Cleaver Magazine

Our resident flash master, Kathryn Kulpa, leads a generative flash & micro marathon on Fri, March 6. CHOPPED! is an intense Zoom session to test your writing mettle. Write against the clock and banish writer’s block! More info: cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/348025/…

Scheduled readers are N.D. Brown, Barbara Westwood Diehl, Vivienne Germain, Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose, Marc Kaufman, Sydney Lea, Louella Lester, Terri Lewis, @ClaudiaMonpere, Simon Parker, Katrina Roberts, Robyn Schelenz, Jim Stewart, and Preeti Talwai. 2/2

THIS SUNDAY at 7pm ET: Cleaver 52 Contributors read from their flash, fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. Register for free via your Zoom account: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 1/2

It's a micro type of ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 Print contributor Beth Gilstrap has three micros published in @CleaverMagazine from THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER: buff.ly/Y7tVxuY

“Through her own mythmaking, Rivera Garza affirms the role that fiction has in establishing truths as they loom in the cultural imagination.” In @CleaverMagazine, Dylan Cook reviews Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel, “Autobiography of Cotton” cleavermagazine.com/autobiography-…

They're out there. You need to help THEM find YOU. Sunday, Jan 25, join a 2-hr Masterclass on how to attract visitors to your website. We demystify how search engines work & teach you how to use keywords, content structure, metadata, & analytics. cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/337786/…

Cleaver Magazine 52 is now online offering readers new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, visual poetics contest winners, and micro works online. Read more at NewPages! #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @CleaverMagazine newpages.com/blog/magazines… 52/

Yep. We want to read it. Cleaver is open for poetry, flash, fiction, and nonfiction. In addition, please pitch us book reviews, author interviews, writing tips, & craft essays. Visit our website for examples & guidelines. #WritingCommunity cleavermagazine.com

“The foreman’s movements are all violin: the strong rhythm of portato; the slow, smooth movement of legato; spicatto when he moves quickly across the roof.” Love this flash by ⁦@ClaudiaMonpere⁩ in ⁦@CleaverMagazine⁩ 👇🏼👏🏼🫶🏼 cleavermagazine.com/ghost-roofers-…

Don’t miss this fascinating interview in @CleaverMagazine, where IALA board members Gregory Djanikian and @artkay19 discuss Djanikian’s poetry collection, Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems. Find it here: bit.ly/44Sngat

Start the year off right. Our first community writing session of 2026 is this Sunday, January 11, at 2pm ET on Zoom. Making progress on your manuscript means getting your ass in that chair on the regular. Sign up now: cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/308928/… #writers

"It was a little bit of a plank walk to the front of the room, and Rebekah looked nervous and who could blame her. Moments before we watched with great joy as Lucas Green’s bridge was annihilated" BRIDGES, fiction by @marcaufman, in Cleaver 52: cleavermagazine.com/bridges-by-mar…

So thrilled to have my new story in the winter issue of @CleaverMagazine . Thanks to everyone at Cleaver for giving this the perfect home alongside so many other amazing writers. cleavermagazine.com/bridges-by-mar…

"When I am helped to the bathroom, I inspect my body in the mirror, my shriveled sex, the harp of ribs. Desiccation is not elegant." LEAVING THE STAGE, short fiction by Terri Lewis, appears in Cleaver 52. cleavermagazine.com/leaving-the-st… #shortstories #litmags #fictionwriter

It's such an honor to have a story in @CleaverMagazine, and alongside so many other amazing stories in this issue!

"My mother kissed my head before she left 'for just a few days' which turned into a few months, turned into perpetual aloneness." BEDS, flash nonfiction by Aurora Bonner, appears in Cleaver 52. cleavermagazine.com/beds-by-aurora… #placebasedwriting #creativenonfictionwriters

"One ghost moves like the sound of rain, mostly gentle drops with occasional downpours. Another is static. The foreman’s movements are all violin: the strong rhythm of portato; the slow, smooth movement of legato" GHOST ROOFERS, flash by @ClaudiaMonpere: cleavermagazine.com/ghost-roofers-…

"I’d like to hear your whole speech again, your whole routine…But this time more happily. You understand? I want you to be happy for me, Ricky? Can you do that? Can you be happy for me?" OFF-SCRIPT, a short story by Andrew V. Lorenzen in Cleaver 52: cleavermagazine.com/off-script-by-…

Excited to publish my new short story "Off-Script" in Cleaver! It's a rather madcap, satirical piece about political disillusionment -- something that has no relevance today, at all. cleavermagazine.com/off-script-by-…