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Marie Goyette
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I tell people I’m a writer; it’s a semi-autobiographical story. Pushcart Prize ‘26. Bread Loaf ‘25. Fiction editor: @literarymama.bsky.social. She/her
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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Nov 13
Thanks to The Massachusetts Review for asking me 10 Questions! These were fun ones to ponder 🤔❤️ www.massreview.org/node/12159
10 Questions for Marie Goyette | Mass Review
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Read this chillingly beautiful story by @pollyf.bsky.social ❄️❤️🎶
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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"He is on fire, lit from the inside, his face blotchy-red and his hair sweat-soaked as he shrieks. He is a spark let loose, a wildfire raging."

From Kristen-Paige Madonia's story "Eleven Heartbeats Long" out today in @literarymama.bsky.social

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Eleven Heartbeats Long
It is late summer in Virginia, and the night is full of cicadas—the breeze drifting through the windows as Beth paces in her bedroom, waiting for her son’s screams to start. Her beautiful sun-streaked...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"Baby, don’t you know, the only reason I go to weekday mass is to hear the children sing?"

From Polly Farquhar's piece "Tuesday Morning (Ordinary Time)"

New issue & new fiction out today @literarymama.bsky.social!

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Tuesday Morning (Ordinary Time)
Baby, don’t you know, on cold mornings when I kiss your warm cheek and forehead, the fine hairs there the same as they always were, and slip your knee socks over your feet and pull you out of bed to g...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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It’s such a good issue!! 😍
literarymama.bsky.social Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 21h
It's here! Check out the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary reflections, profiles, and reviews in our new issue!
November/December 2025
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November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees! For links to their work, visit our below blog post!

@susanperabo.bsky.social, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social, Jill Finnessy, Julie Pfeiffer, Francine Diodati, and Caedra Scott-Flaherty!
Literary Mama Pushcart Prize Nominations
The staff of Literary Mama is delighted to share our nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Ficton: "Your Sixty Seconds" by Susan Perabo and "Fighting Wind" by Sage Tyrtle Nonfiction: "Slicing Pe...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I call this series “That time I shrieked in the bookstore.”
The cover of the Best American Short Stories 2025 edited by Celeste Ng In the Best American anthology 2025, the first page of “Other Distinguished Stories of 2024” Under “Other Distinguished Stories,” my name and story appear (Goyette, Marie, “Freefall”) sandwiched between Allegra Goodman and Lauren Groff 🤯🤩
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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BEST MAIL DAY EVER. Pushcart Prize L will be released on 12/2 if you want to pick up a copy. (Seriously, is this real life?)
A package from Pushcart Press addressed to me sitting on my kitchen island A copy of Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses on my kitchen island My copy of Pushcart Prize L, open to page 401 on which my story “Freefall” from StoryQuarterly appears. A business card from Bill Henderson lies on page 400 with the note: Marie—thank you! BH”
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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"I’m on my feet before I can stop myself, the sorrow shifting instantly to rage. I overturn my chair and face the shouting parent. I yell, 'Hey!' Just a single bark, but the volume is surprising."

from Kristen Moraine's story, "Left Field," in our Sept/Oct issue:
Left Field
It’s the bottom of the sixth inning and I’m sweating in my beach chair. My son’s team is losing, and I’m cursing the obnoxious opposing team with their excitable coaches in tight pants. Calm down,...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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I never imagined I’d see the day that I could say I’ve won a Pushcart Prize. Enormous thanks to @storyquarterly.bsky.social for their amazing support and championing of this story 🤩
storyquarterly.bsky.social storyquarterly.bsky.social @storyquarterly.bsky.social · Oct 10
Congratulations to Marie Goyette, who won a Pushcart Prize (as well as the SQ Fiction Prize) for her story "Freefall" from Issue 56!
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The amazing Maggie Smith is on the fiftieth episode of This Mama Is Lit! 😍 Check it out!
October 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Huge congrats to @susanperabo.bsky.social and Edith-Nicole Cameron on the nomination of their stunning stories! 👏👏
September 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Our Best of the Net nominees for poetry!

Caedra Scott-Flaherty
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Sally Anderson Boström
Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
Claudia Kessel
Chantelle Lynn
Poetry Ars Poetica Kate Lewis Chapel of Bones Caedra Scott-Flaherty Colonoscopy Sally Anderson Boström Our Children Nicole Desjardins Gowdy Menorrhagia Claudia Kessel On a day so bright the snow is blue, Chantelle Lynn
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Our Best of the Net nominees for creative nonfiction:

Laura Mullen and Jill Finnessy!

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Creative Nonfiction Fault Lines Laura Mullen Slicing Peppers Jill Finnessy
September 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"As Cam rounds the bases and makes it home, I tell myself over and over: he’s okay, he’s okay, he’ll be okay." Read "Left Field," a beautiful story by Kristen Moraine, in the Sept/Oct issue of @literarymama.bsky.social literarymama.com/articles/dep...
Left Field
It’s the bottom of the sixth inning and I’m sweating in my beach chair. My son’s team is losing, and I’m cursing the obnoxious opposing team with their excitable coaches in tight pants. Calm down,...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The stunning September/October issue of @literarymama.bsky.social is out today. Senior Editor @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social suggests we “read and reflect on what these mother-writers are all showing us: different ways to carry hope for our children.” ❤️ literarymama.com/issues/septe...
September/October 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Bread Loaf is everything I hoped and more ❤️
A yellow Adirondack chair sits in a grassy field, trees and mountains in the distance
August 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Cute chonks on some milkweed
Photo taken with a macro lens of two fat Monarch caterpillars on a swamp milkweed leaf
July 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Want more weirdness? I have some! "Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the lazy swirl of his clouds..."

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Fighting Wind
Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the...
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July 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"Now she wanted that son even more than she had months ago. And she remained convinced he could prevail... his heart was strong, the doctor had said. The heart of a sekitori, the top-level wrestlers who possess the strength and endurance to win." Read a moving piece by @notsureaboutthat.bsky.social
Basho
It was five months into her pregnancy when her doctor presented her with an ultrasound image that revealed a complex story. A competition between her fetus and a rapidly growing tumor right next to hi...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was powerful. He can protect us, she said, scrubbing a pot in the sink. I said, I can protect you, and she laughed until she cried and had to redo her mascara before Hurricane Gerald came home." Read the haunting "Fighting Wind" by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
Fighting Wind
Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the...
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July 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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IT'S HERE! This is such an amazing issue! 🥰
literarymama.bsky.social Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · Jul 16
It's here! We hope you enjoy the abundance of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary reflections, profiles, and reviews in our July/August issue!
May/June 2025
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July 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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So excited to receive this beauty in the mail today, and so honored to be named runner-up in Meridian’s 2025 Short Prose Prize. 😍 Visit readmeridian.org to read this gorgeous issue
July 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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12 is out of town visiting relatives. They went to an aquarium yesterday, where she took this amazingly hilarious pic (of a what? I don’t know). Now she uses it to express her disapproval
Photo taken at an aquarium of the underside of some type of sea creature (a type of stingray, maybe?). What looks like eyes and a mouth give it a distinctly unamused expression
June 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
davidpham5.bsky.social davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
kottke.org kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Post-vet pup cup. Adorbs pic by 12
My tri-color corgi in the backseat of my car, gazing longingly, tongue protruding, at a Starbucks pup cup in my daughter’s hand
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM