Eirene Eleni
@eireneeleni.bsky.social
This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com https://templeinacity.com
Lit in cool places. Most recently Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY.
https://eirenegentle.com https://templeinacity.com
Lit in cool places. Most recently Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY.
Pinned
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And just like that, it’s time for SGP6 blurbs!! 🤩🫶🏻🪿 we love our contributors so so goosely (like dearly…) (listen some puns are better than others ok) and we are SO excited to honk honk honk away about how talented each of our artists are! 🤩🫶🏻🪿
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
And just like that, it’s time for SGP6 blurbs!! 🤩🫶🏻🪿 we love our contributors so so goosely (like dearly…) (listen some puns are better than others ok) and we are SO excited to honk honk honk away about how talented each of our artists are! 🤩🫶🏻🪿
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🪿ISSUE SIX - ART & PHOTOGRAPHY🪿
ANATOMY OF A SILLY GOOSE by @g0thlawyer.bsky.social
Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/an...
ANATOMY OF A SILLY GOOSE by @g0thlawyer.bsky.social
Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/an...
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🪿ISSUE SIX - ART & PHOTOGRAPHY🪿
ANATOMY OF A SILLY GOOSE by @g0thlawyer.bsky.social
Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/an...
ANATOMY OF A SILLY GOOSE by @g0thlawyer.bsky.social
Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/an...
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A Huge and Grateful Thank You to @thecitronreview.bsky.social and editors @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social and @ambrommel.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my micro; Why They Still Make Sense!! 🥰🙏🏼💙 Congrats to all the nominees!
YAY! It's finally time for to share this year's nominees for the
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026 Anthology.
citronreview.com/2025-best-mi...
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026 Anthology.
citronreview.com/2025-best-mi...
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A Huge and Grateful Thank You to @thecitronreview.bsky.social and editors @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social and @ambrommel.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my micro; Why They Still Make Sense!! 🥰🙏🏼💙 Congrats to all the nominees!
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Wondering which 48 stories and 28 poems Kaleidotrope published in 2025?
Well, friends, wonder no more!
Well, friends, wonder no more!
Kaleidotrope 2025
kaleidotrope.net
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Wondering which 48 stories and 28 poems Kaleidotrope published in 2025?
Well, friends, wonder no more!
Well, friends, wonder no more!
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AND watch for our next full issue to drop in the first two weeks of December. We’ll reveal the contributors a little later but wow, it’s got angles and all kinds of interest. You are so talented, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
AND watch for our next full issue to drop in the first two weeks of December. We’ll reveal the contributors a little later but wow, it’s got angles and all kinds of interest. You are so talented, friends.
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Our nominees for the 2026 best microfictions anthology are here. The link is to all our nominations so far, with more to come so keep watching. Congratulations to all including today’s tiny gems.
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Our nominees for the 2026 best microfictions anthology are here. The link is to all our nominations so far, with more to come so keep watching. Congratulations to all including today’s tiny gems.
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
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Remember our joy pop-up? It’s going to keep popping. We’re permanently opening subs for flashes of joy (well, as permanent as anything, which is not very but you get the idea). If we love it and it’s joyful we’ll add it to the issue. Like a little library of joy.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember our joy pop-up? It’s going to keep popping. We’re permanently opening subs for flashes of joy (well, as permanent as anything, which is not very but you get the idea). If we love it and it’s joyful we’ll add it to the issue. Like a little library of joy.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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Stoked about this honour. Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social
More award nominations!
Best Microfiction!
Best Microfiction!
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Stoked about this honour. Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social
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Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
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Chill Subs 3rd Annual Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards are back. Please consider a 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬!
We love what we do, and it would mean the world to us to be included again this year. Help spread the word!
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
We love what we do, and it would mean the world to us to be included again this year. Help spread the word!
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.
www.chillsubs.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Chill Subs 3rd Annual Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards are back. Please consider a 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬!
We love what we do, and it would mean the world to us to be included again this year. Help spread the word!
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
We love what we do, and it would mean the world to us to be included again this year. Help spread the word!
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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i mean i wouldn't be mad...
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
i mean i wouldn't be mad...
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
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What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
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Please join us in welcoming ANMLY's new Features & Reviews Co-Editor, sara hammami!
sara h. hammami (she/her) is a librarian, book artist & poet fragmented between language(s) & is always thinking & dreaming of life underwater. she has poems living with DEAR Poetry Journal...
sara h. hammami (she/her) is a librarian, book artist & poet fragmented between language(s) & is always thinking & dreaming of life underwater. she has poems living with DEAR Poetry Journal...
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Please join us in welcoming ANMLY's new Features & Reviews Co-Editor, sara hammami!
sara h. hammami (she/her) is a librarian, book artist & poet fragmented between language(s) & is always thinking & dreaming of life underwater. she has poems living with DEAR Poetry Journal...
sara h. hammami (she/her) is a librarian, book artist & poet fragmented between language(s) & is always thinking & dreaming of life underwater. she has poems living with DEAR Poetry Journal...
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"I would spare you the details of how I’m quad-lingual, speaking the Taiwanese dialect with my grandmother—a giveaway daughter whose only education was labour..."
—yating
anmly.org/ap41/yating/
—yating
anmly.org/ap41/yating/
yating – ANMLY
anmly.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"I would spare you the details of how I’m quad-lingual, speaking the Taiwanese dialect with my grandmother—a giveaway daughter whose only education was labour..."
—yating
anmly.org/ap41/yating/
—yating
anmly.org/ap41/yating/
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Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles."
"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...
"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...
The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles
by Lisa Thornton
psalteryandlyre.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
I found this interesting and helpful. Maybe I’m used to banging my head against walls (I am) but I found it more enlightening than hopeless. We are always our own worst enemies but this offers insight into how to get a little more out of our own way. I’d be interested in other thoughts on it.
(This basically is what I wrote ONE MESSAGE REMAINS about, depressingly enough.)
I interviewed psychologist John Jost about this. He was curious why history contains so many long periods in which massive groups of people are oppressed by relatively tiny groups -- when, on a purely physical basis, the oppressed could overwhelm oppressors at any time. They just tend not to. Why?
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I found this interesting and helpful. Maybe I’m used to banging my head against walls (I am) but I found it more enlightening than hopeless. We are always our own worst enemies but this offers insight into how to get a little more out of our own way. I’d be interested in other thoughts on it.
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One of my favorite parts of the day is looking through all the comments on our Best Lit Mag Awards votes, like this super sweet one left for @okaydonkeymag.com!
Click here to show your favorite lit mags + editors some love <3: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Click here to show your favorite lit mags + editors some love <3: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
One of my favorite parts of the day is looking through all the comments on our Best Lit Mag Awards votes, like this super sweet one left for @okaydonkeymag.com!
Click here to show your favorite lit mags + editors some love <3: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Click here to show your favorite lit mags + editors some love <3: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rose Maloukis's "Walking Past the Local Garage", from Issue 176! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/walking-past-the-local-garage/
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rose Maloukis's "Walking Past the Local Garage", from Issue 176! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/walking-past-the-local-garage/
Attention is so valuable billionaires try to steal it from you. Are you putting yours where you want it or where they want it?
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Attention is so valuable billionaires try to steal it from you. Are you putting yours where you want it or where they want it?
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Chatted with the amazing @ivygrimes.bsky.social about writing, riddles, and why I will always love Chris Van Allsburg
I never write anything without a very clear idea of what it means to me. Which isn’t the same thing as saying “There’s a definitive answer embedded here that everyone should be on the same page about.” I’m not writing math equations.
-interview with @iamchrisscott.bsky.social
-interview with @iamchrisscott.bsky.social
Interview with Chris Scott
storytelling, fatherhood, mystery
ivygrimes.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Chatted with the amazing @ivygrimes.bsky.social about writing, riddles, and why I will always love Chris Van Allsburg
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Thanks to the @thetoypress.bsky.social for a brand-new #wordoftheweek. This week, the word is "cycle," and it got me to wondering...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit
#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thanks to the @thetoypress.bsky.social for a brand-new #wordoftheweek. This week, the word is "cycle," and it got me to wondering...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit
#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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upk is having its seasonal sale until january...
you can buy the hardback for about $18 and the paperback for about $12 when using FROSTY25 for 40% off at checkout (thems like 1995 prices!)
www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...
you can buy the hardback for about $18 and the paperback for about $12 when using FROSTY25 for 40% off at checkout (thems like 1995 prices!)
www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
upk is having its seasonal sale until january...
you can buy the hardback for about $18 and the paperback for about $12 when using FROSTY25 for 40% off at checkout (thems like 1995 prices!)
www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...
you can buy the hardback for about $18 and the paperback for about $12 when using FROSTY25 for 40% off at checkout (thems like 1995 prices!)
www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...
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Clarkesworld was one of the first online magazines I submitted to. They eventually published one of my favourite short stories that I've written (drafted over one night, not sure I can do that anymore), 'muo-ka's Child'. Help Neil keep the lights on at one of sff's best magazines:
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Clarkesworld was one of the first online magazines I submitted to. They eventually published one of my favourite short stories that I've written (drafted over one night, not sure I can do that anymore), 'muo-ka's Child'. Help Neil keep the lights on at one of sff's best magazines:
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I woke up to see that my story “Two Sizes Too Small” is up on @gavagai.com !! I loved writing this one, as it’s inspired by my day to day experience with OCD. I really hope you’ll give it a read, and let me know what you think!
www.gavagai.com/posts/333
www.gavagai.com/posts/333
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I woke up to see that my story “Two Sizes Too Small” is up on @gavagai.com !! I loved writing this one, as it’s inspired by my day to day experience with OCD. I really hope you’ll give it a read, and let me know what you think!
www.gavagai.com/posts/333
www.gavagai.com/posts/333