Ooh - I see my little story's title on this wonderful longlist! Congrats to all! Thank you to @theprideroars.bsky.social for including me! ❤️

Austin Grossman is doing something cool with “Stay” but the photos! the Boyfriend Book! in @amygcb.bsky.social’s Lee Ann Womack homage are also what @marchxness.bsky.social was made for.

Perhaps biased as a Tennesseean who has fond Little Rock memories but @amygcb.bsky.social is BRINGING IT with "the boyfriend book" and all the pictures!

My March Sadness essay on Lee Ann Womack's "A Little Past Little Rock" is up! Please vote for 90s me & 2026 me. ☑️ marchxness.com#/1stround-lo...

Hey there! Do you see how things are in this Sky of skies? Were you expecting the worm moon to get mean with its eclipse? Absurd! What the worm moon likes best is pathways, tunnels, puzzles made into other puzzles. #65 features new works by 21 high authors, just look-see! gonelawn.net

It's the worm moon, and you know what that means: the new edition of @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thank you, @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social for including two of my weirdlings in this very special issue. 1/2

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Congrats to Liam Strong for winning in the Monarch awards for "the year of lost limbs," also Robert McDonald for inclusion in Best Microfiction for "Jane Goodall of the Mantid Kingdom!"

We are elated to announce the awardees and finalists for MONARCH 2026. Thank you to all of the organizations who nominated work for making our first anthology so stunning 🦋 and a special shoutout to @esichr.bsky.social and @bleatingthing.bsky.social for the beautiful cover photograph!

Here it's snowing, tonight it will be dark for all. But guess what will be bright? Gone Lawn 63 will be! This is the micro-excerpt issue, featuring thirteen brilliant authors. Enjoy! Art by BEE LB. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

I’m excited to have a micro-excerpt from my novel-in-progress in this issue. Thrilled to be in such great company! Finding an under 200-word, freestanding section to extract and submit was a difficult —but rewarding—challenge. Big thank you to eds. @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social !

Delighted to have 2 stories in this amazing issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social What a treat to appear with so many stellar writers incl @elissafield.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social Letting go www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go Marie Kondo www.frazzledlit.com/p/and-now-i-...

I have no idea what the response to this will be, but I have a three-part experimental / hybrid published today is FRiGG Magazine I would love for you to read. Fabulous issue, including flashes from @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross! 💙 friggmagazine.com

"...the gray, the gray / flat windows unshined / a happenstance boy / growing, the boy the clicketten with turpentine ears / to gesture and aloud / to crowd and seem unseemly...." Extraordinary writing by the very talented @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"My routine was designed to be performed to *Highway to Hell* played on a crackly loud speaker. Across the same radio waves, I can still hear my mother praying, but she’s got the wrong idea for what I need." @amygcb.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/the-balanc...

Our first issue of 2026 is officially live! pitheadchapel.com/2026/01/01/v...

@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Submissions are open. Send us a 6-sentence with no more than 400 words. Our response time is usually less than a week. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

Some thoughts from the submissions queue this morning. I'm seeing a few pieces that would be sparkling but for another couple of edits. (1) Have you given the piece distance between writing and editing so you can approach it with a fresh set of eyes? (2) Have you given enough distance?

“I unwrap the candy bar my mom sent me for the holidays with its pictures of snow drifts on the wrapper, and think for a moment I’ve seen a glimpse of my family’s Christmas, but …” @amygcb.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/prisoner-no-...

O, pale Moon, key to Sun, here you are! Can you see? #62 is here! New writing by 20 writers, and visual art by Andrea Damic. gonelawn.net

Classes are completely asynchronous and I offer them discounted if you don't want a writing critique at the end.

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

Our nominations for Best Small Fictions, just logged:

@amygcb.bsky.social at Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

My #WritingCraftArticle for September is all about feedback and editing skills. It got quite lengthy so I had to split it into two. This is part one, focusing on my four feedback Es, writer intention, and stars, wishes & mirrors: 🏝️⭐🧞🪞 prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/no-writer-...

This issue is one for the ages. Grateful to EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social, and special thanks to @amygcb.bsky.social for helping me start to unlock this one a couple of summers back. I hope you like it!

Read "In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death" written by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "So we agreed on lying in our beds, the sun just razoring through the blinds, soft shadows that often welcomed us..." tinyurl.com/4v5sum4h

Read "The HOA rules don’t apply" written by @amygcb.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names." tinyurl.com/mw27m3hn

Read "Clone of the Lost Astronaut" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete." tinyurl.com/26e9nnen

Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls." tinyurl.com/3ep2nhhb

Read "One Day, Pele Decides She Wants to Visit Us" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "her lava coursing down our streets into our houses, like liquid gelatin, as we eat our cereal and go to school, swimming through her." tinyurl.com/y8jmem3w

Read "The Way the Cookie Crumbles" written by @sfreligh.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "Sometimes Rita pretends to be sick so she can stay home from school." tinyurl.com/4cekduun

Read "Making Love Is A New Subject" written by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "I haven’t made love in ages, which isn’t true. But I often say, well, many things. I often say that the truth isn’t in the truth but in what feels like the truth." tinyurl.com/36t2vbvu

Read "Tunnel" written by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Halfway through the Glory Tunnel, traffic stopped, as if someone cast a terrible spell." tinyurl.com/33eh3cus

Read "shelter in place" written by @saralippmann.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Maybe it’s the rising sirens, maybe it’s the sudden soak, a complete wet heat through the cotton sack I’ve taken to wearing like a body flung overboard because this is..." tinyurl.com/y5f23693

Read "Whatever" written by @sherrieflick.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool." tinyurl.com/22ezah8h

Read "Encounters" written by @aimee-bender.bsky.social and illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. "When I was in my twenties and went through a breakup and didn’t hate the person, I harbored what I’d call the “nursing home” fantasy." tinyurl.com/5384pnpt

My story "The Black Window" was published by Roi Fainéant Press: @rfpress.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/2wyr5ckp

We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy

it's tha 1st of tha month, submissions are open thanks !

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

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