I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

Pro tip: do not use AI to write your cover letter for a submission to a literary magazine. Seriously, just don't. It's a major turn off and very obvious and makes the editor reading your submission barf a little.

Today on my Substack: "Teatro Tropea" - a flash fiction originally published in Firewords Magazine. The theme was PLACE. I thought of Tropea, where locals sing opera on their balconies in the evening. This story has never before appeared online. courtlandavenue.substack.com/p/teatro-tro...

The comics section of A DECADE OF ART features @bestofthenet.bsky.social winners Jaqi Howard & @altmanill0.bsky.social & more by @jessyrandall.bsky.social @shawnwrites.bsky.social @whitneycook.bsky.social @fregadiperri.bsky.social @davidlasky.bsky.social: expositionreview.com/expo-present....

also a huge shout out to @jessdawn.bsky.social for shouting out my own Basking In Glory, which didn't ultimately land in Short Story, Long, but instead in @doricliterary.bsky.social ! doric-literary.com/2026/03/01/b...

I truly believe that if you want to write AND submit creative writing, you should make a point to read for a lit mag. It is illuminating, sometimes reassuring, sometimes damning. To get to do this alongside Burch, a lit mag vet, must be such a special experience. So thankful for these readers!

Announcing the third place winner of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, Kate Catinella for the story "Small Something"! Second and First places coming later today! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"I suffered from a toxic combination of insecurity and arrogance that prohibited me from asking for help." Wow-these words on rejection and the writer's process by Grant Faulkner 💛💛 Lessons from My Publishing Journey open.substack.com/pub/grantfau...

Yes. Just working on things in the background to get up and running.

New flash at Milk Candy Review! Thanks to Cathy Ulrich for giving the Henries a home 💛 milkcandyreview.home.blog

"He was drunk on Natty Lite all summer cheering on the zebras like they were his illegitimate kids he suddenly took an interest in the second they became famous." Brilliant work by @chelseastickle.bsky.social today in @havehashad.com!

For those of you who aren't Marylanders or didn't see this happen online, we really did have zebras on the loose here for awhile. So, of course, I had to put them into a story. Huge thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for selecting this story!

My chapbook was released just a couple weeks ago and it’s still very thrilling to have it online for all to see! Also available for digital download at the Bottlecap Press site bottlecap.press/collections/...

Flash Fiction: Let’s Read This Picture Book by Sage Tyrtle Skip forward five pages. Skip past the toddlers with the rubber knives and toddlers with the cardboard handcuffs and the toddlers in their severe uniforms.

“Overdue” by @dango-ramen.bsky.social! Although it has self-driving cars, a sperm bank that only accepts donations from Nobel laureates, & an XGBoost-based algorithm, this award-winning story is about a young couple facing a potential breast cancer diagnosis. doric-literary.com/2026/06/01/o...

June marks the 10th year of Fictive Dream. Our sincere thanks to all who have supported us as #authors #readers #artists and #editors. To celebrate the occasion please enjoy our marvellous selection of forthcoming #fiction. Thank you to everyone for being a part of this wonderful journey.

Thank you @doricliterary.bsky.social for giving this odd story of mine a home! 💜

"When we both caught the flu (him from his recent trip to Japan, and I from tonguing him for two hours on Sunday night), I found myself on my knees. 'Please, Doc,' I said at the clinic, desperate, 'Tell us we shouldn’t chew these pills.'" - Amanda Lee mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“Overdue” by @dango-ramen.bsky.social! Although it has self-driving cars, a sperm bank that only accepts donations from Nobel laureates, & an XGBoost-based algorithm, this award-winning story is about a young couple facing a potential breast cancer diagnosis. doric-literary.com/2026/06/01/o...

"Overdue," by Lucy Zhang @dango-ramen.bsky.social, won the Doyle Short Story Award from the Nassau Review but . . . it was never published. Tomorrow, Doric Literary will rectify that by bringing you this terrific story!

Coming June 1: new fiction by @dango-ramen.bsky.social

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Literary Short Stories feat. @agnimagazine.bsky.social @triquarterlymag.bsky.social @afterdinnerconversation.com @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Just two more weeks left to submit to Hot Flash Literary Issue 4: Instant Karma! Guidelines: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/

Here's a flash piece about two young kids & the horrors of war. It's set on a beautiful Pacific Island in 1944. It was published Feb 2020 in the wonderful, though I believe now defunct, Firewords magazine. It has never before appeared online. courtlandavenue.substack.com/p/saipan

Coming June 1: new fiction by @dango-ramen.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who’s shared in the joy about my first collection of micros & flash, Ghost in the Rain, just published by Bottlecap Press. It feels amazing to have it out in the world. Hooray for chapbooks and indie presses! bottlecap.press/collections/...

I’m gonna read something at my screen at this tonight. meet.google.com/fkv-jche-uxw

Number 6!

🐦‍⬛Thank you! to judge Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social, and editors Meg Pokrass @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke. Thanks also to Fictive Dream's Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for submitting Peor Es Nada to this great annual contest! Anthology out 7th July ✍️

Free submissions open at Matchbook, go for it! I also dare you!

🌟 Mark your calendars! 🌟 JMWW is reopening flash submissions June 1! We cap at 40 submissions/reading period so don't delay. I'd love to see (or not "see" since we read anonymously 😅) your work in the queue.

new review out now in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! in which I talk about abortion rights, the Dobbs decision, the multi-award winning story "Rabbit Test," and the kinds of narratives we need now, in this political moment. check it out!

So thrilled to have my first chapbook out in the world, from Bottlecap Press! 12 moody, spooky micros and flash stories. This is a huge milestone for me. Thanks to everyone who’s shared in the joy! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read this beautiful story by our returning contributor Anna Vangala Jones (@anniejowrites.bsky.social), "Mae and Me," published in Doric Literary (@doricliterary.bsky.social). doric-literary.com/2025/08/15/m...

Pop-Up Submission Call!! In... 6 hours. Submissions will be open for one hour tonight/tomorrow morning (?), Wednesday, May 20, from 4am-5am ET (so, 1am-2am PT, and a more convenient hour for those of you outside the US). havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35651...

Congratulations to Doric Literary contributor, @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, whose work from the journal will appear in the New Stories from the South anthology alongside literary greats such as @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social & @emilynemens.bsky.social ! Pre-order link: blairpub.com/shop/p/new-s...

3.2121 days left to book A SmokeLong Summer 26, and you can bring a friend for no more dollars at all. This year we are celebrating our community, and it's going to be fun. Please let us know who your +1 is when you book with their email! www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

There's some gorgeous fiction out there! If you haven't yet read "Golden" by @annemarieneary.bsky.social, bookmark it for some (absolutely harrowing) weekend reading! doric-literary.com/2026/05/01/g...

Just pointing out that a literary debut happened earlier this month & you might have missed it. "Comfort Zone" is Evelyn Cooper's first published work of fiction. It is about healing & being afraid to accept the kindness of strangers. doric-literary.com/2026/05/01/c...

Just pointing out that a literary debut happened earlier this month & you might have missed it. "Comfort Zone" is Evelyn Cooper's first published work of fiction. It is about healing & being afraid to accept the kindness of strangers. doric-literary.com/2026/05/01/c...

There's some gorgeous fiction out there! If you haven't yet read "Golden" by @annemarieneary.bsky.social, bookmark it for some (absolutely harrowing) weekend reading! doric-literary.com/2026/05/01/g...

Excited to have a story out @tinymolecules.bsky.social today. With many thanks to editor Sara Dobbie🙏 Please check it out here: www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Today is a story about contagion and algae and the virus of memory

Writers: Community is everything. Let's root for each other every chance we get.

Here's a flash story I wrote in 2017. It's a weird one about sunbathers on a beach in Portugal but it is also about the changes in human nature as our resources (possessions, territory, etc.) diminish. open.substack.com/pub/courtlan...

For those of you over at the other site who follow me there, I'd strongly suggest you unfollow me. Seems my account is going from one hacker to another, & I don't want anyone harassed over there in "my" name. Powers that be there refuse to restore my access to MY account, so I gave up.

Brilliant place for a swift read and response time from @courtlandavenue.bsky.social