Allison Field Bell

Such a generous review by @andrewcareaga.bsky.social 💙

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Yet another former OKD contributor, Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social (August 2024), has her first full-length poetry collection on the way! You can pre-order Allison’s collection, All That Blue, at www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-.... Out March 20th.

This wonderful list! Honored to have my @fracturedlit.bsky.social story here! Thank you @turnandwork.com 💕

Thank you for highlighting my story! ❤️🥹

I'll be reading here with some really brilliant people like @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social & @jadjosey.bsky.social & @katiekemple.bsky.social & @theresegleason.bsky.social & Maya Cheav & Sara Chansarkar & Zaynab Iliyaau Bobi

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flash fiction Friday review of "Sometimes Grief is a Moonrise" by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. The piece is a heartache of complicated emotional processing. Read my brief review here:

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Parts by Allison Field Bell - CRAFT I. He tells me my body is deteriorating. Just like that. He says, “Your body is deteriorating.” Part 1 of me says Fuck you. Part 2 of me weeps.    II. We’re fighting about sunflowers again. Or maybe t...

Love @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's new flash essay in CRAFT today: www.craftliterary.com/2026/02/11/p...

The Word Disorder by Allison Field Bell - CRAFT I insist I need a corset for under my dress. A wedding. My cousin’s. A purple strapless with a layer of chiffon. My mother is outside the dressing room. She asks if anything fits. I stare down the mir...

Thrilled to see that your flash-length essay from CRAFT has placed in this contest. I love this essay! Here it is, for those who haven't read it, and we have a new essay from Allie coming out next week! www.craftliterary.com/2024/11/06/w...

Dark teal background for graphic of mustard/gold prize cup with stars behind. Text: The SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop Prize. 3rd place: Allison Field Bell

Read Allison Field Bell's Craft Literary story, "The Word Disorder”, which took third place in this year's hotly contested SmokeLong Workshop Prize: www.craftliterary.com/2024/11/06/w...

OMG! So excited to have placed 3rd in the @smokelong.bsky.social Workshop Prize! 💕💕💕Congrats to @travisflatt.bsky.social & @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social and all the finalists! And thank you so much to CRAFT & @jacqdoyle.bsky.social for originally publishing “The Word Disorder”

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Motherhood Allison Field Bell Sun stuck to the sky like an egg yolk. A whole fried center casting its heat across the yard. Roasting every cactus, boiling the pavement, turning the pool into bathwater. Tucson…

“I try to imagine not knowing ‘what to do with my time.’

‘Sounds nice,’ I say.

She looks at me critically. ‘You’re running out of it, you know. Time,’ she says.”

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/motherhood/

So thrilled to see my name (twice) on this list of results for the @ironhorselitrev.bsky.social NaPoMo contest! I love IHLR so much and I’m so honored that they will be publishing “Boulder Problem” and “Foe” 💕

New flash in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ! @smokelong.bsky.social workshop-born of course! 💕

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Thank you so much, Dan 🥹💕

"The woman is alone on the porch. The apple orchard dips into darkness, and she hears the owl, imagines her flapping her wings."

I love the way @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social writes. This remarkable piece in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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'They are standing on the woman’s porch. The woman and her friend. They stare at the road in front of them. Empty. And beyond the road, an apple orchard. And beyond that: sky. Night sky. Stars, and a hint of moonrise.' A beautiful piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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Beautiful, quiet piece.

Thank you 💕🥹

"Not a regular smoker, just a circumstantial one."

It's hard to write politics and stay glued to characters' humanity. The language is so well-crafted here. It doesn't let politics and humanity forget each other. It doesn't let them upstage each other either. Worth a read.

it’s a strange time to share anything right now but I do have a new flash up @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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So thrilled to have made the shortlist!!! 💕 @smokelong.bsky.social

Congrats to @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social on All That Blue, available for preorder now from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-...