"The more my mother shames me for my weight, the stronger words taste." If you have a few minutes, I hope you enjoy me reading my micro "Word Palate" in the lovely new issue of The Ilanot Review. www.youtube.com/@ClaudiaMonp...

"let’s say we splash until the water is frothing on top and then we come out roaring and stomping, we smash our ugly, SoftServe shit castles" @aniking.bsky.social 3 dazzling flash fictions @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Love each story & the endings are 🔥 www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...

So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...

Incredible work, such power in these micro-sized stories.

"My brother’s only forty-six, but he moves like he’s eighty." Check out contributor @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's flash piece in @lostballoon.bsky.social! buff.ly/bTXG0vd

“Do you see it?” She was almost hyperventilating with excitement, pointing to where a clump of fruit flies was floating in a liquid grave. I hesitated. “It looks like your father.” Stunning! @kellypedro.bsky.social 1 of 3 winners, CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize www.craftliterary.com/2025/04/11/p...

This chilling story by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social is going to haunt me, I can tell. fracturedlit.com/the-touch-fo...

@brettpribble.bsky.social's done it again. Another stunning Ghost Parachute issue packed with terrific writers. Can't wait to dive in. And best cover ever! ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

"The actress feels a buzz that she hasn’t felt since before she lost the role in the soap opera. New meds the doctor prescribed make her feel calm. Calm enough to talk to a mastodon in her bathtub." Love! @megpokrass.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

Wow, 3 incredibly creative ways to write about/around sex. I love @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's "Sex in Public: A Triptych." ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

"fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight, ears underwater, the world muted except for the hiss of waves pushing pebbles up the beach" Gorgeous, joyful CNF @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

"she tells me that it’s a dangerous world out there, says things happen that we can’t plan for, says, for example, grizzly bears can smell menstrual blood from 20 miles away" Stunning @emilyrinkema.bsky.social www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...

Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇

Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @suzyeynon.bsky.social and For Every Tower, A Princess by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social. We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf! 📚🐈‍⬛📚

Me: (tries to sleep) Body: "No, see, you need to pee." Me: (gets up and tries to pee) Body: "No, see, you need to sleep."

"Judy Blume novels taught me that having a body can feel pressing, unwieldy. Maybe she was right. Because now my body is all I can think about because maybe I’m too disabled to live in this climate-changed world, to survive in a world so hell-bent on destruction" Stunning CNF

"I have been a monster myself, fitfully exposing my own Hyde, sperm-donor to my own self-loathing" Powerful poem by Colin Griffin @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

"She served it on a tray with the best silverware and a lace napkin. “Oh no,” she said, “I forgot the daisies.” (Daisy: mangoes mixed with honey and apricots, a hint of cream.)" Two dazzlers by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in Ilanot Review! www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...

Dazzling novella-in-flash @fionamckay.bsky.social. It weaves sections about motherhood and Kate's marriage to an extremely controlling husband with fairy tales retold from a feminist lens. Gorgeous prose, deeply moving.

" I am a girl who will grow fat with words. Who will open her mouth so wide one day she will swallow her mother." Read these wonderful micros by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in the Ilanot Review.

Thrilled to have two micros www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav... in Ilanot Review. Warm thanks to guest fiction editor @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social and managing editor Marcela Sulak for including me in their lovely community.

"She loves rainbows, but she loves Jesus more. Her mom says she has to, with the carrot of eternal salvation...but her mom thinks that when it comes to this washing feet stuff Jesus was a bit of a pansy" Love! @kelliborges2.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/stolen-rainb...

"There’s a new energy rising and we’re ready to bring the whole miserable lot down–our shitty prefab concrete blocks and blocked toilets, our Trabis smoking oily exhaust like they’re on fire." Stunning @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...

Squeeee!! My book trailer is so cool❤️❤️❤️ @sfwp.bsky.social

"I feel frantic and beautiful, flitting around my bedroom in different hats, pushing escaped eucalyptus leaves back under the bed where Mom promises they’ll ward off fleas." Dazzling! @megpokrass.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

"As she went back to the chickweed, Ethel’s gaze passed over the peonies. One of them looked odd." -Nature's Ways "I saw a nest of black hair tucked under your arm. This was a first in fifth grade, and it terrified me"-New Girl Terrific micros by Luanne Castle gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

How about a memoir to close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor Erin Slaughter’s memoir THE DEAD DAD DIARIES is out now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social 💗 Get your copy now: buff.ly/gIYuqsL

We're celebrating book news for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🙌 Contributor Vanessa Hua has sold her new book, UPROOTED: A CHINESE AMERICAN STORY OF SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE, to @tinhouse.bsky.social!! 🥳

"I was a student scraping by on a slim budget, crafting / a self out of used books while you and I laid on a bare mattress in your grandmother’s / apartment." A stunner @erinvachon.bsky.social Prose sestina? @anmlymag.bsky.social

“I thought life would be easier than this” 6, overhead trying to put a hanger back in the closet

"Weeds grew out of the asphalt on the rubbish-strewn single street &the smell of diesel that used to permeate the village was gone.Water was almost topping the harbour wall,fishing boats sold off or scrapped."Powerful flash on sea level rise @ruralunease.bsky.social www.thephare.com/ss/managed-r...

ICYMI "In his pockets: loose change, a book of matches, and the ace of spades. The card is grimier than when I saw it earlier." Read this stunning flash by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/06/18/t...

Really looking forward to my "Story Shapes" workshop in October where I'm going to get writers writing Cinderella narratives against the clock and crafting stories across different sized bits of paper. 7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

"When you en garde your business card and ask me for mine, my feet have already turned into a bitter, hard-shelled pointed end plate, a telson at the end secreting musky and glandular." Love this winning story @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

I laughed and teared up at this amazing climate fiction story @angiemccullagh.bsky.social

I'd be grateful if you can send links for flash stories where climate change plays a role. I'd like my students to write these kinds of stories for an assignment, but I don't have many models. Thanks!

"The python flicks its tongue, unhinges its jaw, keen to swallow the charmer, who darts away with a phew!" Love this joyful, lyrical collaboration b/w Kathryn Silver-Hajo and Mikki Aronoff @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/09/14/e...

Links to pieces from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @csquareh.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social uthor.bsky.social

"She wallpapered the hallways with notes in every color of the rainbow—you got this, i believe in you, you are stronger than you think." Stunning @tracieadams.bsky.social I'll never see a sticky note in the same way. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"out here it’s either a corn year or a bean year and nothing about the flat-as-a-pancake terrain allows anything to sneak up on you." Love how this soars with hope and beauty @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"I need to sneak out of my own bed just to get downstairs and actually do the things that I need to do, so many things that a normal person should do without having to worry about a dog" Love! @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"I tell you that wait is a future word, and I’d appreciate you not using it." Stunning story. Nobody writes breakups like @francinewitte.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"The clouds are no longer rushing by but have flocked together like the sheep and there is less sunlight than before, although from time to time shafts of yellow illuminate the dry grass" Gorgeous & so thoughtful @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus" What a gem @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"I was fascinated by how Meg moved her body. A kind of authority combined with playfulness that I lacked." Contributor @claudiamonpere.bsky.social published an essay in @flightlit.bsky.social, and it's the perfect back-to-school read: buff.ly/uT3xegF

Thrilled! Huge thank you to @westtradereview.bsky.social ❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #writing #writer #litfiction

"the hour floodwaters will return with biblical accuracy and destroy your bedrock, rot home from beneath your feet." I love this Golden Shovel poem by Matthew E. Henry in the terrific new lit mag @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...

"Because all you have now is paper and pencil. Because no one says anything about your pages, shaded entirely black." Absolutely stunning @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social