Amy Barnes
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My tiny contribution to another stellar Ghost Parachute issue!
Read "The HOA rules don’t apply" written by @amygcb and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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OUT NOW! Michael Hopkins's stories have won awards from Glimmer Train and The Mill, and received 1st prize in the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters annual fiction contest. Jim Knipfel, author of SLACKJAW, has called Hopkins a writer with "an unparalleled imagination."
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2nd Place winner for our Ghosts contest by Adam Fell! "Overnight, the lake reveals itself. We wake to the sudden beating of its body against our properties." https://t.co/725MQ70fOi
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I have a new micro about a random fear in the latest issue of Asterales. Check it out if you wanna but make sure you read all the other amazing writers in the issue. 💙 Link: https://t.co/bSSLdAOlgW
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3rd Place Winner of our Ghosts contest by Pascha Sotolongo! "Between Abuela’s mobile home and mine, a white sand path interweaves the moonlit scrub pine." https://t.co/5ctJY7YkTp
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Oh, just our Fractured Lit OPEN Longlist dropping! Congrats writers! https://t.co/0zYg2d8CMP
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Sit back and enjoy our OCTOBER ISSUE. 🎃 🍂 WORDS by Lynne Beckenstein, Priyanka Champaneri, Monmita Chakrabarti, & Mingyu Brian Chan. ART by Jean Shon. PLUS @nicolegzhao interviews @cherrylousy. https://t.co/lymqNCllv9
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I’m open to queries! I love crime, mystery, thriller, and suspense adult fiction! Here’s my query link: https://t.co/XdIRx3tklI
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OUT NOW! DC author Lauren D. Woods' debut collection THE GREAT GROWN-UP GAME OF MAKE-BELIEVE was the winner of the 2024 Autumn House Fiction Prize. “Beautifully strange and incredibly satisfying." - Kristen Arnett, author of MOSTLY DEAD THINGS. @Ladiwoods1 @andrewbertaina
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I am so tickled to have a piece in this issue! “SURVIVING” a micro with no (almost no) punctuation!
Woo-hoo! Here's our new issue and it's a banger, if I do say so myself!! Thanks to a wonderful team of fabulous readers all based in the @ConverseMFA low-res program! https://t.co/LbY9cFt4ER
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I'm so excited to be working with Rachel on this contest!
We invite writers to submit to the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize from October 15 to December 14, 2025! Guest Judge @RachelHowzell will choose three prize winners. Each will receive $1,000 and publication. Learn more: https://t.co/2EvsV35V08
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Friends! I'd love to add some new volunteer readers for both @FracturedLit & @uncharted_mag_. It's a great way to see what's being written and eventually published today! I've heard from so many former readers about how it has helped their own writing!
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Hours to go before we close! Frighten us!
❗😈 Final day to submit to our Horror Challenge! 😈❗ For this challenge, we’re pleased to offer the grand-prize winner $500 and publication. Please submit short stories only—5,000 words max. Deadline: October 12, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: https://t.co/xxCsbLKtEp
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So! We're very happy with the response to the micro-excerpt call! Some really good stuff you people have been sending us. Keep them coming, please! We've arranged a special issue (#63) to be released 18 January, a dark center of a dark winter month, & bright work emerging.
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We're bringing back excerpt submissions from unpublished novels and novellas, but adding a criterion: 200 words max length. All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit. https://t.co/i34YQhMmXa
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In the new @GooseberryPie99! Thanks @jeff__harvey! @kimmagowan Louella Lester @brettpribble Cheryl Pappas @emilyrinkema
@joanleottawrite Kip Knott Mikki Aronoff @rgvaughan Sarah Lynn Hurd @tcboudreau
https://t.co/AMu56OPizp
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Photo by Keyur Jadav on Unsplash by Michael Czyzniejewski Outside Sturgis, I picture him dispatching me with the nonchalance of a wild stallion shooing a fly, a wag of its tail, me left bleeding in a...
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I have a new micro in @GooseberryPie99 today. Thank you to editor @jeff__harvey for publishing it.
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Photo by Vitaliy Shevchenko on Unsplash by Brett Pribble At night, Jesus visits my bedroom, not a Middle Eastern Jesus speaking a foreign language, a white Jesus speaking perfect English. He apolog...
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Super happy to have a story in this amazing anniversary issue of @GhostParachute 🐘🐘🐘
Read "We Don’t Let Elephants Grow" written by @happymil_ and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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Thanks to @GhostParachute and @brettpribble for publishing my story in their 9th Anniversary Issue! Congrats to Brett! Thanks to my pal Courtney Burton for her art, and to her and @kimmagowan for the reads. I'll post other great issue stories individually. https://t.co/sKaK2Bq3FY
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I was sitting on the bed in my hotel in Amsterdam when the fish commercial came on. Geena was in the bathroom. I had the TV on because I was nervous—she’d only been in there a minute, but it felt...
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