Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until April 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!

“I’m on my ass naked in three inches of bathwater in my divorce apartment.” Thrilled to have my first story of 2026 in the Mardi Gras microfiction issue of Boudin/McNeese Review! A tiny tale about tears and the particular sadness of watermelon shampoo. www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ba...

Flash Fiction: You’re Twelve Forever by Lila-Rose Beckford At In-N-Out, she asks for her wallet. You open the glovebox: half-empty ibuprofen, Sephora receipts, a bobby pin. Nothing that could save a life.

Here They Are! 💜 The fifteen spangly new Trash Family contributing their amazing stories to our upcoming Spring Preloved Stories issue. Be there on the 28th 🦝 @ekmacdonald.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @tracierenee.bsky.social @christinaltudor.bsky.social @lousie-w.bsky.social 1/2

Female writers - have you submitted your flash story? Why not? "I'm not any good." Nonsense, you're awesome! "I'm tight on funds." No prob, it's free! "I'm busy trying to evict the raccoon living in my dishwasher." Can't help you there, sorry. Send us your work!

"On the road towards the ocean…" Ooh, I love this choose-your-adventure fairy tale by @amadolaila.bsky.social!

This is real fun!

With thanks to Zurui for the red envelope and apologies to Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King… HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE EVERYONE

I always look forward to #Mondettes. Bookmarked to read later.

A new substack post on why I wrote THE LUNATICS' BALL and what "lunatics" are included. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

Great piece and so few pieces written about WORK!

It's been a while but I'm on the longlist and delighted to be.

Look at that. So official.

Thunder here!! I wondered what the noise was.

I'll come clean - this is a review of my new novel from someone I know but she has been very complimentary! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Sweet Spots: An Interview with Kim Magowan by Curtis Smith Bad decisions are my sweet spot.

We love to hear it: contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was listed one of the TOP FIVE poetry collections of 2025 by @electricliterature.com! 👏 🎉

We have the following international competition categories open for 2026: Quarterly #flashfiction – closes for entries 31 March Annual #shortstory – closes for entries 28 February Annual #novels – closes for entries 31 October flash500.com #writing #writers #writerslife

"...he does something he knows many men of his generation would not countenance..." More Often Than Not He Will Choose The Flowers by Ruth Gilchrist. Please click on the link below and enjoy #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity

Hey hey! New flash fiction by me! lyfaulk.com/2026/02/16/r...

I'm going to blame @fuzzynick.bsky.social for persuading me to watch the movie, 'Anniversary' which traumatised me! It is a very good film but it's so close to the reality of today's USA, it's far more scary than any horror movie.

“Chauncey cares about two things in life: his after-work pink lady and that key party disguised as a game show called “Match Game ’78.” by @karenkay.bsky.social Issue 40 Gooseberry Pie Lit gooseberry-pie.com/in-2025-my-h...

"he counted out seven one-dollar bills, drawing out each bill slowly while eyeing my mother’s tan arms, the knit shirt outlining the shape of her breasts" Love this, esp the perfect ending. @andreamarcusa.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/small-change/

"the little dogs dove right in, playing and nipping while the big guy stared at the horizon as if filled with ennui." I love how these beautiful 2 micros @sherrieflick.bsky.social make me think about time and how we use it. gooseberry-pie.com/little-birds/

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Sean Thomas Dougherty. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

Subs are ALWAYS open for our Joy issue and currently open until March for our spring issue. We’d love to read your work. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

So pleased to see this one out there. Big thanks to ‪@bulbculture.bsky.social for publishing it and to @norami.bsky.social and @raecowie.bsky.social for their help with it.

ICYMI: @neonpajamas.bsky.social is leading our February 20- 22 @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop: asynchronous, fun, oddball, safe... come and write your ass off!!! More here, and DM with any questions: bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...

Send us your words! You could be invited to join this amazing group! -->The Pride Roars - Flash Competition 2026<-- -Free to enter -Open to all women writers -1000 words max -Submissions via google form 14/2-28/2 or until we reach our cap. theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-comp...

A moving piece for a rainy Valentine's Day (like in Singapore rightj now) "Vessels" by @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social in Issue 1. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Re-posted for Valentine's Day - a story about kissing www.thephare.com/ff/as-if-we-...

Happy Valentine's Day! Sharing a few pieces on love from Issues 1 & 2. Hope you enjoy! First up, @67mgriffin.bsky.social with "Dog-ear This Page" in Issue 1: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

For Valentines Day, I’m reposting my recently published story in @merliterary.bluesky.com of my adopted son whom I love with all my heart. This is for all the kids who started life w/o warm hugs or a safe place to sleep. “Adopted kids are born in hearts, not wombs.” Remember them. ♥️🙏🏼

My future wife @pegasusunder.bsky.social wrote an incredible wellness satire flash; hilarious and horrible in equal measures. You HAVE to read this.

"The grass doesn’t scream, just splits its dry mouth to cradle him. I watch from the bluff where the sky folds white into a tired napkin." Stunning poem @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social rattle.com/my-father-as...

The February Art & Flash Digestif is here. This month the focus is bodies: the assumptions made about certain bodies, the restrictions placed on some bodies, the portrayal of bodies, and how we experience our bodies. #exphastic #creativewriting #contemporaryart mailchi.mp/149cd1d6f69c...

@pdforan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social doing the soft gallop into our hearts again ““Thanks for taking us there,” we said, the ink from our signatures slow-fading like a situationship into the folds of night’s road-not-taken light.” 🧡🧡🧡🐎🐎🐎 gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...

Fab workshop, fab salon w readings from such a variety of writers. Amazing event w a packed room @deborahzafer.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social & wonderful to see @nancyfreund.bsky.social @cancienne.bsky.social @andyandz.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social

Finally getting round to reading this gem. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

This is my micro - written in response to the murder of Renee Good. @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/flowers-on-t...

In the meantime look! Right here! Issue 3 is here and busting with incredible writing. This was a thrill to publish, full of soft corners and sharp edges, hairpin turns and gentle landings. With some of your favourite writers (right?) and at least one debut author. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

“That day, we read poetry in the graveyard.” My micro, “Naming Poets,” appears in Bending Genres today. Thanks to the folks at @bendinggenres.bsky.social! bendinggenres.com/naming-poets/ #microfiction

“but it’s her body’s melody she’s worried about” Sparkling with originality. Fantastique Delphine.

I'm delighted to have a story in the latest issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social ! Many thanks to the editors @rgvaughan.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social and David O' Connor. bendinggenres.com/thrum/

All new Bending Genres Issue 49 is now live! Our Jan/ Feb 2026 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! www.bendinggenres.com Congratulations to our hard-working Bending Genres editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity

This is my micro - written in response to the murder of Renee Good. @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/flowers-on-t...

"Rewind" - a story of what-ifs - masterfully spun by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social. Go read! lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...

“I’m squeezing fruit like I’m touching the body of a new love while my heart is still longing for the familiarity of the one I’ve just left or lost.” Read Anna Vangala Jones’ @anniejowrites.bsky.social juicy new micro, “Mangoes and Tequila,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...

I have a little story in here, it does have a long title.