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Indie press dedicated to challenging, status-quo-busting literature to change your lightbulb. Founder: @LeahAngstman. Interns: German Shepherds.
Boulder / Stolen Arapaho Land
Joined May 2008
Lots of news, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award organised by @altcurrent (same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED and thrilled https://t.co/LCbCdElySI
thecoilmag.com
The winners and finalists have been announced for the 2025 Luminaire Prose Award to celebrate outstanding fiction.
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Shameless plug to buy a writer’s book on their birthday! Find it @altcurrent
It's my birthday! I'm thrilled every day to do the kind of literary work I'm privileged to do and work with creative people through my classes, my litmags, and my agenting! I'm looking forward to a great year of literary community!
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@Gabino_Iglesias It's my birthday, so help me celebrate by purchasing my collection of flash fiction! @altcurrent
https://t.co/LYUN4DNcsf
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Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great Matthew Specktor in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2: @LAReviewofBooks @northfigbooks @SouthwestReview @altcurrent @1111Press
https://t.co/W5tEwuI35p
lareviewofbooks.org
Matthew Specktor and author David Leo Rice discuss his book series, “A Room in Dodge City.”
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Thirty West is happy to welcome Ben Tanzer to the TW family. HUMAN NOISE, a literary short story collection, will see publication in the winter of 2027. @BenTanzer
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David Leo Rice on his new novel in conversation with Raphael Helfand: "Another thing that interests me a lot are characters who are in a position of needing to accept as real something that they don’t fully believe is real, because it’s that or nothing."
lareviewofbooks.org
Raphael Helfand speaks with David Leo Rice about his new novel “The Squimbop Condition.”
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Thrilled to chat with Alexis Barton about editing Pamela Painter’s “The Lesson of Flash Floods” for @ChestnutReview—later selected for Best Small Fictions 2025 @altcurrent. As an editor, this recognition means a lot. Read the interview here (free): https://t.co/5pfClZKj9L
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Thanks so much to my wonderful publisher @SouthernmostQu1 and @altcurrent and recent work in @McNeeseReview @13BridgesReview @MuleskinnerJou1 @fishbarrelrev @BendingGenres @GIGANTICsequins
Our very own @MerridawnD will be in the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology! Congrats, Merridawn! We’re happy for you and proud. https://t.co/6zoq0CRt73
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Today's Friday Five: some selections from @altcurrent's 2025 Best Small Fictions, featuring work originally published in @FracturedLit @GhostParachute @dishsoapquart @StanchionZine & @WitcraftDoug
https://t.co/FIXkeDb2jP
#WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #MicroFiction
andrewcareaga.com
A sampling from this year’s recently selected stories and prose poems
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Among the 110 pieces in the annual @altcurrent Best Small Fictions series is "She is There" by @ucirvine criminology, law & society Assistant Professor @_waldo_was_here. It narrates one of his mother's dreams of freedom from enslavement as a child. https://t.co/OZ3WKGwUOm
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Congratulation to Wangui wa Kamonji @_fromtheroots ! Her flash fiction "Memory/I send myself" was selected by Alternating Current Press @altcurrent for publication in "Best Small Fictions 2025." https://t.co/pA8YftW6rf
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We couldn't be more thrilled for @ivan_niccolai and his story, "The Marionette", making BSF 2025! We 🖤 our writers! @altcurrent
altcurrentpress.com
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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#ThursdayTreat -Overjoyed! Overwhelmed! I made it in 2025 Best Small Fictions Antho (BSF) yeah BEST SMALL FICTIONS BEST SMALL FICTIONS BEST SMALL FICTIONS TYSM Michelle @altcurrent TY Nicolette @aminormagazine for publishing my 'Bus Stop' 📣📙💙wooohooo
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Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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You guys, I’m in the Best Small Fictions 2025!!! 😀 So grateful to everyone at @altcurrent. Also, renewed thanks to @robtolenbutler and the @SoutheastReview team for publishing my story “Cowboy,” and nominating it for this amazing honor.💃 🎉 🤸♀️ https://t.co/SvipSRgtnx
altcurrentpress.com
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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From being nominated to being included twice to being part of the selection process, it has been quite a journey in the past 5 years--Huge Congratulations to all selected writers! #BestSmallFictions 2025 @altcurrent
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Happy writing news! I'm thrilled to have my story 'Blue-Naped Parrots See More Than They Say' chosen for Best Small Fictions. Huge thanks to #NewFlashFictionReview & @altcurrent editors. If you're on the list too, congratulations! Please say hi 👋
altcurrentpress.com
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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Found out today that my piece, 'The Comeback" has been chosen for the 2025 Best Short Fictions (BSF) The Best Small Fictions by @altcurrent The anthology will be published later this year. Thanks to Michelle Elvy, Robert Shapard & Nathan Leslie.
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We at @barrelhouse are excited to see Ruth Joffre's story on the TOC for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thank you, @altcurrent And thanks to Ofelia Montelongo for editing the Latine Monsters edition where it first appeared! https://t.co/yImbmXGAzO
altcurrentpress.com
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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I'm excited to share that my short piece 'All Made-Up' has been selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology, which will be available from Alternating Current Press this fall! And thanks to The Diagram for first publishing the piece! https://t.co/7Fxk96VnvB
@altcurrent
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Delighted to be included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology with 'Jewel Bearing'. Thanks to the folks @bansheelit for putting it forward and to the @altcurrent team for selecting it. Much appreciated 🙏 https://t.co/LjPMfK5PR3
#flashfiction #WritingCommunity #shortstories
altcurrentpress.com
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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