The Coil Magazine

Literature to change your lightbulb. // Fiction, essays, poetry, history, columns, reviews, interviews, booklists, litstuffs. Run by @AltCurrent. #CoilMag

[Alternating Current Press @altcurrent]

Hello, friends. We are moving The Coil away from the staticness of the Medium platform and to a new home on its own site. Currently, https://t.co/YiMBnLnh2m will work and get you to the magazine, but https://t.co/yXBn9ps4Kx is no longer redirecting there. @CoilMag #CoilMag

[katienickas @katienickas]

Thanks to @CoilMag for hosting a #writingprompt this month for us to send an #ekphrastic poem or story based on an archetypal print or engraving to delight your readers! #DaguerreoTyped @altcurrent

[katienickas @katienickas]

How the Lonesome Engine Drivers Pine by @CoilMag https://t.co/81YxJH1Th4

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For anyone who lost a publication space at Catapult due to the mag's closure and needs a space for an essay or piece, we're happy to provide a home at The Coil. We can't pay whatever Catapult was paying, but we have 85k readers and are here if you need us. https://t.co/A3hpuI2byo

[Jeff Fearnside @JeffFearnside]

Five things you might find in my stories:
1 Strong evocation of nature
2 Central Asian settings
3 magical realism
4 female characters that “push against type” (@CoilMag)
5 “fiery women” (@pam_houston)
Next Up: @EvMoWi, @D2Montgomery, @BethCastrodale, @aapinkerton, @WendyJeanFox

[David Drury @DavDrury]

Thank you @CoilMag for nominating my short story/fable/cautionary tale, The Ballad of Nothing for a Pushcart Prize. The link to read it is pinned to the top of my feed.

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Congrats to our Pushcart Prize nominees & good luck!🤞

[Melissa @MelissaMark]

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[Jon Chaiim McConnell | jonmcconn.bsky.social @JonMcConn]

Excerpted in @CoilMag! Interview in @The_Rumpus! Reviewed in @broadstreview! On shelves at @booksaremagicbk @anovelideaphl @SpiralBookcase @GreedyReads @printbookstore and others!

[Pat Foran @pdforan]

“What makes us who we are is not just our memories, but also our ability to understand loss.”

“Oh, Fry … don’t you know that no matter how long any of us live, we never, ever, figure out how to feel ways about stuff?”

@joshdenslow in @CoilMag https://t.co/t3fpzBGiUl

[TNBBC @TNBBC]

Let's help @joshdenslow celebrate his very first published essay in @CoilMag ! Crazy proud of him!

https://t.co/BcYwNXSRaF

[Cathy Ulrich @loki_writes]

"To truly be me, I needed to know what I had, and what I didn’t have."
@joshdenslow in @CoilMag:
https://t.co/9HnogdPo3L

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@JoshDenslow talks about memories, Futurama, and how to process loss today on #CoilMag.

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https://t.co/qTiajfutlN

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New fiction by Melissa Mark today on #CoilMag!

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https://t.co/cgJwUBOlhk

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Read @BrianKerg's sobering new fiction, the 2nd place winner of the Luminaire Prose Award, today on #CoilMag!

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https://t.co/3l6iyHoHQu

[Brian Kerg @BrianKerg]

“How long would you want to wait to find out your son was dead?”

My latest fiction in @altcurrent's @CoilMag, and 2nd place for the 2022 Luminaries Prose Award.

A story about casualty notification.

https://t.co/4aRwLA2w1o

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Read today's top-5 Luminaire-winning short story, "Observations of Trans-Neptunian Objects" by Gabriel da Silva-Schicchi (@gabrielschicchi) on #CoilMag!

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https://t.co/884HOn2iIb

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Today on #CoilMag, Johanna Rauhala (@JoRauhala) writes about cancer, comfort food, nourishment, & the search for meaning.

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https://t.co/jYulwwOvKf

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New Luminaire-finalist #fiction by Jonah Marlow Bradenday up today on #CoilMag!

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https://t.co/UiwSbIuZxM