Mad Swirl Features my Short Story “Change Redux” This Week!

Mad Swirl is a great literary magazine that publishes quality short stories among other things. In 2024, they featured three of mine but this year I hadn't sent them anything until it was almost summer and as time elapsed, I realized I had sent them a story I had been experimenting with which some might …

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3 Pieces in New Haiku Anthology!

https://twitter.com/tangledscott/status/1963289757997211995 By the way, I haven't mentioned this yet but Gretchen also has two of her own haiku published in this anthology, which I *think* marks the first time I've ever been published in the same print copy of a publication with my wife. Which is kind of cool and exciting. Cheers! Scott

Blood+Honey Publishes 5 of my Poems. Wicked Shit!

"Five Poems" by Scott C. Holstad“01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101…”https://t.co/hOEzjP2n5P— Blood+Honey (@Blood_Honey_Lit) August 18, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Three [very] Short Poems in Five Fleas!

Many thanks to Five Fleas Itchy Poetry for publishing 3 short pieces of mine on Sunday. One is a 7-word monoku, one is a three line absurdiku-type and the third is a short 5-line piece from my another diluted found pome series, so those who like CUT-UP technique and/or Found Poetry experiments might dig that. …

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