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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes microfiction stories that are exactly six-sentences with no more than 400 words (excluding the title).
We strive to showcase the finest microfiction online, featuring work from both well-known authors and emerging voices alike.
We enjoy stories that are like gooseberry pie: Tart, Messy, and Satisfying, but leave us wanting more. With microfiction stories, every word matters.
Currently, we are unable to pay for publication. However, we nominate for awards including Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions.
We publish new issues of the magazine on the second Thursday of each month. The May issue includes our annual writing competition winners.
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine is always open for submissions, never a fee. Click Here For Submission Guidelines.
Photo by Sri Lanka on Unsplash by Kathryn Kulpa In the moment before the bullets fly, I think of what I wanted to tell you. That you are the one, that you have
Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash by Karen Schauber His body lays still, skin flaky like paperbark. How long, she wonders, placing Myrtle across his chest —the white flowers pop against the atrament-black
Our 2026 annual writing competition will run from April 1, 2026 through April 22, 2026. Read the following post for all the details including judge Dan Crawley’s writing prompt. Total prizes $1100.00.
Gooseberry Pie Lit-Annual Writing Competition
Jeff Harvey grew up near Memphis. He lived in San Francisco and San Diego, and now calls Madrid home. He’s an editor and writer with work published or forthcoming in MoonPark Review, trampset, Your Impossible Voice, Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, SoFloPoJo, Bending Genres, Bull, Whale Road Review, and in numerous other litmags. His work has appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist (2023, 2025) and nominated for Best Microfiction (2025, 2026). Jeff’s novella-in-flash Life Would Be Perfect If (Bottlecap Press) was released October 2024.
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