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📚A multi-genre lit journal & community
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI: “PARA/SOCIAL”👥
Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱 & Flash 405: “Normal”🧍

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We’re offering free submissions today for #GivingTuesday! Submit to Expo for free today, December 2 (tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial), and consider donating your submission fee to one of our favorite causes: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25!
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Expo publishes flash fiction as its own genre in our annual issue! Flash Fiction Editor @willwriteforchai.bsky.social is also founding Co-EiC, our designer, an Editorial Board member & more! Send Jess your flash fiction by 12/15. We pay $50, plus free sub days are coming: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! As always, we’re grateful for you, our #ExpoFam! Sending gratitude to our contributors, readers, editorial team, and literary community for making us #morethanalitjournal!
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“PARA/SOCIAL suggests closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact.” Send us your PARA/ SOCIAL-themed writing and creative pursuits in any genre by 12/15. We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cassandra’s story is a great example of “connection without contact”-it’s an intimate thing knowing someone’s fate while they remain in the dark. @willwriteforchai.bsky.social’s #ExpoRecommends @gwenekirby.bsky.social’s SHIT CASSANDRA SAW (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Expo’s Nonfiction Editor Heather Vaughan is looking for literal interpretation of the “PARA/SOCIAL” theme. She’s interested in the belonging theme, in stories about connection, loneliness, technology, turning inward & human connection. Send Heather your nonfiction writing: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are so excited to announce our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees! Help us celebrate our fiction, nonfiction, and arts & comics contributors by reading/viewing their works in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! Congrats to all!
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“To write into ‘PARA/SOCIAL’ is to explore the edges where community becomes illusion, and illusion shapes community.” Send us your submissions in any genre by 12/31! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We’re accepting submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Writing has the ability to…recontextualize, to correct, to make new what has been so long accepted as the standard...
To all the writers who submitted, & to those who didn’t: thank you for your work, thank you for your love, thank you for writing.”
- Kiana Shaley on her Flash 405: “Normal” winners
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
⏳⏳⏳Only 3 days left to get guaranteed feedback from our editorial team on your “PARA/SOCIAL” submissions (assuming, that is, we don’t publish your work and pay you $50!)! Send us your writing and creative work by October 31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Did you know that Experimental is one of the genres for which we receive the fewest number of submissions, but also one that makes Expo so very Expo!

This year, Editorial Board member & former Nonfiction Editor @monapily.bsky.social is our Experimental Editor.
October 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Less than 10 days left to submit to Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” and get guaranteed feedback from our editorial team! Submit in any genre here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!

#ExpoReview #CallforSubmissions
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Cheering on the Dodgers with George Townley!

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October 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Read @lawrencebridges.bsky.social’s poem LIFE AT THE EQUATOR from our “Spring” issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring …then check out his poem LONGING from our “Hunger” issue: bit.ly/ExpoLonging.
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We are beyond excited to welcome Rebecca Luxton as our new co-Editor-in-Chief! She’s a founding editor of Expo, is our board, and has been our longtime Experimental Editor—so “PARA/SOCIAL” is ready to push some limits! Send Rebecca your work: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
October 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Add these #ExpoContributor and #ExpoFam books to your TBR list for Hispanic Heritage Month! Buy them in our @bookshop.org and earn a 10% commission for Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop.

Buying books not in your budget? Read their pieces in Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoIssues.
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“The earthquake weather peeps through the dusty half-drawn blinds.” So begins Richard A. Perez Jr’s nonfiction piece EARTHQUAKE WEATHER from our “Spring” issue. Read it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoEarthquake.
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This weekend we retreated, our editorial board came together to talk about the past 10 years and the next 10. We gathered our EiCs and Section Editors for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” and kicked off our issue discussions both in-person and online…
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
#ExpoReview @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: bit.ly/This405.

#Flash405 @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“Exposition Review is literally a dream journal to work with.” Just ask #ExpoContributor @kaitquinn.com. Or look to the fact that we pay contributors, help w/ edits, nominate for prizes & promote contributors in our newsletter & on social. See for yourself! Submit to Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial
September 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
…& check out @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social’s books in our @bookshop.org : bookshop.org/beta-search?....

BIO: Chloe N. Clark is the author of COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES, PATTERNS OF ORBIT & more. Her short story collection EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE is forthcoming from @jacklegpress.bsky.social.
#ExpoContributor
September 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM