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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 Sasha Freemind on Unsplash by Sarah Freligh The sun comes up, a glass that shatters when it breaks the horizon. You walk around farmers’ fields for hours searching for the pieces, many of them too tiny to see. Later, you empty…
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Photo by Brandi Alexandra on Unsplash by Francine Witte When the fortuneteller asks if you are ready, really ready to begin a different life, you say yes, but think she is silently confused.
by Emily Rinkema If I had known how hard it would actually be to kill a chicken, I wouldn’t have welcomed the apocalypse quite as enthusiastically. Things were scary enough
Jeff Harvey grew up near Memphis. He has lived in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and San Diego, and now calls Madrid home. 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 (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.
