very grateful to dishsoap quarterly for the nomination; I cannot recommend submitting to them enough!!

Read @sagetyrtle.bsky.social's latest in @fracturedlit.bsky.social about the billionaires: "The after-dinner entertainment starts, a comedy set consisting of real New York City residents reading their real medical bills out loud." What a way to make your fiction sear 🔥 *chef's kiss*

"When the woman from Housing knocked, I figured she wanted to sell me pest control. Or solar panels. Or Jesus. I can always tell by the clipboard." A story for our times - I'm now guilt tripping my walls and doors and house about the many ways I've loved and cared for them so they don't erase me 🤞🏼

"For the many wonderful things you did for me (remember that cardboard box?), I’m convinced you deserve more moggy company." Absolute gem of a story by @lorifontanes.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social - and beautifully read 👏🏼👏🏼

OMG this sub call SHOUTS to me! "Every January, the world tells you to go fix yourself... We want work that interrogates [this] idea. Send us your words about bodies treated like projects, morning routines gone feral, hustle culture masquerading as salvation www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/cu...

✂️ CALL FOR SUBS & THEME REVEAL!✂️ Issue 8: Collage is OPEN Dec 1-Jan 31 Submitters have permission to REMIX a large selection of our Archive! buff.ly/dWZdncU See our OFF LIMITS LIST for limitations: buff.ly/CDwSomV. See Guidelines for RULES: buff.ly/9iwzYqR Get inspired with de / composition!

That's it folks!!!! Entries are now closed for another year! An INCREDIBLE 1277 (!!!) entries have been received. A record. I have some tough choices ahead. The longlist should hopefully be coming your way on the 8th January. That's next Thursday! Good luck!

Smoking start to 2026 🔥 Thrilled to be chosen as a @smokelong.bsky.social Emerging Writer Fellow. Appreciate this vote of confidence from the editors. The next 6 months will be BUSY but I am here for the chaos and the learning. Rock on fellow fellows @travisflatt.bsky.social Udy, Claire & Alex!

Just kicked off the new year with a fab workshop with @sfreligh.bsky.social and one of the prompts included this incredible poem, "What the living do" by Marie Howe. Have 3 great ideas inspired by Sarah and her prompts, bring on 2026!! poets.org/poem/what-li...

Need a writing adrenaline rush? SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is coming in, um, March! Write with us. We're not a cult. Nope. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...

Happy New Year! Our submissions are open for Issue 8 -Prose & Poetry / Art & Hybrids ​Optional theme: Wilderness ​Optional prompt: ‘Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.’ ― Edward Abbey rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

And we're open! Send us your bold, imaginative, weird, wonderful stories - we are here for them. Just a reminder: 500 words max Free to enter We read anonymously Deadline 15 Jan

It's sign-up time to start in January! We'd love to start letting new members into the workshop over the next couple of days. Come write with us! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

We will be open for submissions 1 to 15 Jan. For inspiration, read our winning stories from last issue by @karaoakleaf.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @belindarowe.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @theodora.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/issue-39/

The long hallways of my arms, where sometimes, I swear I can feel their footsteps, where I look down and expect to see the skin rise up, something pushing against me from the inside." Brilliant unforgettable winning [email protected] @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/body-as-a-si...

Always happy to be in any group with the brilliant and lovely Cole Beauchamp! Thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social for the nomination!

Love this beauty from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social 🃏 Check out 'Striking it Lucky at the Wind Creek Casino' 🎰

My painting process #art #artist

When I found out my story, How to Survive a Black Hole, had been selected for this anthology, by Deesha Philyaw no less, I was like, um, you have the wrong person... But it's real and I'm pinching myself. Thank you Keith, Deesha, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social ❤️ for being the best supporter and friend.

Big big thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @bathflashaward.bsky.social for nominating my story, The Inspection 🥰 And to @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for the workshop it originated in. Delighted to be on the list for the @monarch.gay with flash buddy @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social

Wow! Don't miss this CNF from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social - amazing depth in so few words "My first boyfriend was kind, his voice soothing, quiet, no rocket blasts shoving molecules out of their way like at home. Even when he pointed a shotgun at me, his voice was calm."

'Pa's madder than a boiled owl ...' Bloody gorgeous!

'I’m fixing to cash out at the Casino in Wetumpka when a two-for-one from Ancestry.com bleeps on my phone.' Unexpected, but inevitable twists in this cracker by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction Striking it lucky at the Wind Creek Casino open.substack.com/pub/westword...

I am trying my hand at CNF. Wrote something I liked & then thought, ah it's too on the nose. This is one of my fatal flaws. In life, I like telling it straight. In flash, you can get away with it occasionally, but better to use technique & craft, to tell it slant. Then I remembered Brevity...

I’m always saying the same shit and I mean it every time. In the age of soulless AI slop, nothing matters more than your voice, so write/create whatever makes you happy. Make it weird. Make it dark. Make it queer. Make it surreal, diverse, sexy. Make it political as fuck. Do YOU.

*New story* featuring a last-minute present that keeps on giving... "After a feast that has us full as ticks, Pa’s liquored up and cracking his knuckles like he’s still in charge. That man thinks the sun comes out just to hear him crow." westword.substack.com/p/striking-i...

“I unwrap the candy bar my mom sent me for the holidays with its pictures of snow drifts on the wrapper, and think for a moment I’ve seen a glimpse of my family’s Christmas, but …” @amygcb.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/prisoner-no-...

Omgomgomg look at this wonderful review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for Bitter Over Sweet!! I am so grateful ❤️❤️❤️ @sfwp.bsky.social

“To know your history is to carry all your pieces, whole and shattered, through the wilderness. And feel their weight.” ⁦~ Sabrina Orah Mark

Well that was so much fun, I wish we could do it all over again! Brilliant to see all you lovely flash people, meet @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's family, hear the most touching mother-daughter duet ever, celebrate my writing bestie 👏🏼👏🏼 and hear her fantastic NiF MOTHER KARMA. Order link below ⏬️

Delighted to have my Star Wars micro "Don't mistake a red lightsaber for love, and other life advice I've given my daughter" in this beautiful NUNUM anthology - Done in a Hundred. Workshopped in the wonderful @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. You can find it here: www.nunum.ca/anthologies....

NUNUM: Blending Flash Fiction & Art (Fiction Art; pays) opened to fee-based submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Writers! Looking forward to seeing you in 90 min. If you haven't signed up and want to come, register and join us at 8pm GMT. We're celebrating Sumitra's new novella in flash. There will be readings, singing & chat 😍 to launch MOTHER KARMA @publishedbyjake.bsky.social into the big wide world

@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com

Well who doesn't need some of Matt's genius? Tagging some writers I met this year - @mgjanz.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social also have to say, this community is chock full of amazing human beings!!

www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2025-fl... Gorgeous and devastating words by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social 😭

Well given all the things @sagreene1.bsky.social has written about - homesick capybaras, a mysterious wombat, a foetus w dodgy political views, a musical vagina, tables & a blue sponge, I guess a tower of phones singing Brian Wilson tunes is not so far out there🤣 templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Come join the party! 🎈 Bring your own cake…we’d bake, but haven’t figured out how to teleport six layers of pastry, cream and cinnamon sugar without it melting & rendering our prototype transporter inoperable….

Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

It's a party 🥳 Join @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social & me at the launch of the amazing MOTHER KARMA. All welcome- Sat 13 Dec 8pm GMT / 3pm EST Sun 14 Dec 7am AEST Register below to attend or for the recording: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Such fun reading & listening to great stories as part of the @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness Open Mic. Good to see you @christopherallen.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social @arti-jain.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social Story from @trampset.bsky.social that I read trampset.org/the-things-s...

Do you miss being a teenager? What about all the angst? No? 😆 I recommend you read this story by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social so you can relive all the beauty and longing you might've forgotten in those moments ✨

"During try-out season, I keep practising but all Bethany wants to do is deconstruct John’s latest TikTok vids" Brilliant sense of journey in this piece that explores the essence of "be careful what you wish for" in such a clever way; love the thematically-cohesive time expressions

The kind of story that makes you grin and squeal at the same time. @nomad-sw18.bsky.social

supreme court to decide whether part of constitution is part of constitution

These days, Henry is a survival tactic. Find yours where you can. When the news is overwhelming, my husband turns to Youtube. “Here comes Henry,” he says. Henry’s owner brings treats & the donkey prances to the fence, braying & showing his toothy glee. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/octo...

"“Careful you don’t get a reputation for being a b-i-t-c-h,” spells out Maggie." This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Ahhh how did I miss this one? @pleomorphic2.bsky.social having fun in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social with a discontented madam... "You have, through TAD™, deprived me of the irritation, disquiet and complaint that is the real spice of life."