Your snowy Monday Mocha.❄️🐶❤️

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

We are open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

@sudhab.bsky.social! Congratulations!📚🎉💜

“…nothing but a lit candle in the bleed of the rain.” Oh, this beauty by the wonderful @pdforan.bsky.social: ❤️!

For the first time since this kind of astonishing list came out, we're open for subs. Don't know how long it will last. cliffordgarstang.com/2026-literar...

This sharp gem by @immcarvalho.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social! 🔥

Ditmas Lit is next Wed. 1/28 with readers Simona Blat, @carolinehagood.bsky.social, Francisco Márquez, and Keith Newton + guest host Ben Lasman! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Been on a cocoa cup kick lately, & these marbled ones are my favorites from my last firing. Had some odds & ends of stained clays, bit of blue, a ball of brown, some green. Threw a little of each with plain stoneware. I like how the turns of the wheel threaded the colors through the white. #pottery❤️

Congratulations, @mimulus.bsky.social!📚💙🎉

A fantastic read! Enjoying this Saturday with @sfreligh.bsky.social’s “Other Emergencies”. 😍

I dunno...sounds like BURN by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social is pretty fuckin good. Get yours February 3rd 🚬🔥

book mail! thrilled to dig into the wondrous poems of @susanlleary.bsky.social 🌷

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

@ladiwoods.bsky.social! Congratulations!💙📚🎉

“…a singular delicacy, an attention to subtlety and play that is all her own.” Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of Sufie Berger’s solo show! 🖼️💚

We're reopening submissions at Gone Lawn. Same old thing, you know what we like & you've got it. & as always (not to be judged!), please consider a donation to keep a struggling mag afloat, if you can. Bad times, bad times. And come the next full moon, dance under it! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

“the in-between colour/ of a newborn’s eyes” So beautiful, @martinadalton.bsky.social!💜

“I am cold/ like last night’s fire,/ and the sitting is hard/ in the age-old pew.” Mocha & I are spending this wintry morning reading @burgi.bsky.social’s excellent poetry collection, BEHIND NORMALCY.🐶🩵📚

My New Year’s resolution was to figure out how to make salt rising bread, an Appalachian treat that requires wild microbes to rise. Finally finagled some success after 4 tries. I grew up eating this bread. So good! Grateful for Genevieve Bardwell & Susan Ray Brown’s helpful book Salt Rising Bread.❤️

We’re 30 days into our reading period and already Shō No. 9 is shaping up to be a great one. Send bangers!

Wonderful craft books and prompts! Thank you, @kathyfish.bsky.social! 💙📚

Damn amazed to be part of this bumper issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social. They are exceptional humans and editors and champions of barmy minds. Thank you!

"this time I will not betray myself" My poem in the @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🖤

I'm delighted that I coincidentally had two stories pubbed this month (written over a year apart) that each are about hometowns and secrets ghostparachute.com/issue/januar...

Look what came in the mail today! @karenschauber.bsky.social what a fantastic project and resource for flash writers!! Thanks so much for putting this stunning collection of flashy tips together! ❤️

For all dog-loving writers. 🤎 I bookmarked so many resonant passages.

So very pleased to have a cherita in this powerful Renee Nicole Good anthology. Special thanks to #FinHall for curating this quickly-done collection. All proceeds to benefit Renee's family. More details forthcoming. #poetry

writing is so funny because you think wow I hope people read this thing I made but also oh no what if people read it

“The accident that changed it all happened while the village was asleep…” Powerful and poignant: this story by @catherineobrien.bsky.social.💙

it's here! my first publication of 2026!

Friends, we are back and officially open for submissions today! We will be reading for our Feb issue with a deadline of Jan 30th. Please take a moment to review our guidelines as we have made some changes. We very much look forward to reading your work! heroinchic.weebly.com

" I have such judgy thoughts about your so-called salvation..." Two of my prose poems in the Winter Issue of Westchester Review; here's one -- Issue here: www.westchesterreview.com/winter-2026-...

Had to repost this on Substack as I work out the kinks of learning another platform! substack.com/@sabrinahick...

Thank you to Ron Spatz and Alaska Quarterly Review for inviting me to read my short story “Mennonites” (originally published in AQR) as part of the Alaska Quarterly Review “ Pièces de Résistance” Reading Series. You can listen to the entire story at this link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZJ...

Michael - @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social - has artwork featured in the new issue of Brevity ( @dintywmoore.bsky.social ) Incredibly proud of him for these haunting variations made of local foraged inks: brevitymag.com

@martinadalton.bsky.social! Congratulations!🎉❤️📚

Your Monday Mocha.🐶❄️💙

To what lengths must we go to find our sense of home? How many battles & how much pain until we find, & often by surprise, that it was always just on the inside? We hope to be a sort of home for the hard questions, the hard & long traveled road. Our submission doors are open. heroinchic.weebly.com

“You say, ‘I want to hear you sing…’” This beautiful story by @sudhab.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social!❤️

@suzyeynon.bsky.social! So beautiful!📚💙

Florida friends, I'll be in Vero Beach on February 7. The adult class needs 12 participants for it to go, so please share widely. And sign up!

Register Now: ALL New 3-in-90 Workshop Series! open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Burgi Zenhaeusern 💙 from WHITE DOOR (Carbonation Press) Happy #smallpoemsunday! @burgi.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

“Oh, yes, you said. I was thinking of the stars.” Oh, this gorgeous gem by @melissafitz.bsky.social! ✨💛

“…although people and places shape us, they do not define us.” Check out @jenwithwords.bsky.social’s wonderful review of @kossworks.bsky.social’s excellent poetry collection!📚💚

2nd Anniversary issue includes work:@megpokrass.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @jefffriedman.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social Guy Biederman …more in comments. gooseberry-pie.com/issue-39

“Stolid body, rattled heart” This poignant beauty by @susanlleary.bsky.social!💙