Amy Barnes
@amygcb
find me at 🖼 & 🦋 @amygcb
This story began in my notes app with a concrete uterus. I figured that was too heavy. Thank you to @AFB16 & @The_Rumpus for publishing this “lighter” version. therumpus.net/2025/01/06/rum…
New story by Nora Esme Wagner in wonderful Fictive Dream: fictivedream.com/2025/07/18/bla…
New Anthology 5 Winner by Anna Cabreros! "My sister Jane and I make the ideal jigsaw puzzle partnership. She’s more organized than me, the one who categorizes and compartmentalizes, but I have all the patience." fracturedlit.com/jigsaw/
New Creative Nonfiction today from Melissa Flores Anderson. @melissacuisine
❗✍️ Final day to submit to our 2025 Flash Fiction OPEN! ✍️❗ The first-place winner will receive $2,000 and publication. 15 finalists will receive $100 and publication. Deadline: July 13, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Submit your best flash today: fracturedlit.com/2025-fractured…
⏰ Submissions close in ONE WEEK! ⏰ Write that story you have been obsessing over, that has you by the throat or the heart, that needs to find its readers. First place receives $2k + publication! Deadline: July 13, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: fracturedlit.com/2025-fractured…
Issue 31 is up! We're proud to present new poetry by: Pamela Annas Mary Buchinger Eden Chicken Julie Esther Fisher Luci Huhn Charles Kell Suzanne Langlois Margaret LeMay Kathy Nelson Ann Pedone Angela Siew and a review of Megan Merchant by Shannon Winston leonliteraryreview.com
I’m so pleased to be in the coming of these wonderful trash cat writers! Many thanks to JP Ralph for such insightful edits! ENJOY!
HERE IT IS! 🦝 Celebrating one year of publishing with this Summer Issue. TWELVE flash and NINE shorts - our biggest issue ever. Make sure to bookmark both links and get stuck into incredible short fiction 💜 trashcatlit.com/general-issue-… trashcatlit.com/general-issue-…
Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issu… Words: @MCzyzniejewski KIM CHINQUEE RENESHA DHANRAJ WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN @troigh DAN CRAWLEY @theresegcarr CLAUDIA MONPERE BRITTANY REDD TARA SHEA BURKE Cover art: JACELYN YAP
An amazing first day. Thank you, writing humans!!!! Cannot wait to read what tomorrow brings. . . And the next day and the next. Y’all are talented!
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Last-minute submitters, where y'all at? Two days until submissions close! Send us your work before July 3, midnight EST. Think self-care, write literary. (does this make sense?) literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
For all my fellow well-digging and dwelling writers: reckonreview.com/wind-and-root-…
You're in luck! New Wind & Root from columnist @amygcb is up over at Reckon.
Trampoline #28.2 is excited to have poetry by Bill Mohr, Darren C. Demaree @d_c_demaree and Frederick Pollack. trampolinepoetry.com Take care.
Sharpen those micros, humans. Claudine wants prose with some teeth! Submissions open in TWO days. June 30. Micro fiction. Micro CNF. Subs always free. Paying market.
New Flash by @kimmagowan "Perhaps you will find yourself in this situation, returning late at night to a university campus, deserted for the summer. This is where all of you visiting chemists are bunking during your one-week Biomolecular conference." fracturedlit.com/what-to-do-if-…
And we're off! Start a 2-week deep dive TODAY into a favorite online flash journal older than 10 years and get your name in the hat to win $400! Please share at least 1 flash daily and tag SmokeLong so we see you! Get on it! smokelong.com/the-archive-ch…
I didn’t start writing until my mid-40s and was blessed to find a home in the flash community. 💚 It is HARD to place pieces, and feels impossible when you’re new. Writing friends, please forward around your socials, and help me find the newbies! Claudine is LOVE.
Claudine loves new writers! Each issue highlights a micro (either fiction or CNF) by a new writer (writers with three publications or fewer). Submissions open in FIVE days!
"...I tell Kevin with a mouthful of beer-soaked fair bear fur. Stop it, he says..." I'm starting my @SmokeLong Deep Dive with this primal scream of flash. Hilarious and sad. "Goldilocks" by @amygcb from @gonelawn iss. 41. Such vicious language. gonelawn.net/journal/issue4…
3 new poems up at the incredible @LunchTicket1! Here’s “Mid-Trauma Sonnet.” It’s a beautiful issue, friends, edited by one of the kindest: Jessica Ballen. So very glad to be included! 💙 Check out the entire issue here: lunchticket.org/archive/issue-…
I've been so busy having summer fun with my kids, I almost forget to share that I have a new poem published in @LunchTicket1 about a childhood favorite toy: Polly Pocket! lunchticket.org/polly-pocket/
Prose Garden zoom Saturday June 28, 2025, 2 pm ET. Register for zoom link. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Hosts:Meg Pokrass , Francine Witte. Readers: Jennifer Wortman, Julia Strayer, Avitus Carle, Jamie Poissant, Amy Barnes, Kathryn Kulpa, Jenny Stalter, Claudia Monpere, Roberta Beary