Callooh callay! My book, “& Please”, a collection of epistolary persona poems about Augustus Dickens, Charles Dickens’ youngest sibling, a subject heretofore unplumbed, is coming out in 2026 from @altcurrent.bsky.social. If you have a sibling, the worse the better, it’ll tickle ya. #writingcommunity

🎉 Congratulations to Faithna Geffrard, whose work "No Ponyboy" has been selected for @wigleaf.bsky.social's Top 50 2025 Longlist! This is also Faithna's second award for this story! "No Ponyboy" was also selected for @altcurrent.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions. 🎉

❤️‍🔥 I got to read two micros, which is always a thrill. For those who asked, ‘The Days the Cartoons Crept Out the TV’ was published by @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social last year, and will be in the upcoming Best Small Fictions 2025 from @altcurrent.bsky.social… nationalflash.org/2024-micro-m...

My podcast play, "What Comes Next or Meet the Dunnes," is a semifinalist for the Electric Book Award from Alternating Current Press @altcurrent.bsky.social thecoilmag.com/announcement-of-the-2024-electric-book-award-longlist/

Lots of news incoming, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award - organised by @altcurrent.bsky.social - (same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED. thecoilmag.com/announcement...

Got this book from @altcurrent.bsky.social at #AWP25 and ate it up like a meal. THE GIRL WAKES by Carmen Lau is beautifully written. Gorgeous prose, dark edges, haunting whimsy. Feels like reading dark fairy tales or Wonderland again but subtly woven into modern settings. 🧵🪡 Faves listed below. ⬇️

Over 110 publications re-opened today, including @burnsidereview.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social @hobocampreview.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @rhppress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...

A real “pinch me” moment to have a story selected for Best Small Fictions. Thanks to National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand’s Micro Madness for publishing ‘The Days the Cartoons Crept Out the TV’ last year 📺 💛 Little bit awestruck by that list of writers… 🙃 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Delighted to be included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology with 'Jewel Bearing'. Thanks to the folks @bansheepress.bsky.social for putting it forward and to the @altcurrent.bsky.social team for selecting it 🙏 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic…#flashfictiono#WritingCommunityt#shortstorieses

Fantastic to see flash fiction by Banshee contributors @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social and @atrodd.bsky.social included in Best Small Fictions 2025! @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats to Chloe and Adam and to our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social 💫 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

I’m fainting couch levels of excited that “Family Night” will be in Best Small Fictions 2025! Huge thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for loving, publishing, nominating this story & @altcurrent.bsky.social for including it with a frankly mindblowing list of work. altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Many thanks to the amazing, super supportive folks at @weirdlitmag.bsky.social for publishing and going to bat for this story and @altcurrent.bsky.social for picking it. This was the first piece I ever got published in a lit mag, just a little under a year ago. www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/tedd...

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Faithna Geffrard’s “No Ponyboy” is one of @altcurrent.bsky.social’s 2025 Best Small Fictions Selections! Congratulations Faithna! 🎉#BestSmallFictions

I'm excited to share that my short piece 'All Made-Up' has been selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology! And thank you to The Diagram for originally publishing the piece! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f... @altcurrent.bsky.social @eldiagram.bsky.social

We at @barrelhouse.bsky.social are excited to see @ruthjoffre.bsky.social's story on the TOC for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thank you, @altcurrent.bsky.social And thanks to Ofelia Montelongo for editing the Latine Monsters edition where it first appeared! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Check out the full list of stories @altcurrent.bsky.social: altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Found out today that my piece, 'The Comeback" has been chosen for the 2025 Best Small Fictions (BSF) by @altcurrent.bsky.social . The anthology will be published later this year. Thanks to Michelle Elvy, Robert Shapard & Nathan Leslie.

So honoured to be included in the tenth year anniversary edition of BSF 2025! Thank you so much @gonelawn.bsky.social for the nomination and for your general awesomeness and the editors of BSF and @altcurrent.bsky.social for their tireless work. ❤️ Congratulations everyone!! ❤️

I'm thrilled to have "Girl Locks" selected for Best Small Fictions 2025. Huge thanks to @splitlipthemag.bsky.social for first publishing it and to the editors @altcurrent.bsky.social for selecting it. Congratulations, fellow writers! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Happy writing news! I'm thrilled to have my story 'Blue-Naped Parrots See More Than They Say' chosen for the Best Small Fictions anthology 2024. Thanks to #NewFlashFictionReview for the nomination, & to @altcurrent.bsky.social editors for picking it. So pleased! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

You guys, I’m in the Best Small Fictions 2025!!! 😀 So grateful to the @altcurrent.bsky.social team. Also, renewed thanks to Robert Olen Butler and everyone at @southeastreview.bsky.social for publishing “Cowboy,” and nominating it for this amazing honor.💃 🎉 🤸‍♀️ altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Delighted to see SLQ stories by Ani King and Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins in this year's Best Small Fictions @altcurrent.bsky.social, alongside SLQ Fellow Belinda Rowe, some of our editors, and a bunch of SmokeLong Fitness members (aka Trousers). Stories in this thread. Congratulations, everyone!

#ExpoContributor Joseph Byrd’s piece from #ExpoReview, Vol. IX: “POP!” was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Small Fictions! Thanks to @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social & the BSF team for choosing this piece! Celebrate Joseph & read his piece: tinyurl.com/ExpoThings

We couldn't be more thrilled for Ivan Niccolai and his story, "The Marionette," making BSF 2025! We 🖤 our writers! @altcurrent.bsky.social altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Today's Friday Five: selections from @altcurrent.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions, featuring @fracturedlit.bsky.social, Ghost Parachute, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social, @stanchion.bsky.social & @witcraft.bsky.social andrewcareaga.com/2025/05/30/f... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #MicroFiction

Another shoutout to our “POP!” & Flash 405 literary prize nominations for @pushcartprize.bsky.social, @sundresspub.bsky.social’s Best of the Net, @altcurrent.bsky.social’s Best Small Fictions, @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, Cave Wall Press’s Nina Riggs Poetry Award…

Work with Leah!

Thinking about my Dickens book. cc: @altcurrent.bsky.social

Delighted that my copy of Best Small Fictions 2024 has arrived! It's such an honour to have my story "The Good Prizes" included along with work by so many talented writers. Massive gratitude to @ambersparks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social and Nathan Leslie!

Delighted that my copy of best Small Fictions 2024 finally arrived 😍 Thanks to series editor Nathan Leslie and @altcurrent.bsky.social and @nffr.bsky.social ❤️

For anyone interested in joining our team, we're bringing on submission readers (with a small stipend). alternatingcurrent.submittable.com/submit/32692...

Hi! #AWP25 is on! Find us in the bookfair at connected tables T822-T824, and definitely come check out our amazing Wednesday night offsite benefit reading with FREE WINE, free raffle prizes, and fabulous readers! donate.826la.org/event/awp-au...

Hi! If you ordered BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2024 from us, please sit tight! We're waiting on the books to arrive at the warehouse, and then all the orders will ship. Everything is slow, slow, slow right now! 🫣🥺

Hi! We need a boost! We need $200 by Monday night for gas money to get to #AWP25, so we're opening our #AWP2025 sale early! Get 40% off your entire order through our Square storefront with the code AWP25 here: altcurrent.square.site/s/shop, or donate directly: checkout.square.site/merchant/CBX...!

Pretty excited that my piece 'Tunneling' which appeared in The Commuter at @electriclit.bsky.social was selected for Best Small Fictions 2024! There are so many insanely good writers in this thing. Thanks @altcurrent.bsky.social ! Thanks @ambersparks.bsky.social ! altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

Best Small Fictions 2024 is here in print! Grateful that my story "The Girl with the Third Leg" is included alongside all these talented writers! Thank you to @ambersparks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social, and Nathan Leslie Look at that beautiful cover!! altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

Don't sleep on BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2024, now available for purchase from @altcurrent.bsky.social ! It features two miCRos (by Michael Hugh Stewart and Yasmine Yu) alongside many other fine pieces of microfiction.

Nominations for Best Small Fictions 2025 @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats and good luck to all! Prose * Flow State by Salvatore Difalco * Stolen Colours by Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch * All Things White by Kelli Short Borges Poetry * Mountain Clock by Sara McClayton * The Marionette by Ivan Niccolai

if you like beautiful, brutal southern gothic/horror short fiction, the Benson collection (2014 from @altcurrent.bsky.social ) is phenomenal

🥳 Happy Book Birthday Pub Week to FISH LOVE by Bryanna Licciardi! Get this beautiful collection of poems at acpbook.link/fish, just in time for the #SealeyChallenge! 🎂🐟

So excited to have LIKE REAL WOMEN DO chosen for Best Small Fictions 2024 (@altcurrent.bsky.social)! Sending all the thanks to the editors of @okaydonkey.bsky.social for publishing this flash and @smokelong.bsky.social for hosting their SummerLong workshop where this flash was originally born!

Absolutely thrilled to have a story included in this year's Best Small Fictions anthology! Many thanks to @altcurrent.bsky.social, Nathan Leslie, and the team, and to @bookbent.bsky.social and @necessaryfiction.bsky.social for first publishing my work! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Got some great news today: two of my #poems are on this award list, one in 2nd place, another as a finalist. Thank you, @altcurrent.bsky.social ! medium.com/the-coil/ann...

A big welcome to Julia Tagliere and her Electric Book Award-winning RELIANCE!

New deal report! 👀 Woohoo!

New deal report! 👀 @schmeloise.bsky.social

New deal report! 👀

A huge welcome to Brian Kerg and his intense, heartbreaking story collection, FALLING MEN!

A big welcome to Eloise Schultz and her hybrid poetry collection of language and excavation, REGULAR REMEMBERING! @schmeloise.bsky.social