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Michael Czyzniejewski
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, for the indisputably cool @lukerolfes.bsky.social and @jgallaher.bsky.social and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Kudos to @keithlesmeister.bsky.social and his staff. Cutleaf is a really nice journal.
5.21 - Cutleaf Journal
The signal of an object jogs the memory of the narrator in Lucile Barker’s “Green Grolsch Bottle.” Andy Fogle remembers the past and an imagined future, in
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November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New Ghost Parachute! Kudos, @brettpribble.bsky.social!

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November 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Good book mail today thanks to Lydia Millet!
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Congrats to my student Taylor Ward on their publication in @dogyardmag.com!
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"Thaw" by Taylor Ward
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November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!

Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.

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the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey
by ­­ Michael Czyzniejewski “ ­­ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Two Stories | MrBullBull
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October 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What a visit at Missouri State with poet and alum Amber Isaac, who met with students, visited old haunts, and gave a killer reading from her new book, Peppermint. Thanks to Sara Burge for the intro and to the Springfield Regional Arts Council and the MSU Department of English for sponsoring!
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So happy to be in this remarkable issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her students. Nice to be alongside friends Gary Fincke, @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social, @woodardwriter.bsky.social, and many other talented writers!

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Fall | Winter 2025 | South 85 Journal
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October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A gem by Michelle Ross in New World Writing.
Michelle Ross ~ People in Elevators - New World Writing Quarterly
People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also
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October 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New story, "Becoming a Member," up @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her crew for giving it a home, and to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for looking at an early draft.

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Becoming a Member | South 85 Journal
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October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have a new story up at Eckleburg, "Ashley, Kelly,, and Courtney," that you should check out. Thanks to Rae Cline for giving this one a home!
Ashley, Kelly, and Courtney by Michael Czyzniejewski | Flash | Eckleburg
My wife told me she was going out with Ashley, Kelly, and Courtney, that she’d be getting some drinks, doing some dancing, that she wouldn’t be home late, “… unless I’m home late!” I said no problem a...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Come check out poet Amber Isaac read from her new poetry collection, Peppermint, at Missouris State University on Wednesday, October 15, in Karls Hall 101 at 7 p.m. CT! Going to be amazing!
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM