Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. Anne Carson

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Has someone already made a list of publishers publishing #flashfiction collections? If not, who should I add? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

People who enjoy the work of Mark Rothko may also enjoy this morning’s view from the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry

A film about my 'Haunted Paper' exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. The film was made by Matt Bell at Bellboy Studio and the music is by Joe McKechnie. The exhibition is on until September 19th, Monday - Friday, 9pm to 5pm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CARO...

In light of recent events. I’m starting to now reassess just how much more amazing it was, when Yoon Sukyeol back in December tried to dissolve the South Korean national assembly with martial law, thousands of ordinary citizens came out and faced off against fully armed special operations soldiers.

📣 Nice News Alert! Get sharpening those micros! Whilst the Welkin Writing Prize may be the nicest writing prize out there, the competition is fierce. 🤩

Have you heard? The latest episode of Sherry's Shorts airs today (Friday) on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring brilliant stories by @fionajanemack.bsky.social , @lindybiller.bsky.social & me, along with music & chat. Listen live here: www.hhr.scot

It's Burryman day in South Queensferry. I love the fact that nobody know why they do it but the tradition continues.

“Is there a better way for us to be headed? Are we going to be able to shift things into something more humane, more sustainable and a bit more equal? That’s the big question.” I wrote this piece exactly 4 years ago today & it’s startling to see how much further we’ve drifted from all this in 2025

The Welkin Writing Prize is pleased to announce our nominations for Best of the Net: @thisisguan.bsky.social for "A Parable of Slow Songs" and @sfreligh.bsky.social for "Nine One One" Congratulations both! Such brilliant writing! Story links in the thread below.

This series of essays from The Stinging Fly is excellent. This one hits hard.

Sharing a new piece by the ever brilliant @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social on AI. Do read! unherd.com/2025/08/how-...

I'm starting to believe that we shouldn't have graduated into the 21st century without first ensuring we had all fully comprehended and mastered the 20th.

A good, transparent piece on author advances. Nice to see @akblakemore.bsky.social here inews.co.uk/culture/book...

It's the first of the month, and you know what that means: free subs are back open at OKD until we hit our monthly cap! Familiarize yourself with your vibe, then submit your best flash fiction or poetry: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

Four new Nightjars now available here nightjarpress.weebly.com by @bookishleels.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

It’s time! FH subs are open. Very excited to get reading. 🎉✨

Hope some of y'all will read along with me for #WITMonth! I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda... Starts Friday!

There is a tax for doing business upon the waves. A tidal tithe owed to the King-Under-the-Sea. Tribute paid in libation, jetsam offerings. It isn't only the salt winds that bite against the flesh on the coast, so does superstition. #FolkloreThursday

Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-)) Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey? (Please share, too!)

Sometimes a note to yourself from 2 years ago (as you started work on a new novel for real for real) that you’d forgotten about shows up & gives you the feels. A hug from a me who was struggling less than I am today. Thanks, previous me. Let’s do this revision & remember this hug across time.

Here's a summer read . . . www.uapress.com/product/othe...

Icymi, I had a new poem out earlier this month Its about crows and grudges

Aug 1st is almost here. That's when we reopen to subs. Please read our guidelines. Free sub option always available, & we pay $30/piece. We nom for BoN, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, & Pushcart. trampset.org/submissions-...

"I have learned what is safe. What makes assumptions vanish:" it's been a long time since I read a piece that resonated with me as strongly as Matt Taylor's 'Tracksuits and Me'. It spoke to me on too many levels to sum up in one post, but it's brilliant to see writing like this commissioned.

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

Have a new column out today if you’d like to read it.

'...in terms of writing, I'm always trying to follow the voice and the story, and we can classify it as what it is afterwards.' ❤️ This episode with Michael Pedersen is chock-full of inspiration. Adding his debut novel, Muckle Flugga, to my wishlist!!! 💙📚

This is what free speech looks like

William Stafford

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

Noooooo! Legend. Sad day. He’s hanging out with Mr. Crowley. \m/ \m/

Birding is out in audio form today loves, available wherever you pour words into your earpipes. Have a listen maybe🌅

I wrote about how some of us are just never going to get to a residency and that’s (mostly) fine.

I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't adore libraries, especially haunted libraries. In terms of desired afterlife real estate, few places compare to library or bookshop. I am going to try hard to haunt my favourite one when the time comes. – #CJosiffe #Libraries #Ghosts

Extremely excited to be teaching this two-week workshop with @mlensheffer.bsky.social next month! If you're try to make progress on a sticky project, or just trying to get some words on the page, this workshop is for you: come write with us!

The next Art & Flash is July 21st. This month’s featured artist is on a mission to make fine art more inclusive. She makes bright, unapologetic work that shares the kind of real-life stories not often seen in art galleries. www.tickettailor.com/events/anika... #generativewritingworkshop #ekphrastic

Sign up for Sarah’s workshop! Fun, writing, prizes?

Hey friends. I’m going to send a newsletter tomorrow with a bunch of reading recs & a lot of feels. If you want to receive it, you can sign up on my website contact page. I only send a few a year so it’s not a big commitment for your inbox. Thank you! 📥 www.maureenlangloss.com/contact/

Time to bring back the summoning circle for writers! 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 That email 🕯 or acceptance 🕯 you've been 🕯 waiting for 🕯 🕯 🕯️

Joanna's recent piece on the short story form @literaryhub.bsky.social is great! And you can read her gorgeous short stories, which we published in 2015, here: www.nyrb.com/products/ver...

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These are bad days. If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Since I offered some free query edits recently, I figured I should take a moment and talk about what I suggest and why! "I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."

Day 14 @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge THE BIG FINALE!!! Wrapping up the challenge at @nffr.bsky.social with Elisabeth Ingram Wallace. I love this deliciously dark story written in fragments & how perfectly the form suits the subject matter. newflashfiction.com/special-feat...

Ah, so the day has arrived when we need to bring this chestnut over from ye olde Twitter archives. PLEASE shop small/local/direct whenever you can!!!

Pun intended.