Identity Theory

Online lit mag publishing fiction, poetry, CNF, interviews, micro, hybrid, & more. Est. 2000.

[Identity Theory @IdentityTheory]

"there are some things, in this town,
this body, this summer this circle this night
you just don’t say;

all you can do is wait your turn, braid clover stems,
and watch,
and hope the bottle says it for you."

Read "spin the bottle" by @feliciakrol https://t.co/sMF6ZvdDjI

[Erik Fatemi @ErikFatemi]

. @IdentityTheory published my very first short story a few years ago, and gave me the confidence to keep writing. So grateful that they found a home for my latest one, “A Good Cause.”

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"The other parents wouldn’t have a clue. They’d watch him bidding over and over, like he had money to burn, and he’d get out of there for free. It was brilliant.

There was just one hitch: Susan."

New fiction from @ErikFatemi: "A Good Cause"
https://t.co/IaxpVzgGnu

[Jennifer Fox @jennfoxwriter]

Can you think of a better way to start your day than receiving an acceptance from @IdentityTheory ? I can’t! 😁

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"We began to know mornings again. We began to know nights. We began to know seasons, shifts in the wind, scent of honeysuckle, humid warmth, sweet rot, clean cold."

New micro from Rachel Abbey McCafferty. https://t.co/it3kVo5GG6

[T.E. Hahn @TEHahnFiction]

My fiction is published in the @IdentityTheory March Equinox issue today. Please check it out. I'm so honored and grateful to Vic and the folks at the journal that I've admired for so long.
https://t.co/hUJ8bFefiR

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11 new micros published today in our spring issue. https://t.co/anYKOWfugY

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New micro issue drops tomorrow.

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New fiction. https://t.co/JiRZyoK10j

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We've nominated "Baggage" by Fannie H. Gray
for Best Small Fictions 2026. Read it here: https://t.co/PKDUhnCpT4

[Duotrope @Duotrope]

New publisher listing for: Identity Theory Micros @IdentityTheory (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying) https://t.co/5Pi6kyV7FX #WritingCommunity

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Our Best Microfiction 2026 nominees...

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This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.

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barbaric yawp > ai slop

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"I didn’t drown, of course. Dad just liked to scare me once in a while, get me out of my comfort zone. That’s how I try to look at it now, as an adult." Read "We Only Get Drier" by Jason Hardung https://t.co/uCQbMzVcQK

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New and Un-Identified: "The Alphabet of a Sidewalk Story" by Juliet Waller https://t.co/38AQ0nH1kP

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Our old friend Thomas Perry has passed. https://t.co/CfzszVJeSA

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Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

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This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.

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Submissions are set to open October 1st. We'll be finalizing responses to outstanding submissions for the rest of September. This has been a social media post in the year 2025. It was written from a bed with no sheets. The sheets are in the laundry. They will return soon. Fresh.