Best writing day in a long time! #microfiction

Submissions are open all summer & there is currently nothing in our queue. So send that gem that the New Yorker said had merit and that ZYZZYVA has had "in progress" for 400 days.

Open for micro, flash and poetry until July 15 templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Acceptance! #microfiction

After a wonderful vacation, I’m caught up on #submissions and back at the reading desk! There’s still time to submit—our current reading period closes July 15. We’d love to see what you’ve been working on. #shortfiction #micropoetry #amwriting #writersofbsky 🦉 www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....

Huge thanks to Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for publishing my story, 'In those final days'. Occasionally, as writers, we are gifted a story that falls almost fully-formed onto paper. This was one of them. #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/06/29/m...

🚨GENERAL SUBS CLOSE TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT PST. 🚨 (Tomorrow morning, and all of July, bring on the ghost stories👻!)

Old songs. New story ideas.

Eek - it's the final weekend for scribbling, polishing, entering. You've got THREE days THREE hours and FORTY minutes until entries close. Or if you prefer a more dinosaur-based system of time-keeping: THREE diplodocus THREE pterodactyls & FORTY microraptors

"The pitcher's no phenom. His ERA's just all right. But he's got this batter's number." Read @maureenthorson.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

I'll never get over the beauty of words on a page. Sometimes it's overwhelming.

"It was impossible to believe the brilliant yellow fields were not lit from within." Beautiful prose from @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...

When you realize that two of your micros, written 6 years apart, belong together. #microfiction

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing—Raymond Williams

A new story from Lori Cramer

I've got a micro about neon and mohawks and rebels at @suddenflash.bsky.social. yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2026/06/rebe...

"The roller derby girls are sharp elbows and muscular thighs and tight spandex shorts." Read @chartsuyker.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. gooseberry-pie.com/when-youre-t...

FlashFlood: 2026 FlashFlood: The Complete List #nffd2026

We connected our new site this morning: www.trampset.org The old site is at medium.com/trampset, which we’ll delete. Contributors can search the new site to find their work. We’ll be contacting individuals this summer. Look for subs reopening soon. 👀

So many fabulous flashes in the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flood! #flashflood #nffd2026

Happy National Flash Fiction Day! Thank you to the editors of @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for the flood. #flashfiction

Happy to have a micro at @somewordslit.bsky.social! Thank you to editor @juscarts.com. somewords.boards.net/thread/153/l...

Word on the street is that we'll reopen for submissions in about a month! 🚨 July 6 through 10, open for five days. Fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between. Save the date. Spread the word.

Thank you to the editors of @haikuniverse.bsky.social for publishing my #haiku today! haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-lor...

Sunday acceptance! #microfiction

*not my content* #poetry

"You will disappear little by little: untouched lunches, hollow cheeks, silence where laughter used to live." Read @tracieadams.bsky.social in @brightflash1500.bsky.social brightflash1000.com/2026/06/05/r...

Added 25 words. Deleted 25 different words. #microfiction

Happy birthday, @fictivedream.bsky.social!

play is always at the heart of poetry. i believe this deeply. even when the subject matter is not fun, not joyful, even when it is very difficult (which is often the case), there's still play happening in the language, in the form, in the leaps & associations, in the ampersands, even in the silences

I may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Revising. Again.

"Above the last line: 'Greg, age 14.' I wondered if the person who'd bought my childhood home would paint over the line or forever leave 14-year-old me on the drywall." Read @willmusgrove.bsky.social in Monkeybicycle monkeybicycle.net/downsizing/

Wrote a lil drabble today. #microfiction

Here is, well, here! Full of talented, brilliant voices reminding that in the torrent of events, we're all, undeniably, unreservedly, unflinchingly Here. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

The Micromemoir Marathon starts May 6 ... are you ready? 100 words about 5 minutes of your life ... 26 contests/themes to choose from. Enter one. Enter all! Enter anytime between May 6 and May 31.

"Today, he lied. The lie was why he was late coming home from school. A locker. A bully." Read @tomljanovic.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

"In my dreams there is so much cholesterol, and I don't care. I'm eating the fried chicken of my childhood, the fried clams, the fried everything." Read @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

"...if you regret the words you said to me more than those you withheld,...." This extraordinary piece of writing by @loricramerwriter.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social 💙💙💙

A moment, a world in 50 words. Read @loricramerwriter.bsky.social micro in @templeinacity.bsky.social

"Because If I Hadn’t Taken Your Call, I Would’ve Always Wondered / if our relationship was nothing but a game to you" Such a skill to create these tiny one-sentence micros. @loricramerwriter.bsky.social does it so well: templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Happy to have a 50-word micro with an 11-word title in @templeinacity.bsky.social. Thank you to editor @eireneeleni.bsky.social! templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

We have received 156 manuscript submissions so far 📚💙 We read every one! #poetry #booksky duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Wrote a little something new today. #microfiction

Mark your calendars. Thirty West is opening for book manuscripts on May 23 thirtywestph.com/submit

"They kept an old lady in the attic and no one cared except it wasn’t an old lady it was a grown woman and they figured she deserved it except it wasn’t a grown woman" Wow. One of the best pieces I've read all year. Stunning.

Nothing like starting the weekend with an acceptance! #amwriting #microfiction

being a writer is just knowing how to write then forgetting then remembering over & over until you die

Have you ever read a great story by O'Connor, Carver, Baldwin, Chekhov, Malamud, or any classic short story writer, then been inspired to write your next story under their influence? That's what we want. Send us that!