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Hello fellow strange pilgrims, there’s something special and secret and so exciting brewing behind the scenes over here at our indie lit mag and we can’t wait to share it with you, but you’ll need to wait just a few more days! For now, here...
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I won’t dilly dally much today because I really want y’all to dive into not one but two new amazing flash pieces from the wonderfully weird and wild imagination of GennaRose Nethercott (one of my most favorite...
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today we present you the winner of our second Micro of the Month challenge! The theme was Rabbits and you guys…I had no idea y’all loved rabbits so much, haha. Karan and I moved this month from the US to Canad...
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I hope you’re all settled in for the evening because below I’m sharing with you a new kickass brilliant story by the award-winning writer Isabel J. Kim. I first discovered her work in Clarkesworld, when I all...
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, below we share a flash nonfiction piece that could well be a prose poem or a series of handwritten letters torn at seemingly random places and yet it binds together into a delicate, cohesive whole full of long...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing \ud83d\udc26⬛ Fiction & Nonfiction \ud83d\udc26⬛ Free submissions \ud83d\udc26⬛ Pays $200/long-form & $50/flash \ud83d\udc26⬛
Meg Pokrass’ is the author of 9 flash collections. She is the Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series and teaches online flash fiction workshops here: https://megpokrass.substack.com/
Joel Cuthbertson is a writer and librarian from Denver. His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Lit, Joyland Magazine, New England Review, the LARB, LitHub, and more.
SFF writeguy, podcaster, attorney. she/they. corn enthusiast.
Jill Kolongowski is an award-winning writer with work in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Jill is a professor, professional worrier, and writes the only flash essay newsletter on Substack.
Creative Director @ ONLY POEMS & Strange Pilgrims | Executive Editor @ Sub Club | Writing a horror magic-realist novel | Reading classics & poetry | Researching literary publishing
“They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world — the fools, they locked up the wrong man.”
Liza Katz Duncan is the author of two collections of poetry. She lives in New Jersey, where she teaches multilingual learners.
I write whatever spills out of my gut.
on the northside
Prize-winning writer—poet and novelist—author of Loosestrife for Porcupines among other works—offering poems about the ecosphere and us.
Former editor of Eleven Eleven. Most recent book is Animal Children (Nomadic/Black Lawrence Press). Lives in Barcelona. https://linktr.ee/hughsteinberg
Author of CONTRADICTION DAYS: AN ARTIST ON THE VERGE OF MOTHERHOOD, DOMESTIREXIA: POEMS, MEANINGFUL WORK: STORIES, I MUST HAVE YOU: A NOVEL, and a few more. Writer, mom, obsessive.
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Poet and former journalist. Work published in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, etc.
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