Image Design by Laurie Marshall
Image Design by Laurie Marshall
Photo by Ussama Azam on Unsplash by Allison Field Bell In the bathtub, she sits across from me. Our legs intertwined underwater. This isn’t what I want it to be: our friendship, not lovers. She tucks her hair behind her ears and tells…
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, Pushcart, 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.
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Winner of Second Place in Gooseberry Pie’s First Writing Contest April 2024 by Kathryn Kulpa Ma was in a sanitarium out west with lung trouble—we heard Mrs.
Unsplash+ by Jamy Bond I watched the party through a crack in the door of the foyer closet, my favorite hiding spot, where the scratchy rims of winter coats brushed
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.
