Barbara Westwood Diehl
@bdiehl.bsky.social
Senior Editor, The Baltimore Review. https://baltimorereview.org/ Writer of short stories and poems. Personal website: https://www.barbarawestwooddiehl.com/ Will also be posting Baltimore Review news here: @baltimorereview.bsky.social
A tiny work in Tiny Molecules. Thanks! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
twenty-five — Tiny Molecules
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November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A tiny work in Tiny Molecules. Thanks! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Flash in this fine journal published today. Super nice editors to work with. Many thanks!
It’s launch day! @skyislandjournal ‘s stunning Issue 33 features AMAZING authors and unique perspectives from all around the world—with a constellation of 160,000 readers in 150 countries, and a contributor family of 1,200 writers in 58 countries!
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October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Flash in this fine journal published today. Super nice editors to work with. Many thanks!
This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. Is this cool or what? telephonegame.art And here I am in this vast web: telephonegame.art/artists/barb...
TELEPHONE
Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. Is this cool or what? telephonegame.art And here I am in this vast web: telephonegame.art/artists/barb...
I'll be at hanging out at the Baltimore Review table at the Baltimore Book Festival most of this weekend, Sept. 13 and 14. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. Festival details: baltimorebookfest.com
Baltimore Book Festival
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September 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I'll be at hanging out at the Baltimore Review table at the Baltimore Book Festival most of this weekend, Sept. 13 and 14. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. Festival details: baltimorebookfest.com
Many thanks to Fictive Dream for publishing this dark little story.
We're thrilled to welcome Barbara Westwood Diehl with her #shortstory Pink Blouse, out tomorrow @bdiehl.bsky.social #fiction#writingcommunity
June 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Many thanks to Fictive Dream for publishing this dark little story.
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As promised, here’s a roadmap for NFFD (Saturday 14 June). Read with us, write with us or join us in person in Bath! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As promised, here’s a roadmap for NFFD (Saturday 14 June). Read with us, write with us or join us in person in Bath! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
Happy to have some micro/flash works published in June. One today in Gooseberry Pie gooseberry-pie.com/issue-32/, one in Bright Flash on June 7, brightflash1000.com/2025/06/07/p..., and I'll be in the Flash Flood line-up on June 14. Great to be included with so many cool flash writers!
Issue 32 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Christopher Jeffrey on Unsplash The first seven stories in Issue 32 were shortlisted for Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd annual writing competition. Old Girls and Palm Trees by Meg Pokrass is an illustr...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Happy to have some micro/flash works published in June. One today in Gooseberry Pie gooseberry-pie.com/issue-32/, one in Bright Flash on June 7, brightflash1000.com/2025/06/07/p..., and I'll be in the Flash Flood line-up on June 14. Great to be included with so many cool flash writers!
A big thanks to New World Writing Quarterly for publishing these four short works! An honor to be included with so many fine writers. @newworldwriting.bsky.social newworldwriting.net/barbara-west...
Barbara Westwood Diehl ~ Four Pieces
After Math Were we ever the algebraic equation we thought we were. Symmetric at each step. A marriage of tuxedo, satin dress. Matched as brackets. As parentheses of veil, lapels, clasped hands. A m…
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April 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A big thanks to New World Writing Quarterly for publishing these four short works! An honor to be included with so many fine writers. @newworldwriting.bsky.social newworldwriting.net/barbara-west...
A throwback chat Chill Subs published on March 11: subclub.substack.com/p/on-fosteri...
On Fostering Empathy Through Literary Arts with Barbara Diehl, EIC of The Baltimore Review
"Take pleasure in writing. If it feels too much like work, find ways to make it playful."
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March 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A throwback chat Chill Subs published on March 11: subclub.substack.com/p/on-fosteri...
Presented a session on "Concision and Precision in Flash Fiction" at the ESWA Bay to Ocean Writers Conference on March 8. Huge thanks to @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social and the other fine people at the Eastern Shore Writers Association for inviting me!
March 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Presented a session on "Concision and Precision in Flash Fiction" at the ESWA Bay to Ocean Writers Conference on March 8. Huge thanks to @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social and the other fine people at the Eastern Shore Writers Association for inviting me!
Thanks to Pithead Chapel for publishing one of my short "women with wings" pieces today.
Volume 14, Issue 2
COVER ART BY NUALA MCEVOY FICTION VILLAGE GREEN BY DAVID YOURDON THE BEAUTIFUL THING BY EMILY RINKEMA FERMENT BY L. SOVIERO THE SURVIVAL OF SEA GLASS BY SARAH PERRIN NONFICTION THE BE…
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February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thanks to Pithead Chapel for publishing one of my short "women with wings" pieces today.
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Read "Or So She Thinks" written by @bdiehl.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.
"Whatever she is saying is clashing with the narrative. The assassin in the story needs silence while he prepares for this one last hit of his career."
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"Whatever she is saying is clashing with the narrative. The assassin in the story needs silence while he prepares for this one last hit of his career."
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Or So She Thinks — Ghost Parachute
Unlike so much of her life now, the woman can grasp what’s happening when she listens to an audiobook. And she knows that, even if the ending isn’t the one she hopes for, it will make perfect sense. S...
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January 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Read "Or So She Thinks" written by @bdiehl.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.
"Whatever she is saying is clashing with the narrative. The assassin in the story needs silence while he prepares for this one last hit of his career."
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"Whatever she is saying is clashing with the narrative. The assassin in the story needs silence while he prepares for this one last hit of his career."
tinyurl.com/mp9undnc
Enjoyed being in the company of fellow flash writers yesterday! The www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgkw...
FBOMB Global Flash Reading - December 6, 2024
YouTube video by Francine Witte
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December 7, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Enjoyed being in the company of fellow flash writers yesterday! The www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgkw...
Reposted by Barbara Westwood Diehl
My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful!
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Everything Everywhere All In One Place
I’ve been writing these craft articles for quite a while now.
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December 2, 2024 at 11:19 AM
My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful!
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...
Haven’t stopped by here for a while. Since X has turned into such a train wreck, I’ll try posting more Baltimore Review updates here and see how it goes.
November 11, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Haven’t stopped by here for a while. Since X has turned into such a train wreck, I’ll try posting more Baltimore Review updates here and see how it goes.
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Super thrilled to have my work in Best Small Fictions among so many amazing writers. And a big thanks to @bdiehl.bsky.social at Baltimore Review for giving my story a home.
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The Best Small Fictions
Information and submission guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual anthology.
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May 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Super thrilled to have my work in Best Small Fictions among so many amazing writers. And a big thanks to @bdiehl.bsky.social at Baltimore Review for giving my story a home.
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Our spring issue is live! Hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue. And all submission categories are open until May 31. baltimorereview.org
The Baltimore Review
A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
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May 4, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Our spring issue is live! Hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue. And all submission categories are open until May 31. baltimorereview.org
Happy to have Kathy Flann as the final judge for Baltimore Review's summer contests (flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, prose poem)! www.kathyflann.com/bio
March 5, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Happy to have Kathy Flann as the final judge for Baltimore Review's summer contests (flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, prose poem)! www.kathyflann.com/bio
Our winter 2024 issue is live! Thanks to all these fine writers and everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org
The Baltimore Review
A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
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January 19, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Our winter 2024 issue is live! Thanks to all these fine writers and everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org
Thanks to Poetry South for publishing my "bird app" poem. Fun to have apps for identifying birds and plants and constellations and other parts of the universe.
December 22, 2023 at 5:55 AM
Thanks to Poetry South for publishing my "bird app" poem. Fun to have apps for identifying birds and plants and constellations and other parts of the universe.
Congratulations to Baltimore Review fiction editor Lynn Stansbury, one of ten writers selected for the Poets & Writers 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors! And congratulations to all the writers in this cohort! Wishing them a wonderful experience.
Poets & Writers Selects Ten Early Career Fiction Writers for Get the
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November 18, 2023 at 6:23 PM
Congratulations to Baltimore Review fiction editor Lynn Stansbury, one of ten writers selected for the Poets & Writers 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors! And congratulations to all the writers in this cohort! Wishing them a wonderful experience.
The Baltimore Review's fall issue is live. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! baltimorereview.org
November 7, 2023 at 4:34 AM
The Baltimore Review's fall issue is live. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! baltimorereview.org
Downloaded The Best American Essays 2023 to my Kindle and spotted a Baltimore Review contributor in the list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022. Congratulations to Lucinda Cummings! baltimorereview.org/winter_2022/...
October 18, 2023 at 4:27 AM
Downloaded The Best American Essays 2023 to my Kindle and spotted a Baltimore Review contributor in the list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022. Congratulations to Lucinda Cummings! baltimorereview.org/winter_2022/...
I'll be hanging out at the Baltimore Review table during the Baltimore Writers' Conference on Nov. 4. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. www.baltimorewritersconference.org
October 15, 2023 at 5:38 PM
I'll be hanging out at the Baltimore Review table during the Baltimore Writers' Conference on Nov. 4. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. www.baltimorewritersconference.org