Have you grown your writing career & learned things you would like to share? Apply to be a mentor with the 3-month-long SFWA Career Mentorship Program! Through February 21, we’re taking applications for mentors & mentees. Learn more here: www.sfwa.org/mentorship-p...

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🚨‼️💙🐸 LAST DAY ‼️🚨💙🐸 The Blue Frog closes tonight @ 11:59pm PST flash-frog.com/contest/

Is it better to remember or forget? How do you ever know? That’s the question posed by “The Memory Swap” by Cressida Roe, one of our final January stories #writingcommunity #fantasy #amreading @eggandcressida.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

“&men” was my absolute favorite in @welkinprize.bsky.social’s star-studded shortlist ✨ Go vote your hearts out! ⬇️

Our winter 2026 issue is live! We hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in these pages. A huge thanks to everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org

Yes, the world is on fire. If you need a small break from the madness, read my first story of 2026! "the whiteout" was selected by @mandrigall.bsky.social as the winner of @baltimorereview.bsky.social's winter flash fiction contest. ❄️✨ ➡️ baltimorereview.org/winter_2026/...

"...voice, language, imagination." Nadia Born is our featured author this week. Read Melissa Llanes Brownlee's interview with the author at smokelong dot com and then "the sentence tree," a finalist for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

🚨The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest is now open!! flash-frog.com/submit/

night shades is OPEN! 🛸 500 words max, any speculative 🛸 sim subs ok (multiples not) 🛸 quick response and pro+ pay please read the guidelines! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

"and she shakes her head what nonsense you young people you can’t tend to a sentence make it grow" Oh, I love this one from @nadiaborn.com in @smokelong.bsky.social, the way the title (and artwork) works with the piece. A breathless stunner: www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

Ahh thanks so much @flashfrog.bsky.social for the nomination!! 🎉🎉

Just fell in love with this story by @nadiaborn.com in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

Overjoyed to be a finalist!! I didn’t write as much as I hoped this year, but “the sentence tree” may be my favorite. ✨ And major congrats to winners Claire Y. Guo, @ktherr.bsky.social & @lapharr.bsky.social!! And fellow finalists Vaneeza Sohail, Max Steiner & @valeriehughes.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉🎉

**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.

Excited to share that my little map story won the Augur’s Choice award!! 🗺️ ✨ ➡️ augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

Here at Apex, we're drawn to good horror like a moth(man) to a flame 🔴🔴🕯️ You have FOUR WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for October is FOLKLORE. You have until the 31st to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

Can’t wait to delve into these beauties, as selected by @mariahaskins.com 👀 💜 ⬇️

My little map story for #AugurMicros2025. Thanks, @augursociety.bsky.social 🗺️ ✨

This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

September sub window: OPEN 🪟

Beautiful stories alert! ✨✨ My fav was @colettelh.bsky.social’s “How to Respond When Your Hairdresser Asks if You Have Any Children.” It’s a real stunner, see link to the issue ⬇️

Hey poets! Just a heads-up that The Fabulist will be opening a SPECULATIVE POETRY SUBMISSIONS WINDOW in late November. Woo! Details and links to come; meanwhile, sharpen yr quills, refresh the inkwell and start scratching on that vellum…

ICYMI my latest #flashfiction in @electricliterature.com ✨ ⬇️

Psyched to share my story “3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams” in today’s Commuter (@electricliterature.com)! 🌎 ✨ ➡️ electricliterature.com/3d-printing-... #flashfiction

🚨👻 ONE WEEK left to get in those ghost stories! flash-frog.com/submit/

✨ Last day of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Obsessed with the playful irreverence of this one ➡️ “Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab” by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2024/06/emil...

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

✨ Day 14 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Absolutely gorgeous language in this one ➡️ “Diamonds in the Earth” by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2023/06/jame...

✨ Day 13 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ The ending of this one hits the emotional bullseye ➡️ “McDonald’s” by @sfreligh.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/10/sara...

✨ Day 12 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Captivated by the unique (and beautiful) conceit of this one ➡️ “A Roadmap of Womanhood” by @louisemangos.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/02/lous...

✨ Day 11 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Gorgeous and strange ➡️ “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/10/doug...

✨ Day 10 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Whisked away by this dark little fairy tale ➡️ “The Button Wife” by @daraelerath.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/06/dara...

✨ Day 9 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ One gorgeous, breathless paragraph ➡️ “1902” by @raygunnoelle.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/02/rega...

✨ Day 8 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Just captivating rhythm and language ➡️ “Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us” by Alison Powell - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/10/alis...

✨ Day 7 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ This ghost story is always beautiful, never over-explaining ➡️ “Sea Change” by Fiona Perry - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/06/fion...

✨ Day 6 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Loved how the unique structure supports this emotionally heavy moment ➡️ “[No Audible Dialogue]” by @skytterstad.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/remi...

✨ Day 5 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ Won over by the simple language yet complex punch of this one ➡️ “The Games People Play” by Xavier Combe - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/10/xavi...

✨ Day 4 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ I’m forever drawn to the strange logic and beauty of this one ➡️ “The Falling Silent” by @timcraig.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/06/tim-...

✨ Day 3 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ This voice just tugs at you from somewhere deep ➡️ “Siren” by Fiona J. Mackintosh - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2018/10/fion...

✨ Day 2 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨ A gorgeous “list” flash ➡️ “Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road” by @jmgatford.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2018/02/jo-g...

Love love love this idea ✨ I’ve chosen the @bathflashaward.bsky.social (which opened its 1st award in Feb. 2015). So here goes my Day 1 of the @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge: ➡️ “Terra Incognita” by @sharontelfer.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2016/06/shar...

🚨SEVEN DAYS left to submit your general submissions. In July, we are open for ghost stories only! 🚨

Ahh my little labyrinth story is out today in @smallwondersmag.com! ✨ ⬇️ So excited to be in this 🔥🔥issue guest edited by @premeemohamed.com & Chimedum Ohaegbu!

Oh hey look, it’s the cover for our upcoming issue edited by @premeemohamed.com and Chimedum Ohaegbu! Art is by @abistevensart.bsky.social, the second of our covers with her art. Subscribe at smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy... for only $3 a month!

Psyched to a have a new story in @flashfrog.bsky.social! ✨ ⬇️

My short fiction recs for Feb and March are up! With stories from @nadiaborn.com @catgee.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @samtasticbooks.com @gwillow.me @rati.bsky.social @emlinden.bsky.social and @angelaliu.bsky.social itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/04/shor...

I started a newsletter about the intersection of publishing and parenting! Here’s the first post. I’m not entirely sure what it’ll be, but I plan to update it weekly, and it’s free. If you subscribe, I’ll be very motivated to figure it out. shanders-red-eye.beehiiv.com/p/landing-page

Elated to be included on @mynachang.bsky.social’s roundup! ✨ Check out all these tiny speculative beauties ⬇️

Psyched to have a story on this list!! 🎉 👀 ⬇️