Paige Stephens@PStephensWrites

Writer, teacher, and mom from South Mississippi. Founding editor @TheItchLit

Joined February 2026
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Tomorrow is dress in lunch meat day at school. Or something of the sort. Red ribbon week, pep rally, full moon, Halloween, time change, and teenagers. I’m disassociating for the rest of the night.
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Who wants to help me build something cool?
the ITCH
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The Itch is growing, and we need a few more hands willing to scratch! We’re looking for one or all of these positions: Poetry Editor Contest Editor Managing Editor Volunteer positions. Big ideas. Good company. Interested? Apply here: form.jotform.com/26300711371…
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“They didn’t catch Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s in my basement.” -8th grade student. It’s a fever dream, friends.
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Read it.
Megan @ Sugar Pig@sugarpigblog
Oct 25
I am super thrilled (after six previous declines) to have finally found myself in @gonelawn. Please take a read gonelawn.net/journal/issue67…
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Jesse Binger@jessebinger
Oct 25
Thrilled to be up at @theitchlit with "Like Lucinda" #noir #gritlit
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@theitchlit
Oct 25
A beat-up Fairlane. Too much Pabst. A bad idea that gets worse. Jesse Binger’s (@jessebinger) “Like Lucinda” is live at The Itch, and damn, this one lingers. Read it: theitchlit.com/fiction/like-…
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Wrote a story about a wedding I went to as a kid. There was a raccoon in a cage in the yard. We poked it with sticks. It’s not southern gothic if it’s just your raisin’. 🤷‍♀️😂 Anyway, submitted it to a literary magazine.
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My 8th graders asked a grand total of 452 questions today. Tomorrow: I’m counting how many times they say my name.
Paige Stephens@PStephensWrites
Oct 22
267 questions from my 8th grade students by lunch. && Counting.
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267 questions from my 8th grade students by lunch. && Counting.
Paige Stephens@PStephensWrites
Oct 22
166 Questions by 9:38 am. One class down, 2 to go.
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166 Questions by 9:38 am. One class down, 2 to go.
Paige Stephens@PStephensWrites
Oct 22
Clicking every time an 8th grader asks a question today. It’s barely 8am.
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Clicking every time an 8th grader asks a question today. It’s barely 8am.
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A hamburger, a donut, and princess peach walked into the zoo…
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“I love you. And you love me. It just makes sense.” -My daughter. 🫶
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“I’m alphabetizing my M&Ms” -8th Grade student.
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Stanchion@StanchionZine
Oct 12
I am hemorrhaging money running Stanchion right now. If anyone would like a phenomenal book or magazine issue (or a handful of them) please consider buying something. I've seriously published some remarkable work.
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Oct 10
The Itch is always open for submissions! -Flash Fiction -CNF -Poetry -Micro -Hybrid/Experimental I’m looking for work that pesters and lingers. Pokes at my bruises and then follows me home. theitchlit.com/submit

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Getting popped with bacon grease is a Southern woman’s rite of passage.
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@theitchlit
Oct 10
We’re proud to announce The Itch Lit’s inaugural Pushcart Prize nominations! Congratulations to: -Lise Hosein -Sarah Watkins -Justin Lacour @TrampolinePoet1 -Mandira Pattnaik @MandiraPattnaik -Shira Musicant -Shrutidhora P Mohor @shrutidhoraPM
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I just wrote 825 words about a house I’m personally offended by. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever turned into a piece of writing? Not the most profound. The weirdest. I want to know. #WritingCommmunity
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Sat down to write about the matriarchy. Wrote about a circus, a side piece, and the mildly venomous bearded dragon instead. #writerscommunity
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