Happy Saturday! Send us writing that feels like a kitten in a hotdog costume! Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

one of my two poems published in @havehashad.com earlier this week

Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!

Lots of litmags had free submission windows for the month that have already closed, but not Flight! We’re free to submit to, and your submission will be read and discussed by both editors Send us something!

The Cobra and The Key, Sam Shelstad's satire of writers and writing, is readaloud funny. the call is coming from inside the house and we're, all of us, screwed. app.thestorygraph.com/books/58af20...

if I continue scrolling for just a few more minutes I will reach the end + enlightenment & be free

Today’s writing assignment:

Please write a poem using one of these titles and send it to Flight

Have a piece you're considering sending, but not sure it will be a good fit? Send us a DM with a quick pitch, and we'll let you know if it sounds up our alley.

Happy Monday! Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight! Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction. Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

Every editorial conversation devolves quickly into small town gossip

We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.

Saturday writing prompt! 1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see 2. Turn to page 140 3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece

The Flight editorial team is SUPPOSED to be having a meeting right now, and instead we've been talking about season 2 of Peacemaker for 20 minutes.

Saturday writing prompt! 1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see 2. Turn to page 140 3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece

It's 7 am (Alaska Time) on a Thursday...do you know where your submission to Flight: A Literary Sampler is? (If you haven't sent it yet, we're still open for all categories! Send us your work! We're always free to submit)

"the hour floodwaters will return with biblical accuracy and destroy your bedrock, rot home from beneath your feet." I love this Golden Shovel poem by Matthew E. Henry in the terrific new lit mag @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...

Finally got my copy of this beauty in the mail, so we read "Coconut Oil" by @ritamookerjee.bsky.social to begin No Write Time tonight!

"I was fascinated by how Meg moved her body. A kind of authority combined with playfulness that I lacked." Contributor @claudiamonpere.bsky.social published an essay in @flightlit.bsky.social, and it's the perfect back-to-school read: buff.ly/uT3xegF

We're on chillsubs! You can track your submissions to Flight, share our info with your writer friends, and see when we're open!

Happy Sunday! Today we want to highlight our Brewer's Choice submission category. We're hoping to feature a different genre of art or writing each month, so this is the place to submit your work that doesn't really "fit" in regular categories like fiction or poetry.

We LOVE poetry on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🥰 Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social has a Kardashian one in @flightlit.bsky.social. Will they reach enlightenment? Find out: buff.ly/NsKlGL3

Caption this:

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

“Is It An Edgy, Boundary Pushing Story, Or Is It Just Written In Second Person? A Craft Lecture”

I have a story in the latest issue of @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social. Thanks so much to editors Lisa Trudeau &Laurie Rosenblatt! I'm happy to see writer friends included in the issue: Francine Witte, Mikki Aronoff, Andrew Bertaina, Elena Zhang, and more! leonliteraryreview.com/issue-32-che...

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

Meg’s walk-in closet was lined with Styrofoam heads, each holding a blonde wig. Long, golden blonde hair in ocean waves; ash blonde pixie; honey blonde bob; bouncy strawberry blonde curls. @claudiamonpere.bsky.social your students were lucky to have you. @flightlit.bsky.social

We spy 👀 Flight: a Literary Sampler on duotrope! We’re open for submissions, and can’t wait to read your work! Read our guidelines: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

We spy 👀 Flight: a Literary Sampler on duotrope! We’re open for submissions, and can’t wait to read your work! Read our guidelines: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

“My earnestness embarrassed me.” “Decades later, the chronology is a bit of a jumble. But not the pain I felt.” @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...

Honored to be a part of the first issue of @flightlit.bsky.social. Big thanks for running my piece, “It’s Powerful Parking Lot”! flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

Up early reading submissions with my favorite assistant editor—Flight 2 is open for submissions in all genres!

"I was shocked. Too young to understand the contradictions stitched into all humans." A great profile of being purposeful but lost by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social

Flight 2 is open for submissions! We’ve already received a flood of poetry, but please send us your best (of every/any/no genre) Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

Friends! Enemies! Acquaintances! Flight 1 is now live! Read our inaugural issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io

Thrilled to be in the inaugural issue of the wonderful @flightlit.bsky.social. Grab a beer and enjoy! Thank you, Frances and Will.

Check out @claudiamonpere.bsky.social’s latest in @flightlit.bsky.social!

“You are Lady Godiva. You are wearing chaps. You made a phenomenon of shaking salads” Flight 1 comes in for a landing with our Brewer’s Choice category: @ritamookerjee.bsky.social blew us away with this hybrid piece made up of lines from the Kardashians Read: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

“You weren’t supposed to be awake.” 😬 A flash fiction take on creation by @onewheeloneil.bsky.social in @scifansat.bsky.social #EpistemicLitFamily

"All I remember is...one lesson that involved us walking around blindfolded, our feet tied to blocks of wood" @claudiamonpere.bsky.social takes us to school, and the painfully awkward first year teaching, in her essay "When I Knew Nothing" Read it here! flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

I'm honored to have my poem “…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" (a golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”) published in the inaugural issue of @flightlit.bsky.social. flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...

"nothing but the reminder of how "a" tragedy is not "the" tragedy" Come for the powerhouse language, stay for the disaster with "...it is not the stones/but the child's mound" by @mehpoeting.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

This story really captures a place and mood beautifully! @seanennis.bsky.social

"There are places in Bramble, USA where you can best tune into the wavelength of human sadness and sorrow" Visit "Its Powerful Parking Lot," flash fiction by @seanennis.bsky.social in Flight 1 flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

Friends! Enemies! Acquaintances! Flight 1 is now live! Read our inaugural issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io

Some people are born with the soul of a tortured artist

Only 12 hours until Flight 1 lands and submissions open!

Journals that tell you you're not allowed to query:

Assistant Editor Tiny Elvis is here to warn you about the dangers of reading near the bath…sometimes you fall in