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Nick Rees Gardner
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Writer, critic, beer and wine monger
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Quick reminder to DMV area writers that we're looking for submissions at Night Ginkgo Press! If accepted you receive payment and a print anthology! Not much better out there. Details below

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Essential Writing from the DMV
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April 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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manageable #awp25 book haul. excited to dig into these lit journals, along with a collaboratively written novel by Katie Jean Shinkle and Jessica Alexander @astrophilpress.bsky.social, and collections by @nickreesgardner.bsky.social and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Headed to LA!
March 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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So pumped to bring this project into the world! There’s always room for another indie press.
nightginkgopress.bsky.social NightGinkgo @nightginkgopress.bsky.social · Mar 16
DMV area writers, Night Ginkgo Press is looking for your submissions for an upcoming anthology. See more below!

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Essential Writing from the DMV
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March 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This review of Hey You Assholes by is so thoughtful and impassioned that my wife asked me if I had written it under a pseudonym. No, I told her. @nickreesgardner.bsky.social is the realest dude around.

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March 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“I can kick it at a dive bar & crack jokes with a group of roofers or bitch about a bad tipper with a fellow bartender.”

📌 ICYMI Gene Kwak talked w/ @nickreesgardner.bsky.social about his new collection DELINQUENTS & OTHER ESCAPE ATTEMPTS southwestreview.com/a-drug-story...
A Drug Story Is Never Just About Drugs | An Interview with Nick Rees Gardner
By Gene Kwak
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February 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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So cool!
southwestreview.bsky.social Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · Feb 4
Nick Rees Gardner's DELINQUENTS & OTHER ESCAPE ATTEMPTS via @madronabooks.bsky.social is a trip 🌪️

Gene Kwak talked w/ the man himself about writing it, legacies, drugs, & the fictional town of Westinghouse ✨ southwestreview.com/a-drug-story...
A Drug Story Is Never Just About Drugs | An Interview with Nick Rees Gardner
By Gene Kwak
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February 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn

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January 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Today we're featuring 10 short stories—all freely available to read online—including work from @electriclit.bsky.social, @thesunmagazine.bsky.social, @wwborders.bsky.social, @bostonreview.bsky.social, and more.

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Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2025 - Longreads
Kickstart your reading year with 10 short stories selected by longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj.
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January 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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You didn’t hear it from me.
aaronburch.bsky.social Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Dec 29
Finished this this morning. The final story is a helluva closer. Congrats, @nickreesgardner.bsky.social!
DELINQUENTS and other Escape Attempts, linked stories by Nick Rees Gardner Drug Magic Now that Abe no longer shoots heroin, he sounds like a fifty-dollar self-help and the problem is I’ve seen this all before. The problem is that my life these days is a series of dips and dives while my brother, despite his past, keeps thriving. The problem is he won't shut up about it. Abe tells me it's not luck but Drug Magic, that all his previous wrongs have undergone a reversal. He says, "No, Mags, Drug Magic's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Its like you ask the universe for what you need, and you get it." He lies on his creeper under a Honda Civic ravaged with rust. He grunts, punches. A bolt cracks. He says, "Hand me the breaker bar, Mags." I don't hand him the breaker bar because who the hell knows what a breaker bar is and because I'm headed off to the community college where I'm working on my nursing degree so I can one day move beyond in-home healthcare, beyond a raggedy-ass house on the East Side. I could really use some Drug Magic now that rent is due and my last charge, Gertrude, is dead. I corner my Buick and beg the universe like Abe's
December 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Finished this this morning. The final story is a helluva closer. Congrats, @nickreesgardner.bsky.social!
DELINQUENTS and other Escape Attempts, linked stories by Nick Rees Gardner Drug Magic Now that Abe no longer shoots heroin, he sounds like a fifty-dollar self-help and the problem is I’ve seen this all before. The problem is that my life these days is a series of dips and dives while my brother, despite his past, keeps thriving. The problem is he won't shut up about it. Abe tells me it's not luck but Drug Magic, that all his previous wrongs have undergone a reversal. He says, "No, Mags, Drug Magic's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Its like you ask the universe for what you need, and you get it." He lies on his creeper under a Honda Civic ravaged with rust. He grunts, punches. A bolt cracks. He says, "Hand me the breaker bar, Mags." I don't hand him the breaker bar because who the hell knows what a breaker bar is and because I'm headed off to the community college where I'm working on my nursing degree so I can one day move beyond in-home healthcare, beyond a raggedy-ass house on the East Side. I could really use some Drug Magic now that rent is due and my last charge, Gertrude, is dead. I corner my Buick and beg the universe like Abe's
December 29, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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My final interview of rhe year is live. It’s been a wild 4 months since Delinquents hit the shelves!

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Evocative short stories from the Rust Belt: a Q&A with Nick Rees Gardner
Reviewer Joseph Pete Interviews Nick Rees Gardner, Author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts / The short story is to fiction what espresso is to coffee—intense, precise, and yes, short. Maybe th...
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December 10, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Tradition. But that’s not what I came to tell you about.
November 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Going to open up submissions for Short Story, Long in December. Have a longer (~3k-8k words) story you think I'd like. Get it ready to send my way!

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Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | Substack
Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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November 25, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Nov. 16 story: “Lifers, Locals, Hangers-on” by Nick Rees Gardner

The title story is probably the attention-grabber, but I preferred this one (although this is dumb, no need to compare or “vs.” them). Really great story, great fun Saturday morning read.
Lifers, Locals, Hangers-on Once again, Lissa found herself at a party, tipsy, playing therapist to her best friend. Apparently, Glory's most recent ex, a younger guy and a senior in the BFA, had tried to teach her about line breaks--imagine that! Glory! the most prolific poet Westinghouse, Ohio had ever known! The two women sat squished together in the dip of the thrifted couch, faded floral stitching merged with wine stains under their asses. Another Literati House party. Another cohort meet-and-greet for the budding creatives who didn't have the scratch to make it on one of the coasts. Every fresh batch of students employed the same excuse: it was cheap here, lowbrow, DIY. As if they were better than middle America, but conceded to condescend. What they didn't realize was that the Midwest was fine without them. Glory was on one: If you've got such a hard. on for traditional forms, then go publish in Poetry Magazine like the other stuck-up White dudes. I'm too old and Black for that shit. I'm here to innovate. I want to feel. Lissa told her friend, Hell yeah! and, Right! and nodded for emphasis, but half her attention was fly papered to the cowboy… hand holding paperback of DELINQUENTS and other Escape Attempts, linked stories by Nick Rees Gardner
November 16, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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recent faves:
literally JUST read “Lifers, Locals, Hangers-on” in @nickreesgardner.bsky.social’s DELINQUENTS, and it’s great
in new BASS, really loved Daniel Mason’s “A Case Study” and Lori Ostlund’s “Just Another Family”
November 16, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Happy 3 months to Delinquents And Other Escape Attempts!

You can still get your copy here:

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November 15, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Been making jokes about beets all dinner long and I’m pretty sure they’re the lowest hanging fruit of all root vegetables.
November 15, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Alright. I’m here now too.
November 12, 2024 at 7:03 PM