Matt Leibel

Excited for this nomination from the excellent (and awesomely-named) @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

Congrats Kathy!

Thanks Cole! And congrats to you too!

Thanks Matt!

Thanks so much, Eileen!

Thanks, Suzy!

Matt Leibel | -ette-review Matt Leibel in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

You can read it here:

Best Microfiction The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

Really excited to have my story, "How to Buy a Snowglobe", published in @ettereview.bsky.social, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026!

Short Story, Long's fave story collections of 2025! Some fave short story collections, chosen by our contributors, some released this year, some just read and appreciated this year.

I wrote about Garrett Caples’ “Proses” for this list of fave story collections 2025. A lot of good ones here. Two more I snuck in in the last few weeks: “Farthest South” by Ethan Rutherford and “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda.

-ette logo Best Microfiction 2026 Nominees Jessica Barlevi - “Forest of Light" Jose Hernandez Diaz - "The Search" Matt Leibel - "How to Buy a Snow Globe" Devan Murphy - "The Daughter" Emma Raimondo - "Death in Los Angeles" Best Small Fictions 2026 Nominees Mathieu Cailler - “Four of a Kind” & “My Evening with Marilyn" Laura Cronk - "The Chance"
Suzy Eynon - "Landlines"
Nora Esme Wagner - “Closer Than They Appear" Illustration of small lamb

Congratulations and best of luck to our 2026 Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees!

Jessica Barlevi
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Devan Murphy
Emma Raimondo
Mathieu Cailler
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
Nora Esme Wagner

Here’s a little story I wrote about watching movies in (and out of) a theater. Thanks to David Galef and team at @vestalreview.bsky.social

Thanks Stan!

Thank you, Eileen!

Our winter 2025 issue is here!

vestalreview.net/issue-67

We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +

Psyched for this nomination! Thanks to the editors & congrats all.

Excited for this nomination! Thanks to @joshdale.co and team. Read my piece here:

Episode 6 - Roulette: Take a Chance on Art

New episode just dropped!

@melaniehoopes.bsky.social talks w @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social (“Dear Dolores”) & @mattleibel.bsky.social (“How to Buy a Snow Globe”) about work that has recently reconfigured them.

Original music by @chesterjankowski.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/60GB...

Excited to share my story "How to Buy a Snowglobe" in the very cool-looking new issue of -ette. Thanks to @noramaynard.bsky.social and @bybethhahn.bsky.social for showcasing my work, and to @melaniehoopes.bsky.social for performing my story and interviewing me for her podcast!

Lit mag issue cover showing croupier at roulette wheel. List of writers and stories in issue. Laura Cronk, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Suzy Eynon, Rachel Kowalsky, Matt Leibel, Emma Raimondo

-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!

www.ettereview.com/fall2025/

Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:

Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo

Thanks, Jenny!

This is brilliant and insane—love it!

“…cats weave in and out of fence posts like specters in a horror movie” great atmosphere, eerie and timely

Love the cadences here and the way the piece moves through time.

Thanks Laura!

Thanks Lisa!!

How to Skip a Rock Across the Pacific by Matt Leibel Imagine the platonic ideal of the perfect skip. It’s a dream I had the first time I ever stepped foot on a Southern California beach as a kid: a stone I could skim off the sunglossed surface, that wou...

Here's a new "how to" piece up at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading all the pieces in this issue--a nice respite from, well, everything else that's going on.

I have two new "how-to" stories up in the excellent @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing, Dan! Look forward to checking out all of these links.

Thanks for reading, Belinda!

How to Remember Your Dreams A Dream Story by Matt Leibel

new piece up at @thirtywestph.com about dreams, which I've always been warned to avoid in my stories.