We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!

Heads up! We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"We can, for example, avail ourselves of the tools of poets to create emotional power via language and imagery, rhythm and sound. Flash fiction is a form uniquely suited to experimentation and innovation and hybridity...." I love this post from the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙

The incomparable Len Kuntz leads a workshop this month @bendinggenres.bsky.social and I’m so excited bc Len does indeed slay every time with his words. Sign up here! bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...

It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap! Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

We have a new music column, curated by Maia Cardew. She wrote about the Massive Attack concert on June 5, 2025 in England, which she attended with her Dad, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social who is a massive fan of theirs. bendinggenres.com/review-of-ma...

Congrats 🥳 🥳 to our June 16 Micro Madness shortlist winner Jonathan Cardew – Milwaukee, Wisconsin/ Sheffield, UK #flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness

Superb!

‘When my wife came back, she wore a sheet printed with the NASA logo.’ Ghost 2.0. by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social

Much love to Paragraph Planet for publishing this exactly 75 word story, "Ghost 2.0" www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e....

“Why would we want words when we have each other?” Read all three of @cardewjcardew.bsky.social’s stellar micros in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

We just finished a terrific @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop with @cardewjcardew.bsky.social called "Hybrid Memoir." Thanks to the writers who posted such creative shorts!!! Coming in May, our genius, hilarious and newly published @sfreligh.bsky.social !!! More soon.

SUCH an amazing workshop @bendinggenres.bsky.social this weekend with the wonderful @cardewjcardew.bsky.social! Three new stories and I’m reinvigorated and can’t wait to polish and send them out! Thank you Jonathan and @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙌

"I know you have a story to attend to." And: "I clink my champagne flute accidentally against a vase." And: "Words for the things we love most in the world." Massive love for these tiny flashes of brilliance by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Time for Issue 26 of Gooseberry Pie with new work by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social @suzannehicks.bsky.social Gary Fincke

Excited to have something (3 things) published today. Thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for taking my tinies on board! gooseberry-pie.com/untitled-aft...

Best Microfiction Nominations 2025 Gooseberry Pie Lit Mag. Congratulations to Pat Foran, Jamy Bond, Sudha Balagopal, Guy Biederman, Melissa Llanes Brownlee

Just popped back onto Twitter and this is the first post I see. It’s an absolute shithole there. I’m so happy to be connected with you all here (no more toxic tossers and breathtakingly stupid logic). I’m done with antisocial media.

Hey Bluesky friends, I'm finding lots of examples from poetry and songs, but does anyone have examples of flash fiction that takes on social issues / speaks truth to power / addresses injustice, etc.? Thanks. 💙

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Cold moon issue approaching . . . . You know that really rare thing you've just finished that you're not certain what to do with? Send it our way! We'll take good care of it and you've one week to do it in! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Let's talk about YOU and ME! Let's talk about SEX (in a purely literary context), BABY! Our Issue 21.2 "writing about sex" feature is live, with work by Jonathan Alexander, @dorothykchan.bsky.social , @otroedgargomez.bsky.social , @gwenekirby.bsky.social , & Keetje Kuipers.

Do you write stories between 1000 and 3000 words? We've been receiving fewer submissions in our Fiction category lately, so it's a good time to hit us up. We're open for free subs until the end of November & for Tip Jar subs until Dec 15. Thank you! https://buff.ly/32k496o

Love all these starter packs! You can find a lot of flash/micro obsessives, including me, in @smokelong.bsky.social

My debut collection of flash fiction, The Clarity of Hunger, was published by Word West Press. www.wordwest.co/product-page...

I have given up writing bc this is so good. @stephanieyu.bsky.social delivers a masterclass in story structure. Check it out!

I’m going to unabashedly scream ACCEPTANCE! Three micros picked up by a nice journal! I haven’t had an acceptance since the Neolithic period (me pictured celebrating last acceptance quite a long time ago).

If you want to order FRENCH GIRL www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...

Very happy to find @cardewjcardew.bsky.social here. I'm sharing one of my fav stories from this amazing writer! And I really, really want to write like this when I get my act together. Brilliance in @atticusreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙 #flashfiction atticusreview.org/a-world-beyo...

Desperately wanted to change “Writing” and “Piece I wrote” to something silly, but I am serious. Please “like” me.

new new: “United as Cousins in Death,” by Keri Miller: wigleaf.com

Bag of Bones Press contest time! Can you write a horror story in a single Blue-sky post? Follow me here, share this post, then add your story to this thread. Best story by midnight this Saturday (GMT) will win any one of our great horror anthologies! Link to our books: shorturl.at/0NotP 🖤💀🖤

🙏 wonderful editors @hexliterary.bsky.social #flashfiction #horror *Magnum Opus*

This has been another great year for writing. Congratulations to our nominees for Best Microfiction 2025!

I channeled my post-election sad/anxious energy into a giant holiday Gift Guide for writers and readers! Maybe there's something here you want www.maureenlangloss.com/maureens-gia...

Hello thousands of new followers and welcome to the Literary World, an obscure corner of the Internet that collapsed like 20 years ago. Read our lit mag. It's free! It's better than the New Yorker!

Ecstatic about this nomination. Huge thanks to Lynn & Centaur Lit! And congrats to Jacqueline, Kathryn, Sumitra, & Tara! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @tarazambrano.bsky.social @centaurlit.bsky.social #flashfiction

Just submitted micros to Passages North, Booth, and Gooseberry Pie! Getting back into it. Who else is micro-friendly (under 300 words)? Especially micro micros (under 100 words)—where does one send those these days? (Satanic dog picture for engagement purposes.)

our next themed submissions call will be open soon !! SHORTS - Gambling FLASH - Bugs CREATIVE NONFICTION - Quietude open DECEMBER 1 check our submissions page for more: xraylitmag.com/submissions/

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Thank you @alinaetc.bsky.social for the yellow palette riot workshop @bendinggenres.bsky.social this past weekend! I wrote three new drafts I’m very happy with! Trying to do this writing thing again! Watch out world for a dribble of new works, slowly, ever so slowly, coming your way! #flashfiction

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