On hiatus | TBD is an ode to the writer’s bureau; a collection of stories accompanied by photographs of writers at their places of work.

The Bureau
Joined October 2021
VOLUME 05: WAYFINDING—OUT NOW! 14 extraordinary stories out of 600+ submissions that explore our relationships with physical (and metaphorical) spaces and places, and how we find our way. Thank you all for making this the largest call yet! 🙏♥️ READ: BureauDispatch.com
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This has been my go-to place to find the best stories and to find my name in the @wigleaf top 50 feels surreal and unbelievable! Many thanks to @laughingyeti and all editors and to @BureauDispatch 💝Huge congratulations to all writers who made it this year ❤️❤️❤️
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And finally, lit mags. This year, I kept up with @NOONAnnual, @onestorymag, @zyzzyvamag, @nplusonemag, @VQR, @adroitjournal, @SmokeLong, @BureauDispatch, and @Wigleaf. All as stunning as ever. Thank god for literature. Keep reading.
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Find my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Endorsement for Little Trees Air Fresheners” (maybe my favorite title ever for one of my pieces), originally featured in ⁦@BureauDispatch⁩, inside this lovely collection with some of my favorite folks. altcurrentpress.com/2023/12/…
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Writer friends—what are your favorite places to read and submit flash? Journals, mags, contests…I’m loving my first @SmokeLong summer fitness and am becoming obsessed with the genre. #writers #flashfiction
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new new: The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2023 (Guest Editor: Venita Blackburn): wigleaf.com
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Thrilled and honored to publish 3 @Wigleaf longlisted stories! Congratulations @DemistyB @aubreyhirsch @ambernoelle ❤️
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I was happy to read "remember" (published in @BureauDispatch) at the @Anaheim_Library open mic night tonight alongside other wonderful musical performances and poetry readings. So much creativity out there!
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"“Baloo. Boy, you down here?” "all we’d heard was all that we’d been hearing that long, wet week in September: the bullfrogs in the yellow grass somewhere overhead and hapless snakes winding against the canal floor." Heartbreak from @Taylorbabe411 in @BureauDispatch
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Thrilled to have my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Advertisement For Little Trees Air Fresheners,” originally published with ⁦@BureauDispatch⁩, selected for Best Small Fictions. Thank you so much to the fine folks who worked on this. altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…
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So stoked to announce that @BarlowAdams's story from Vol 04: Field Notes was selected for this year's BEST SMALL FICTIONS! Thank you for trusting your story with TBD, Barlow! 🙏 1/2
Thrilled to have my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Advertisement For Little Trees Air Fresheners,” originally published with ⁦@BureauDispatch⁩, selected for Best Small Fictions. Thank you so much to the fine folks who worked on this. altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…
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" It had been raining nonstop that spring so everything and everyone had been driven down hard into the mud." @Taylorbabe411 in @BureauDispatch bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…
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"I should have known he'd put on face paint someday, leave when he turned sixteen, but it wasn't until later that I realized he'd stayed for me." @teresa_milbrodt in @BureauDispatch bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…
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"Mom falls asleep before I do. Her snoring sounds like a lullaby, a way for her to tell me, I’m there for you while I sleep, you’re safe." @happymil_ in @BureauDispatch bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…
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