A joy to start the year seeing one of the very first poems toward my new project about faith(lessness) and the divine. Thank you, Allison Blevins, for believing in my work again and Jill Khoury for again giving my work a home at @rogueagent.bsky.social: www.rogueagentjournal.com/tlau

@flightlit.bsky.social is awesome! Thanks so much!

The Flight 2 fiction selection is a darkly funny comedy from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social that made both our editors scramble to accept. Read “Polecatz” here: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...

If you write from one of our prompts, we want to see it! Send your piece to our press email (on our website) with “departures” in the subject line and we’ll respond within 30 days

Departure 1 is inspired by the @seanennis.bsky.social story "Its Powerful Parking Lot," published in Flight 1 flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between. To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd Mark the time by writing with us!

Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between. To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd Mark the time by writing with us!

The Flight 2 poetry selection comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social who weaves highway hypnosis in his poem “sillage” flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

The creative nonfiction selection for Flight 2 comes from @beansbaker5.bsky.social teaching us how to love a team that always lets you down flight-literary.ghost.io/ben-shahon-c...

The Brewer’s Choice selection for Flight 2 comes from @carmalynnpark.bsky.social who casts a spell on all of us flight-literary.ghost.io/carma-lynn-p...

It’s the week before Christmas, all your bosses are on PTO, everything has been pushed back to January… …what’s to stop you from reading Flight 2 at your desk? flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/

@flightlit.bsky.social nominated my poem for a Pushcart and I'm all 😭 over here! flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...

So honored and grateful for this nomination! Thank you Frances and Will. @flightlit.bsky.social

Congrats to all these amazing nominees!👏🏼👇🏼

Thanks to @ketchiklein.bsky.social and @fklein907.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Polecatz" for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social! Nice company here with @seanennis.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!

"“Plywood ain’t gonna hold up like a thousand guns and a million rounds. We could eat jerky until our hearts exploded,” Gino said." Great read @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...

Pushcart nominations thread! This year we are psyched to nominate three prose pieces from Flights 1-2:

And then the new new yesterday from @flightlit.bsky.social: flight-literary.ghost.io/ben-shahon-c...

In line at the post office with our first ever round of Pushcart Nominations!

Really stoked to have a poem in the 2nd issue of @flightlit.bsky.social ! It’s such a cool journal run by excellent folks! Please check it out if you have a second. https://flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-poetry/

"They’ve become the guy still drunk at the bar at 3:00 a.m. bragging about beating the crosstown rival in the state championship back in high school." @beansbaker5.bsky.social on bad teams in his essay "I Need a Sign" in Flight 2 flight-literary.ghost.io/ben-shahon-c...

"press the ice pick to your cheek for a moment, then toss over your left shoulder" Let "Recipe for a Spell: to Heal a Migraine" by @carmalynnpark.bsky.social enchant you in Flight 2 flight-literary.ghost.io/carma-lynn-p...

"The stench/seeps through the city,/all the way to the river" "Sillage" from @jackbedell.bsky.social asking us to consider what we would rather ignore, in Flight 2 flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

"Men, from some group I couldn’t identify, stormed past us, firing automatics. One of them yelled, “Freedom!” and all three of us laughed out loud." Start your week with @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social and "Polecatz" in Flight 2 flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...

Thanks to @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for publishing my apocalypse story in their new issue!

went to college and they tried to “cancel” me because I “can’t read”

“‘We’d need to propagate,’ I said. ‘Don’t pretend we wouldn’t.’” @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...

“… Morning / fog, chemical haze, interstate, / and cars stacked on top / each other, as oblivious to it all, / to what part of it is already / inside us, as can be.” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

thought i had sent poetry to @flightlit.bsky.social and went through my email to find it and it turns out i only did it in a dream. now to manifest my dreams. check out @fklein907.bsky.social's cool new lit mag! also buy her book or chapbook, perhaps even both!

Flight 2 has landed! Spend your Sunday drinking in new work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social @carmalynnpark.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2-2/ And the issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/

Fantastic issue! The @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social story is brutal, the way it snuck up on me—and I have to vote for the hardware superstore…(or maybe a Five Guys—I don’t plan to stick around for long in an apocalypse, so I’d like to go out surrounded by French fries and milkshakes).

We’re excited to share this poem with everyone in Flight 3! We still need fiction and pieces for our Brewer’s Choice category—submit today! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

@ketchiklein.bsky.social and I are so excited about the pieces selected for Flight 2! Come enjoy some apocalypses with us this Sunday!

@ketchiklein.bsky.social guided me through from a pretty messy first draft to the version you see here! Super excited that it's out to read!

Really excited to have a poem up at @flightlit.bsky.social today!

Flight 2 has landed! Spend your Sunday drinking in new work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social @carmalynnpark.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2-2/ And the issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/

Big thanks to @flightlit.bsky.social for nominating my piece, “Its Powerful Parking Lot” for Best Microfiction 2026. Shoutout to The Old Rats Motorcycle Gang. flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

Congratulations to @seanennis.bsky.social You can read his killer story here: flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

Congratulations to @seanennis.bsky.social You can read his killer story here: flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

If you're thinking about ending the year by sending out some submissions, consider us! We're free to submit to, and all submissions are read by both editors. Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

new Todd Dillard on HAD always a treat of a day! read the poem Todd said about, "I wanted the poem to look a little barfy, so the odd indent as the lines lengthen are fine IMO" "It's all coming up now, milkweed and mango, grandmothers in kitchens..." https://www.havehashad.com/mbsra

We've been a little quiet here, but it's because we've been working hard getting ready for Flight 2! On November 30th, we'll have four incredible new works of literature for you to sample. Until then, tide yourself over by rereading the work from Flight 1!

Lot's wife:

You heard it here! Duotrope says we’re speedy!

Acceptances for Flight 2 have now officially been sent! Our (very) small team is in the process of sending other responses as we speak. If you haven't heard from us yet, it's because you made it to our "serious consideration" folder, and we're still considering your work for Issue 3.

Rereading is the real joy, to the extent that if it was worth reading once it's worth reading 20 times

Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:

After the snarky response about pronouns I’m super tempted to send the response as: “Thank I for sending My work to Flight Literary”

Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:

This is everything I mean when I talk about the breathless one paragraph flash. Form, in this case, perfectly serves content. That rush of despair / anxiety / bewilderment that is life today by @saralippmann.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...