my kid worked on his new story & wrote 500 words today. I wrote two sentences lol. asking him for tips

Still time to guess the colour of the Last minute badge today & win an anthology. And still time to enter a story of up to 300 words before the deadline of our 32nd Award tomorrow 1st Feb at midnight GMT Bathflashfictionaward.com:enter

And we're off! Reading has officially begun for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026! Grand prize $2500! Total prize pot almost $5000! We can't wait to read your work! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"Keep typing until it turns into writing." David Carr

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Charles Dickens, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1812, in Portsmouth, England 🎨 John Leech

Oh, this. This one. Read this now!

Don't forget to send your entry. No fee. brilliantflashfiction.com/2026/01/19/2...

A "three dog night" is an old phrase for a night so freezing cold that you would need three dogs in bed with you to stay warm. Originating from Indigenous Australian or, alternatively, Arctic (Siberian/Alaskan) traditions.

6-night writing retreat in Holme Valley, Yorkshire - 8-14 Sept 26 Applications now open for this writing retreat facilitated by @mattkendrick.bsky.social and me. There'll be workshops and feedback and one-to-ones and writing time and evening fun! Oh, and a hot tub! See below for how to apply.

If you don't like theme issues, here's your chance b/c the theme for our next issue is "surprise us" which can mean <surprise us by ignoring the suggested theme>! poetry ~ essays ~ fiction ~ flash fiction/CNF www.south85journal.com/submissions/ Photo by our artist-in-residence, Brian Bouldrey

Wish I were there.

bored people bore people

The thing about the groundhog is he has handlers and advisors and interpreters. He is not coming up with the prediction himself at this point; there is no Punxsautonomy.

Aw, Phil.

Big thanks to Dawn Lowe and brilliantflash.bsky.social for featuring my story, "Sweet Release."

Thanks to all the authors who made our January 31 issue possible. And hats off to Webmaster Laurie Scavo for her gorgeous photo illustrations. Check it out! brilliantflashfiction.com/2026/01/31/j...

Vertigo

Had to look up this nocturne. Congratulations to the winner.

Ha

True art.

I sometimes despair that the camera can never really capture just how amazing the natural world can be. But sometimes, just sometimes, the winter light hits those reeds and all those reflections pop... #birds #birdphotography #birding #photooftheday #photography #NatureIsAmazing

Beautiful lady in a gentle land. I miss Hawaii.

Some fabulous flash fiction here

Ouch

Hey, Writers! brilliantflashfiction.com/2026/01/19/2...

FYI, Writers! brilliantflashfiction.com/2026/01/19/2...

What? A new writing contest? brilliantflashfiction.com/2026/01/19/2...

Gorgeous

Question of the day

pretending my novel is a collection of short stories about the same characters to trick myself into writing it

I dunno

“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.” Anais Nin, who died on this day in 1977

Hope

Hmmm, woke me up this morning

#aiart #aipainting winter landscape

We're currently open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

I found an alien petroglyph in my abalone shell 😉 #art #macro #photograph #abstract

Reading a book from the 1840s and it repeatedly censors "damn" as "d---" because that's too profane to publish. Anyway the book jumpscared me 374 pages in with a casual n word drop.

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein." Zora Neale Hurston

Watercolour painting of some flowers to brighten up your day! #art #watercolours #painting

Only 10 spots per workshop. Faculty includes a National Book Award finalist and New Yorker contributors. writingworkshops.com/pages/writin...

Lovely.

Cool

I'm sorry, but no. :)