Kim Weldin
@kimhartweldin.bsky.social
Fiction in Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, BULL, Apple in the Dark, and others | Music in Tape Waves & Shiny Times
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This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Acts of Service" by
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My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.
Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social
The shortlist continued (2/2)
Fiction from:
Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com
Pamela Painter @pamelapainter.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review
Hal Wright in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
All the links here:
Fiction from:
Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com
Pamela Painter @pamelapainter.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review
Hal Wright in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
All the links here:
The Shortlist for November 7, 2025 - Turn & Work
This week: nonfiction by blog faves Francesca Leader and Rachel Dorn, and fiction from Kim Weldin, Pamela Painter, and Hal Wright
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November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social
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Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!
My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.
This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Acts of Service" by
@kimhartweldin.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/acts...
@kimhartweldin.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/acts...
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!
My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.
This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Acts of Service" by
@kimhartweldin.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/acts...
@kimhartweldin.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/acts...
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.
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my essay about Angela Carter's mysterious unfinished Jane Eyre sequel is featured in this anthology! so happy to be in the company of so many writers I admire ☺️ happy pub day to everyone, and thank you as always to @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!
The new Autofocus anthology, If I Can Be Honest, is out today! It commemorates the four years of the online journal that morphed into this press. Some of the best formally rich short personal prose you can find anywhere, if we may say so!
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July 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
my essay about Angela Carter's mysterious unfinished Jane Eyre sequel is featured in this anthology! so happy to be in the company of so many writers I admire ☺️ happy pub day to everyone, and thank you as always to @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!
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Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL!
The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).
The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL!
The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).
The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).
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don’t touch that it’s my emotional support nameless first person present tense unreliable narrator
April 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
don’t touch that it’s my emotional support nameless first person present tense unreliable narrator
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This is so upsetting 📚
April 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is so upsetting 📚
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“A true roadside attraction was a brainchild of an individual with a vision. These people were usually oddball folks who lived in rural areas.”
Jane Stern on roadside attractions.
Jane Stern on roadside attractions.
The End of Roadside Attractions - The Paris Review
“Is there a connection between dinosaurs and Jesus? When it comes to roadside attractions, the answer is yes!”
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April 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“A true roadside attraction was a brainchild of an individual with a vision. These people were usually oddball folks who lived in rural areas.”
Jane Stern on roadside attractions.
Jane Stern on roadside attractions.
My short story “Escape Hatch” is up on The Ana Issue #16 and is very inspired by Kate Folk (in particular “The Bone Ward”).
www.wearetheana.com/issue-16
www.wearetheana.com/issue-16
April 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My short story “Escape Hatch” is up on The Ana Issue #16 and is very inspired by Kate Folk (in particular “The Bone Ward”).
www.wearetheana.com/issue-16
www.wearetheana.com/issue-16
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A question I’ve had for myself the last year or so: Will I always be this sad?
April 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A question I’ve had for myself the last year or so: Will I always be this sad?
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James Baldwin. I’ve been thinking about this for a year.
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
James Baldwin. I’ve been thinking about this for a year.
"But I want to be a kind of reader as I write."
Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
December 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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ICYMI: the lovely Stone Circle Review published the only thing I’ve let myself write that isn’t the novel in a year. Been a slow publishing year as a result. Grateful to Lee Potts for believing in it.
It’s for the ones who make Xmas, the exhausted, the grieving. CW: death, addiction, alcoholism.
It’s for the ones who make Xmas, the exhausted, the grieving. CW: death, addiction, alcoholism.
December 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM
ICYMI: the lovely Stone Circle Review published the only thing I’ve let myself write that isn’t the novel in a year. Been a slow publishing year as a result. Grateful to Lee Potts for believing in it.
It’s for the ones who make Xmas, the exhausted, the grieving. CW: death, addiction, alcoholism.
It’s for the ones who make Xmas, the exhausted, the grieving. CW: death, addiction, alcoholism.
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For Shirley Jackson's birthday, here are two lovely breakdowns of her openings to "Hill House" and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" that I like to show my creative writing students.
First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...
First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...
Shirley Jackson’s Sublime First Paragraph in ‘Hill House,’ Annotated
Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer can work into almost any conversation, no matter the topic, his affection for the first paragraph…
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December 14, 2024 at 1:18 PM
For Shirley Jackson's birthday, here are two lovely breakdowns of her openings to "Hill House" and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" that I like to show my creative writing students.
First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...
First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...
Today I'm reading Rebecca Van Laer's short story "Self-care" from Oyez Review Issues 51. I love how she explores the tendency to heal through self-avoidance and expensive health habits, and perhaps most importantly, relationships with others. @rebeccavl.bsky.social
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Oyez Review Volume 51
2024 issue of Oyez Review.
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December 12, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Today I'm reading Rebecca Van Laer's short story "Self-care" from Oyez Review Issues 51. I love how she explores the tendency to heal through self-avoidance and expensive health habits, and perhaps most importantly, relationships with others. @rebeccavl.bsky.social
medium.com/oyez-review/...
medium.com/oyez-review/...
Hope everyone stays safe and firm out their with their boundaries over the holidays
"The sun will still rise and set every day, even if the ACA no longer covers your chronic health conditions. President-elect Trump has concepts of a plan that will make it even better, so why are you panicking? "
Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences
It’s me, that woman you barely remember from your tenth-grade homeroom who keeps turning up on your Facebook page like a cold sore. Before the elec...
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November 22, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Hope everyone stays safe and firm out their with their boundaries over the holidays
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I wrote a memoir called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, a book that is very sad but also (I think) very funny whose most recent Goodreads review claims the content made someone physically sick 🤩 bookshop.org/p/books/long...
November 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
I wrote a memoir called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, a book that is very sad but also (I think) very funny whose most recent Goodreads review claims the content made someone physically sick 🤩 bookshop.org/p/books/long...
Some great short story writers on here!
this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction!
go.bsky.app/53R6ziA
go.bsky.app/53R6ziA
November 15, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Some great short story writers on here!
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Writers with short story collections: submissions are open for the W.S. Porter Prize -- winning collection gets $1k + publication regalhousepublishing.com/the-w-s-port...
The W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections
The W.S. Porter Prize is awarded to recognize a masterfully written short story collection, while also honoring William Sydney Porter, a native born son of North Carolina and an accomplished short …
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November 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Writers with short story collections: submissions are open for the W.S. Porter Prize -- winning collection gets $1k + publication regalhousepublishing.com/the-w-s-port...
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order some books directly from a small press or independent bookstore, i promise there are few better feelings than directly supporting a small press or independent bookstore
November 13, 2024 at 4:02 PM
order some books directly from a small press or independent bookstore, i promise there are few better feelings than directly supporting a small press or independent bookstore
I read @tonytula.com story “The Feminist” this morning after listening to him speak in Morning Writing Club yesterday and highly recommend! The shoulder pads part made me laugh out loud (literally).
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fic...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fic...
The Feminist | Tony Tulathimutte
His friends, mostly female, told him he was refreshingly attentive and trustworthy for a boy. Meanwhile he is grateful for the knowledge that female was best used as an adjective, that sexism harms me...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I read @tonytula.com story “The Feminist” this morning after listening to him speak in Morning Writing Club yesterday and highly recommend! The shoulder pads part made me laugh out loud (literally).
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fic...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fic...
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Also, we are reviving our Bluesky coupon code: use BSKY for 40% off (YES 40% OFF EVERYTHING, INCL. PREORDERS) at Split/Lip Press now through Mon 11/18. Reshare this post and we'll randomly pick a winner to receive a free copy of Hold Me on pub day! splitlippress.com/store
Store | Split/Lip Press
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November 11, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Also, we are reviving our Bluesky coupon code: use BSKY for 40% off (YES 40% OFF EVERYTHING, INCL. PREORDERS) at Split/Lip Press now through Mon 11/18. Reshare this post and we'll randomly pick a winner to receive a free copy of Hold Me on pub day! splitlippress.com/store
“Always a part of her craves the solitude that will let her mind calm down and her memory surface.” From “The Forester’s Daughter” by Claire Keegan.
November 11, 2024 at 9:22 PM
“Always a part of her craves the solitude that will let her mind calm down and her memory surface.” From “The Forester’s Daughter” by Claire Keegan.
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So! In case you weren't following us elsewhere (or missed our posts due to DIMINISHING RETURNS on the other site), we're in the final weeks of our nonfiction/hybrid full-length books submissions period! We'd love to read yours before December 1! splitlippress.submittable.com
November 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM
So! In case you weren't following us elsewhere (or missed our posts due to DIMINISHING RETURNS on the other site), we're in the final weeks of our nonfiction/hybrid full-length books submissions period! We'd love to read yours before December 1! splitlippress.submittable.com