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Allison Field Bell

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social

Writer. Teacher. PhD candidate UofU. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Social Media & Assistant Prose Editor Pithead Chapel. Poetry collection ALL THAT BLUE (forthcoming) Chapbooks: STITCH (forthcoming), EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY allisonfieldbell.com

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reading for @chestnutreview.bsky.social πŸ’•

07.03.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#AWP with some great people who also have great books out! @amymarques.bsky.social @jadjosey.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social

07.03.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So grateful to be on this @turnandwork.com list! πŸ₯°

Read my new essay: www.craftliterary.com/2026/02/11/p...

06.03.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading last night with @riverteeth.bsky.social beautiful things πŸ’•

06.03.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MicroMonday #46 Nighthawks by Allison Field Bell I could tell you about the image itself: the way the four figures are arranged at the coffee bar in the early hours of morning of some city. How two are together, o…

β€œIt’s a message to me. Saying without saying. I could tell you how I refuse to respond.”

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/03/02/m...

03.03.2026 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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"These stories do what the very finest fictions can do: remind us of what it is to be human in all its beauty and pain and relentless complication." β€” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social

Order Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever by @tcboudreau.bsky.social today.

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03.03.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Gone Lawn 64 : Brett Pribble

Thrilled to see my story published in the latest issue of Gone Lawn. Big thanks to editors @amygcb.bsky.social and @owenwyke.bsky.social.

gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

03.03.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great story! As good as the French pistachio cream cake I just ate!!

02.03.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring Nighthawks by Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/03/02/m...

02.03.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MicroMonday #46 Nighthawks by Allison Field Bell I could tell you about the image itself: the way the four figures are arranged at the coffee bar in the early hours of morning of some city. How two are together, o…

"It’s a message to me. Saying without saying."

Big love for this gem (I really dig how this micro is put together!) by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™
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02.03.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you πŸ’™πŸ₯Ή

02.03.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MicroMonday #46 Nighthawks by Allison Field Bell I could tell you about the image itself: the way the four figures are arranged at the coffee bar in the early hours of morning of some city. How two are together, o…

'It’s a message to me. Saying without saying.'

I adore Edward Hopper and this piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social is a superb accompanying piece.

#fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity

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02.03.2026 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

new flash is up at @fictivedream.bsky.social πŸ’•

02.03.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Such a generous review by @andrewcareaga.bsky.social πŸ’™

You can buy ALL THAT BLUE now!

26.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Find me at AWP!
Reading @riverteeth.bsky.social
Signing @sugarhousereview.bsky.social
Reading @chestnutreview.bsky.social
Signing @finishinglinepress.bsky.social
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25.02.2026 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

23.02.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

20.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for highlighting my story! ❀️πŸ₯Ή

20.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

#awp2026

20.02.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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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13.02.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Parts by Allison Field Bell - CRAFT I. He tells me my body is deteriorating. Just like that. He says, β€œYour body is deteriorating.” Part 1 of me says Fuck you. Part 2 of me weeps.Β  Β  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...

12.02.2026 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

06.02.2026 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dark teal background for graphic of mustard/gold prize cup with stars behind. Text: The SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop Prize. 3rd place: Allison Field Bell

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...

05.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG! So excited to have placed 3rd in the @smokelong.bsky.social Workshop Prize! πŸ’•πŸ’•πŸ’•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 β€œThe Word Disorder”

05.02.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay!!!!

03.02.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

❀️❀️❀️

03.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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03.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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…

β€œI try to imagine not knowing β€˜what to do with my time.’

β€˜Sounds nice,’ I say.

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

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

03.02.2026 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€œBoulder Problem” and β€œFoe” πŸ’•

03.02.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New flash in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ! @smokelong.bsky.social workshop-born of course! πŸ’•

pitheadchapel.com/motherhood/

01.02.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1