I’ve made my three nominations! 1. @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social for My Father As Weather in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social rattle.com/my-father-as...

My copy has arrived! Can't wait to dig into this novella in flash with the wonderful writing of @pleomorphic2.bsky.social If you've not read any of her stories yet, try one! sumitrasingam.squarespace.com #flashfiction #novella

“nothing but a lit candle in the bleed of the rain” ah @pdforan.bsky.social *you* are the lit candle 🧡🧡🧡 Read this now

Reminder: one week left to hop in our inbox for the April Issue! Submissions always free! Microfiction & CNF

@kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social writing the pussycat we all wish we were “pity fuck is still a fuck so when Queenie turned up the next morning she was all types of spit and rage.”😼🧡🔥

New submission call for women: "Sexism, discrimination, harassment, misogyny... rape culture, glass ceilings, toxic masculinity, patriarchy. Blood boiling yet? We are seeking creative non-fiction by women that confront, interrogate, or give voice to their rage." dismantlingpress.com/Submissions/

ICYMI 👀 Our submission portal has re-opened! We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” Learn more👇 buff.ly/auE6ZFe

I've been reading submissions for Neither Fish Nor Foul this morning. Want to know what goes through my head as I do so? Interview with me here: duotrope.com/interview/ed...

Have sent some emails, both acceptances & declines. Thank you to everyone who sent me something. Haven't read them all yet. I have room and time to read more, if you have a 100-500 piece of deliciousness to send me duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

“The girl with a jade pendant hanging under her black singlet scoops a mussel from its shell and asks her date about lost loves.” @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202601who.htm

Read this, it’s divine

The poet has left the flash writer and inexplicable Melbourne with its unsettling lack of mountains. Ask me where I am. Ask me about home. Here’s a postcard. wigleaf.com

weekly doodle 🥰❤️ Bitter Over Sweet @sfwp.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social

So so proud of @kathrynreese.bsky.social and her banger of a story in @wigleaf.bsky.social no less. It’s very very good and her postcard is even better 🧡🧡🧡🔥🔥🔥 wigleaf.com

Really enjoyed this novella from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, especially the recurring motifs of myths and terrazzo pieces. It's a work of love and I'm glad I read it. 🧡

Here's a glimpse into the making of Issue 8: Collage. Popular sources: @jackbedell.bsky.social, BEE LB, @hubbsd.bsky.social What we'd love to see more of: EKPHRASIS, buckwild interpretations, hybrids. Challenge: can someone make a constrained/formal piece? engineidling.net/submissionguidelines

Honestly I've expected Issue 8 (Collage) to be a bit messy like a homemade zine, so if you want to use some weird font or placement, go ahead. The house style doesn't really rule this time. As long as I get a jpeg or can screenshot it & can fit it on a page. engineidling.net/submissionguidelines

Staff mtg: Intern season is coming!!!! 🌟🙀🌟 Maybe as soon as February.🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 We’re reading for our April issue now until Jan 30th. Get your subs in! 🌟🐈‍⬛🌟 Take a look at Claudine’s Werd Nerdz, our new quarterly series. www.claudineliterary.net/claudineswer...

You're the deejay! REMIX OUR WORKS! Guidelines: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP Deadline Jan 31. #writingprompt #collage #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artcommunity #artists #indielit #indiemag #litmag

I have a mother-sized hole and this novella in flash by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social filled it just a tiny bit with something glowing and warm. Creative storytelling & robust characters who feel like my family now 💛

Another stunner by @cake-girl.bsky.social in @welkinprize.bsky.social “how bruises bloomed their tender midnight between my knees…” stunning, Karen 🧡🧡🧡

I can’t wait to get stuck into my kawan’s first published novella-in-flash, “Mother Karma”. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social #motherlarma #writers #firstpublishedbook

Friends, writing prompt from the mouth of my child today: “Did you know that when you lick wooden floors, for some reason it tastes like gravy?”

@amymarques.bsky.social is doing a fab challenge in February for @tupelopress.bsky.social details here! Considering subscribing for updates and becoming a sponsor! open.substack.com/pub/amymarqu...

The first official review of my NiF is out in the world! Thanks @ninamiller.bsky.social and @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social! US orders: jakethemag.com/books/ Non US or signed copies (I only have 2 left until I restock) docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

My book review of “Mother Karma” by Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social is up @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Published by @publishedbyjake.bsky.social thehooghlyreview.com/category/asa...

The exquisite ache of this story @elissafield.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social “Your wife had been in hospital, you told the filly, her lips velvet and careless in your palm.”

I am a human and also a nerd and also aware of the awesomeness that is @claudineliterary.bsky.social and I will be at all 4 sessions rocking my inner nerd (which I wear on the outside)

I have preordered this @dehm000.bsky.social book from @stanchion.bsky.social! It’s sure to be 🔥🔥🔥

My hips and my crab curry don’t lie

“More silver, less greyish - you flow like mercury. You perch your satin-clad arse on my kitchen bench.” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social with a piece that’s vivid and too real…

Omg it’s not adult content @moderation.bsky.app - it’s a picture of a woman’s back. Anyway. Here’s my story www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/i-ne...

For the timezones - my new piece in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/i-ne...

Clock’s ticking! You’ve got half an hour (give or take) to slip something in under the wire

I wrote this for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social 2024 in memory of night shift in the ED. Eternally grateful to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for pubbing this, and also that I don’t have to do night shift ever again. (IDK why it’s labelled adult content there’s a CW for self harm, maybe that’s why)

“‘Do you get the screams?’ Hank asked a long time ago and just like that her creeping neon ants got a name.” The voice in this gallop of a story! @eireneeleni.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Look who’s settling into their new home! Such a gorgeous cover on Mother Karma a brilliant novella-in-flash by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social thanks so much Sumitra

An excellent place to send your @welkinprize.bsky.social NQAs!

This is a brilliant resource with heaps of tips and prompts from flashy folk, including me. Tips: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/_files/ugd/c... Prompts: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/_files/ugd/c...

This is a gorgeous book. @dani-netherclift.bsky.social has written a genre-bending, lyrical masterpiece of a memoir. You Canadians and Americans should jump on this ASAP

I might be sending @natflashfictionday.bsky.social micro comp my Welkin piece - 100 word max. If anyone else missed out, this might be the next home for your piece! It’s a great comp. @joannacampbell.bsky.social’s (judge) work is sublime!

A message from the @trampset.bsky.social team:

Brilliant flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social “Still, regret rings through me like a tuning fork.” Brings a whole new meaning to “spark joy”!

“This is just to say it takes time to learn to be the right kind of sister.” @kiklodge.bsky.social killingit as usual in @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Look what came today!! Thank you for sending this beauty to me!! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

“‘Come on, Mahesh, what are you, thirteen? You need to have worked a strategy out by now, bro.’” “‘I mean, Luke, my issue is more how to be a man.’” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Fell off, but happy to have come this far! Congrats to all shortlisters and a hearty round of applause for @mattkendrick.bsky.social who is a gem for running this *free* comp so brilliantly @welkinprize.bsky.social 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🧡🧡🧡

Please sub to @flightlit.bsky.social - they’re an awesome team who run an awesome litmag! They’re quick anyway, but this is super quick 🧡

Hey friends, I’ll be reading something at @iridescentwords.bsky.social’s online gathering. Hope you can come. Just FYI it’s 7am Monday 12 Jan AEST