Best Microfiction 2026 Selections: Congrats to Michelle Ross! Congratulations to Michelle Ross, whose story “Long Game," published in jmww, was chosen to appear in Best Microfiction 2026!

…and her name was Good

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Best Small Fictions Nominations We are pleased to announce our 2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations!

Northern bobwhite. First bird of the year.

Submissions Are Now Open! We are reading Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction, and Poetry now through January 15th. Send us your best!

2025: A Year in Review by Olga Katsovskiy I keep returning to this quiet truth: you don't need a long list to justify your year or measure your worth.

Flash Fiction: New Dad by Nicole Brogdon When New Dad says he’s going fishing, he’s really going fishing.

2026 Best Microfictions Nominees We are pleased to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2026

Flash Fiction: Little Inferno by Mathieu Parsy The crowd names you “Little Inferno.” You like the name. No one asks if it hurts.

It's just so primed for "This is just to say" treatment. C'mon, poets. Rise and shine.

Congrats to our Pushcart nominees!

"Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’t choose her." Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/f...

"He explained that the fountain was about transformation. Water is motion. Life is motion. The flap of the wing, the angel, the bird. The carrying of each from one world to the next." Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯

"Kai wonders if this is a drill or not." Flash Fiction: All Clear by Alex Juffer jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/f...

loved this haunting flash by @bybethhahn.bsky.social. “It wasn’t the thing she was supposed to die of, but an accident. While it was happening, it felt like a cartoon.”

This piece has all the feels.

"The challenge of flash fiction is, of course, to pick the right words to tell a complete story, since the writer is allowed so few." Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...

"How has being part of jmww influenced you as a writer?" Reading the queue at jmww has influenced the way I edit my own flash fiction. Get to Know: Lisa Thornton, Associate Flash Fiction Editor jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/g...

"A month before she died, she stripped to her bra and underwear on a July day and climbed into a city fountain." Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/f...

"The more I listened, the more the drumming made sense. Glued together by a few steady beats, pleasing, ever-shifting patterns formed in the chaos." Flash Fiction: Drum Circle by Laura Remington jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/f...

"I know this is also his way of telling me the truth. That when he was a boy he lost friends, but translating Morse code while serving as a soldier, he was also likely the reason others did too." Beautiful @kellypedro.bsky.social @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/f...

“I wondered if I would be handed a menu, some pictures perhaps, but Rajiv wheels a single baby out, in an identical crib. A girl, madam. Her name is Rashida.” Haunted by this important motherhood story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🍼

Friends I have a piece up in a dream journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today about the relentlessness of motherhood (and a public toilet sign). Hope you’ll read. Thanks @kbonilla.bsky.social for seeing something in it 🧡🧡🧡

"I walk down the stairs – concrete, the edges smoothed away by time and the march of many mothers." Flash Fiction: Baby Change by Sumitra Singam jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/f...

“The smoke helps the pineapples grow the same size,” he says, “but first they have to bring them to within an inch of their lives.” Another gem by @kellypedro.bsky.social, this one in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social !

Sometimes, I write a flash that I feel so tender about, and today @jmwwjournal.bsky.social published that piece. "Pineapples" is even more special to me because my sister's photography accompanies it. I'd love if you gave it a read. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/f... #WritingSky #FlashFiction

"Bringing me to this place, he thinks he’s showing me what his life has really been like. But I know this is also his way of telling me the truth." I love this remarkable flash (and the last perfect line) by @kellypedro.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“The smoke helps the pineapples grow the same size,” he says, “but first they have to bring them to within an inch of their lives.” And I roll my eyes because he’s not really talking about pineapples anymore. Flash Fiction: Pineapples by Kelly Pedro jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/f...

We agree with @thorntonforreal.bsky.social—"David as Toaster" by Dawn Tasaka Steffler is a masterful work of flash fiction.

I don't know how @dawnsteffler.bsky.social conjured this story in so few words. Pure magic. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/f...

"Making toast becomes the one thing in her day that she single-tasks, even though, living alone now, she doesn’t need to multi-task anymore." Flash Fiction: David as Toaster by Dawn Tasaka Steffler jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/f...

"Like this, like this Benny instructs them as he whirls his green chalk in the air like a magic wand to summon the Blacktop King." Flash Fiction: Benny of The First Grade by Kate Faigen jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/f...

Today’s poem. A shorty for Saturday.

"We had been searching, or maybe dreaming, mapping the geography of mailboxes and morning glories that sprawled like nebulas across sidewalks." Flash Fiction: "Who Can Say?" by Pegah Quji: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/f...

Spending time today with the latest issue of @stonecoastreview.bsky.social & excited it includes my flash “How Hauntings Happen,” born in a wonderful @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop.💙

Congrats to Abigail Myers for receiving a Pushcart nomination for "Never Swim Alone" in jmww! @jmwwjournal.bsky.social @abigailmyers.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/f...

“I’m peeling potatoes, so I put Grandma into the junk drawer, where we bump into her when we search for a twisty tie or the screwdriver we use to tighten the cabinet knobs that are always coming loose.” New flash fiction by Michelle Ross @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

"After the funeral, my father sends me a one-minute timer, the small, plastic kind used in board games, only it’s not filled with fine, white sand but lumpy flecks of gray." Today at jmww, new flash fiction from Michelle Ross: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...

New work from Andrew Graham Martin up @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

New micro out today thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the amazing authors I am sharing this issue with 🤩 and read Paradise City here ⬇️ gooseberry-pie.com/paradise-city/

Love this new flash fiction piece from Andrew Graham Martin! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/f...

“He’s not in there,” I said. “She,” he said. “And she’s simply adept at hiding. Read the card.” --from "Leviathan" by Andrew Graham Martin. New flash fiction this week at jmww. @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/f...

Actually the quote goes "He who convinces himself of that nonsense gets bleeding stomach ulcers and exile."

Love this piece from Beth Sherman up at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

New flash fiction @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🪶 "“Pray, wouldst thou care for a vegan chimney cake, my lady?” Mordred says, the picture of attentiveness. We’d met a week earlier at Appleby’s." 🪶

"Does she ever dream of escape, I wonder. Why is she content to return to the same perch, day after day, season after season?" --"Falconry" by Beth Sherman New flash fiction at jmww @jmwwjournal.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/f...

"The falcon is so close to me I can smell her warm, earthy scent, count the bars on her wing. Her claws dig into my arm." Today at jmww, new flash from Beth Sherman jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/f...

Thrilled to have my story, "Falconry," in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/f...

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