I always share when I come across this quote again:

"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...

Once in a blue moon I write a poem.

New micro CNF by Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 💚🐈‍⬛💚 “I remember a classmate in P.E. who thought that everyone says namaste because it means ‘here we are’ in Greek” www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

what a dream to have a piece in the new issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Thanks so much @dehardy.bsky.social for believing in this piece, my first CNF publication! 🐈‍⬛ www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

I have a CNF piece in the new issue of Claudine!!

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Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks

Best Microfiction reopens! Please spread the word!

Hey, come hear some readings tomorrow!! @travisflatt.bsky.social has a chapbook out and he will be reading along with friends (including me) to launch it!! 📚📚📚

www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.

this is tomorrow! Very excited :)

It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate.... www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-97987...

Reading Nov. 2 at 3pm ET, celebrating my first chapbook "Five Stories" w/: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social , @aniking.bsky.social , @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social , Katherine Plumhoff , @cbigs.bsky.social , @fionamckay.bsky.social , @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social www.sandandgravelpress.com/readings

honoured to be in the next issue of Claudine!!! 🐈‍⬛

so looking forward to this!!!

“I’m sorry, it’s important.” Please do yourselves a favour and check out this lovely, wistful story from a very talented writer!

'The next morning Mrs. Panayiota tried the grocery store, slowly following the sweeping curve of the downhill road. Above her the mountain rose steep, shadowy, and uncaring.' Gorgeous story from @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️

This made me smile - lots! What a lovely story.

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

“I do not think love comes easily to me—love for people, that is. For cats, who have been accused of loving back too little or not at all, it is a different story.” Rebecca van Laer on what humans can learn from our relationships with cats.

So excited for this, and the page size makes me love it already @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social

www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/six-st... Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!

It's incredible how much @travisflatt.bsky.social can pack into this 360 word story, creating a little miniature world of fully-fleshed characters and seasonally appropriate strangeness.

Hey friends and mutuals: writtend.bsky is almost certainly not Ottessa Moshfegh’s Bluesky account. She states very clearly on her s*bstack about page that she doesn’t use social media. And this is pretty textbook impersonation vibes. I’ve reported the account, please do the same.

Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

New CNF up at Aesterion Lit. www.aesterion.com/fall-2025-1

"We gather outside under the stars and sing her praises" Love the swell and momentum of this wonderful micro!

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

Apart from being really moving in the tale it tells, this story has something soooo satisfying about it. The language just tickles my brain like some kind of magical tactile thing. And what a masterclass of a final sentence. Wow, @mizukiyamagen.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!

I can finally share that I made this year's shortlist for the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction!! Still in disbelief and looking forward to reading the winning story 😊

What a wonderful interview, and it just makes me even happier I get to be part of Claudine's November issue! Thanks for this, @mynachang.bsky.social!

When the moms and dads come to the door, they know exactly what and who she is. A ghost the dads say. The moms whisper to the dads, Trouble. Mandy, slipping through the cracks -- just heartbreaking @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in House of Arcanum

"bodies blue like water or summer sky, blue as if Matisse painted them, blue like a uniform, blue like glass bottles and oxford shirts, blue like Dad’s eyes" Everyone go read this gorgeous story by @aniking.bsky.social!!

New @aniking.bsky.social: “when the last one crosses the threshold my living room is gonna be full up, bird stacked on bird stacked on shitting bird” 💙🐈‍⬛💙 www.claudineliterary.net/aniking

Super excited to have a micro CNF accepted by @claudineliterary.bsky.social! 🐈‍⬛ I'll be in the November issue, but in the meantime very much looking forward to reading issue 1 soon! Thank you @dehardy.bsky.social, Claudine & interns!

Hey authors! This is relevant to our interests.

This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "Haineko (Grey Cat)" by @lmbayley.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Skelly thoroughly enjoyed Lives of the Dead by @fionamckay.bsky.social, but in an enraged way, because this novella in flash is the perfect melding of fairy tale, "benevolent sexism", and the impact it has on women's lives when they don't get to be in charge of their bodies. 10/10!

Holy shit, yesterday it was DARK in my head. Today there’s some light, and that’s all we need, right? Wishing you a bit of light today. Text a friend. Call your mom. Listen to some good stuff. Make art. Read (I have some recs!). Listen to the birds. Take care of yourself.

OMG how did I miss this gorgeous gorgeous story when it went live!!! Congratulations @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social for the Best of the Net nom & thank you for a story I know I'll return to many times. Wow!!!

Finished @fionamckay.bsky.social's incredible novella-in-flash THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (Ad Hoc Fiction) today. This is a devastating and sensitively observed book about a woman's marriage and foray into motherhood, against the backdrop of retold, un-idyllic fairy tales. I loved it ❤️

In such disbelief still that I didn't think to share the link to my nominated story!! But you can read it here :) rawlit.weebly.com/6_3.html

It was a bit of a medical scare with Skipper, but she’s back home, happy, and (because they had to shave her legs) rocking some pretty stylish boots

Last, but not least! Best of the Net 2026 Nominations - Fiction & CNF Congratulations to all and thank you for your trust ♥️

OMG thank you so much @delgeo14.bsky.social for nominating my story!!!!! Never saw this coming

Had such a great time at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social (even though I likely spent most of it telling people how nervous I was)!! Just incredible to be among so many inspirational (and friendly) writers 😊