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Only Animals Check out Only Animals - "Chelsea Sutton's writing is electric. The stories in Only Animals crackle with wit, emotion, and big, strange ideas that linger long after you're finished reading." - Gwenda ...

…and while you’re at it, read her short story collection ONLY ANIMALS (Blurb Books) (available in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/only...), and read her #Flash405: “Monster” flash fiction winner THE CLINKING OF COINS: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th...!

Books Launching in February 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in February 2026 from CLMP members.   How to Disappear and Why by Kyle Minor Saraban...

We’re delighted to see #ExpoContributor Chelsea Sutton’s premiere novella KRACKLE’S LAST MOVIE (@splitlippress.com) on @clmporg.bsky.social’s Books Launching in February list! Check out new Chelsea’s book: tinyurl.com/FlashClinking.
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Today we’re spotlighting @lumchanmfa.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Illumination” winners! Find flash fiction, flash nonfiction & flash poetry by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher & Liana Meffert in our #Flash405: 2025 Issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25.

Thrilled to have three micros in @wigleaf.bsky.social!!!

Exposition Review Co-Editor-in-Chief @lilrensing.bsky.social #ExpoRecommends A LETTER TO THE GIRL WHO LIVED HERE BEFORE ME by Satvik Soni.

Read the full recommendation & all of our “PARA/SOCIAL” Expo Recommends here:
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#ExpoReview #parasocial

Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

“Tell us about a time you—or someone else—messed up, biffed it, dropped the ball.” And do it in 405 words, 4 pages, 5 lines, or fewer for your chance to win cash prizes and publication in Heather Vaughan’s Flash 405: “Oops” writing contest: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

Send Heather your multi-genre short-form writing by March 5 for your chance to win cash prizes and publication: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

Flash 405: “Oops” judge Heather Vaughan (she/her) is a writer and educator from Southern California whose work explores culture, gender, sex & belonging. She is an alum of the Fulbright Program, the @kenyonreview.bsky.social Writers Workshop & the Juniper Institutr. She lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!

Flash 405, April 2025: “Quitting" Winners - Exposition Review Summer may be in full swing, but here at Expo, we’re still basking in the glow “Spring.” And, in the spirit of not “quitting” the season, we have even more new work to share: the winners of our latest...

This week we’re celebrating our Flash 405, April 2025: “Quitting” winners. Judge Francesca Spiegel chose flash fiction and flash nonfiction pieces by @refaelpaulo.bsky.social, @scmart.bsky.com, @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social & Angela Townsend: tinyurl.com/Quitting405. #Flash405

“This novel asks difficult questions about what it means to connect with someone...” Fiction Editor & Flash 405: “Oops” judge Heather Vaughan #ExpoRecommends INTIMACIES by @katiekitamura.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco.
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Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

“Tell us about a time you—or someone else—messed up, biffed it, dropped the ball...”

Submit your “Oops”-themed short-form writing to Heather Vaughan’s February Flash 405 writing contest for your chance to win cash prizes and publication: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

“In MY LIFE’s construction is a timeless reminder of poetry’s ability to submerge, immerse, and in this, render a two-dimensional form into a three-dimensional experience.” Poetry Editor Kiana Shaley #ExpoRecommends Lyn Hejinian’s MY LIFE.

tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco. @weslpress.bsky.social

… Permanent Record: Poetics Toward the Archive (Nightboat), _______figuration: an anthology of trans writers (@gnashingteethpub.bsky.social), and elsewhere. They were a 2024 Lambda Emerging Writer and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia (2025).

BIO: Max Gregg is from Stanwood, Washington. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in @sonorareview.bsky.social, Tiny Spoon, @afternoonvisitor.bsky.social, @poetrydaily.bsky.social, Iterant…

“it doesn’t matter which town you’re from, the boys are all the same.” Read the rest of Max Gregg’s poem BOY ANGELS from Vol. X: “Spring” here: tinyurl.com/ExpoBoy.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Expo Film & Comics Editor Lauren Gorski #ExpoRecommends TWINLESS by James Sweeney, saying it’s “a psychological black comedy that premiered at the @sundance.org Film Festival. It’s a film I…love for its dark, twisted commentary on grief and obsession.” tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco @lionsgate.com

Sanctuary - Exposition Review by Abigail Mills Honorable Mention – Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor” Fiction   The mothers told your mother that you are a bad influence. They smell the smoke on your pleather jacket. They found yo...

Read Abigail Mille’s flash fiction #Flash405 winner SANCTURY: expositionreview.com/flash-405/sa...

Shells - Exposition Review by Evelyn Krieger 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor” Experimental   I never told anyone this, but the day after my mother died, I ate her unfinished red velvet birthday cake. Still ...

Read @evelynkrieger.bsky.social’s flash experimental #Flash405 winner hwre: expositionreview.com/flash-405/sh...!

You Never Really Come Back from Space - Exposition Review by Laila Amado 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor” Fiction   Back on Earth, your body becomes a jellyfish. Soft and undulating, it no longer knows how to walk. I remember how you use...

Read @amadolaila.bsky.social’s flash fiction #Flash405 winner YOU NEVER REALLY COME
BACK FROM SPACE hwre: expositionreview.com/flash-405/yo...

Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor" Winners - Exposition Review In her call for submissions for our February 2025 Flash 405 contest, “Anchor”, judge Ashley Moon asked for stories about what “holds you down.” We received many incredible entries, but the winners of ...

First up, we have Ashley Moon’s February 2025 “Anchor” contest featuring flash fiction and experimental works from @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social, and Abigail Mills. Click to our stories to read: expositionreview.com/2025/05/flas...
#ExpoReview #Flash405

Join us every Friday in February as we celebrate our #Flash405: 2025 Issue. We’ll be spotlighting each piece in our posts and our stories, which we’ll save to our story highlights for your continued reading pleasure.

The Cover Girl Check out The Cover Girl - <strong>"Thrilling and glamorous as its runways and backstage parties, <em>The Cover Girl</em> is also heartbreaking and redemptive with an ending that made me cry. Birdie i...

With the full Epstein files still not released, let alone all the power grabs at our bodies & rights, Amy Rossi’s THE COVER GIRL is a particularly challenging yet compelling read. It’s a must-read for the current moment: bookshop.org/p/books/the-....

Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

We’re kicking off another year of #Flash405 with #ExpoReview ’s own Heather Vaughan! See’s selected the theme “Oops” for her writing contest, which is now open through March 5, 2026.

Read about rules & theme: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

#shortform #writingcontest #callforsubmissions

Give Back to Literary Orgs on #GivingTuesday 2025 - Exposition Review It’s that time of year again! In honor of #GivingTuesday, we’re waiving our submission fees on Tuesday, December 2, so you can donate your money or time to your favorite organizations. If you’re looki...

WriteGirl is an LA-based creative writing & mentoring organization that empowers teen girls & gender-expansive youth. It helps 100% of its seniors get into college. Meanwhile, WriteGirl publishes its very own lit journal Lines & Breaks & a creative writing journal!
Donate: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25.

and her work appears in Joyland, @theoffingmag.bsky.social, @therumpus.net, Poetry Northwest, and the Cleveland Review of Books, among others. She can be followed @tall.spy on Instagram, but she can never be caught.

BIO: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzor is a poet and performer in Philadelphia, where she curates the reading series Spit Poetry.
She is the author of the chapbooks Heehee (forthcoming Ursus Americanus Press, 2025) and DUH (@bullshitlit.bsky.social, 2022)…

“my friend shut the light off
i went, ooh. dark”
So begins Juliet Gelfman-Randazzor‘s poem A STORY ABOUT PASTA from our “Spring” issue. That last last though… Read it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoPasta.