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Tommy Dean
13 days
New dates! Cleaning out the Closets: A Hybrid Workshop: Building Resonance from Objects and Talismans Cost: $115 October 24-27, 2024 Asynchronous 2 prompts per day, positive feedback from peers/instructor 9 spots left!
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Tommy Dean
17 days
I’m 41 today! Thankful for all my writing friends!
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4 years
Acceptance from @AtticusReview ! I’ve been submitting since 2013 and this is the 32nd flash they’ve read before getting this amazing news!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
So excited to announce I’m publishing my short story/flash collection with @altcurrent thanks to @leahangstman ! I can’t wait to hold this book in my hands!
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2 years
My grandpa passed away on Tuesday...Struggling with not having one of my favorite people here
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1 year
40 years old today, and I've got some feelings about it!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
I’m up to 83 rejections this year…I suppose I should push for 100 and see what happens
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6 years
I have a 140 page story collection ready to submit and my wife just congratulated me on writing a book and I demurred, saying it’s not a book until it’s published...and honestly, I’d rather she be right, and I think we should celebrate these accomplishments, yes?
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Tommy Dean
4 years
I’m so honored to announce that I won this contest! A million thanks to @lascauxreview @stephenparrish and all the contest readers! I’m a little speechless
@LascauxReview
The Lascaux Review
4 years
Tommy Dean @TommyDeanWriter has won the Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction.
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Every story is chasing the compressed brilliance of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Hey! I’m 39 today and it’s been a wonderful year! Thank you for your support, kindness, and encouragement!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Exciting News! I'm transitioning from section editor @CraftLiterary to the editor of Fractured Lit, a sister site dedicated to showcasing flash fiction that explores the fractures of humanity by focusing on the roots and the future of the flash form and genre.
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Covid update: my wife and kids seem to have no lasting effects and are back to school! I tested negative for the 3rd time and so I somehow missed it this time! Thank you for all of your concern and care!
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3 years
Acceptance from @hobartpulp !!!!!
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4 years
I got my first shot of the vaccine!!!!!! I found an overflow dose! I feel so much relief!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
1/6 After reading over lots of 100 word stories in the last 48 hours, here are some thoughts on how they work: 1). Your opening line has to do so much work! Character, pov, setting, conflict are integral to getting the story started in the right place!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
I'd love to edit a flash anthology based on Hopper paintings!
@artisthopper
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Tommy Dean
6 years
So thrilling when an editor accepts a story with such fierce love! It’s such a validating moment!
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Tommy Dean
1 year
So I had a hat trick of acceptances yesterday! Big thanks to the editors from @100word_story @gonelawn and @GhostParachute for a great, shocking day!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
It's launch day for Hollows published by @altcurrent I'm so excited to share these stories with readers! The feedback so far has been amazing! Order directly: or from Amazon: Or we're going to have a large stack at @awp22
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4 years
My daughter is positive for COVID...very mild symptoms luckily, but waiting to see how it affects the rest of us...we’ve worked so hard to mitigate our risk too...
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Tommy Dean
8 months
I'm so excited to be on the longlist! Fingers crossed!
@RegalHouse1
Regal House Publishing
8 months
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 longlisted authors for the 2023 W. S. Porter Prize for Finely Crafted Short Story Collections! Congrats to our longlisted authors and heartfelt thanks to all who contributed their manuscripts this year!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
So excited to officially bringing @uncharted_mag_ to life! Come read our thrilling stories!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Excited to be on the longlist for the @Wigleaf Top 50! Congrats to all of the top 50 and my fellow longlisters! Thank you, wigleaf, for celebrating flash!
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Tommy Dean
5 years
So I won this! Big thanks to @vrflash for supporting writers! And @kimmagowan and @PitheadChapel for believing in this story from the start! Such an honor!
@VestalReview
Vestal Review
5 years
The final judge Katharine Weber has chosen three winning entries for @VestalReview VERA 2019 award. Our 5th year. Thank you, @katharine_weber for judging and @MythicPicnic for co-sponsoring. And all the editors for nominating. #flashfiction
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Friends! Here's my chapbook news! I'm so excited to work with Damon and Ariana and to bring you a small but fierce book of Dystopian micro and flash fiction!
@EmergeJournal
ELJ Editions
4 years
ELJ welcomes @TommyDeanWriter to the family. His chap, Covenants, is a crisp micro-flash masterpiece. We fell in love instantly & you will too.
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Tommy Dean
6 years
Not quite end of year stats: 236 Subs 21 acceptances 8.9 % 39 pending subs 31 Personal rejections While this is the most acceptances I've had since 2006, the best part is that I think my writing has really improved!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Breaking news! I'll be writing a 100 word story craft guidebook for @AdHocFiction I'm so excited to do a deep dive on writing 100 word stories! Huge thanks to @judehwriter for her trust in my ability to write this book in the next year!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Super excited to have a story in @BestSmFictions this year! Big thanks to @SoFloPoJo & @francinewitte for originally publishing this story! I can’t wait to read the other stories!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
My grandpa is in hospice and he let me take some of his books to sell or give to Goodwill, and I'm so sad to think that he is at the end of his reading journey...
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Tommy Dean
10 months
Submission stats 2023: 225 total Acceptance: 21 Rejection: 141 Withdraw: 31 Pending: 32 Acceptance rate: 9.3%
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Tommy Dean
5 years
I just found out I’m teaching a section of Creative Writing at the community College!!!!!! Thinking of all the ways I can sneak in my favorite flash from this 🔥 writing community!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Woohoo, acceptance from @nocontactmag ! I'm thrilled to have my work published in this exciting litmag!
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Tommy Dean
3 months
I'm excited to be on the longlist with a story published by the ever-supportive Matter Press! Big thanks to everyone @Wigleaf for compiling these lists every year! Long Live Flash!
@laughingyeti
shome dasgupta
3 months
The @Wigleaf Top 50 2024 & the Longlist are up! Thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor @MauriceRuffin & to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Let’s celebrate writers, readers, & journals—all for very short fictions. All for the love: ! ❤️🌻✨
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1 year
I'm looking for great flash that are ghost stories, fables, and fairy tales! I'm working on a list to publish over at Fractured! Link others or your own!
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1 year
So excited to win @ExpoReviewLit 's micro contest! "We knew a boy who carried around a microscope, a boy who would stop in the middle of the sidewalk..." Thank you, @LMariHarris for anonymously choosing it and her kind words about it!
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6 years
Writers who read and comment on other writers’ stories/poems/essays are the saints of our community! And surely no one can read everything, but I see the million tiny ways you validate and affirm the pursuit of us all becoming better writers!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Whoa! Excited to be nominated with some of my favorite writers!!
@GhostParachute
Ghost Parachute
2 years
2022 Push Cart Prize Nominations: "The Storming of Rome" by @nanopausa , "Juicy Fruit" by @anjuna2000 , "Say it Clean" by @Jake_Wolff , "You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arrive" by @kathyfish , "Eddie" by @djpoissant , "Something Fierce and Unnamed" by @TommyDeanWriter
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Tommy Dean
3 years
I have one on the shortlist!
@nationalflashfd
National Flash Fiction Day
3 years
National Flash Fiction Day 2022 Microfiction Competition Shortlist
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3 years
My flash comes out in @hobartpulp on Monday and I can't wait! It's gritty and raw and I think one of my best stories!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Cover reveal for my @EmergeJournal chapbook! Coming November 2021! If you want a personalized signed copy let me know so I can put in my orders!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Offering a writing class soon? Drop the info below! let's start a thread of upcoming classes!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
1st acceptance for 2021 from the wonderful people @fivesouthlit Coming out in March!
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11 months
Thrilled to get an acceptance from @FictiveDream They’ve published so many of my favorite writers!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
I woke up to two acceptances! One for my first flash cnf piece picked up by the generous @StateofKate for @PitheadChapel and I'll be returning to @100word_story thanks to @lynnfmundell and @grantfaulkner Both of these I wrote after the start of the pandemic!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
My chapbook, Covenants, comes out in November published by @EmergeJournal ! Let me know if you'd like to help me promote it through readings, reviews, interviews, blog tours, etc.!
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Tommy Dean
5 years
My story, "Here, was nominated by the always supportive @kimchinquee for the @PushcartPrize This is my first nomination and I'm so excited! I wasn't sure anyone would love this story when I first drafted it...
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Tommy Dean
2 years
So excited and humbled to have my micro "Nebraska" on the longlist! Big thanks to @FRiGGmagazine and everyone who put the list together @Wigleaf @kathyfish @laughingyeti What a robust way to celebrate flash fiction!
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shome dasgupta
2 years
The @Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022 & the Longlist are here! Congratulations! Please join us in celebrating writers, editors, journals, & very short fictions—many thanks to our Selecting Editor @kathyfish , the Top 50 Masthead, & @garson_scott : ! ❤️
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Tommy Dean
4 years
I'm on the longlist!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Writing friends, please consider adding a website! Sometimes I need to know more about a writer and there's no information!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Fun Fact: My grandfather is James dean's second cousin! I also have a little brother named James Dean
@CHC_1927
Classic Hollywood(GP)
4 years
"Only the gentle are ever really strong." Happy Birthday to farewell young James Dean! (1931–1955)
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4 years
So thrilled to be nominated and among these fantastic writers! I ❤️ Pithead so much!
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2 years
Exciting acceptance from @thecitronreview
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Tommy Dean
5 years
It’s my birthday today! So grateful for the friendship and community I’ve found here! Cheers to another year of stories and fellowship!
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4 years
Acceptance from Emerge! One of my Faith micros!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
I’ll be teaching a class for @gothamwriters in Jan/February! I’m thrilled to see a teaching/writing dream come true!
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An acceptance and a book sale makes for a great business of writing day!
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Tommy Dean
11 months
I’m thrilled to be nominated by a favorite litmag for my favorite yearly anthology!
@flashfroglitmag
Flash Frog
11 months
We are thrilled and honored to be able to nominate these incredible stories for the 2024 @bestmicrofic anthology! @onbonbon7 , @bbl_brett , @AbbieMBarker , @TommyDeanWriter , Ryan Griffith, Aaron Sandberg
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2 years
SO thrilled to have two stories included in 2023 @bestmicrofic Thank you to @thecitronreview & @altcurrent for nominating! Judge Deb Olin Unferth, and @megpokrass & Gary Fincke for putting together an essential anthology!
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7 months
Acceptance from @LaurelReview One of my favorite print magazines!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Acceptance from @lostballoonmag ! Another faith Micro! Thank you to @chelsvoulgares and @maddieanthes
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Tommy Dean
6 years
So I think my 7 year old daughter is a writer 😍😳🔥
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Thrilled to have a story we published in @fracturedlit make it into the famous Pushcart Prize!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
So unexpected! Thank you!
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Thrilled by an acceptance from @PsmokeJournal
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Great news from @nationalflashfd ! "We’re pleased to say that we enjoyed your flash, 'A Pondering of Velocity...', and would like to publish it. It will appear on the FlashFlood journal at around 12:10 a.m. (BST) on Saturday, the 26th of June 2021"
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Back in the game!
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2 years
So humbled and honored!
@GoodRiverReview
Good River Review
2 years
Congrats to our @SundressPub Best of the Net noms! @big_bad_stories @TommyDeanWriter @jessytai , Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Naoko Fujimoto, @januaryoneil @JuliaKoets @AndrewNajberg and F. Daniel Rzicznek
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Tommy Dean
3 years
My flash collection, Hollows, is open for preordering! Shipping from @altcurrent in February 2022! Huge thanks to @leahangstman for the amazing cover design!
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2 years
Acceptance from @VestalReview
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Tommy Dean
3 years
I'm so excited to share the final cover for Hollows! I'm so humbled and honored by @kathyfish and @AndrewPorter01 's generous and kind words! Leah's ( @altcurrent ) cover design is just gorgeous! Preorder here:
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3 years
Hello 38!
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4 years
The first week of May is @FracturedLit ‘s 1 year anniversary! I’d love to celebrate somehow! Maybe a reading or a free generative workshop? Maybe on May 4th?
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Tommy Dean
4 years
My daughter is doing quite well! So thank you for all of the good wishes! I've had a horrible headache for the last 3 days, my test results come back early next week, so we'll see...All of your love and concern is such a light! Thank you, friends!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
My daughter is positive for COVID...very mild symptoms luckily, but waiting to see how it affects the rest of us...we’ve worked so hard to mitigate our risk too...
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5 years
Big exciting news! @kathyfish has invited me to co-teach a day of her Fast Flash workshops in 2020! I’m so honored to work with Kathy and you on some exciting prompts!
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Tommy Dean
11 months
Thrilled to get an acceptance from @trampset !!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Acceptance from @FRiGGmagazine So excited about this one because along with @SmokeLong and @Wigleaf , it's one of the first flash magazines I found back in 2004!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
Could you all give @uncharted_mag_ a follow? This is my new project! Submissions opening soon!
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Tommy Dean
6 years
I got an acceptance today from @xraylitmag !!!! Birthday wishes do come true!
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Tommy Dean
6 years
Those #litmags holding on to my acceptances, tomorrow is my birthday, and you know what to do!
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4 years
Acceptance from @BendingGenres !!!
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Tommy Dean
1 year
Thrilled to receive an acceptance from @monkeybicycle !! Thanks as always to editor @JamesTateHill
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Tommy Dean
3 years
My story was Highly Commended! Congrats to the winners! I'm excited to have this story in the anthology!
@nationalflashfd
National Flash Fiction Day
3 years
2022 NFFD Microfiction Competiton Results
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Tommy Dean
2 years
#flashtip Need to cut to get under 1k words? 1. Check after dialogue explanations 2. After dialogue gestures 3. Explanations of feelings before an action 4. 2nd paragraph backstory 5. similes that are conventional 6. great details followed by over-explaining
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Here's my first letter attempt! The Power of Flash Fiction! I'd love for you to share it if you find it worthwhile!
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Tommy Dean
4 years
I'm kind of thinking about writing a craft book on writing flash...
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Tommy Dean
10 months
Raise your hand if you're holding out for one last acceptance for 2023!
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Tommy Dean
2 years
Thrilled for an acceptance from @flashfroglitmag
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Tommy Dean
4 years
If I were to run 4-5 flash writing classes/workshops for the next year, how many of you might be interested?
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3 years
Waking up to an acceptance is better than coffee!
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4 months
Super excited for an acceptance from @GhostParachute for their August issue!
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1 year
I really just want this place to be a great place to find, read, and share literature.
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Tommy Dean
2 years
I don’t say this enough: writing flash fiction is hard! It’s a different writing muscle, one that needs practice and conditioning. #flashwritingtips
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Tommy Dean
4 months
It’s been awhile! A lovely acceptance from @VestalReview
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Excited to get an acceptance from @CeaseCowsMag
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Tommy Dean
9 months
Just thrilled for this nomination, of that extra love for this story!
@qaejournal
@QuarterAfterEight
9 months
Congratulations to our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominees! Order a print or digital copy today to enjoy their poems, essays, and stories--and all the other treasures within.
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2 years
Acceptance from @gonelawn for 2 micros!
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8 months
AWP books!
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Tommy Dean
3 years
One of the harder lessons, when I started submitting, was figuring out if it was a wrong fit for the litmag or if the story just wasn't ready...Still struggling
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Tommy Dean
3 years
Thrilled that @LascauxReview nominated my prize-winning story for Best of the Net! @SundressPub
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Tommy Dean
6 years
I received some of the best writing news today! Like career validating! I’m kind of in shock, but I can’t say anything yet...
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Tommy Dean
5 years
Hello Flash friends! I need more writers to participate in my mini-interview series! Let me know if you're interested in participating! Or recommend a writer!
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