MicroLit Almanac (Closed: next Mar 1, 2024)

Conventional micros are fewer than 300 words. We are far from conventional. Send us your fiction, CNF, and poetry in 1000 words or less.

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A deep look at Brian Turner's THE WILD DELIGHT OF WILD THINGS by Miriam O'Neal.
"... the starting place of grief’s pilgrimage and the “you” for whom this wild long journey through the physical universe as well as the metaverse of the heart is undertaken."
https://t.co/TZrJ4a0FxC

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"& things ring abstract and constructed on this voyage, making me wonder more than ever if I do create my reality after all."
Read "the thing about circular journeys" by Talia Hope Levy in MicroLit Almanac.
https://t.co/l6RzpnfbRw

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Check out the review of @sfreligh's A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN by @allisonrwrites! https://t.co/qgRh6jC4ke

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"Eclipsed by Hunger," looks at @enicfraze's FEED ME and asks about what happens "what happens when a young girl’s relationship to food, a body’s nourishment, is interrupted"? By Jessica Binkley. https://t.co/aYQ11kVHA9

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Our first review of 2024: Carlene Gadapee takes a look at @DianeMehta's Tiny Extravaganzas.
https://t.co/lujtdxnMNA

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Welcome to Flash News Friday! Tell us your news -- and we think you'll enjoy reading Les Schofield's review of Jehanne Dubrow's Exhibitions. https://t.co/gS7xLLq4xk

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"Slowly, we ventured out in our Airstream trailer, the silvery hull a mirror of America…" -- American Diorama by Thomas Schabarum is our latest publication in MicroLit Almanac.

https://t.co/Zu9e6NvT02

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Diving into the week before Christmas we're delighted to offer up Mark Wallace's review of John West's Lessons and Carols! ""All the modest ceremonies of our lives pay tribute to our need for order."

https://t.co/WHxXVbK6xD

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Congrats to your Best Small Fictions nominees! @johnrcoats @clcooperider Patti Jazanoski @SarahOa64492096 @MandiraPattnaik

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Nancy Lynée Woo writes about @CarrieNassif 's poetry collection: "Carrie Nassif’s lithopaedion births itself through moody, atmospheric, earthy language as the speaker traverses a country landscape in search of an absent mother." https://t.co/isp7I05q8k

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Debating leaving Twitter/X.

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Congrats to Liz Ziemska and @clcooperider -- we nominated their fabulous stories for Best American Short Stories!

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"The fog is not burning off this morning. / No hint of sun. The voice in my head / Is about dusk light."

"The Call," by @efchapman out today.

https://t.co/JCicNwI8de

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“All novelists are eavesdroppers—we listen like mad.” —Penelope Lively https://t.co/fw37rAsCa8

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Congrats to our Best Microfiction nominees! @johnrcoats @iamsuzannehicks @SarahOa64492096 and Suzanne Bjornson!

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“Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to read.”—Kenzaburo Oe
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Flash News Friday! Congrats to our Pushcart nominees: Elizabeth Ziemska, @clcooperider Donnetrice Allison, Lorraine Comanor, Jean Hey, and @DawnSteffler !

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Today's flash reading: Flâneuse by @clcooperider! "I notice these things. I notice the people with missing teeth and the women with makeup that’s too much but not enough to cover the bruises. I notice..."
https://t.co/BqkcygjlF7

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MicroLit Reviews features Jonathan Everitt's insightful exploration of Erin Malone's poetry collection, Site of Disappearance, a striking and memorable work of art. https://t.co/JyJ0qdg50h