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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥
Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Normal”🧍
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥
Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Normal”🧍
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Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics; give personalized feedback to work submitted by 10/31 & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
"We Want to Feel Something." A Chat with Annlee Ellingson, Managing Editor of Exposition Review
"We publish everything."
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November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
We adore our Poetry Editor Kiana Shaley. She’s was our Poetry Editor for Vol. X: “Spring” and has been bringing her energy to Expo for years! She judged this year’s August Flash 405: “Normal” writing competition (& you can read her thoughtful comments & the winners here: tinyurl.com/Normal405).
Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" Winners - Exposition Review
Our August Flash 405 contest invited us to consider flash stories on the theme of normal—but the response we received to this prompt was anything but! After an amazing year of Flash 405 contests, this...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We adore our Poetry Editor Kiana Shaley. She’s was our Poetry Editor for Vol. X: “Spring” and has been bringing her energy to Expo for years! She judged this year’s August Flash 405: “Normal” writing competition (& you can read her thoughtful comments & the winners here: tinyurl.com/Normal405).
“What’s not to love?” asks Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley about JR Fenn’s second-place-winning fiction piece. Read THE LAST CINEMATOGRAPHER IN SPACE here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
The Last Cinematographer in Space - Exposition Review
by JR Fenn 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Fiction It wasn’t the tilting planets the cinematographer filmed, or the asteroids drifting along, pitted and missing hunks at their ed...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“What’s not to love?” asks Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley about JR Fenn’s second-place-winning fiction piece. Read THE LAST CINEMATOGRAPHER IN SPACE here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
We are so excited to announce our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees! Help us celebrate our fiction, nonfiction, and arts & comics contributors by reading/viewing their works in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! Congrats to all!
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are so excited to announce our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees! Help us celebrate our fiction, nonfiction, and arts & comics contributors by reading/viewing their works in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! Congrats to all!
“To write into ‘PARA/SOCIAL’ is to explore the edges where community becomes illusion, and illusion shapes community.” Send us your submissions in any genre by 12/31! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“To write into ‘PARA/SOCIAL’ is to explore the edges where community becomes illusion, and illusion shapes community.” Send us your submissions in any genre by 12/31! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!
Save the Dates! November Interviews & Info Sessions!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!
Death and meaning and the occult and love and loss blend in Briana Courtney’s THE SHAPE YOUR BRAIN MAKES. Read her fiction from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoTheShape.
The Shape Your Brain Makes - Exposition Review
by Briana Courtney Fiction The shape your brain makes when it gets chucked off the edge of Death Bridge is supposed to resemble the form you’ll take in the next life. It’s important for mourners to ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Death and meaning and the occult and love and loss blend in Briana Courtney’s THE SHAPE YOUR BRAIN MAKES. Read her fiction from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoTheShape.
Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski is ready for your submissions! Send them to her by December 15! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski is ready for your submissions! Send them to her by December 15! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
“Some reasons to love this piece:
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
People Places Things - Exposition Review
by Tara Dugan 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Experimental Donkey Kong Short bright tie against hairy chest making animal sounds when breaking whatever he can throw. In the corne...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Some reasons to love this piece:
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
You can chew on the words.
When you swallow, an aluminum taste.
After the taste, a pit, settled.
This pit will never fruit. You will forever carry it.” Kiana Shaley on Tara Dugan’s Flash 405: “Normal” experimental flash PEOPLE PLACES THINGS: tinyurl.com/People405
Happy #pubday to #ExpoContributor @victoriawrites.bsky.social and UNBURYING THE BONES! This book of poetry serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling—but always present. Get it in our @bookshop.org:
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Unburying the Bones: Poems Volume 1
Poems Volume 1
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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy #pubday to #ExpoContributor @victoriawrites.bsky.social and UNBURYING THE BONES! This book of poetry serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling—but always present. Get it in our @bookshop.org:
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There's still time to register for the BITTER OVER SWEET release party over Zoom with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm EST!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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We’re accepting submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We’re accepting submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Happy pub day to #ExpoFam member @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & BITTER OVER SWEET! We are beyond excited for this novel exploring the lives of real Hawaiians (and for the fact that it’s published by our friends over at @sfwp.bsky.social)! Get your copy in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/bitt...
Bitter Over Sweet
Check out Bitter Over Sweet - Hawaiian native Tita works to escape a vicious cycle of poverty and abuse, only to realize along the way that life can not only be better, it can be whatever she wants it...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Happy pub day to #ExpoFam member @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & BITTER OVER SWEET! We are beyond excited for this novel exploring the lives of real Hawaiians (and for the fact that it’s published by our friends over at @sfwp.bsky.social)! Get your copy in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/bitt...
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In @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's interview w/ @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, they tackle how the title BITTER OVER SWEET came to be, how living in Japan influenced Melissa's writing, & more over on @fracturedlit.bsky.social! buff.ly/6xvbIOc
Get BITTER OVER SWEET: buff.ly/aVGstGt
@susanschulman.bsky.social
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@susanschulman.bsky.social
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured
by Fractured Lit | Oct 31, 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's interview w/ @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, they tackle how the title BITTER OVER SWEET came to be, how living in Japan influenced Melissa's writing, & more over on @fracturedlit.bsky.social! buff.ly/6xvbIOc
Get BITTER OVER SWEET: buff.ly/aVGstGt
@susanschulman.bsky.social
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“Cassie writes, ‘Clouds,’ writes, ‘Nothing, no one,’ writes, ‘Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.’”
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...
Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review
by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say m...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“Cassie writes, ‘Clouds,’ writes, ‘Nothing, no one,’ writes, ‘Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.’”
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...
“Stochastic Gossips” is a cover of Norman Rockwell’s classic “The Gossips” and a reference to the “stochastic parrot,” a term… that digs at large language models like ChatGPT that parrot language without “understanding” its meaning. Check out Amy Kurzweil’s “Spring” comic: tinyurl.com/ExpoStochastic
Stochastic Gossips - Exposition Review
by Amy Kurzweil Comic Amy Kurzweil, Stochastic Gossips, 2025. Ink and watercolor on paper Artist’s Statement “Stochastic Gossips” is a cover of Norman Rockwell’s classic “The Gossips” and a refe...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“Stochastic Gossips” is a cover of Norman Rockwell’s classic “The Gossips” and a reference to the “stochastic parrot,” a term… that digs at large language models like ChatGPT that parrot language without “understanding” its meaning. Check out Amy Kurzweil’s “Spring” comic: tinyurl.com/ExpoStochastic
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Then peruse the latest issue of @expositionreview.bsky.social (and my last as co-EIC), “Spring,” which is blooming with short stories, poems, essays, scripts, art, and more: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... I would love to hear about what blossoms you find! 🌱
Thanks so much, and take care!
Thanks so much, and take care!
Vol. X: "Spring" - Exposition Review
Vol. X: “Spring” raises hope. For relief from grief. In the resilience of both nature and urban communities. With the sight of a Nike sneaker floating in on the Pacific tide. The stories and art and e...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Then peruse the latest issue of @expositionreview.bsky.social (and my last as co-EIC), “Spring,” which is blooming with short stories, poems, essays, scripts, art, and more: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... I would love to hear about what blossoms you find! 🌱
Thanks so much, and take care!
Thanks so much, and take care!
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November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Check out WriteGirl’s work mentoring teens in L.A. and around the world in creative writing, leadership, and beyond. I’d love it if you’re able to donate to my fundraiser to back WriteGirl’s programming and invest in the next generation of bold voices: writegirl.networkforgood.com/projects/262... 📝👧
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Happy birthday to me! 🥳
Help me celebrate this milestone by supporting the organizations that have preoccupied me since the last time there was a zero in my age. 🧵
Help me celebrate this milestone by supporting the organizations that have preoccupied me since the last time there was a zero in my age. 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Happy birthday to me! 🥳
Help me celebrate this milestone by supporting the organizations that have preoccupied me since the last time there was a zero in my age. 🧵
Help me celebrate this milestone by supporting the organizations that have preoccupied me since the last time there was a zero in my age. 🧵
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I've been away from socials a little bit, but excited to share my story got an honorable mention with @expositionreview.bsky.social for their recent #Flash405 themed "normal" 🌿
Help us congratulate the newest writers of the #ExpoFam! Read experimental flash by Tara Dugan, flash fiction by JR Fenn and @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and flash nonfiction by Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley: tinyurl.com/Normal405.
#Flash405 #ExpoReview #ExpoContributor
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Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" Winners - Exposition Review
Our August Flash 405 contest invited us to consider flash stories on the theme of normal—but the response we received to this prompt was anything but! After an amazing year of Flash 405 contests, this...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I've been away from socials a little bit, but excited to share my story got an honorable mention with @expositionreview.bsky.social for their recent #Flash405 themed "normal" 🌿
“Writing has the ability to…recontextualize, to correct, to make new what has been so long accepted as the standard...
To all the writers who submitted, & to those who didn’t: thank you for your work, thank you for your love, thank you for writing.”
- Kiana Shaley on her Flash 405: “Normal” winners
To all the writers who submitted, & to those who didn’t: thank you for your work, thank you for your love, thank you for writing.”
- Kiana Shaley on her Flash 405: “Normal” winners
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Writing has the ability to…recontextualize, to correct, to make new what has been so long accepted as the standard...
To all the writers who submitted, & to those who didn’t: thank you for your work, thank you for your love, thank you for writing.”
- Kiana Shaley on her Flash 405: “Normal” winners
To all the writers who submitted, & to those who didn’t: thank you for your work, thank you for your love, thank you for writing.”
- Kiana Shaley on her Flash 405: “Normal” winners
In last night’s “PARA/SOCIAL” reading meeting, Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski took us on a journey through horror within her genres. She shone a spotlight on #ExpoReview pieces THE HUNGRY by Emily Altman: bit.ly/ExpoHungry…
The Hungry - Exposition Review
by Emily Altman Comic Emily Altman is an illustrator from rural Missouri. She received her BFA in Illustration from the University of Central Missouri in 2012 and her MFA in Illustration with Di...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In last night’s “PARA/SOCIAL” reading meeting, Comics & Film Editor Lauren Gorski took us on a journey through horror within her genres. She shone a spotlight on #ExpoReview pieces THE HUNGRY by Emily Altman: bit.ly/ExpoHungry…