“Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.” Brilliant story @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Fantastic amphora use & deft shifting of timelines, character arcs. 💙✨

2 weeks till the deadline of the 31st Award on Oct 5th. £1460 in prizes. Want to give an up to 300 word story a go? Try out Jude’s prompt in the post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/two-...

Irish poet @jesstraynor.bsky.social will be reading from her brand new fourth collection New Arcana @outspokenldn.bsky.social at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday 18 September, 7.45pm, alongside Leo Boix, Sara Mansour and fellow Bloodaxe poet @imtiazdharker.bsky.social.

September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere. mailchi.mp/263b340dbcf3...

“Food is alive. Food is us.” The upcoming issue will be our last. Submissions are now open until October 15. Thank you to all who’ve written, read, & edited. RUBY’s spirit continues in a hybrid cookbook antholgy. rubyliterarypress.com/submissions/

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection! #workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites

Your three-week-to-go deadline reminder for our 31st Award. Closes 5th Oct. £1k top prize. Some tips in the post. The picture of the 4 leaf clover here, is for luck. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/the-...

jmww is looking for a Senior Fiction Editor!  jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...

Tomorrow in Cork, remembering Elizabeth Bowen 🌸

Thank you @andrewcareaga.bsky.social for this incredible opportunity and for such great questions!

‘I have never been a great candidate for anything. I have mostly been a really good sport.’ This one hits hard. The always superlative @kathyfish.bsky.social

@maryodonnell.bsky.social @marygtroche.bsky.social @jackielynam.bsky.social @michaeldooley.bsky.social @laoighseach.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social @sourcearts.bsky.social

YAY! AMERICA'S FUTURE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DAY!! everywhere books are sold... www.washingtonwriters.org JOIN us tomorrow - Wednesday, September 10th at 7 pm ET hosted by The Writer's Center. FREE and all invited! Get link here writer.org/event/americ... #writers #america #books #poets #teachers

“The bottle of Remy Martin I’d charged at the corner store looked cruel, wildly out of place besides Moisés’s medications and half-eaten bowl of cereal on the table.” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social | @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

FILLY by the brilliant @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social has arrived! Can't wait for this glorious novel in verse to be out in the world ✨️✨️✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙 hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/

Really excited to have a small part to play in this excellent Irish lit fest in October in #Oslo shop.prismaticpages.com/collections/...

Absolutely essential writing from @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social here.

Loved this poignant, important piece by former steering group member @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social 💛💛💛

Submissions for our winter issue are open now through September 30th! Share your best work in any of our five categories: ✏️ Poetry 📸 Flash 📃 Prose 🖼️ Visual Art & Photography 🎨 Mixed-Genre & Mixed-Media For more info, click link in bio.

And that submission link is... smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net

Sara Baume: It was time to respect my mother’s medieval shit. I began to dig into the past

‘The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination’ by @michaelavieser.bsky.social & @ekostories.bsky.social, a wonderful book of 36 short essays on sound in place & imagination I commissioned for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Published this week.

Oh hello there beautiful people! I was wondering if anyone is interested in pitching interviews/interviewing me for your venue for Every Galaxy A Circle? It comes out in January so this is me asking either early and proactively. Or late? I don't know what time is anymore 😭

My news! Thank you @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

Occasional reminder that my book ‘Darker With the Lights On’ is available from @transitbooks.bsky.social. My stories have been praised by Helen Garner, Claire-Louise Bennett, Max Porter, Elizabeth McCracken, Kevin Barry, Wendy Erskine & Eimear McBride, among others. www.transitbooks.org/books/darker

Them: Is this book in the room with us Me: actually yes

Hey friends, I’m teaching a two-hour workshop Sept. 28th for wonderful Cleaver Magazine ! I have lots of fun things planned! Register here: cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/32754...

Dream come true to have a story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social !!!

I have two stories in the new issue of amazing @literaryruby.bsky.social! And even better, so does my ridiculously talented daughter Nora! Thank you @april-bradley.bsky.social for publishing these. :) rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-...

starting in less than two weeks! now 15% off with the code FLASH15. that code is good until 9/15, which means you can use it up until the day before the class starts on 9/16. what a deal!!! flashfictioninstitute.com/product/bott...

@dlrarts.bsky.social Writer's Coffee Morning & Information Session on mentorship. Please Join Carolyn Brown Dlr Arts, Olivia Fitzsimons, Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Sonya Gildea 20th Sept 11-1pm Meeting Room, Lexicon Library All welcome, registrations required: [email protected]

Chestnut Review is fundraising for $1500 to provide a scholarship to help support a writer who has barriers to participating in our international retreats. We hope that this may make our retreats possible for more writers, and we are committed to doing so as much as we can. Link in bio.

I’ll take it. 😌🤷‍♀️🎉🥂

Beyond thrilled to be in Ruby's pages. I hope you check it out. 🥧🍄🍾

Feast on RUBY Issue Six featuring delectable and piquant writing by Sudha Balagopal, Allison Field Bell, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Joefel Bolo @tcboudreau.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social Nora Esme Wagner & @elinorann.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-... #foodwriting #flashfiction

The Joy of Flash Fiction - "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." ~Emily Dickinson. Hope you'll enjoy my latest newsletter. 💙https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/the-joy-of-flash-fiction?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"In The Lives of the Dead, the danger never fully goes away..." Emily Webber reviews Fiona McKay's novella-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead for SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/review-the-l...

I’m honored to be judging the Fall Flash Fiction Contest at the fabulous @thesunlightpress.bsky.social! There are super generous cash prizes (the winner receives $600, second place winner $250, and third place winner $150). Link with info below. I can’t wait to read your work! ☀️

The new block of The NIFTY Book Club is open for sign ups! 📚 Sept '25 - Jan '26 📚 Sundays 10-11.30am OR Mondays 19.30-21.00 BST/GMT 📚 Live author Q&As 📚 Worksheets in advance, meetings on zoom 📚 Full details in link below #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.laurabesley.com/nifty-book-c...

We've had another month of superb #shortstories. Our thanks to @rbhardy3rd.bsky.social Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, Martha Keller, Beatriu Delaveda, J.D. Strunk, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @lkardos.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/

ICYMI We are open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and look fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Delighted to be joining @laurabesley.bsky.social and the NIFTY book club for a Q&A on The Lives of the Dead 😍❤️😍

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/

As Gaza’s universities crumble under relentless bombardment, its students – separated from campuses, futures and safety – continue to write. A new book of poetry, edited by Professor Jacob Norris and Zahid Pranjol seeks to give voices to the voiceless. darajapress.com/publication/...

An insightful review of a brilliant book by someone who KNOWS. Delighted to be teaching two pieces from #ColdToast to a class in Costa Rica. This review is great prep. @kazbarwrites.bsky.social is 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I reviewed COLD TOAST by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social, a book I very much admire! bendinggenres.com/review-of-co...

Incredible storytelling by @kmelkes.bsky.social here 😮