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On hiatus | TBD is an ode to the writer’s bureau; a collection of stories accompanied by photographs of writers at their places of work.
The Bureau
Joined October 2021
VOLUME 05: WAYFINDING—OUT NOW! 14 extraordinary stories out of 600+ submissions that explore our relationships with physical (and metaphorical) spaces and places, and how we find our way. Thank you all for making this the largest call yet! 🙏♥️ READ: https://t.co/VjpGTcRSjs
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This has been my go-to place to find the best stories and to find my name in the @wigleaf top 50 feels surreal and unbelievable! Many thanks to @laughingyeti and all editors and to @BureauDispatch 💝Huge congratulations to all writers who made it this year ❤️❤️❤️
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And finally, lit mags. This year, I kept up with @NOONAnnual, @onestorymag, @zyzzyvamag, @nplusonemag, @VQR, @adroitjournal, @SmokeLong, @BureauDispatch, and @Wigleaf. All as stunning as ever. Thank god for literature. Keep reading.
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Find my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Endorsement for Little Trees Air Fresheners” (maybe my favorite title ever for one of my pieces), originally featured in @BureauDispatch, inside this lovely collection with some of my favorite folks.
altcurrentpress.com
Flash, Haibun, Micro, and Hybrid by 110 Authors
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@CasieDodd @BunkongTuon @laughingyeti Thank you! From my forthcoming @bellepointpress chapbook is this at @thecitronreview: https://t.co/F6FqdhXsCu This at @BureauDispatch: https://t.co/m87T3XNoZG And this from @ReckonReview:
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Some of my favs for #flash: @SmokeLong definitely. @splitlipthemag @monkeybicycle @GhostParachute @forge_litmag @CraftLiterary @Wigleaf @longleafreview @flashfroglitmag @FracturedLit @trampset @xraylitmag @okaydonkeymag @PitheadChapel @ReckonReview @BureauDispatch @FictiveDream
Writer friends—what are your favorite places to read and submit flash? Journals, mags, contests…I’m loving my first @SmokeLong summer fitness and am becoming obsessed with the genre. #writers #flashfiction
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@emilyrinkema @SmokeLong Hi, Emily! Some of my favs: @SmokeLong definitely. @splitlipthemag @monkeybicycle @GhostParachute @forge_litmag @CraftLiterary @Wigleaf @longleafreview @flashfroglitmag @FracturedLit @trampset @xraylitmag @okaydonkeymag @PitheadChapel @ReckonReview @BureauDispatch @FictiveDream
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new new: The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2023 (Guest Editor: Venita Blackburn):
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Thrilled and honored to publish 3 @Wigleaf longlisted stories! Congratulations @DemistyB @aubreyhirsch @ambernoelle ❤️
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Excited to learn I have a story from @BureauDispatch on the @Wigleaf long list! You can read it here:
bureaudispatch.com
My granddaughter, Ray, is obsessed with constellations. She can find them all, even the obscure, complicated ones like Berenice's hair and the keel of the Argonauts’ ship. “I’d never even heard of...
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I was happy to read "remember" (published in @BureauDispatch) at the @Anaheim_Library open mic night tonight alongside other wonderful musical performances and poetry readings. So much creativity out there!
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"“Baloo. Boy, you down here?” "all we’d heard was all that we’d been hearing that long, wet week in September: the bullfrogs in the yellow grass somewhere overhead and hapless snakes winding against the canal floor." Heartbreak from @Taylorbabe411 in @BureauDispatch
@JiksunCheung at the @BureauDispatch was someone who was very kind to me at @SmokeLong way back when and I will now send him a stories 'till the end of time! (Always be nice to people it will make them want to send you more!) https://t.co/iX9XSfWVtm
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Thrilled to have my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Advertisement For Little Trees Air Fresheners,” originally published with @BureauDispatch, selected for Best Small Fictions. Thank you so much to the fine folks who worked on this.
altcurrentpress.com
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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So stoked to announce that @BarlowAdams's story from Vol 04: Field Notes was selected for this year's BEST SMALL FICTIONS! Thank you for trusting your story with TBD, Barlow! 🙏 1/2
Thrilled to have my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Advertisement For Little Trees Air Fresheners,” originally published with @BureauDispatch, selected for Best Small Fictions. Thank you so much to the fine folks who worked on this.
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Humbled to be in the latest volume from @BureauDispatch 🖤 https://t.co/dqZTvLYWdv
thedustlounge.com
My story ‘A Small Violence of Breath’ has been published in the Bureau Dispatch Volume 5, Wayfinding
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@JiksunCheung at the @BureauDispatch was someone who was very kind to me at @SmokeLong way back when and I will now send him a stories 'till the end of time! (Always be nice to people it will make them want to send you more!) https://t.co/iX9XSfWVtm
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We lost the boy. We’d lost the boy. Dan Guerri’s boy to be exact, but if you lived in our town–where the clocktower rang twice a day, and the Apple Blossom queen had lost her hand when the Quimby kid...
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"The pieces of us ripple in the air, souls split like the seeds of a dandelion clock bursting in the breeze." @tamrogers in @BureauDispatch
https://t.co/w4OhyFtGxp
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The pieces of us ripple in the air, souls split like the seeds of a dandelion clock bursting in the breeze. The doorbell doesn’t ring because I took the batteries out of it before it ever had chance...
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" It had been raining nonstop that spring so everything and everyone had been driven down hard into the mud." @Taylorbabe411 in @BureauDispatch
https://t.co/y4KBN19eYX
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"I should have known he'd put on face paint someday, leave when he turned sixteen, but it wasn't until later that I realized he'd stayed for me." @teresa_milbrodt in @BureauDispatch
https://t.co/c3EAFwVZn6
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"Mom falls asleep before I do. Her snoring sounds like a lullaby, a way for her to tell me, I’m there for you while I sleep, you’re safe." @happymil_ in @BureauDispatch
https://t.co/eSF2cuO4M0
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