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Łukasz Drobnik

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Łukasz Drobnik is a Polish fiction writer writing mostly in English, author of genre-bending books, VOSTOK and RIVERINE, as well as shorter prose published in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Quarterly West, Pithead Chapel, Lighthouse, STORGY, BULL, Foglifter, X‑R‑A‑Y Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. His writing was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Kraków, Poland.

Below you can find a FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and READ some of his pieces.

email: drobniklukasz [at] gmail [dot] com

Riverine

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Flash fiction collection published in 2023 by VA Press

A couple goes to a supermarket in Earth’s final days. An unrequited love turns into a lifelong friendship. A bacterium fights against being devoured by a leukocyte. Polish queer people start an insurrection to take over their homeland. A woman gets trapped in a loop of tending to her abusive husband.

RIVERINE is a collection of 25 short-shorts that oscillate between the literary and the speculative. Microscopic or cosmic in scope, encompassing millions of years or just a few seconds, these stories strive to find hope even in the bleakest places.

You can buy RIVERINE in a PAPER format.

The characters in these restrained spaces crackle with light and self-awareness, and about what makes life a murky and joyful ride.
Tara Isabel Zambrano, author of Death, Desire, and Other Destinations
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These stories flow one into another, but always with a singular, stunning intensity, carrying the reader along with their unerring, devastating power.
Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You, Small Burning Things
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Drobnik is a brave, brilliant writer, showing what unites us even as he takes the cells of civilization apart.
Ross Showalter
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