Lena Kinder
@happilylenaaa.bsky.social
Mediocre Maven | MA in Fiction at the University of Southern Mississippi | MFA in Fiction at Hollins University | Editor-in-Cheese of Folklore Review
I tell you my rejections to make you feel better ❤️🩹
https://www.folklorereview.com/
I tell you my rejections to make you feel better ❤️🩹
https://www.folklorereview.com/
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What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
Made me think of you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social 💜
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Made me think of you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social 💜
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Back in my day life didn't used to suck this much
January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Back in my day life didn't used to suck this much
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I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
Oooooooo!
Hello, #AWP Bluesky. We are having a reading event at Old Major in Baltimore on Thursday March 5, 6-8pm. It is free. A lot of us will be there and we would love love love to see you. 💗🏳️⚧️⚡🌈
January 14, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Oooooooo!
I was supposed to write tonight, but I dissociated instead.
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 AM
I was supposed to write tonight, but I dissociated instead.
This’ll be my first playthrough~
January 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
This’ll be my first playthrough~
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Exciting Frog week ahead:
1) We’ll be sharing our “Flash Frog by the numbers” for 2025. Even word lovers can appreciate a good stat or two!📈
2) The Blue Frog contest is in full swing! flash-frog.com/contest/ 🐸💙
3) We have a very special, exciting announcement on Tuesday… 👀
1) We’ll be sharing our “Flash Frog by the numbers” for 2025. Even word lovers can appreciate a good stat or two!📈
2) The Blue Frog contest is in full swing! flash-frog.com/contest/ 🐸💙
3) We have a very special, exciting announcement on Tuesday… 👀
Contest
The Blue Frog The Blue Frog is Flash Frog’s annual flash fiction contest. Taking place each January, the contest features a new theme based on what type of stories we wish we had seen more of…
flash-frog.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Exciting Frog week ahead:
1) We’ll be sharing our “Flash Frog by the numbers” for 2025. Even word lovers can appreciate a good stat or two!📈
2) The Blue Frog contest is in full swing! flash-frog.com/contest/ 🐸💙
3) We have a very special, exciting announcement on Tuesday… 👀
1) We’ll be sharing our “Flash Frog by the numbers” for 2025. Even word lovers can appreciate a good stat or two!📈
2) The Blue Frog contest is in full swing! flash-frog.com/contest/ 🐸💙
3) We have a very special, exciting announcement on Tuesday… 👀
The moon is my girlfriend
January 2, 2026 at 12:46 AM
The moon is my girlfriend
It’s the end of the year, so here’s my sub stats!
Rejections~ 44 👹
Acceptances~ 7 🌈
Total subs sent out~ 63 🤡
Rejections~ 44 👹
Acceptances~ 7 🌈
Total subs sent out~ 63 🤡
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It’s the end of the year, so here’s my sub stats!
Rejections~ 44 👹
Acceptances~ 7 🌈
Total subs sent out~ 63 🤡
Rejections~ 44 👹
Acceptances~ 7 🌈
Total subs sent out~ 63 🤡
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found an old chaotic edit (from 2020!) of a poem that was published earlier this year in @folklorereview.bsky.social
#process
#process
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
found an old chaotic edit (from 2020!) of a poem that was published earlier this year in @folklorereview.bsky.social
#process
#process
My poem, “The Devil,” is in this wonderfully curated issue! Thank you for the inclusion @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 👹🫶🏻
Issue 10: Major Arcana is now live! Which tarot cards (poems) resonate with you?
www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-10
www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-10
Issue 10 | Tiny Wren Lit
www.tinywrenlit.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My poem, “The Devil,” is in this wonderfully curated issue! Thank you for the inclusion @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 👹🫶🏻
+3 rejections this week (44 total)
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
+3 rejections this week (44 total)
I’ve had 41 rejections out of 100 so far this year.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I’ve had 41 rejections out of 100 so far this year.
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We close in EIGHT days! (November 28th)! Don’t miss our submission window~
#fiction #poetry #flashfiction #nonfiction #art
#fiction #poetry #flashfiction #nonfiction #art
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We close in EIGHT days! (November 28th)! Don’t miss our submission window~
#fiction #poetry #flashfiction #nonfiction #art
#fiction #poetry #flashfiction #nonfiction #art
Don’t mind me. I’m just staring into my coffee, waiting for visions.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don’t mind me. I’m just staring into my coffee, waiting for visions.
Forthcoming in elsewhere with a little ghost story
a cartoon drawing of a ghost with a surprised expression on its face
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a ghost with a surprised expression on its face
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November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Forthcoming in elsewhere with a little ghost story
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November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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second window's funds raised: a whopping $2,709.32, for a total of $3,628.88. you people rule! I've got lots of reading to do, I'll randomly select the merch winners when I'm done!
Happy HAD Friday! 2 submission windows today for those who make some kind of donation to a cause! Link will work from 10-11am and 7-8pm Eastern. Where are you donating? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34166...
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
second window's funds raised: a whopping $2,709.32, for a total of $3,628.88. you people rule! I've got lots of reading to do, I'll randomly select the merch winners when I'm done!
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today's our final pub from Snarsky's #smallpoemsunday call, with TWO small poems from Waniya Aks E Noor!
here's the first one. click through for #2!
https://www.havehashad.com/jhjwr
here's the first one. click through for #2!
https://www.havehashad.com/jhjwr
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
today's our final pub from Snarsky's #smallpoemsunday call, with TWO small poems from Waniya Aks E Noor!
here's the first one. click through for #2!
https://www.havehashad.com/jhjwr
here's the first one. click through for #2!
https://www.havehashad.com/jhjwr
Forthcoming in @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Forthcoming in @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤
Salt Hill acceptance 🥰
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Salt Hill acceptance 🥰
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We’d love to see more nonfiction and art in our sub portal (:
#callforsubmissions #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #art
#callforsubmissions #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #art
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We’d love to see more nonfiction and art in our sub portal (:
#callforsubmissions #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #art
#callforsubmissions #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #art
Catch three from me in Wigleaf (in a few months) 🌈
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Catch three from me in Wigleaf (in a few months) 🌈
Just submitted to @nycmidnight.bsky.social #ScaryStoryChallenge 🖤
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Just submitted to @nycmidnight.bsky.social #ScaryStoryChallenge 🖤