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Allison Field Bell
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Writer. Teacher. PhD candidate UofU. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Poetry collection ALL THAT BLUE forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Chapbooks: EDGE OF THE SEA (CutBank Books) and WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY (FLP)

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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · Feb 20
BOTH of my chapbooks are now available to order!

They even feature my photography as their covers 🖤

Thanks so much to CutBank Books and @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for believing in these projects!

www.allisonfieldbell.com/books
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Interview is up over at @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💕

Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social

Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more

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We Write Our Obsessions: An Interview with ALLISON FIELD BELL | Fractured
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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On the heels of a Spotlight Best Small Fictions win last year, I proudly present Stanchion's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees!

Congrats to Christina, Allison, Elizabeth, Jo & Kate! I'm so grateful these talented authors allowed me the privilege of publishing their work.
Christina Tudor "Demarcation" Allison Field Bell "Below Zero Days" Elizabeth Rosen "The Boy on the Chimney" Jo Gatford "Hallelujah Has Too Many Verses for Karaoke" Kate Gehan "Everything According to Plan in the Peaceable Kingdom"
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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My debut poetry collection is available to pre-order from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social ! Please order and share 💙

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November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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📚🎊 Congratulations to Allison Field Bell’s “Stitch,” Chestnut Review Chapbook’s Spring 2025 chapbook selection! Ready to be out in the world! Stay tuned!

Our list of selections were fierce, and we appreciate all who sent their manuscripts to us. We value your efforts, dreams, and writing.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She is the author of the poetry collection, ALL THAT BLUE, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2026. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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“He means well, but sometimes I just want to look at a tree and feel happy about it.”

“I wait for a sound of curiosity from the tent, but it never comes.”

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By Allison Field Bell Fall in the Wasatch—the trees are yellow and red and orange. Sky is a crisp pale blue and at night, a kaleidoscope of stars. Shimmering bodies casting light on the aspen trunk…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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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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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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New micro-essays are live @baltimorereview.bsky.social

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Allison Field Bell: Tucson
Allison Field Bell’s debut poetry collection, All That Blue, is forthcoming in 2026. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Without Woman or Body and Edge of the Sea. Find her…
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October 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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These are our Spring 2025 Chapbook reading period finalists! Thank you to all who submitted and congratulations to these authors!

Stay tuned for our final selection announcement soon.

#Chestnutreview #writing #prose #poetry #art #chapbook #spring25 #litmag #finalists
October 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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“here is your whole / self against her whole self / the one with violets in her lap”

Read “Against Her” by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)

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Oscar Howe’s “Eagle Dance” in casein and graphite pencil on paper with a title card: “Against Her” by Allison Field Bell
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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We have new poems in the nest this week from Allison Bell Field and Sean Glatch (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)

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Oscar Howe’s Eagle Dance; and abstract work of art, with a title card: poems by We have new poems in the nest this week from Allison Bell Field and Sean Glatch
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"My friend loves deer and wants a tattoo of one on her shoulder. / We are talking about deer and we are also talking about my ex."

The weaving together of elements in this extraordinary piece from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, so much buried beneath the surface, deserves multiple reads
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Sometimes a deer is just a deer. Sometimes it's a stand-in for an ex. Or for yourself. I guess it depends on the deer. Check out "Deer in the Headlights", a moving work of autofiction by Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in our next edition. Sunday!
My friend has written a poem about a pair of deer—one with antlers, the other without. In the poem, they are in a cemetery filled with green grass and large trees.
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"She says, 'In reality, they ran away from me, you know. The deer.'
She looks at me for a long time. Like I am the deer, and she is the headlights."

My lord, this extraordinary piece of writing by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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"Deer in the Headlights" by Allison Field Bell
My friend has written a poem about a pair of deer—one with antlers, the other without. In the poem, they are in a cemetery filled with green grass and large trees. The antlered deer fixates on the poe...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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As always, RF would like to thank our tremendously talented group of contributors to this issue - @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Eliot S. Ku @kelliborges2.bsky.social
@karenc.bsky.social @johnwaddy.bsky.social Trevor J. Houser…
September 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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"As a child, I hated no animal. I loved them all, deeply. Maybe all children do. When you’re young, you see possibility, not a tired old buck plodding above coffins."

This tiny story by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social at @rfpress.bsky.social 🤍

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"Deer in the Headlights" by Allison Field Bell
My friend has written a poem about a pair of deer—one with antlers, the other without. In the poem, they are in a cemetery filled with green grass and large trees. The antlered deer fixates on the poe...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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“As a child, I hated no animal. I loved them all, deeply. Maybe all children do. When you’re young, you see possibility, not a tired old buck plodding above coffins.”

Read this beauty by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @rfpress.bsky.social ❤️

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"Deer in the Headlights" by Allison Field Bell
My friend has written a poem about a pair of deer—one with antlers, the other without. In the poem, they are in a cemetery filled with green grass and large trees. The antlered deer fixates on the poe...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Sometimes a deer is just a deer. Sometimes it's a stand-in for an ex. Or for yourself. I guess it depends on the deer. Check out "Deer in the Headlights", a moving work of autofiction by Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in our next edition. Sunday!
My friend has written a poem about a pair of deer—one with antlers, the other without. In the poem, they are in a cemetery filled with green grass and large trees.
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Announcing our nominations for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @seaheye.bsky.social, Sam Mainz, @jjpena.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, and C Ray Borck
List of award nominations with purple Monarch butterfly logo top centre and SmokeLong Quarterly logo top left. Text: Monarch Queer Literary Awards Nominations: Fiction: Man Spelt Backwards by Chi Pham; People of Color Monologue by Sam Mainz. Non-fiction: strangers breathe air into you by jj peña. Hybrid: Yes by Allison Field Bell; Best Western by C Ray Borck.
September 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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“Don’t be the woman who is afraid.”

“Be the woman who …”

“Be the woman with a lover who …”

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ISSUE SIX
September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…
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September 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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“I didn’t understand how sometimes people die before they die.”

“When I saw him, I did and did not know it was the last time.”

“I think I’ll come back here again and again. But …”

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Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell
I understood that being who he was meant he would likely die young. I didn’t understand what young meant.
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September 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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“But I don’t. I don’t ever come back.”

This piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is so poignant and beautiful. (Thanks for passing it along, dear @pdforan.bsky.social!)❤️
pdforan.bsky.social Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · Sep 14
“I didn’t understand how sometimes people die before they die.”

“When I saw him, I did and did not know it was the last time.”

“I think I’ll come back here again and again. But …”

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/c...
Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell
I understood that being who he was meant he would likely die young. I didn’t understand what young meant.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"Uncle Henry was an artist, a stippler. He filled paper with intricate lines of color. Like a layer cake. Like the Dead Sea: its threads of mud and mineral."

I love this brilliance by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙
September 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Absolutely gorgeous and moving piece, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social "At the Dead Sea, I slink across the rocks and lower myself into the black liquid. I float there on my back, staring up at the sky. I don’t think about Uncle Henry. Not even once. I don’t think about his death or his life."
allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · Sep 6
Thrilled to share this braided flash CNF about the Dead Sea and my Uncle Henry. Thanks so much to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for publishing 💕
jmwwjournal.bsky.social JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4
"Uncle Henry. His obsession with Elvis and bowling and twinkies."

Creative Nonfiction: Dead Sea by Allison Field Bell

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September 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Thrilled to share this braided flash CNF about the Dead Sea and my Uncle Henry. Thanks so much to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for publishing 💕
September 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"Don’t be the woman who doesn’t move her body through the desert air. The woman who looks in the mirror and then goes immediately to the liquor cabinet"

Great use of anaphora to create emotional insistence in this fab piece from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social:

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ISSUE SIX
September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…
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September 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM