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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.
by Karen Crawford A faded photograph on a sunny beach–the first time you met your brother, a paternity test confirming what your father didn't want…
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Photo by Randy Rizo on Unsplash Honorable Mention in Gooseberry Pie’s First Writing Contest April 2024 by Sudha Balagopal Indian gooseberries are in season which is why Ma sends me to the market
Photo by Tatiana Tochilova on Unsplash by Claudia Monpere In the morning we always walk the neighborhood, greeting the ginkgos and red maples, the dogs, smelling the smoke from our neighbors’ wood stoves. We always
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.
