Writers, mid-month submission deadlines are coming up at @fahmidangroup.bsky.social, @superpresent.bsky.social, @phillychapbook.bsky.social, @zoeticpress.bsky.social, @variantlit.bsky.social, and more indie publishers! Find details here: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Recent submissions to literary journals—all no fee, and I think they're all currently open

pink rose

The Swamp glistens in the summer sun ☀️submit to the Swamp Ape Review and join in the light🐊

Free flash fiction anthology. Download Ellipsis Zine: One from our website here: ellipsis-zine.com/publications... I’ll be uploading all past issues in the coming weeks and also making them free to download.

Friendly reminder: We want to see fresh work that hasn’t been published anywhere before (including your personal blog or website). First-time electronic publication rights are really all we ask for 💗 Thank you so much!

I went to the movie theater for the first time since 2012. It was the last showing on a Sunday of Masters of the Universe so there were only five people in the hall & I ate so much popcorn—so much. A lot has changed since then—from buying tickets to pouring your own popcorn & soda & the chairs 📽 🍿🎬

Been trying my hand at kinusaiga, the Japanese art of fabric tucking, lately.

Expanding Light is available at Kube Gallery in Fort Langley, BC 30x60 acrylic on canvas

#photography #ColorADay #RedWed #flowers #abstract #composite #bloomscrolling #photonegative #photographersofbluesky

Foxglove flowers in the English lake District

So proud to see Terrestrial up there with those beautiful new arrivals!

Thank you @bulbculture.bsky.social for resurrecting this piece, very close to my heart, first pubbed in @ellipsiszine. It’s about the comparisons we make at yoga class. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾

“Life is as long as it wants to be. Beauty is this moment, these streets, this river, the sun dipping into our days.” Scenes from a Marriage + 7 by @samrasnake.bsky.social in UCity Review www.ucityreview.com/32_Rasnake_S...

This week's featured story in our summer flash fiction series is "Shredder" by Andrew Graham Martin. necessaryfiction.com/stories/shre...

new new: THREE MICROS, by Jeffrey Hermann: wigleaf.com @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

So happy for @pdforan.bsky.social’s publication. He’s an amazing writer and an amazingly supportive writing friend. Look forward to getting my signed copy, Pat 🧡🧡🧡

Excited to be on a panel with some wonderful editors, as part of NZ’s Festival of Flash in collaboration with @smokelong.bsky.social! Join us on Zoom or watch the session on Flash Frontier’s YouTube channel : m.youtube.com/channel/UCRf...

🎉Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your short stories! For details on how & what to submit visit bit.ly/3GVpudM

I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

Unleashing of cover, tadaaaaa.

"...and she laughed then said, 'It’s like they left behind all this stuff so as to stay here forever,' and I looked at her imploringly." Big love for this gem by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙 bendinggenres.com/late-checkout/

Theo LeGro from DON’T LET IT KILL YOU (Persea Books) “It’s humiliating, / how what’s killing you never even thinks of you.” RIP dear poet 💙

I'm sure everyone who cares has seen this, but it was exciting for me and especially my teenagers to see a copy of my translation of the Odyssey in Zendaya's hand. Great that she supported a local independent book shop. www.ktvu.com/news/zendaya... www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Delighted to be back in @bendinggenres.bsky.social with a quirky little tale for your reading pleasure. 🔗 bendinggenres.com/unpause/ My thanks to the editors!

Treated myself to these beauties. 😃 If Land is anywhere near as good as Hamnet, I'll be thrilled. As for The Buried Giant, I'd already read the eBook, which was so beautiful it made me cry. I just had to buy a physical copy! #books

We’d love to hear from you. Open for flash. micro, poetry, some kind of mix, some kind of wonderful, some kind of whatever it is you do best or are trying for the first time, or something else entirely. Surprise us. Surprise yourself. Ok? Ok!

Hey, I have a book coming out. bellepointpress.com/products/thu...

@blacklilyzine.bsky.social opens for submissions for Issue 4 on the solstice!

Earthy 🎨 acrylic painting on canvas 20x16”

Three posts in one day! This morning I went to my local framers to put 4 paintings in for framing, ready for my solo exhibition in January. Will have lots more to take but need to spread out the cost :) #watercolours #birdart 🪶 #framing

Over at a local publication here in Lafayette, Louisiana called The Current, I wrote a little bit about about my experiences living in recovery—sober—in the city I love. Many thanks to Christiaan Mader for his editorial guidance and for giving this piece a chance: thecurrentla.com/2026/its-not...

Going Up Garrowby Hill, David Hockney 2000

My painting of peonies

New rose print this month www.verakober.com/prints

Misty Mountains 36x48 acrylic on canvas Available at The Gallery at Mattick's Farm in Victoria, BC

Green Ibis (ink and watercolour) and coloured pencils

The troutbeck valley in the English lake District

You have... one week.

Submissions are trickling in. Have you sent in yours yet? We're open until July 3! Submit here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Happy Pub day to one of my all Time favorite writers, @pdforan.bsky.social! Congrats, dear Pat! 💜

🖼️ Kelly Louise Judd

Morning. 🖼️ Swift, House Martin and Swallow, John Leigh Pemberton, 1967.

‘Tree Sunset.’ Woodblock print by Hajime Namiki (b. 1947) #art

Bharti Dayal, Indian artist who specialises in the ancient female tradition of Madhubani art/Mithila painting #WomensArt

Hi. I made a playlist to accompany my book Songs from the Blimp Ruins, which will be published June 8 by Silverbacked Punk. The book comprises 60 pieces of mostly flash fiction. Nearly all reference songs, many of which appear on this playlist. Thx for glistening. ❤️ open.spotify.com/playlist/6Cd...

Making berry colanders in the studio this week. Here’s a new one in pink shadow and sour apple. I’m ready for strawberry season.🍓❤️ #pottery

“…getting up and keeping on.” A wonderful review of @sabrinahicks.bsky.social’s excellent collection!❤️📚🎉

Very grateful to have a new micro from my PI series up at The Itch today! Huge thanks to the journal for giving this one a perfect home. 🙏🏻👇🏻 www.theitchlit.com/fiction/blog...

This is a book I can’t wait to read! @pdforan.bsky.social is the absolute best. Please give this one a look if you can.