Pithead Chapel (ISSN 2324-6243) is a monthly online literary journal and small press. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Founded 2012.
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“language woven like a nest where we set our brittle songs”
Gorgeous prose poem by @russellbrakefield.bsky.social in the new issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Our May Issue is live!!!
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DEEMS ORTEGA
fiction
REBECCA TIGER
JAIME GILL
SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK
MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE
nonfiction
HOLLIE WARREN
prose poetry
AMANDA CHIADO
"We had tried to cauterize our separate childhood wounds with skin and sweat... In the van, with “Beast of Burden” blaring, we tried to numb ourselves and feel something better at the same time."
@tracieadams.bsky.social burning it up in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🔥
"We seemed more tired, disorganized, too easily annoyed. But wasn't that what love looked like sometimes? The baggy eyes, the cloudy minds."
Read @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
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“‘Was I not enough?’ he asked.”
@mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/explaining-t...
“If it meant nothing, then there was nothing to mourn.”
“… I had my own ways to celebrate our love. If that’s what it was.”
@tracieadams.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/beast-of-bur...
Drove to Santa Clara to hear some great writers read flash. Great discussion from editors of @smokelong.bsky.social and @pitheadchapel.bsky.social on what makes a piece click in the submission queue, too.
A silvery morning, and new issues of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute, Flash Boulevard and @centaurlit.bsky.social to enjoy!
Absolutely stunning work by Jaime Gill in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. It seems we lived in San Francisco at the same time. So many lost.
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New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to editors @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, etc., for another great issue!
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Tracie Adams
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Jaime Gill The first time I climbed these steps, Jason led the way. It was the day we moved in together, right into the heart of the Castro, and he wouldn’t let me rest even after hours of hauling …
Matt Barrett Two months after we had our first child, our dog asked if he could speak to us. Upstairs, our daughter slept in her bassinet, our dog’s ears rising every time she stirred. They’…
Matt Barrett Two months after we had our first child, our dog asked if he could speak to us. Upstairs, our daughter slept in her bassinet, our dog’s ears rising every time she stirred. They’…
COVER ART BY DEEMS ORTEGA FICTION SHADOW DANCING BY REBECCA TIGER NO OBITS BY JAIME GILL MARGARITA RITA TA TA BY SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK THE CHROME HORN BY MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE NONFIC…
Tracie Adams I didn’t go to the funeral because he meant nothing to me. That’s what I told myself. He was just a boy with a white work van with ladders strapped to the roof. Just a seventeen…
Thanks to @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for including my CNF in this gorgeous April issue.
Thanks also to my @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness peeps for all the help with this one and to my mentor @mattkendrick.bsky.social for helping with the final edit.
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Excited to have a prose poem about making music and being young out in the new issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Tracie Adams
Russell Brakefield
our new issue!
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SERGE LECOMTE
MEGHAN PROULX
MATT BARRETT @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social
JENNA CROWDER
ERIK KLASS
TRACIE ADAMS @tracieadams.bsky.social
SHERI VENEMA @sheriven.bsky.social
HANNAH AHN
RUSSELL BRAKEFIELD @russellbrakefield.bsky.social
CHOISELLE JOSEPH
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Tracie Adams I didn’t go to the funeral because he meant nothing to me. That’s what I told myself. He was just a boy with a white work van with ladders strapped to the roof. Just a seventeen…
