁 Thrilled to have a new flash in the fabulous @fictivedream.bsky.social, which is celebrating 10 years of championing short and short-short stories. Laura has created such a wonderfully-curated journal, and I’m so proud to be featured. Enjoy! 💛 fictivedream.com/2026/07/03/k...

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Kyle as Kite

by James Montgomery HE’S SWEPT AWAY SUDDENLY. After a one-hour car journey became four. After two emergency toilet stops for their three- and six-year-olds, plus one more to refuel with bags of gia…

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