Doomscroll Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
Woman looking at phone for Doomscroll shortlist

Editor’s Note

Our Doomscroll writing challenge invited writers to explore social media, algorithms, and infinite scrolls across flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. We’re pleased to announce our shortlist, which recognizes the writers whose pieces were particularly exciting and inventive. Our finalists will be announced tomorrow!

“Mother Knows Best” by Jennifer A. Cole

at this point who knows” by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Replies to Top Comments on Instagram Reel of Pleated Woodpecker Scavenging Its Lunch out of Tree Bark” by Anna Lux Petro

“The Amount of Ricotta” by Veronica Tucker

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Rebecca Paredes

Rebecca Paredes is the Editor-in-Chief of Glossy Planet. She is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is located next to the graveyard, and an alumna of PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop LA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Barren Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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