Exposition Review
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A multi-genre lit journal & community 📚 Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” launching 8/8 at Village Well 👥 Read Vol. X: 🌱 & Flash 405💥 👇
From our cover to Literati’s walls. We are beyond thrilled to have Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Vol. X: “Spring” cover framed on the walls of this iconic LA literary spot. Literati Cafe was site of our #ExpoPresents: A Decade of Art Artist Talk & Exhibition AND some of our earliest reading meetings!
Shoutout to our A DECADE OF ART gallery cover artists Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Leah Oates, @altmanill0.bsky.social, Rebekah Scotland, George Townley & @wrdsmthinla.bsky.social! We love seeing these pieces take on new meaning within the #ExpoFam.
It was a joy to see all 20 covers from our annual and Flash 405 issues on display at our #ExpoPresents: A Decade of Art Artist Talk & Exhibition! There’s still time to see the digital art exhibition before it closes on July 24. Enjoy: tinyurl.com/ExpoArt10.
Today is the last day to submit to @crsutton.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Loop” writing contest. Multiple entries in multiple genres are accepted, with cash prizes and publication awaiting winners. Enter here by 11:59 PM PT: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlashLoop. #Flash405 #writingcontest #callforsubmissions
Look what we stumbled across today on Thousand Oaks Blvd. See more of @wrdsmthinla.bsky.social in A DECADE OF ART: expositionreview.com/expo-present.... #ExpoContributor
Only 5 days left to submit your @crsutton.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Loop” writing contest. Multiple entries in multiple genres encouraged. Cash prizes and publication await: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlashLoop. #Flash405 #Writingcontest #callforsubmissions
Announcing Exposition Review’s first-ever print anthology. Curated by our editorial team, the collection will feature favorite works from Expo’s first ten years, celebrating the many voices who have helped shape our community. Stay tuned for more details!
“Loops on a DJ track, repeated notes and beats and chorus lines. Loops of thoughts, memories, ghosts, that argument in our head we can’t turn off...” Send your loops to Flash 405 guest judge Chelsea Sutton for your chance to win cash prizes and publication! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlashLoop.
We’re honored to submit pieces for @pushcartprize.bsky.social, @bestofthenet.bsky.social, Best Small Fictions (@altcurrent.bsky.social), @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, Nina Riggs Poetry Award, O. Henry Prize, Best American Series & @penamerica.bsky.social/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize…
“Tell me about the time loop you’re stuck in or about that delicate swirl in the pattern of your grandma’s couch, or the repeated phrases that have never left your heart.…” Submit your “Loop”-themed, multi-genre, short-form writing by July 5. Cash prizes & publication await tinyurl.com/ExpoFlashLoop
Yesterday’s #ExpoPresents artist talk, exhibition & book display, art hanging, and library donating at Literati Cafe and Zoom was an amazing way to kick off our digital exhibition A DECADE OF ART.
TOMORROW (Sunday) come hear these amazing artists: Kristen Huizar, @sherardyouare.bsky.social, Veronica Marshall, @postwook.bsky.social, Alli Smith, and Allison Strauss, in conversation with Visual Art Editor @briannasmykreder.bsky.social at 3:00 PM PT at Literati Cafe & Zoom.
This Sunday come to our digital art & comics exhibition kick-off event, #ExpoPresents: A Decade of Art. Hear Expo Contributors Kristen Huizar, @sherardyouare.bsky.social, @postwook.bsky.social, Alli Smith, Allison Strauss & Veronica Marshall in convo w/ Visual Art Ed @briannasmykreder.bsky.social…
Check out George’s work in Expo: tinyurl.com/ExpoTownley AND on view at this weekend’s #ExpoPresents: A Decade of Art: tinyurl.com/ExpoPresentsArt10
This @angelaflournoy.bsky.social quote from THE WILDERNESS evokes #ExpoContributor and cover artist George Townley’s “Dingbat House in Mar Vista” from our “POP!” issue!
Today is the last day to submit to Ashley C. Lanuza’s Flash 405: “Saudade” writing contest. Send her your short form flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, and experimental narratives for your chance to win cash prizes and publication! Enter here: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade!
On May 17 #ExpoPresents: A Decade of Art, a digital & cover art exhibition, w/ an artist roundtable featuring #ExpoContributor @postwook.bsky.social, Kristen Huizar, @sherardyouare.bsky.social, Veronica Marshall & Alli Smith, moderated by @briannasmykreder.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoPresentsArt10
Our Flash 405: 2021 Issue features multi-genre flash writing on the themes of “Your Digital Stories,” “The Other,” “Alchemy,” and “House Party”! Read it and get writing inspiration here: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash21.
Get his book in our @bookshop.org (tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop) or come out and support him (and some local bookstores, including an Expo fave Village Well) while on tour!
We love getting to nominate Flash 405—in addition to annual issue—contributors for Best Small Fictions. Congrats to nominees Sally DeWind, @aniking.bsky.social, Max Gregg, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social & @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social! Read their work: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpringLitNoms. @altcurrent.bsky.social
Meet April Flash 405 judge Ashley C. Lanuza, a writer, editor & award-winning spoken word poet. Her poetry has been published by @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social, LA County & in MY HEART OF RICE: A POETIC FILIPINO AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (available in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/my-h...
Check out our Flash 405: 2019 Issue for some flash reading and writing inspiration: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash19. @themaureenlee.bsky.social @lmanusos.bsky.social @willwriteforchai.bsky.social @kevinmflanagan.bsky.social @oliviakingery.bsky.social
When selecting our @bestofthenet.bsky.social nominees, we think of our favorite pieces that recognize and embrace the opportunities of digital media, experimenting with form, genre, and content. We’re beyond thrilled to have Jaqi Howard’s comic CLOVER selected for inclusion!
Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, & experimental writing in under 405 words, 5 lines, or 4 pages for your chance to win cash prizes & publication & join the #ExpoFam. Submissions are open for Ashley C. Lanuza’s Flash 405: “Saudade” thru 5/10: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade
We are excited to present this group of writers from our “Spring” issue for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses collection: Jennifer Bannan, Lisa Novick, Richard A Perez Jr, @lawrencebridges.bsky.social, nicole fellah & Karan Kapoor: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpringLitNoms.
Writing prompt: “Make us yearn for the cloying thread of entangled thoughts, write for us to experience saudade…in a flash.” Read the whole Flash 405 prompt and find out how to win cash prizes and publication in Ashley C. Lanuza’s multi-genre, short-form writing contest: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade.
Save the date for our #ExpoPresents: A Decade of Art on May 17 at Literati Cafe! At this hybrid event, we’ll kick off a one-month digital exhibition showcasing art from the past 10 years, with an in-person artist roundtable (and livestreamed via Zoom). Stay tuned for details & an Eventbrite invite!
Next Saturday, April 18, join Expo Poetry Editor Kiana Shaley at North Figueroa Bookshop at the celebration reading for Whitney Koo’s debut poetry collection, ANY GESTURE (@blacklawrence.bsky.social). There will be additional readings by Kiana, Ja’net Daniel & Kristi Osorio. RSVP: luma.com/rvey6w1f
Something extra special is brewing at Literati Cafe! Stay tuned!!! P.S. Can you spot the #ExpoRecommends in their Little Free Library!?