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hey hey! check out this fabulous issue! including a breathless little runaway story from me ⚡️⚡️⚡️
February 5, 2024 at 3:24 PM
hey hey! check out this fabulous issue! including a breathless little runaway story from me ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Issue 8 is LIVE! Featuring work by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @demisty.bsky.social, and so many more!
Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social!
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Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social!
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Dayna Copeland is a romantic and edgy mixed-media artist, a published essayist and professional performer. A cancer mom and an elementary teacher, she is
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February 5, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Issue 8 is LIVE! Featuring work by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @demisty.bsky.social, and so many more!
Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social!
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Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social!
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Heading to AWP? Join us Wednesday night in an on/offsite reading in the convention center hotel!
Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!
Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!
December 19, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Heading to AWP? Join us Wednesday night in an on/offsite reading in the convention center hotel!
Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!
Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!
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“A girl like that could do it in her sleep:
that look, immortalized in that romance,
the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.”
Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.”
Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Selfie | Jennifer Keith - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Jennifer Keith is a web content writer for Johns Hopkins Medicine and plays bass for the rock band Batworth Stone. Her poems have appeared in Sewanee
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December 5, 2023 at 5:08 PM
“A girl like that could do it in her sleep:
that look, immortalized in that romance,
the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.”
Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.”
Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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“I am flesh and bone. fiber and liquids.
a mind. I understand people see me
like bodiless heads in circus sideshows
surrounded by hard, distorting glass.”
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Invisible Man (Two Views) | MEH - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
I.
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December 6, 2023 at 7:39 PM
“I am flesh and bone. fiber and liquids.
a mind. I understand people see me
like bodiless heads in circus sideshows
surrounded by hard, distorting glass.”
@mehpoeting.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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“Throughout that long lonely decade, wasn't l a fraying cord,
shorting out every electric outlet,
burn marks charring each wall?
Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —”
Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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shorting out every electric outlet,
burn marks charring each wall?
Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —”
Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Abandon | Katherine Gekker - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Katherine Gekker is the author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things (Glass Lyre Press). She serves as Delmarva Review's Poetry Assistant Editor. Her poetry
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December 8, 2023 at 5:23 PM
“Throughout that long lonely decade, wasn't l a fraying cord,
shorting out every electric outlet,
burn marks charring each wall?
Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —”
Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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shorting out every electric outlet,
burn marks charring each wall?
Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —”
Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Not sure how many people will see this? But here's my list of 2023 pubs. It's short! But that's okay, I edited an anthology and finished my thesis! (Yay!)
To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social.
I'm so proud of this book!
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To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social.
I'm so proud of this book!
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Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away - Alan Squire Publishing
Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot […]
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December 15, 2023 at 10:00 PM
Not sure how many people will see this? But here's my list of 2023 pubs. It's short! But that's okay, I edited an anthology and finished my thesis! (Yay!)
To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social.
I'm so proud of this book!
alansquirepublishing.com/bookstore/al...
To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social.
I'm so proud of this book!
alansquirepublishing.com/bookstore/al...
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Writer friends! I'm fiction editor at The ASP Bulletin from @alansquirepub.bsky.social and we're accepting submissions through Christmas! Submit here: theaspbulletin.com/submissions/
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December 18, 2023 at 7:37 PM
Writer friends! I'm fiction editor at The ASP Bulletin from @alansquirepub.bsky.social and we're accepting submissions through Christmas! Submit here: theaspbulletin.com/submissions/
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"this is not the moment i have been waiting for - hades is a mother's hospital waiting room, a dreadful place where restless soles pace, where twenty minutes feels like twenty years waiting..."
Michelle Evans | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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FIRST PLACE: anticlea [ante-clee-ah] n. queen of ithaca and mother to odysseus | Michele Evans - Ala...
Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for her school's literary magazine, Unbound.
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November 28, 2023 at 5:05 PM
"this is not the moment i have been waiting for - hades is a mother's hospital waiting room, a dreadful place where restless soles pace, where twenty minutes feels like twenty years waiting..."
Michelle Evans | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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I’m so honored to have a story included on this fantastic nominations list 💚🦇
Congratulations to all of our nominees!
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@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
November 28, 2023 at 8:02 PM
I’m so honored to have a story included on this fantastic nominations list 💚🦇
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"Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat."
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Contextualizing a Forest Fire Continually Burning | Jared Beloff - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
after Erika Meitner's "Outside the Frame"
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November 29, 2023 at 5:07 PM
"Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat."
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excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!!
we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰
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we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰
@alansquirepub
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November 29, 2023 at 9:18 PM
excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!!
we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰
@alansquirepub
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we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰
@alansquirepub
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"I wanted the wolves to let me stay
where I was, to let me keep what I had.
If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step
around it. If mold grew in the gutters,
I’d breathe the spores."
Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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where I was, to let me keep what I had.
If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step
around it. If mold grew in the gutters,
I’d breathe the spores."
Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Alecto | Megan Alpert - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
I.
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November 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM
"I wanted the wolves to let me stay
where I was, to let me keep what I had.
If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step
around it. If mold grew in the gutters,
I’d breathe the spores."
Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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where I was, to let me keep what I had.
If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step
around it. If mold grew in the gutters,
I’d breathe the spores."
Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Thrilled to have a short story included in this new @alansquirepub.bsky.social anthology alongside some of my favorite writers. Many thanks to editor @writesloud.bsky.social for this powerhouse collection!
November 30, 2023 at 10:21 PM
Thrilled to have a short story included in this new @alansquirepub.bsky.social anthology alongside some of my favorite writers. Many thanks to editor @writesloud.bsky.social for this powerhouse collection!
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"you and me, together, in a house
that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath.
two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses
running around our knees - not a single child in sight."
Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath.
two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses
running around our knees - not a single child in sight."
Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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the immigrant dream | Ishanee Chanda - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Ishanee Chanda is a prose writer and poet from Dallas, Texas. She is the author or two books of poetry titled Oh, these walls, they crumble and The Overflow.
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December 1, 2023 at 5:13 PM
"you and me, together, in a house
that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath.
two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses
running around our knees - not a single child in sight."
Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath.
two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses
running around our knees - not a single child in sight."
Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Look what finally came! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social and @alansquirepub.bsky.social!!
December 3, 2023 at 11:49 PM
Look what finally came! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social and @alansquirepub.bsky.social!!
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So excited that @alansquirepub.bsky.social has nominated my bitty story, ROLE MODEL, for inclusion in the Best Microfiction anthology!
Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!
Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!
November 27, 2023 at 7:10 PM
So excited that @alansquirepub.bsky.social has nominated my bitty story, ROLE MODEL, for inclusion in the Best Microfiction anthology!
Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!
Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!
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Woooohooo!! Thank you so much @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social!
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Congratulations to all of our nominees!
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
November 28, 2023 at 4:10 AM
Woooohooo!! Thank you so much @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social!
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Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social for giving this oddball of a story a chance, and good luck to all the nominees!
Congratulations to all of our nominees!
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
November 27, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social for giving this oddball of a story a chance, and good luck to all the nominees!
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"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life.
Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed
heart ghastly white
beating interdimensional
if seen through cardiologist eyes."
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Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed
heart ghastly white
beating interdimensional
if seen through cardiologist eyes."
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SECOND PLACE: Emerald Echocardiogram | Adrian Dallas Frandle - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life.
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November 27, 2023 at 5:11 PM
"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life.
Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed
heart ghastly white
beating interdimensional
if seen through cardiologist eyes."
@adrianf.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
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Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed
heart ghastly white
beating interdimensional
if seen through cardiologist eyes."
@adrianf.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social
t.co/gCM8nA6izI
Congratulations to all of our nominees!
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
November 27, 2023 at 4:06 PM
Congratulations to all of our nominees!
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social
November 27, 2023 at 3:33 PM
REMINDER! The ASP Bulletin opens for submissions tomorrow!! Our next issue will launch right before AWP!
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November 26, 2023 at 10:55 PM
REMINDER! The ASP Bulletin opens for submissions tomorrow!! Our next issue will launch right before AWP!
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The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!!
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"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a
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November 21, 2023 at 5:18 PM
The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!!
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The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!!
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"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a
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November 21, 2023 at 5:18 PM
The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!!
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