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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 Anton Ahlberg on Unsplash by Pamela Painter It is time to tell my husband that I am leaving him. Perched beside him on our sagging couch, I describe the molting of a lobster, how lobsters bend double and then back out of…
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Photo by Allwyn Bhawle on Unsplash by Jen Wrightsmith Jesus Christ stares down at me from his spot below the stained ceiling tiles of the basement Sunday School room, where he’s forever nailed
Photo by Timothy Dykes on Unsplash by Michelle Wilson When the caterpillars come, my brother dangles one over his open mouth—glow-in-the-dark green and fuzzy—and feigns like he’s going to eat
Jeff Harvey grew up near Memphis. He has lived in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Madrid, and San Diego. He’s an editor and writer with work published or forthcoming in MoonPark Review, trampset, Madrid Review, Bright Flash Lit, Your Impossible Voice, Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, SoFloPoJo, Claudine, ELJ, Bending Genres, Bull, Whale Road Review, and in numerous other litmags. His work has appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist and nominated for Best Microfiction. Jeff’s novella-in-flash Life Would Be Perfect If (Bottlecap Press) was released October 2024.
