Claudine: A Literary Magazine

Honored to celebrate our BMF nominees!
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We’re thrilled to share our Best Small Fictions Nominees!

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Thank you! 🙌🏼🐈‍⬛

Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How To Read Them by Keith J. Powell | A Review

Check out our review:

Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them by Keith J. Powell is a tour de force of twenty-two stories about love, sex, and the gulf between the two.
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@keithjpowell.com

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Five Stories by Travis Flatt | A Review

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“Travis Flatt’s Five Stories delivers wry, yet heartfelt storytelling that's ripe with spot-on dialogue and deliciously dysfunctional twists.”

@travisflatt.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/fivestories

Mari Harrison | The Octopus Tank

New Writer Spotlight 💡

“There’s an application half-finished on my laptop for an MFA program, but I can’t make myself click submit. Sometimes, being small and still feels like the only intelligent choice.”

@javajnkie.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/mariharrison

Susan L. Lin | When We Are Young, We Think We Are Invisible

“My father meant “invincible,” of course, but for once I failed to correct his imprecise English because I believed he had, entirely by chance, stumbled across a hidden truth of my childhood.”

@susanllin.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/susanllin

🐈‍⬛😭🐈‍⬛. Thank you!!!!!

Femi Bakare | The Arithmetic of Loss

“One for the heart that skips. Two for the bones that bend. Three for the mind that forgets my name but remembers the recipe for pounded yam.”

www.claudineliterary.net/femibakare

Kim Magowan | Instead of Doing Something Juvenile, Like Slashing Your Tires, After You Dumped Me for DeAnna Vacario

“my brilliant brain behind my exquisite face is stupefied that you ever mattered to me a single iota”

@kimmagowan.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan

Staff meeting: Happy December, humans!

We are CLOSED for subs this month.

Looking at 2025 numbers, we got 1049 subs, for a 3.3% acceptance rate. Thank you for making our first calendar year such a success!! 🐈‍⬛🔥💚

We reopen for subs Jan 1.

Jeff Harvey | They Come and Go

“My ex-boyfriend Jack (Jack from Buffalo, not Jack from Encino) swiped three cases of poppers from Eddie’s Porn Emporium on Hollywood Boulevard and I started selling them out of the trunk of my Pinto”

@jhhwriter.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/jeffharvey

Congratulations, everyone!!

Kim Magowan | Instead of Doing Something Juvenile, Like Slashing Your Tires, After You Dumped Me for DeAnna Vacario

Love this micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan

East Coast US midnight. First Monday of the month! 🐈‍⬛🎉🐈‍⬛

@jhhwriter.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @keithjpowell.com

🙀🐈‍⬛🙀 that’s us!! Thank you @duotrope.com

Thank you, @fiveminutelit.bsky.social!!

For Every Tower, A Princess by Kathryn Kulpa | A Review

✨ICYMI✨

“Kulpa’s narrators skim the line between once and future worlds with such longing that the reader cannot help but desire to discover what magic might slumber in their own lives.”

www.claudineliterary.net/foreverytowe...

Reviews dropping in one week! @keithjpowell.com @travisflatt.bsky.social

One week from today!

@jhhwriter.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social

Being Seen by Suzy Eynon | A Review

✨ICYMI✨

“In crafting Daisy, Eynon skillfully straddles the line between fiction and nonfiction. (And really, where does that line fall?)”

www.claudineliterary.net/beingseen

Congratulations!

Congrats to all the nominees!!!

Frey Lylark | My Mother Does Not Have a Trans Child

✨ICYMI✨

“Do you remember when I took you to ballet? Do you remember President Sister Bishop’s Wife who first taught you that your body was a stick of gum?”

@freybytheway.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/freylylark

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.

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Majella Pinto | Letter to My Parents

✨ICYMI✨

“I saw Grandma in the auditorium stand up to get my attention. She waved at me. I pretended not to see her so my friends wouldn’t ask me why Grandma was attending instead of you”

www.claudineliterary.net/majellapinto

Thanks for giving my sad corvid story a home and so much love 💙💙💙

www.claudineliterary.net/aniking

What a lovely piece of meditation and expansion in @claudineliterary.bsky.social by the wonderful @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 🌊

Staff meeting:

11 more days until subs close for Dec. (Now reading for Feb & March issues)

If you have a chapbook, especially if it’s coming out in 2026, hop on the interwebs and send us an email! We can’t review books we’ve not heard about . . . 😉🐈‍⬛

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