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Dina L. Relles
@dinalrelles.bsky.social
writer • editor • road-tripper
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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
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
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 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 ✨
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!
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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 🤎
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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
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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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/
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
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
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 🤍
"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
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

havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
i love how the diner is always open
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
always sit at the bar
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM