Excited to have a new Micro published in @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social today! It’s about a family curse. #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory

I’m featured in The Perseverance Interviews today on how a viral tweet helped me turn my most-rejected essay into my biggest success. Thank you @megpokrass.bsky.social for inviting me to participate! megpokrass.substack.com/p/grace-loh-...

@neonpajamas.bsky.social as.bsky.social Ben Niespodziany joins Prompts of Resilience' Hall of Fame with 2 collaborative prose poems written to photo & word prompts! Collaborators have included Etgar Keret and Aimee Bender! #prosepoetry #microfiction pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/response-s...

One of two new prose poems that went live today over on Meg Pokrass' Prompts of Resilience Substack Thanks, @megpokrass.bsky.social !

Enjoy this inspirational interview about overcoming rejection and landing in a dream publication with the remarkable Allie Field Bell! open.substack.com/pub/megpokra...? @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social

My tiny micro “Mr. Potato Head” was selected to be the first micro for the inaugural Micro Feature at Strange Pilgrims! www.strangepilgrims.com/p/mr-potato-...

So thrilled to be running a 6-Sentence Story Workshop collaboratively with Jeff Harvey of the wonderful @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social from May 1st- May 3rd. There are a few spaces left. pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/6-sentence...? #FlashFiction #ShortStory

Read "Bobless" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "She has to stop calling me Bob, but she can’t see me as anyone else.. The name on my birth certificate is Robert, I remind her. I’m Robbie. I’m even fine with Roberto." tinyurl.com/4kb9arjt

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I have a prose poem, Out of Work Actors, at Dodo Eraser. dodoeraser.org/2026/03/30/o... #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #LiteraryMagazines

Enjoy my free 15 word story contest! pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/please-mai...

Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been announced. Congratulations everyone!

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

Such an honor. ❤️🙂🙏

Here’s Meg Pokrass and “The Stranger Likes Soup” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features @megpokrass.bsky.social Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/meg-pokrass #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MegPokrass

Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction Nominees: BSF: Avitus B Carle, Sara Lippmann, Meg Pokrass, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, and Claudia Monpere. BMF: Jenny Stalter, Andrew Bertaina, Sarah Freligh, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, and Michelle Ross.

It's Calm Down and Write tomorrow! I hope you'll join us. It happens every Wednesday, same time. A lively group of writers who get together, turn off the camera and sound.. and write. #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines

Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's Pushcart Prize Nominees: @djpoissant.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @saralippmann.bsky.social, @megpokrass.bsky.social, @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social.

write a story in the voice of a ghost. Make sure to give the ghost a vibrant personality. Tell us a story they feel close to. Words: words: pill, lips, cough, pocketbook, glasses, embarrassing, thick

Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST. Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg Please register here for zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Best Microfiction reopens! Please spread the word!

“In the grief truck” by @megpokrass.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #amwriting #writingcommunity

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