Wallstrait

A Journal of Hard-to-Define Prose. Published triweekly. Fast response times. Paying Market: $100. Fiction and CNF welcome!

[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

"What it must have meant, to my father, to bring his daughter to the ballet. After his childhood. After finding his parents drunk-dead on the kitchen floor."

"Pas de Deux" — Nonfiction by Jamie Cattanach

Issue 3.8 is live!

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[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

"Rule number one with Rosie Cailean O’Brien was to never get stinkin’ falling-down drunk, because that was a stripper’s ticket to assault or worse, and she’d been careful about it until a week ago..."

"Rosie’s Righteous Rules" by BV Lawson

Issue 3.7 is live!

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[Duotrope @Duotrope]

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Flash Fiction feat. @sixsentences @fiveonthefifth @wallstrait et al. https://t.co/WhnhvbpQQZ

[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

We're hiring volunteer Fiction Readers!

We're accepting applications through May 8th.

Learn more about the role and apply through Submittable: https://t.co/CZ76uT2ydA

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[Chill Subs @chillsubs]

To be clear, we think the weird kids are the coolest 🤷

Submit to our community's favorites here: https://t.co/iw0e81RZFz

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[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

"it’s tru that this month i have 16 crushes & only one of them knows my name."

New Fiction: "Does the Desiring Unbecome Me?" by Elizabeth J. Wenger

Issue 3.6 is live!

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[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

"Six days before It Happens, he holds a candle up to your face until the heat wakes you. His face is thin and glowing orange."

New Fiction: "Our Last Verge" by a.k. barak

Issue 3.5 is live!

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[Duotrope @Duotrope]

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Fiction feat. @flashfictionmag @lycanvalley @Sky1sland @wallstrait et al. https://t.co/nk1DPstRAi

[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

Hard-to-define new fiction: "A Brief Look at Competitive Chess Through 3150" by John Leppik

Issue 3.4 is now available!

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[Alicia Maskley is querying @AMaskley]

Weird fic writers, your time is now. 🧐😁

[Leigh Ward-Smith @1WomanWordsmith]

So apt for the unprecedented-iest, chaos-iest times we're livin in--with 500 to 3k their sweet spot . . .

#fiction #CNF #writerslife #writerscommunity #WritingCommunity

[After Dinner Conversation @AfterDinnerCon]

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[Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn]

Just two more weeks before the worm moon hits us, and then something will come down! You know it will! #64 in fact! Just you wait, it will blow your mind. Still time to submit. But you'll have to find the way to do so. A little game.

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[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

Send us your boldest, weirdest, and/or hardest-to-definest prose!

We open for submissions on March 1st!

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[Levi Platt @onthingslost]

Also for the uninterested, a link to my essay: https://t.co/IuwjN3Jrgh

[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

Deceptively layered. Deftly executed stream of consciousness. This piece does a ton with 600 words.

"Draw Shot" by Chey Dugan.

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[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

Brand new fiction now live!

"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy

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[The B'K Magazine 🇵🇸 @TheBKMagazine]

#FF It’s National Handwriting Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “H” and “W”!
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@wallstrait
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[Wallstrait @wallstrait]

First Issue of the new year is live!

"Our Dad Was a Spy in the Eighties" by Martin Taulbut

https://t.co/0H5aFuWXK5 #fiction #amreading

[Chill Subs @chillsubs]

These lit mags passed the vibe check this year to be the Boldest & Weirdest!

Submit to them (and our longlist!) here: https://t.co/sQmsb91M2t

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