Parting Gifts (journal)

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Parting Gifts was a biannual literary magazine founded in 1987 and published by March Street Press of Greensboro, North Carolina. [1] [2] The journal occasionally published poetry, and focused on literary short-shorts and other flash fiction. Parting Gifts was among the select group of journals whose stories are eligible for New Stories from the South , an annual anthology. [3] Robert J. Bixby was the editor and publisher of the journal. [4] The magazine ceased publication in 2009. [2]

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