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Storytelling and art from new, diverse, and marginalized talent.
Reinvigorating your reading experience. #PublishWeird.
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🍂 Ask a room of interns what to read this fall, and you get a very full list. 🍁 What’s your Fall pick?

#fallreads #bookrecommendations #tbr by @frictionseries

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We are proud to present the winning publication for the first week of this Dually Noted cycle: "Katil, Tuer & Sicario's Emporium" by Lakka! You can read the short story on our website at frictionlit.org/katil-tuer-sicarios-emporium/. Submissions are open weekly through December 11th 2026! by @frictionseries

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🔮 What does your sign sound like in a line?🔮 Here’s your sign in one line from F(r)iction.

Which line is a little too accurate? Tag the friend who is exactly theirs. ✨

🔗 Want to read the next line? Subscribe: LINK IN LINKTREE 🔗
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#horoscope #zodiacsigns #litmag by @frictionseries

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Our Fall Writing Contests are open! 🍂 Every line here started as a contest entry.

🏅 Send us yours by November 13 and your words could be on this list next!

🔗 *LINK IN LINKTREE* 🔗

#writingcontests #poetrycontests #shortstorycontests #flashfictioncontests by @frictionseries

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🎉 We're hiring!

Want to be part of our exciting nonprofit mission? We're currently seeking an 🧑‍🏫 instructor for our education program, and a personal assistant to our CEO. 🧑‍💻

👉 Learn more about these exciting opportunities at https://www.brinklit.org/about/hiring/ *LINK IN LINKTREE*
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#nonprofitjobs #jobopportunities #hiring #nonprofit #causes by @frictionseries

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🪞 How many illusions are you living with? Mark every square that sounds like you.

Share your card to your story and tag us. How many squares did you get? 👀

🔗 Read the Illusion Issue: *LINK IN LINKTREE* 🔗

#bingo #delusions #illusions by @frictionseries

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🖊️ Looking for your first publication credit? Dually Noted is a good place to start! The theme is: A Thrift Shop for Tricky Trinkets
🏷️ No refunds, no returns, and the trinkets may bite. (Please shop accordingly).

🔗 Submit by Friday 11:59pm: *LINK IN LINKTREE*

#duallynoted #writingprompts #flashfiction by @frictionseries

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The BER months are here!! 🍂🍵🎃Tap into endless cozy with a version of F(r)iction that you can take with you anywhere.

😍Treat yo'self to a Digital Subscription and get PDFs of 3 F(r)iction issues as they are released, plus access to our online back-issue archive for only $25!

🔗 Check it out at Brinkstore.org *LINK IN LINKTREE*

#litmagsubscription #sweaterweather #storytelling #treatyourself by @frictionseries

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Ever had a stellar story that's caught behind a writer's block? 🚧 Our fall intern Justine shares her favorite way to get unstuck. 🛟

🎵"Any time I get stalled on a story, I dig in through music. What would each of the characters listen to? What would the soundtrack of the story world be? Whether it's one right song to help me zoom in or a whole playlist that carries me out to just the right mental time and place, music always paves a fresh path into a story for me."

📻🎷Share your favorite music to inspire great writing in the comments!💿🪗

#writingtips #litmag #musiclover #tipsforwriters by @frictionseries

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👻 Never fear, dear readers! #OVERBOOKED is here with a spooktacular review just in time for Halloween! 🎃

🧛 Looking for a dark, gothic tale of romance and vampires? Look no further than Jessica Lévai's (@authorlevai) The Night Library of Sternendach. Trust us, you'll want to sink your fangs into this one! 😘 by @frictionseries

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🐦‍⬛Take a midweek break and fly over to F(r)iction Free Reads to explore Three Poems by Ella Flores. First featured in our Illusion/Delusion issue, with art by Hailey Renee Brown.

📖 Read it now at frictionlit.org at *LINK IN LINKTREE*

#storytelling #poetry #litmag by @frictionseries

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✍️“Writing rules” are an illusion.

Some of the advice we’re taught as writers can be more limiting than helpful. Swipe through for a few common ones worth questioning. 🤔

💾 Save or share these reminders for your next writing project.
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#LitMags #Illusions #WritingTips #storytelling by @frictionseries

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