This is beautiful.

Gotta hate when “the shit shoveler calls in sick.” 😆 This is a circus of words👏🏼🫶🏼👇🏼

Thank you @underbellypress.bsky.social for being awesome.

A bit of Wednesday Wisdom 🤓

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

Thanks @thehooletsnook.bsky.social for publishing my 100-word story in this lovely new issue! And thanks @smokelong.bsky.social workshop for the prompt and group feedback that shaped this micro.

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White. brevitymag.com

"She wallpapered the hallways with notes in every color of the rainbow—you got this, i believe in you, you are stronger than you think." Stunning @tracieadams.bsky.social I'll never see a sticky note in the same way. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Cannot wait! Yes!🙌🏽

I've got a speculative CNF piece in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social Gastronomy Issue today. I wrote this in an @avitusbcarle.bsky.social workshop. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social friend @lmbayley.bsky.social for feedback.. Check out the whole delicious issue! www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...

Excellent interview with @emilyrinkema.bsky.social 👇🏼

"Somewhere over an ocean, the sun is rising like a hard ball of jawbreaker candy, dusting its cinnamon heat over waves. Remember this." Love the progression towards hope in this beautiful piece from @tracieadams.bsky.social

BEAUTY IN BROKENNESS

MUCH GRATITUDE TO @jenwithwords.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and all the WONDERFUL EDITORS AT LITERARY NAMJOONING for including "Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul" in Issue 2 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/sticky-notes-for-a-downcast-soul-by-tracie-adams

Another banger @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social . "She’d press the edges of the crust into little ‘u’s like the curled up edges of a sweater. A ruffle you could eat." 🧡

BEAUTY IN BROKENNESS 💔

Coming soon to a lit mag near you, this eclipse season... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary #vibeyvibes

Shout out to my @smokelong.bsky.social summer group for feedback on “Adrift” and big thanks to EIC Courtney Harler for publishing it today in Flash the Court. flashthecourt.com/2025/09/05/a...

Delish!

Another speculative CNF piece written in my @smokelong.bsky.social summer group, published today in Masque and Spectacle. masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/w...

Doric Literary is ALWAYS open for submissions! Fiction 1000-8000 words No fee Tiny honorarium Editor reads every submission No cover letter required Submit via email Top 10 fastest response time listed @duotrope.com doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

“like scribbled sutures, let his wind-bone shoulder drag” @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social with this amazing ekphrastic piece

Want to spend 90 minutes playing around with different voices? Come join me next Saturday at 9 BST for "I Hear Voices" where we'll ponder the levels of voice, the constellation of tonal influences, and stuff like authenticity and balance: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

I wonder if I should touch the door…🧐

Once again, I have no editing work in my inbox 🥸 Who has stuff they’d like me to look at. Flash, short stories, NIFs, novels - here to help with anything you’re writing: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/editing-feed...

yard cigarette 😆

There is beauty in brokenness.

Ever get a buzz when you write something that delights you? Maybe it’s just the addict in me, but this kind of writing makes me high. 😜👇🏼

More WEDNESDAY WISDOM🤓

This means so much to me.🫶🏼

My flash about 80s band Flock of Seagulls found the perfect home in @literarygarage.bsky.social 💕 I wrote this in a workshop with @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social and it was the most fun I'd had in a long while. WAY OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE.🤪 literarygarage.com/divorce-in-a...

Starting my morning in tears with this stunner from @tracieadams.bsky.social in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-29-25/must...

Ahh! I’m gonna add “Winner” to my bio now. 😁 Yay!

I’m getting a lil addicted to doing these shoutouts. So many wonderful literary peeps! Today I’m shining the light on @aniking.bsky.social whose writing always leaves me wishing I had written it. 🌟

“The porch swallowed every ghost that haunted us, then rocked us gently back to ourselves.” Gorgeousness by @tracieadams.bsky.social

Surreal. Just look at my name sitting there all cozy next to these icons. Going to buy a frame for this. 🥹👇🏼

Wonderful writing from @tracieadams.bsky.social. Lovely to hear my workshop inspired such a gem.

This CNF gem by @tracieadams.bsky.social “One plank for each remembered joy. One screw for each regret loosened from my chest.”

So thrilled to share my CNF published in The Orange Rose today. I wrote this in a @mattkendrick.bsky.social workshop and then revised it in my @smokelong.bsky.social group—huge thanks for all the help! theorangeroselitmag.com/2025/08/22/w...

So glad to read this stunner by @jenwithwords.bsky.social today. Wow. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

These newsletters are full of delectable morsels. Love.💕

Okay, today's shoutout goes to @jenwithwords.bsky.social who is literally the captain of the literary cheerleading squad. Every time I open social media, she is right there promoting someone else's work. She also makes the most gorgeous little poetry films that always make my day.

Shoutout to my friend @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social from Authors Only Collective (Flash Fiction Magazine). Liz is another one of those cheerleaders who is always lifting up other writers. 🙌🏽

TIME FOR SOME WEDNESDAY WISDOM

Ok, wow. Just wow. 🤩

I want to shout out my friend @lmbayley.bsky.social from my @smokelong.bsky.social workshop group. She is a phenomenal writer and the kindest literary citizen. She has been such an encouragement to me, and I'm grateful for her.

Beautiful little piece on grief by @tracieadams.bsky.social My personal version of this is my willingness to let me kids accumulate an absurd number of squishmallows, solely bc my friend who passed last year gifted one of my kids the first squishmallow we ever got… now they are synonymous with her