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Brett Biebel
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Writer, teacher, sports fan. Best Small Fictions (2021), Best Microfiction (2022, 2023, 2024), Wigleaf Top 50 (2021).
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Please check this one out! Super proud of it and very grateful to @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting it! If you're into death penalty westerns, this is your jam.
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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necessaryfiction.com
This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Pioneer Spirit" by
@brettbbl.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/pion...
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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nicholas-claro.bsky.social
Loved this story and was so pumped to publish @brettbbl.bsky.social !!!
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Spent the day in the car getting ahead of the snow, but this is such an honor! What a great group of stories! Thanks to @yourimpossiblevoice.com, an incredible journal!
yourimpossiblevoice.com Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Nov 28
Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
@brettbbl.bsky.social
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees: The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall; Hotdogs by Hugh Behm-Steinberg; Anthem by Brett Biebel; A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame by Sage Tyrtle; Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
@brettbbl.bsky.social
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees: The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall; Hotdogs by Hugh Behm-Steinberg; Anthem by Brett Biebel; A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame by Sage Tyrtle; Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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litmatchcollective.com
Uh oh. Did you miss our November Residency Chat?😿

No prob. Here's a recap.

🏆to Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR + @jrigamonti.bsky.social former Program Coordinator @cmwritershouse.bsky.social

Catch the whole convo + more tips + insights @ #treasure-chest in our Discord
If you missed November's Residency Chat, we discussed how funded residencies can feel out of reach for emerging writers. BUT we also learned how to work around that. TARGET YOUR APPS Some residencies, depending on source of funding and mission, intentionally create space for those without solid footing in academia or Writing Career (AKA most of us) PROVIDE CONTEXT We also learned that jurors want to know "how your work fits in the literary landscape and the world." In other words: Can we talk clearly about the lineage in which we write? And how our work engages the greater world? PITCH YOURSELF + YOUR WORK Jurors want to see "a smart cohesive image of yourself as an interesting and invested writer" who has a project that needs "a deep, immersive push," who can articulate "why it is worth supporting." In a way that's "Not too long and not self centered." In other words: Why would our work matter to anyone but us? Can we articulate that quickly, clearly, and convincingly? And keep applying! Jeff McMahon: In the cycle we just completed, a writer is going to be accepted after 2 previous rejections. Over several years their score improved with each application which I feel reflects their growth. They finally got there. Keep working. Try, and then try again. Justin Rigamonti: Keep applying def. If someone applied for three years in a row, we were MUCH more likely to give their app a second look.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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necessaryfiction.com
This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Yellow Gifts" by
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Yeah, this one's a must read. From @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social and A Strange Object. Believe the hype.

store.deepvellum.org/products/nor...
NORTH SUN
By Ethan Rutherford. From "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and en...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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brechtdp.bsky.social
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
brettbbl.bsky.social
College basketball gets more like the NBA every year. More scoring, fewer slow-it-down teams, threes and layups. On the one hand, I miss the wider variety of styles. On the other, a bunch of great games less than a week in.
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...

Words:
NINA Y. MORAGON
HAL WRIGHT
@meliseliz.bsky.social
RACHEL EPHRAIM
MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
JENNY CHU
CAROL ROSE LITTLE

Cover art:
SUSAN POLLET
Volume 14, Issue 11
COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET   FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM   NONF…
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November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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😍😍😍
sfwp.bsky.social SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · Nov 1
It's the final countdown: There are just 3 DAYS until the release of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social!

Check out the @libraryjournal.bsky.social's full review right here: buff.ly/pPjL8Mr
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uZYHrA4
@susanschulman.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Check out my @fracturedlit.bsky.social interview by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
dawnsteffler.bsky.social Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · Oct 31
Please enjoy this interview w Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social about her amazing new collection, Bitter Over Sweet, 2023 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. LINKS to her book and to her AMAZING launch on Nov 7 w Deesha Philyaw & Avitus Carle are in the interview.
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured
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October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
brettbbl.bsky.social
Hockey in a nutshell!
alisonl.bsky.social Alison Lukan @alisonl.bsky.social · Oct 24
Made ya look LOL
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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splitlippress.com
FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
brettbbl.bsky.social
So happy to have a micro here today! What a lineup!
baltimorereview.bsky.social Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Oct 19
Our fall 2025 issue is live! Includes a micro section this time along with poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction. baltimorereview.org
Picture of Baltimore Review fall 2025 main page with photos of the 20 contributors
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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stevexisxok.bsky.social
We've been trying to figure out how Ben writes pieces that feel fun and sometimes even silly but also ultimately moving and profound.

Many hypotheses! But maybe the answer is just: magic.

Really looking forward to diving in deeper this Sunday
litmatchcollective.com Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · Oct 16
This Sunday, Oct 19 at 8PM ET!

We'll be chatting with our favorite fabulist @benloory.bsky.social about clarity, craft, and caring in our members-only Discord server.

Not a member? Not a problem.

Just subscribe to our newsletter for a 1-month trial 🔥
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October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
brettbbl.bsky.social
ICYMI! Thrilled to be in these digital pages today.
mrbullbull.bsky.social MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Oct 12
"If you’re not rich or famous or powerful, then you’re just you, the guy nobody wants to hear whine." - @brettbbl.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I love @mrbullbull.bsky.social. And I really love being in their digital pages. Hope you'll give it a read!
mrbullbull.bsky.social MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Oct 12
"If you’re not rich or famous or powerful, then you’re just you, the guy nobody wants to hear whine." - @brettbbl.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Say the line.
cyrthogg.bsky.social Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · Oct 12
A composed, electric outing from Jacob Misiorowski, who was basically asked to shoulder the heaviest load in a do-or-die Game 5.

It brings me back to when I visited Nashville last August to see what the kid was made of. The answer was in this quote.

www.jsonline.com/story/sports...
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Yeah, this is funny and odd and poignant. Read as soon as it comes across your feed.
October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
brettbbl.bsky.social
Read this brilliant story in class today. I love every word.

www.ceasecows.com/2023/05/18/t...
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
brettbbl.bsky.social
How can you not be Romantic about baseball?
cyrthogg.bsky.social Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · Oct 5
Enjoy this journey through a Pat Murphy press conference.
October 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
The theme is "LUCK". In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry". POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap. PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece. Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under. Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry". All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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stevexisxok.bsky.social
Stoked for October! Let's do this💪
litmatchcollective.com Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · Sep 30
Ready to write? Our October plans are here!

Enjoy a 1-month free trial + daily accountability + 2 events with our fave writer of touching (and occasionally creepy) fables and tales: @benloory.bsky.social

Plus prompts from @kathyfish.bsky.social😲+ more
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Ready to write your best stuff? Preview our plans for October!
1-month free trial, daily accountability, special events with Ben Loory and more.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM