Matthew Lawrence Garcia

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Fending off the Venom of the Soul: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" Doggerel Diaries: Ben & Matthew's Literature Program · Episode

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Excited for it!

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Amazed to see my story "Harmony" in the winter 2024 issue of the wonderful American Short Fiction.

Thank you! It's a cool competition

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Check out my stories in the amazing Copper Nickel and Santa Monica Review mags, both in this year's spring issues. #writers #shortstories #writingcommunity #latinamericanfiction

Very happy for this. Can't wait till the story comes out. Amazing lit mag.

Coughing weather and reading in bed

Image of the lower part of a horse's face with skull superimposed, on a Barbie-pink background. Text: "SmokeLong Issue 81 September 2023. Featuring the prize winners from A SmokeLong Summer 23. Stories by Olivia Schwartzman Ola W. Halim Amy Stuber Ella Hormel Alida Dean Vibha Balaji jj peña Glenn Orgias Timothy Boudreau Frances Orrok Lindsey Pharr Christopher Santantasio"

Issue 81 is live. Read these 12 amazing stories, including five of the best from all those we loved in A SmokeLong Summer. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible. https://www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty-one/

The Kenyon Review is open for submissions until September 30. Three themed features, general submissions, and no fees. Visit our website for full guidelines.

Yes! It's us. We're still learning how to navigate this thing, but we just wanted to let you know, if you haven't heard, we're open for submissions! Please spread the word. And contributors, literary magazines, friends--give us a follow so we can follow back!

Two great recent reads, Sidik Fofana's Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, and Arinze Ifeakandu's God's Children are Little Broken Things. #writers #literature

Not my fav, but one of them

the cover image for Atticus Review’s fifth issue: a dark background smudged with faint stars, some drawn sharp and bright. a slender hare or rabbit leaps from left to right across the bottom

belatedly for the bluesky crew: issue five of atticus review is live! https://atticusreview.org/

The SmokeLong Workshop Prize - SmokeLong Quarterly SmokeLong began offering workshops in person in 2019. We toured the UK–London, Norwich, Birmingham, and Manchester (which is definitely NOT in the Midlands)–and we had the best time. Then COVID ca...

Familiar with the SmokeLong Workshop Prize? If you've published anything that began in any SmokeLong workshop, your work is eligible. Deadline in November. Entry is free. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

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Jonathan Escoffery interview: 'Humour is a coping mechanism used by people who are aware of their po...

Another winning interview with @escoffery.bsky.social on the occasion of IF I SURVIVE YOU making The Booker Prizes Longlist: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Congrats to Jonathan and all the longlist nominees!

Time to read. #writerscommunity #literature

Saturday morning sitting around reading #writerscommunity #coffeeandbooks

The Journal A Special Note on Our Submission Calendar:  The Journal will be open for submissions from September 1st through December 1st, and from February 1st through May 1st. We will be closed for submissions...

The Journal isn't on this app yet, but we're open for FREE submissions! Fiction folks, we're looking for speculative stories and flash. ⚡

3/4 of the current fiction editors are from or interested in the South, so send us work with Southern settings, too!

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On Friday I realized the new gig increases my chances of going home for a while in December. Fingers crossed. Today I woke up to this memory. This is here the next novel takes place. Good thing I believe in omens…

I did this a few years ago with a panel that got rejected by AWP. We had a great time at Barrelhouse, a better conference.

Jamel Brinkley at Books Are Magic for the launch event for his second collection Witness.

Went to a great book launch in Brooklyn last night—basically a craft talk. Read Witness by Jamel Brinkley!!

Best Microfiction is here! Please help spread the word! 🙂🙂🙂

Good writing day. Also, a good day for wall repair. It sounds like these two things do not go together, but spackling and sanding creates a meditative moment that holds a kind of magic. #AmWriting

Emily Henry's Book Lovers

My 15yo gives this 3/5 stars, but she devoured it in 2 days, so I don’t know how accurate her scoring system is. She said she really didn’t like any of the characters, so she couldn’t love the book. This bummed me out bc I know we all love to write unlikable characters.

Hello 👋 blue sky, hello #writers #writerscommunity #latinowriters