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March 27, 2026 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Air and Fog, Light and Flight, by Jane Ciabattari

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jane Ciabattari! Celebrate by reading Ciabattari’s “Air and Fog, Light and Flight,” which we published…

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March 6, 2026 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: This Boy’s Tongue, by Peter Markus

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Peter Markus! Celebrate by reading Markus’s “This Boy’s Tongue,” which we published in 2019 and…

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March 6, 2026 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Centralia Mine Fire, by Sarah Blackman

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Sarah Blackman! Celebrate by reading this Blackman fiction we published in 2021! Following that, read…

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February 23, 2026 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

And One by One They Disappeared, by Stephen O’Connor

  Here in the snow, in the woods, there is black, there is white, and endless shades between, but none…

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January 23, 2026February 17, 2026 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: The Doctrine of Notions, by Martine Bellen

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Martine Bellen! Celebrate by reading this Bellen fiction we published in 2025!   Left alone,…

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December 16, 2025January 7, 2026 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Four Fictions, by Kim Chinquee

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Kim Chinquee! Celebrate by reading the four Chinquee fictions we published in 2025! Then go…

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December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 - Awards, Contest, Fiction, News, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026!

  We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2025 for inclusion in Alternating Current Press’s Best Small…

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December 8, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Room Without Dreams, by Lance Olsen

  In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…

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December 5, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

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December 4, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Father, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant    One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

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