D.E. Hardy
@dehardy.bsky.social
EIC of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
On staff at The Offing and Chestnut Review.
Links to words at dehardywriter.com.
On staff at The Offing and Chestnut Review.
Links to words at dehardywriter.com.
Congratulations to all our nominees!! It has been an absolute honor to found Claudine and get to publish pieces of such quality! A dream come true. ✨ Extra shout out to @freybytheway.bsky.social: New Writer with a Pushcart nom!!! let’s goooooooo! 🔥
Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈⬛🏆🐈⬛
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Congratulations to all our nominees!! It has been an absolute honor to found Claudine and get to publish pieces of such quality! A dream come true. ✨ Extra shout out to @freybytheway.bsky.social: New Writer with a Pushcart nom!!! let’s goooooooo! 🔥
Excellent literature and hand-sewn volumes. 🤯 Friends, when I tell you the tactile and brain joy I’m feeling!
Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @suzyeynon.bsky.social and For Every Tower, A Princess by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social.
We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf!
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We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf!
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October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Excellent literature and hand-sewn volumes. 🤯 Friends, when I tell you the tactile and brain joy I’m feeling!
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"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social
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Interview with Patricia Q. Bidar about her forthcoming book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking
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October 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social
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For those who like to keep up with the @claudinelitmag interns: Bubbles has found a home! 💚 As have Pickles and Moose. 💚Buttercup still waits tho. 🥺 Bay Area, humans, if you’re looking for a quality literary kitten, she’s at the peninsula humane society in Burlingame. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
October 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
For those who like to keep up with the @claudinelitmag interns: Bubbles has found a home! 💚 As have Pickles and Moose. 💚Buttercup still waits tho. 🥺 Bay Area, humans, if you’re looking for a quality literary kitten, she’s at the peninsula humane society in Burlingame. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
“She used to be afraid of them, those unswerving cars, but she likes them better than the ones that stop, the ones that idle with their hazards blinking awaiting her slow approach.”
I have a little Spooky Season piece for everyone up in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy. A big thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this a home.
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Night is a Mouth with No Shape by Joshua Jones Lofflin
There’s the fog, always, a mist that clings to the girl’s legs. She walks along this darkened highway—not a real highway, but a narrow stretch of pitted asphalt with hardly any shoulder. Cars sweep…
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October 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“She used to be afraid of them, those unswerving cars, but she likes them better than the ones that stop, the ones that idle with their hazards blinking awaiting her slow approach.”
I must say, writer friends, reading your submissions has been the absolute best part of my year. What a gift! 💚🐈⬛💚
Our staff is dreaming of your micro CNF, humans! Help make their nap-time visions a reality. 💚🐈⬛💚 Submissions always free.
October 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I must say, writer friends, reading your submissions has been the absolute best part of my year. What a gift! 💚🐈⬛💚
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Have you gotten yours?
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Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!
Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!
October 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Have you gotten yours?
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The countdown starts now: BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be releasing in 25 DAYS!
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
@susanschulman.bsky.social
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
@susanschulman.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Mackinac
Con-CORD
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Mackinac
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Do it! The SmokeLong Fellowship not only helped improve my writing, but it also made my hair glossier and my skin better*!
*some statements may not be factual.
*some statements may not be factual.
Emerging writer? Write flash? Feeling isolated? We'd love to help you reach that next step. Apply for The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided to offer...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Do it! The SmokeLong Fellowship not only helped improve my writing, but it also made my hair glossier and my skin better*!
*some statements may not be factual.
*some statements may not be factual.
👻 “Eventually, and predictably, nudity doesn’t cut it. You can only look at so many boobs, so many butts, so much genitalia before you want to raise the stakes.” 👻
The first ghost story is here!! Come take a little peek 👀👀
FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸
“Collision” by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Courtney Burton
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“Collision” by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Courtney Burton
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October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
👻 “Eventually, and predictably, nudity doesn’t cut it. You can only look at so many boobs, so many butts, so much genitalia before you want to raise the stakes.” 👻
@jekwriter.bsky.social: “I peer out the front window and see a couple of neighbors waterskiing in the street and some kids playing Marco Polo.”
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@jekwriter.bsky.social: “I peer out the front window and see a couple of neighbors waterskiing in the street and some kids playing Marco Polo.”
New micro CNF by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.”
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Heather Emmanuel | The Truth Is Only a Feeling
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October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New micro CNF by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.”
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@pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🌟🐈⬛🌟: “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.”
October 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🌟🐈⬛🌟: “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.”
@ezhang77.bsky.social: “When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it.”
October 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
@ezhang77.bsky.social: “When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it.”
“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”
Check out our review of Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris! ❄️🍞🐈⬛
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
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Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris | A Review
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October 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”
“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”
Check out our review of The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle. 🫥👧🏻🐈⬛
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/themissinggirl
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
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The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle | A Review
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October 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”
✨🌟✨: “I always thought I’d see you again. But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.”
New Writer Spotlight! ✨🐈⬛✨
Microfiction by Elizabeth Gjelten.
Check it out!
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Microfiction by Elizabeth Gjelten.
Check it out!
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Elizabeth Gjelten | Under the Blooming Buckeye
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October 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
✨🌟✨: “I always thought I’d see you again. But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.”
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I am so excited for this to come out!
There's just ONE MONTH left until the release of @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's upcoming collection, BITTER OVER SWEET!
With advance praise from @megankkakimoto.bsky.social, author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN’S NIGHTMARE, don't miss out on preordering a copy today! buff.ly/oBUnI6T
@susanschulman.bsky.social
With advance praise from @megankkakimoto.bsky.social, author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN’S NIGHTMARE, don't miss out on preordering a copy today! buff.ly/oBUnI6T
@susanschulman.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I am so excited for this to come out!
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Our October issue drops on Monday!! 🎉
This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle.
These are must-reads, humans!
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@jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle.
These are must-reads, humans!
📚🐈⬛💚
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our October issue drops on Monday!! 🎉
This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle.
These are must-reads, humans!
📚🐈⬛💚
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle.
These are must-reads, humans!
📚🐈⬛💚
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
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Would you look at this lineup? So chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social - @dehardy.bsky.social is so brilliant to work with! Can't wait for you to read my Dunedin story 💔. Congrats @jekwriter.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social Heather and Elizabeth!
One week from today—Monday October 6–our new issue launches!!! 💚🐈⬛💚
@ezhang77.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social
@ezhang77.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Would you look at this lineup? So chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social - @dehardy.bsky.social is so brilliant to work with! Can't wait for you to read my Dunedin story 💔. Congrats @jekwriter.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social Heather and Elizabeth!
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This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.
I have a new story in awesome Milk Candy Review! Grateful tahnks to Cathy Ulrich for publishing this one, and also to my @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness mates for reading a first draft.
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Subject: We Are All Appalled ~ by Kim Magowan
We are all appalled. That’s the crucial thing we want to convey here. We, like all members of our parent community, are appalled by what happened on Saturday night, and furthermore, that our childr…
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September 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.
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Two amazing micro pieces by two amazing writers!
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!
Celebrating our September microfiction today!! 👏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...
@aniking.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking
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@lumchanmfa.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...
@aniking.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking
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September 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Two amazing micro pieces by two amazing writers!
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!
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"Because of course Cora would have hoped that the silver lining of dying is that Amy would want to see her."
Oh, this strikes a chord. 💔
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social
Oh, this strikes a chord. 💔
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a new story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social!
September 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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