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
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!
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
Kudos to @keithlesmeister.bsky.social and his staff. Cutleaf is a really nice journal.
Good book mail today thanks to Lydia Millet!
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Good book mail today thanks to Lydia Millet!
Awesome new piece by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute, with equally fantastic art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social!
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Sex In Public: A Triptych — Ghost Parachute
Hustling She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed. And he wallpapers the back of his many fish ...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Awesome new piece by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute, with equally fantastic art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social!
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Congrats to my student Taylor Ward on their publication in @dogyardmag.com!
dogyard mag
"Thaw"
by Taylor Ward
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November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Congrats to my student Taylor Ward on their publication in @dogyardmag.com!
Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!
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Volume 14, Issue 11
COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM &nbs…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!
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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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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
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.
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!
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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!
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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
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!
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
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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I love this new @kimmagowan.bsky.social story up at New World Writing!
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Kim Magowan ~ A Series of Lukes - New World Writing Quarterly
What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next
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October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I love this new @kimmagowan.bsky.social story up at New World Writing!
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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
A gem by Michelle Ross in New World Writing.
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
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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New @sherrieflick.bsky.social up at Ghost Parachute!
Whatever — Ghost Parachute
Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool. Sammy asked for a Coke and Don’s dad said, “Whatever,” and Sammy didn’t know if ...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New @sherrieflick.bsky.social up at Ghost Parachute!
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
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!
In this new @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social w/:
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
@louellalester.bsky.social
@brettpribble.bsky.social
@cherylpappas.bsky.social
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
@joanleotta.bsky.social
@kiptain.bsky.social
Mikki Aronoff
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Sarah Lynn Hurd
@tcboudreau.bsky.social
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
@louellalester.bsky.social
@brettpribble.bsky.social
@cherylpappas.bsky.social
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
@joanleotta.bsky.social
@kiptain.bsky.social
Mikki Aronoff
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Sarah Lynn Hurd
@tcboudreau.bsky.social
Issue 36 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Louella Lester, Find More of her work Here Stories Monarch is a new awards anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. G...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
In the new @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks @jhhwriter.bsky.social!
I will post friends in the amazing issue separately—but it's amazing!
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I will post friends in the amazing issue separately—but it's amazing!
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Keyur Jadav on Unsplash by Michael Czyzniejewski Outside Sturgis, I picture him dispatching me with the nonchalance of a wild stallion shooing a fly, a wag of its tail, me left bleeding in a ...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In the new @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks @jhhwriter.bsky.social!
I will post friends in the amazing issue separately—but it's amazing!
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I will post friends in the amazing issue separately—but it's amazing!
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Patty Q with a new piece at Ghost Parachute!
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
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@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
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The Untranslatable German Word for a Gate Slamming Shut — Ghost Parachute
My only friend, Little Hansel, smells like closet. That’s what my mother said the one time she met the four-year-old. I was babysitting him for my weed dealers, a pair of comfy old dykes. My mother sn...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Patty Q with a new piece at Ghost Parachute!
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
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@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
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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
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!
