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Nora Maynard

@noramaynard.bsky.social

Writer & editor in NYC. Stories in Tiny Molecules, Pangyrus, HAD. Nonfiction in Salon, The Millions, Ploughshares blog, Kitchn. Runner, movie lover, beginner violinist. Co-founder & co-editor of -ette @ettereview.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/noramaynard

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-ette & Pushcart logos with list of nominated stories: Laura Cronk, "The Chance" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025)
https://ettereview.com/fall2025/cronk/
 
Suzy Eynon, "Landlines" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025)
https://ettereview.com/fall2025/eynon/
 
Amy Holman, "Stuck" (Spring 2025: Issue 5, May 9, 2025)
https://ettereview.com/spring2025/holman/
 
Rachel Kowalsky, "Dear Dolores" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025)
https://ettereview.com/fall2025/kowalsky/
 
Emma Raimondo, "Death in Los Angeles" (Spring 2025: Issue 5, May 9, 2025)
https://ettereview.com/fall2025/raimondo/

-ette & Pushcart logos with list of nominated stories: Laura Cronk, "The Chance" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/cronk/ Suzy Eynon, "Landlines" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/eynon/ Amy Holman, "Stuck" (Spring 2025: Issue 5, May 9, 2025) https://ettereview.com/spring2025/holman/ Rachel Kowalsky, "Dear Dolores" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/kowalsky/ Emma Raimondo, "Death in Los Angeles" (Spring 2025: Issue 5, May 9, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/raimondo/

Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees!

Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@amyholman.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
Nora Esme Wagner

01.12.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Glad you found it! Cheers!

27.11.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll be quietly writing and reading. Husband and I have lived in NYC a long time but are originally from πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦so T-Day always feels optional for us. Did buy some provisions today, though: salmon, fancy cheese, and a TON of potatoes!

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@jonmcgregor.bsky.social thank you for a great workshop Saturday and the helpful notes today! PS I think I might have found an available copy of your missing book online!

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Subs close tomorrow, November 27!

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πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯°

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Congrats, Eileen!

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nihilist spasm band -- destroy the nations again
YouTube video by Mo Linus Johannes nihilist spasm band -- destroy the nations again

A band from my hometown youtu.be/IdyK34l1i7s?...

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Last call for 2025! One more week to submit!

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Thank you so much!!!

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Jonathan Fletcher | -ette-review Jonathan Fletcher in -ette-review Issue III: Fall 2024

And this one by Jonathan Fletcher we published in @ettereview.bsky.social www.ettereview.com/fall2024/fle...

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Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild by Kathy Fish Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild A group of grandmothers is a tapestry. A group of toddlers, a jubilance (see also: a bewailing). A group of librarians is an enlightenment. A group of visual…

This one by Kathy Fish is a stunner jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/c...

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Theatre program for Jeanine Tesoro’s Blue at Lincoln Center

Theatre program for Jeanine Tesoro’s Blue at Lincoln Center

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Two witches (Elsa Lanchester and Kim Novak) and a warlock (Jack Lemon) gaze at a green glowing light arising from a bowl in the movie Bell, Book and Candle (1958).

Two witches (Elsa Lanchester and Kim Novak) and a warlock (Jack Lemon) gaze at a green glowing light arising from a bowl in the movie Bell, Book and Candle (1958).

Stunning auroras in nyc tonight!

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Submit | -ette review

Subs are open for an unthemed issue! βœ‰οΈ

Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words

Deadline: November 27

No fee

Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/

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Emma Raimondo | -ette-review Emma Raimondo in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

β€œWhen she tours a potential listing, she stands in front of the widest window and worries when an earthquake will hit.”

Risk shakes up the beauty and stillness of the Hollywood Hills in β€œDeath in Los Angeles,” a moody micro by Emma Raimondo

Read it in our new issue!

ettereview.com/fall2025/rai...

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Carnegie Hall pre-concert with piano in background. Program for Nobuyuki, piano. Liszt, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev pieces listed

Carnegie Hall pre-concert with piano in background. Program for Nobuyuki, piano. Liszt, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev pieces listed

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Episode 6 - Roulette: Take a Chance on Art

🎧Listen to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social Hoopes interview @mattleibel.bsky.social and read his story aloud in our companion podcast, pod-ette!

open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

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Matt Leibel | -ette-review Matt Leibel in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

The past shrinks to miniature and nostalgia swirls in @mattleibel.bsky.social’s hypnotic micro, β€œHow to Buy a Snow Globe.”

Read it in our Roulette issue!

ettereview.com/fall2025/lei...

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Spotify – Web Player

🎧Listen to Melanie Hoopes interview Rachelβ€”and bring the words to life in a readingβ€”over at our companion podcast, pod-ette! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

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Rachel Kowalsky | -ette-review Rachel Kowalsky in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

In writer/pediatric ER doctor @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social’s stunner of an epistolary story, β€œDear Dolores,” a doctor and a hospital billing clerk spin their wheels over email.

Read it in our Roulette issue!

www.ettereview.com/fall2025/kow...

04.11.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The work in this new issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is just extraordinary. Cannot recommend it highly enough. πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ’œπŸ§‘β€οΈ

03.11.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Suzy Eynon | -ette-review Suzy Eynon in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

β€œI call my dead cat, whisper his name into the plastic receiver.”

In @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s β€œLandlines,” a one-way conversation on a disconnected phone spins a constellation of uncanny connections.

Read it in our Roulette issue!

www.ettereview.com/fall2025/eyn...

03.11.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jose Hernandez Diaz | -ette-review Jose Hernandez Diaz in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

β€œβ€˜Can I go with you?’ The woman in a β€˜Frida Kahlo for President’ shirt asked, on a whim.”

Read these two spinningly surrealistic charmers by
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social:

β€œWhen Do Dahlias Bloom?” & β€œThe Search”

in our new Roulette issue

www.ettereview.com/fall2025/diaz/

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πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯°

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So gorgeous! Congratulations, Eileen!

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Laura Cronk | -ette-review Laura Cronk in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

β€œWhy is my daughter chosen? Dancers do impossible things.”

In Laura Cronk’s β€œThe Chance,” the fate of humanity rests on one last, mythic game.

Read it in our new Roulette issue!

www.ettereview.com/fall2025/cro...

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Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines

Blessèd Samhain, everyone!

We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≀200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!

gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

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Back in the Tudor House | Pangyrus The real estate agent texted me to say the sofa wouldn’t fit through the front door, so the clean-out crew just left it. One of its legs gouged the doorfram ...

A spooky story of mine πŸ›‹οΈ
www.pangyrus.com/fiction/back...

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😊

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