finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less

Please help us celebrate the Long List for the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I wrote about the novel writing process and the best books to take on vacation, check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/zoebflav...

LAST CALL to read our JANUARY ISSUE before it hits the archive!! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR 💖 So much love to our contributors 💖: WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

"What I wanted was to be in love. For all this initial calculus to be dissolved by commitment and mutual aspiration. A tapestry with all its colors blended." Read the fantastic INNER CHILD WORK by @zoebflavin.bsky.social from our JANUARY ISSUE while you still can: https://buff.ly/42h1b58

"That’s when I learned that having an old dad who died when he was in high school was one of Dan’s core wounds. Knowing that, I felt closer to him." Find @zoebflavin.bsky.social explicitly poignant INNER CHILD WORK in our JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/42h1b58

Also shoutout to @splitlipthemag.bsky.social fiction editors for such thoughtful edits. 🫶🏻

My first publication!!! A short story out with Split Lip today @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0125...

Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

yesterday marked one year since I and several others were laid off by yahoo sports, in one of the most callous ways possible: en masse, via zoom, by a total stranger who conveyed not a drop of empathy for the scary situation we were all being thrown into with zero warning

Submitting to a writing workshop, everybody pray

I love chocolate cake so much like I think about her all the time

Having a girlfriend rly brings out the trad wife in me

How much dairy is too much dairy? Asking for a friend

I wrote about why we need fiction right now. Let me know what you think? open.substack.com/pub/zoebflav...

I rly hate the feeling of taking the subway in a winter coat. Is there any way to remedy this??

National book award fiction finalists reading last night. Unreal!!!

Love my new writing mug from stereophonic

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

We're only halfway through Native American Heritage Month, so there's still plenty of time for you to read one of our many titles by and about indigenous people, including @sgj.bsky.social, @morgantalty.bsky.social, Joy Harjo, and Ned Blackhawk. Not that you shouldn't be doing that every month.

studying at 0:35am on a work night

You know what would make great lunch-break reading? Split Lip's brand new NOVEMBER ISSUE! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/FsRTjvt

Another starter pack, this time for anyone in the lit mag submission space. 🤗 #WritingCommunity bsky.app/starter-pack...

Hey look, a starter pack of 2025 debut novelists! There are so many amazing books hitting shelves next year. Check it out, #writingcommunity! go.bsky.app/H13XQTN

We on this again.

Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity