Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...

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"The Missing Dish" by @adelegallogly.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting

Another tiny tale up today at @paragraphplanet.bsky.social paragraphplanet.com

Our Mystic & Magic section is waiting for more stories and poems. (Psst: I have a soft spot for mermaids. 🧜‍♀️💫🐬) Dive in for a bit of inspiration: www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe... #microfiction #poetry #magic #speculativefiction #writersofbsky #fantasy #shortfiction #fantasyhaiku #submissions

Paragraph Planet, the #writing website, has been publishing one story on its home page every day since 2008. That's [*quick calculation*]......LOTS of stories. Submit today! paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

Have you read any of the tiny fiction at 50 Word Stories? Begin with my newest from last week! fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/28/r...

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“In the grief truck” by @megpokrass.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #amwriting #writingcommunity

My mum has won the 2025 Bridport poetry award and £5000 in prize money for her poem Bird Child. So pleased for her and super proud. She's in Bridport today with MrsGrow to collect her award. bridportprize.org.uk/results

Absolutely thrilled to have a flash fiction story Highly Commended by judge @tobylitt.bsky.social for the Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social. Excited for the anthology, and I’ll share a more about my story then. Congrats, everyone! Also, thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social workshop mates!

More soundtracks with sheet music included please! Such a gift to have this with the Sorry, Baby record.

This city critter scrambled up for a tree pose as I walked by.

I have been in two of these challenges so far and really enjoyed the experience. I have yet to make it to the final round, but I came away with feedback & ideas to carry forward. I'm excited about this next one! nycmidnight.com/250

Thrilled to be published in the wonderful @fictivedream.bsky.social -- such an honor. Thank you for reading! (This is fiction but based on an actual event when I worked at a department store years ago) bsky.app/profile/fict...

Congrats, @vicsizemore.bsky.social!

Thanks @thehooletsnook.bsky.social for publishing my 100-word story in this lovely new issue! And thanks @smokelong.bsky.social workshop for the prompt and group feedback that shaped this micro.

These “hint fiction” prompt contests are so fun. Thanks again, @megpokrass.bsky.social! #microfiction

A treat to be featured on 50-Word-Stories, a site I love to read daily. fiftywordstories.com/2025/08/27/a...

I know Falkor’s more dog than cat, but sometimes I swear Kevin’s giving me that luck dragon stare.

Grasping for the last joys of summer and feeling like my son grabbing at these bubbles in a sunny forest weeks ago.

Today's tag is my superb grad school alumni friend @vicsizemore.bsky.social, writer of clear-eyed and engrossing works of fiction & non-fiction. He's great company for workshops & conferences, up for talking writing + life and sharing a good laugh. His most recent book is a novel, God of River Mud.

Today’s tag is @jgcanada.bsky.social member of my local writers group. She brings humour & wisdom to meetings & writes wonderful books for young people on important topics. Also, I once heard her read a delightful flash piece aloud that had *just* been written in a timed prompt contest hrs before. 👏🏻

Tagging SmokeLong Quarterly workshop bud @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, who not only gives excellent feedback but also cohosts a super wise and amusing writing podcast @tiffininnwrites.bsky.social 🎧

Thanks for this opportunity, Matt! Celebrating @tracieadams.bsky.social, a SmokeLong Quarterly workshop mate whose detailed feedback has taught me so much about flash — especially about revising with a focus on the emotional layers of characters.

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A lovely surprise to be longlisted in this unique dialogue-only flash story contest from CRAFT literary magazine. (Another case of submitting a story originally sparked in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop.) Congrats to the winners! www.craftliterary.com/craft-dialog...

Thank you, @100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my tiny sugary-but-not-sweet tale

You weren't able to join us yesterday for our interview and reading with Aimee Bender, our first Master Series guest? You can now watch the interview on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/DH71B3XUIx0?...

I watched the “Unique Selling Points” workshop last week and really enjoyed it. I hope to find a way to do a live workshop one day, but I’m so thankful (esp. as a writer still so fresh to flash) to have these recorded options from an expert in the form. Thanks, Matt!

"In my eardrums waves thrum, roaring against the silence." This brilliant piece of writing by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.fiveminutelit.com/sea-lake

Thanks to haikuniverse for sharing this little piece, inspired by my daughter’s harder/younger season of handling her dad working nights. haikuniverse.com

morning road trip clouds 🤍

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“Messaging” by @adelegallogly.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writing #flashfiction

Happy to be the daily story on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social for the second time. www.paragraphplanet.com

Great advice here. Since I started writing flash fiction, my phone and e-ink tablet have been especially helpful as I write & revise while busy with summer kid activities, traveling, etc. Scribbling “morning pages” first thing has been a good practice, too (and I’m not at all a morning person!) 🥱 ✍️

A winner of The Archive Challenge has been chosen randomly from the 27 writer-readers who finished the challenge posting daily for 2 weeks! Congratulations to Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social ! www.smokelong.com/the-archive-...

Last day of this wonderful challenge! Day 14 “To Brown Duck, Potters’ Mill Pond, Brynby Green, Lincolnshire LN12 0BX” by Philippa Bowe & Karen Walker—a delightful co-written flash about a unique correspondence. I read it on a cottage morning 🦆📬 newflashfiction.com/to-brown-duck/ @nffr.bsky.social

Day 13 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge “Mom’s new boyfriend is a liver fluke” by Cole Beauchamp, visceral & amusing: “This flat worm sucks nutrients from our fridge, sprawls on the sofa, pink and leaf-shaped, fattening and excreting eggs…” newflashfiction.com/liver/ @nffr.bsky.social

Day 12 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge “Tapped” by Kim Magowan, a flash story about a mother grappling with grief & change. 🌳 “It’s Ruth who should feel like a tree: rooted in San Francisco, alone. Her family one by one has left her.” 🌳 newflashfiction.com/kim-magowan/ @nffr.bsky.social

Day 11 @smokelong.bsky.social's #archivechallenge “Let’s Play Ball, Cecil” by Dan Crawley, a road trip story from his excellent novella-in-flash “The boy leaned way over, shading the man’s tanned face covered in sweat, which now held a fixed grin” newflashfiction.com/dan-crawley @nffr.bsky.social

Day 10 of @smokelong.bsky.social's flash journal #archivechallenge - “The Fortune You Seek Lies in a Different Cookie by Clare MacQueen,” a restless story of searching, searching, searching... “Perhaps cookies can tell her why she’s alone.” newflashfiction.com/clare-macque... @nffr.bsky.social

Day 9 of @smokelong.bsky.social's #archivechallenge - “A Kiss At Last” by G.L. Morrison, a dialogue-heavy story about last kisses and Oreos and love, layered w/ tension & meaning: "How can a moment be so ridiculous and serious at the same time?" newflashfiction.com/g-l-morrison/ @nffr.bsky.social

Made time for this short, tender novel over lunch today. Aiming to read a variety of books this summer, from microfiction to lengthy sagas.

The online community workshop that finally got me writing fiction again. Join us!

"Lucky" by MegPokrass.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting #flashfiction

Day 8 of @smokelong.bsky.social's #archivechallenge - “Conversation in Hotel Lounge” by the masterful Lydia Davis, a humorous & relatable flash story about overheard dialogue: "First woman, loudly and distinctly: 'I never had fun before!'” newflashfiction.com/lydia-davis-2/ @nffr.bsky.social