Image Design by Laurie Marshall
Image Design by Laurie Marshall
Photo by Nikhil Singh on Unsplash by Jeff Friedman The bones had no names, no flesh either. Blood clung to them. They lay there for days in the dirt, unwilling to sing or speak. We didn’t kneel and say a prayer. We didn’t…
Read More »Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes microfiction stories that are exactly six-sentences with no more than 400 words (excluding the title). We enjoy microfiction stories that are like gooseberry pie: Tart, Messy, and Satisfying, but leave us wanting more. We strive to showcase the finest microfiction online, featuring work from both well-known authors and emerging voices alike.
Gooseberry publishes original artwork (photography, drawings, illustrations, etc.). Our needs are diverse since the artwork will appear on our monthly cover or alongside our published stories.
Upon the publication of their work, contributors receive a complimentary print edition. We group three monthly issues into one print volume, shipping them out at the end of each quarter. Winter: October, November, and December. Spring: January, February, and March. Summer: April, May, and June. Fall: July, August, and September.
We nominate for awards including Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Monarch Queer Literary Award.
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.
CW: Violence, Sexual assault by Rebecca Klassen That’s the word I used for my word jumble game, the day Dad hurt me, gripping my throat hard, calling me trash. He shut me in the shed in the yard where he always
Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash by Sudha Balagopal The cafe declares they use brown sugar, nothing polished or artificial. I tell the owner their tea tastes like it’s swimming in molasses, that the
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.
