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Thank you @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and Danielle Lazarin for recognizing my story “Unidentifiable Cells” for this prize! I am in awe and so very grateful!

Thank you Sudha! X

Thank you!!

Thank you so much!!

I am over the moon to share this 💫 I’m in such good company. Can’t wait to share the story in the January issue!

I'm done crying over this shit. They want us miserable and helpless. I'm just contrarian enough to refuse to indulge them. I'll be over here making art, making plans and looking after my people.

Congrats, @reemarp.bsky.social !! 🐸💙🎉

"I think about dying a lot these days. But mostly that my crush Sheila might catch me dying. I once heard her tell another teacher that the sensitive boys are her favorite, though I don’t think that means sick boys." @reemarp.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Vol. XXXVI No. 2 - Winter 2023 - Witness Magazine Editor’s Note: “We live to collect experiences, not things.” Whenever I hear that familiar saying, I’m reminded of the preciousness and elusiveness of the present moment, but at the same time,...

Honored to be a part of this issue: https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/winter-2023/

Devi Maa By Reema Rao-Patel - Witness Magazine by Reema Rao-Patel There was no funeral for Devi, no puja for final rites, no pyre. That day, six months ago, crashes into the shores of Sriram’s mind the way Devi’s blood spilled from her little...

(Happy writing news abounds) I couldn’t imagine a better home for this one than Witness. Thank you to the editors for believing in the magic 💫

https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/winter-2023/devi-maa/

Nominations - Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize - The Lumiere Review The Lumiere Review is the brightest literary magazine around. We are always open to poetry, prose, and art submissions. Read our online issues and interviews.

Um wow. A second nom for BotN this year, from The Lumiere Review! "First Summer" is one of the first short stories I'd written, and I'm so happy it found its place in the world and now this. Many thanks!!

https://lumierereview.com/nominations

Ten personalized rejections means acceptance is coming soon, right? RIGHT? Or is it just many rejections lol.

Dear Friends, Contributors, Subscribers, & Supporters of Literature, After 35 years of editorial and publishing excellence, the president of Gettysburg College has decided to end the Gettysburg Review. Lauren & I are understandably devastated. We have been offered a rationale for this decision, but it's frankly one that neither Lauren nor I understand or accept. It was made clear to us that they know little about who we are, what we do, and what our value is, and could be, to the Gettysburg College campus. We encourage you to reach out to the college’s president, Bob Iuliano, and provost, Jamila Bookwalla. Tell them what you think of this decision & the merits of publishing great literature. riuliano@gettysburg.edu (717)337-6010 jbookwal@gettysburg.edu (717)337-6820 ... We would love to hear about what the Gettysburg Review has meant to you. Please send condolences, anecdotes, and other stray and helpful thoughts to Lauren & me, and if we can, we will share them... Mark Drew, Editor

Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!)

An acceptance from Hayden’s Ferry Review!!!! What a dream 🤩 & for one of my favorite stories written to date (we can pick favorite children right?)

so excited to join the roots.wounds.word community as a fellow in dawnie walton’s workshop this january 🤗 looking forward to a week of feeling held and healed.

wow this was so well written and haunting! thank you for sharing!!

Immense gratitude to the @flashfrog.bsky.social team for this nomination!! 🎉

📣 Chicago writers: Dipika’s myth and magic class/workshop was such an incredible one. It’s where I wrote one of my favorite stories to date, soon to be published. Highly recommend!

HER TWINN™ An eerie mommy story by Reema Rao-Patel

I'm 3wks postpartum. I wrote this when trying for our baby & channeled all my fears into it. And I just have to acknowledge the painful truth of these words I wrote: "You cried for months and so did she, which made you cry some more." https://t.co/QcSOqgJDqG

Between my raging postpartum hormones and the influx of pub rejections and acceptances this week, I am a MESS.

‼️TIN HOUSE AUTUMN‼️ *falls to the floor*

An acceptance from The Los Angeles Review ✨ for a flash piece that is so deeply raw and personal to me (though what writing isn’t?). Can’t wait to share soon.