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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” close 12/15👥
Read Vol. X: “Spring”🌱
Shop & read #ExpoRecommends 📚
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Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics; give personalized feedback to work submitted by 10/31 & pay $50!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
“The idea of emotion and color play into Marshall’s paintings, as well as the idea of how we as people judge things at first glance.” Check out Veronica Marshall’s paintings in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMarshall.
Selected Artwork - Exposition Review
by Veronica Marshall Visual Art Artist’s Statement Veronica Marshall is interested in the playful use of color to communicate different points of perspective. Whether the work is five inches by fi...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“The idea of emotion and color play into Marshall’s paintings, as well as the idea of how we as people judge things at first glance.” Check out Veronica Marshall’s paintings in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMarshall.
Our fiction team is led by Fiction Editor @courtlandavenue.bsky.social & Associate Fiction Editor Yuya Hattori. Dave is a longtime #ExpoEditor & Yuya was an Associate Editor for “Spring”!
Submit your “PARA/SOCIAL”-themed work to Dave and Yuya by next Monday: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit your “PARA/SOCIAL”-themed work to Dave and Yuya by next Monday: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Our fiction team is led by Fiction Editor @courtlandavenue.bsky.social & Associate Fiction Editor Yuya Hattori. Dave is a longtime #ExpoEditor & Yuya was an Associate Editor for “Spring”!
Submit your “PARA/SOCIAL”-themed work to Dave and Yuya by next Monday: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Submit your “PARA/SOCIAL”-themed work to Dave and Yuya by next Monday: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!
Happy #pubday to #ExpoContributor Rocio Franco & WHERE THE MONARCHS NEVER DIE (Arcana Poetry Press), a fierce and unyielding portrait of immigrant life in Chicago, tracing the rhythms of work, memory & belonging. Get the poetry book in our @bookshop.org:
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Where The Monarchs Never Die
Check out Where The Monarchs Never Die - <p><strong>Where the Monarchs Never Die</strong> is a fierce and unyielding portrait of immigrant life in Chicago, tracing the rhythms of work, memory, and bel...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Happy #pubday to #ExpoContributor Rocio Franco & WHERE THE MONARCHS NEVER DIE (Arcana Poetry Press), a fierce and unyielding portrait of immigrant life in Chicago, tracing the rhythms of work, memory & belonging. Get the poetry book in our @bookshop.org:
bookshop.org/p/books/wher...
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We’d be ever so honored if you’d vote for us in @chillsubs.bsky.social’s Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Voting closes December 7. We’re also still awaiting a review, if you have some love to share: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...!
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We’d be ever so honored if you’d vote for us in @chillsubs.bsky.social’s Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Voting closes December 7. We’re also still awaiting a review, if you have some love to share: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...!
“What if PARA/SOCIAL is more than a warning label? What if it signals possibility?”
What if? Show us the possibility in your fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental writing, art, comics, and film! We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParasocial.
What if? Show us the possibility in your fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental writing, art, comics, and film! We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParasocial.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“What if PARA/SOCIAL is more than a warning label? What if it signals possibility?”
What if? Show us the possibility in your fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental writing, art, comics, and film! We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParasocial.
What if? Show us the possibility in your fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental writing, art, comics, and film! We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParasocial.
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Submission fees waived. Today only!
I'd love to read your work on a Para/Social theme!
I'd love to read your work on a Para/Social theme!
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. Or check out some of our faves: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
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...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Submission fees waived. Today only!
I'd love to read your work on a Para/Social theme!
I'd love to read your work on a Para/Social theme!
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. Or check out some of our faves: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
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...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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. Or check out some of our faves: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
We’re offering free submissions today for #GivingTuesday! Submit to Expo for free today, December 2 (tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial), and consider donating your submission fee to one of our favorite causes: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25!
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We’re offering free submissions today for #GivingTuesday! Submit to Expo for free today, December 2 (tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial), and consider donating your submission fee to one of our favorite causes: tinyurl.com/ExpoGiving25!
It’s always a joy to get to publish works by young writers who attend our #ShareYourVoice! workshop (tinyurl.com/ExpoShare25), and this year’s @penamerica.bsky.social DREAMing Out Loud #ExpoContributor Simi Modupeore Raji’s stageplay reimagining Circe & Medea is Expo gold:
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An Herb Most Bruised - Exposition Review
by Simi Modupeore Raji Stageplay (Plain Text Version) Simi Modupeore Raji (she/they) is an award-winning Nigerian American writer from New York City whose work blends myth, memory, and magic a...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s always a joy to get to publish works by young writers who attend our #ShareYourVoice! workshop (tinyurl.com/ExpoShare25), and this year’s @penamerica.bsky.social DREAMing Out Loud #ExpoContributor Simi Modupeore Raji’s stageplay reimagining Circe & Medea is Expo gold:
tinyurl.com/ExpoHerb.
tinyurl.com/ExpoHerb.
Expo publishes flash fiction as its own genre in our annual issue! Flash Fiction Editor @willwriteforchai.bsky.social is also founding Co-EiC, our designer, an Editorial Board member & more! Send Jess your flash fiction by 12/15. We pay $50, plus free sub days are coming: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Expo publishes flash fiction as its own genre in our annual issue! Flash Fiction Editor @willwriteforchai.bsky.social is also founding Co-EiC, our designer, an Editorial Board member & more! Send Jess your flash fiction by 12/15. We pay $50, plus free sub days are coming: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
Time to holiday shopping for good with @bookshop.org, who gives a percentage of sales to the independent bookstore or nonprofit of your choosing (including Expo!)! Plus there’s free shipping this weekend!
Shop our #ExpoContributor, #ExpoRecommends & Holiday Book Swap lists: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop
Shop our #ExpoContributor, #ExpoRecommends & Holiday Book Swap lists: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop
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Exposition Review is an independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scrip...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Time to holiday shopping for good with @bookshop.org, who gives a percentage of sales to the independent bookstore or nonprofit of your choosing (including Expo!)! Plus there’s free shipping this weekend!
Shop our #ExpoContributor, #ExpoRecommends & Holiday Book Swap lists: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop
Shop our #ExpoContributor, #ExpoRecommends & Holiday Book Swap lists: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop
“In the absence of models, many of us never recognize we are drowning. Even fewer begin to undrown. It can take generations to figure it out.” - Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley on Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley’s flash nonfiction winner EL DESAHOGO—THE UNDROWNING
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
El Desahogo—The Undrowning - Exposition Review
by Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley Honorable Mention – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Nonfiction During her last days, when Mami didn’t want Papi near her, we thought it was Mami being Mami. She knew before...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
“In the absence of models, many of us never recognize we are drowning. Even fewer begin to undrown. It can take generations to figure it out.” - Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley on Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley’s flash nonfiction winner EL DESAHOGO—THE UNDROWNING
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
“In the absence of models, many of us never recognize we are drowning. Even fewer begin to undrown. It can take generations to figure it out.” - Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley on Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley’s flash nonfiction winner EL DESAHOGO—THE UNDROWNING
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
El Desahogo—The Undrowning - Exposition Review
by Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley Honorable Mention – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Nonfiction During her last days, when Mami didn’t want Papi near her, we thought it was Mami being Mami. She knew before...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“In the absence of models, many of us never recognize we are drowning. Even fewer begin to undrown. It can take generations to figure it out.” - Flash 405: “Normal” judge Kiana Shaley on Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley’s flash nonfiction winner EL DESAHOGO—THE UNDROWNING
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
Read it here: tinyurl.com/Desahogo405
Happy Thanksgiving! As always, we’re grateful for you, our #ExpoFam! Sending gratitude to our contributors, readers, editorial team, and literary community for making us #morethanalitjournal!
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! As always, we’re grateful for you, our #ExpoFam! Sending gratitude to our contributors, readers, editorial team, and literary community for making us #morethanalitjournal!
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Over the moon to be included by Tejaswinee & Ankit, the editors at The Houghly Review, in this group of fantastic writers. Many thanks!
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Over the moon to be included by Tejaswinee & Ankit, the editors at The Houghly Review, in this group of fantastic writers. Many thanks!
“PARA/SOCIAL suggests closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact.” Send us your PARA/ SOCIAL-themed writing and creative pursuits in any genre by 12/15. We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“PARA/SOCIAL suggests closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact.” Send us your PARA/ SOCIAL-themed writing and creative pursuits in any genre by 12/15. We pay $50: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
#ExpoReview #callforsubmissions #litjournal #litmag
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ICYMI, Myna Chang recently sat down with Melissa Llanes Brownlee to discuss her latest collection, BITTER OVER SWEET! buff.ly/teB3epy
Get BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uaVHtkD
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Get BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uaVHtkD
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November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ICYMI, Myna Chang recently sat down with Melissa Llanes Brownlee to discuss her latest collection, BITTER OVER SWEET! buff.ly/teB3epy
Get BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uaVHtkD
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Get BITTER OVER SWEET here: buff.ly/uaVHtkD
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Cassandra’s story is a great example of “connection without contact”-it’s an intimate thing knowing someone’s fate while they remain in the dark. @willwriteforchai.bsky.social’s #ExpoRecommends @gwenekirby.bsky.social’s SHIT CASSANDRA SAW (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Cassandra’s story is a great example of “connection without contact”-it’s an intimate thing knowing someone’s fate while they remain in the dark. @willwriteforchai.bsky.social’s #ExpoRecommends @gwenekirby.bsky.social’s SHIT CASSANDRA SAW (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco
FOR FRANK O’HARA places us in LA’s Hammer Museum, winding us through an exhibition as well as poet Craig Cotter’s thoughts on Frank O’Hara’s life and his own. Read Craig’s poem from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoForFrank (link in bio).
For Frank O’Hara - Exposition Review
by Craig Cotter Poetry I’m in the ORANGES and SARDINES exhibit at the Hammer in one of the 4 comfy chairs (other 3 empty) with your WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, orange title, black the rest as you loved ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
FOR FRANK O’HARA places us in LA’s Hammer Museum, winding us through an exhibition as well as poet Craig Cotter’s thoughts on Frank O’Hara’s life and his own. Read Craig’s poem from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoForFrank (link in bio).
Expo’s Nonfiction Editor Heather Vaughan is looking for literal interpretation of the “PARA/SOCIAL” theme. She’s interested in the belonging theme, in stories about connection, loneliness, technology, turning inward & human connection. Send Heather your nonfiction writing: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Expo’s Nonfiction Editor Heather Vaughan is looking for literal interpretation of the “PARA/SOCIAL” theme. She’s interested in the belonging theme, in stories about connection, loneliness, technology, turning inward & human connection. Send Heather your nonfiction writing: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial
Are you asking yourself “What should I read/watch/listen to next?” Expo has you covered with our “PARA/SOCIAL” #ExpoRecommends. Find your next favorite read/watch/viewing experience, while getting to know our editors’ tastes. Enjoy: tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco.
Expo Recommends: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
What should I read next? It’s a question we all ask ourselves time and again. Even with the countless stories, poems, essays, scripts, art, comics, and films to discover, to fall in love with or to detest, it can be a challenge to choose. Enter Expo Recommends, a curated selection of readings brought to you… Continue reading Expo Recommends: “PARA/SOCIAL” →
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November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Are you asking yourself “What should I read/watch/listen to next?” Expo has you covered with our “PARA/SOCIAL” #ExpoRecommends. Find your next favorite read/watch/viewing experience, while getting to know our editors’ tastes. Enjoy: tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco.
“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
Stories for a Daughter - Exposition Review
by Mizuki Honorable Mention – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Fiction Daughter, the trees used to scream in August. The Minmin Kami shaking the pines until the air fractured. Aburazemi spread their oil-sheen wings, while the Higurashi Priest sang the dusk sorrow-song, rising and falling like prayer. If you pressed your hand to the… Continue reading Stories for a Daughter →
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Calling all writers of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen; creators of art, film, comics, and experimental works, we want to publish your work and we want to pay you $50 for it. Submit by 12/31: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
"We Want to Feel Something." A Chat with Annlee Ellingson, Managing Editor of Exposition Review
"We publish everything."
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November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…