*blows layer of dust off bluesky account
We're also eligible for 2024 awards for semi-pro stuff. If'n, in all the current chaos, you wanted to throw a little love towards the little reading ghostie, perennial, outsider, underdog.
post a short story you love
@emelkrishnan.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com
apparitionlit.com/bride-knife-...
I still think about this story on a weekly basis.
Image with a list of award-eligible stories for Leah Ning for 2024: "The Ferns and the Fiddleheads" (Apex Magazine), "On the Temporary Nature of Thunderstorms" (Kaleidotrope), "Rosewater, Clinging to the Tongue" (Apparition Lit), and "Calm, Quiet, Silence" (Crepuscular).
Awards eligibility for 2024!! Honored to be published by @apexmag.bsky.social , @kaleidotrope.bsky.social , @apparitionlit.com , and @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this year ❤️ links to all stories can be found on my website!
The cover of Apparition Literary Magazine Issue 5: Resistance
My short story, In Silence I'll Sing, in Apparition Literary Magazine
Finally ordered a physical copy of the @apparitionlit.com Resistance issue with my story in it. There she is now, wudja look at her 😭
It’s the most wonderful(?) time of the year…award eligibility post time!
I have one poem out this year; ‘Replacement Rainforests’ (in @apparitionlit.com). Please keep it in mind if you’re nominating for 2025 awards 🙏
Poetry: "On brutal wing" (2021), one of my longest poems, is a blank-verse narrative which appeared in the brilliant @apparitionlit.com -- a magazine I'm really going to miss.
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i forgot once again (i had a major surgery 14 days after the magazine published), that i also had the *immense honor* of doing a *bucket list thing* and was Guest Editor for the @apparitionlit.com MERCURIAL ISSUE
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1G9MZL
it's paper/plant-themed, with plants on opposite corners, yellowish paper as the background. Brown paper with the title 2024 eligibility. Then: poetry: "how did i die this time?" - apparition lit; "specular she" - small wonders; "dad's recipe for never-keeping short story: "six-month assessment on miracle fresh" - diabolical plots. At the bottom, there's "@anneliberton"
Awards eligibility post 💜
This year I published 3 poems and 1 short story:
Poems:
♠️ How Did I Die This Time? - @apparitionlit.com
apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-di...
♠️ specular she (personal fave, @sfpoetry.bsky.social hiii) - @smallwondersmag.com
smallwondersmag.com/piece/specul...
The first one in the series - "Anticaprice / Chemical Engineering Mage" in @apparitionlit.com in the issue guest-edited by @kurellian.bsky.social!
(there is no particular reading order to those pieces and I might rearrange them entirely for a little book later.)
apparitionlit.com/anticaprice-...
A story full of longing for a thousand-year-old self but also for a new one. What do you do when you find yourself in stories that were not written for you? How do you reconcile original and translation into a third thing that bears your name?
by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social in @apparitionlit.com
Beautifully crafted prose rounds out our 2024 Flash Fiction competition - Dec winning story "We All Feed the Motherwood" by @akstories.bsky.social follows rituals of a society of murder trees. It is fitting as the last story we'll ever publish! Free online today! apparitionlit.com/we-all-feed-...
An email that reads: Hi Madeehah! Thank you so much for working with us on the Harbinger issue. That story has swamped itself into our souls and will last throughout the end of time. We are sending this message across time and space to let you know that the team tallied votes for our annual noms, and we are excited to nominate Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City for consideration in the Pushcart Prize for short fiction. Best of luck, all our fingers and toes are crossed! Stay well, Rebecca, Amy, Clarke & Tacoma Apparition Lit
Very honoured that the lovely folks at @apparitionlit.com have nominated my short story for the Pushcart Prize, I was not expecting this ☺️
So very honored to hear that my short story “The City and the Styrofoam Sea” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks to @apparitionlit.com for the nom!
apparitionlit.com/the-city-and...
Go, little story, go!
Manilla envelope in a pineapple plant
Ok, one last go for Pushcart Prize nominations with a pass by the lucky (?) pineapple!! Good luck to the @apparitionlit.com noms!!
This has really felt like a Midwest goodbye! My essay saying thank you, see ya later is free to read online today. THANK YOU to everyone who supported us, by cheering, sharing, submitting, reviewing, and subscribing. I've had the time of my life!! (*does the lift) apparitionlit.com/final-editor...
Paper-white background with red lines on all 4 sides of square image (from cover art by Annalise Jensen) Text in black - See Ya Later by Amy Henry Robinson Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Essay "See Ya Later" by Amy Henry Robinson
apparitionlit.com/final-editorial-…
@amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social
Blue-grey background with red lines on all 4 sides of square image (from cover art by Annalise Jensen) Text in black - The Stories I Tell Myself by Jennifer Hudak Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Essay "The Stories I Tell Myself" by Jennifer Hudak
apparitionlit.com/the-stories-i-te…
@jenniferhudak.bsky.social
Pale brown background with a large brown vulture on left (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - Thank you for Your Service by August Cao Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Poem "Thank you for Your Service" by August Cao
apparitionlit.com/thank-you-for-yo…
Pale blue background with concave swirl of white snow (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - The Pancake House at the End of the World by L.M. Guay Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Short Story "The Pancake House at the End of the World" by L.M. Guay
apparitionlit.com/the-pancake-hous…
@nightgleaming.bsky.social
Pale pink background with a yellow flower (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - Gutted by Cameron E Quinn Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Poem "Gutted" by Cameron E Quinn
apparitionlit.com/gutted
@thecameronquinn.bsky.social
Pale green background with a dark brown vulture on the right (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - Skittering Within by Kelsea Yu Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Short Story "Skittering Within" by Kelsea Yu
apparitionlit.com/skittering-withi…
@anovelescape.bsky.social
Pale blue background with grey arms and hands reaching for human skull (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - How Did I Die This Time by Anne Liberton Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Poem "How Did I Die This Time" by Anne Liberton
apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-die-th…
@anneliberton.bsky.social
I love the voice so much, I love this robot so much 😭
Pale brown background with a large grey, brown, and red-feathered bird wing spread (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - The Robot Malfunctions in Want of Locks and Braids by Timi Sanni Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Poem "The Robot Malfunctions in Want of Locks and Braids" by Timi Sanni
apparitionlit.com/the-robot-malfun…
@timisanni.bsky.social
I loved writing this story and I'm so happy it found a perfect home in @apparitionlit.com's final issue. Give it a read if you're interested moons that mess up the world 😏🌛
Pale blue background with concave swirl of green grass and a single yellow flower blooming (from cover art by Annalise Jensen). Text in black - Estelle by Carol Duncan Text in brown - ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Free to read online today!
ISSUE 28: HARBINGER
Short Story "Estelle" by Carol Duncan
apparitionlit.com/estelle/
The opening paragraph to this one is actually perfect. I promise you that you will not expect this story to end up where it does, but it is satisfying and you'll be nodding along.
This poem is a whole JOURNEY of FAFO for the rainforests. Of all the delightful writers we've worked with at @apparitionlit.com May is one of the most delightfulest.
Honestly, read the poem (or listen to May read it!!) and you'll be like "hell, yeah... this is it."
The forest has spoken!
It also did a bunch of other things. Sorry, no take-backsies now.
This is a MUST READ 💙💙💙
