Queer love, an expanding universe and a collapsing relationship - I've gone all cosmic in my new story, up today with Bottle Rocket 🚀 Thanks @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for the great Art & Flash session on Bhupen Khakhar that sparked this story. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/thi...

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Wow, I love this story by @travisflatt.bsky.social soooo much!!! Might be my favourite Travis story ever, which is saying a lot. Go read it, everyone!

Super excited to have joined @fracturedlit.bsky.social's team of readers! Thanks @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and team for this opportunity ☺️

I’m very excited to share that my new flash fiction novella ‘Bereft of Reason’ will be published by V.Press on 1 June. You can pre-order from V.Press or signed copies are available from my website. Set in 1890s northern England, it is inspired by a shocking crime in my family’s history.

soooo looking forward to this!!!!

#CoverReveal 👀 Ani King's FAMILY NIGHT--a collected flash fiction collection that is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism--is out October 2026! @aniking.bsky.social #newrelease #flashfiction #fictioncollection

Thrilled to be in the flood for the third time! Catch my story 'Readying' at 7:40 am BST on the 13th of June :) Thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social!

Happy I left London behind

"What a crusade, and to have failed so spectacularly at such a simple mission. She who had spent her life in the fields, tending to crops and animals, strong like the earth she cared for, cheeks bronzed by the sun like baked clay." Bittersweet bite by @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in Swamp Pink!!

words to live by!

Oof, go read this unnerving, powerful story by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social!!

Yay! Absolutely thrilled to have a new story in the amazing @100wordstory.bsky.social today. Big thanks to Michelle Ross for taking this one, and @livnorman.bsky.social, @laurabesley.bsky.social and @marthawrites.bsky.social for their eyes on the first draft 🌼🌿🌺 100wordstory.org/where-it-lea...

Thank you to everyone who has donated and got us past our modest target so quickly! The crowdfunder will be open for a while yet to support as many bursaries as possible for the crucial small presses across the UK.

This month's #Mondettes picked by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mizuki made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/march-2026

Omg! I'm in this month's Mondettes! Thanks so much for including 'The Mattress,' @mizuki-yama.bsky.social and @mattkendrick.bsky.social!

Look y’all! The @monarch.gay anthology is gorgeous and such an amazing collection of writing — honored to be a part of this. Big thanks to @psmokejournal.bsky.social for loving this story first! Check the whole anthology out at monarch.gay

Beautiful indeed, Bob. I’ve seen this before and it was a joy to reread. Thank you so much for posting. @sfreligh.bsky.social

Congratulations To Fiona Lynch! Highly commended www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/02/32nd...

this is a gorgeous and heartbreaking novella and I couldn't recommend it more!!

Amazed and honoured to have a story on the longlist!!

poor kafka, forced to churn out new books from his extradimensional prison

beautiful new Natalie Warther today! "Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizard’s hands are tied, this is simply the rule of beginnings: Should you acquire giggle and coo, you must forfeit fetch and wag." https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il

"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, the swishing of my heart pumping blood, a V of geese crossing the sky" Gorgeous joy @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

What a shit way to talk about submittions - publicly, as if in some way scolding. Reading subs requires patience and respect. Try that next time. “I wasn’t sure if they were good only in comparison to the many disorderly efforts at storytelling that my editorial helpers and I had dutifully read”

Gave me goosebumps. Great CNF piece by @delgeo14.bsky.social, go read it!!!

My prose poem “Leaves” is now out in the latest issue of MudRoom magazine🎋❤️

"Astronaut jam!" This is brilliant

Holy crap! Congrats everyone and so incredible to be on this list!!

Congrats, everyone!

Today's highlight from our amazing Feline Flash issue is from @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 🦝 We loved how relatable this MCs misery is - and how she chooses to rebel against it. Imaginative, fun and accurately catty 🐈 trashcatlit.com/down-goes-th...

Matt does so much for the literary community, please check out all the resources he offers on his website or check out his editing offers!

One thing I love to do is buy extra copies of my friends' books and give them to this little free library. Love imaging the lucky reader who discovers their next new fave author. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social

"I got so mad one day at work, I began to knock things off the desk.To-do list, down. Pen, down. Half-full coffee cup, down." I want to be in this glorious cat world that knows what to knock down-- and what to revel in @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/down-goes-th...

Honoured to be part of this phenomenal new issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social, thank you @therelphian.bsky.social! My story Down Goes the Plant was inspired by @rebeccavl.bsky.social amazing memoir CAT, out with Bloomsbury Academic. Do read it, fellow cat people!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/cat-...

@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social love this!!! who among us has not wanted to be this person. or cat. 😸 bravo!!! trashcatlit.com/down-goes-th...

Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers! www.smokelong.com/december-wor...

A new year and we've a new issue of fabulous feline flash for you. So, go outside and come in again. Demand snacks. Scratch the carpet. Then get your paws on this link: trashcatlit.com/feline-flash... Devour, savour, ask for more. Trash Cat let the cats in the bin and it's smashing 🦝

In 2024 I made 83 submissions and got 2 acceptances. April to December 2024 was just rejection after rejection after rejection. But I found the @smokelong.bsky.social community and that gave me hope and inspiration and drive. (cont)

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025 The Mattress by @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in Swamp Pink (also not over here? C'mon guys!) swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Village is a place for the global flash community to gather. Stay tuned. #ittakesavillage

@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social finally got to read your piece in this collection & mon Dieu such beauty in grief 🥹 necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Another constellation of lights to brighten these short days.

I've got a micro, "If You Were Here," in @necessaryfiction.com's second group of solstice/end-of-year stories which was just published today! Thrilled to be in such excellent company ☺️ necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Day 2 of our solstice gathering features writing by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, Catherine Reedy, Kendra Cardin, @garetherees.bsky.social, @nonabiding.bsky.social, @erinkeane.bsky.social, @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social, Lleyton Michael Kane, and Warren Stoddard II. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Coming 2nd January 🦝 Rebecca gives us the life of a rescue cat with authenticity and emotional resonance @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social's MC channels all things cat to survive her mundane life @lorifontanes.bsky.social brings us a cat determined to make his owner happy, even after death

Day One of our solstice gathering features writing by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, @raymondbrunell.bsky.social, @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, @janewords.bsky.social, Talya Byrd, Carol M. Quinn, Tanya Kornilovich, and Joe Kalovac. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Happy solstice!

I've had a great time selecting some pieces to mark the solstice and year's end at @necessaryfiction.com, and am grateful to the writers who shared their work. Here is the first gathering of lights, with three more to follow in the days ahead.

We're excited to share the amazing lineup for our cat-themed Pop-Up Issue. This 20-story issue will go live on January 2nd 🦝 It's a fabulous mix of feline flash and we can't wait to shove it through your digital catflaps💜 1/3