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Will Musgrove

@willmusgrove.bsky.social
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Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 4h
Sitting on my deck, drinking a beer, and submitting literary fiction.
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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truly honored to share that our Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50, 2027 will be the talented @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social whose stories have won two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. More at jaichakrabarti.com
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 10h
Opening my Submittable as a haunted house this spooky season because technically literary rejections are just the ghosts of submissions 👻
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A little tipsy, wearing a denim jacket, and I love you 💙😊
Me sitting at a table with a beer.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday I spent about an hour writing the opening paragraph to a new story. Today I wrote the second paragraph and ultimately decided to get rid of the first. Guess it got me to the true start of the story though.
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Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tuck into the Nebraska hills with me. Pull the pines up and over our bodies like a blanket. Grateful to have this one I wrote for Holly find its true home @south85journal.bsky.social www.south85journal.com/dream-home/
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Dream Home | South 85 Journal
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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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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My book of surreal prose poems is out this month! I'm proud of this weird little book & would love it if you ordered a copy ❤️📚 www.gasherpress.com/product-page...
book cover for Uncle Time by Benjamin Niespodziany, a 2025 poetry chapbook prize winner
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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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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fun fact: Before he died, Charles Dickens had actually planned to write a spooky sequel to A Christmas Carol where Scrooge is visited by three Spirit Halloweens.
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am so thrilled to see my work in the gorgeous new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! I had the best time serving as Artist-in-Residence for it. Pls check out my portfolio & artist statement & read the amazing writing in this special issue! www.south85journal.com/artists-stat...
My photograph overlooking NYC from a train on a bridge with text overlaid: South 85 Out Now 

Fall Winter 2026
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City Country
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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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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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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whenever I'm submitting to a really fancy literary journal, I always make sure to put Fin at the end of my story.
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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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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exactly 10 signed copies of Submarines, a fantastic novel by @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social and the title we get the most AI scam emails about, left. Get one! malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
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Submarines, a novel by Mike Andrelczyk — Malarkey
July 2026 Preorders will be signed by the author and shipped out in June/July 2026, accompanied by a bookmark and a bonus micro-chapbook of the author’s poetry. I loved  Submarines  fo...
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spent about an hour or so this morning writing, and I had such a good time I think I'll do it again tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next...
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨COVER REVEAL✨ for my new chap, SENTENCE, out with Nine Syllables Press on December 1st! If you love my brother poems, you will love these as well! PRE-ORDER at the link: www.ninesyllablespress.com/shop/p/sente... And learn more in the replies! Graphics: 9SP IG
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Have you met my best friend? 💙🐕
An Irish terrier wrapped in blankets.
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ICYMI New story in trampset. Lots of good things in trampset.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
POEM!!!!!
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's fall, which means the seagulls have taken over the docks here in Okoboji 💙🐦
Seagulls on a dock on a foggy day.
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Ross McMeekin @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The good people at @trampset.bsky.social published a new flash of mine, my first piece out in the world since Pepperleaf. It’s called “256 Hz”, or in layman’s terms, Middle C, like on the piano, and it couldn’t be more different from my book. Thanks to the editors! www.trampset.org/post/256-hz
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256 Hz
by Ross McMeekin...That lack of definitive explanations isn’t dissimilar to the questions many of us have about God, in the sense that God by definition can only be described insufficiently.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A very tired boy 💙🍺
Me sitting at a table with a beer.
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️Out now from @bruisermag.com’s zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...
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ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU - zine by John Waddy Bullion
"Like grazing a live wire, ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU seizes you and doesn't let go. An assemblage of poignant, funny, and utterly devastating rock 'n' roll histories and electric-chair mythologie...
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
new story up on @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social about chili!
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Saw some turtles while walking my dog today 🐢
Turtles on a log laying in a pond.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My dog hopes you're having a great day 💙🐕
An Irish terrier sitting in front of a fireplace.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Getting literary rejections is kind of like learning how to throw and catch a boomerang.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve got a new poem in the September issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. It’s about the daughter my mother always wanted and the sister I dreamt of having.
IN THE FOREST OF MY OWN TEARS I SUDDENLY REMEMBER WANDA

It's the name my mother would've given her daughter if she ever had one instead of yet another son. Wanda.
I used to dream of climbing trees together & playing wizard of the forest together, though not in the forest of my tears.
This was always in the forest of my laughter. Always, despite how sad I got at times that my mother didn't get to have you.
Back then I climbed trees every day. These days I'm lost in the thickets of my phone. The other week I kept missing calls, turns out I forgot to turn off "do not disturb." Eventually I remembered, but couldn't remember how to actually do it, to say, Yes, I want to be disturbed again-by my phone, & by the world, I guess.
Then I googled it, instead of just asking Jeff (I think you would like Jeff), because I didn't want it to be a whole production again, a customer service situation, except between lovers, & I am the worstcustomer & the worst lover when trying to figure out my own phone. True, I'm a bit (Jeff would say a lot) of a Luddite. Well, a Luddite who's a screen fiend, & isn't that the perfect storm, wait, is that the right proverb, is it an idiom, I think you would know, Wanda. & now I'm remembering French class, how I adored learning new idiomatic expressions— lifit's Idiomatic Expressions Time! That's what happened in my head. How often I wished, Wanda, that you were at school with me. Say, only a year above me, but wise & capable of forming really cool sentences in French, & you'd never tease me in any language, or just a little, for what went on in my head. & after school we'd race from the bus to our favorite tree, though already we were a tad old to be playing like that, we'd play, we'd climb, we'd take turns being wizard of the forest, & laugh, we'd laugh so vast. At some point in our tree, you'd tell me which boy you liked, if any. Then I'd chime in with which one, or ones I liked. & though I could guess, & now know, thanks to my best friend Sam (you'd like him too), that having sisters can be very complicated, including or especially big sisters,back then I believed, needed to think that I could tell you every big thing. I could tell my sister, & then it was okay for a while that I couldn't tell anyone else in the family, it was alright because I had you. You, Wanda, & maybe that's sort of what she was thinking, believing, too, in her own forest early mornings or late at night, up in her own magical oak, when my mother was dreaming so hard about you.
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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey, new Nobis prose poem up at @porcupinelit.bsky.social!
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These Are the Dreams Now
Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 public school teacher in Metro Detroit where he lives with his family and dog. He is the author of The Size of the Horizon, or, / Explained Everything to the Trees ...
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seven Perfect Endings to Achieve Resonance: The Singing Bowl Effect artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/seven-perf...
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Seven Perfect Endings to Achieve Resonance: The Singing Bowl Effect
Sunset at Shadowcliff Lodge, Grand Lake, Colorado
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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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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bar Triva Will 💙🍻
Me sitting at a table with a beer.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One week from today! Join me and six amazing readers who’ve supported and inspired me in the years it took to write the seven stories in this book! Thursday, Sept 24, 8pm NYC time 🐦‍⬛ www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornto...
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Lisa Thornton Chapbook Release — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
Sand and Gravel is a small but mighty press dedicated to the miniature. We publish pocket-sized collections of flash fiction, standalone stories, and poetry.
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to have a new poem in the beautiful Sweet Lit.💙
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This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I was a little kid, I used to think my dad had psychic powers because at red lights he'd watch the opposite light switch to yellow and go, "Our light will turn green....now."
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tomorrow's Wednesday. And every Wednesday I go to this restaurant for spicy wings. I'm such a regular, the waiter just brings me everything without even taking my order. Most of the time I want the wings, but sometimes I don't.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The mystery Airheads flavor is literary rejection.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every time I resubmit to a journal that's rejected me a ton, I turn into Rocky from Rocky & Bullwinkle: "Now here's something I hope you'll really like!"
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Join us 9/24 @ 8pm NYC time for "We'll Be Birds" release! Readers @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @noramaynard.bsky.social @willmusgrove.bsky.social @pahoehoe.bsky.social @cwtellstales.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social & I would love to see yr face 🐦‍⬛ link➡️ www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornto...
A graphic with ink drawings of some silos and a hand along with the date 9/24 and time 8pm NYC, inviting everyone to a Zoom launch for Lisa Thornton's new chapbook "We'll Be Birds" from Sand and Gravel Press. It includes the list of readers: Sumitra Singam, Nora Maynard, Will Musgrove, Evan Williams, Claudia Wair, and Amy Cipolla Barnes.
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Some butterflies I saw today 🦋
Butterflies in a tree.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We’re loving all the love Issue 3 is getting! Have you read it yet? literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran
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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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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Flower Crown Will 👑 🌼 🌸
Me wearing a flower crown in front of a shack.
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Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Enjoy my CNF that shares some insight into the sport that brings me such peace and joy. Check out the other lovely pieces in Issue 3 as well! Thank you @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for giving this piece such a wonderful home. #writingcommunity #fencing literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Salle-itude by Nina Miller
The midday sun filters through blinds and dust motes as I walk into the empty fencing salle. The noise from the city streets melts into the creak of polished wood and the high- pitched hum of the over...
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I stop and look up at a break in the clouds, see the sun peeking out. Sammy keeps walking, keeps talking, and I wonder how long until he notices I’m not there." Awesome storytelling by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have a new flash in the latest issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. Check it out if you wanna but make sure to read all the other amazing authors in this issue. And thanks to Literary Namjooning for giving this piece such an awesome home! 💙 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 · 12/09/2026
It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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