Here's my second story in @nffr.bsky.social's 2025 flash fiction prize issue. Boundless gratitude to Valerie Fox and colleagues for selecting "My Brother, the Salmon," which got its lungs in workshop with the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social! 💜🙏🏼💜🙏🏼💜 newflashfiction.com/my-brother-t...

Links to the stories I published this year are on my site, along with many more from years past. Thanks for checking them out if you have time! mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/

yes that’s what’s stopping bookstores from doing this. a lack of courage

5/ “Libation” in @yourimpossiblevoice.com yourimpossiblevoice.com/libation/

A story in Your Impossible Voice. @yourimpossiblevoice.com With special thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social The Blue Plastic Basin yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-blue-pla...

Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE

Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction

"Crow dreams an eerie peacefulness laced with fear" is the second of two new poems from Peter Grandbois in our latest issue. Check them both out today! bit.ly/48I7tvR

Our last Tuesday #flashfiction of 2025 is here! Peel back the layers of "Girl Crushed – 1985" by Phyllis Rittner!

We’ve all been there—propositioning our therapists for some light nude modeling. Catch a glimpse in The Robinson-Barber Thesis by Joyce Meggett in the latest issue of Your Impossible Voice! bit.ly/48VDv94

The final poem from our new issue burns bright! Finish off your week with "past is a flame" by Karen Earle!

Who said family get-togethers had to be dull? Pull up a chair for "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter! bit.ly/48S9Ptq

In "Tired Rejections," Stephen Cicirelli challenges readers to read the "story of stories," distilling the elements of fictional drama down to their essences along the way. Click the link and unlock the mystery!

You've either met the people in this story or you are one of the people in this story. Check out "Winners" by @juliaevem.bsky.social !

"In the back of the closet, sealed in a garment bag, was the ghost. A dark, woolen suit, smelling faintly of camphor, and a life she had meticulously shed." Tuesday #flashfiction: Two Funerals by Toshiya Kamei

Today's listing of the day is: Brilliant Flash Fiction #WritingCommunity

A truly great short story tells you everything you need to know about it from its very first line. This is one of them. Check out "Storing Dinosaurs" by @supernaturalfeat.com in our latest issue! bit.ly/3XY7fMa

Spent the day in the car getting ahead of the snow, but this is such an honor! What a great group of stories! Thanks to @yourimpossiblevoice.com, an incredible journal!

Congratulations to this year's @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! Check us out online to read all of this year's award nominations. Ryan Griffith @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social L.F. Khouri Mathieu Parsy @ashdoeswords.bsky.social

SO EXCITED to be nominated by Your Impossible Voice - I'm crazy proud of this piece, and this has made me really happy:

What could be better reading for the day after Thanksgiving than a story about family? A story about family by Robert Ontiveros is what. bit.ly/4p8NzkU

Never thought much about what @yourimpossiblevoice.com's looking for, although it's been pointed out it's in the name of the journal itself and this seems proven in my selections. Case in point being Joyce Meggett's "The Robinson-Barber Thesis", a voice I found compelling from the very start.

Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social Dana Wall @brettbbl.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @addisonzeller.bsky.social

Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2026 @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Mikki Aronoff @chrisscott.bsky.social

A lot of journals that say they're open to weird fiction mean like this

Only a fraction of the spectacular haul I received from above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social. I am rich this winter! abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks

snagged me my third ever pushcart nomination, mil gracias to the good folks at @yourimpossiblevoice.com for the honor

Thankful to nominate yet another Best Small Fictions class. We implore you to read these short fictions on Afferimages in your spare time. Congratulations everyone and and best of luck! @swethaamit.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Kerry Sutherland Kenna DeValor

We're chiming in today to announce our Best Small Fictions nominees! Congratulations and good luck everyone!

Pleased to welcome our 1st release of 2026, Primal House by Emily Koss! Due out in late-January, you can reserve your copy today! elj-editions.com/primal-house/

Enjoy a steep discount on all ebooks and books and book bundles now through Sunday. Get 5 books for just as little as $45 plus S/H! Where can you go wrong? elj-editions.com/black-friday...

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Please join us in congratulating our Pushcart nominees! Good luck everyone!

So honored to be on this list 🫶🫶🫶 big thanks to @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for giving this Horsegirl story an amazing home: pitheadchapel.com/nervous-thing/

Thanks—on Thanksgiving!—to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social (and Hema Nataraju and Lakshmi Iyer and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social) for nominating me for a Pushcart Prize!

Sushi Rejection Project Update: 5 / 100, and one of those was a delightful personal rejection. I can't help but think of how sad I was last year around this time, genuinely questioning if I could write at all, and this year I have 4 nominations (Best American Short Stories (1/??)

My #flashfiction chapbook is on sale. You know, if that’s your thing.

The great Peter Grandbois returns to YIV with two new poems in our latest issue! bit.ly/43Ndxlq

We're thrilled to have @israelbonilla.bsky.social —"One of the great prose stylists around right now" according to our very own @alvinlu.bsky.social— back in our latest issue! bit.ly/4rkNQT7

I have a new little flash up today at @yourimpossiblevoice.com The ants are coming, you might want to just lie down and accept it. yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-ants/

Tuesday #Flashfiction: The Ants by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social will make your skin crawl (in a great way)! “You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue.”

The Inescapable Nightmare: Art Beck reviews Gods of Unfinished Business by Nina Kossman, available from Cervena Barva Press. “Kossman’s poems evoke Joyce’s characterization of history as a maze of nightmares that his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is trying to escape.”

"I spend too much on supportive shoes. There is a mound of black on the back of my door, hanging ghouls perfumed with company-gifted By Kilian—it is a wardrobe for a funeral, the mourning of." New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season! paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59

Releasing May 2027. #submissions opening 1st Quarter 2026. Stay tuned!

Reviews dropping in one week! @keithjpowell.com @travisflatt.bsky.social

Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!