Kicking bottoms, this Mairead

In two weeks! Come join us! Get your work out there in 2026!!

Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social

Cowboy Jamboree's Fall issue is live y'all. We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...

JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15 jmww.submittable.com/submit

1.) Write a poem on the back of a receipt 2.) Fold the poem as many times as you can 3.) Stick the poem in the middle of a snowball 4.) Roll the snowball poem down your nearest hill 5.) Repeat this process until Spring arrives

Loving this warm and gooey sense of community @smokelong.bsky.social ❤️

If you’re baking and using brown sugar, and some of it shakes out in small clumps, here’s my go-to kitchen pro tip… You eat them. They’re little treats. You deserve it.

Everyone cheer I sold 75 books at the Virginia Cat Festival this weekend! Meow!!

Paragraph Planet, the #writing website, has been publishing one story on its home page every day since 2008. That's [*quick calculation*]......LOTS of stories. Submit today! paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

Still open for ~10 more applications!

“And now she was thrusting the cone at me, less gently, the swirl tilting already in the heavy August midnight, requiring me to go right into licking before drips reached my hand” Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌

"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young" A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition

You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions

ICYMI

Oozing impatience so I circled it in blue. Out with @stanchion.bsky.social in August 2026.

Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart (Image S.Bugarsky)

Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social 3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com

Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨ irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...

What Otto says.

On a poet hunt. Any word welders up for online open-miking on 28th January? @saloneurope.bsky.social

Our Autumn Issue is here. 11 spooky stories to chill your bones. Read, enjoy, and share widely! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Autumnal man with leaf hat and earring.

The Longlist is out, as chosen by the readers... Congratulations everyone!! An incredible selection! 🔥🔥🔥

Launched this absolute stunner last night. A mighty read. @saloneurope.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 🍞

“After I gave birth, I understood entropy. Everything decays. Disorder is invincible. Raging in front of the Sex Museum in Amsterdam, I became entropy.” gonelawn.net/journal/issu... Read this, ooof. 😮 By @kplumhoff.bsky.social the Diva.

Moley holey. Gotta love this lot. @saloneurope.bsky.social

I casually refuse to be sucked into the beanbag abyss.

Solid brilliance.

Regardez!

Sold and signed 32 copies of my book today in Wilmington, DE!

I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I've spent the last 2 days catching up on the wonderful CNF pieces we've received for Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social. It's truly an honour to bear witness to so many personal stories of struggle and crisis, so I want you to know that we SEE and APPRECIATE you, and are grateful for your trust ❤️‍🔥

Pay what you can, and support a really good organization. Dec 18th at 7PM!

"When my wife looks out the window of our house & sobs while the rain beats down, it’s because she says our baby doesn’t recognize her anymore, because she’s an alien now, a glowing oval-headed monstrosity tucked into a maternity dress." @timfrankquill.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“He doesn’t taste the burn in her brisket. The tart of her pie.” A big slice of humanity here. 🙌

Genius.

Loudly in awe of this piece. 😲 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/jun...

We can't wait to read your work! variantlit.com/submit/

Flipped an A4 sheet of paper horizontal and my, how the story pours out from its stubborn verticality.

JAKE's been hungry. He's even (reluctantly) put a napkin on his lap in preparation to nosh down on some writing (mostly figuratively) TOMORROW. Subs open 10/20.

here is my favorite sign from today

Can’t sleep.

"women don't like the vehicle" is going to be lodged in my brain's neocortex for the rest of my natural life www.wired.com/story/owning...

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not cool. Not here. Not ever. We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"A Circus of Songs" by Shome Dasgupta--a quietly moving non-fiction giving us a poetic peek into the author's internal world. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Big giggle this one.

Nth degree barmy by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🙌