Jacqueline Doyle
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF editor, CRAFT Literary Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
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AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!
Love @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's new flash essay in CRAFT today: www.craftliterary.com/2026/02/11/p...
Parts by Allison Field Bell - CRAFT
I. He tells me my body is deteriorating. Just like that. He says, “Your body is deteriorating.” Part 1 of me says Fuck you. Part 2 of me weeps. II. We’re fighting about sunflowers again. Or maybe t...
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February 12, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Love @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's new flash essay in CRAFT today: www.craftliterary.com/2026/02/11/p...
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I'm thrilled to announce that @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @lynnmundell.bsky.social and @dawnsteffler.bsky.social are reading with me later this month at @booksonb.bsky.social !
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I'm thrilled to announce that @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @lynnmundell.bsky.social and @dawnsteffler.bsky.social are reading with me later this month at @booksonb.bsky.social !
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Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI
Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey
Draped in burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks are due to finish a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace" in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, a self-described spiritual journey across nine states that has been cheered on by crowds of thousands.
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February 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI
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"We gathered them at dusk, brittle casings caught in the mesh of the fence, clinging to tomato vines, tucked beneath the lip of the porch railing."
New fiction: "A Million Demented Cicades" by Sarp Sozdinler aka @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
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New fiction: "A Million Demented Cicades" by Sarp Sozdinler aka @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sozdinler...
A Million Demented Cicadas | matchbook
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February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
"We gathered them at dusk, brittle casings caught in the mesh of the fence, clinging to tomato vines, tucked beneath the lip of the porch railing."
New fiction: "A Million Demented Cicades" by Sarp Sozdinler aka @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sozdinler...
New fiction: "A Million Demented Cicades" by Sarp Sozdinler aka @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sozdinler...
Wildlife photos of the year. You can vote, if you want, or just scroll through these amazing photos. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice 2026
A shortlist of 24 images has been selected for the wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award. You can vote for your favourite image online. The winner will be announced on 25 March and s...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Wildlife photos of the year. You can vote, if you want, or just scroll through these amazing photos. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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My story "Ice Man" is up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social today. It's about mothers, memories, miracles, and why you shouldn't stow away in the landing gear of an airplane. Many thanks to BULL for publishing it:
"What he remembered was the earth unwinding below him like a bedsheet, patched in yellow & green. All intoxication blown away by the killing wind. He saw it clearly. The world was vaster & more various than anyone knew." @grnpointer.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
January 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
My story "Ice Man" is up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social today. It's about mothers, memories, miracles, and why you shouldn't stow away in the landing gear of an airplane. Many thanks to BULL for publishing it:
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Love this gem by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social!🔥
Valentine's Day is coming soon and the new issue of Ghost Parachute is here, with my micro "What I Can Tell You Now," which will also be featured in their forthcoming anthology. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
What I Can Tell You Now — Ghost Parachute
You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you? But why haven’t I heard a peep from you since last Friday when you gave me that “I think we both need a break” speech? I mean r...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Love this gem by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social!🔥
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"You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you?"
A lil valentine from @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!
A lil valentine from @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!
February 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you?"
A lil valentine from @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!
A lil valentine from @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!
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it's here! my first publication of 2026!
"If they ask where I go at night, I won’t tell them about the second job I had to pick up this winter..."
New fiction: "One of the Lies I Tell My Children" by Ruth Joffre aka @ruthjoffre.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/joffre/on...
New fiction: "One of the Lies I Tell My Children" by Ruth Joffre aka @ruthjoffre.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/joffre/on...
One of the Lies I Tell My Children | matchbook
www.matchbooklitmag.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
it's here! my first publication of 2026!
And now a 3.9 followup earthquake. Jarring. Definitely awake now!
Felt this one. 3.7. Nothing like waking up to an earthquake. (It was exactly a month ago that we woke up to a 6.5 earthquake in Mexico City. Quite a year so far.)
#California #quake M3.7 | Contra Costa County, 18 miles E of Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States | 4m ago | Feb 2, 2026 06:27 am (Pacific Standard Time)
Did you feel it? Submit a report!
#weak #M2+ #M3+ #United_States #California
Did you feel it? Submit a report!
#weak #M2+ #M3+ #United_States #California
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
And now a 3.9 followup earthquake. Jarring. Definitely awake now!
"I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him." I love today's "Beautiful Thing" by @lizkleinfeld.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
Tom’s Left Hand | River Teeth
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February 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
"I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him." I love today's "Beautiful Thing" by @lizkleinfeld.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
Felt this one. 3.7. Nothing like waking up to an earthquake. (It was exactly a month ago that we woke up to a 6.5 earthquake in Mexico City. Quite a year so far.)
#California #quake M3.7 | Contra Costa County, 18 miles E of Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States | 4m ago | Feb 2, 2026 06:27 am (Pacific Standard Time)
Did you feel it? Submit a report!
#weak #M2+ #M3+ #United_States #California
Did you feel it? Submit a report!
#weak #M2+ #M3+ #United_States #California
Light magnitude 3.7 earthquake at 10 km depth
See detailed quake info, read user reports, submit your own if you felt it!
www.volcanodiscovery.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Felt this one. 3.7. Nothing like waking up to an earthquake. (It was exactly a month ago that we woke up to a 6.5 earthquake in Mexico City. Quite a year so far.)
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“But the old house still breathed: a dampness after rain, the ghost of sautéed onions, the wool-sweat of winter.”
From "A Geometry of Silence," a new original essay by Noreen Zobel.
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From "A Geometry of Silence," a new original essay by Noreen Zobel.
➡️ buff.ly/BU3rKOT
January 31, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“But the old house still breathed: a dampness after rain, the ghost of sautéed onions, the wool-sweat of winter.”
From "A Geometry of Silence," a new original essay by Noreen Zobel.
➡️ buff.ly/BU3rKOT
From "A Geometry of Silence," a new original essay by Noreen Zobel.
➡️ buff.ly/BU3rKOT
Valentine's Day is coming soon and the new issue of Ghost Parachute is here, with my micro "What I Can Tell You Now," which will also be featured in their forthcoming anthology. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
What I Can Tell You Now — Ghost Parachute
You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you? But why haven’t I heard a peep from you since last Friday when you gave me that “I think we both need a break” speech? I mean r...
ghostparachute.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Valentine's Day is coming soon and the new issue of Ghost Parachute is here, with my micro "What I Can Tell You Now," which will also be featured in their forthcoming anthology. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
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Like weirdness? Fairy tales and fabulism? Voids in the backyard? Gila monsters with uplifted intelligence? Oblations to the ocean? Bakers who speak toads and snakes? Beautiful things that fall apart?
I have a short story collection with that & much more coming soon: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
I have a short story collection with that & much more coming soon: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
The Bedtime Emptying of Our World
Short Stories
Joel Hans
978-0-913785-69-0 Paper
February 2026
www.uapress.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Like weirdness? Fairy tales and fabulism? Voids in the backyard? Gila monsters with uplifted intelligence? Oblations to the ocean? Bakers who speak toads and snakes? Beautiful things that fall apart?
I have a short story collection with that & much more coming soon: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
I have a short story collection with that & much more coming soon: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
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Dropping the link here because Oh! You will want to get your sweet hands on Beth’s beautiful & searing & attentive & human & aching collection 📚💙🎉👇
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riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
COVER REVEAL & PREORDERS ARE OPEN! I’m thrilled to share to the cover for my forthcoming hybrid/micro CNF collection from @riverriverbooks! Thank you to @han.vanderhart & @amorakhuey for believing in my odd, sad bird & my eternal gratitude to brilliant designer, @albyfischer for this gorgeousness!
January 30, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Dropping the link here because Oh! You will want to get your sweet hands on Beth’s beautiful & searing & attentive & human & aching collection 📚💙🎉👇
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
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“There are a million ways to give up, but we choose magic over grief and despair, and tonight we’ve decided to eat twelve grapes for twelve months. Twelve wishes for twelve ways to learn to live without him.”
Jamie: ❤️
@lescribbler.bsky.social in @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/twelve-red-g...
Jamie: ❤️
@lescribbler.bsky.social in @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/twelve-red-g...
Twelve Red Grapes
by Jamie Etheridge | Wishes for a new year.
www.short-reads.org
January 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
“There are a million ways to give up, but we choose magic over grief and despair, and tonight we’ve decided to eat twelve grapes for twelve months. Twelve wishes for twelve ways to learn to live without him.”
Jamie: ❤️
@lescribbler.bsky.social in @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/twelve-red-g...
Jamie: ❤️
@lescribbler.bsky.social in @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/twelve-red-g...
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Ghost Parachute is purely a labor of love by EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social. I'm honored to have my story, Catedral, chosen for the press's second anthology, in the works now! The project is a true love letter to our #flashfiction community. Pictured: art by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ghost Parachute is purely a labor of love by EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social. I'm honored to have my story, Catedral, chosen for the press's second anthology, in the works now! The project is a true love letter to our #flashfiction community. Pictured: art by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social
Excited to announce that my micro “What I Can Tell You Now” will be published in the next issue of Ghost Parachute and included in their forthcoming print anthology (available at AWP!). Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and team!
January 29, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Excited to announce that my micro “What I Can Tell You Now” will be published in the next issue of Ghost Parachute and included in their forthcoming print anthology (available at AWP!). Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and team!
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Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises
They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house's rooftop.
© Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house's rooftop.
© Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises
They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house's rooftop.
www.independent.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises
They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house's rooftop.
© Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house's rooftop.
© Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.
Humor/not humor by Jon Savitt in @mcsweeneys.net
"If you witnessed something disturbing, please understand that witnessing is not evidence. Evidence is what exists after it has been reviewed by the people who require it not to exist."
A Message from Your Federal Overlords
“Even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account, the Trump administration was in a race to control the narrative around the kill...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Humor/not humor by Jon Savitt in @mcsweeneys.net
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From the latest Brevity, such a powerful essay of the tenderness and secrets within Fathers and this is a powerful one plus it has baseball, and Caregiving. By the wonderful Josh Martin whose book of poetry Earth of Inedible Things from Jacar Press I also recommend.
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With the Braves On, My Father Washes Me | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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January 18, 2026 at 3:14 PM
From the latest Brevity, such a powerful essay of the tenderness and secrets within Fathers and this is a powerful one plus it has baseball, and Caregiving. By the wonderful Josh Martin whose book of poetry Earth of Inedible Things from Jacar Press I also recommend.
brevitymag.com/current-issu...
brevitymag.com/current-issu...
I've started a Substack where I'll be sharing more about my forthcoming book THE LUNATICS' BALL. (Subscribe if you're interested. It's free.) Here's my first post.
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The Lunatics' Ball accepted for publication in the 21st Century Essays series!
I’m so excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection The Lunatics’ Ball is first runner-up for The Gournay Prize and will be published by Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press in their...
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January 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I've started a Substack where I'll be sharing more about my forthcoming book THE LUNATICS' BALL. (Subscribe if you're interested. It's free.) Here's my first post.
open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!