Luanne Castle
@luannecastle.bsky.social
Poet, writer, artist. Cat person. Award-winning: Rooted and Winged; Our Wolves; Doll God; Kin Types https://www.luannecastle.com/ Hybrid Flash Memoir _Scrap_ forthcoming 2026 from ELJ Editions.
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Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing the 6 sentences that is “Subway Was Real When You Worked There” 🥪🌽🚙
Read them and these other fabulous stories in Issue 37 here ⬇️
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Read them and these other fabulous stories in Issue 37 here ⬇️
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Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Well deserved, Merril! Beautiful new book!
This beautiful review of my new collection, Held Inside the Folds of Time. Thank you @luannecastle.bsky.social
#poetry #PoetryCommunity
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New Review for Held Inside the Folds of Time
Poet, writer, and artist Luanne Castle has written a beautiful review of my new poetry collection, Held Inside the Folds of Time. Thank you so much, Luanne!
merrildsmith.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Well deserved, Merril! Beautiful new book!
My review of a new book of poetry by Merril D Smith. writersite.org/2025/11/10/r...
Review of Merril D. Smith's HELD INSIDE THE FOLDS OF TIME
Here is my book review of Merril D. Smith's beautiful new poetry collection. I hope it makes you want to order a copy! Merril D. Smith’s new poetry col
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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My review of a new book of poetry by Merril D Smith. writersite.org/2025/11/10/r...
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Five Years of The Art of Flash Fiction: Reflections, a Prompt, and a Special Offer 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
Five Years of The Art of Flash Fiction: Some Reflections, a Prompt & a Special Offer
Reflection in the closet doors of my study.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Five Years of The Art of Flash Fiction: Reflections, a Prompt, and a Special Offer 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
Super jazzed to have my story "Garden Seasons" nominated for Best Microfiction 2026 by @claremacqueen.bsky.social, EIC of MacQueen's Quinterly. www.macqueensquinterly.com/Awards/Best-...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Anthology Awards: Nominations for Best Microfiction 2026
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Super jazzed to have my story "Garden Seasons" nominated for Best Microfiction 2026 by @claremacqueen.bsky.social, EIC of MacQueen's Quinterly. www.macqueensquinterly.com/Awards/Best-...
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social last year’s November issue with terrific work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social @didiwood.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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Issue 23 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Unsplash+ Stories Notes This Kate McKinnon performance always makes me feel hopeful. Jeff Harvey’s debut chapbook, Life Would Be Perfect If (Bottlecap Press, 2024) about a teen coming out in ...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social last year’s November issue with terrific work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social @didiwood.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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Chapbook review: @writesofkathryn.bsky.social’s “For Every Tower, a Princess” 📚🐈⬛📚
“The five flash fictions in Kathryn Kulpa’s For Every Tower, A Princess cast a dreamlike spell, luring you with folklore into magical realms you won’t want to leave.”
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“The five flash fictions in Kathryn Kulpa’s For Every Tower, A Princess cast a dreamlike spell, luring you with folklore into magical realms you won’t want to leave.”
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For Every Tower, A Princess by Kathryn Kulpa | A Review
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November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Chapbook review: @writesofkathryn.bsky.social’s “For Every Tower, a Princess” 📚🐈⬛📚
“The five flash fictions in Kathryn Kulpa’s For Every Tower, A Princess cast a dreamlike spell, luring you with folklore into magical realms you won’t want to leave.”
www.claudineliterary.net/foreverytowe...
“The five flash fictions in Kathryn Kulpa’s For Every Tower, A Princess cast a dreamlike spell, luring you with folklore into magical realms you won’t want to leave.”
www.claudineliterary.net/foreverytowe...
Thank you so much!
"The surgeon palmed the money before he sliced the tissue and scooped out the rot." - Luanne Castle
@luannecastle.bsky.social
It is live! Thank you Luanne!
@luannecastle.bsky.social
It is live! Thank you Luanne!
Two Micro Fictions by Luanne Castle
Of Archibald and the surgeon... Two Micro Fictions by Luanne Castle
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November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thank you so much!
Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"I started to make mixed media collages using the same themes I work with in my writing: gender, history, language, and the human body."
Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...
Spend some time with our latest Art & Hybrids collection from artist/writer/DIHP Alum @luannecastle.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...
Luanne Castle | November 2025 — Does It Have Pockets
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November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
My First Runner-up Eric Hoffer Award fractured fairy tale poetry chapbook Our Wolves is now available for your Kindle. www.amazon.com/Our-Wolves-L...
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My First Runner-up Eric Hoffer Award fractured fairy tale poetry chapbook Our Wolves is now available for your Kindle. www.amazon.com/Our-Wolves-L...
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Perfect Christmas present and great reading! Available internationally from Amazon!
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Leave us a review 🥳
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Amazon.co.uk : 100 poems for the 21st century
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October 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Perfect Christmas present and great reading! Available internationally from Amazon!
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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 - 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻
4/5⭐
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A classic - deserving of its place in the psychological horror pantheon. This is a subtle haunting; subdued and quiet except for those rare moments when it’s not...
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#booksky #gothic
4/5⭐
🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆
A classic - deserving of its place in the psychological horror pantheon. This is a subtle haunting; subdued and quiet except for those rare moments when it’s not...
visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review
#booksky #gothic
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 - 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻
4/5⭐
🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆
A classic - deserving of its place in the psychological horror pantheon. This is a subtle haunting; subdued and quiet except for those rare moments when it’s not...
visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review
#booksky #gothic
4/5⭐
🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆
A classic - deserving of its place in the psychological horror pantheon. This is a subtle haunting; subdued and quiet except for those rare moments when it’s not...
visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review
#booksky #gothic
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Our Poetry prize is OPEN. These submissions will be read blind and we will choose what we consider the best single poem!
Published and unpublished poems accepted. Go to the website for full details roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...
Published and unpublished poems accepted. Go to the website for full details roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...
October 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our Poetry prize is OPEN. These submissions will be read blind and we will choose what we consider the best single poem!
Published and unpublished poems accepted. Go to the website for full details roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...
Published and unpublished poems accepted. Go to the website for full details roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...
A new marriage micro is up at The Bookends Review! thebookendsreview.com/2025/10/09/i...
It May Have Originated in an Interior Organ - The Bookends Review
When he first showed me the crescent-shaped rash on his chest, right over his heart, I glanced at it from across the kitchen. My husband was fresh from the mid-summer garden, dripping fresh salty swea...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A new marriage micro is up at The Bookends Review! thebookendsreview.com/2025/10/09/i...
Spankin new journal Circle of Salt pubbed my new harpy poem. circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/2025/10/born...
"Born for the Job" by Luanne Castle
Born for the Job for all the harpies Pensive, that look she had, part introspective, part tending feelings both black and red about the ch...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Spankin new journal Circle of Salt pubbed my new harpy poem. circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/2025/10/born...
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On This Day in History: September 24, 1896
Happy birthday F. Scott Fitzgerald. His work endures. So does the truth about how it was made. Zelda wrote, painted, and tried to publish on her own terms. He took what he wanted and pulled back when she needed his support. Team Zelda, always. #booksky
Happy birthday F. Scott Fitzgerald. His work endures. So does the truth about how it was made. Zelda wrote, painted, and tried to publish on her own terms. He took what he wanted and pulled back when she needed his support. Team Zelda, always. #booksky
September 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
On This Day in History: September 24, 1896
Happy birthday F. Scott Fitzgerald. His work endures. So does the truth about how it was made. Zelda wrote, painted, and tried to publish on her own terms. He took what he wanted and pulled back when she needed his support. Team Zelda, always. #booksky
Happy birthday F. Scott Fitzgerald. His work endures. So does the truth about how it was made. Zelda wrote, painted, and tried to publish on her own terms. He took what he wanted and pulled back when she needed his support. Team Zelda, always. #booksky
Thrilled to have art in the new issue!
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 — 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟔, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟐 (𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓) 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐱 issue available now. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover art "Nude" by Kim Suttell
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Cover art "Nude" by Kim Suttell
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September 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thrilled to have art in the new issue!
Delighted to have two Flash stories selected as finalist for the marathon contest by The Ekphrastic Review. Congrats to the winner and other finalists. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
Perfect Ten Marathon: Flash Fiction Finalists and Winner!!!!
Bravo to all the writers! I found myself swirling on imagination's magic carpet as I read these flash pieces. Each one invited me to experience its chosen art in a different, sometimes thrilling way.....
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September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Delighted to have two Flash stories selected as finalist for the marathon contest by The Ekphrastic Review. Congrats to the winner and other finalists. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
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Andrea Kowch :
Dawning, 2022
Dawning, 2022
September 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Andrea Kowch :
Dawning, 2022
Dawning, 2022
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Two 🔥 micros here by
@luannecastle.bsky.social
in @gonelawn.bsky.social
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@luannecastle.bsky.social
in @gonelawn.bsky.social
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September 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Two 🔥 micros here by
@luannecastle.bsky.social
in @gonelawn.bsky.social
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@luannecastle.bsky.social
in @gonelawn.bsky.social
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Thank you, Kathryn.
Two 🔥 micros here by
@luannecastle.bsky.social
in @gonelawn.bsky.social
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@luannecastle.bsky.social
in @gonelawn.bsky.social
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Thank you, Kathryn.
Thank you so much, Sumitra!
@luannecastle.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social with two micros - one bizarre, one heart-wrenching. Both 🔥🧡🔥🧡
“The school secretary handed you off to Miss Dixon, as if you were a slippery, prickery, stinky fish”
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“The school secretary handed you off to Miss Dixon, as if you were a slippery, prickery, stinky fish”
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Gone Lawn 61 : Luanne Castle
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September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Thank you so much, Sumitra!
Thanks so much for Gone Lawn for including my two micros in the new issue! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
September 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thanks so much for Gone Lawn for including my two micros in the new issue! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Excited to have two collages inspired by Plath’s poetry in this issue!!!
A moth, a mirror, and a wand… RA 126 is here! Ft work by Lalaie Ameeriar, Kathleen Barta, Juliana Briggs, @luannecastle.bsky.social @mfpd.bsky.social @g-bergs.bsky.social Merie Kirby, Jane Lunin Perel, Tala Wilder, Nancy Holt Wright, and Yan Zhang // rogueagentjournal.com/issue126
Issue 126 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
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September 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Excited to have two collages inspired by Plath’s poetry in this issue!!!