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Dan White
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in mediam mentam. Publisher at Indirect Books // Editor at L’Esprit Literary Review // Prose Editor at West Trade Review // PhD Candidate at UIC Program for Writers
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Dan White @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social · Jul 3
Thanks @artwife.bsky.social for having us on!
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Thanks @necessaryfiction.com and @twodollarradio.bsky.social—I had fun covering this one!
July 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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ABSENCE by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/abse...
July 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Thanks @artwife.bsky.social for having us on!
July 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Check out the latest episode of the @artwife.bsky.social podcast to hear our Editors talk a bit about the journal!

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The ARTWIFE Podcast
Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · The ARTWIFE Podcast is a monthly show hosted by ARTWIFE co-founder Hannah Harlee. Join us as we discuss the craft of writing and the life of the artist, featuring in...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

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Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
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June 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Finally, rounding out our Issue Six release, an excerpt from novelist Yara Zgheib's delectable new project "Why Paris." Read it below!

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Why Paris.
There is a chocolate shop in Paris. It is on an elegant street, with trees, in a building cut in blocks of cream Lutetian limestone. Three stories high — nearly all the buildings are on that street…
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June 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Check out our Summer Quarterly at @lespritlit.bsky.social

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June 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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And finally, check out the entirety of our latest Quarterly newsletter, including A Commentary from Editor D. W. White!

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On Boundaries and Movement
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June 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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...and Carolyn R. Russell's "Awake at the Wheel."

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Awake at the Wheel
I gamble on a new day in the cold diaphanous dawn while my namesake, many crooked borders away, waits on consignment for proper prayers on his behalf. I think there are none, sacred or otherwise, t…
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June 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A Wednesday in mid-June...sounds like a perfect time for our Summer Quarterly. Happy #dallowayday everyone!

We have two new works of fiction in this issue, Iris Rosenberg's "Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble"...

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Where’s An Old Broad Go To Get Into Trouble
You girls know a place with a good crowd. Have a big steak. Couple martinis. Cigarette smoke like in the real world. Don’t you think. Ditch all this beige. Grab a lipstick, you two’ll come wi…
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June 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Michael Thériault's "An Invitation to the Gulls" is a shape-shifting, voice-driven story of memory and place, and is next up in our Issue Six release.

Read it below!

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An Invitation to the Gulls
First the snapping of the metal bits that hold the screw cap to the collar. Slowed down, deeper by it, amped up, it might be pealing of bells; joy down street and sidewalk. Slowed a bit more, their…
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June 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Continuing our Issue Six release countdown (countup?) is Andrew Lorenzen's hilarious and ontologically troubling story "Object Permanence."

Check it out!

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Object Permanence
The eco-terrorist is zipping down the highway in a 1996 Ford Aerostar. He keeps laying on the brake, even though there’s hardly any traffic going East in the mid-afternoon. You’d think that’s out o…
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May 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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KK Fiorrucci's short story "The Difference," an atmospheric consideration of Guernsey, continues our Issue Six release!

Check it out here!

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The Difference
It is possible to walk from the south-east tip of Guernsey at Fermain Bay to the lumpy promontories at Vazon and Cobo in the north-west – a distance of seven or eight miles – without coming across …
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June 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Just four days left to submit to this year's Dalloway Prize for Short Prose!

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June 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!

Check it out below!

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May 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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The Grand Prize Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration was Art O'Connor's "Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree," and is also next up in our Issue Six release!

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Helen Mulgrew and the Hollow Tree
She seems to correspond intimately with the surrounding landscape: the snatches of wool on barbed wire; the hoofprints full of water; the crooked, hillside hawthorns—all seem somehow to acknowledge…
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May 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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We are thrilled to announce the results of our fourth annual poetry contest. Ezra Fox’s “What the Darkness Render’s on the Question of Passing” was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the $1,000 prize.

Details below:

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May 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A few weeks left for our short prose prize!

We’ve gotten some great entries so far and still have plenty of room on our shortlist to fill out.

We’re looking for sharp, surprising writing that rests comfortably just beyond convention. Fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid, up to 5k.

Send us your best!
May 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Explore and enjoy the fine work in @lespritlit.bsky.social Issue 6, out just lately. My story An Invitation to the Gulls, which descends a bottle through verse and violence to the titular invitation at its bottom, tags along.

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Issue Six
Cover photo by  Stephanie Klepacki on Unsplash Contents Deja Vu All Over Again, Neil Weiner When I Write “I”: The Disabled Body and the Myth of Narcissus, Nate Connolly Bluebird…
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May 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Danielle Barr's NOTHINGBERGERS is the first chapter of her new project, and a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Find it in Issue Six!

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Nothingbergers
I’m not sure whose bright idea it was to stick the old water tower next to the graveyard–how many boil water notices had there been on account of somebody’s mawmaw leeching her corpse juices into t…
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May 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Our next Issue Six release was a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Read "Twilight in the Amphitheatre," by Andy Bodinger below!

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Twilight in the Amphitheatre
I brought my girlfriend on a date to Art Hoe theatre to see an indie flick directed by and starring a rich girl I went to high school with. She, the rich girl, was known for her straight-A’s,…
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May 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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If you've received an old email from us today, please ignore! Our gmail happily decided to re-send about 50 old emails for no reason at all, right when we're getting ready for our reading tonight. Sorry for the confusion!
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Alaina Hammond’s “Forgive Me, Kurt” is our next I6 release, a funny, slyly poignant flash fiction!

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Forgive Me, Kurt
Because she respected the man so much, she wants to like his book. She really wants to. She recognizes his talent but can’t abide his formal choices.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Jessica Anne's essay "Generative Grammar" is next up on our I6 release; perfect timing for Mother's Day.

Thoughts on Celebration, Choice, and Red Sauce.

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Generative Grammar
It was the leg cramps and the thirst that confirmed my pregnancy before my pregnancy was confirmed.
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May 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Check out the conversation with and creative piece by our Issue Six Featured Writer, Nataliya Deleva!

Nataliya talks to us about her work, her writing process, moving between languages, and her literary ancestry.

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A Conversation with Nataliya Deleva
The manuscript also aims to deconstruct the language of visibility and invisibility – both in the literal sense and in the societal context. What happens when people around you (including workplace…
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May 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM