New story up today at @dishsoapquart.bsky.social! This is another one that started life in @megpokrass.bsky.social's fantastic workshops. Many thanks to Zoe and Aster for saying yes to this one and their thoughtful feedback.

BIG NEWS! @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke are thrilled to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social will be serving as final judge for Best Microfiction 2026! Subs re-open in Nov. Stay tuned. #FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines

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”Weird Motel” prompt.

Like this a great deal, my brain seems to be similar to Meg's: "Emotional memory is always with us, waiting to feel safe enough to let itself be expressed. My advice is never to force it. Instead, hunt for ways to write from a playful, curious place."

For the creative brain, work doesn’t work.

I'm thrilled to share "A Tale of Fairies", shortlisted in WestWord Folktales contest - Many thanks to Amanda Saint, and @megpokrass.bsky.social and @lorettec.bsky.social in whose ekphrastic workshop this was written: westword.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

So many thanks to @megpokrass.bsky.social and @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for this moment of validation. The talent in flash fiction writing these days is extraordinary, so knowing an old lag like me still has the chops is wonderfully reassuring.

Congratulations to the Pokrass Prize winners-/ 1st prize @eleanor-luke.bsky.social & runners up @rachaeldunlop.com & Tim Collyer & thanks to @megpokrass.bsky.social for setting the prompt & judging l. Read here! www.flashfictionfestival.com/pokrass-priz...

July speculative flash roundup out today!

Read "Mothership" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by @brittsillustration.bsky.social. "My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime." tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj

Happy It’s-Still-and-Always-Pride! Link to my 3 Pride contributions to Boudin/McNeese Review. w/ @megpokrass.bsky.social @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social & many more talented writers www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...

This is it. A.I. (after Trump) is the blight of our century.

A new lit mag is born! Congratulations to Court the Spark Founded by the brilliant Court Harler! #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

What an honor! A fantastic series, and a service to the world of micro and flash fiction. Thank you @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2025, series editors @megpokrass.bsky.social and Gary Fincke, and guest editor @dawnraffel.bsky.social And so many thanks to @wigleaf.bsky.social Releases July 7!!

Includes links to pieces by @moonparkreview.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social @lynnmundell.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @devaneemily.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social @kajtanaka.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Best Microfiction team, and all of the incredible authors in Best Microfiction 2024 for receiving First Runner Up in the Eric Hoffer Awards! @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #Booksky

I'm so happy about this! Congrats to my co-editor Gary Fincke and to all the included authors!

It’s an honor to have a Vampire story alive from the dead, and up at Fictive Dream! @fictivedream.bsky.social ! fictivedream.com/2025/05/12/m... #FlashFiction

ICYMI. FBOMB Global Flash reading. Hosted by Francine Witte, readers @megpokrass.bsky.social Mileva Anastsiadou, @kiklodge.bsky.social, @swethaamit.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, Mikki Aronoff, @andreamarcusa.bsky.social and JT youtu.be/b7tgLsBerfQ?...

Feeling anxiety these days? Ha, dumb question-- who isn't? Consider joining me for a workshop in which we use our anxiety to write angsty, memorable stories! open.substack.com/pub/megpokra...

I'm honored to have new work up at the wonderful @doricliterary.bsky.social, a new lit mag devoted to classically inspired short fiction! Thank you to Dave Gregory for giving Remembering Pearl such an incredible home! doric-literary.com/2025/05/01/r... #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #ShortStory

Tomorrow we get the honor of publishing new fiction by @megpokrass.bsky.social! Not just one story, but TWO original linked flash fiction stories. It gets even better because we'll also publish another beautifully written short story by @uhume.bsky.social So, see you on May 1st! doric-literary.com

I have a teeny, timely piece about books and banning in the latest issue of Ghost Parachute, born in a @megpokrass.bsky.social workshop! I hope you'll give it a read. 💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/april-...

A highly appropriate and fantastic reading from @megpokrass.bsky.social about Eleanor Rigby 🎤 🎙 🎤

I’m honoured and excited to have a hybrid story in trampset! #FlashFiction trampset.org/eleanor-rigb...

I’m Excited to have a new hybrid piece, “Eleanor Rigby’s Escape “, in the wonderful @trampset.bsky.social ! #FlashFiction #FlashFictionLit #WritingCommunity #flashfictionpeeps #FlashFictionFriday

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”―Flannery O'Connor (born March 25th, 1925)

NPR CEO Katherine Maher on a tweet she posted in 2020 calling Trump a fascist and a sociopath: "I regret those tweets. I would not tweet them again today. They represented a time where I was reflecting on something I believe that the president had said rather than who he is."

Love this story

Thank you to Jeff Harvey and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing my tiny 6-sentence story “Acting School Lessons”. #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity#microfiction gooseberry-pie.com/acting-schoo...

You’ll want to read the latest issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with 6 sentences stories from @megpokrass.bsky.social @seanennis.bsky.social @bethsheresh.bsky.social And be sure to read the announcement about our annual writing contest gooseberry-pie.com/issue-29/

It will be tremendously funny if Schumer gets publicly humiliated by an angry groundswell of Dem voters working their individual Senators who all bail on voting for cloture. There is no way he can continue in leadership if this happens, and it should.

"The lawsuit is perhaps the most substantive legal effort to require the Education Department to enforce civil rights since 1970, when the NAACP sued the agency for allowing segregation to continue." by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social / @jodiscohen.bsky.social

So lovely to have a tiny story in the wonderful Paragraph Planet! @paragraphplanet.bsky.social #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity

“If I don't create, I don't exist.” Ingmar Bergman

“I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent deliberate silence.” — Louise Glück

When the iTunes store was fairly new I bought “blue light in the basement” on a whim and it changed a few things about how I think about songwriting. She was truly one of the greats. Travel safely home Roberta Flack

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

iCYMI-PROSE GARDEN 2/22/25-hosted by @megpokrass.bsky.social and me. Elan Barnahama, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Kalliopy Paleos, @pamelapainter.bsky.social, Mikki Aronoff, @janesalmonsuk.bsky.social, Lorette C. Luzajik, and @louellalester.bsky.social youtu.be/Fq0A9Orq9oo?...

I'm thrilled to be one of the winners in @megpokrass.bsky.social's "The Gulf of_______" hint fiction contest. Thanks, Meg! Here's my winning entry: "The Gulf of the Clitoris" And just like that, it became invisible to Trump supporters forever.

New post - free to read until 25 February 2025. It's about the UK government's consultation on copyright and generative AI. Includes quite a few links, including to the consultation. If you find this interesting, please repost. ko-fi.com/post/UK-Gove...