Editing Tips blind trust=trust blind faith=faith turning a blind eye=willfully ignorant blind spot=knowledge gap

Last call: Our May issue is now full, but we are still considering #submissions for our September issue through March 31. Thank you to everyone who has submitted! 🙏🦉✍️💫 #microfiction #shortpoetry #writersofbsky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #flashfiction www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....

Oh! And we’re open through the 31st! You have seven more days, including today!

Submitted a teeny-tiny story tonight. #amwriting #microfiction

It’s *still* snowing in Alaska, and the Flight crew needs submissions of essays and stories to read while we’re cooped up inside! Share this with your writer friends who are finally down off their AWP high and ready to submit again! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

He spent fifty years perfecting nothing. Now he’s stuck with it. Our flash feature “Just Hanging Out” by Jim Harrington is up—short, quiet, and heavier than it looks. At the Garage: literarygarage.com/just-hanging...

That last line. If I could just get that last line right. #amwriting

my very reliable method for writing a new short story for my collection is to try working on my novel first

The submission period for our June issue closes March 31. Submissions received starting April 1 will be considered for the September issue. tclj.toasted-cheese.com/submission-g...

Thank you for sharing this marvellous story @epistemiclit.bsky.social @loricramerwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday

#WomensHistoryMonth LORI CRAMER @loricramerwriter.bsky.social Lori’s work can be found in Issue 6: Nostalgia, with the micro “Sweet Girl,” nominated for Best Microfiction 2026. 1/ epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

Acceptance! #amwriting #microfiction

writing is fun. you can love your first draft, then a week later wonder who wrote it, dramatically rewrite it, then realize it was better twenty drafts ago

"It ends with a glass of wine across a restaurant table. With a soft smile of not-quite regret but something close to it. Disappointment, perhaps; a tinge of sorrow." Read @annalisacrawford.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social. fictivedream.com/2026/03/09/m...

Another collection of top-class #shortstories for February. Our thanks to Lou Gallo @loricramerwriter.bsky.social @polyscribe70.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social Susmita Mukherjee and @grahammort.bsky.social. More to follow...

Send us your flash fiction under 1000 words with your name removed from the document and all your loves and fears pressed inside! We're reading until 3/15 or we reach our cap.

"And she would always be his alibi, lying so quickly, even she believed it." Read @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Infamy-Comes...

The story that was 150 words this morning is now 135 words. #amwriting #microfiction

Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. We look fwd to reading your words so please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

doing some freelance editing rn & thought I might share a fun prose-writing trick that can help cut back on wordiness & over-explaining: approach the end of each sentence as a poet may approach a line break; i.e. try to shape sentences so that they end on the most interesting/important word possible

Snowy Sundays are good days for sending out submissions. #amwriting

"She enjoys the bald harshness of this statement, the discomfort it causes, the clumsy grasping for a suitable response." Read @cake-girl.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/creative-non...

Less is more. #amwriting #microfiction

Moving paragraphs around like I’ve just knocked into my story with a pool ball. What if this story was inside out. What if it started where it ended & vice versa. What if I wrote the same story in 40 different ways & called it a collection. An exercise. A dare.

Send your #dribbles to @thehooletsnook.bsky.social !

When you can't decide which version to go with. #amwriting

Today's #writingprompt: Write about hosting a party. Daily Writing Prompts: www.toasted-cheese.com/calendar/ Archives (going back to 2002): www.toasted-cheese.com/tag/daily-wr... #amwriting #writingprompts #TCPrompts #writesky

"'Thanks for taking us there,' we said, the ink from our signatures slow-fading like a situationship into the folds of night's road-not-taken light." Read @pdforan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...

Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!

How can it be that I've written more #poetry than #flashfiction so far this year? #amwriting

Better late than never.. The Mersey Review 8 is finally live! 🐷💚 Get your eyes on down to.. well.. here ⬇️⤵️⏬👇 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/8/

Reminder: Hot Flash Literary is open for subs for just two more weeks (!) for Issue 3: Fire and Ice. Subs open to women-identifying writers. #flashfiction #flashCNF #prosepoetry hotflashliterary.com/submissions/

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

'Actually, Asa does look forward to our breakfasts with Dad—but that’s because Mom never buys us fast food. Not that she’s opposed to us eating it. It’s just too expensive, she says.' Stark bittersweet micro by @loricramerwriter.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/02/02/m...

ICYMI today we're feat. "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" by Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/02/02/m...

When I saw the title I had to read it right now - And I'm so glad I did. Wonderful little micro. Congratulations🎉

This is so brilliant! "as if there’s nothing we’d rather do than hop into Dad’s look-how-cool-I-am-mobile and be whooshed across town"! I love the narrator's voice and attitude here. Great #microfiction by @loricramerwriter.bsky.social out in @fictivedream.bsky.social this morning! #MicroMonday

Thrilled to have my micro "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" featured today on #MicroMonday in @fictivedream.bsky.social. Thank you, Laura Black!

New month, new words. #amwriting

Trimmed a 150-word story to 125 words. #amwriting #microfiction

and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story

Brightening a grey day reading sparkling takes on this year's theme, BRIDGES for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthol. You've still got over 2 weeks to get your story in. Closes 15 Feb, Max 500 words. Please share - all welcome! #FlashFiction www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

With the Super Bowl upon us, a LOT of grocery stories have major sales going on (B1G1, etc) so it's great time to help stock your local food pantry. It's cold and people are hungry. Let's get them fed.

When a weird first line pops into your head and you just go with it. #amwriting #flashfiction

Cowboy Jamboree says so.

Just SEVEN more stories left in our countdown of brilliant micros. So sad that the Welkin will be over (or will it?) for another year in just 7 days. Last 2 pieces from the shortlist today & tomorrow. After that, the vote for the People's Prize will be open. And from Tuesday, the winners...! 🤩

"In my lap, his knees, feet, elbows, all of it fits inside my arms like a shopping bag full of doorknobs." Read Natalie Warther in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/All-the-Peop...

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

I like reading books by authors who say they had fun while writing it.

"...how I'm glad you didn't know me back then; how you'd have stopped, aghast, if we'd passed in the street...." Read @cake-girl.bsky.social in @welkinprize.bsky.social .