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It's not a monster -- it's our deadline creeping up on you! Before spooky season ends, send us your best short story for a chance to win a prize and support the cost of running Pithead Chapel. Thank you for your support, dear readers and writers.

Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-13-issu… Words: JUNE GLASS Graham (Gray) Scott @ChristyStillwe1 CURTIS SMITH Rebecca Tiger LESLIE HARRISON francinewitte Cover art: @djvorreryer

We are excited to share our Best Small Fictions nominees! Glenn Orgias Graham (Gray) Scott

Congratulations to our 2024 Pushcart nominees: Carrie Grinstead Meg Toth Carmen Leñero Tyler Gebauer Naana Eyikuma Hutchful Leslie Harrison Ace Chu

Our December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2024/12/01/vol… Words: MICHELLE ROSS @jameskeithsm1th ANNE LOUISE PEPPER Andrew Roe JOSHUA VIGIL LUCY WILDE JEFFREY HERMANN C.C. RUSSELL ROBIN TURNER Cover: LAURIE HOLLMAN

We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: Reem #amquerying also on @michaelediaz.bsky.social Shayla Frandsen MB Valente You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue.

UPDATE (with correct tags): We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: Reema #amquerying also on @michaelediaz.bsky.social Shayla Frandsen MB Valente

Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the LBSSA contest issue. Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/vol… Reema #amquerying also on @michaelediaz.bsky.social Shayla Frandsen MB Valente Jeanne Genis Photo by Tom Rankin

Congratulations to Pithead Chapel contributors Sarah Freligh and JW McCollom for their inclusion in Best Microfiction 2025!

I am thrilled to have a story in the February issue of Pithead Chapel . It's called "The Beautiful Thing," and it's about a fire and a dog and what we do for love. pitheadchapel.com/the-beautiful-…

Our February issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/02/01/vol… Words by David Yourdon (on hiatus) Emily Rinkema 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 L. Soviero Sarah Perrin Sarah Carson shome dasgupta Kristina Garvin Mark DeCarteret Barbara W. Diehl Nora Nadjarian Cover art by  Nuala McEvoy

It is snowing in the room and the tiniest of the creatures is humming a delicious tune, as delicious as white icing. When the creatures move, they make the sound of little trinkets shaken in a polished wooden box. Nora Nadjarian in Pithead Chapel

Our March issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issu…… Words: Ani King Angela James Ben Gibbons Jody Hobbs Hesler Claire Hopple Matthew Thomas Bernell Cover art: Heather D Daigh

Happy release date to our EIC kim magowan and Michelle Ross! DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY (EastOver Press) is available today!

Our April issue has arrived! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/04/01/vol… Words: Natalie Villacorta ELLA HORMEL @melissabowers_ carlyalaimo ALLISON KIRKLAND Kate Pyontek @oliviabrochuwrites AL ORTOLANI AUGUST REID Cover art: ALEXANDER LIMAREV

Our May issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/05/01/vol… Words Melissa Llanes Brownlee LAUREN WOODS SAGE TYRTLE ANNABELLE TAGHINIA SARA SCHIFF topaz winters 🏹 BRIDGET HAYES Cover Art COURTNEY BURTON