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Announcing Big Other’s Nominations for Best Microfiction 2026!

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2026: Kim Chinquee’s “Break the…

Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author: “Everything in the world began with a…

Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing: “To live is so startling it leaves little…

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

Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 97, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

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

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

Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Let everything happen to you: beauty…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading “Rift,” which we published in 2024! And then read Robinson’s…

Dear Reader, Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the…