I'm suspicious of those who don't aim to haunt a bookshop or a library. If the afterlife isn't the point you tackle the eternal 'to be read' pile I'm not sure we can ever call ourselves friends. If I am not allowed to read as a ghost there will be much trouble. – #DAKilroy #Books

This! From the lovelies at @smokelong.bsky.social. Happy FlashGiving. ⚡❤️

We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

Okay…*deep breath and sorry for awkward promotion things….*, my new flash fiction chapbook ‘Light Chemical Sea’ is coming Fall 2026 with Bull City Press. ✨⚗️🌊 Sign up for a one time email notification that will let you know when the book is released! forms.gle/yJPmMGThEiDW...

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga... @ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

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.

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 🕯 🕯 🕯️