Jessica Klimesh

@GooseberryPie99 special issue of the winning stories from our annual writing comp, along with the short and longlist. 40 fabulous stories in this incredible issue. 1: Kathryn Silver-Hajo 2: Louella Lester 3: Kik Lodge Five Honorable Mentions gooseberry-pie.com/special-issu...

1st Place annual writing competition Gooseberry Pie Lit Congratulations @KSilverHajo “What a Solitary Bird Drifting on the Wind Might Have Witnessed When the Boy” gooseberry-pie.com/what-a-solitar…

Read the attached blog for the full details on the winning entries from this year's writing competition. Congratulations to everyone. Thanks to Dan Crawley for being our judge this year. gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-pie…

Here's the shortlist for Gooseberry Pie's annual writing competition. The winning entries will be announced in early May with stories published in a special issue which drop of May 14, 2026. Congratulations to everyone! gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-pie…

“With no piano of your own (“down on his luck,” I’d heard my mother tell my father), you came to our house to practice, to tickle those ivories, in the late afternoon while my father was still at work” @JEK_Writer gooseberry-pie.com/strangers-2/

“It’s March, the sun setting later but still early enough that by the time I leave the evening class, the campus is merely shadows, eerily empty, with only dots of light along the stretch of sidewalk from here to there,” @JEK_Writer gooseberry-pie.com/how-much-is-it…

Read our latest issue with 12 amazing stories. Lucinda Kempe Mikki Aronoff @JEK_Writer @emilyrinkema @KarenCrawford_ Jeff Friedman Sumitra Singam Submit to our writing comp. Closes 4/22. gooseberry-pie.com/issue-42/