"Each morning, Ellie filled the dozen jars allotted by the Council with the water she was allowed for the day." A Box of Sand by Kerry Langan @kerryfiction.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy...

I'm so honored by this review of my latest book, Worthy, in Story Circle Network by Jane Alessandrini Ward: www.storycircle.org/book_review/...

ICYMI today's story is Poem by Rob Hardy, a marvellous #shortstory about #censorship, suppression and #language. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/01/p...

Stepping onto your porch and realizing copies of your new book have arrived is the best feeling!

"On the last day, as our furniture was being piled into the removal van, I wandered around the garden to say goodbye." The end of the line café by Sandra Arnold, #MicroMonday #microfiction. Please follow link and enjoy

So pleased you enjoyed The Marigolds Lift, Orange, Sumitra. Thank you for reading and sharing @pleomorphic2.bsky.social‬ @sudhab.bsky.social #flashfictionfebruary #flashfiction

Short fiction writers, what annual anthologies do you regularly read? Each year, I purchase The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses. Others that you'd recommend?

Nollaig na mBan / Women's Christmas / an excuse to share some books by Irish women writers we love.

Can we talk about offsite #AWP25 readings?? Just look at this lineup, convened by @hollypelesky.bsky.social ! I'll be reading work by @amygcb.bsky.social . #writinglife #writingcommunity

I’m a bit overexcited to say I’m now a reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social Thanks to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and all the team!!! Need to have a wee glass of something now to celebrate 🍷

If you're in the Worcester, MA county, submit poems! I'll read them! Very happy to serve as the judge for this year's annual O'Hara prize! www.worcestermag.com/story/entert...

"Cara would like to snuzzle the giraffe back to the baby, and she would like to see how far the dog’s muddiness goes cos from this angle she can’t see." The Dog and the Giraffe by @ruthabrandt.bsky.social #flashfiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/01/10/t...

Listening to this again now. I forgot how much I enjoyed Kerry Langan’s story about the elf. Written from a child’s pov it’s SO entertaining! @kerryfiction.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/shor...

My website: kerrylangan.wordpress.com

Rather late posting this, but better late than never?! :) thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...

Have you had a scroll through our first prize winners on the website? 28 of them now. @sharontelfer.bsky.social & William Davidson have won twice! And @kazbarwrites.bsky.social was our October 2024 winner. All stunning #flashfictions Bathflashfictionaward.com/winners

Our November 2024 edition of Now Playing features movies that inspire fear, laughter, and thought from our contributors! https://buff.ly/4fTRT2b

Honestly meeting these people one of the straight up best things to ever happen to me in this life.

Did I include your book? 👀 My longest shortlist so far, September is full of exciting releases! What about an upcoming book in a series you are reading? Tell me what's an exciting book release for you this month. 💙📚 armedwithabook.com/new-book-rel...

Bookshop is having its anti-Prime sale. Free shipping on everything. Go buy some books! bookshop.org

Conversations are happening! Connections are happening!

Wising Up Press publishes beautiful literary anthologies on an array of topics. Their latest call for submissions: universaltable.org/wisingup.html

FYI if you haven’t already seen: www.bookthevote.org

Ready to submit your 300 word #flashfiction? ✍️Final days of the countdown ⏰⏳Enter by end of day Sunday to be in the running for great prizes and an opportunity to present your work at the Letterkenny Literary Festival 🎉#Donegal lkcqlitfest.weebly.com #writers #dontbelate

I can’t put this volume down: The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History. As a writer and former academic librarian, I’ve reached nirvana.

Stoked to have my story 'Elephant' up @bendinggenres.bsky.social alongside such stellar work! Check out the latest issue! bendinggenres.com/elephant/

Our fifth anniversary issue is now live! 5 great flash 5 gorge micros 3 scéal iontach And an interview with Lydia Davis 💚 splonk.ie/splonk-all-i...

New Micro Q&A featuring Ash Howell! Ash's stories are phenomenal. Loved hearing their insight & perspective - check it out! @ash-howell.bsky.social #sffh #shortfiction #flashfiction mynachang.com/2024/08/16/a...

"It’s early afternoon and the sun is searing. I take the white, tip it in and sip..." #EmpireState by Justine Sweeney #flashfiction fictivedream.com/2024/08/16/e...

Morning! And welcome to the next best thing to Friday! We're starting today with a little fiction. A tale with passion, with action, with circus people! Tune in Sunday for the whole story of Freya and Federico, "Hup!" by David Cook.

Closing out the day with a story of family, of home, of history. Travel with us to Malta for the "The Festa of Santa Marija" by Sara Sheldrake. The island may have survived the war, but the damage lives on for generations. Check it out, Sunday.

#writerfail #writerhelp #writerslift #writerslunch #writerssupportingwriters #authorsky

For all my writer friends here on BlueSky www.writerswrite.co.za/6-things-alf... #writingtips #writers #fiction #authors #fictionwriting #novelists #novels #mysteries #murdermysteries #supernaturalmysteries #horror #quiethorror #noir #noirfilms

This day 2022 we featured Pocket by Kerry Langan. If you missed it the first time, then here's another chance @kerryfiction.bsky.social #flashfiction #poverty #sweatshop fictivedream.com/2022/01/30/p...

One year ago today, we featured Four-Letter Words by Sharon Boyle. If you missed it the first time, then here's another chance #shortstory #oneyearagotoday fictivedream.com/2023/08/13/f...

It's nearly October and that means a whole new roster of literary wonders, e.g. my guest Erica Plouffe Lazure! I had the pleasure of discussing her New American Fiction prize-winning collection PROOF OF ME, a brilliant crazy-quilt of linked stories. Hot damn! shortstorytoday.com

OUT NOW! Italian author Eleonora Balsano (who lives in Brussels) speaks and writes in multiple languages - but feels most at home writing in English. While it's not her mother tongue, it's a language she's come to believe affords her more freedom as a writer. www.shortstorytoday.com

I had the best conversation over the weekend with author Grant Faulkner (10/18), who spoke from his home in Berkeley. We got to explore stories from his collections FISSURES and ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE, and talk about NaNoWriMo, where he's executive director. shortstorytoday.com

Finally pulling the plug on X. Wish I had done so sooner. Happy to fly unfettered in the blue sky.

How many people spend time browsing the weekly Duotrope newsletter on Saturday morning? It's usually a two-cups-of-coffee session for me.

Have had a hectic couple months and haven’t checked in until today. My sense is the literary community here has gotten larger. Nice.

Every time I invite a new person to Bluesky, I feel like I have to explain a lot of things about what it is, its culture, and how to use it, so last week I wrote an introduction to the app: plutopsyche.medium.com/how-to-blues...

“Never thought I’d be back here half-living.” Ticket to Oblivion by Ellen O’Leary #shortstory #writingcommunity fictivedream.com/2023/11/19/t...

Six weeks left to enter Flash Fiction February 2024 so please start honing your compelling flashes. W/c 200-850w, deadline 31 December #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary #callforsubmissions. Please check out our guidelines here... fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

It's a great pleasure to be on Bsky and thank you to all who are following. Greatly appreciated #shortstories #flashfiction #litmag fictivedream.com/about/

It's beginning to look like Bluesky may actually be the next great refuge for the writing community, so we're taking a moment to let everyone know that Short Story Today now has an account (with thanks to @mizgolightly.bsky.social and @housleydave.bsky.social). We're happy to be here. Hope to CU!

A micro comp spotted on insta #flashfiction