"Remembering can be a burden, just as final preparations for a loved one are a weight. That planning for the service is the last thing you will ever do for them while they are here on earth." Love this new essay by @edenroyce.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social

Heartbreaking flash essay by Helen Collins Sitler via @short-reads.org. 💔 www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...

Check out my interview in CRAFT with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, who's judging our Flash Prose Prize. www.craftliterary.com/2025/10/01/i...

Friends are getting emails from "agents" full of AI-generated praise. When my writer-husband was contacted by a fictitious book club in DC, I did some digging. Have any of you been contacted by one of these scammers? writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

Our first acceptances started going out this week! Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we'd love to read your work!

Are you a disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent writer with a recent or forthcoming book? If so, query us about our new book review and interview series. We'd love to celebrate your work!

Heather Cox Richardson on the First Amendment, September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Democratic House member Ro Khanna said 'this is perhaps the first administration to make comedy illegal.'" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Wonderful to wake up to this publication this morning! CRAFT is an incredible journal, and it's a delight to have my work there.

"Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs." Beautifully woven CNF by @aimee-bender.bsky.social in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...

The same administration that refuses to release the Epstein files. "By March, Reuters reported that “scores of agents” who specialize in child sexual exploitation investigations had been reassigned to immigration enforcement." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just gonna pretend the flags at half mast are for Robert Redford

“My favorite compliment that I got from a writer early on was, ‘you leave out all the right things.’” ~ Amy Hempel

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White. brevitymag.com

“We just move around them, as if they are not the most important objects in the room, as if they are not the reason we are here doing this in the first place.”

Can’t wait to teach “Creative Constraints: Invitations to New Flash”! Asynchronous. Online. October 18-20. SIGN UP BY TOMORROW, September 15, for a 15% discount (code FLASH15)! flashfictioninstitute.com/product/telling-it-slant-writing-flash-nonfiction-and-fiction-with-jaqueline-doyle/

“‘I want to buy your soul,’ he said, leaning close because of the noise, and she laughed. ‘Seriously?’ she said. “Does that line work for you?’” @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

Frightening, barbaric, inhumane. Isn't there any way to stop these deportations? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Litquake Festival 2025 schedule + ticketing are now LIVE! 🥳 www.litquake.org/2025-schedule

"…now I’m wondering, why have I refused myself the gravel of this memory until now, when I can remember so little of it all?" Beautiful flash-length meditation on a childhood experience by @alizabethworley.bsky.social at CRAFT: www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/10/w...

"the thin blank beach is survival, & so we run around the edges playing, building sandcastles, erasing thoughts of what could destroy us..." This week's miCRo is "Fascism," by Mark Strohschein, an ekphrastic prose poem about Kazimir Malevich’s 1915 painting, Black Square. Link in thread:

“I want to buy your soul,” he said, leaning close because of the noise, and she laughed.” L.A, anyone? Don’t miss @jacqdoyle.bsky.social at Ghost Parachute! ❤️

Great sale at @blacklawrence.bsky.social! 40% off with code. Ends September 15. (See comments for my chapbook, if you're interested.)

Great new magazine with a great lineup of writers!

I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙 hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/

"A Hollywood insider’s joke, maybe, like if you want a challenging job that will suck the soul out of you, apply here. Or a casting call for a musical, a movie. Or a car dealership looking for Kias." Love this brilliant piece so much by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social 💙💙💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

I don't want to quote the last line but I want to quote the last line. Read "We Don't Meet in Buda" by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social

Beyond thrilled to be in Ruby's pages. I hope you check it out. 🥧🍄🍾

"More LA craziness. She’d asked her roommate about the white cardboard sign stapled to a telephone pole—WE BUY SOULS! in gigantic red letters followed by a telephone number. A Hollywood insider’s joke, maybe..." It's @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!

A new magazine! The first issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social looks great!

Read our micro review of @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s incredible Edge of the Sea! claudineliterary.net/edgeofthesea 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Always love a new issue of @literaryruby.bsky.social. What a great lineup of writers! Can't wait to read them all.

I have a new little flash essay up at @xraylitmag.bsky.social today. It was stupid hard to write this, y'all. Thank you, XRAY. ♥️ xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h...

“Uh oh,” Jojo said. “Take a look at three o’clock. ‘Aspiring Actor’ trying to pull ‘Wide-Eyed from Wichita.’” Fun, cinematic flash by the inimitable @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Ghost Parachute

Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defies President Trump by leading a "no troops in Chicago!"

Check out @aaronburch.bsky.social's new story in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. Sometimes a bowling story is a bowling story. Sometimes it isn't. pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...

Thrilled to have flash fiction in this great issue of GHOST PARACHUTE. Spooky art by @damicandrea.bsky.social (I really did see this sign when I was in Los Angeles for the AWP. See the next post. The rest is imagined.) #flashfiction

"ON DAY TWO of the trial Hannah realizes she knows the defendant, but it’s too late to say anything, and besides, she could be wrong." Love this by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social

How many lives will be lost because of scientific ignorance in the federal government and the weaponization of the CDC? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"We all stand around in different colored bikinis like a box of crayons melting in the summer sun." Love this sand-sculpting contest with all the period details evoking 1985 by @lynnmundell.bsky.social in McNeese Review: www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ev...

“My mother came back. Which was good, since my father was about done with me.” Read “Intercom,” a prose poem by @richard-siken.bsky.social from the collection I Do Know Some Things.

"Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure." Read @pollyrowena.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social today.

“We named Ellwood Bluff after the elementary school across the street, spending our afternoons among the mustard flower, wild fennel, and eucalyptus forests.” -from "Bluffs,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by James T. Morrison Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

"Between 2001 and 2020, [pressure groups and government entities] challenged an average of 46 titles per year. Last year, they challenged 4,190 titles in 12 months." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

The amount of AI slop writers are submitting as prose for editorial consideration is so incredibly dispiriting. It's just... so bad.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

My husband Stephen D. Gutierrez is honored to be one of 13 finalists for the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize at Texas Review Press. (Scroll down the announcement for the full list.) Congratulations to the winner! bit.ly/4moQ0yc

Lovely Beautiful Things essay this morning by @troutli.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social