Micro ‘Button the Quail’ Thank you, EIC Keith Hoerner and The Dribble Drabble Review, for publishing this tiny drabble, Button the Quail, in Summer 2026, Issue XII. It's so good to be back 🙂. Yay! Again, gratitude is owed to SmokeLong Quarterly March Micro Marathon and the amazing feedback I…

Thank you, EIC Keith Hoerner and TDDR, for publishing Button the Quail. It's so good to be back. Again, gratitude is owed to @smokelong.bsky.social's MMM and to the amazing feedback I received 🙂. Thank you so much The whole issue: www.thedribbledrabblereview.com/about-7 #writingcommunity

Hi, Feels like a little milestone in my life has been reached. Some stories of mine have found a lovely home. My debut story collection will be published @thirtywestph.com 2027! Your writer, Heain

Millions of people across the Midwest are at risk of severe weather on Wednesday, with forecasters warning of the possibility of intense tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and hail as large as tennis balls. Here's what to know.

A Snow Globe on an Iceberg: World-building in short fiction We'll cover: anchoring and re-anchoring; foreground vs background details; distillation of details; sensory evocation; writing the weather www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

What is Learnt in the Cradle: How our childhoods affect our adult selves We'll cover: the importance of the childhood home; inherited traits; values and beliefs; other families; the persistence of childhood www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

FlashFlood: 2026 FlashFlood: The Complete List #nffd2026

My first Flash Flood publication ever, yay! Huge thank you to @smokelong.bsky.social's MMM! Without your workshop, this would not have happened. 🥰This might be my first person plural story ever, as well! Yay flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/at-m... #flashfiction #writingcommunity #indiepress

Last chance to sign up for this. We're going to be looking at great pieces by @sfreligh.bsky.social @cake-girl.bsky.social and @suzannehicks.bsky.social and looking at how to build a micro through one continuous sentence. should be a lot of fun: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

Another first in May, this time with my flash piece “Her First and Last Visit to the Country He Once Called Home” in @soflopojo.bsky.social Over the moon! 🌖 Also, a big gratitude to the writers from Jan26 @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness workshop for helping me bring it home! #flashfiction

My first publication with Collateral Journal is now out in their 20th issue (celebrating their 10th birthday). Thank you editors! You can read my poems ‘Born, Not Born Here’ and ‘Survivors’: www.collateraljournal.com/poetry/andre... You can access the whole issue here: www.collateraljournal.com

Congratulations to our workshop participants on their publications reported to us in April! You are all amazing. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Huge gratitude to Ghost Parachute and EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social, as well as the editors @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social and @marelizeroets.bsky.social, for this beautiful anthology. So thrilled to have a story and a piece of artwork inside. What a treasure to have 🥰 What an honour!

Another wonderful freelancer is @sagetyrtle.bsky.social who among other things is "lying for fun" on the 2nd May: writingworkshops.com/en-gb/produc...

Awfully happy to have my piece "At the Margin" accepted for National Flash Fiction Day in the United Kingdom in June. This is my first acceptance by NFFD. What an honour! You can still submit until 23:59 BST on Saturday, 25 April 2026. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/fl...

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kplumhoff.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Katherine made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/april-2026

This piece, wow…. not sure if it was my lack of sleep or the overall difficult day, or the fact it hit too close to home, not sure, it just overwhelmed me when I read it yesterday. Heartbreaking story by L.F. Khouri. theoffingmag.com/insight/of-m... #writingcommunity #CNF

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Thank you for this publication. It means a lot 🥰

Had to delete the previous post, there was a misspelling, OMG, right! 🫣 Today was a double pub day for me. First, a micro in Ghost Parachute, then flash CNF in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social 🥰 Gratitude is owed to @smokelong.bsky.social workshop and all the writers who helped me shape this story.

The Status – In Flux Grateful to be in Ghost Parachute again, this time with a micro story, 'The Status - In Flux', accompanied by Brooksie C. Fontaine's amazing art. Thank you all! And huge thanks to the SmokeLong Quarterly Fitness workshop and all the writers who helped shape this story, so…

Thank you for this heartfelt review @tracieadams.bsky.social You made me tear up 🥰

Thank you for featuring my hybrid chapbook ‘All the Losses’ in Zine 85 with so many great authors. All books are available on Amazon.

I won a book, yay! Is there a better gift (rhetorical 😉). Thank you 🥰

I'm chuffed to have my story 'Othering' in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness workshop and @sagetyrtle.bsky.social's Speculative Fiction as Metaphor webinar from Oct 25. This story wouldn't have come to life without them. www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/othe...

My debut hybrid chapbook of art, poetry and prose ‘All the Losses’ available on Amazon. #indiepress #chapbook #art #poetry #fiction #cnf #writingcommunity #readers

#flashinthefeed @smokelong.bsky.social I have another one from a great author, but at the time I read this story, which was four years ago, I didn't know anything about her. Anyway, this story stayed with me: Procession by Kathy Fish swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/pro...

#flashinthefeed another one from me from a writer I don’t know, but love their writing @smokelong.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

I keep thinking that if Donald Trump had gone to prison for January 6, as he should have, all those Iranian schoolgirls would be having dinner with their families this evening.

Subs close for our May 2026 Issue in 2 weeks soflopojo.submittable.com/submit

Interview about my debut hybrid chapbook ‘All the Losses’ Thank you to Author Sam Szanto for taking the time to interview me about 'All the Losses'.

Thank you @samszanto.bsky.social for taking the time. Really appreciate it 🥰 #diversevoices #writingcommunity #interview

This is my first art publication with @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social and their EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social Over the moon! Hope you enjoy it. Thank you 🥰 www.bloodhoneylit.com/digital-art/... #artcommunity #writingcommunity #indiepress #diversevoices #digitalart #visualart #photography #art

Thank you @smokelong.bsky.social Yes, thanks to your workshops, Holding Back was published in Ghost Parachute 🪂 in Jan26. Love your workshops 🥰

Congratulations to all of your workshop participants who've reported publications in January and February! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I am back in the wonderful Mad Swirl with my poem Straya. Thank you so much. 🥰 madswirl.com/poetry/2026/... #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #chapbook #diversevoices #indiepress #poets #readerscommunity #readers #poetry

We are accepting submissions for our 7th issue. (6th issue scheduled for April). picturajournal.com We are a new journal, but if we are to go by the palette of writers submitting to us, from new names to writers published in TIME, The New York Times, The Atlantic, etc. we are here to stay! #writer

What compares to getting your first #chapbook published? I really didn't think anything could make me feel so many things at once as this first review did. Thank you, Mark. I am speechless. Available on Amazon. #writingcommunity #indiepress #diversevoices #readers #bookreview #poetrycommunity #art

@pictura.bsky.social open call for our August 2026 issue. We accept stories/poems year round and now we are open for your artwork as well. Limited spots for our print issue. picturajournal.com/submit/ #artwork #visualart #photography #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Update: My debut hybrid collection, ‘All the Losses' is available on Amazon. This is a dream come true. Amazon AU www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0GMQP5Q4Q Amazon US www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZJPSZ7D Amazon UK www.amazon.co.uk/All-Losses-v... #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #chapbook #diversevoices #art

*All the Losses* My debut hybrid collection of art, poetry and prose, All the Losses is now available on Amazon. Thank you Alien Buddha Press. This is a dream come true. Amazon Australia – still pending (hopefully the update will be available soon). In the meantime, it can be ordered through…

Winter 2026 issue from @centaurlit.bsky.social is here! What a lineup! Thank you @lynnmundell.bsky.social for the cover art opportunity. Read all the amazing pieces by here from @belindarowe.bsky.social and many others. Congratulations 🎉 centaurlit.com #writingcommunity #artcommunity

Thank you to my wonderful friend whom I have known for nearly 20 years. Your support has been invaluable. My debut hybrid collection is scheduled for release on 1st Feb US time, which is 2nd Feb Australia time so I have to be patient for a few more hours. 🙄😅 I’ll share the links soon-ish.

Thank you Ghost Parachute, and estimated editors Brett Pribble, Marelize Roets and Genevieve Anna Tyrrell for including my story ‘My Mother Told Me’ in your upcoming anthology. Looking forward to smelling the pages. You can read my story here: ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2... #writingcommunity

Thank you MasticadoresUSA for my poem ‘Auld Lang Syne’. Sometimes we have to hold on to the child inside. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/a...

*Morning Decompress* My photograph Morning Decompress got published on LENSCRATCH website (my first publication on their website) under the call for 'The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2025' (my photo is under part 7 area, 15th in line). You can check the whole exhibition here:

*Holding Back* Flash Fiction in Ghost Parachute You can read the story here:

Huge gratitude is owed to our EIC Alicia Wright for all the work behind the scenes. I’m so proud to be a part of this team. Our submissions are always open and always free @pictura.bsky.social Thank you to all our contributors 💐 #DiverseVoices #writingcommunity #indiepress #printedition #submission

Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/

Best Small Fiction 2026 Nominations are out from Pictura Journal. Congratulations to everyone, and good luck 💐 #writingcommunity