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Dina L. Relles
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
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writer • editor • road-tripper
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Subs are open until Jan 12!

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Submit to matchbook (a project of matchbook literary magazine). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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"I’m having an affair with distance. The morning house is settled and known. I sip coffee, listen to the lonely call of the 4am freight train,...."

My lord. I love, love this piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social so much. In @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Mechanical Pencils | matchbook
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January 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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said i love you to a stranger outside the thrift store the other day
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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how am I supposed to take a year seriously when it starts on a Thursday
January 2, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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maybe they call it yearning because it persists year after year after year
January 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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start the new year off with this little poem of heartbreak & beauty & hope

Bre D'Alessio South

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January 1, 2026 My therapist asks me what gives me hope this week Bre D'Alessio South I tell her about the widow behind my house. How she died three months after her husband passed. The last time I saw her she handed me a basket of cucumbers severed from her garden. Pressed on tip toes she lifted them over a shared fence line. Her eyes that permanent crinkle old people get from years of laughing at the same shared joke. I told her I would return the basket but she patted my hand and waved me off.
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)!

Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
Cream background with the white Sarabande logo bleeding through in the background. Black text at top reads: Submissions Open. Underneath in pink text it reads: Sarabande Annual Prizes. Along the left hand side are the judges headshots. Top to bottom reads: Photo of Kaveh Akbar, black text next to his headshot reads “Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction selected by Kaveh Akbar”; Underneath is Adrian Matejka’s headshot and text next to his photo reads “Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry selected by Adrian Matejka”; followed by the headshot of Aimee Nezhukumatathil and next to her photo is text that reads “Sarabande Prize in the Essay selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.” At the bottom right in pink text it says “open submissions” and underneath in black text the open submission dates “Jan 1 - Feb 15”
January 1, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!
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January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
dinalrelles.bsky.social
i’m sorting through old fragments of texts + ephemera & am thoughtful about this bit by Sarah Manguso: “I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”

i’m not there yet. endless love to all of you ruminating on + reveling in another ending 🤎
It was a failure of my imagination that made me keep leaving people. All I could see in the world were beginnings and endings: moments to survive, record, and once recorded, safely forget. I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things. Short tragic love stories that had once interested me no longer did. What interested me was the kind of love to which the person dedicates herself for so long, she no longer remembers quite how it began.
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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just over here reading old love letters and listening to sad songs and crashing coffee cups to the ground as the year is about to turn
photo of a dropped coffee mug with splattered coffee all over the ground
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Michael, NYC 1986

📸 Ebet Roberts

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December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
after submitting & publishing only one or zero stories per year since my book four years ago, I am proud to say I had 9 new stories (+1 reprint) published in some very wonderful journals in 2025. thanks so much to the editors & readers. you can find links at my website: annavangalajones.com/writing/
Story titles, author, journals, images: “Now it’s nothing but flowers” by Anna Vangala Jones in Rejection Letters (image of pink flowers) “The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid”; “Missed Connections”; “Maybe Someday”; “Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic” by Anna Vangala Jones in HAD (image is a black and white drawing of skulls by Aaron Burch) “My Clay Sister and Me” by Anna Vangala Jones in Monkeybicycle (image of hands sculpting clay) “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods” by Anna Vangala Jones in Craft Literary (image of trees in the woods) “Maybe Mary” by Anna Vangala Jones in Terrazzo Editions (image of mosaic pattern) “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” by Anna Vangala Jones in Short Story, Long (image is an illustration of a young couple—artist is Zoë Petersen) Not pictured is “Mae and Me” by Anna Vangala Jones in Doric Literary
December 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Submissions for the 2026 Noemi Press Book Award open on January 2nd

Get those manuscripts ready, poets!
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A reminder from Charles Olson, who was born on this day in 1910
These Days whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle And the dirt just to make clear where they came from
December 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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"Every day, I drive by the tattoo parlor I don't go in for the tattoo I'll never get."

Read @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social.

And don't forget to read the Author's Note.

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December 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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“How madly I will love any faraway thing” made me stop reading, look out the window, and dream of a life where I wrote such killer lines. An incredible piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. www.matchbooklitmag.com
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December 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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i wrote this piece long ago + @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social was kind enough to give it new life, which somehow suits all this year-end wistfulness.

grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍
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"It's a Saturday in the middle of July on a white porch with an old friend. Towels along the clothesline. She’s ten years younger, so I’m always asking about her sex life."

New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social

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Mechanical Pencils | matchbook
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December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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i don’t know who i am if i’m not falling in love
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)

especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"

all genre
500 word max

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End of 2025 Something of a vague, catch-all theme here to wrap up our year! Send us something related to the holidays and/or "endings." Similar to a recent call, we are going to have two windows, a morning and an evening: 10 am ET, Thursday, 12/18 7 pm ET, Thursday, 12/18 please only submit once Submissions will capped at 150 for each call, meaning a total of 300. A few basic guidelines: ALL genre ok 500 words With micros and poems, up to 3 pieces (totaling no more than 500 all combined) allowed Surprise us, wow us, all'a that. All submissions should receive a response within 24 hours. — Crow & Aaron
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🤎💔
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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i love how the diner is always open
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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pirates, but pronounced like pilates
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!

My gratitude is so deep this morning.

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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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“Many years ago, I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)”

“If you ask me about love, I’ll..”

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Departures | matchbook
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December 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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always sit at the bar
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM