trampset
A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
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- Please help us congratulate our Best Small Fictions nominees @cuylermeade.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @jjlofflin.bsky.social & Joseph Randolph. You can read their nominated stories ⬇️
- @cuylermeade.bsky.social's "Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces" medium.com/p/da126ceb6880
- A message from the @trampset.bsky.social team:
- Goodbye, 2025! 4425 subs received in 2025 73 accepted 1.50% acceptance rate We're grateful to you all! Stay tuned for exciting updates in 2026!
- Please help us congratulate our @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! @ladiwoods.bsky.social @robinwilder.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @kellathornton.bsky.social & @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social
- @ladiwoods.bsky.social's "While Democracy Was Beingggg Dismantled" trampset.org/while-democr...
- Reposted by trampsetSuch fun reading & listening to great stories as part of the @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness Open Mic. Good to see you @christopherallen.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social @arti-jain.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social Story from @trampset.bsky.social that I read trampset.org/the-things-s...
- "We crossed the line on Friendship Street. Didn’t see the stop sign. Failed to yield." @writesofkathryn.bsky.social's "Keep Your Visions to Yourself" trampset.org/keep-your-vi...
- "People on the subway catch your eye and blow away" Atar Hadari's "Barn" trampset.org/barn-82df0d2...
- "Our neighbors near sleepwalk into the snow-bitten night. They want a glimpse of Dad in his Santa suit, the pillow-belly full of ho ho hos, the wayward, white beard." L. Soviero's "Little Helpers" trampset.org/little-helpe...
- "We anticipate its arrival. Unquiet steams from the early dark earth. In the rheumy distance, a muzzy landform pulses at the edges." @boocia.bsky.social's "Sangre de Cristo" trampset.org/sangre-de-cr...
- "On Friday, the company schedules this “optional” team building thing called SURVIVING THE GRIND: A SLASHER-BASED APPROACH TO CORPORATE COHESION." @mallorysmart.bsky.social's "I'll Be Right Back" trampset.org/ill-be-right...
- "Look at these two. Peacocking — angel-strange, hetero as fuck — down the manicured shoulder of the remotest stretch of the commercial strip" Stevie doCarmo's "Land Rover" trampset.org/land-rover-2...
- "The kindest thing about my cell is the way the stones, if studied long enough, begin to reveal words, fresh and wise, on their surfaces." Elizabeth Wenger's "Invitation to an Execution" trampset.org/invitation-t...
- "If I cared about linear progress, I would’ve never gotten picked up by a plane hitchhiking." Tyler Dempsey's "In Praise of the Non-Linear" trampset.org/in-praise-of...
- "It’s two a.m. in a gas station outside Kokomo, and Jim is counting the seconds between the compressor’s kicks." Joseph Randolph's "Inventory Before Prayer" trampset.org/inventory-be...
- "Fantasy football gets me nowhere. I try the airports but the windows don’t open. Too many planes want to leave at the same time" @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social's "You Can Be Something Different Today You Say to Yourself Today Again" trampset.org/you-can-be-s...
- Our Dec issue is now live! It's our last issue of the year, and it's super sized! trampset.org
- Nov was a short submission window month, so here are our stats: 270 received 9 accepted 3.33% acceptance rate Our last issue of the year drops this Friday!
- Trampset submissions are closed for the year and will reopen at some point in the new year. We appreciate your words and have some killer work coming for our last issue on Dec. 5.
- It's our Pushcart Prize nominations! Please help us congratulate Claire Guo, Ulrik Andersen, @glennorgias.bsky.social @mollymemine.bsky.social Oladosu Michael Emerald, & kanda zinguri.
- Claire Guo's "Muckrakers" trampset.org/muckrakers-1...
- We're finally approaching 1k followers here. It's us. We know it is. We need to get out of our heads & start engaging again. We're trying. We appreciate all of you who have followed us here!
- Reposted by trampsetI just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...
- October submission stats: 375 received 7 accepted 1.87% acceptance rate We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted. trampset.org/submissions-...
- "Normally, disassembling isn’t so dramatic. Tag comes over. We make out, have sex. And sometimes, we remove each other’s limbs and reattach them." Sara Kaplan-Cunningham's "Reassembling" trampset.org/reassembling...
- "Endings are as simple as this, cynical, like the full stop after every lavish gasp." Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo's "Acid" trampset.org/acid-ce08942...
- "The skin of time is made of light. And I saw it the day my mother cut my lip in a fit of rage." @abhii106.bsky.social's "Wound" trampset.org/wound-8ae923...
- "You had no idea all the ways life can break you, and wouldn’t you give anything to have that ignorance back?" @mmkaufman.bsky.social's "The Carwash Essay" trampset.org/the-carwash-...
- "I am a disappointment: to my mother for not cleaning my room, to my ex-husband for not obeying, to my now-husband for being depressed" @sainttangerine.bsky.social's "Outside My Son's Therapist's Office" trampset.org/outside-my-s...
- "A boy proposes his love to his lover. Somewhere else, a wife proposes her agony to her husband." Ridwan Fasasi's "Simultaneous Events" trampset.org/simultaneous...
- "What we sell here wears itself drop-waisted, accordion-pleated in rust, gradients of blacklisted thrift rubble." @connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop" trampset.org/the-curiosit...
- "We held the light at the wrong slant, the cousins and I, like forgetting to floss our teeth or close the faucet. Someone dear to us had gone." @hellbends.bsky.social's "Dear Little Mortuary" trampset.org/dear-little-...
- "Pedro and I slipped out through his bedroom window to light a joint, standing on his neighbour’s gable roof." @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Two memories of the city" trampset.org/two-memories...
