So pleased to have Soft Avocado Heart in @salvationsouth.com Thanks to @chuckreece.bsky.social for seeing what I hoped an editor would see in this piece and for loving it. www.salvationsouth.com/texas-family...

Where do you love to read? Send a photo of yourself, a friend, or family member reading in a local Gettysburg business—a coffee shop, restaurant, bar, or brewery–and send it to [email protected]. We will feature it in an upcoming post and tag the business.

Delighted to have this story in Cleaver Magazine! And I really love the artwork! www.cleavermagazine.com/what-i-know-...

Pleased to have a mini-story in Jelly Squid's Mini Squid issue and to share the page with other wonderful writers and an artist. It would be a delight if you would read my story and the others too. Thank you! www.jellysquid.site/mini-squid

This short essay by Melanie Ritzenthaler is perfection. url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/autobiography-on-the-eve-of-my-thirtieth-birthday-2/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5

Finishing up my first Smokelong Summer, glad for the wild writing ride with other writers. The @smokelong.bsky.social editors guided, prompted, and supported us every step of the way. Now I have a pile of flash to polish and send forth.

Beyond delighted to see my poem in the pages of Rattle. @rattlepoetry.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ratt...

A powerful, beautiful poem that I needed right now rattle.com/feed-by-jare...

So pleased and excited to have The Night Before published at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. The editor is a kind human being and great to work with. And I love the stories and poems Pockets publishes. Go have a read. www.doesithavepockets.com

This is the writer's first publication; what a beautiful first.

"He fed me his best lines: You mustn't feel that way. I'd do anything for you. You know I love you." Today from #MicroMonday, The Jig Is Up or Ever After Hills Like White Elephants by Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social #microfiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/05/05/m...

Happy to have Two Too Many Martinis, a short story, in @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social's latest issue, In the Company of Strangers. Thanks to editors Madison and Kelly! Read the story in the ebook... static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08...

Excited to announce that FlashFlood will open its doors on Sunday 20 April until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. Get writing, folks! More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/fl...

Heartbreakingly beautiful poem by by Joaquín Zihuatanejo in the Texas Observer. www.texasobserver.org/poetry-promp...

@barrelhouse.bsky.social, thanks for an amazing conference. The session leaders were fabulous. The writers' panel was awesome. And it was so much fun to be among writers.

And what if you have an amazing supportive writing workshop led by an incredible, generous writer that meets weekly? And you treat yourself to good lotion and make your own blueberry scones? Thankful for your mentorship, @beekaekae.bsky.social

Either she wants to say nothing, or say too much. Either her world keeps ending, or it’s always beginning. —Courtney Kampa

Still, Barbie lifted her hands to her temples and told a white lie—why yes … —Denise Duhamel #ThisWeekLastYear

The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a "race-baiting politician" who hates Donald Trump reut.rs/4bEd07V

#Fridayreads I am reading Don’t Be a Stranger by Susan Minot. It was slow at first, but now it is blooming. Just in time for the weekend! What are y’all reading? Post with the hashtag and join us! bookshop.org/p/books/don-...

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

Thank you, @kathyfish.bsky.social and Kerouac House, for a jam-packed flash workshop today!