Matt Leibel
@mattleibel.bsky.social
short fiction and who knows what else
mattleibel.com
mattleibel.com
Excited for this nomination from the excellent (and awesomely-named) @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Excited for this nomination from the excellent (and awesomely-named) @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
Really excited to have my story, "How to Buy a Snowglobe", published in @ettereview.bsky.social, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026!
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Really excited to have my story, "How to Buy a Snowglobe", published in @ettereview.bsky.social, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026!
I wrote about Garrett Caples’ “Proses” for this list of fave story collections 2025. A lot of good ones here. Two more I snuck in in the last few weeks: “Farthest South” by Ethan Rutherford and “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda.
Short Story, Long's fave story collections of 2025!
Some fave short story collections, chosen by our contributors, some released this year, some just read and appreciated this year.
ashortstorylong.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I wrote about Garrett Caples’ “Proses” for this list of fave story collections 2025. A lot of good ones here. Two more I snuck in in the last few weeks: “Farthest South” by Ethan Rutherford and “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda.
Reposted by Matt Leibel
Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees!
Jessica Barlevi
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Devan Murphy
Emma Raimondo
Mathieu Cailler
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
Nora Esme Wagner
Jessica Barlevi
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Devan Murphy
Emma Raimondo
Mathieu Cailler
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
Nora Esme Wagner
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees!
Jessica Barlevi
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Devan Murphy
Emma Raimondo
Mathieu Cailler
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
Nora Esme Wagner
Jessica Barlevi
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Devan Murphy
Emma Raimondo
Mathieu Cailler
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
Nora Esme Wagner
Here’s a little story I wrote about watching movies in (and out of) a theater. Thanks to David Galef and team at @vestalreview.bsky.social
A movie that’s truly a runaway hit.
Read "Matinee," by Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social in issue 67.
vestalreview.net/matinee
Art by Jinghong Chen
Read "Matinee," by Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social in issue 67.
vestalreview.net/matinee
Art by Jinghong Chen
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here’s a little story I wrote about watching movies in (and out of) a theater. Thanks to David Galef and team at @vestalreview.bsky.social
Reposted by Matt Leibel
Our winter 2025 issue is here!
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Our winter 2025 issue is here!
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
Psyched for this nomination! Thanks to the editors & congrats all.
And here are our dazzling Pushcart 2026 nominees! Hooray for @maxpasakorn.bsky.social, Shome, @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social , @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @juniper-writing.bsky.social and @mattleibel.bsky.social!
Read their stories here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/proje...
#namjooning
Read their stories here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/proje...
#namjooning
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Psyched for this nomination! Thanks to the editors & congrats all.
Excited for this nomination! Thanks to @joshdale.co and team. Read my piece here:
December 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Excited for this nomination! Thanks to @joshdale.co and team. Read my piece here:
Reposted by Matt Leibel
New episode just dropped!
@melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them.
Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...
@melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them.
Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...
Episode 6 - Roulette: Take a Chance on Art
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New episode just dropped!
@melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them.
Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...
@melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them.
Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...
Excited to share my story "How to Buy a Snowglobe" in the very cool-looking new issue of -ette. Thanks to @noramaynard.bsky.social and @bybethhahn.bsky.social for showcasing my work, and to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social for performing my story and interviewing me for her podcast!
Issue 6: Fall 2025
ettereview.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Excited to share my story "How to Buy a Snowglobe" in the very cool-looking new issue of -ette. Thanks to @noramaynard.bsky.social and @bybethhahn.bsky.social for showcasing my work, and to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social for performing my story and interviewing me for her podcast!
Reposted by Matt Leibel
-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
Here's a new "how to" piece up at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading all the pieces in this issue--a nice respite from, well, everything else that's going on.
How to Skip a Rock Across the Pacific by Matt Leibel
Imagine the platonic ideal of the perfect skip. It’s a dream I had the first time I ever stepped foot on a Southern California beach as a kid: a stone I could skim off the sunglossed surface, that wou...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here's a new "how to" piece up at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading all the pieces in this issue--a nice respite from, well, everything else that's going on.
I have two new "how-to" stories up in the excellent @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"Don’t try to stick things to other things in the first place."
New in September #fiction, two terrific, tiny "How-Tos" from the wonderful @mattleibel.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/matt...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
New in September #fiction, two terrific, tiny "How-Tos" from the wonderful @mattleibel.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/matt...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I have two new "how-to" stories up in the excellent @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
new piece up at @thirtywestph.com about dreams, which I've always been warned to avoid in my stories.
How to Remember Your Dreams
A Dream Story by Matt Leibel
thirtywest.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
new piece up at @thirtywestph.com about dreams, which I've always been warned to avoid in my stories.
Reposted by Matt Leibel
Some more Short Story, Long contributor lists (from Brittney Uecker, @mldon31.bsky.social, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @jeffchon.bsky.social, @magicmikewrites.bsky.social) of best & fave stories for the century (so far). Some really great, fun reading lists here. (A cpl of YOU even make appearances!)
"25 for 25" — some more contributor lists
some more Short Story, Long contributors share some of their lists of "best" and favorite short stories from the last 25 years
ashortstorylong.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Some more Short Story, Long contributor lists (from Brittney Uecker, @mldon31.bsky.social, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @jeffchon.bsky.social, @magicmikewrites.bsky.social) of best & fave stories for the century (so far). Some really great, fun reading lists here. (A cpl of YOU even make appearances!)
Received my copy of the new issue of Post Road, including my story "Crushed". Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue...
May 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Received my copy of the new issue of Post Road, including my story "Crushed". Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue...
It’s 4/20, and I seem to have written a kind of Mayor McCheese fan fiction. Check it out along with other funny stuff from @defenestrationmag.bsky.social
"How to Get Elected Mayor with a Hamburger for a Head," by Matt Leibel
Wake up one morning and realize that you've changed. It's not just the ravages of time and age: your cranium is now a literal beef patty, encased in a pillow of bun, slathered with onion, ketchup, spe...
www.defenestrationmag.net
April 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s 4/20, and I seem to have written a kind of Mayor McCheese fan fiction. Check it out along with other funny stuff from @defenestrationmag.bsky.social
I have two new micros in this issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. The whole issue is a quick read, worth checking out.
Issue 31 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Stories Updates The shortlist for Gooseberry’s annual writing contest has been sent to our terrific guest judge, Melissa Llanes Brownlee. She’ll be reading the submi...
gooseberry-pie.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I have two new micros in this issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. The whole issue is a quick read, worth checking out.
New story up at Post Road! Crushes, Bond villains, beetles, human statues, and the Hatpocalypse
- Post Road Magazine
Crushedby Matt Leibel I noticed a woman walking down Market Street in a red bowler hat, and I wanted to say something. I wanted to compliment her, I wanted to say “nice hat” or “I like your hat,” but ...
www.postroadmag.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New story up at Post Road! Crushes, Bond villains, beetles, human statues, and the Hatpocalypse
Check out this wild, Cartesian historical story by my friend Sharon!
New on our mainpage: “Francine,” by Sharon Wahl: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Check out this wild, Cartesian historical story by my friend Sharon!
My story “How to Find Real Love on a Fake TV Show” is up at Hunger Mountain Review. Thanks to the editors!
Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts
Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts
hungermtn.netlify.app
February 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My story “How to Find Real Love on a Fake TV Show” is up at Hunger Mountain Review. Thanks to the editors!
This story anthology is now available in paperback--featuring 101 very short stories, including my story "The Wedding Photographer Photographer", originally published in The Florida Review! Excellent cover!
Best Small Fictions 2024
102 Flash Stories by 101 Authors
altcurrentpress.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This story anthology is now available in paperback--featuring 101 very short stories, including my story "The Wedding Photographer Photographer", originally published in The Florida Review! Excellent cover!
Excited to have my story “How to Become an Auctioneer” included in this. Thanks to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social and @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. Congrats to the other winners!
Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Excited to have my story “How to Become an Auctioneer” included in this. Thanks to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social and @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. Congrats to the other winners!
Thanks to @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social for nominating my story "How to Become an Auctioneer" for the Best Microfiction anthology. You can read it here: www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/leibel/ho...
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Thanks to @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social for nominating my story "How to Become an Auctioneer" for the Best Microfiction anthology. You can read it here: www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/leibel/ho...
I've put everything I know about beards, neckties, and hats into these three pieces in the new issue of the awesomely-named Miracle Monocle! louisville.edu/miraclemonoc...
MATT LEIBEL — Miracle Monocle
louisville.edu
December 9, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I've put everything I know about beards, neckties, and hats into these three pieces in the new issue of the awesomely-named Miracle Monocle! louisville.edu/miraclemonoc...