Does It Have Pockets

18/06/2025

We celebrate Pride with our q***r community this June, & publish the words of LGBTQ+ writers all year long. CLMP 's Pride roundup showcases 2025 works from the lit community including DIHP’s own Lauren Smith & Wendy Elizabeth Wallace | https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-pride-month-2025/

For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by authors identifying as LGBTQ+ that they recommend reading in celebration.   Fiction   Who Killed Buster S...

17/06/2025

We're celebrating all of our friends inside the stellar new Best Microfiction 2025, including 2 of DIHP's own: “The Meaning of Words Unknown to Doug” by Karen Walker & “Afterlife for Rent” by Kati Bumbera.

Get your copy here: https://best-microfiction.square.site/product/best_microfiction-2025/180

Kudos to Best Microfiction for a gorgeous anthology.

09/06/2025

"Writing for me is kind of a daily devotion that has little to do with talent and everything to do with just showing up..."

Don't miss our June feature, wherein DIHP Art Director Anne Anthony Anne Anthony sits down with the incomparable Sarah Freligh | Plus five fantastic Freligh flashes | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/features/sarah-freligh

In 2024, I had the good fortune to participate in a Sarah Freligh writing workshop. I kept jotting down notes she’d give to writers on their stories and on mine, that list would eventually be entitled, Sarah’s Pearls . I’d read a few of her stories prior to the workshop but afterwards wanted t...

04/06/2025

To round out our June edition with a splash, here's the spectacular "Milk and Honey" from Lucinda Kempe in a vibrant collab with artist and DIHP alum Lorette C. Luzajic | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/lucinda-kempe

04/06/2025

"Strangers. Things that are similar to strangers."

This tiny, dynamic inventory is emotional momentum in narrative form; superlative from Adam McOmber in "Ph***ic Symbols" | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/adam-mcomber

Art Anne Anthony

04/06/2025

"As a former refugee, I know how fragile ‘today’ can be."

June's Art & Hybrid Gallery features the vivid, effervescent work of writer & artist Andrea Damic in this collection called 'Stages of Being' |

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04/06/2025

So as not to forget the gifts of winter, here we present three serenely gorgeous new poems from Nate Hirschtick | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/nate-hirschtick

Art Anne Anthony

04/06/2025

With a meticulous hand filled with resonant metaphor, these two dark flashes from Irene Gentle absolutely sing | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eirene-gentle

Art Anne Anthony

03/06/2025

"Things began to disappear:
one red mitten, a growing boy,
as if they’d fallen through a worn-out pocket."

Two new woodsmoke-scented, rustic-flecked from Alice Haines | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alice-haines

Art Anne Anthony

03/06/2025

"The dresser and I maintained a stilted, somewhat one-sided, conversation..."

A maelstrom of grief, loss, and the magic of the inanimate, new in June from Arria Deepwater | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/arria-deepwater

Art Anne Anthony

03/06/2025

"Here, I am eating things to eat them./
I am drinking things to drink them."

Up next in our June collection, two powerful left hooks from Caroline Keir | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/caroline-keir

Art Anne Anthony

03/06/2025

A meditation on the moment we are completely changed in this quietly perfect from Michael Thériault | https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/michael-theriault

Art Anne Anthony