Michael Czyzniejewski

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I’m so excited about this book! I love it so much!

Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.

Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.

Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @jhhwriter.bsky.social for nominating my story "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." for The Best Small Fictions. In such great company here, too! @writesofkathryn.bsky.social, etc.

Thanks to @lukerolfes.bsky.social, @jgallaher.bsky.social, and everyone at Greentower Press for putting me in the new Laurel Review! I get to be with @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, @aimeeparkison.bsky.social, @webbish6.bsky.social, and so many other friends and talents!

Picked up these two gems by @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social when he visited Springfield this past weekend!

So exciting!

We love it, too!

Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by @kimmagowan.bsky.social, part of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon!

Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.

Love this so much!

Cover reveal: My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from @mooncitypress.bsky.social on January 6. Preorder link coming soon!

Art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

Got to read at Northwest Missouri State this past week with my friend and colleague @jennifermurvin.bsky.social! Thanks to @lukerolfes.bsky.social, @jgallaher.bsky.social, Daniel Biegelson, and the whole Maryville gang for being the BEST hosts!

Missouri Poets Laureate David L. Harrison, @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social, and @karenkay.bsky.social meet up in Springfield!

I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague, @jennifermurvin.bsky.social, for the indisputably cool @lukerolfes.bsky.social and @jgallaher.bsky.social and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!

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5.21 - Cutleaf Journal The signal of an object jogs the memory of the narrator in Lucile Barker’s “Green Grolsch Bottle.” Andy Fogle remembers the past and an imagined future, in

Kudos to @keithlesmeister.bsky.social and his staff. Cutleaf is a really nice journal.

@emilyrinkema.bsky.social , @lorettec.bsky.social, @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, @americanmarvel4.bsky.social rvel4.bsky.social Art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social

@jennystalter.bsky.social, @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, Mikki Aronoff, @megpokrass.bsky.social, @jekwriter.bsky.social, @gary79.bsky.social, @willmusgrove.bsky.social, @claudiaputnam.bsky.social

November 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute

New Ghost Parachute! Kudos, @brettpribble.bsky.social!

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Good book mail today thanks to Lydia Millet!

Oh, this is bluesky! She is here.

Courtney is a really good friend of mine. You should friend her on Facebook! She’s not here.

Sex In Public: A Triptych — Ghost Parachute Hustling She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed. And he wallpapers the back of his many fish ...

Awesome new piece by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute, with equally fantastic art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social!

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dogyard mag "Thaw" by Taylor Ward

Congrats to my student Taylor Ward on their publication in @dogyardmag.com!

Volume 14, Issue 11 COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET   FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM &nbs…

Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!

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the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey by ­­ Michael Czyzniejewski “ ­­ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...

Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!

Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.

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Two stories by @catemcgowan.com up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!

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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...

A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!

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