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Joe Couture @rjcouture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A big thanks to Tejaswinee & Ankit @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions 2027, and congrats to my fellow nominees.

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Peter Lilly Poetry @plpoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An absolute delight to be part of Sadie Kaye's writer's Gauntlet for @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social this week. Sadie is such a generous interviewer and made the whole thing so much fun. Have a read, have a giggle. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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Peter Lilly’s poetry DESTROYS modernist empiricism with FACTS AND SCIENCE! – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I try to stay off the socials a fair bit these days, so I was surprised and thrilled to find out I have been nominated for Best of the Net by Micromance Magazine and Best Small Fictions by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social. What an absolute joy, very glad I logged in today 💜💜

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Peter Lilly Poetry @plpoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So honoured that my poem “Reunions” has received a @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nomination by the always wonderful @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Here’s a reading. It was originally published in this beautiful edition: online.fliphtml5.com/ndtwa/yhlj/#...

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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So pleased to have work coming out in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social, @jenthorne.bsky.social and @madp03t.bsky.social's I Smell Toast Anthology (because how fun is that!), and today's acceptance by @mrbullbull.bsky.social! Can't wait is an understatement!!

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We're back after a short hiatus! And this week, Brian Christopher Giddens weighs the pros and cons of superstardom, and Michael Smith serves a heady spread for breakfast. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you to all who submitted their work and spread the word. 🖤

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 01/09/2026

I had the privilege of reviewing THOSE WHO VANISH by Patricia Grace King. Read my review (and get a copy of the book)! @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social thehooghlyreview.com/review-patri...

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“Someone Else’s War: A Review of Patricia Grace King’s Those Who Vanish” by Joanna Theiss – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In this week's edition of the Writer's Gauntlet, Sadie Kaye grills Kelly Field, who trained for a decade to understand human behaviour and remains completely baffled by her own. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ever so pleased to have @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social pick up three of my poems for their next issue. Gorgeous journal so I can't wait to see my poems there!!

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have never felt so carefully curated into such a diverse, interesting, international collection of writing then when I had a story in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are open for Issue 5 submissions. 📢 Read the guidelines and send us your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, scripts, art and photography. thehooghlyreview.com/submission-c...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This week on The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye, time traveler Jay Oatway returns with the one simple trick of getting your novel published! (And editors hate him!) thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

ICYMI and because it's still #ChristmasinJuly. My short story in the spec-fic issue of @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social thehooghlyreview.com/issues/prati...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our next regular issue is closer than it appears. Submissions for Issue 5 open August 1. Check the guidelines and get your files ready. We can't wait to see your work! thehooghlyreview.com/submission-c...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This week, Arpita Bhawal takes matters of the heart to the park, and Curtis C. Morgan has a Michelin-starred honeymoon in 1970s France. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

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T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Is #ChristmasinJuly a thing? My xmas short story contribution to @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social #SpecFic issue is “The Capitalist, the Creature, and the Crone” on page 39

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Running the Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye this week is the multi-talented Joãowow Lucas, who, in the pic below, survives near-fatal choking by a much better writer, the author of 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣—Chuck Palahniuk. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Twenty writers and a photographer. Eleven countries. Twenty-one stories and a photo feature. What should you expect in these pages? Everything—we refuse to prepare you this time. See you on the other side. thehooghlyreview.com/issues/prati...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This week, Rijuta Pandey shows a mirror to Bollywood, and Shruti Goel serves legacy fresh from the wok. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This week on the Writer's Gauntlet, Sadie Kaye brings us, from Lisbon's best basements, Jen Nafziger—the worst comedy hack we've ever seen. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Presenting the front and back covers of प्रतिभासिक | Pratibhāsika, our forthcoming speculative fiction issue. Stay tuned. ⏳️

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye returns, with Mat Ricardo, the America’s Got Talent loser who wrote a book for kids about how to be criminals. (Mat's book does, in fact, teach kids how to pick locks.) thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Megan Kimber reviews Howard McKenzie-Murray's Hungerford Award-shortlisted novel, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦 (Fremantle Press, 2026). thehooghlyreview.com/review-howar...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thrilled to know we have two writers on the 2026 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. Congratulations, Saraswati Nagpal and Johnny Roach! 🥂 "Woman of the House" by Saraswati Nagpal: thehooghlyreview.com/woman-of-the... "All Things Considered" by Johnny Roach: thehooghlyreview.com/all-things-c...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This week, Rini Sultana gives a primer on evil eye, and Snigdha Agrawal revisits a house steeped in history. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This week the Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye features "a voluptuous, kind-eyed, strong man," the Tennessee-born, Hong Kong-raised Jonathan Han who is currently working on a story about a swineherder. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This week, Lina Krishnan smells something garlicky on campus, and Aditi Surana takes eat, swear, love a notch higher. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye is back, this time with Scotland-born Hong Kong-resident Stewart McKay, whose words have been described as ‘absorbing and gritty’, ‘deeply moving and often funny’, and—perhaps most importantly of all—‘enjoyably sexy’. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Rajvi reviews 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑊𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑎 2 on our ASAP Corner. thehooghlyreview.com/the-curse-of...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New on our ASAP Corner: Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath, Founder/Director of Karadi Tales, the award-studded children's publishing house on the New York Public Library's recommended reading list. thehooghlyreview.com/vijayalakshm...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sadie Kaye's new column, The Writer's Gauntlet, gets off to a celebrity start, thanks to the wit and support of Helen Lederer, fairy godmother to witty women everywhere and founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize. thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-v...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We have given the inimitable Sadie Kaye her own nook to put witty writers through her Writer’s Gauntlet of questions! Sadie's column kicks off next week with her firing at the fairy godmother of comedy. (That's enough spoilers!) Keep watching this space. thehooghlyreview.com/the-writers-...

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A new Ekphrastic anthology, MURALS, is now available from Press Pause Press. First published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social & curated by @fbereaud.bsky.social, it features an international collection of public art & writing in response, including my "Microsonnet for the municipality sweepers"

A paperback copy of MURALS, a special issue of The Hooghly Review, curated by Francois Bereaud, now available in print from Press Pause Press

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fbereaud.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I’m proud of and delighted with Murals. Amazing effort @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Writing and art from around the world in a gorgeous coffee table format. In San Diego, find it at a local bookshop. Otherwise, order from the wonderful Press Pause. www.presspausepress.org/buystuff/mur...

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Murals — press II press

A collaboration like no other, from The Hooghly Review in India and a former Press Pause contributor. In the height of 2025, former contributor Francois Bereaud asked us to help him get this beau...

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I can't wait to hold this book in my hands. Proud to have a story in this @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social anthology - every story is a pairing of street murals and writers. It was a project handled with such love by @fbereaud.bsky.social People, it's going to be beautiful! Order one below...

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Samantha Terrell @samanthaterrell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Super grateful to @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for giving my interview, by Rachel Turney of Poetry (in Brief), a home. #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity Read it here: thehooghlyreview.com/rachel-turne...

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Random throwback to a micro of mine published a while ago in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

RAT QUEEN
When you said you contained multitudes, I didn't know you meant like this. Was it the scent of my arousal or the fact that I said I love you that triggered your dissolution? I hardly had time to finish undressing before you splintered into a swarm of rats—some tawny brown, some ashy gray, some black like the rims of your glasses now lying abandoned on the floor.
You squeak as you race towards my prone body, noses wet and quivering, whiskers twitching at the scent of me, thick and salty in the air. As your bodies cover mine, I close my eyes, frozen, heart thumping, reveling in the soft fur brushing against my skin, the pressure of tiny feet massaging into my thighs, my belly, my breast. I wish I could be many things at once, instead of just the one. Mother, daughter, lover, flesh, bone, mass of feeling, galaxy of possibility.
Pink, wet noses remind me of Ratatouille-anyone can cook, except I already know that's a lie. You show me a different kind of love now, six bites per second, and I let you happen to me. I always knew I'd be devoured in a thousand different ways, by a thousand different teeth, each bite an act of love, of obliteration. Bristly fur sprouts on my body, and I become queen, singular, large and dominant, able to survive anything, even this one life, even you.

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Elisa Dominique Rivera @nikkirivera.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’ve no words… it’s just so wonderful holding an actual… book… with my words and photography in it. Wow. Thank you @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social and Francois Bereaud for making a writer girl’s heart flutter today.

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A photo of the back cover of the Murals Book by The Hooghly Review

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thanks @fbereaud.bsky.social for curating and also ensuring Murals has a physical version along with Press Pause Press. Glad to have been a part of this. Thanks @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social @tejaswineerc.bsky.social and @ankitrajojha.bsky.social for this and so much more

Cover page of the book with text The Hooghly Review Special Issue and December 2024 on top, Title - Murals, curated by Francois Bereaud; with one main image with multiple elements including groups of women and men (vertical) and another (horizontal) both set against a brown background

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The idea of THR in Print has been brewing for a while. Murals is just the beginning. Prepared for print by Press Pause Press with @fbereaud.bsky.social, Murals is in San Diego bookstores and museum gift shops, and can also be ordered worldwide. Order here: thehooghlyreview.com/thr-in-print/

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📢 Announcement ✨️ Our ASAP Corner now includes conversations and excerpts, in addition to reviews. Check the guidelines and send us exciting new reviews, conversations, and excerpts. thehooghlyreview.com/asap-corner-...

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The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This week, Howard McKenzie-Murray senses something shitty at a friend's house, and Sadie Kaye solves the mystery of an unaccounted for turd. thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We got so many recommendations that we obviously had to make a sequel <3 Thank you to everyone who sent in their favorite mags! Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/cool_k... #writing

Where the cool kids are submitting their writing (spring 2026 vol. 2)

The Hooghly Review - Highlighting emerging & underrated creatives
BULL lit mag - Rewriting modern masculinity
fifth wheel press - Very queer lit & art publishing space
Michigan Quarterly Review - Creative urgency & cultural relevance
Rat Bag Lit - Fiction that crosses genres & blurs the lines
electric pink - For language that lingers
Trash Cat Lit - The unexpected place for treasured words
Citron Review - A journal of brief literature
Electric Literature - Making literature more exciting, relevant, & inclusive
Cleveland Review of Books - A port of call for cultural exchange
Dodo Eraser - Not academic, not alt lit, but a secret third thing
Bottle Rocket - Work that soars before bursting into wild sounds & colors
Scapegoat Review - Work that actively engages with the audience
Saw Palm - Capturing the unique experience of Florida lives
La Rotonde Review - Passionate, timeless poetry & prose poetry
34 Orchard - Dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth
Iterant - Sublime poetry and artwork quarterly online
The Bloomin' Onion - A literary magazine with layers
root smoke - A space for writing & reflection
Temple In A City - Exploring what it means to be alive

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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Bought for Trash Cat fave, @mrallanmiller.bsky.social , looking forward to finding lots more to laugh with - it’s sorely needed these days 😌 @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

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