Indie press dedicated to challenging, status-quo-busting literature to change your lightbulb. Founder: @LeahAngstman. Interns: German Shepherds.
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Alternating Current Press retweeted
we have a list of recommended books by Andrew Farkas !
the theme is works of fiction that use cinema as part of their style or subject matter
featuring books by David Leo Rice @raviddice & Brandi Homan
xraylitmag.com/andrew-farkas…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Thanks to @RobertShapard for choosing my story from Cleaver Magazine for The Best Small Fictions @altcurrent! Thanks, too, to series editors @21045Nathan and @MichelleElvy, as well as Kathryn Kulpa and @andreacaswell88 for taking it originally!
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Congrats to @audrakerrbrown for her inclusion in this year's for Best Small Fictions from @altcurrent for her @MoonCityReview story "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space," selected by @RobertShapard. Thanks, too, to series editors @21045Nathan and @MichelleElvy.
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Still can’t believe I’m in this, my name on the TOC alongside some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa 💕 Catching a plane this morning, and I’m so excited to have this to read on my travels 🤗 Thank you so much to both @SoutheastReview and @altcurrent 🙏
Alternating Current Press retweeted
We're mighty proud to nominate these wee, powerful pieces by Nathan DeBar, James Norcliffe, @shivpreetsingh & Joely Williams to #BestSmallFictions from @altcurrent.
They can all be found in the current issue ICYMI thewoolfx.com/ #flashfiction #prosepoetry
Alternating Current Press retweeted
A small but mighty AWP book book haul from #awp26! So much flash! And I can’t wait to read @shastagrant new novel from @RegalHouse1 @altcurrent @eastoverpress @tcboudreau @StanchionZine @TerryTierney14 @UnsolicitedP
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Massive congrats to our Best Small Fictions (shoutout @altcurrent) nominees for 2026 | Spencer Nitkey, Cole Beauchamp, Matt Leibel, Joanna Theiss, & Kathy Hoyle <3
Alternating Current Press retweeted
...and to conclude the 2026 award season, our @altcurrent Best Small Fictions nominations!
Yes, #BSF has a 1000 word max, & Doric Literary has a 1000 word min, but neither is a stickler.
Cheers to Diamond @SunshineDees #PatriciaQBidar & #MegPokrass!
doric-literary.com/nominatio…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
BSF @altcurrent Congrats & good luck!
* Cutie With... by @VeryBadLlama
* I Ran Into Your... by Nora Wagner
* On the bright side… by @foreverasheley
* Rotting by @jvincentwriter
* The Air by @thebluepitcher
The Marionette by Ivan Niccolai @ivan_niccolai made 𝐁𝐒𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!
Alternating Current Press retweeted
My Sweeney Todd-inspired poem "Don't I Know You?" will be appearing in the "How to Hang the Hat" anthology from @altcurrent! Can't wait to share my Sondheim tribute in this cool anthology.
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Lots of news, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award organised by @altcurrent
(same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED and thrilled
thecoilmag.com/announcement-…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Shameless plug to buy a writer’s book on their birthday! Find it @altcurrent
Alternating Current Press retweeted
It's my birthday, so help me celebrate by purchasing my collection of flash fiction! @altcurrent
amazon.com/Hollows-Tommy-Dea…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great Matthew Specktor in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2: @LAReviewofBooks @northfigbooks @SouthwestReview @altcurrent @1111Press
lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Thirty West is happy to welcome Ben Tanzer to the TW family. HUMAN NOISE, a literary short story collection, will see publication in the winter of 2027. @BenTanzer
ALT An acquisition alert for Ben Tanzer and his forthcoming book of stories, HUMAN NOISE, to be published through Thirty West in the winter of 2027.
Alternating Current Press retweeted
David Leo Rice on his new novel in conversation with Raphael Helfand: "Another thing that interests me a lot are characters who are in a position of needing to accept as real something that they don’t fully believe is real, because it’s that or nothing." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Thrilled to chat with Alexis Barton about editing Pamela Painter’s “The Lesson of Flash Floods” for @ChestnutReview—later selected for Best Small Fictions 2025 @altcurrent.
As an editor, this recognition means a lot.
Read the interview here (free): patreon.com/posts/interview-…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Thanks so much to my wonderful publisher @SouthernmostQu1 and @altcurrent and recent work in @McNeeseReview @13BridgesReview @MuleskinnerJou1 @fishbarrelrev @BendingGenres @GIGANTICsequins
Our very own @MerridawnD will be in the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology! Congrats, Merridawn! We’re happy for you and proud.
altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Today's Friday Five: some selections from @altcurrent's 2025 Best Small Fictions, featuring work originally published in @FracturedLit @GhostParachute @dishsoapquart @StanchionZine & @WitcraftDoug
andrewcareaga.com/2025/05/30…
#WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #MicroFiction
Alternating Current Press retweeted
Among the 110 pieces in the annual @altcurrent Best Small Fictions series is "She is There" by @ucirvine criminology, law & society Assistant Professor @_waldo_was_here. It narrates one of his mother's dreams of freedom from enslavement as a child. altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…
