Lori Cramer

So sorry to hear you've been Trevored. Hope you're feeling much better soon!

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Sometimes a good writing week is just a week in which you had some time to write and you wrote some sentences you really like. #amwriting

If you have links to audio of your stories being read (preferably by you) please share them with me. I’d love to listen to some friends to pass the time.

The best way I've ever heard jazz described is that two or more chess players (or one player against themselves) agree to play a game as hard as they can but arrive at a mutually agreed upon stalemate.

listening to heavy rain on the roof and windows while reading a book from the giant stack beside your bed counts as writing this morning

So sorry for your loss, Suzanne.

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Or Was It a Baby? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash by Emily Rinkema It’s 5:00 a.m. and I ask my husband if he wants to hear my dream, but he pulls the quilt over his shoulders. I ask my other husband, but he jus...

"...but there are holes in the dream now (was I a dancer?) and if I don't tell someone soon, they'll multiply."

Read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social.

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Got the nicest rejection letter! #amwriting

3 weeks from today my memoir CAMOUFLAGE will greet the world! Here’s some early praise from the amazing @estelleserasmus.bsky.social, author of Writing That Gets Noticed and TEDx speaker (among other things). You can read her full blurb that brought me to tears on October 28!

Departures | matchbook

"I'd come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn't."

Read @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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wrote a paragraph. this novel should be done any decade now

Thank you!

Submissions NOVEMBER THEME SUBS OPEN OCTOBER 15! Photo by Thomas Forsberg on Pexels.com Tightrope … what comes to mind? Maybe you’re thinking of a song (Leon Russell, Janelle Monáe, Stevie Ray Vaughan …), a mo…

I'm guest editor for November at Punk Noir Magazine.
Submissions open October 15 and close October 21.
Theme: TIGHTROPE
1000 words max, all fiction genres, no poetry.
Send stories in a Word document, include a third person bio, to
punknoirmag@yahoo.com
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/

Thanks so much, Jenny!

Thanks, Lisa!

Thrilled to receive my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! Big thanks to Eulogy Press for nominating my micro, "Reunions."
#amwriting #microfiction

I've got a 275-word micro about a clueless songwriter in the September issue of 10 By 10 Flash Fiction Stories (pages 7-8). Thank you to editor Zvi A. Sesling.

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Screenshot of the fiction publishers with the top five fastest response times at Duotrope, showing Doric Literary at number five, with an average response time of 1.4 days.

Doric Literary is open for fiction submissions (1000-8000 words).

We're approaching our 1000th submission of the year.

Free to submit
We nominate for major literary awards
Acceptance rate: 2.93%

We respond QUICKLY!!
We are now #5 @duotrope.com

Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

Hurt us a little In which Laura riffs on what we look for in poetry submissions

FREE submissions to @frazzledlit.bsky.social open on Oct 1st, for short stories, CNF, poetry and flash. So what are we looking for? Today, Laura talks about just that, in reference to poetry.
www.frazzledlit.com/p/hurt-us-a-...

We Are #NotJustPretty Hear and See Us in the launch of this special 3-zoom series hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez Oct.4 8pm gmt/12pm pst Feature Poets: Rusty Rose, Lucy Heuschen Feature Artist/Filmmaker: Jenny Wong Open Mic Poets We Are All, Tala Lillie Upcoming: Nov. 8 5pm pst/8 pm est: Featured: Phynne-Belle, Debby Segal, Sylvia Van Nooten, Open Mic Jan 24, 2026 8pm gmt/ 12pm pst: Featured: Cat Balaq, Laura Grevel, Fidel H. Walsh, Soheila Vahedi, Open Mic

One week from today!! Saturday, October 4th @ 8pm GMT.

Join me along with feature poets Rusty Rose, @petitecreature1.bsky.social and our wonderful host @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for the first of a @thebrokenspine.co.uk special Zoom Series #NotJustPretty!!

Open For Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions. Responses usually in less than two weeks. BTW, our editor loves when an animal pops up in a story.

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction

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HANGING STARS - .

"I wonder if you knew then
what a gift it was, the space you held for me--
soft, like a favorite sweater?"

Read @cake-girl.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social

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NEW ANTHOLOGY CALL!

After our upcoming Terry Allen incited anthology we were gonna cool it for a bit on our music-incited anthologies because we have a lot on our publishing plate here.

But eff it. Right now the world needs all the inspiration from Woody Guthrie it can get.

still true

"'I just want her to be happy,' I say. 'I just want her to write poetry,' I say. CT pulls me into a hug. 'Or play basketball,' I say into his neck."

Read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com.

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