About MicroLit Almanac
Welcome to MicroLit Almanac, a Birch Bark Editing online literary magazine. Every few weeks, we’ll publish innovative flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Although conventional micros are fewer than 300 words, we are far from conventional. So take up to a thousand, but no more.
We hold up fostering community as necessary: a world-building endeavor focused on loving responsibility in a realm that asks much of us. Our creative actions flow, form, and sustain a community built on diversity and inclusion.
MicroLit Almanac accepts submissions from September 1-30 and March 1-30.
In Spring 2022, we collaborated with Liveright Publishing and Cheryl Pappas on a video recording project: poets and writers read a poem from Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil translated by Aaron Poochigian. Our goal was to unlock Baudelaire, and use his melancholy to shed a little light on where we are and what we’re thinking these days.
Scant Comfort by Ann Leamon
She seemed a bit better that morning, but we kept the appointment, expecting to be sent home in the sheeting rain with a floppy bag of expensive food and an orange tube of pills.
A Cold Self, Change by John Coats
Eddie’s dad was a psychopath who delighted in cruelty to his children and their friends and one night…
Soon Enough by Craig Holt
My son is still with me. We are sitting in the grass on a warm summer evening, looking up, when the star-burdened sky . . .
Fifty-Four Miles From Dachau by Gail Hosking
I play in the forest near our apartment building assigned by the American military ten years after the war is over. I am building . . .
Red Pepper Mother by Cheryl Pappas
Your bony shoulders, red pepper, tell me you’re ready to go wherever we take you—