Betty

Westport By Betty Stanton I  Her mouth smells of liquor and wind. She wears strength like a jacket—borrowed, too big in the shoulders—the rain echoing on concrete like prophecy. Inside, coffee is bitter as …

Now that it's the 1st I can share that my piece Westport has been nominated by Bright Flash Literary Review for this year's Pushcart Prize. Read it and leave me a comment if you're bored. lol. brightflash1000.com/2025/08/01/w...

Over 120 publications re-opened today, including @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @marshhawkpress.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @kenyonreview.bsky.social @wapress.bsky.social @allegropoetry.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...

The Second Cup The Second Cup Betty Stanton ​                  Every afternoon at four, she makes tea for two.                    After the funeral she started it to remember, as...

New piece of flash out in @newfeathers.bsky.social today! www.newfeathersanthology.com/the-second-c...

avoiding math is always a good reason, though

Hey! That's my game! Thank you @urbanbohemian.com for the mention :)

Was great getting to talk to you!

Last Kiss Ever feel like the world is out to get you? It is. A TTRPG of unheroic teens facing down the end of the inevitable world. You're the main character, with all the misery that entails. How will you mak...

Rascal says its a quiet week but there's only five days left in the Last Kiss backerkit campaign! How is that not the headline?! (/jk I love @rascal.news )

We're edging slowly closer to getting a little taste of Hawkmoth King in the game as a stretch goal!

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Had an excellent time @ #PAXU - got to run some games, talk to people about the game I wrote, meet new friends, and see a lot of great friends I only get to see once a year. Always one of the best weekends of the year. Wish we had something similar close! We head home tomorrow morning.

I sit on the editorial board for Ivo. Submit to us! We're also running a 10 Minute Monologue contest to be published in this third issue.

New poem out www.discretionarylove.com/honeyed/

I'll be presenting The Open Book at this on Saturday morning! Come see me!

New Volume Collects 60+ Col. Darron L. Wright Award-winning Stories & Poems Editors of Chicago-based non-profit literary journal Line of Advance  ( www.LineOfAdvance.org ) have announced a new, second volume collecti...

I had a poem that was an honorable mention in 2022 in the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards.. It has now been anthologized along with the other winners and honorable mentions for that contest for the last few years in this anthology www.middlewestpress.com/2025/09/new-...

Rooted in: Rite Rooted in: Rite is Rooted Literary Magazine’s inaugural Halloween Anthology. It’s a collection of poems, essays, short stories, and art that captures what Rites mean to us.

And another story out today at Rooted: stayrootedent.com/rooted-in-se...

The story that I worked on after my terrible airport experiences this summer just won a horror prize for Halloween. talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/ho...

the fib review - Betty Stanton

Two short poems out at the Fib Review. I've never tried this form before I saw this journal, and they were fun to work with. www.musepiepress.com/fibreview/be...

New poem from my new chapbook project in Circle of Salt today circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com

New poem out in this issue of @viridinelit.bsky.social!

Short story out @ Macrame Literary Journal
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Lichtenberg Scars | Betty Stanton There are different ways a person can bestruck – a side splash or ground currentlicking at the fragile lightning rod of skintransformed into circuit. A person struckbecomes something new, becomes a…

New (old) poem @ bitter melon review. thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/l...

WAITING FOR THE LIGHT I  Rain again. It steams on walkways, hisses on skin, peels sinew from bone. No one screams. We stare up, blank and blistered, asking each other the same questions.     &nb…

New piece @ Would Up Literary woundupliterary.com/2025/10/06/w...

Also two poems from my new chapbook series out in Sextet! sextet.co.uk/betty-stanton/

Vol. 10 Issue 11 - Cover Page — Five on the Fifth

New piece out at Five on the Fifth from a story I started in college in a challenge based writing workshop and then forgot about for 20 years. www.fiveonthefifth.com/vol-10-issue...

I gave a box of D&D minis and dice that have been sitting in my office for four years and a bunch of old maps to a group of boys who play D&D in the hallway after school today. This is what it feels like to be the cool teacher.

Jenks Speech and Debate 2025 | Snap! Mobile Support Jenks Speech and Debate 2025 and help us raise $10000

Please consider supporting us by sharing this! It takes a lot to run a team, and I have 115 students I want to provide opportunities for. raise.snap.app/donate/jenks...

New short story out in @pinkdisco.bsky.social (issue has some NSFW images in the page, so be careful where you open it)

betty — ELLIE Magazine cargo.site

Two poems from my 'In Which She Is' sequence out in Ellie. I started this sequence in 2022 after noticing a call in @tinywrenlit.bsky.social and then it just kept growing.
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Personal rejection letters from publishers are great. Unnecessarily rude personal rejection letters could just as easily have been form letters...

Gypsophila Zine - V3: I8 - the ghost of the past Volume 3 Issue 8 of Gypsophila. Published August 31, 2023. Featuring images from photographer Amy Decker.

New poem out in Gypsophila Zine: gypsophilazine.com/v3-i8-the-gh...

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