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Our nominations for Best Microfiction 2026 📝
Thank you all for your stunning micros. 📚
Thank you all for your stunning micros. 📚
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our nominations for Best Microfiction 2026 📝
Thank you all for your stunning micros. 📚
Thank you all for your stunning micros. 📚
Our nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay 📚
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @christytending.bsky.social
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @christytending.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Our nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay 📚
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @christytending.bsky.social
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @christytending.bsky.social
Here are our nominations for the next edition of the Pushcart Prize. ✨️
Thanks to these writers for their gorgeous words.
Thanks to these writers for their gorgeous words.
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Here are our nominations for the next edition of the Pushcart Prize. ✨️
Thanks to these writers for their gorgeous words.
Thanks to these writers for their gorgeous words.
On today's Weekly Features:
Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.
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Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
On today's Weekly Features:
Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
First look at the scribes that bring to you this winter 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘈 📢
Stay tuned for our special issue/anthology of short stories featuring the enigmatic Atlas A. 📚
Stay tuned for our special issue/anthology of short stories featuring the enigmatic Atlas A. 📚
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
First look at the scribes that bring to you this winter 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘈 📢
Stay tuned for our special issue/anthology of short stories featuring the enigmatic Atlas A. 📚
Stay tuned for our special issue/anthology of short stories featuring the enigmatic Atlas A. 📚
Announcing our nominations for Sundress Publications’s Best of the Net 2026 📢✨️🥳
Thanks to these creatives and all others who help us keep this thing alive.
Thanks to these creatives and all others who help us keep this thing alive.
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Announcing our nominations for Sundress Publications’s Best of the Net 2026 📢✨️🥳
Thanks to these creatives and all others who help us keep this thing alive.
Thanks to these creatives and all others who help us keep this thing alive.
This week, Jacelyn Yap takes in Japan's waterways, and Marshall Moore lands at the world's gateway to Japan.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This week, Jacelyn Yap takes in Japan's waterways, and Marshall Moore lands at the world's gateway to Japan.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
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We present to you the list of contributors for FICTILE FEELINGS, our inaugural Poetry Special, edited by Sanjeev Sethi.
This stunner drops on October 3.
Stay tuned! ✨
This stunner drops on October 3.
Stay tuned! ✨
September 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We present to you the list of contributors for FICTILE FEELINGS, our inaugural Poetry Special, edited by Sanjeev Sethi.
This stunner drops on October 3.
Stay tuned! ✨
This stunner drops on October 3.
Stay tuned! ✨
𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, our poetry special guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi, releases on October 3, 2025.
Here's the front cover with a photograph by Jacelyn Yap.
Here's the front cover with a photograph by Jacelyn Yap.
August 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, our poetry special guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi, releases on October 3, 2025.
Here's the front cover with a photograph by Jacelyn Yap.
Here's the front cover with a photograph by Jacelyn Yap.
Due to an overwhelming response, we have moved up the deadline. Please send your poems for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi by August 24.
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
August 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Due to an overwhelming response, we have moved up the deadline. Please send your poems for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi by August 24.
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
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August 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A teeny-tiny Substack newsletter should have landed in your inboxes. thehooghlyreview.substack.com/p/guest-edit...
Weekly Features submissions are closed until further announcement. Please keep an eye on our website, newsletter, and social media for updates on when we reopen.
Submissions for our ASAP Corner (reviews only) remain open.
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Submissions for our ASAP Corner (reviews only) remain open.
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August 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Weekly Features submissions are closed until further announcement. Please keep an eye on our website, newsletter, and social media for updates on when we reopen.
Submissions for our ASAP Corner (reviews only) remain open.
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Submissions for our ASAP Corner (reviews only) remain open.
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Our founding editor, Tejaswinee, with THR contributor @ronita.bsky.social, one of the writers featured in Grieving Hope, ed. @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. It was our pleasure writing a blurb for this beautiful collection. Get your copy from the ELJ Editons website: elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
August 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Our founding editor, Tejaswinee, with THR contributor @ronita.bsky.social, one of the writers featured in Grieving Hope, ed. @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. It was our pleasure writing a blurb for this beautiful collection. Get your copy from the ELJ Editons website: elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
We are pleased to announce the submission call for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi.
Guidelines are in the attached poster and on our website.
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We look forward to your best poems. 📖
#WritingCommunity #poetry
Guidelines are in the attached poster and on our website.
thehooghlyreview.com/call-for-sub...
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
#WritingCommunity #poetry
August 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are pleased to announce the submission call for our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi.
Guidelines are in the attached poster and on our website.
thehooghlyreview.com/call-for-sub...
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
#WritingCommunity #poetry
Guidelines are in the attached poster and on our website.
thehooghlyreview.com/call-for-sub...
We look forward to your best poems. 📖
#WritingCommunity #poetry
Thank you @authorspublish.com for hosting our submission call!
Complete guidelines: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
Complete guidelines: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
July 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thank you @authorspublish.com for hosting our submission call!
Complete guidelines: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
Complete guidelines: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
Except for regular and special issue release weeks, this week could be our busiest yet with a book review, a film review, a web series review, and four weekly features (two forthcoming this Sunday) published within eight days.
Do visit our website.
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Do visit our website.
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July 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Except for regular and special issue release weeks, this week could be our busiest yet with a book review, a film review, a web series review, and four weekly features (two forthcoming this Sunday) published within eight days.
Do visit our website.
thehooghlyreview.com
Do visit our website.
thehooghlyreview.com
We're grateful to Commonwealth Foundation Creatives and Authors Publish for hosting our submission call for “The Many Lives of Atlas A.”
If you have been looking for an opportunity to flex your creative muscles, this is the opportunity for you!
Details: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
If you have been looking for an opportunity to flex your creative muscles, this is the opportunity for you!
Details: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
July 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We're grateful to Commonwealth Foundation Creatives and Authors Publish for hosting our submission call for “The Many Lives of Atlas A.”
If you have been looking for an opportunity to flex your creative muscles, this is the opportunity for you!
Details: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
If you have been looking for an opportunity to flex your creative muscles, this is the opportunity for you!
Details: thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
We had a great time recording our Bookbot Theory episode, which is now on YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Do watch or listen to our conversation with the wonderful host Namrata.
YouTube: youtu.be/mH6EpuUYO6U
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6VM7...
Amazon Music: shorturl.at/RVGba
Do watch or listen to our conversation with the wonderful host Namrata.
YouTube: youtu.be/mH6EpuUYO6U
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6VM7...
Amazon Music: shorturl.at/RVGba
July 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
We had a great time recording our Bookbot Theory episode, which is now on YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Do watch or listen to our conversation with the wonderful host Namrata.
YouTube: youtu.be/mH6EpuUYO6U
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6VM7...
Amazon Music: shorturl.at/RVGba
Do watch or listen to our conversation with the wonderful host Namrata.
YouTube: youtu.be/mH6EpuUYO6U
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6VM7...
Amazon Music: shorturl.at/RVGba
We're building THE BEEHIVE, a free and quick database, easily accessible to creatives looking for places to submit their work.
If you are an editor/publisher, send us your submission calls; we’ll host/share them on our website, socials and newsletter.
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If you are an editor/publisher, send us your submission calls; we’ll host/share them on our website, socials and newsletter.
thehooghlyreview.com/the-beehive/
July 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We're building THE BEEHIVE, a free and quick database, easily accessible to creatives looking for places to submit their work.
If you are an editor/publisher, send us your submission calls; we’ll host/share them on our website, socials and newsletter.
thehooghlyreview.com/the-beehive/
If you are an editor/publisher, send us your submission calls; we’ll host/share them on our website, socials and newsletter.
thehooghlyreview.com/the-beehive/
We love what we do. And we'd love it all the more if you read what we do.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We love what we do. And we'd love it all the more if you read what we do.
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/
We were on the Bookbot podcast last week with Namrata, the charming host and Kitaab editor.
Stay tuned for the episode.
Stay tuned for the episode.
July 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We were on the Bookbot podcast last week with Namrata, the charming host and Kitaab editor.
Stay tuned for the episode.
Stay tuned for the episode.
On today's Weekly Features:
Amita Basu braves the workplace, and James Sennott and Alba Blanco set the stage on fire.
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Our publishing concerns, current calls and submission guidelines can be accessed here:
thehooghlyreview.com/submissions/
Amita Basu braves the workplace, and James Sennott and Alba Blanco set the stage on fire.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
Our publishing concerns, current calls and submission guidelines can be accessed here:
thehooghlyreview.com/submissions/
July 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
On today's Weekly Features:
Amita Basu braves the workplace, and James Sennott and Alba Blanco set the stage on fire.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
Our publishing concerns, current calls and submission guidelines can be accessed here:
thehooghlyreview.com/submissions/
Amita Basu braves the workplace, and James Sennott and Alba Blanco set the stage on fire.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
Our publishing concerns, current calls and submission guidelines can be accessed here:
thehooghlyreview.com/submissions/
Submissions are open for our forthcoming short story anthology, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑨.📝
Send us your 800–3500 word stories featuring Atlas A, whose backstory and character sketch are on our website.
Guidelines 👇
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Send us your 800–3500 word stories featuring Atlas A, whose backstory and character sketch are on our website.
Guidelines 👇
thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
June 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Submissions are open for our forthcoming short story anthology, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑨.📝
Send us your 800–3500 word stories featuring Atlas A, whose backstory and character sketch are on our website.
Guidelines 👇
thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
Send us your 800–3500 word stories featuring Atlas A, whose backstory and character sketch are on our website.
Guidelines 👇
thehooghlyreview.com/guidelines-s...
On today's Weekly Features:
Saraswati Nagpal struggles to appease Saraswati with Annapurna at her back, and Maureen Tai resolves to fix time, one Duracell at a time.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
Saraswati Nagpal struggles to appease Saraswati with Annapurna at her back, and Maureen Tai resolves to fix time, one Duracell at a time.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
June 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
On today's Weekly Features:
Saraswati Nagpal struggles to appease Saraswati with Annapurna at her back, and Maureen Tai resolves to fix time, one Duracell at a time.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...
Saraswati Nagpal struggles to appease Saraswati with Annapurna at her back, and Maureen Tai resolves to fix time, one Duracell at a time.
thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-featu...