Attention short fiction writers 🚨 Do you know about dlshirey.com/the-short-list? If you have fiction under 2500 words and are ready to submit to publishers, this is a GREAT resource!

We have two open submission calls right now, and we’re a paying market! Find the details here: hollowoakpress.com/submissions/

New publisher listing for: Cozy Fantasy Anthology @hollowoakpress.bsky.social (Fiction; Fantasy; pays). #WritingCommunity

Witches? ✅ Curses? ✅ A short spooky-season read? ✅ A little boy tried to buy a curse from a witch and doesn’t exactly get what he expected. What a Toad Buys You is now available and free to read! hollowoakpress.com/what-a-toad-...

Summer isn’t my favorite season, but it’s pretty. I’ll give it that

She’s really good at hide and seek

Our August event schedule! Tomorrow, our EIC Amanda will be in Meadville, PA at Tattered Corners. If you’re local, we hope to see you there!

Just three weeks until my new book comes out. I'm not panicking at all. WHO SAID I WAS PANICKING. How can I panic when I have this awesome cover. Behold! #writing #selfpublishing #cover thank you to my person @aspicawrites.bsky.social for the help

Preorders are now open for Short(b)Reads! This food+fiction anthology brings each story to life with a companion recipe, so you can make the fictional food a reality! Short(b)Reads will be available to ship on September 12th. Reserve your copy today! hollowoakpress.com/product/shor...

I hope no one’s tired of dog photos yet

My new view when walking the dogs is two pairs of fluffy pantaloons. Bonus photo of the new girl being extra clingy outside

If you need a quick break, we’ve got a flash fiction story for you! Free to read on our website in our blog’s new Acorns feature, The Orange Tree is quick, whimsical read with a fairy tale feel. I hope you like it as much as I do!

A tale of two sisters: we both took photos of a monarch caterpillar practically at the same time from the same angle but my sister (the first photo) is a little bit of a better photographer than I am 😂😂

We welcomed a new girl into our pack this week! Meet Calliope, or Callie for short 🧡

Taking Submissions: Space and Time July 2025 Window horrortree.com/taking-submi... Submission Window: July 15th - 31st, 2025 Payment: Fiction: 1 cent per word, Poetry: $5 per poem Theme: Stories with speculative elements #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Our latest issue is out now! Congratulations to our Humour Me Gold competition winners! humourmemag.co.uk/issue-26/

Is there anyone I have less in common with than the version of me from 2009 who was in charge of writing my Facebook statuses

Our free-to-read flash fiction feature launched with this in-house piece. Submissions have been rolling in! If you write flash, or know someone who does, check out our submission guidelines on our website!

A message from our team:

Our first newsletter launches later today! Sign up if you want news and project updates delivered directly to you! I promise we won’t spam you 🧡📚

Where are my flash fiction friends? 👀

My kid found two snake sheds within a week of each other and now he is hell-bent on using them as currency, so I spend my days trying to do a USD to snakeskin conversion to try to price out all the items he asks me about Being a parent is wild sometimes

Turns out the pot of gold is just my Jeep

Just gotta chug this home coffee real quick before driving to a coffeeshop to have outside coffee with a friend

I need all loss prevention workers in box stores to understand that when I’m looking shifty af, I’m not stealing stuff, I’m avoiding someone I don’t want to talk to

Baffling Magazine is open for submissions of queer speculative science fiction and fantasy until June 15th for an upcoming issue on the theme Mecha vs. Kaiju. (Unthemed submissions are also welcome!) For more info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

Sneaking in a little reading on a long weekend away

With remembrance and gratitude, we’ve taken the long weekend off to go in search of beauty and mystery. We’ll be back to the grind on Tuesday ✌🏼🎨📚

In a room where words come to life, a restless outsider & her estranged friends gather to tell one final round of stories, & face the tragedy that tore them apart. The Wordsmiths is part novel, part short fiction anthology and is available wherever books are sold online!

If you live in PA like me, get out there and vote! We’re clutching onto our democracy and local and state elections are vital (Also, any guesses what I drive? 😅)

The team at Hollow Oak Press is busy cooking up a new anthology! Coming this fall: Short(b)Reads. This speculative anthology features mouth-watering foods in every tale. We’ve paired the stories with chefs, bakers, & cooks whose recipes for those foods will accompany each story. Read it and eat!

Our submission window for our writing competition 'Humour Me Gold' has been extended until June 14th. See our website for details! @aspicawrites.bsky.social

We’re proud to be represented on the shelves at Sparrow Books!

And the latte was delicious!

Happy girl alert ☺️

Happy Mother’s Day! My son gave my flowers and we’re spending the day together. I hope all of you moms and mothering types have a lovely day, in whatever way makes you the happiest 💜💐

Happy #mothersday to all the hardworking moms out there! We hope you get some quiet time with a good book today 💜

Are there actually people who impulse buy an Hermes bag at the airport? Seems like those stores can’t be moving a lot of merchandise

I may be back in the states again but I’ve had a crumpet for breakfast and a chocolate digestive with my coffee Together in spirit and in breakfast, right @therealsjrichards1.bsky.social? ❤️

🚨 Sub call alert 🚨 This organization is local to me, and they’re bringing back their journal. Details at the link below! www.bridgeliteraryartscenter.org/journal.html

Overall the world sucks rn but last night I went to a cool open mic and had a great convo about ghost stories with the bar owner, and John Ritter’s son is doing a series of interpretive dances on TikTok to the Matlock theme song. Happiness can still be found

I hope Ron Swanson makes it through all 94 of his meetings today

Anyway here’s the selfie. How’d I do? 😅

Me to me, trying to take a selfie: do you know how to make your eyes kind?

I’ve just started season 2 of Severance but all of the sudden my TikTok feed is filled with videos about the end of the season and NO STOP I’m going to accidentally see something 😭

Snack o’clock

Haven't had a chance to read the latest issue of @humourmemag.bsky.social yet? Then head on over to our website now! Laughs guaranteed! @aspicawrites.bsky.social

Birdbrained daydreamer, reporting for duty

Welcome to the flock, Berry 🩵💙

I love this message from lunarbaboon 💙