The sky is raining popcorn! The carpet’s crying, the parrot won’t speak. Someone must have forgotten to traduce Josef K. This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

It wasn't easy, but here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2026!

Starting our shortlist, now, for nominations for Best of the Net 2026. As ws always say, it's so hard to choose 6 poems & 2 stories from so many great works out of 5 huge issues, but we're doing it. (We won't "do it live.") Stay tuned and we'll give our nominations soon!

Thanks so much for Gone Lawn for including my two micros in the new issue! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

“The boy groans as layers of underworld break open like waves (mega mega white thing)” Whew!! Read this wild crazy piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! I promise you won’t know what’s going to happen next!

Such exquisite detail in these micros from @luannecastle.bsky.social 🥹 in the new issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social ‘…you sat in that front row seat where nobody else wanted to sit and didn’t look around so everybody could stare at you until lunch…’ gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

@cake-girl.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social with this heartbreaking piece “When someone at the grocery store asks if the toddler clinging to you is your child, smile and say just borrowing them for the weekend…” gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

So happy my little flash has found a home in @gonelawn.bsky.social 💗 this one was drafted in the Go With The Flow workshop taught by @mattkendrick.bsky.social (such a skilled & generous teacher!) gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

"When the moon rose full, a Goblin Prince prowled through the evergreen shadows, summoned by the ailing moss. He’d make a trade with the weeping boy. A toe for a toe, a spell to reach the forest’s edge" Wonderfully odd fairy-tale micro from @lkardos.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social

For the timezones - my collab piece w @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social featuring both Underworlds (Hellenic and Techno) 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Wow! Loved this Sumitra and Kathryn. ❤️ Brilliant collaboration! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social

Lovely to read through the newest issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social today. Great to celebrate the writers, but we often forget the hard work of the editors in putting it together behind the scenes. @amygcb.bsky.social & @owenwyke.bsky.social are two of the best. #FlashFictionFamily

The editors at @gonelawn.bsky.social were absolutely wonderful to work with 💛 Thanks so much for taking such care of our wild piece @amygcb.bsky.social & @owenwyke.bsky.social

Bookmarked to read later.

Chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social merging Persephone and Born Slippy! Hope you enjoy! “And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind” gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

new lonely little micro out in the latest @gonelawn.bsky.social. give it a read here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

The MINUTE I’m finished all my writing tasks today, I‘m diving in! (I see some familiar names in here. 🥰)

Oh my Gone!!! I am so excited to have a short story in this issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social! It’s summery, it’s spooky — September is basically the perfect time to read it, if you ask me. 🌕✨

Eager to dig in! Gone Lawn always has stories that surprise me 💥

Never mind those pesky clouds, look there! You can see the corn moon all glowy behind them. The corn moon is here for you! Love the corn moon, it loves you. Late summer is beautiful, is it not? Gone Lawn 61, here you go! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

That said, new issue goes up in 2 days, we're excited as always. 15 years we've been at this! The first few were hard and that seems typical. We got through them via friends. You'll like it, we promise. #61, 7 September.

We're always looking for options, because we run thin. We will not: 1 charge submitters fees 2 promise a criique that might disapppoint a submitter 3 beg like Duotrope before they [predictably] went pay. That said, ð donation button is there, if you're able & willing to give us a little something.

An old post but worthy of reading the comments at least?

It's of course absolutley förbjuden for us to reveal anything related to the upcoming issue. You will need to wait until 7 September to see who's in it. And what a field! You'll gasp not a bit way through it! Really, you'll love it, and that cover art! Oh, satisfaction! You'll see, you'll see.

Three days are your last chance to review the strawberry moon issue before you're bedazzled by the upcoming corn moon issue. Stellar from beginning to end, check it out! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Submissions are open, but say you're in detention. Forget why you're there, we know what you've done. The point is you're breaking out. You've a gem to submit to Gone Lawn and the time is now. Do it! We're waiting just for you. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Congrats to Kathleen Frank, for her painting, “Frank along the Cumbres and Toltec” (GL 50) making Best of the Net! We're happy as hummingbirds for her! bestofthenetanthology.com

Imagine we have boats. They aren't fancy, just a bunch of coracles. Their bellies can hold many works. Yet, time passes, and kids come by, so many kids, all saying, Please, let us have your coracles to go fishing? We can't say no! Submissions closed until 1 Sept, #61 arrives 7 Sept! Thanks, all!

#61 is nearly filled, and we'll be closing for submissions at the end of July. If you've a stellar work that you think we'll flip our asterisms over, be sure to send it to us soon. Submissions will reopen on 1 Sept. (or thereabout), then the corn moon will make your sky happy for you on 7 Sept.

Ah, them.

A late thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social‬ for their Archive challenge, that was a blessing not just for us but to others who have a long archive that isn't usually visited, especially not in depth. To get people to read our old publications just thrilled us. There's so much in there we're proud of.

George Retes’s family says he was not taking part in the protest, he was just trying to reverse his car to leave the area as tensions rose. That’s when federal agents attacked him. HE IS A US CITIZEN AND DISABLED VETERAN. Fascist thugs. Where is Congress?! #AbolishICE.

These are bad days. If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

More dreadful changes in Submittable. Do they have any idea what they're doing? I struggle to think of one good change they've made in the past ten years that hasn't been stupid.

Congrats to the six authors who trusted their work to us and found it on the @wigleaf.bsky.social‬ 2025 longlist! Wigleaf's top 50 and longlist are here: wigleaf.com

Happy summer solstice, everyone!

We're being forced against our code of practice, which is: Accept every work we love. We're finding more and more every year that we should change our practice to the common one of waiting, and we resist, we want to take everything we love. Stay tuned to see how we crumble into craziness.

Trump’s Tax Scam would mean tax giveaways for billionaires and a huge increase to ICE’s budget. Keep up the pressure on your Republican senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt... Or you can help us connect voters in key states with their GOP senators: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

At this point if you haven't gotten a decline or an acceptance before May 26 then you're on the Maybe list. We've only ourselves to blame for letting our pile grow big but we're working in it . . . though it might take a while. Thanks to all who submit! And a reminder: We accept all lengths!

I’m thrilled to have a story included in this gorgeous Strawberry Moon issue of Gone Lawn. Gratitude to the editors for choosing it. Please take a moment to see the good work being done by all involved.

'To see him naked here, on the floor of the kitchen, almost makes my heart stop.' Mine too. And those limes 💚. Such poignancy and tenderness in this piece from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social

I had a story come out with @gonelawn.bsky.social! Is it a story? Is it a poem? Is it a scream into the void about every parent's worst fear? Is a meditation on the state of the country? Is it all of the above? Anyway, enjoy. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

I have a story in the delicious “Strawberry Moon” issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social! A thousand thank-you’s to @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social! “The Red Planet” came to life in @kathyfish.bsky.social’s inspirational fragmented/mosaic flash workshop. 💃💃💃 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

It's a ceritficate issue. It expired, apparently. So . . . you are free to plow ahead and view the issue, it won't hurt you. Other than that we'll have to wait to get the issue(s)es fixed.

Whole lot of stuff today. Gone Lawn has no issues but you and we are all being told it has issues . . . so . . . that makes a lot of issue. Trying to resolve the issue(s). In the meantime . . . oh, damn it.

You might be looking up at those high asterisms tonight & wondering, Where is that old Moon? Where is my good estival usher? Not a sliver do I see! It might look shy now but in just a fortnight it will be fat & so will Gone Lawn 60, our new issue! Check out GL 59 while it's still the latest thing!

Fiction writers and poets, who are musical artists who have influenced your writing?

Congrats to @belindarowe.bsky.social & @@shaunaexplores.bsky.social‬ for their stories, “Brittle Bones” and “Whale Fall,” respectively, getting into Best Small Fictions! gonelawn.net/journal/issu... gonelawn.net/journal/issu... altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Also, it's better to be interesting and unsuccessful than it is to be boring and proper. One we'll think about more than the other.