Super thrilled to have a micro up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social - thank you so much to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and editors! Big shout out to the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to everyone who gave feedback 🙏💚🙏 fracturedlit.com/green-to-gray/

Last week, the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast asked, “Did women ruin the workplace?” The headline changed twice — but the real issue wasn’t the wording. It was the premise.

I have been decontaminated and now my hair looks even wilder than usual (I don't think this pre-op "decontamination" wash is suited to hair washing!)

The FLASH FICTION ranking includes 280 magazines - here is the top 20:

We were going to type, "Only three more weeks till we close for fall submissions!" but that was two days ago, so now it's only 19 days. Please send us your best by the end of November: www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

If you're looking for a spot of calm in the day's chaos, do read this micro by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social. She writes some of the most evocative sentences. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Dear Americans - your president is fucking up the UK now. The BBC has made mistakes & it certainly needs new governance but your orange fascist needs to keep his hands away from us!

Today on BBC Radio 4 and afterwards on the BBC Sounds App www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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_...

Issue 5 of Thin Skin - showcasing work by older writers - out now!

"Me and My Shadow" by @SAGreene1.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting

Today's teases from our gorgeous charity print anthology are from stories exploring family loss and uncovered family secrets. Stunning work from @joycebingham.bsky.social @mikepiero.org @clareobrien.bsky.social Get a copy and enjoy all 27 short fictions: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 🦝

I am absolutely delighted to have a new story out - Love (a journey) - with Fictive Dream. Huge thanks to editor Laura whose dedication to short fiction is phenomenal. #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity

Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️ Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words Deadline: November 27 No fee Click thru for full details ettereview.com/submit/

We're delighted to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2026. Congratulations Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social , Jen Eve Thorn, Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social & Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social (links to each in thread)

Honoured to have another nomination for my micro story, published by Raw Lit Mag. A story inspired by a night spent in a motel in Van Horn, Texas.

Today it’s easy to be joyful so how about a little pop-up theme call. Joy is the theme. Whatever gives you joy counts unless it’s hate, that won’t count. Poems flash micro art, everyone welcome even if you’ve already submitted. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

"But different laws apply here: you’ll survive. This is your new life." A surreal and feel-good micro. Love this one! @mattleibel.bsky.social

"The challenge of flash fiction is, of course, to pick the right words to tell a complete story, since the writer is allowed so few." Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...

@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social last year’s November issue with terrific work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social @didiwood.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social @anchalastudio.bsky.social Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/issue-23/

Folks, I missed that my humour piece written in a @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social workshop was published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social on the weekend! Please check out the plaint of this dissatisfied TAD (TM) dater! thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...

Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions of previously published work on November 24th

You now officially have something like 11 days to get your micros in! Grand prize: $1000! Previously published and unpublished work considered! Guidelines: www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

“Cassie writes, ‘Clouds,’ writes, ‘Nothing, no one,’ writes, ‘Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.’” @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...

We are blumming chuffed to share our nominations for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social Amazing stories that deserve to go all the way 🦝💜 @sarahkat.bsky.social @terryholland.bsky.social (in print) @joeluscombe.bsky.social @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social (in print) 1/4

“you drive past well-worn towns, follow roads less stable than clouds, & still, no matter how far or fast, the road ahead seems endless. this is what forever must mean. sitting with nothing but unknowing …” this by jj peña in Hippocampus www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/grie...

Begin the week with this triumphant micro by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in Issue 2. Read 'Surfer Girl' here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

There's a strange grey cloud out there in the gold. At first I thought a block of flats had grown up here in rural East Sussex but when I stood up it looked more like an elephant carrying a heavy load. 🐘

Fiction subs for Issue #6 are currently CLOSED!!! So many quality subs! Still accepting subs for POETRY, CNF, and DIGITAL ART, so keep 'em coming!!!

One of mine in Scaffold Lit #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

After yesterday's workshop I re-wrote the first chapter of my novella. This morning I wandered out into the sunshine, after the rain stopped. I can't walk far but I saw this.

What are you reading this autumnal weekend? 🍂 I (Deborah) am enjoying reading this impressive debut novel from Croation author Lidija Hilje with my morning ☕️ Show us your books 📚

**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.

I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today - "Jimmy. Fucking. Bang." Thanks to Francine!

The flash section of Soflopojo. Enjoy! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...

"you might realize, rolling the fibers between your thirty-five-year-old fingers, how lucky you were to have a mother open to such friendships" Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.

‘…she’d just hung there with her hair sweeping the woodchips and eyes shut tight like she was sleeping.’ What a central image to this fantastic flash from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 🦇 fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

Enjoyable and thoughtful workshop this morning with Jake Arnott. It's good to take a few steps away from the writing to consider the real story behind it

I took a spooky picture. That's my contribution to Samhain.

Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 is now live!

‘You can’t remember where you were on the night of the tenth.’ What an original piece from @woodardwriter.bsky.social in the new issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social - brilliant! 🕵️‍♂️ www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Happy Halloween - here's a suitably spooky 75-word story published on the brilliant Paragraph Planet (@paragraphplanet.bsky.social) a few years back #halloween #ghoststory #ghostkidbush #microfiction

It's pouring with rain but we need rain after the long drought. I'm on page three of draft three of my novella and tomorrow I'm going on a course in Hastings run by Jake Arnott, called 'What's Your Story: Finding the Heart of your Novel' - perhaps tomorrow I will discover where its heart lies

This is so beautiful. Thanks to @junegemmell.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention.

Gosh, this is a beautiful piece of writing. A little sad, but perfect. 💙

SO happy to be part of Your Impossible Voice with this rage-filled #FlashFiction piece:

Every time I roar I want to re-read this piece!

A tiny but powerful poem