"...we track the cheerleaders' every move as they razor their arms, leap into pike jumps and herkies, smiling despite the sub-zero temperatures and their pleated miniskirts, bare legs." Read @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Out TODAY, or so I'm told.

Started something new today. Not quite sure what it is yet, but I'm excited to find out. #amwriting

This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚

Almost time to stop November-ing and start December-ing.

How many days in a row can you keep rewriting one sentence? (Apparently at least four.) #amwriting

Happy Thanksgiving!

@loricramerwriter.bsky.social - Sweet Girl epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

Thank you to @epistemiclit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Sweet Girl" for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social!

Do you write microfiction, especially #dribbles, or short poetry, especially #haiku? Send your work to @thehooletsnook.bsky.social by November 30!

Tweaked the title, strengthened a verb, added a more-specific detail.... #amwriting #flashfiction

Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...

"With Love" by @salenacasha.bsky.social, Fall Contest 2024 Finalist (Theme: Flirt), in case you missed it

Deadline!!!!! Midnight ET tonight! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

Finally figured out that last line...I think? #amwriting #flashfiction

I know many new writers worry about how readers will receive their work. That’s a valid concern! That said, two things: 1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want. 2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Don't give up on those old stories you've set aside. Take another look at them every once in a while. You never know what might happen. #amwriting #flashfiction

Haven’t submitted yet? You’ve still got time! Our current reading period ends November 30. Full guidelines here: www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions.... #microfiction #shortfiction #shortpoetry #haiku #submissions #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #dribbles #drabbles ✍️🦉📩

i would like to save daylight and nightdark and all the hours really, i would like to save them all

From Naomi Shihab Nye's book, Everything Comes Next: bookshop.org/a/862/9780063013452 #poem #books #writing

Happy first day of #FlashNano to all who celebrate! #amwriting #flashfiction #NancyStohlman

This message brought to you by a pumpkin.

I hope that today you’re able to share a laugh with someone you love. No greater feeling.

What advice would you offer to your younger self? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 108 of Mslexia ✍️ mslexia.co.uk #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers

Just under 20 days to get your micros (-250 words) in! Fiction, CNF, hybrid, published, unpublished, translations. We're so easy. What about that killer micro you published 20 years ago? It's eligible. We're searching for the best. Deadline Nov 15th. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

once I learn how to fall asleep when I’m tired I will be unstoppable

Love to see those Saturday subs coming in! Remember, this is the LAST WEEKEND of our sub period — we close end of day Oct 31, which is Friday. Get to it!

The #vssdaily #prompt for 10/25/25 is #socks

When a great line comes to you at 3 a.m. and you repeat it over and over to yourself for the next hour and a half before finally falling asleep only to wake with no memory of it.

I have a tiny poem in the new print issue of @chicagoqreview.bsky.social

Submissions are open for Issue 8 until the 30th day of October in the year 2025! Deal us some literary gold & other precious metals! Full guidelines right here 👇🏻🙂‍↕️ www.themerseyreview.com/submit

Sometimes a good writing week is just a week in which you had some time to write and you wrote some sentences you really like. #amwriting

If you have links to audio of your stories being read (preferably by you) please share them with me. I’d love to listen to some friends to pass the time.

listening to heavy rain on the roof and windows while reading a book from the giant stack beside your bed counts as writing this morning

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"...but there are holes in the dream now (was I a dancer?) and if I don't tell someone soon, they'll multiply." Read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-...

Got the nicest rejection letter! #amwriting

3 weeks from today my memoir CAMOUFLAGE will greet the world! Here’s some early praise from the amazing @estelleserasmus.bsky.social, author of Writing That Gets Noticed and TEDx speaker (among other things). You can read her full blurb that brought me to tears on October 28!

"I'd come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn't." Read @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/de...

wrote a paragraph. this novel should be done any decade now

I'm guest editor for November at Punk Noir Magazine. Submissions open October 15 and close October 21. Theme: TIGHTROPE 1000 words max, all fiction genres, no poetry. Send stories in a Word document, include a third person bio, to [email protected] punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/

Thrilled to receive my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! Big thanks to Eulogy Press for nominating my micro, "Reunions." #amwriting #microfiction

I've got a 275-word micro about a clueless songwriter in the September issue of 10 By 10 Flash Fiction Stories (pages 7-8). Thank you to editor Zvi A. Sesling. 10x10flash.com

Doric Literary is open for fiction submissions (1000-8000 words). We're approaching our 1000th submission of the year. Free to submit We nominate for major literary awards Acceptance rate: 2.93% We respond QUICKLY!! We are now #5 @duotrope.com Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

FREE submissions to @frazzledlit.bsky.social open on Oct 1st, for short stories, CNF, poetry and flash. So what are we looking for? Today, Laura talks about just that, in reference to poetry. www.frazzledlit.com/p/hurt-us-a-...

One week from today!! Saturday, October 4th @ 8pm GMT. Join me along with feature poets Rusty Rose, @petitecreature1.bsky.social and our wonderful host @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for the first of a @thebrokenspine.co.uk special Zoom Series #NotJustPretty!!