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Kim Magowan
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
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Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com
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My new book!!!! Grateful thanks to @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @mooncitypress.bsky.social and also Elisabeth Anderson for her weird and wonderful artwork. I love this cover so much!
mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · 13h
Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by @kimmagowan.bsky.social, part of the Moon City Press Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon!

Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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pdforan.bsky.social
“… (perhaps ‘feature’ isn’t the right word) …”

“… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’”

@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...
Karen’s Features
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November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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pitheadchapel.bsky.social
We're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025! Please join us in congratulating these stellar writers. Good luck everyone!
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Thank you so much @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for the nomination! Congratulations everyone and good luck!!
pitheadchapel.bsky.social Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 3d
We're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025! Please join us in congratulating these stellar writers. Good luck everyone!
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, for the indisputably cool @lukerolfes.bsky.social and @jgallaher.bsky.social and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!

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Volume 14, Issue 11
COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET   FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM &nbs…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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kazbarwrites.bsky.social
I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚

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Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!

Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.

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the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey
by ­­ Michael Czyzniejewski “ ­­ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!

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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
kimmagowan.bsky.social
Michelle Ross and i have a weird new collaboration micro in wonderful The Ilanot Review:

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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...
www.ilanotreview.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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tguzman.bsky.social
"furthermore, that our children, far from being perpetrators, are victims, too. Perhaps victims in a different sense than Ryan Gottfried, who we are relieved to hear has regained consciousness" by @kimmagowan.bsky.social from Milk Candy Review.
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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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October 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
kimmagowan.bsky.social
I have a new story in awesome @bendinggenres.bsky.social, alongside many writers I love. Can't wait to read this issue!

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Karen’s Features
bendinggenres.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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eileentomarchio.bsky.social
"Some slogans made no sense. A product could not be, logically, both 'new' and 'improved.'"

A brand new delight from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in the super new issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🤩™️

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Karen’s Features
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October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
A gem by Michelle Ross in New World Writing.
Michelle Ross ~ People in Elevators - New World Writing Quarterly
People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also
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October 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
kimmagowan.bsky.social
I have a new story in wonderful New World Writing! Many thanks to Kim Chinquee for taking this one:

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Kim Magowan ~ A Series of Lukes - New World Writing Quarterly
What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next
newworldwriting.net
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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jjlofflin.bsky.social
“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies”

New micro from @kimmagowan.bsky.social !
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
kimmagowan.bsky.social
I have a new story in awesome @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!).

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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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danbillyc.bsky.social
"...that reminded me of my dad helping me put on my wobbly ice skates, before he left my mother for terrible Claudia,...."

I love this stellar piece of writing by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
gooseberry-pie.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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tcboudreau.bsky.social
"and so I decided fuck the funeral, I just couldn’t deal..."
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social, packing an entire emotional world in six sentences ⚡

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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
gooseberry-pie.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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A bittersweet gem from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
gooseberry-pie.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
A great @kimmagowan.bsky.social story in the new Ghost Parachute!

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My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute
Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Thanks to Ghost Parachute and @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing my story in their 9th Anniversary Issue! Congrats them! Thanks to my pal @courtneyb77.bsky.social for her art, and to her and @kimmagowan.bsky.social for the reads. I'll post other stories soon!
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Fish Commercial — Ghost Parachute
I was sitting on the bed in my hotel in Amsterdam when the fish commercial came on. Geena was in the bathroom. I had the TV on because I was nervous—she’d only been in there a minute, but it felt like...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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tcboudreau.bsky.social
"Instead of watering blown-out peonies, crocheting baby socks, and shopping at Home Depot, doing the things we were meant to do together, I was drowning my grief by fucking a series of bad men."
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ⚡⚡
October 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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brettpribble.bsky.social
Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls."

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My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute
Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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danbillyc.bsky.social
"I’m relieved he ordered something easy, because though the dream has assigned me the role of bartender, it hasn’t accompanied that with any mixology knowledge."

I love the way @kimmagowan.bsky.social writes! This stellar piece of writing in Ghost Parachute! 💙💙💙
October 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM