This month's #Mondettes picked by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/september-...

My daughter Nora has a story in @smokelong.bsky.social! Read Nora's story, and also her interview (she calls me out for not writing as much as her). So proud of this girl! www.smokelong.com/stories/anim...

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

Thanks to Hema Nataraju, Lakshmi Iyer, and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for including my new story in this fantastic new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social alongside many great pieces! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I updated my website judehiggins.com after 4 years of it languishing ! Now includes details of my books ‘Clearly Defined Clouds’ & ‘The Chemist’s House’ plus info on all my projects — @bathflashaward.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social & Ad Hoc Fiction

Oh, spellbinding storytelling. Loved this piece ❤️@arthurmandal.bsky.social

Open all the doors. Wisdom from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social via Vancouver Flash Fiction! #writinglife #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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...

I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤 Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏 "Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost." electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...

Whoosh, this powerhouse by @chelseastickle.bsky.social "The other women cut out their own tongues before anyone could take them. Some said it was resistance, some said it was submission." Read "A Good Sign" in Hot Flash Literary. hotflashliterary.com/a-good-sign/

Oh this @junegemmell.bsky.social story! Do you have tear ducts? Prepare to use them. Tell everyone at work or wherever you are that it’s just allergies. Prepare yourself for a lovely, relatable, well-drawn visit to a house maybe you know too. templeinacity.com/fiction-june...

hello! we @ hex hope you are well & hope you will consider us for your speculative flash fictions and prose poems! It's such a treat that I get to do this with two people I love and look up to very much, and get to read all of your wonderful submissions. I can't wait to see what you have for us!

"She could see the brown fabric folds of her mother’s dress with delicate white birds on it, each with mouth open and singing to the sky, the real sky birdless and blue beyond." Wow, this extraordinary piece of writing by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social 💙💙💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

Happy birthday to @kathyfish.bsky.social. Feels only right that Kathy should be my #FlashFictionFamily pick for the day. Such a superstar of our community. Every piece is something special. A favourite? Impossible. But today I'm drawn to this stunner: swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/pro...

Feast on RUBY Issue Six featuring delectable and piquant writing by Sudha Balagopal, Allison Field Bell, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Joefel Bolo @tcboudreau.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner & @elinorann.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-... #foodwriting #flashfiction

Read "Lark Song" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth." tinyurl.com/45maxd3c

It's true. My debut short story collection is officially out today. Get a copy or sign up for an event: melissafloresandersonwrites.com

Thrilled to have a micro in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors for giving it a home! leonliteraryreview.com/issue-32-ele...

East Coast midnight (US). ✅ First Monday of the month. ✅ That means it's time for Claudine. 🎉 Welcome to our first issue. Enjoy, humans! www.claudineliterary.net

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...

🔥 CHANDELIER: BLAZING IS LIVE! 🔥

If you can read Spanish, I hope you like Sofón, Issue 1. It includes 17 SFF short stories and poems in Spanish, which I really enjoyed reading, editing, and putting together. Sofón is the third speculative fiction magazine from Mexico that pays its authors. I also did the cover art ^u^

My #FlashFictionFamily pick for today is the wonderful @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social. I love how Gillian is doing these mini reviews of flash collections. Such a lovely thing to do that really spreads the word about all the golddust that is being published by FFers around the world 🤩

💗💗💗 Huge thanks to Gillian for such a thoughtful review of Child Craft! 💗💗💗

Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

"My mother’s hands are coated with darkroom fluid or melted carob, I can’t tell which, but one is caustic and one is healthy and she forces both on me..." @amygcb.bsky.social, on what–and who–color our world

Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt. View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve 📸: Malcolm Glass

"Boy tries again to catch the writer’s attention, whispering in his ear that He would like a puppy. He’d even take a little sister. But the writer is ignoring all calls from the story. An empty glass sits next to him on the desk." by @shiramusicant.bsky.social. milkcandyreview.home.blog

Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including works from ANMLY on this roundup! Read us, read em all!!

Just a reminder for this year's #SealeyChallenge, Sundress offers free downloadable chapbooks on our website! www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps

In May, I made a phone note: swarm of lavender bees. I carried the bees until Kathy Fish's summer immersive when "Lavender Bees, Dilly Dilly" was born 🐝Thank you to the @themerseyreview.bsky.social editors for seeing something in my purple micro fiction haze. www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7/lav...

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

**OPEN FOR BOOKINGS** My Autumn series of workshops includes: Story Shapes (7th Oct 7pm BST OR 11th Oct 9am BST) Emotional Depths (3rd Nov 7pm GMT) Funny Bones (2nd Dec 7pm GMT OR 6th Dec 9am GMT) Pay-what-you-can pricing. Details in thread below: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops

The August 2025 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/5t4xfuh4

A brand new story up today in Bright Flash Literary! A mother-daughter story of memory loss and the powerful triggers of scents. Thanks to @amygcb.bsky.social for the prompt in @kathyfish.bsky.social Flash Extravaganza! brightflash1000.com/2025/08/01/i...

One thing I love about this writing community is how so many people cheer for each other's success! When my friends receive recognition for their work, I want to throw them a party & give them puppies! Might not be enough party hats & puppies to go around, though. Congrats all around, Friends!

Last day for SUBMISSIONS! Fill our inbox with something different, weird, or gripping! We also still need photography. Please RT! inkinthirds.org/submissions/

Hey all, if you're looking for editing and mentoring services, I've compiled this extensive list of recommendations. I can’t personally vouch for all of the writers/editors on this list, but you might find it handy. Also, let me know if you'd like to be included! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

July speculative flash roundup out today!

Really cool to see folks going through this deep dive series on my work that writing excuses did. the links are below if you'd like to join them! (Or read/listen on your own, that's allowed, too.)

Thanks so much to @jimalmo.bsky.social and @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing my piece February, 44. reckonreview.com/february-44-...

Honored to have a new story about diving for golf balls in the latest issue of @funfunfunicular.bsky.social. Make sure to snag yourself a copy! ⛳️

Heads up! My mag has a new issue... Hope you enjoy it 👇 #LitMags #WritingCommunity

This is gloriously weird! Rockstars of flash writing together in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social “If she is not present, he must go and find another one.” @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social

"The mother and father stand, alone and together, above their dead son / The dead son is on the floor, under a blanket that can’t keep him warm." Beautiful, poignant writing from @pdforan.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-ten-wi...

My July Art of Flash newsletter is up for all to read! Hope you enjoy. #flashfiction open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Wow!! Congratulations, @angelajoynes.bsky.social And that prompt by @amygcb.bsky.social was terrific. Not surprised you got a great flash from it! 💙 #flashfiction #flashextravaganza #artofflashfiction