Really looking forward to teaching my world-building workshop next month: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho... In the session, we're going to briefly reflect on titles / opening lines from pieces by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @beekaekae.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @melostrom.bsky.social

You should write your book now so you can write it without having to write it for the rest of your life after that

For those scoring at home, I wrote this micro in Beth’s writer boot camp class at the Writer’s Center. It’s the best.

Fabulous micro in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social @jpariseye.bsky.social Bravo!

Stunning piece by @debbiefeit.bsky.social Brava!

Thank you to @havehashad.com for giving this piece such a great home. And for my first ☠️.

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

RIP 2025 2025-2025

Spending time with reporter/writer/ friend extraordinaire @jennaschnuer.bsky.social’s stories is time well spent.

Really enjoyed talking to David Herbert about his latest piece for @esquiremag.bsky.social. Hope you do too. And happy whatever you do or don't celebrate.

Always a wonderful feeling to put on my out of office for winter hibernation!!! Spent the afternoon looking ahead to 2026 and I'm excited for: 1) The @welkinprize.bsky.social winners (as tough as picking that will be: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Delighted to be included in the new issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for giving “UnNamed” a good home.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

By USP, I mean "unique selling point." For example, this from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social feels so original in terms of scenario: variantlit.com/the-interview/ As does this by @beekaekae.bsky.social: newflashfiction.com/revision/ And this from Ani Banerjee: swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/baby/

Thank you so much to @fictivedream.bsky.social for giving a good home to my micro “The Jig Is Up or Ever After Hills Like White Elephants"

Our new fiction issue is live! We’re so proud to be showcasing these outstanding authors! leonliteraryreview.com

CALL TO ACTION: Tomorrow, for one day, we will show THEM who holds the power. …rinse & repeat as needed. #economicblackout

A smidge of comic relief. I hope…

Be there!

Please note that we are especially interested in #disability writing and will also put out a special call for this as soon as we can write it up.

The artist, David Cohen is an Asheville-based artist/musician and resident of over forty years. His cartoon work spans various subjects ranging from local issues based in Asheville to more national political events and even to one-off, word-play-oriented jokes. ❤️ Give credit to artists when you can.

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

To help support the communities around L.A. being devastated by wildfires, can you split a donation between the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and United Way of Greater Los Angeles? 100% of your donation will go directly to these organizations: ewar.ren/yyc

I’m sick of living through Wikipedia entries.

Open til the 15th of Jan - send us your words!

Stunner of a micro by a stunning writer. Brava, @cabockwrites.bsky.social! @tangledlockslit.bsky.social #flashfiction

We made it through the longest night of the year. That’s not nothing! More light from now on. ✨

Talk about being in good company! Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social for including Revision (@nffr.bsky.social) on this list. I’m so incredibly honored. And a giant thank you to @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his class where I drafted this piece.

Wonderful to see 2 of our writers - Shaun Levin & Beth Kanter - featured in the #Mondettes annual roundup by @mattkendrick.bsky.social. Here are their stories: newflashfiction.com/the-end-by-s... newflashfiction.com/revision/ #Writers - don't miss the prompts for each story!

"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”

A very happy The Sound of Music Is On Network Television Week to all who celebrate… medium.com/slackjaw/ite... #thesoundofmusic

Best Microfiction is looking for an intern. Please let us know if someone comes to mind! We're going into the 6th year of our award winning series. www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

HI EVERYBODY! Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce... Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN! ⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form: tally.so/r/mKPJ4A and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are

Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭 Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity

Stunning piece! Brava, @sagreene1.bsky.social

Please read this stunning, skilled, and important piece by my wildly talented and wise friend and student @elissalash.bsky.social Brava! I know we will be holding your published memoir in hand very soon. (And I want to host your book party.)

This story - holy feck! - it just about undid me! Such brilliant craft - it crept up on me like a submarine and then - bang!! Huge congratulations!

Submissions to our anthology on the theme of SEASONS (up to 500 words) and entries to our Micro Fiction Competition (no theme, up to 100 words) are now open. For more details pls click on the link: nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

So happy to be included in the impressive new issue of @nffr.bsky.social - New Flash Fiction Review - and to have my story Revision named a finalist for the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize. Congratulations to the winners and fellow finalists. I loved reading your words. #flash #flashlit #flashfiction

Happy to have my flash fiction piece for @ceasecows.bsky.social included on this list and to be in such good company. Thanks, @turnandwork.com.

Also, I continue to add to my Starter Pack of Independent and Small-Press Publishers. If you've asked to be added and I haven't gotten to you yet, rest assured I will, but feel free to give me a nudge. And encourage your small-press peers to open accounts over here. . .

There is no evidence that arming teachers reduces gun violence in our schools—it’s ineffective and introduces new dangers. We need research-backed, comprehensive solutions that prevent gun violence to keep our schools safe.

Hey friends! Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social is open for 2024 submissions! bestmicrofiction.com?fbclid=IwAR2..., #flashfiction, #writingcommunity

Seeking America’s Future. (Actually poetry, fiction, CNF) for 2025 anthology for the Washington Writers Publishing House). Deadline: December 31. More info at www.washingtonwriters.org #wwphwrites

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

Having received hundreds to thousands of fan mail each week, it's only fitting to honor White with a postage stamp.

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.