Dishsoap Quarterly

If u missed this make sure to give it a read!

"...everyone rerouted all the planes and put up speakers playing predatory sounds to warn the birds and there was this sense of Okay: The Great List Of Things To Avoid, Updated" (They fired up the laser // @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social)

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-31-24/laser/

Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: snow, hadestown, kitchens, how-tos, hot air balloons, meadows and plains, succulents, video games, magical realism, love poems, text exchanges, pieces that are one really long sentence, and alternate realities.

Thank you for this generosity, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social!

Gorgeous piece about cabbages and your place in the world. Lose yourself in "Wake" from @m-demarco-words.bsky.social

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-10-26

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I really like the quietness of this story by Stephanie Rick published by @dishsoapquart.bsky.social

Happy friday! Here’s a few places you should check out if u haven’t already!

@cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
@the-engine-idling.bsky.social
@underscoremag.bsky.social
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social

The SmokeLong Workshop Prize — Finalists and Winners! - SmokeLong Quarterly We’re behind. We know! The problem with The SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition is that the stories are all good. Choosing winners is like choosing a favorite child. This is famously bad parenting. B...

The results of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize are finally here! We have 11 wonderful finalists. And (drumroll):

Third Prize winner: @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social

Second Prize: @travisflatt.bsky.social

First Prize: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social ⭐

www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Dark teal background for graphic of mustard/gold prize cup with stars behind. Text: The SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop Prize. 2nd place: Travis Flatt

Here is Travis Flatt's @travisflatt.bsky.social story from @dishsoapquart.bsky.social, “Cadillacs on the Moon”, which won second place in this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize for published stories begun in an SLQ workshop: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-4-25

GO ESMÉ!!!!!!! BANGER PIECE AS USUAL

A photo of the author, wearing a dark blue sweatshirt, sitting outside next to a rock wall and a fern plant.

@esmepromise.bsky.social's flash piece JELLYFISH searches for a change of heart in the very darkest part of the ocean. Here, they share just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/REF7Oom

ofc!!! thank u for sending it in :)

Happy to have two poems in @periodicities.bsky.social! Thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social for giving them a home!

Beautiful flash piece up today that flows so incredibly well from one sentence to the next. Try saying "Kijiji Couch" five times fast, then give @lindsaymcdonald.bsky.social's lovely piece a read.

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-3-26

squeaked into the top 20 😎

Green flier announcing Flash Frog being open. 1,000 words max. Pays $25. Free to sub. flash-frog.com. There’s a green frog with bright orange eyes poking its head out from the right.

A Review In this movie, God unzips his trenchcoat to reveal four children stacked one on top of each other. They fall to the ground and break their ribs. The ribs drift slowly into space as the credits roll. Two stars.

One of mine in @bruisermag.com

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Have you been following Dishsoap and thought to yourself: 'wow, super cool people must run that awesome lit mag'??? Yes. They do. And we want EVEN MORE! STAFF APPS OPEN!!!

Application form w/ more info: forms.gle/qmAFGjDJW2jK...

"Late summer and we are engulfed. Put your head inside
the black half-moon of an old charcoal grill
and breathe deeply. You’ll know what I mean." (Smoke // @benfowlkes.bsky.social)

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/8-26-25/smoke/

Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: birds, boys, unmowed lawns, She-Ra, winter weather, poems with really long titles, fishing but only in video games, garages and other semi-liminal spaces, arts & crafts, lineage, and pieces with exactly 116 words

Reminder to give this a read if u missed it earlier this week :)

Another great list of music and words from @keersteemack.bsky.social (and psyched that my story in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social is included here) 🌓🌓🌓

✂️ Collage, Collage, Collage! ✂️

Get your work in!

SUBS for Issue 8 close on Jan 31st!

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Sonnet as list of things to do with your partner during the summer instead of having sex — SillyGoosePress Eat pulpy oranges and stare at a cacophony  of punk-haired Steller's jays across the street; finally fold laundry; stick ‘n poke off-center spades; lose  Ebay bid wars over antique chicken s...

LAST DAY OF WINTER WHIMSY WEB SERIES! And we're ending with a bang:

Take a gander at SONNET AS LIST OF THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR PARTNER DURING THE SUMMER INSTEAD OF HAVING SEX by the one and only @zreayellers.bsky.social here:

sillygoosepress.com/winter-whims...

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Please meet Shae, who brings us their poem “Four O’Clock,” on healthy towns, mothers in trouble, and cones that are too sweet to swallow at www.unlikelystories.org/content/four... #poetry #litmag #smallpress

Flash that's absolutely jam-packed with lovely imagery and meditations on the universally harrowing experience that is a break-up. Enjoy "What Work" from @wildflowerred.bsky.social

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-27-26

Agree

Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: snow, trains, rainforests, houseplants, the queer experience^tm, cutting boards, boots, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the meaning of home, February, ekphrasis, evenings, and pavement

I am *SO* excited to have The Great Metro Detroit Flood in this week’s Dishsoap Quarterly. They are such a sweet little online mag. THRILLED (AHH!) to have a piece with them.

Huge thanks to @zreayellers.bsky.social for accepting this.

I hope you enjoy it!