Welcome, welcome to the most hotly anticipated, career-making, literary-landscape-forging, goals-of-humanity-advancing awards of the year — the Christies! Below you'll find what I have deemed, in my nigh-queenly and unerring correctness of opinion, to be the best... Lit mags! DC-area literary events! Books released in 2025! Short pieces (fiction, CNF) that appeared in lit mags in 2025! Books I read in 2025 that did *not* come out in 2025! Podcasts for writers! Plus a *special category* for all those miscellaneous souls worthy of a shout-out! Exclamation mark! ...Without further ado! First up, my favorite literary publications that I've come across or continued to enjoy during the past year! For the most part, these lists aren't in order — but ARTWIFE really does hold a special place in my heart. It's run by wife-and-wife duo Hannah & Erica Harlee, regularly runs the most expertly curated mix of exquisite prose and art (short stories, ...