‘eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by, until it gets too dark, until the shapes grow amorphous under fog-dim street lights’: I loved this powerful, beautifully written story by @sudhab.bsky.social @FictiveDream.bsky.social about parenting and regret

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Today’s walk - bright sun and falling leaves. My favourite kind of autumn day!

‘We don’t talk about my mother (controlling) or the house (sold) or our baby (     ). Or how he wanted to try again.’ Such a moving story by @laurabesley.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your stories at: bit.ly/4oOPpGO

New bookcase! It’s going to be such a relief to get all the piles of books off my floor!

I still can’t believe I have a story in the latest issue of the Missouri Review. I worked on this story for 2+ years and thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Then I thought it was unpublishable: who would read a story about an elephant hunt? Which just goes to show: NEVER self-reject!

I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A joy to return to Fragmented Voices with a new story Amongst Others, Unnoticed. The membrane between private and public grows ever thinner, with attendant confusions… fragmentedvoices.com/2025/10/17/a...

www.jjournal.org/post/maybe Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.

As we move into autumn it feels right to curl up with a collection of #shortstories Why not check out The Wooden Hill, by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social ‘Evocative, lyrical and touching’ ‘Illuminated and elevated’ www.epoquepress.com/online-store... #epoquepresstitles #books #bookcommunity

If you’ve picked up a copy of our ‘Briar Rose’ Little Uncertainty (or even if you’ve not found one yet), you might be interested in our new Q&A with the story’s author:

I went to a really interesting exhibition about John le Carré at the Bodleian (Weston) Library in Oxford today. I really recommend it if you’re in the area before April #BookSky #WritingCommunity

The faraway, blissed-out expression of a cat who’s just discovered beanbags #caturday

Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

We’re sorry to hear that Tony Harrison has died aged 88. Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/

www.jjournal.org/post/severe-... A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.

Don't read the news. Read short stories instead. We got links to eight incredible pieces of writing. Featuring nonfiction from: Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com ‬ Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social (...cont'd) #cnf #nonfiction

‘I feel that if the form strays too far from the sort of story we might have enjoyed as a child it atrophies’: such an interesting interview with @polyscribe70.bsky.social by @amantineb.bsky.social . Really looking forward to the rest of the series #writing-community

Absolutely thrilled to have a story out in The Forge Literary Magazine today!

Wisdom from the National Trust bookshop in Avebury 💙📚

‘You could glimpse the child in there, and the teenager, and the young man’: I love the intuitive understanding and incremental build-up of intimacy and trust between the characters in this story by @polyscribe70.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Really enjoyed hearing Mick Herron on the Today programme earlier, talking about his writing routine (lots of solitaire and ‘creative naps’, writing a sentence, staring out of the window, writing another). Excited that there’ll be a new series of Slow Horses soon, too 💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity

It's a pleasure to welcome back Mike Fox with his #shortstory The Shape of Moments, out tomorrow @polyscribe70.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity

We are once again OPEN for submissions to both our print journal and miCRo! We strongly encourage you to submit to the print journal within the next day or so, as we tend to reach our cap just days after opening up.

I’m loving this memoir about writing and running by Haruki Murakami 💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Stratford yesterday, in the evening sun. I saw an incredibly powerful performance of A Winter’s Tale, which I still think is my favourite Shakespeare play #Shakespeare #Stratford-upon-Avon #AWintersTale

Hi, Bluesky! 👋 We’re excited to be here. Our official move from Twitter/X happens on 1 September, but we’re already settling in. Follow us for writerly news and good conversation - including monthly Bluesky chats! 💙 #WritingCommunity

www.jjournal.org/post/things-... Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.

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The latest issue of Zoetrope is extra fat & pretty & full of good things - including "In Nature", a funny, smart, and constantly surprising story from Sasha Graybosch, which you can currently read for FREE - www.all-story.com/preview-exce... (it says excerpt, but fear not, the whole story is there)

I just came across the house in Marlborough where #WilliamGolding grew up. I’ve read that as a child it scared him, because it backs onto a graveyard and he thought it had been built on a medieval burial plot, but it looked beautiful in the sun today #WritingCommunity 💙📚BookSky #LordoftheFlies

‘He becomes aware of things he’s not registered in years: the sound of the water lapping against the boat as it pushes forward; the leather padding of the booth, creaking as he shifts in his seat’: really enjoyed this story about friendship and the fragility of connection #writingcommunity

The Shortlist for Aug 22, 2025: Short shortlist this week due to 'life gets in the way' reasons. Featuring nonfiction from: Carole Hinojosa in @literaryhub.bsky.social (...cont'd) #cnf #nonfiction

Still thinking about this, tender, dark story by @carcionejay.bsky.social. Jason is a master of detail and atmosphere.

‘But she was interested in us because children, like eccentrics, are unusual people’: Vita Sackville-West’s son Nigel on Virginia Woolf’s early conversations with him 💙📚#BookSky #VirginaWoolf

www.jjournal.org/post/past-life Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.

For #StarterPackSunday here's a starter pack of people associated with the Bridport Prize Please follow and repost #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky #poetry #writingcommunity

Paying it forward by reposting book publication news, great reviews, nominations & awards, poetry readings & book signings, and work in magazines, journals & anthologies. Also see: @writingcommunity.bsky.social @literarycommunity.bsky.social @literarybulletin.bsky.social @literaryreport.bsky.social

Back in the city I grew up in, visiting family, and thinking all over again how beautiful the centre is. The destinations displayed outside Victoria Station used to seem so glamorous to me - London, Scotland, Belgium, Harrogate, Scarborough …

The Shortlist for August 1, 2025: Ending Patricia Highsmith week with one of her short stories plus eight others. Familiar faces Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social ‬in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social and Sarah Lynn Hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social (...cont'd)

I found this in a second-hand bookshop this lunchtime - a biography of Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-West’s son, Nigel Nicolson. It starts with a conversation between them when he was 9 and she was looking for material to base James Ramsay on. Very excited- can’t wait to read the rest 💙📚#BookSky

We're open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

www.jjournal.org/post/smoke-b... Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.

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We're open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction and #microfiction #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link to check out our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

shorts & creative nonfiction are now open for submissions, until we reach our monthy cap flash & micros are open 24/7 for now thank u for sending yr wonderful work ! we love reading it xraylitmag.com/submissions/