Your Monday Mocha.🐶💜

And there it is: My little journal is alone at #2! Out of 1000s of fiction journals on @duotrope.com, @doricliterary.bsky.social has the 2nd fastest response time! Half a day. We respond to the average submission in half a day! Thanks to everyone who reports fiction submission response times.

“…get readers to forget that they’re being told a tale.” Excellent advice from @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social! Check this out, friends.💙

I started this series, Fiction Sandwich, over at my Writing Sandwich Substack to explore my obsession with fiction craft, theory, history, challenges, and the (often seemingly impossible, sometimes even ghostly) journey of writing a novel. carolinehagood.substack.com/p/writing-a-...

New vase, glazed gold and glossy green. The kiln gods added the blue and white. Happy Thursday, friends. #pottery🤍🩵💛💚

“With trembling hands, she lights a thin cigarette, taking a long pull, filling her lungs, inhaling deeper than she usually would, but her mind’s in a place it’s not been before.” @suzannehicks.bsky.social in Twisted Tongue Press twistedtonguepress.com/fiction/atom...

“I like taking an ordinary moment and putting it under a lens.” Check out @ivygrimes.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with the excellent @sabrinahicks.bsky.social!📚💙

✨A new episode has arrived!✨ After loss, there is always aftermath. And perhaps a few visitors from the past. Watch Episode 7: Plot Markers from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’. 🕰️ Watch it here: youtu.be/92sd6VUdUBQ #thetimepiratewhowaitsashore

Your Monday Mocha.🐶💚

"He might turn out to be a young Sartre to my Beauvoir.” “(I care more about people’s lives than their philosophies.)” & the maybes I Still Don’t Care About Hegel + 2 by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @newworldwriting.bsky.social newworldwriting.net/jacqueline-d...

One week left before submissions close. Tell us about the fields set to fire, of the fires put out, of the smoldering in your chest. What time does. What life does.

Made my sister a blue and white marbled pitcher for her blue and white kitchen. Happy Thursday, friends. #pottery💙🤍

Being #editor of a #literary #journal listed on the @duotrope.com ranking of the "25 Fastest Fiction Publishers" is like a singer-songwriter having a song on the #Billboard Hot 100 music chart. @doricliterary.bsky.social debuted at #11. MY HUMBLE LITTLE JOURNAL IS NOW #5!! doric-literary.com

Have you really let over a week go by without grabbing one of the best flash fiction collections you'll read this year? COYOTE GIRL by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social is yours for the having. Get it now from Cowboy Jamboree: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....

I'm officially off the other site thanks to being hacked, but I miss people I followed there. If you come across this, all you fellow writers, follow me. Pleaseeeeeee.

If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these two books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal and cerebral.

Excited to have 5 haiku included in this beautiful book! #haikuforsoulmates

Your Monday Mocha.🧡🐶

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

If you'd like to buy the book it's available now as a paperback & E-book. troubador.co.uk/bookshop/con... www.amazon.co.uk/Longshore-Dr...

“…an introspection committed to honesty.” This thoughtful piece by @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social.💙

3 days and counting... send us your stories by 15 April.

Home and drained after a lively #AWP2026, my first. A highlight was seeing the new issue of OSU The Journal at booth 232 and getting to thank the wonderful editorial team for publishing my story. Excited to read the whole issue!

I hope you have @pdforan.bsky.social’s collection on your radar, book lovers. It’s a stunner!📚💙

About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF. https://to.pbs.org/47HpDOI

The US blockading the Strait of Hormuz is giving some real “you can’t fire me, I quit” vibes

Making soup bowls in the studio this weekend. Here are some new ones in sour apple and pink shadow. Come April, every soup bowl turns into an ice cream bowl. Happy Friday, friends. #pottery💚🩵💛🌸🍨

Still time to sign up for my workshop, Rochester area friends!📚💜✍️

If you're in or near Ithaca, join @mansfieldparkour.bsky.social & me to watch 2 teams duke it out in LITERARY SURVIVOR: THE SCRIBE HAS SPOKEN! Thurs, 5/7, 6:30-8pm, Liquid State! For the Spring Writes Literary Festival hosted by the Community Arts Partnership. springwrites.org/events/live-...

👀 seismic life moment for your reading pleasure!

Pre-order your copy & get it on pub day — May 5 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

"*Do you smell the beach?* she inhales, closing her eyes long enough to feel she is slipping away into a riptide." "iridescent eyeshadows" & "all I smell is sun and possibilities" Sabrina ♥️ My Drugstore Queen by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social in Coyote Girl, published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Surprise in the mail: Pickle in Spanish! Un Carro Nuevo para Pickle. ¡Me gusta mucho! * * * #EarlyReaders #Comics #GraphicNovel #Spanishtranslation #Dog #Cars #ILiketoReadComics

@sabrinahicks.bsky.social! Congratulations! I can’t wait to read your book!😍📚🎉💚

The Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms is looking for a Writer in Residence to run from August 16, 2026 to January 2, 2027 and consist of approximately 10-20 hours of work per week. To learn more and apply by April 20, visit our website. https://www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#wir

“You are my elaborate metaphor,/ my sometimes touchstone/ to a maddening truth.” Mocha & I spent our early hours today with @jenlrouse.bsky.social’s stunning new collection, THE CONSTANT HUM OF ELSEWHERE.📚🐶🩵

My Mocha among the daffodils.💚 Happy Easter, friends.🐶🌼

“I dream about other places…” This beauty by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social!💙

💫 CONTESTS CLOSING SOON! 💫 More information (submission guidelines, interviews with our lovely judges) available on our website! Link to the Submission Page: passagesnorth.submittable.com/submit/

"Maybe this funeral director directed funerals as a kid, placing shiny pennies on the unblinking eyes of his sister’s dolls..." New fiction: "An Unlikely Crucifixion" by Gabriel Moseley www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/moseley/a...

“…and I am always here, crawling towards him…” Oh, wow, these stunning gems by the excellent @kathyfish.bsky.social. Check them out, friends! 🔥🔥

If you're also getting emotional about space and exploration, here's a story I wrote about one of my favorite NASA missions:

@nathanpettigrew.bsky.social has his #debut with TALES FROM TERREBONNE coming soon!

New, new from the @welkinpress.bsky.social - in the lead-up to the Welkin Genre Prize, I'll be teaching 6 one-hour generative workshops which delve into Welkin micros past to inspire some Welkin micros future! 1st one is on Thursday 7th May. Details / book: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops

Your morning Mocha & some early bloomers: crocuses, snowdrops, & pussy willows.🌼🐶🤍

Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social and Silverbacked Punk Press for believing in Songs from the Blimp Ruins (in visible ink and in Sensurround®, we think). Coming soon. 💙

@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is opening submissions to our annual writing competition a couple of days early. Read the following post for all the details. Can't wait to read your stories. gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...

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

Get those gorgeously quiet and softly healing pieces ready, folks! Literary Namjooning will be opening for subs in June!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

@pdforan.bsky.social!!!😍❤️📚🎉🎉