Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to work with the amazing @saralippmann.bsky.social!!! She is a terrific author and amazing teacher as well!!!

Soon, we’ll bring you new flash from @joannavtheiss.bsky.social, but for now Stop what you’re doing and read her “Holy Mother” @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/holy-mother/

Please join us for this exceptional and unique @bendinggenres.bsky.social online weekend workshop, January 19- 21 with Dominique Christina! Don't miss this terrific opportunity to delve into unknown waters, write fabulous work! #flashfiction #author #CNF #poetry #workshop #weekendworkshop #online

Honored to have my poem “Rising” published today in First of the Month: A Website of the Radical Imagination. Written during an online weekend workshop with @bendinggenres.bsky.social and @rgvaughan.bsky.social. www.firstofthemonth.org/rising/?fbcl... #WritingCommunity #poetry

A doozy of a reported opinion piece by @crampell.bsky.social: when a childcare in WI lost its (modest!) government funding, the effects cascaded to working parents and then THEIR employers www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

My kid is learning how to read and now she keeps saying “Get Bent” 🤣 @bendinggenres.bsky.social

My short story collection, The Disappeared, has been out in the world 6 months as of today, and I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who bought a copy or took the time read it, or talk to me about it, or write to me about it. I’m very grateful for the kindness and support.

i don't know how i've never seen this before but i just scared the fucking shit out of myself on my walk

New 2024 @bendinggenres.bsky.social Retreats dates are live at our website: www.bendinggenres.com!!! Come and play!

Join Meg Tuite and me, for one of our 2024 @bendinggenres.bsky.social Retreats!!! bendinggenres.com/retreats/! Write, relax, hike, laugh, the retreats are generative, time to write, write, write!!! @lisaalletson.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @alkratz.bsky.social

Cedar Valley, Wisconsin? Synergia Ranch, New Mexico? Both locations await you and your creative pen/pads. Which will it be?!!!

Thrilled to have a micro up at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. I hope you can take a minute to read/listen to it. I wrote Apocalypse at a @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat, inspired by an abstract art card from the deck "Prose Scintilla" (Michael Todd Cohen). I interpreted the image as a mermaid.

Such an original piece from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social : "The complex phobias knew they were superior. They conquered adults, not mere children. They were difficult to treat. They fucked up big chunks of people’s lives" #FlashFiction

Always love a "what if" piece - this #FlashFiction from Kip Knott in @bendinggenres.bsky.social imagines Van Gogh's life in such a thought-provoking way:

Here's some more Jeremy Brett striking poses as Dracula in the 1970s Broadway production.

Do you have excellent flash fiction, poetry, or non-fiction that's under 500 words and looking for a home? This is your friendly reminder that CR is always open to submissions for our online miCRo series. Our submission guidelines: buff.ly/46Q2OFY

Bending Genres Issue 35, Sept/Oct, is LIVE today! Exciting hybrid poems, CNF, and flash, truly an achievement due to our fantastic editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these amazing writers! To those who submitted and are not in this issue, please try again!… www.bendinggenres.com

Two richly atmospheric micros from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social "Night sea is wild women, waves howling their grief, swelling in the privacy of blood. Blood salt sea salt desire salt." #flashfiction

"...Billy got an apartment on the south side of town with a few other remember-this-things. A Furby ran Billy a bath. A Tamagotchi dropped Billy in the tub." @willmusgrove.bsky.social | @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/big-mouth-bi...

this might be my favorite

@bendinggenres.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and @wigleaf.bsky.social are here.

New very true story today up at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Special thanks to the @bendinggenres.bsky.social roundtable crew where it originated. #flash #author

"She should have known, of course. A man who needs that much heat? A man with that kind of appetite? A man who once ate an entire party pack, 12 tacos, and then picked her up and laid her on the hood of this truck…" @writesloud.bsky.social | @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/diablo/

Is there anything better than meeting, in-person, writers you've long admired? I love this sunset moment with @rgvaughan.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social Kristen Henderson, Kathryn Silver-Hajo at the @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat. Unforgettable week.

Writing in the desert at sunrise with a bunny for company. This is heaven. @bendinggenres.bsky.social

every time i see this lady's headstone i go bananas again

"I didn’t want to go to the thing but he wanted me to go to the thing." Jennifer Wortman is here @wrefinnej.bsky.social Just in time for you to read her new #flash "Among Many Things" in @bendinggenres.bsky.social https://bendinggenres.com/among-many-things/

"Some days can’t wait to write, but then the page. I have no interest in that sort of book. You have to say more and think less. Slamming of doors." - Wow to this poem, "After the Rain" by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social at @bendinggenres.bsky.social #poetry https://bendinggenres.com/after-the-rain/

"Her nictitating membranes, third eyelids, fascinated Tara how they swiped her eyes the way wipers wash across a car’s windshield." Love this! @kimsrogers.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social https://bendinggenres.com/vestiges/

"Back then, it never got old. Back then, nothing got old. That’s why we call it back then." Love the way this surreal story from @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social holds a mirror up to the world: https://bendinggenres.com/big-mouth-billy-bass/ #FlashFiction #ExtendedMetaphor

So many great stories, essays, and poems in this new issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. Congrats writers and editors!

Bending Genres July/ August, issue 34, is LIVE! Exciting hybrid CNF, poems, and flash, truly an achievement due to our exceptional editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these talented writers! To those who submitted and are not in this issue, please try again! DON'T GIVE UP!!!

"...as if it were a better kind of cold, that it was better then when time was, so they’re really talking about time, about what a time it was (it was)..." Our Pat Foran in @bendinggenres.bsky.social https://bendinggenres.com/this/

ICYMI: We launched GET BENT anthology, in March, 2023. This includes hybrid writing from so many talented writers!!!https://www.amazon.com/Get-Bent-Robert-Vaughan/dp/1945028483/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32GWPYV9OZCTV&keywords=Get+Bent+Anthology&qid=1690468372&sprefix=get+bent+anthology%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1

Don't miss this great opportunity to laugh your ass off, and write some terrific new shit! Jonathan Cardew is back for a fourth time, and he is hilarious. Who doesn't want to laugh more these days?