Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social

If you're in our area, NF fiction editor @bookbent.bsky.social will be coming to town next week for an event.

Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!

This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Acts of Service" by @kimhartweldin.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/acts...

Submissions are open until July 20 for guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social to select some stories for fall.

From June 21 until July 20, @nicholas-claro.bsky.social‬ will be selecting some stories for us to publish in fall. We look forward to reading what he discovers! Guidelines will be visible here when submissions open on Saturday:

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals and help readers find awesome books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Me? I have a creepy tale about friendship, vengeance, old gods, and monsters from the deep. “Stunningly visceral.” — NYT www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

This was my first ever flash CNF piece (!), and I was really, really hoping you all would pick it up at Hobart. I remember trying to nail the voice here. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, my dude!

Hey hi hello, we’re happy to be here with y’all! We’re ready to keep highlighting the diversity of our region and fighting for a better South.

Exciting news over here today!!!

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

"This is the netherworld of the uncanny, and I think it’s definitive of the moment we’re living in now, where the past both promises and threatens to return, while the future always seems just out of reach, or else it seems like it’s already arrived and somehow we’ve missed it."

a perfect little gut punch of beauty and ache today from Troy James Weaver "She tossed her coat over the lamp, staining the room black, and fell to the floor. She patted her small dog, who found her there, while her voicemails played." https://www.havehashad.com/kgmx0

Read the latest short story published in Write or Die Magazine! This piece by Cerissa DiValentino is an absolute stunner. writeordiemag.com/fiction/safe...