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November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!

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Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:

Laura Cronk
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Emma Raimondo

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October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Congratulations and good luck to our 2026 Best of the Net Anthology nominees!
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POETRY
Jessica Barlevi "Forest of Light"
Kelle Groom "Babylonian Almanac"
Laurin Becker Macios "Holy Oil"
Karen McPherson "Telepathy"
S. D. Pergola "Thoughts on the Incoming Snow"
Michelle Reale "Let It Be Extravagant"

FICTION
Mathieu Cailler "My Evening with Marilyn"
Amy Holman "Stuck"

ARTWORK
Beth Hahn, illus."Telepathy" & "Let It Be Extravagant

September 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Sweetly funny and surreal, a pair of dreamlike micros by Mathieu Cailler: “Four of a Kind” and “My Evening with Marilyn” in -ette Issue 5. Don’t you wish life was really like this?

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Watercolor of a peach pie with a missing slice. Text: Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, and Dylan Thomas moved into the house next door. One evening, a few days after they got situated, I baked a peach pie and brought it over. -Mathieu Cailler, -ette review, spring 2025

May 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM

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Two powerful beauties about love, loss, and renewal by Jessica Barlevi: “Forest of Light” and “Gravity.” Read them in -ette Issue 5

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Then listen to Jessica talk with @melaniehoopes.bsky.social in the latest episode of pod-ette

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Watercolor picture of a branch with lemons growing. Text: I breathe into another country,those steep stone steps, where the lemon trees hung heavy, that year in Amalfi. When you kept buying rounds, making everybody happy. -Jessica Barlevi, ettereview.com/spring2025

May 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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A new episode of pod-ette just dropped!

@melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks to S.D. Pergola, Jessica Barlevi @amyholman.bsky.social

-ette ed. @bybethhahn.bsky.social talks about her new novel.

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Pod-ette Episode 5. Melanie Hoopes talks with S.D. Pergola, Jessica Barlevi, and Amy Holman bout how they are faring in these treacherous times.

May 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Happy Friday! -ette Issue 5 is now live! With work by Jessica Barlevi, Mathieu Cailler, @amyholman.bsky.social Devan Murphy, S.D. Pergola, and Nora Esme Wagner. Be on the lookout for some fun Easter eggs too!) Pod-ette Episode 5: The Villa of the Mysteries is also live!

-ette Spring Issue. Writing. Pod-ette with Melanie Hoopes. Plus a playlist and writing app

May 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Submissions close in one week! Send us your flash fiction, micro fiction, and prose poetry <1000 words

One week left to submit! Issue 5 (unthemed) Issue 6 (theme:roulette)

January 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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We’re open for submissions for Issue 5 (unthemed) and Issue 6 (roulette) until January 31. Head to our submissions page for guidelines—and for more info/inspiration on the roulette theme!

December 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM

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Human and insect worlds collide in @tarazambrano.bsky.social tiny marvels “We mistook the dragonfly for forever” and “Luster,” both in our planchette issue (link in bio). We’re excited to announce “Luster” as one of our Best Microfiction noms this year.

December 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM

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Read Michelle Reale’s two otherworldly prose poems, “Let It Be Extravagant” and “Misinterpreted” in the planchette issue of -ette. We’re excited to learn both will appear in her forthcoming collection, Let It Be Extravagant, (Bordighera Press, 2025)

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December 20, 2024 at 2:21 PM

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We have Best Microfiction nominations! @kelliagodon.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social @triciaknoll.bsky.social @tarazambrano.bsky.social

December 20, 2024 at 1:49 PM

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Read Karen McPherson’s prose poem about the longing to connect in our planchette issue

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December 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM

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“Taryn, this is your mom….” A voicemail goes to an unexpected place in Krista Madsen’s “Little Miss 1565,” one of our Pushcart Prize nominations this year.

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December 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM

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Read “Holy Oil” by Lauren Becker Macios in our planchette issue

December 18, 2024 at 2:36 PM

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Read “The Only Explanation,” an unforgettable micro by @triciaknoll.bsky.social in our planchette issue

Text: “At the end of his chapter on disappearances, he describes the work of the Feasties—those who stuff themselves with dreams” Tricia Knoll, “the only explanation” Image: vanishing image of person holding an open book

December 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM

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A new episode of -ette’s companion podcast, pod-ette just dropped @melaniehoopes.bsky.social calls out Billy Joel and reveals where she’s keeping her hat for the next few weeks. She chats with Krista Madsen and @tarazambrano.bsky.social Original music for pod-ette by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social