Brendan Gillen
@beegillen.bsky.social
Stories in Florida review, wigleaf, maudlin house, taco bell quarterly, had, xray & others. Pushcart & BSF nom. STATIC (vine leaves press '24). bgillen.com.
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Please join us in celebrating Aquifer contributor, Brendan Gillen, for the forthcoming publication of his short story collection, HANG TIME. Releasing on 12/4 from .406 Press, HANG TIME includes the story, "In the Nude," which was previously published in Aquifer.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please join us in celebrating Aquifer contributor, Brendan Gillen, for the forthcoming publication of his short story collection, HANG TIME. Releasing on 12/4 from .406 Press, HANG TIME includes the story, "In the Nude," which was previously published in Aquifer.
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“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
-- John Berryman
-- John Berryman
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
-- John Berryman
-- John Berryman
Thanks to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for the love, and the editors for the smart, thoughtful attention you paid to this one!
"Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’t choose her."
Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
An expensive, sought-after breed, which Maggie only knew because she took a photo of the animal’s smushed face and uploaded it to Google. Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thanks to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for the love, and the editors for the smart, thoughtful attention you paid to this one!
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"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all."
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Very Collected Poems
Very Collected Poems By Ron Padgett Coffee House Press. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Bies Ron Padgett’s been busy. In the dozen years since the publication of his Collected Poems, America’s silliest livi…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all."
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Huge thanks to Eric Rasmussen at Sundog Lit for the incredibly generous words about Hang Time. Sundog is one of the most supportive lit communities out there—for writers and readers. Give them a read, send them your work, keep them in your orbit. 🏀📚
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Huge thanks to Eric Rasmussen at Sundog Lit for the incredibly generous words about Hang Time. Sundog is one of the most supportive lit communities out there—for writers and readers. Give them a read, send them your work, keep them in your orbit. 🏀📚
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406press.com/product/hang...
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in its heyday, Literary Twitter made me feel like I was walking into a giant exuberant snowglobe full of other writers, readers, & editors
The Lit Hub brackets are making me miss Literary Twitter a lot tbh. Ever since that hellsite became… whatever it is now, and I eventually deactivated, I haven’t really felt connected to the lit communities. A couple years before that idiot bought Twitter, I was just
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
in its heyday, Literary Twitter made me feel like I was walking into a giant exuberant snowglobe full of other writers, readers, & editors
Early versions of some stories in Hang Time appeared in WASquarterly, @reckonreview.bsky.social, @underreviewlit.bsky.social, @thetwinbill.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, New Delta Review...
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Early versions of some stories in Hang Time appeared in WASquarterly, @reckonreview.bsky.social, @underreviewlit.bsky.social, @thetwinbill.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, New Delta Review...
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social's Girl on Girl is one of the best books I read this year, so I'm honored she was willing to lend her words to Hang Time!
Weird sports stories for people who don’t (necessarily) love sports. Preorder from
@406press.bsky.social if ya feel: 406press.com/product/hang...
Weird sports stories for people who don’t (necessarily) love sports. Preorder from
@406press.bsky.social if ya feel: 406press.com/product/hang...
Hang Time: Stories - .406 Press
Pre-order available now. Will ship around December 4.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social's Girl on Girl is one of the best books I read this year, so I'm honored she was willing to lend her words to Hang Time!
Weird sports stories for people who don’t (necessarily) love sports. Preorder from
@406press.bsky.social if ya feel: 406press.com/product/hang...
Weird sports stories for people who don’t (necessarily) love sports. Preorder from
@406press.bsky.social if ya feel: 406press.com/product/hang...
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Yo! Hang Time is coming 12/4 from @406press.bsky.social
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Yo! Hang Time is coming 12/4 from @406press.bsky.social
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
Yo! Hang Time is coming 12/4 from @406press.bsky.social
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Yo! Hang Time is coming 12/4 from @406press.bsky.social
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
Preorders avail now: 406press.com/product/hang...
Big thanks to @scottbolohan.bsky.social for believing in these nostalgia-laced stories about the weird poetry of sports.
If you're interested in a review copy, lemme know!
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Let’s make a list of presses who honor and uplift their authors.
May 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Let’s make a list of presses who honor and uplift their authors.
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We open 420, here's the call
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TBQ8 Call: Bring Us Your Stacks of Pages
My kids make books all the time for fun. Both of them want to be writers and artists when they grow up. I feel like this is my fault. I’ve made it look too fun. They bring me their stacks of pages,…
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March 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We open 420, here's the call
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Thanks to @hfr.bsky.social & @emilyannwebber.bsky.social for the kind review of STATIC. Appreciate y'all!
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March 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thanks to @hfr.bsky.social & @emilyannwebber.bsky.social for the kind review of STATIC. Appreciate y'all!
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We are running an anti-sale. No discount code to offer. Just cool books. malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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March 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We are running an anti-sale. No discount code to offer. Just cool books. malarkeybooks.com/store
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I have a new flash in the latest issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social (worm moon). It's about graffiti and mall security. Check it out if you wanna, but make sure to read all the other amazing writers in the issue. 🪱 🌙
Link to story: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Link to story: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
March 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I have a new flash in the latest issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social (worm moon). It's about graffiti and mall security. Check it out if you wanna, but make sure to read all the other amazing writers in the issue. 🪱 🌙
Link to story: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Link to story: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Submissions for our summer flash fiction series close on Friday, so if there's a story you plan to send us, keep an eye on the clock!
Necessary Fiction Submission Manager
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March 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Submissions for our summer flash fiction series close on Friday, so if there's a story you plan to send us, keep an eye on the clock!
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Make a hoot! Tell your friends! We've opened submissions for visual art. Your photography, your illustrations, your collages — if it's eco, send it our way.
Submit visual art, poetry, translation, fiction, and creative nonfiction at thedodge.submittable.com/submit
Submit visual art, poetry, translation, fiction, and creative nonfiction at thedodge.submittable.com/submit
March 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Make a hoot! Tell your friends! We've opened submissions for visual art. Your photography, your illustrations, your collages — if it's eco, send it our way.
Submit visual art, poetry, translation, fiction, and creative nonfiction at thedodge.submittable.com/submit
Submit visual art, poetry, translation, fiction, and creative nonfiction at thedodge.submittable.com/submit
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Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.
March 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.
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We're open in all categories. Take a look at our most recent issue to see what we've loved in the past!
The Dodge's Winter 2025 Issue is out now! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!
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March 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We're open in all categories. Take a look at our most recent issue to see what we've loved in the past!
Courageous and essential. Thanks for this @emilylauracosta.bsky.social. Cheers from a fellow former white-knuckler. 👊
March 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Courageous and essential. Thanks for this @emilylauracosta.bsky.social. Cheers from a fellow former white-knuckler. 👊
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I'm open on Friday afternoon for your submitting pleasure. That's make a beautiful magazine together.
February 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I'm open on Friday afternoon for your submitting pleasure. That's make a beautiful magazine together.
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I have no agent and no MFA and no massive online following and all of my small successes thus far have come solely from the fact that I can't stop writing (and I think I keep getting better), and I still dream about possible futures like someone in their teens. Also rejection doesn't stop me.
Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure
Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure
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February 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I have no agent and no MFA and no massive online following and all of my small successes thus far have come solely from the fact that I can't stop writing (and I think I keep getting better), and I still dream about possible futures like someone in their teens. Also rejection doesn't stop me.
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Keep putting yourself and your work out there.
February 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Keep putting yourself and your work out there.
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We are so excited to introduce our new Art Editor, Karie Luidens, and announce that ART SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN!! To submit your art, please visit the link in our bio!
February 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We are so excited to introduce our new Art Editor, Karie Luidens, and announce that ART SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN!! To submit your art, please visit the link in our bio!
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I heard a rumor that we're going to open for book submissions in the spring. (You can spread the rumor). I have no other information right now. I am possibly an unreliable source and am not available for comment. But I said what I said.
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I heard a rumor that we're going to open for book submissions in the spring. (You can spread the rumor). I have no other information right now. I am possibly an unreliable source and am not available for comment. But I said what I said.