Lit Match Collective
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A writers community led by editors🔥
Helping members connect and grow
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ICYMI
4 craft chats w/ Editor Steve @ The Forever Workshop
Comparing pre- and post-revision versions of work @okaydonkeymag.com
Think 'nothing happens' in your writing? You might be surprised by these chats
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
Members get 1 month of Forever Workshop, free
4 craft chats w/ Editor Steve @ The Forever Workshop
Comparing pre- and post-revision versions of work @okaydonkeymag.com
Think 'nothing happens' in your writing? You might be surprised by these chats
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
Members get 1 month of Forever Workshop, free
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
ICYMI
4 craft chats w/ Editor Steve @ The Forever Workshop
Comparing pre- and post-revision versions of work @okaydonkeymag.com
Think 'nothing happens' in your writing? You might be surprised by these chats
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
Members get 1 month of Forever Workshop, free
4 craft chats w/ Editor Steve @ The Forever Workshop
Comparing pre- and post-revision versions of work @okaydonkeymag.com
Think 'nothing happens' in your writing? You might be surprised by these chats
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
Members get 1 month of Forever Workshop, free
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YES: read this brilliant, heartwrecking collection stat! We had the great fun pleasure of chatting with @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social last night about her blistering yet masterfully nuanced story "Featured Background" (and got in a little gossip, too) for our #story-chat at @litmatchcollective.com ❤️🔥
Where Are You Really From? Don’t answer that. We’re talking about Elaine Hsieh Chou’s amazing new short story collection 📺🐇🪞🔍
The Transcendence of Writing Your Fears - Electric Literature
Elaine Hsieh Chou, author of “Where Are You Really From,” dares writers to stop seeing their books as stand-ins for themselves
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
YES: read this brilliant, heartwrecking collection stat! We had the great fun pleasure of chatting with @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social last night about her blistering yet masterfully nuanced story "Featured Background" (and got in a little gossip, too) for our #story-chat at @litmatchcollective.com ❤️🔥
Feeling down about applying for residencies + more? Check out these tips from our chat with the Director of [REDACTED]
Got a writing sample to polish? Bring it to our (Better Than) MFA-style Writing Workshops, running Jan-Feb.
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
Non-members welcome too.
Got a writing sample to polish? Bring it to our (Better Than) MFA-style Writing Workshops, running Jan-Feb.
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
Non-members welcome too.
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Feeling down about applying for residencies + more? Check out these tips from our chat with the Director of [REDACTED]
Got a writing sample to polish? Bring it to our (Better Than) MFA-style Writing Workshops, running Jan-Feb.
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
Non-members welcome too.
Got a writing sample to polish? Bring it to our (Better Than) MFA-style Writing Workshops, running Jan-Feb.
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
Non-members welcome too.
no Sunday Scaries, just a cozy #story-chat
tonight at 8PM ET!
tonight at 8PM ET!
Sunday, Dec 7 @ 8PM ET, we're chatting w/ @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social about her story “Featured Background” and collection Where Are You Really From, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025.
On literary jesters + the performance of piety & sin.
Got questions? Bring them!🔥
On literary jesters + the performance of piety & sin.
Got questions? Bring them!🔥
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
no Sunday Scaries, just a cozy #story-chat
tonight at 8PM ET!
tonight at 8PM ET!
Steve is self-identifying as 'emo slackercore'
How about you?
How about you?
hardcore, evilcore, metalcore, sludge metal... death metal, doom metal, doomcore, sludgecore, drone metal...
indie lit needs more distinctions like this
indie lit needs more distinctions like this
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Steve is self-identifying as 'emo slackercore'
How about you?
How about you?
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I will do another 15 prompts leading up to the end of 2025, (another tired old year), but you can try these ones if you haven’t already! With love & gratitude, ~Kathy 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
With Gratitude: 15 Prompts to get us through the rest of this tired old year
A mostly happy, well-fed child, 1962.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I will do another 15 prompts leading up to the end of 2025, (another tired old year), but you can try these ones if you haven’t already! With love & gratitude, ~Kathy 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
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This poor cat is just living his best life blissfully unaware that he's a stock photo for “big fatass cat”
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This poor cat is just living his best life blissfully unaware that he's a stock photo for “big fatass cat”
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Member Karen Karason has her 1st publication: a beautiful essay in @therumpus.net!
Got a draft to polish? Our editors treat your work like anything they'd have published at Guernica or @okaydonkeymag.com
Enrollment is open:
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
therumpus.net/2025/11/21/s...
Got a draft to polish? Our editors treat your work like anything they'd have published at Guernica or @okaydonkeymag.com
Enrollment is open:
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
therumpus.net/2025/11/21/s...
Something New - The Rumpus
Forcing myself, muscling through the mental pain. This is what I remember most of my own recovery. After the brief psychiatric hospitalization at eighteen, I returned for my second freshman semester h...
therumpus.net
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Member Karen Karason has her 1st publication: a beautiful essay in @therumpus.net!
Got a draft to polish? Our editors treat your work like anything they'd have published at Guernica or @okaydonkeymag.com
Enrollment is open:
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
therumpus.net/2025/11/21/s...
Got a draft to polish? Our editors treat your work like anything they'd have published at Guernica or @okaydonkeymag.com
Enrollment is open:
www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-work...
therumpus.net/2025/11/21/s...
Our December Calendar is UP!
🌲MFA-style Writing Workshops!
🌲Round 2 of the Residency Director Chat!
🌲A chat and Q&A with Elaine Hsieh Chou!
🌲A special "Admin & Apps" Accountability Session with Editor Steve!
🌲Plus prompts & sprints & more...
See our December newsletter for details!
🌲MFA-style Writing Workshops!
🌲Round 2 of the Residency Director Chat!
🌲A chat and Q&A with Elaine Hsieh Chou!
🌲A special "Admin & Apps" Accountability Session with Editor Steve!
🌲Plus prompts & sprints & more...
See our December newsletter for details!
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our December Calendar is UP!
🌲MFA-style Writing Workshops!
🌲Round 2 of the Residency Director Chat!
🌲A chat and Q&A with Elaine Hsieh Chou!
🌲A special "Admin & Apps" Accountability Session with Editor Steve!
🌲Plus prompts & sprints & more...
See our December newsletter for details!
🌲MFA-style Writing Workshops!
🌲Round 2 of the Residency Director Chat!
🌲A chat and Q&A with Elaine Hsieh Chou!
🌲A special "Admin & Apps" Accountability Session with Editor Steve!
🌲Plus prompts & sprints & more...
See our December newsletter for details!
Uh oh. Did you miss our November Residency Chat?😿
No prob. Here's a recap.
🏆to Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR + @jrigamonti.bsky.social former Program Coordinator @cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Catch the whole convo + more tips + insights @ #treasure-chest in our Discord
No prob. Here's a recap.
🏆to Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR + @jrigamonti.bsky.social former Program Coordinator @cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Catch the whole convo + more tips + insights @ #treasure-chest in our Discord
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Uh oh. Did you miss our November Residency Chat?😿
No prob. Here's a recap.
🏆to Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR + @jrigamonti.bsky.social former Program Coordinator @cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Catch the whole convo + more tips + insights @ #treasure-chest in our Discord
No prob. Here's a recap.
🏆to Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR + @jrigamonti.bsky.social former Program Coordinator @cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Catch the whole convo + more tips + insights @ #treasure-chest in our Discord
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We just published a really excellent feature on this with some sample answers depending on how snarky you want to be 🙂↕️
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We just published a really excellent feature on this with some sample answers depending on how snarky you want to be 🙂↕️
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Got an ad for a medication for people "over 70" and I clicked on "why am I seeing this ad?" The explanation was I've liked "content about books." Ive never felt such a burn
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Got an ad for a medication for people "over 70" and I clicked on "why am I seeing this ad?" The explanation was I've liked "content about books." Ive never felt such a burn
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
it's not about your material, it's about your take on it.
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
it's not about your material, it's about your take on it.
Want to learn more about landing a funded residency?
This Sunday is our Residency Chat! So bring ALL your questions.
In the meantime, check out www.pineywoodatlas.com
A great resource for emerging & unconventional residencies.
(All free, cheap, or will PAY you to go)
This Sunday is our Residency Chat! So bring ALL your questions.
In the meantime, check out www.pineywoodatlas.com
A great resource for emerging & unconventional residencies.
(All free, cheap, or will PAY you to go)
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Want to learn more about landing a funded residency?
This Sunday is our Residency Chat! So bring ALL your questions.
In the meantime, check out www.pineywoodatlas.com
A great resource for emerging & unconventional residencies.
(All free, cheap, or will PAY you to go)
This Sunday is our Residency Chat! So bring ALL your questions.
In the meantime, check out www.pineywoodatlas.com
A great resource for emerging & unconventional residencies.
(All free, cheap, or will PAY you to go)
TONIGHT! Don't miss out! 😍🔥
Don’t forget! Sunday, Nov 16, we’re diving into craft with Freund Prize winner and @lambdaliterary.org finalist @1demerith.bsky.social and EPOCH editor @jrobertlennon.com 🔥
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
TONIGHT! Don't miss out! 😍🔥
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Don’t forget! Sunday, Nov 16, we’re diving into craft with Freund Prize winner and @lambdaliterary.org finalist @1demerith.bsky.social and EPOCH editor @jrobertlennon.com 🔥
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don’t forget! Sunday, Nov 16, we’re diving into craft with Freund Prize winner and @lambdaliterary.org finalist @1demerith.bsky.social and EPOCH editor @jrobertlennon.com 🔥
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
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Whether you get an MFA or not, goddamn, find a workshop, find a way to talk to some working writers and editors, I dunno, all of that would've made things a lot easier and faster for me in retrospect. Get your onboarding somehow but do GET IT, writing is solitary but publishing is collaborative.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Whether you get an MFA or not, goddamn, find a workshop, find a way to talk to some working writers and editors, I dunno, all of that would've made things a lot easier and faster for me in retrospect. Get your onboarding somehow but do GET IT, writing is solitary but publishing is collaborative.
Lesson 2 of 4 is live: On Situation vs Story pt. 2
How to:
- humanize character vs types
- generate consequences to make incidents matter
- break free from writing synecdoche for routine and 'activate' your narrative
(LMC members get 1 free month of FW)
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
How to:
- humanize character vs types
- generate consequences to make incidents matter
- break free from writing synecdoche for routine and 'activate' your narrative
(LMC members get 1 free month of FW)
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Lesson 2 of 4 is live: On Situation vs Story pt. 2
How to:
- humanize character vs types
- generate consequences to make incidents matter
- break free from writing synecdoche for routine and 'activate' your narrative
(LMC members get 1 free month of FW)
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
How to:
- humanize character vs types
- generate consequences to make incidents matter
- break free from writing synecdoche for routine and 'activate' your narrative
(LMC members get 1 free month of FW)
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
And when the medium is prose to build the fictive dream: what does it mean to hammer too hard and splinter it?
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And when the medium is prose to build the fictive dream: what does it mean to hammer too hard and splinter it?
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sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are
Been feeling out the world of flash? There's no better guide🔥
Hey friends, become an ANNUAL subscriber & get a spot in an EXCLUSIVE 90-minute flash workshop ($60 value) & my undying gratitude. Details below: ...https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/fragmentary-flash-beauty-from-the?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Fragmentary Flash: Beauty from The Broken
Photo by Riho Kitagawa on Unsplash
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Been feeling out the world of flash? There's no better guide🔥
Don’t forget! Sunday, Nov 16, we’re diving into craft with Freund Prize winner and @lambdaliterary.org finalist @1demerith.bsky.social and EPOCH editor @jrobertlennon.com 🔥
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don’t forget! Sunday, Nov 16, we’re diving into craft with Freund Prize winner and @lambdaliterary.org finalist @1demerith.bsky.social and EPOCH editor @jrobertlennon.com 🔥
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:
therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
Welcome to the editing workshop by Editor @stevexisxok.bsky.social!
On identifying common problems and solving them.
Featuring pre- and post-revision versions of work from @okaydonkeymag.com
First up: BSF winner "1000" by @robroensch.bsky.social
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
On identifying common problems and solving them.
Featuring pre- and post-revision versions of work from @okaydonkeymag.com
First up: BSF winner "1000" by @robroensch.bsky.social
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Welcome to the editing workshop by Editor @stevexisxok.bsky.social!
On identifying common problems and solving them.
Featuring pre- and post-revision versions of work from @okaydonkeymag.com
First up: BSF winner "1000" by @robroensch.bsky.social
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
On identifying common problems and solving them.
Featuring pre- and post-revision versions of work from @okaydonkeymag.com
First up: BSF winner "1000" by @robroensch.bsky.social
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...