September's newsletter is live 🦝 We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡 trashcatlit.com/2025/09/22/h...

I'm off to la belle France tomorrow for 2 weeks - in our camper van - so won't be online much. We are hoping to see the places we missed last year (we had to come back early due to a medical issue)

Collections gathered brimming with restive, resistant poems that speak into our moment.

Humans, Claudine needs you to send her something to REEEEAD!! Last ten days to submit to our December issue. . .jump in there! Micro prose. Free subs. Paying market.

working on my novel here would fix me

I went to Berlin for 24 hours! Slightly crazy. It was for a gig. Off to France on Tuesday ...in between all our medical appointments.

@jennystalter.bsky.social “and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.” gooseberry-pie.com/superpower/

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

I'm honored that @mattkendrick.bsky.social asked me to do the October Mondettes selection. But how challenging it was to choose only ten!! Ten beauties. I hope you'll give them all a read! 💜

I've got a #drabble in the new issue of @thehooletsnook.bsky.social about a supermarket, a 1980s playlist, and an old love. Thank you to editor G.R. LeBlanc. #amwriting #microfiction #100wordstories

Submission Open 15th September to 15th of October 2025 Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

Honored as heck to be included in the second issue of Literary Namjooning. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

My daughter Nora has a story in @smokelong.bsky.social! Read Nora's story, and also her interview (she calls me out for not writing as much as her). So proud of this girl! www.smokelong.com/stories/anim...

@elisabeth-66.bsky.social - what a tiny and great piece of writing.

Big moment of fame tonight. I get nine minutes at the Hastings Lit Festival to read some of my flash fiction. But I MIGHT get longer as two people may have pulled out due to illness.

Our SEPTEMBER ISSUE is hot off the press. 🔥 And we're so excited to finally get to share it with you, fam! buff.ly/uOXuAsg

For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

"When in doubt, arrest anyone darker than this paint sample:" (via @mcsweeneys.net) buff.ly/RUEkhge

Sometimes we need music www.youtube.com/watch?v=71JE...

I'm tired & can't think of anything to say about this short piece except that I really love it!

'And in this dream, the same stone could tour through all the oceans of the world, never stopping once to sink...' Touching blend of imagination & reality by Matt Leibel @lit-namjooning.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I am so bad at bluesky, hopefully third time I repost this correctly. My story "Opening the Attic" is free for everyone today! Based a little on depression, and a little on my aunt actually playing in the unfinished attic and always talking fondly about it. Hope you enjoy!

This is so good! Funny & wry and just brilliant. But stop all this cake stuff. There's no cake in my house and now I want to eat some!! @quickasaflash.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/review/show/... my review of Hostile Environments by @jankaneen1.bsky.social published by @northodoxpress.bsky.social

Dig in! Issue Five: Cake is up. Enjoy! www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issues/issue...

I'm absolutely delighted that my piece, 'These days you're kinda okay', has found such a loving home with @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💜 Many thanks to editors, Hema, Lakshmi & Melissa. #amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #flashfiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

This is a wonderful story. These women could be characters in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Less of a #haiku, more of a #senryu for this #HaikuSaturday. half full? half empty? either way, the glass isn't bulletproof

"I am a gecko, and if a sampling of Indian grandmothers have anything to do with it, I am mythically endowed with the full spectrum of human desire" Wonderful sense of calm beauty in this @lit-namjooning.bsky.social @saipradhan.bsky.social piece: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Lovely Kathryn. I don't surf but I do bodyboard but sadly not been this year.

Looking for folks passionate about reading creative nonfiction and working with a volunteer team.

It’s Cloud Appreciation day today—post a photo of the clouds in your sky on the @cloudappsoc.bsky.social Memory Cloud Atlas www.memorycloudatlas.org

I have a story today on the wonderful @lit-namjooning.bsky.social about how we can be sad and not sad at the same time. Many thanks to the editors for having it ❤️❤️❤️ literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I'm pretty sure this site is all historical flash fiction, might be helpful? flashbackfiction.com

More dramatic clouds for #CloudAppreciationDay Dixter Gardens East Sussex

MUCH GRATITUDE TO @jenwithwords.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and all the WONDERFUL EDITORS AT LITERARY NAMJOONING for including "Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul" in Issue 2 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/sticky-notes-for-a-downcast-soul-by-tracie-adams

there's a sweetness in today's short from Sophia Krich-Brinton that immediately grabbed me as a submission and has really stuck with me since. a joy upon every revisit! https://www.havehashad.com/4y0mm

It wasn't easy, but here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2026!

There are some mega clouds out there today! I've had COVID all week but I have managed to write one micro I'm pleased with

A beautiful story on the power of kindness from Ian Li. Check it out! @ianli.bsky.social

So far I've just read the piece by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social - which is great & I could really relate to it having moved from Hastings out into the sticks here!

Congratulations to our nominees for 2026 Best of the Net @patforan.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/best-of-the-...

Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

I'm delighted to have a new micro live in this fab issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social. This one got rolling in a @megpokrass.bsky.social workshop. 🚌 🚌 🚌 gooseberry-pie.com/boston-to-ne...