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In Mediam Mentem. Consciousness-forward fiction and thought. Championing fearless writing in short fiction, criticism, and literary nonfiction. Publishing in a revolutionary spirit. Words: lespritliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit (Subs OPEN)

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Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines and open calls:

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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and a month of Chill Subs membership!

02.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bookshop Find merchandise for Indirect Books and L’Esprit Literary Review–collectively, 1882 Literary–here, along with back issues of L’Esprit and forthcoming titles from Indirect. 1…

Our brand new Bookshop site is now live! Help support fearless writing by purchasing back issues in print!

L’Esprit merch is also available—shirts, mugs, candles, totes!

Find everything over at the Indirect Press bookshop:

indirectbooks.org/bookshop/

Merci!

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#litmag

01.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Past As A Place We Can Find: A Conversation with Lincoln Hirn Our inaugural Past Contributor Conversation!

The latest episode of our podcast is up!

1882literary.substack.com/p/the-past-a...

Check out all our episodes—and show notes—over at our Substack, @indirectbooks

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01.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On Novels and Forms Quarterly Volume X || Winter 2025 Chers amis de L’Esprit,  Bienvenue à our tenth quarterly, Winter 2025! In this edition, we have a major announcement (!), plus journal news, calls for submiss…

Flashback to our Winter 25 Quarterly!

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31.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and a month of Chill Subs membership!

31.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines and open calls:

30.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A Proximate Distance: Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat Listen now | Episode Two of the Cordelivres Criticism Club

The latest episode of our podcast is up!

1882literary.substack.com/p/searching-... Check out all our episodes—and show notes—over at our Substack, @indirectbooks

#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
#independentpublishing

30.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

 We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue 7 and a free month of @chillsubs.bsky.social membership!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

29.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a cool and elusive piece!

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Christ Whatever else He is or was, I bet Jesus Christ gives really good hugs. Anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi—the year of our Lord. The year of our misery, followed by a year of still more misery.

"Everybody thinks this about their favorite celebrities, but I truly believe that Christ and I could be friends."

Thanks to @lespritlit.bsky.social for providing an excellent home for my poem-essay about Jesus!

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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

 We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue 7 and a free month of @chillsubs.bsky.social membership!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

28.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

 We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue 7 and a free month of @chillsubs.bsky.social membership!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

27.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

 We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue 7 and a free month of @chillsubs.bsky.social membership!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

26.10.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines and open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

25.10.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

Full prize info, guidelines, and submission link:

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

$800 in total prizes, plus all sorts of incredible Chill Subs offerings, and every piece considered for publication in our high quality print issue!

Bloom portrait by the great @jrostopovich.bsky.social

25.10.2025 02:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re super excited about Jennifer’s story, and can’t wait to keep reading!

Submissions are open through Dec 7; submit your work and join the excellent innovative fiction we’ve begun to receive for this contest.

All entries get a digital issue and a month of @chillsubs.bsky.social membership!

25.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm delighted that one of my all-time favourite stories has made the shortlist for the 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, run by those lovely people over at L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social. Couldn't be happier!

24.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 3
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Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines and open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

24.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

 We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue 7 and a free month of @chillsubs.bsky.social membership!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

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EXCITING NEWS! We're partnering with Chill Subs and their Contest Transparency Program for the 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize. In addition to the monetary prizes and publication for L'Esprit, Chill Subs is offering several awards for contest entrants and winners.

23.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TOMORROW! Help us celebrate the launch of Issue Seven at our Zoom reading October 26th at 1pm US Central Daylight Time. RSVP at this link: forms.gle/ag7feqdVSRS2...

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Full monetary prizes (in *addition* to the Chill Subs memberships!):

Grand Prize: $500 + Pub

Second Place: $150 + Pub

3 Finalists: $50 + Pub each

Excited to be partnered with @chillsubs.bsky.social !

23.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXCITING NEWS! We're partnering with Chill Subs and their Contest Transparency Program for the 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. In addition to the monetary prizes and publication for L'Esprit, Chill Subs is offering several awards for contest entrants and winners.

22.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Bookshop Find merchandise for Indirect Books and L’Esprit Literary Review–collectively, 1882 Literary–here, along with back issues of L’Esprit and forthcoming titles from Indirect. 1…

Our brand new Bookshop site is now live! Help support fearless writing by purchasing back issues in print!

L’Esprit merch is also available—shirts, mugs, candles, totes!

Find everything over at the Indirect Press bookshop:

indirectbooks.org/bookshop/

Merci!

#WritingCommunity
#litmag

22.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Re-opening: L'Esprit Literary Review L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social (Art; pays) opened to art submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/lesprit-literary-review-34174

L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social (Art; pays) opened to art submissions. https://duotrope.com...

11.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

#modernism

20.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!

lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...

#modernism

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