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"Your mother makes us tacos: a vat of oil, her smile like someone sitting for a portrait." New fiction: "The Golden Age" by Ulrica Hume aka @uhume.bsky.social matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hume/the-...

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I'll be visiting a high school in Virginia next week and will be running some workshops with the students, so I'm pulling together some stories I love that I think teens would like. "Rules" by Meghan Phillips fits the bill, published in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/phillips

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"Like any unacknowledged feeling, it grew into something much bigger, rolled around inside me until it snowballed, hard-packed and heavy." SLM's Former Managing Editor @mossyair.bsky.social has a new flash, "Only Count In One," in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💫 Read it here: https://buff.ly/4gWtqJJ

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It has been a super long time since I’ve published flash fiction and I’m overjoyed to get to do so in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social! My Ronnie James Dio story is up today (with a shoutout to @housleydave.bsky.social, who wrote the best Dio story ever) matchbooklitmag.com/mb/rossi/onl...

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"Or how about this: I knew it wasn’t going to work with my boyfriend a few days after Ronnie James Dio died." New fiction: "Only Count In One" by Amy Rossi aka @mossyair.bsky.social matchbooklitmag.com/mb/rossi/onl...

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"My baby girl’s hair was bees. They buzzed around her head. They were everywhere, hovering around her face, making sunshine,...." This story is amazing! Phenomenal writing by @noranadj.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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"Mostly we give each other a look that hurts, an empty glance, a tense smile—as if we shouldn’t smile, not after this" A stunner from @noranadj.bsky.social with a wonderful braided quality to it, and so much sadness bubbling away underneath

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Am really digging the stuff Matchbook has been putting out. Check them out.

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I have a story up at the fabulous @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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"We were having breakfast and the spoon was dripping with honey." New fiction: "Queen" by Nora Nadjarian aka @noranadj.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/nadjarian...

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ICYMI

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Michelle Ross is always amazing. Up at @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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‘The path you want is not much of a path. It’s easy to miss.’ A 100-word micro from Michelle Ross in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social that forces you to retrace your steps, again and again and again… 🧭

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"My therapist says, Crawl beneath the rusted gate that warns No Trespassing." New fiction: "Directions" by Michelle Ross www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/ross/dire...

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Now THAT'S an opener. From @mcarphil.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to have my story “How to Become an Auctioneer” included in this. Thanks to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social and @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. Congrats to the other winners!

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Congratulations to Suzanne Hicks aka @suzannehicks.bsky.social and Matt Leibel aka @mattleibel.bsky.social for selection of their matchbook pieces for this year’s Best Microfiction 2025 anthology! @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social bestmicrofiction.com

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

Our website will say submissions are closed, but our Duosuma page will accept submissions until midnight est! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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"No, I haven’t actually seen the fox, but I’m pretty sure it’s sleeping in our iris bed at night." New fiction: "The Wild Life" by Diane Wald www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/wald/the-...

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Our submission window closes tomorrow! Get your stuff in! www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

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Our submissions are open until this Monday, January 13th! We're interested in fiction and creative nonfiction! www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

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Submissions are open! We'll be open until Jan 13th! matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

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Open Reading Period Reminder Subs open January 6 for a week! And don't forget we're now on Substack, and our first official post will arrive shortly so don't forget to subscribe! Subscribe here: matchbook.substack.com/subscribe Submissions guidelines: www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

ahhh @mcarphil.bsky.social and @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social!!! two of the best together!!!

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"It’s never really dark in space, not like you imagined it would be when you were a little girl looking up at the stars." New fiction: "Tether" by Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social matchbooklitmag.com/mb/phillips/...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

matchbook is now on Substack! Subscribe to receive a monthly digest of our most recent published work, interviews, award nominations, editor obsessions, and more. We’re starting small, but come along for the ride! matchbook.substack.com/subscribe

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matchbook is now on Substack! Subscribe to receive a monthly digest of our most recent published work, interviews, award nominations, editor obsessions, and more. We’re starting small, but come along for the ride! matchbook.substack.com/subscribe

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‘…screaming is this proof enough for you.’ Love how the final paragraph of this @lumchanmfa.bsky.social gem in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social jolts the story in an unexpected direction 🏍️ www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/brownlee/...

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

absolutely delighted to see my @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social story "Open Them If You Don't Believe Me" included on this awesome list of MAFFIAs!

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This month's #Mondettes have been picked by me and are a bumper affair of 20 (+ a few more) of my favourite #flashfiction pieces from 2024. Also, some waffle about why I like each piece and six fun prompts to have a go at! mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...

submitted 105 days ago • 15 comments

Follow @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social to read great #flashfiction! Follow @lumchanmfa.bsky.social to read an artist killing the form! Here: this is what I mean (you're welcome):

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Yay! Pub day! I hope you check out my latest micro at @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social!

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"I would kiss the scars, lick the lines of drawn together flesh, massage the remains" What a perfect ending. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social up at @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/brownlee/...

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"He lost it in a motorcycle accident. One of those unexpected moments, cruising along the highway, the sun searing the lava fields around him..." New fiction: "The Guy and the Missing Leg" by Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/brownlee/...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Congrats to this year's Best Microfiction nominations for matchbook! @suzannehicks.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Mark your calendars Submissions open January 6 for a week! Guidelines here: www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

happy to have this out with matchbook! thank you matchbook!

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"The earth is black and wet that’s the first thing in the world then the beetles which do not mind being overlooked..." New fiction at matchbook: "Atlas" by Mihir Bellamkonda @mihirwords.bsky.social matchbooklitmag.com/mb/bellamkon...

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