Celebrating our September microfiction today!! 👏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼 Melissa Llanes Brownlee: claudineliterary.net/melissallanesb… Ani King: claudineliterary.net/aniking 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Humans, jump on this!! Write amazing, brilliant *tiny* things 💚🐈‍⬛💚 (and then send them to us 🙃)

Revisit our stunning September CNF!! Micros by Tiff M.Z. Lee 🌙Tiff: claudineliterary.net/tiffmzlee Diane Payne: claudineliterary.net/dianepayne 💚🐈‍⬛💚

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ICYMI, humans, please give our very first New Writer Spotlight micro a 👀 read! Congratulations, Yana!! 💐🐈‍⬛💐 claudineliterary.net/yanacaoranach

Humans, Claudine needs you to send her something to REEEEAD!! Last ten days to submit to our December issue. . .jump in there! Micro prose. Free subs. Paying market.

Greetings, humans. Our intern Pickles is tasked with promoting our newsletter this week. He’d like you to know we’re 2 weeks out exactly from our October issue—Mon, Oct 6!!!—so it’s the perfect time to subscribe. claudineliterary.net/newsletter

Welp, humans, we’ve got a new intern! Please meet Coco. She’s 4 weeks old, weighs half a pound, and does not take crap from anyone. (Seen here climbing straight up our EIC’s leg.) Send her something brassy to read? 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Claudine will be nominating for this anthology next year!! (We didn’t have any issues in this year’s date range.) 🦋🐈‍⬛🦋

Day two and—whew!— Coco is a natural. Such a star. ✨ She would like to remind folks that we will nom for BMF, BSF, and Pushcart—but that this year those noms will all come from only 4 issues. . . Statistics, humans! One more week to sub for our Dec issue!

Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉

Friday feels. Claudine and Moose.

Our write-in/open mic events November 8th - December 14th are free! Come write with us! smokelong.com/ready-for-prom…

One week from today—Monday October 6–our new issue launches!!! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

We’re <400 prose submissions—fiction and CNF—all the time! 💚🐈‍⬛💚 Open Jan-Nov. Free to sub. Paying market.

Staff mtg today: we’re reading for Dec for about 24 hrs more & then we’re moving on to Jan 2026! 😳 FYI, we pull about 6-7 fiction subs for every CNF sub, so if you’re into stats, that’s a little data for ya. Next issue is Oct 6– which is also Pickles and Moose’s last day. 🥺

Great intern or greatest intern? At a scrappy 1 lb flat, Coco is able to open a barn door that not even Claudine has figured out. We all live in Coco’s world now, humans. 🐈‍⬛😳🐈‍⬛

Our October issue drops on Monday!! 🎉 This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle. These are must-reads, humans! 📚🐈‍⬛💚

Final staff meeting with interns Pickles and Moose. 🥺 Our Dec. issue is wrapped. We’re officially reading for Jan 2026! Happy New Year?? 😂🥳 As always looking for fic. and CNF micros. Free subs; paying market. If you’ve got a chapbook coming out, let us know! 🐈‍⬛📚🐈‍⬛

Last day in the office for interns Moose and Pickles. 😿 Thank you for all the good times, gentleman. May you find your forever literary homes quickly. Get out there and claim some quality humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚