Patricia Q. Bidar
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
Author: Wild Plums (ELJ); Pardon Me for Moonwalking (available now from Unsolicited Press)
Flash Fiction America (WW Norton)
Best Small Fictions '23 and '24
Best Microfiction '23
on staff: SmokeLong Quarterly, STORY Magazine, Wigleaf 50
Flash Fiction America (WW Norton)
Best Small Fictions '23 and '24
Best Microfiction '23
on staff: SmokeLong Quarterly, STORY Magazine, Wigleaf 50
Pinned
Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
Some good news!
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Some good news!
@smokelong.bsky.social Summer/Fitness is a fun community; a useful tool to generate new work; a downright phenomenon! But did you know if you join, you can also participate in their book club? Crazy, right? They'll feature my book (at a 25% discount) in late January, so there's plenty of time. (1/2)
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social Summer/Fitness is a fun community; a useful tool to generate new work; a downright phenomenon! But did you know if you join, you can also participate in their book club? Crazy, right? They'll feature my book (at a 25% discount) in late January, so there's plenty of time. (1/2)
Loved it. I strongly recommend you get this collection!
CJ stormed into April with @jonathanin2k.bsky.social's debut desert collection, THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES. People have been talking about this one on, y'all. Check it out: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-lowest-b...
The Lowest Basin
The Lowest Basin: Arizona Stories by Jonathan Danielson Order Here! Set across Arizona’s high and low deserts, these stories explore the fragile and fading mythos of the American West. A police...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Loved it. I strongly recommend you get this collection!
Thank you, editors. I recommend this lit journal nonpareil! #writingcommunity #dirtyrealism #gritlit
ICYMI: "On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61," flash fiction by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social:
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar
You emerge from your apartment, wheatfield hair ablaze in the afternoon sun. My big sister, skinny in a form-fitting dress. Today you are 60. I smooth my Hawaiian shirt over my paunch. “Birth…
okaydonkeymag.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thank you, editors. I recommend this lit journal nonpareil! #writingcommunity #dirtyrealism #gritlit
I'm hearing great things about this prose poetry collection! Pre-orders are open now.
My debut poetry collection is available to pre-order from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social ! Please order and share 💙
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December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm hearing great things about this prose poetry collection! Pre-orders are open now.
Yes! The link works. Just in case, I copied and pasted to myself, so I can def read later.
Hey all - I think my story in the Missouri Review can be accessed for free!
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
Project MUSE - King of the Jungle
muse.jhu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yes! The link works. Just in case, I copied and pasted to myself, so I can def read later.
Pitch perfect.
Thrilled to have my story “Bare Hands” in @nffr.bsky.social! So many great stories by incredible writers in this issue. Honored to be among them! newflashfiction.com/bare-hands/
Bare Hands | Issue #39
My Uncle Louie beat a man to death with his bare hands, the same hands that now hold my baby in the living room of my newly dead grandmother’s house.
newflashfiction.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Pitch perfect.
Out TODAY, or so I'm told.
Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Out TODAY, or so I'm told.
I've never felt so viscerally that old saw, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Thinking of the custom of seeing the day's activities and decisions as an example for what the next year will look like. Soundtrack: Early Bill Monroe and bluegrass origins tunes.
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've never felt so viscerally that old saw, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Thinking of the custom of seeing the day's activities and decisions as an example for what the next year will look like. Soundtrack: Early Bill Monroe and bluegrass origins tunes.
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
“Will they tell me things that don’t fit? That I cannot use?”
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“My boss, a woman so alluring she terrifies me, is singing ‘Sister Golden Hair Surprise’ into her phone.”
Two by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @pangyrus.bsky.social www.pangyrus.com/fiction/susi...
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“My boss, a woman so alluring she terrifies me, is singing ‘Sister Golden Hair Surprise’ into her phone.”
Two by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @pangyrus.bsky.social www.pangyrus.com/fiction/susi...
Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? and Siren | Pangyrus
Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? Susie, do I write you a letter, the way you did to Tom after he died? You asked me if I minded if you wrote him a letter and ...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“Will they tell me things that don’t fit? That I cannot use?”
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“My boss, a woman so alluring she terrifies me, is singing ‘Sister Golden Hair Surprise’ into her phone.”
Two by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @pangyrus.bsky.social www.pangyrus.com/fiction/susi...
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“My boss, a woman so alluring she terrifies me, is singing ‘Sister Golden Hair Surprise’ into her phone.”
Two by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @pangyrus.bsky.social www.pangyrus.com/fiction/susi...
Thank you, EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social and Ghost Parachute. Honored my wee tale is included.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thank you, EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social and Ghost Parachute. Honored my wee tale is included.
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
Wonderful work from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com! ⬇️
"We two share memories of being taken to the movies, her slipping alone to the back row where her married boyfriend waited."
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar
You emerge from your apartment, wheatfield hair ablaze in the afternoon sun. My big sister, skinny in a form-fitting dress. Today you are 60. I smooth my Hawaiian shirt over my paunch. “Birth…
okaydonkeymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wonderful work from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com! ⬇️
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
"...you and I both hold an unfillable void inside, even as we participate now and then in life’s parade."
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com 🔥🔥
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com 🔥🔥
"We two share memories of being taken to the movies, her slipping alone to the back row where her married boyfriend waited."
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar
You emerge from your apartment, wheatfield hair ablaze in the afternoon sun. My big sister, skinny in a form-fitting dress. Today you are 60. I smooth my Hawaiian shirt over my paunch. “Birth…
okaydonkeymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"...you and I both hold an unfillable void inside, even as we participate now and then in life’s parade."
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com 🔥🔥
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com 🔥🔥
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
Love this tiny gem
"We two share memories of being taken to the movies, her slipping alone to the back row where her married boyfriend waited."
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar
You emerge from your apartment, wheatfield hair ablaze in the afternoon sun. My big sister, skinny in a form-fitting dress. Today you are 60. I smooth my Hawaiian shirt over my paunch. “Birth…
okaydonkeymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Love this tiny gem
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
oh wow @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 🥹! you capture these two & that SoCal kind of sad with such beauty !
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
oh wow @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 🥹! you capture these two & that SoCal kind of sad with such beauty !
A very special journal.
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A very special journal.
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
"We two share memories of being taken to the movies, her slipping alone to the back row where her married boyfriend waited."
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar
You emerge from your apartment, wheatfield hair ablaze in the afternoon sun. My big sister, skinny in a form-fitting dress. Today you are 60. I smooth my Hawaiian shirt over my paunch. “Birth…
okaydonkeymag.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"We two share memories of being taken to the movies, her slipping alone to the back row where her married boyfriend waited."
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
"On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
So excited about this one.
The detail of the landscapes I grew up with add an irreplaceable core of truth to even the most surreal of my tales. This is Western Australia. My stories live here.
#SaltCityRunaway coming 2026
#SaltCityRunaway coming 2026
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So excited about this one.
Listening to the episode now. I really can't recommend the otherppl podcast more highly. #writinglife #literarypodcasts
@ellenhuet.bsky.social is a reporter for Bloomberg News. Years ago, she wrote a story about the dark side of One Taste, a San Francisco-based sexual wellness company founded in 2004 by Nicole Daedone and Robert Kandell.... 1/
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Listening to the episode now. I really can't recommend the otherppl podcast more highly. #writinglife #literarypodcasts
I love the idea that the ghosts in this haunted apartment building narrative are sort of incidental. And the idea of Oscar Wilde with a TikTok account. Great interview!
Here's Episode 12: "Amber Sparks and 'We Love You, Bunny'". (@ambersparks.bsky.social y.social) www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I love the idea that the ghosts in this haunted apartment building narrative are sort of incidental. And the idea of Oscar Wilde with a TikTok account. Great interview!
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
"With sharp prose, wry humor, and poignant insights, this collection explores themes of love, regret, and hope in a chaotic world."
Enter to win a copy of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social's "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Enter to win a copy of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social's "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"With sharp prose, wry humor, and poignant insights, this collection explores themes of love, regret, and hope in a chaotic world."
Enter to win a copy of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social's "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Enter to win a copy of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social's "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Reposted by Patricia Q. Bidar
Happening Wednesday! Thank you @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social and @rosaliascalia! #literaryreading #writer #writers #writerssupportingwriters #author #authorlife #writerslife
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Happening Wednesday! Thank you @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social and @rosaliascalia! #literaryreading #writer #writers #writerssupportingwriters #author #authorlife #writerslife
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"With sharp prose, wry humor, and poignant insights, this collection explores themes of love, regret, and hope in a chaotic world."
Enter to win a copy of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social's "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Enter to win a copy of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social's "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's happening! (Get in.)
Happening Wednesday! Thank you @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social and @rosaliascalia! #literaryreading #writer #writers #writerssupportingwriters #author #authorlife #writerslife
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Happening Wednesday! Thank you @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social and @rosaliascalia! #literaryreading #writer #writers #writerssupportingwriters #author #authorlife #writerslife