Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

Book your free ticket to hear the mesmerising poetic voice of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Sunday 5th October, 3pm, UK time 🎫 🎙️

Open for Microfiction and Micro CNF! Now reading for December’s issue. Free to sub, paying market. 💵 Looking for prose as tiny as

Any academic forums/blogs/journals looking for short-form currently? Have an article on grief through archival returns that I’m keen on sending out but a previous forum fell through!

Submissions open. From the good folks at @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social submissions.strangepilgrims.com

Final week to send your experimental / outside #collections of poetic short prose/ #shortstories to Kari Flickinger Memorial Prize. I'm final reader/ judge this year. Looking for amazing, gentle, revolutionary, visceral, non-traditional #prose work! Details here! kariflickingermemorialprize.com

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

All are welcome to contribute to the non-themed October Anthology of The Starbeck Orion. Be great to see some spooky stuff, though this is not essential. Here are the contribution details: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

#TIL Wall Street was named for an actual wall. Back in the 17th century, the Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam built it to keep out their rival settler gang, the British. And in the 18th century, it was the site of a slave market.

If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump. Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks. dianegottlieb.com/conversation...

It’s Wednesday. Got a WIP? Doesn’t matter if it’s raw or rolling. If it’s yours, it belongs. Drop a line. Share a note. Let us know where you’re at. #WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout

This is great @charhamrick.bsky.social

💥ANNOUNCING💥Rules of Verse--Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground Subs Open @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social on October 1st w/ Guest Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

Join me & @malhavardwriter.bsky.social online this Thursday night for some #flashfiction & other readings, tickets are free. Put your feet up & have a listen - featured writer is Andy Larter. Also contact @dublinwriter.bsky.social if you'd like to read to a friendly crowd 😍 Slots still available.

Have reached 13, still want 12 new followers to hit the 25 mark. www.patreon.com/cw/lucidillu... Please share to help me find short story / flash fiction readers. #BookSky #PromoSky

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. Anne Carson

Butter busts sashes expectation and identity, parenting and being you, so much in this beautiful @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story. She has a new story out in @okaydonkeymag.com, read that too. It’s a glorious day to read. templeinacity.com/fiction-emil...

Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower — Peter Lindbergh, 1989

Sarah Andersen, contemporary US cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

Subs are open over at @expositionreview.bsky.social! Send me your art! Send us your creative work in any and all genres! We pay $50!

SUBMIT TO THE URGE! We're open for Poetry & Art for Issue 7: The Urge. Sept 1 - 22. Details: buff.ly/cQNscai 🖤

Got a little site cleanup and boy are we excited. Same look but more intuitive, easier to use. Easier to find your favourite story or author. templeinacity.com

just a reminder, till end of spooktober - my e-book is on a discounted price! (go ahead, pick up a copy if you'd like to read some of my older flash fictions) ko-fi.com/s/d33c50d04d #BookSky #PromoSky #BSNM #FridayFlashFiction

I'd be grateful if you can send links for flash stories where climate change plays a role. I'd like my students to write these kinds of stories for an assignment, but I don't have many models. Thanks!

Sigrid Nunez in the TLS.

Today is #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets Drop your poem. Tag it. Tag us. @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then Read. Repost. Reply to 3+ poets. Even silence carries sound, if you know how to listen.

David sassoon library. Mumbai. #Photography #StreetPhotography

Submission open 2/1/26.

Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – the stunning vintage woodcuts of Japanese artist Hasui Kawase www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/h...

More than 30 great poems, flash, micro and art by 24 creators. Each one takes 1 to 10 mins to read. You have 1 to 10 minutes right? How else are you going to spend it? Read it out loud to a loved one. Rediscover joy. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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

🎤 ℂ𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝟡𝟘𝕤 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕒 💿 #MariahCarey #Madonna #JanetJackson #WhitneyHouston #CelineDion #90sDivas

A fitting riposte to those who talk about the death of the book?

These are lovely @jenwithwords.bsky.social. So evocative.

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass “Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.” .

The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world. ~Czeslaw Milosz

'And even then, the sea will still be there. Of course, the sea doesn’t just go away. Place your hand here and listen.' Wonderful reminder to stop & listen to nature & your heart in this piece by Mizuki Yamagen @lit-namjooning.bsky.social #fiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'As the bottom of the hills came into view ... Maya savored the final twists and turns ... a tight holding on before letting go. Just like her marriage.' Excellent weaving of the physical & emotional by Divya Durgadas @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

First time seeing this - the line “I wear the sun like a shawl on my neck and arms.” is sublime.

Loved this so much 💖 💖 recovering from making important things stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

Thanks @templeinacity.bsky.social. It is lovely to share space with all the amazing contributors.

Got a few minutes today? Dip into this little issue filled with tiny delights. Some will take your breath, some will help you let it out, some will take your hand, some will fill your heart, some make you laugh, some will brim your eyes. Try one. See what you get. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Hush, child, and Submit. The Urge is open for subs til Sept 22! engineidling.net

Good morning! We are open to submissions for Issue Six! Please share (& what a good time to call up a friend and co-write a poem!!) 💃🏼 #writingcommunity

"Spring is in the small things today: the twitch of flowers peeping up from their boxes, yellow and purples, a brilliance of white chamomile" Wonderfully evocative writing from @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

And had three pieces published in the Indian bilingual Pashyantee. Do consider them for poetry and prose submissions in English and Hindi. pashyantee.com/the-things-w...

Weekend reading sorted. @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

know of any pubs that might consider a collaborative poem/graphic narrative?

This is a previous poem reworked for this weeks #PoemsAbout #Candlelight @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk