Brecht De Poortere
@brechtdp.bsky.social
🧑🦱 "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of"
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Thank you so much Stanchion!
Behold. Rejoice. Exclaim.
Stanchion's 2027 Best Small Fictions nominees are here. What another banner year for flash writing.
Read all 5 pieces in full here:
www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchi...
@brechtdp.bsky.social @travisshosa.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social
Stanchion's 2027 Best Small Fictions nominees are here. What another banner year for flash writing.
Read all 5 pieces in full here:
www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchi...
@brechtdp.bsky.social @travisshosa.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social
September 29, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Thank you so much Stanchion!
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Thank you to @brechtdp.bsky.social, Rachele Dini, and @davidjbauman.bsky.social for sharing your experience, and to @beckyltuch.bsky.social for sharing my words with your readers.
September 17, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Thank you to @brechtdp.bsky.social, Rachele Dini, and @davidjbauman.bsky.social for sharing your experience, and to @beckyltuch.bsky.social for sharing my words with your readers.
Thank you Nancy for the kind words, and thank you @saloneurope.bsky.social for including this piece in your session! 🙏
Excellent session @saloneurope.bsky.social. #Writing the ordinary in extraordinary/difficult times w/@deborahzafer.bsky.social. We read an extract of this story by Brecht de Porteere @brechtdp.bsky.social. I then read it in full immediately. The Rest Is Silence. WOW. hudsonreview.com/2025/05/the-...
The Rest Is Silence | The Hudson Review
hudsonreview.com
September 8, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Thank you Nancy for the kind words, and thank you @saloneurope.bsky.social for including this piece in your session! 🙏
Thank you @stanchion.bsky.social
The great @brechtdp.bsky.social in Issue 21 of Stanchion Magazine. Enjoy the whole of this beaut.
"There aren’t many times in life we truly listen. Some say we only listen once, as a child. Then for the rest of our lives all we do is remember, or try to."
"There aren’t many times in life we truly listen. Some say we only listen once, as a child. Then for the rest of our lives all we do is remember, or try to."
July 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Thank you @stanchion.bsky.social
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Pub Day! If you want to know how I’m doing, I just tried to refill my coffee by turning on the kitchen sink.
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Pub Day! If you want to know how I’m doing, I just tried to refill my coffee by turning on the kitchen sink.
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A beautiful, poignant story in letter form by @brechtdp.bsky.social in @stanchion.bsky.social
March 15, 2026 at 7:36 PM
A beautiful, poignant story in letter form by @brechtdp.bsky.social in @stanchion.bsky.social
Reposted by Brecht De Poortere
Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Our poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction doors are now open in Submittable. baltimorereview.org
The Baltimore Review
A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
baltimorereview.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Our poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction doors are now open in Submittable. baltimorereview.org
Horrible delays on the trains today - but it means I managed to finish a good draft of the story I am working on, and I have to say: I'm pretty pleased with this one. As you can see from the title: more hippos coming your way!🦛🙂
January 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Horrible delays on the trains today - but it means I managed to finish a good draft of the story I am working on, and I have to say: I'm pretty pleased with this one. As you can see from the title: more hippos coming your way!🦛🙂
Reposted by Brecht De Poortere
January 29, 2026 at 2:32 PM
My daughter, who recently turned 18, gave a TED talk this morning about diversity in engineering, and I admit I did not keep it dry 🥹
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 AM
My daughter, who recently turned 18, gave a TED talk this morning about diversity in engineering, and I admit I did not keep it dry 🥹
I'll be in volume 1 (on the left) 😊
So excited to share with you the covers for Issues 21 & 22, Stanchion Magazine's 'double album' of music writing & photography.
These 2 beauties, stacked with stellar prose & poetry are available separately or together & will be published next month.
Pre-order now at StanchionZine.com/shop
These 2 beauties, stacked with stellar prose & poetry are available separately or together & will be published next month.
Pre-order now at StanchionZine.com/shop
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I'll be in volume 1 (on the left) 😊
Pretty excited to announce that I will have a short piece in this issue! First acceptance of 2026! 🥳
Issue 21, the music issue, can now be pre-ordered directly from Stanchion. It will be ready for you and ship out in late February, and then become available from wherever you order books online.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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Stanchion Magazine Issue 21 | Stanchion
Issue 21 of Stanchion marks the first-ever theme issue of the magazine: MUSIC. All of the stories, poems, and visual art will feature, either directly or tangentially, the sweet sounds of music. A ple...
www.stanchionzine.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Pretty excited to announce that I will have a short piece in this issue! First acceptance of 2026! 🥳
Reposted by Brecht De Poortere
This call is for poems shaped by memory and loss — not spectacle, not sentimentality.
If that sounds like your work, we want to read it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
If that sounds like your work, we want to read it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This call is for poems shaped by memory and loss — not spectacle, not sentimentality.
If that sounds like your work, we want to read it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
If that sounds like your work, we want to read it.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
This is happening tonight. Excited about it.
On 22 Dec at 5pm CET, I will run a small online event on how to use my lit mag rankings for submitting to journals. This event is for those: (i) new to submitting; and/or (ii) not comfortable with spreadsheets.
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
December 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is happening tonight. Excited about it.
OK, this is not a proper ranking, but just a little fun I had with the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016-2025.
2 pts for every featured story, 1 pt for every notable.
2025 weight = 1, decreasing to 2016 weight = 0.1
Full list (67 journals) available from my website.
2 pts for every featured story, 1 pt for every notable.
2025 weight = 1, decreasing to 2016 weight = 0.1
Full list (67 journals) available from my website.
December 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
OK, this is not a proper ranking, but just a little fun I had with the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016-2025.
2 pts for every featured story, 1 pt for every notable.
2025 weight = 1, decreasing to 2016 weight = 0.1
Full list (67 journals) available from my website.
2 pts for every featured story, 1 pt for every notable.
2025 weight = 1, decreasing to 2016 weight = 0.1
Full list (67 journals) available from my website.
It's been a good year...
Thanks so much to all the wonderful magazines that published my writing + everyone who read my work.
Links to all stories below!
Thanks so much to all the wonderful magazines that published my writing + everyone who read my work.
Links to all stories below!
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It's been a good year...
Thanks so much to all the wonderful magazines that published my writing + everyone who read my work.
Links to all stories below!
Thanks so much to all the wonderful magazines that published my writing + everyone who read my work.
Links to all stories below!
This morning: Paris doing Paris
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This morning: Paris doing Paris
OK, I wasn't expecting this 🤯
- I travelled to Rwanda in August
- I wrote an essay about it in September
- I started submitting in October
- Only 3 lit mag responses in, and it's an acceptance from
@chicagoqreview.bsky.social !
What a way to end the year 🥳🥂
- I travelled to Rwanda in August
- I wrote an essay about it in September
- I started submitting in October
- Only 3 lit mag responses in, and it's an acceptance from
@chicagoqreview.bsky.social !
What a way to end the year 🥳🥂
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
OK, I wasn't expecting this 🤯
- I travelled to Rwanda in August
- I wrote an essay about it in September
- I started submitting in October
- Only 3 lit mag responses in, and it's an acceptance from
@chicagoqreview.bsky.social !
What a way to end the year 🥳🥂
- I travelled to Rwanda in August
- I wrote an essay about it in September
- I started submitting in October
- Only 3 lit mag responses in, and it's an acceptance from
@chicagoqreview.bsky.social !
What a way to end the year 🥳🥂
Science fiction & fantasy writers: I am working on a special lit mag ranking for you...
Question: would it be weird if I lumped together Fantasy Magazine / The Deadlands / Psychopomp?
Question: would it be weird if I lumped together Fantasy Magazine / The Deadlands / Psychopomp?
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Science fiction & fantasy writers: I am working on a special lit mag ranking for you...
Question: would it be weird if I lumped together Fantasy Magazine / The Deadlands / Psychopomp?
Question: would it be weird if I lumped together Fantasy Magazine / The Deadlands / Psychopomp?
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Hi writer friends! Would you please give me your recommendations for online creative writing / poetry workshops for new writers? This would be a gift for my college-aged cousin. Thank you so much!
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hi writer friends! Would you please give me your recommendations for online creative writing / poetry workshops for new writers? This would be a gift for my college-aged cousin. Thank you so much!
Reposted by Brecht De Poortere
This is not the kind of elephant hunt you might be expecting. A tragic and tender story
Hey all - I think my story in the Missouri Review can be accessed for free!
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
Project MUSE - King of the Jungle
muse.jhu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is not the kind of elephant hunt you might be expecting. A tragic and tender story
Hey all - I think my story in the Missouri Review can be accessed for free!
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
Project MUSE - King of the Jungle
muse.jhu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hey all - I think my story in the Missouri Review can be accessed for free!
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
It's about a guy going on an elephant hunt... 🐘🙂
muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
This made me think: if any lit mag is interested in adding a badge to their website to signal their ranking or inclusion in the ranking (similar, I guess, to the Duotrope or ChillSubs badges), feel free to DM me!
Please join us in celebrating our staff and contributors for helping The Florida Review break into the top 75 of Brecht De Poortere's Top Literary Magazines of 2026. Thank you to @brechtdp.bsky.social and everyone who made this possible!
#flreview
#flreview
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This made me think: if any lit mag is interested in adding a badge to their website to signal their ranking or inclusion in the ranking (similar, I guess, to the Duotrope or ChillSubs badges), feel free to DM me!
I love this! And congrats to the Florida Review!
Please join us in celebrating our staff and contributors for helping The Florida Review break into the top 75 of Brecht De Poortere's Top Literary Magazines of 2026. Thank you to @brechtdp.bsky.social and everyone who made this possible!
#flreview
#flreview
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I love this! And congrats to the Florida Review!