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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 4h

This week in our October series of spooky stories, we bring you "Drift" by Kevin B necessaryfiction.com/stories/drift/

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Thursday night at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social I'll be in conversation with @ambersparks.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! www.harvard.com/event/amber-...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

VAMPIRES AT SEA by Lindsay Merbaum (Creature Publishing). Reviewed by @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/vamp...

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2d

"She’d had a dream the night before, or perhaps just before awakening, in which she was attempting to extract, without puncturing herself, a long needle from her throat."

"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly

Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

VAMPIRES AT SEA by Lindsay Merbaum (Creature Publishing). Reviewed by @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/vamp...

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 2d

Extremely pleased to have a story in Wigleaf.

Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 2d

new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell: wigleaf.com

w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 4d

"The children Fiona, Rose, & Lucinda, are Leaf Town Forever’s main characters & Leaf Town’s architects. Paco, the cardinal, is there with them the whole way. Was he there when the real Leaf Town was built too?" Thanks to Christine Sneed for this interview! christinesneed.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the World of Leaf Town Forever: Kathleen Rooney on Her New Children's Book

A book that took root from a real leaf town created by Oak Park, IL schoolchildren in the fall of 2020

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 6d

Next Thursday night 10/16 at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, talking to my pal @ambersparks.bsky.social — please join us!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 6d

Going on tour next week! Come say hi please don’t make me read to myself and that one guy who’s actually got earbuds in

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 6d

FIT INTO ME: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry is now available for preordering! The book releases on 12/9. Reserve your copy now with free shipping with the code here: icont.ac/518tw

FIT INTO ME by Molly Gaudry Now Available for Preorder

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 7d

This week in our October series of spooky stories is "Jenny Greenteeth" by JS Apsley.

Jenny Greenteeth – Necessary Fiction

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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 6d

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 7d

Our Fall 2025 issue is out now! Read longform prose by Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Fortunato Salazar, Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell), Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Mary Winsor. Start reading: https://pshr.us/fall25

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 7d

This week in our October series of spooky stories is "Jenny Greenteeth" by JS Apsley.

Jenny Greenteeth – Necessary Fiction

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 8d

Nadia Staikos discusses her debut novel UNTIL THEY SLEEP (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) with Brooke Randel necessaryfiction.com/interviews/t...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 8d

Nadia Staikos discusses her debut novel UNTIL THEY SLEEP (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) with Brooke Randel necessaryfiction.com/interviews/t...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 8d

Thanks for asking. Our focus is on publishing new work, and to that end we request only first serial rights, so we aren't generally looking for reprints.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8d

Gaby was the marketing/publicity lead for Horror For Weenies and she's a MARVEL - please hire her for staff and/or freelance work!

gaby iori @gabyiori.bsky.social · 8d

...anyway! I am looking for work (and have been for months actually!!) and also soft-launching that I'm doing freelance marketing and publicity. if you have a book coming out that you think would benefit from a thoughtful publicist/marketer, I'd love to help you get it into the world!

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 9d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 8d

Also exciting to invent the word “accounce” when I scheduled this post at 5:30am or so.

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Sally Rudolf @wildsustenance.bsky.social · 9d

Please check out my review of Alice Chadwick's gorgeous debut novel @necessaryfiction.com!

#booksky
@biblioasis.bsky.social
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 9d

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 9d

Send me your work!

Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 9d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 9d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 9d

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 9d

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections, is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 10d

today, around your lunchtime or your afternoon rest time or your evening wind down, depending on your time zone:

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 16d

ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)

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you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025). Ab...

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