Humans who are *not* at AWP:
Is your AWP FOMO set to legendary? So many freebies and fun times! 🫠
We feel you.
Post a favorite Claudine story by Sat midnight EST-and tag us-to be entered in a drawing for a complete set of Claudine swag, mailed to wherever you live! 💚🐈⬛💚
Staff meeting: BIG news!!!
Our first intern of 2026 will arrive as soon as MONDAY!!!!! Her name is Posey. She is 4 weeks old and loves voice-driven prose. 😻
Yaaaaaaaay!!!!
It’s Friday, AWP!!!
We’ve got bookmarks, stickers. . . cat pins!!!!!
What??!! 🙀
Get ‘em while we still got ‘em.
D.E. will be in the book fair @ the Chestnut review table from noon-2!!!!!
We—100%—cannot afford a booth at AWP 😹 BUT our EIC will be there. Find her and get your Claudine swag! @dehardy.bsky.social
Good morning, Baltimore! 🎵
Find me and get your Claudine swag!!!!
Bookmarks, stickers. . . and today. . . cat ears!!!!!! Get ‘em while I still have ‘em!
I’ll be at the Chestnut booth at 11 and 3, and walking around the book fair in between. 🐈⬛
Staff meeting: AWP this week!
Claudine herself shall not attend as someone must keep the office running, but our EIC D.E. Hardy will be there.
👀 here for AWP giveaways all week!!
Also, now reading for JUNE!! Send us your words. 🐈⬛💚
Check our review of @jrfenn.bsky.social’s “Tiny Vessels”!!
“An award-winning collection of seventeen stunning flash fictions that awe with their complexity and wow with their precision and prose.”
www.claudineliterary.com/tinyvessels
Check out our review of @swethaamit.bsky.social’s “Cotton Candy from the Sky”!!!
“A rich, earnestly-wrought collection of nine stories about wanting to escape modern life and reconnect with nature in favor of a simpler life.”
www.claudineliterary.com/cottoncandyf...
New Writer CNF by @alcrisp.bsky.social!
“A man died in the holler, the story goes. Or a woman. Or a baby. All of them, could have been. The point is, you can still hear the crying when you’re in the ravine.”
www.claudineliterary.com/alcrisp
New CNF by @kathrynreese.bsky.social!!
“and you have a heart on your leg, engraved with a compass, the sharp edge of boredom, of having to ‘sit here til the job’s done.’”
www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynreese
New CNF by @mspicone.bsky.social!!
“Mom rebounds like a basketball, hard and coming for my face. “Wouldn’t this look so great for a cute day at work?” She holds up a navy blue blouse that screams Mad Men secretary.”
www.claudineliterary.com/mariapicone
New Microfiction by @suzannehicks.bsky.social!
“We use bowls to catch each drop, wetting our cracked lips and parched tongues, never able to satisfy our thirst.”
www.claudineliterary.com/suzannehicks
New Microfiction by Kate Faigen!!!!!
“31 Instagram stories watched. 95 Tweets read. 5% phone battery left. 19 glances in the mirror.”
www.claudineliterary.com/katefaigen
Our March issue is LIVE!
@katefagan.bsky.social @suzannehicks.bsky.social @mspicone.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @alcrisp.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social @jrfenn.bsky.social
Claudineliterary.com
AWP starts this week. 🎉
Writing humans, is it fair to say the AWP bookfair brings together one of the largest selections of chapbooks in the world?
Yes? Or super close?
Anyhoo, if you can’t make it to AWP, browse our chapbook bookshelf!
www.claudineliterary.com/bookshelf
For folks on the other side of the clock!
Coming to a MONDAY near you!
@suzannehicks.bsky.social @mspicone.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @alcrisp.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social @jrfenn.bsky.social
🐈⬛ ICYMI 🐈⬛
Our review of @mynachang.bsky.social’s The Potential of Radio and Rain:
“The radio picks up a signal all the way from Chicago. Chicago! Chang’s prose lets us float on the idea, and for a moment, breathe the world in and dream.”
www.claudineliterary.com/thepotential...
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Our review of @marioaliberto3.bsky.social’s All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury:
“what makes this collection sing is Aliberto’s storytelling. His stories feel so immediate. Almost like you and he are hanging out”
www.claudineliterary.net/allthedeadwe...
🐈⬛ ICYMI 🐈⬛
New Writer Microfiction by Robin Kalota
“Wedged in at the bottom of the box, you find a stack of onion-skinned air-mailed love letters bound with a red cord. That are not from your mother.”
www.claudineliterary.net/robinkalota
We—100%—cannot afford a booth at AWP 😹 BUT our EIC will be there. Find her and get your Claudine swag! @dehardy.bsky.social
We’re only three weeks away from #AWP2026! Come to the book fair and say hi to us at booth T328. On March 6, we’ll be hosting a reading at Peter’s Pour House with Baltimore Review and Cream City Review. Go to the link in our bio to RSVP to our offsite event and subscribe to our newsletter for more!
Staff meeting:
How’s your February going, humans??
We will be at AWP. Details to come!
2 days until Claudine’s Werd Nerdz. DM for more onfo! 🤓
9 days left to submit for the May issue. (Bonus points for CNF)
Still no interns. 😿 Soon, though. Soon. 🤞🏼
🐈⬛ ICYMI 🐈⬛
CNF by @fionamckay.bsky.social:
“I remember carrying her, my cousin, when I was ten and she was five and clingy as a limpet: two only children making siblings of each other, with none of the skills honed by everyday friction.”
www.claudineliterary.net/fionamckay
Just did a run through. . . This is going to be FUN (and quite nerdy) 🤓🐈⬛💚
1 hour: We study. We write. We nerd.
🐈⬛ ICYMI 🐈⬛
CNF by @sudhab.bsky.social:
“You appear youthful in a black-and-white moment from your wedding reception fifty-five years ago, Amma and you adorned in inches-thick jasmine garlands, tassels dangling at the bottom, pendant-like.”
www.claudineliterary.net/sudhabalagopal
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Microfiction by Nicole Hebdon:
“When I think of all the disappointments I’ve faced in life, and all the hard things you’ll have to go through, I think of George from my first office job.”
www.claudineliterary.net/nicolehebdon
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Microfiction by @thedrevlow.bsky.social:
“Note: I also stole your bacon.” 🙀
www.claudineliterary.net/benjamindrev...
3 copies of the novella in flash, MOTHER KARMA, by Sumitra Singam. Illustration of mother and child on cover by Mallika Narayanan.
After many delays and journeys across land and sea, MOTHER KARMA by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social will finally make it into the hot hands of the Frantics!
@philippabowe.bsky.social & @janeb.bsky.social - look forward to talking about with you and Sumitra!
