Caitlin O'Halloran
@caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
She/Her. Writer (Poetry and Flash Fiction)
Millennial. Rochester, NY.
Recently published in Gone Lawn, Lost Balloon, North of Oxford, EAP Magazine, and The Prose Poem.
www.caitlinohalloran.com
Millennial. Rochester, NY.
Recently published in Gone Lawn, Lost Balloon, North of Oxford, EAP Magazine, and The Prose Poem.
www.caitlinohalloran.com
Pinned
Lifesaver
Caitlin O’Halloran None of us had even noticedthat she was drowning,spiraling down to the bottomof the hotel pool.Our teacher dove into the water,still fully clothed.She slung our classmateov…
wastelandlitmag.com
I have a poem out today in Issue 3 of Wasteland Review! @wastelandlitmag.bsky.social
wastelandlitmag.com/2025/05/08/l...
wastelandlitmag.com/2025/05/08/l...
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
I'm a poet because I need my writing to be true and authentic with maximum plausible deniability.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I'm a poet because I need my writing to be true and authentic with maximum plausible deniability.
What do you all think the ellipses mean in texts?
granta.com/connecting-t...
granta.com/connecting-t...
Connecting the Dots
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
granta.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What do you all think the ellipses mean in texts?
granta.com/connecting-t...
granta.com/connecting-t...
Have you all watched The Way Home yet? It was a Hallmark time travel series originally but right now it’s on Netflix. I highly recommend it!
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Have you all watched The Way Home yet? It was a Hallmark time travel series originally but right now it’s on Netflix. I highly recommend it!
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
My 40 hr/week contract job, which was recently reduced to 20 hr/week, is now Zero hr/week due to budget cuts. (Not just me, a whole team.)
If anyone wants to hire the best entertainment writer in the galaxy (me) please be in touch. “I will do dog food commercials!”
JHoffman555@gmail.com
If anyone wants to hire the best entertainment writer in the galaxy (me) please be in touch. “I will do dog food commercials!”
JHoffman555@gmail.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My 40 hr/week contract job, which was recently reduced to 20 hr/week, is now Zero hr/week due to budget cuts. (Not just me, a whole team.)
If anyone wants to hire the best entertainment writer in the galaxy (me) please be in touch. “I will do dog food commercials!”
JHoffman555@gmail.com
If anyone wants to hire the best entertainment writer in the galaxy (me) please be in touch. “I will do dog food commercials!”
JHoffman555@gmail.com
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Lemons | Elena Zhang <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pd3kwwq7oqj3lqymbyyroeai" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@ezhang77.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine
September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Lemons | Elena Zhang <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pd3kwwq7oqj3lqymbyyroeai" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@ezhang77.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Our December issue is open for submissions!
Poetry, visual art, and music.
Free to submit using our Submittable:
redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/33695...
Poetry, visual art, and music.
Free to submit using our Submittable:
redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/33695...
September 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our December issue is open for submissions!
Poetry, visual art, and music.
Free to submit using our Submittable:
redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/33695...
Poetry, visual art, and music.
Free to submit using our Submittable:
redogrereview.submittable.com/submit/33695...
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Submission Open
15th September to 15th of October 2025
Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.
15th September to 15th of October 2025
Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Submission Open
15th September to 15th of October 2025
Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.
15th September to 15th of October 2025
Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Grateful to have two poems in issue 27 of The Shore, a journal I love--in the company of so many lovely poets & the photographer Melissa Marsh.
So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."
So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."
September 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Grateful to have two poems in issue 27 of The Shore, a journal I love--in the company of so many lovely poets & the photographer Melissa Marsh.
So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."
So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
themetaworker.com/2025/09/15/o...
themetaworker.com/2025/09/15/o...
September 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
themetaworker.com/2025/09/15/o...
themetaworker.com/2025/09/15/o...
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Submissions are open at Indirect!
Discover more about our reading interests and background, as well as our forthcoming projects, here:
indirectbooks.org
#modernism
#Essays
#novels
#fiction
#creativewriting
#smallpress
#callforsubmissions
#independentpublishing
Discover more about our reading interests and background, as well as our forthcoming projects, here:
indirectbooks.org
#modernism
#Essays
#novels
#fiction
#creativewriting
#smallpress
#callforsubmissions
#independentpublishing
Indirect Books
Literature Beyond Convention
indirectbooks.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Submissions are open at Indirect!
Discover more about our reading interests and background, as well as our forthcoming projects, here:
indirectbooks.org
#modernism
#Essays
#novels
#fiction
#creativewriting
#smallpress
#callforsubmissions
#independentpublishing
Discover more about our reading interests and background, as well as our forthcoming projects, here:
indirectbooks.org
#modernism
#Essays
#novels
#fiction
#creativewriting
#smallpress
#callforsubmissions
#independentpublishing
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) www.noemamag.com/why-science-...
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
www.noemamag.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) www.noemamag.com/why-science-...
I recently watched The Way Home and Providence Falls, and loved them both. Is the Hallmark Channel way better than I thought it was? What other shows do they have that are similar?
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I recently watched The Way Home and Providence Falls, and loved them both. Is the Hallmark Channel way better than I thought it was? What other shows do they have that are similar?
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙
July 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Trump: "I saw Bigfoot once. Very big feet, incredible. He shook my hand and told me what a great job I'm doing."
Media: "Trump sees Bigfoot"
Media: "Trump sees Bigfoot"
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Trump: "I saw Bigfoot once. Very big feet, incredible. He shook my hand and told me what a great job I'm doing."
Media: "Trump sees Bigfoot"
Media: "Trump sees Bigfoot"
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
So I feel very strongly that there aren’t enough good resources to tell people what mobile games are actually fun and not just a Delaware corporation lunging for your wallet and I’m going to start a thread. Sam’s IOS Game Thread START:
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
So I feel very strongly that there aren’t enough good resources to tell people what mobile games are actually fun and not just a Delaware corporation lunging for your wallet and I’m going to start a thread. Sam’s IOS Game Thread START:
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
🚨🚨New Story 🚨🚨
Check out @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social’s “To The Person Who Stole My Package” on our stories page!
dominiquelitmag.org/2025/07/21/t...
#shortstory #flashfiction #story #fiction #flash #micro #stolenpackage #horror #thriller #funny #humor #creativewriting #writing
Check out @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social’s “To The Person Who Stole My Package” on our stories page!
dominiquelitmag.org/2025/07/21/t...
#shortstory #flashfiction #story #fiction #flash #micro #stolenpackage #horror #thriller #funny #humor #creativewriting #writing
July 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨🚨New Story 🚨🚨
Check out @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social’s “To The Person Who Stole My Package” on our stories page!
dominiquelitmag.org/2025/07/21/t...
#shortstory #flashfiction #story #fiction #flash #micro #stolenpackage #horror #thriller #funny #humor #creativewriting #writing
Check out @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social’s “To The Person Who Stole My Package” on our stories page!
dominiquelitmag.org/2025/07/21/t...
#shortstory #flashfiction #story #fiction #flash #micro #stolenpackage #horror #thriller #funny #humor #creativewriting #writing
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
The Submission Grinder launched about twelve and a half years ago!
In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users.
Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users.
So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.
In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users.
Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users.
So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.
July 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The Submission Grinder launched about twelve and a half years ago!
In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users.
Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users.
So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.
In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users.
Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users.
So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.
3 poems and a photo of mine were recently published in Sybil Journal.
www.sybiljournal.com/work-2/2025/...
www.sybiljournal.com/work-2/2025/...
3 Poems by Caitlin O'Halloran — Sybil
When day is done, the sky puts on her black dressing gown and turns in for the night.
www.sybiljournal.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
3 poems and a photo of mine were recently published in Sybil Journal.
www.sybiljournal.com/work-2/2025/...
www.sybiljournal.com/work-2/2025/...
This poem is about my husband's favorite kind of art, still life paintings of fruit.
www.scapegoatreview.org/summer-2025/...
www.scapegoatreview.org/summer-2025/...
Caitlin O’Halloran — Scapegoat Review
Bowls of Fruit
www.scapegoatreview.org
June 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This poem is about my husband's favorite kind of art, still life paintings of fruit.
www.scapegoatreview.org/summer-2025/...
www.scapegoatreview.org/summer-2025/...
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Just been updating the **FREE** resources section on my website. Hopefully lots of useful stuff here on everything from body language to collective nouns, sensory inspiration to proverbs & sayings. PLUS lots of lists of example stories including a list of lists...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk
Free resources from Matt Kendrick.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just been updating the **FREE** resources section on my website. Hopefully lots of useful stuff here on everything from body language to collective nouns, sensory inspiration to proverbs & sayings. PLUS lots of lists of example stories including a list of lists...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
If you're looking to read a summertime poem, check out my latest publication at Backchannels. #Poetry backchannelsjournal.net/edition-no-1...
The Sandbar – BACKCHANNELS
backchannelsjournal.net
June 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
If you're looking to read a summertime poem, check out my latest publication at Backchannels. #Poetry backchannelsjournal.net/edition-no-1...
I actually tried to make my bed for once and my dog didn’t want to move, so I tucked her in instead.
June 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I actually tried to make my bed for once and my dog didn’t want to move, so I tucked her in instead.
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction (Fiction; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. #amwriting
Open to Submisions: Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction
Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction (Fiction; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. #amwriting
duotrope.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction (Fiction; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. #amwriting
Reposted by Caitlin O'Halloran
I once swore I saw a demon standing by my bed. It was shaped like a lion but made entirely of light."
Love how both these micros from @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social explore the speculative:
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Love how both these micros from @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social explore the speculative:
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 59 : Caitlin O'Halloran
gonelawn.net
May 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I once swore I saw a demon standing by my bed. It was shaped like a lion but made entirely of light."
Love how both these micros from @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social explore the speculative:
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Love how both these micros from @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social explore the speculative:
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Is "a one way ticket to clown town" not a common idiom? I used it in a conversation with my husband and he didn't know it. Then I Googled it and found only a handful of results. I also cannot remember where I've heard this said before, but I'm certain I didn't invent it.
May 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Is "a one way ticket to clown town" not a common idiom? I used it in a conversation with my husband and he didn't know it. Then I Googled it and found only a handful of results. I also cannot remember where I've heard this said before, but I'm certain I didn't invent it.