Always Crashing

Hey Bsky, we're an online & occasionally a print lit mag that's been around for let's say seven or so years now? Maybe eight? Here're a couple of semirepresentative pieces from our archive:

"Martha? I said it's in the window again... again, Martha. Don't you know what it wants?" 3 films by Angel T. Dionne (@woodenmormyrid.bsky.social) / now at Always Crashing

We saw you from across the room and we liked your vibe

One week til Halloween. (He carved it with a shotgun.)

Featuring fiction from Michael Jeffrey Lee PLUS the Always Crashing Best of the Net & Best Small Fictions noms:

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Michael's work is always 👌. He's also pretty integral to the Berlin lit scene & just a lovely human. Read this story! And when you're done with that, also read this, which is quick & funny: blacksunlit.com/2023/05/the-...

Evening re-up!

"That’s nice, I said. But I didn’t see a basket. Are you sure you didn’t just come up here to spy? You asked for space and we respect that, said my Dad." New today: "Two Conundrums" by Michael Jeffrey Lee Featuring psychic pets, perishable deliveries, banana peals put to inappropriate purposes

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

AC email edition featuring new work by Harrison F. Dietzman, an excerpt from @alextretbar.bsky.social's new DOGSMIND, updates on @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social and @seanbirnie.bsky.social, & an honestly wild number of coincidences

elevated snuff films are on their way out, cozy snuff films are going to be the next hot thing. people want low-conflict murders they can watch without stressing out too much

"All of this is shown on-screen in detail." Harrison F. Dietzman's meditation on media, suburbia, and desire, "Game of Single Family Homes" / New today at AC

Have learned that we are apparently on a "Best Kept Secrets" starter pack and y'all you really should not be keeping that secret

Evening re-up!

"All of this is shown on-screen in detail." Harrison F. Dietzman's meditation on media, suburbia, and desire, "Game of Single Family Homes" / New today at AC

"Have you considered that there might be a good reason that those babies are being tossed into the water?" "Dilemma Tales" by Matthew E. Henry (MEH) (@mehpoeting.bsky.social) // New today at Always Crashing

Updating our submissions page... www.alwayscrashing.com/submissions

OH WAIT THAT'S TODAY

"Have you considered that there might be a good reason that those babies are being tossed into the water?" "Dilemma Tales" by Matthew E. Henry (MEH) (@mehpoeting.bsky.social) // New today at Always Crashing

Open for submissions through Sept 15 OH HEY WAIT THAT'S TOMORROW

Open for submissions through Sept 15 OH HEY WAIT THAT'S TOMORROW

thanks Elastic Arts thanks @maudlinhouse.bsky.social thanks @alwayscrashing.bsky.social thanks Long Day Press thanks Printers Row Lit Fest

Honestly feel like more awards should recognize our commitment to the bit

Tonight! ~see you there~

Recent article for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social that came out rather well. The first event is tonight, hosted by @neonpajamas.bsky.social at The Whistler. Second event tomorrow night, hosted by @mallorysmart.bsky.social of @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2026/09/...

Tomorrow! 7pm @ The Whistler

Tomorrow! 7pm @ The Whistler

THIS FRIDAY! This reading is going to be mayhem (complimentary)

I'm reading poems at the Whistler baby Come with me Friday, don't say maybe I'm just a teenage dirt bag baby like you

Hey Chicago friends ~ this Friday join us (and a murder of other Chicago indie presses) at the Whistler for a Printers Row Offsite hosted by the indefatigable @neonpajamas.bsky.social:

Happy Robot Birthday to all who celebrate

...and on Saturday join AC / @maudlinhouse.bsky.social / Long Day Press for Devils in the White City: Readings and Performances at Elastic Arts!

my book is out next month! if you grab a copy, let me know, and I'll write you a personalized poem www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

love to be part of the always crashing to ghost harmonics pipeline

Today's email edition features--in addition to new work by Adam McOmber and updates on @veryrealbatman.bsky.social, @klooky.bsky.social, Mike Corrao, Erik Tyler Benick, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social--a report on free jazz from Grant Maierhofer:

"The world makes its own demons, you know? Every temple is a diagram of the powers permitted to enter it." New today at AC: Thrilled to have Adam McOmber return with the short, incantatory "The Property Brothers Are Dating"

"The world makes its own demons, you know? Every temple is a diagram of the powers permitted to enter it." New today at AC: Thrilled to have Adam McOmber return with the short, incantatory "The Property Brothers Are Dating"

On a personal note, I'd like to publish at least a ~couple~ more people from the general Durham NC area so I can have an excuse to put together a reading down here I mean, why should Chicago get all the fun?

"The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use." New work at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent day to dive back into @raviddice.bsky.social's infinity pool of a story "Jakob As Father," up now

Today we are featuring James Tadd Adcox and his fiction piece "The Ascent" from our Summer 2026 Issue OUT NOW! Read the rest of his story and our Issue on our website, linked in bio!