Announcing our nominations for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @seaheye.bsky.social, Sam Mainz, @jjpena.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, and C Ray Borck

“Don’t be the woman who is afraid.” “Be the woman who …” “Be the woman with a lover who …” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

“I didn’t understand how sometimes people die before they die.” “When I saw him, I did and did not know it was the last time.” “I think I’ll come back here again and again. But …” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/c...

“But I don’t. I don’t ever come back.” This piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is so poignant and beautiful. (Thanks for passing it along, dear @pdforan.bsky.social!)❤️

"Uncle Henry was an artist, a stippler. He filled paper with intricate lines of color. Like a layer cake. Like the Dead Sea: its threads of mud and mineral." I love this brilliance by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Absolutely gorgeous and moving piece, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social "At the Dead Sea, I slink across the rocks and lower myself into the black liquid. I float there on my back, staring up at the sky. I don’t think about Uncle Henry. Not even once. I don’t think about his death or his life."

Thrilled to share this braided flash CNF about the Dead Sea and my Uncle Henry. Thanks so much to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for publishing 💕

"Don’t be the woman who doesn’t move her body through the desert air. The woman who looks in the mirror and then goes immediately to the liquor cabinet" Great use of anaphora to create emotional insistence in this fab piece from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social: rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social just read your gorgeous harrowing piece in @literaryruby.bsky.social—such bravery! such hope! 👏🤗

Read our micro review of @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s incredible Edge of the Sea! claudineliterary.net/edgeofthesea 💚🐈‍⬛💚

What an issue! 🔥 This first issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social also includes a gorgeous review of my chapbook! 💕

...the news rolls in. Rolls over them. They yawn. They strain their eyes. They pace. They panic. They drink whiskey. One glass and then another. They hold onto each other. ... Soon, they will react. READ @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!

Our first issue (Sept. 1!!) will feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks! @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s “Edge of the Sea” (CNF) and Rory Say’s “The Marksman” (fiction). Pictured here with interns Moose and Pickles. www.cutbankonline.org/2025-chapbooks www.redbirdchapbooks.com/catalog/p/th...

Claudine chapbook reviews. . . a thread! We’ve been elated (and overwhelmed) by the number of requests for review . . . and we need to alter our process a touch. (Read: y’all are too good at this!) New info below (and also on our site).

River Styx 110: Plum is available for preorder. Featuring new writing and art by Maryn Blanco, Noor Jafari, Marc McKee, Hantian Zhang, Allison Field Bell, and more.

Read "What Kind of Country" written by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "They are eating pasta with too much parmesan. They are waiting for the news. Waiting to see which direction their country will angle next. Right or left." tinyurl.com/5e9eea42

"Forty, and where could they move? What other place would take them?" A fabulous and timely piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

First, exciting teaser: Claudine pictured here with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social‘s “Edge of the Sea.” Review coming in our inaugural issue September 1. Spoiler: this book is wowowowowow, jawdrop, whoa. www.cutbankonline.org/2025-chapbooks

‘They don’t have much hope, but they still have their appetites.’ This brilliance from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute 🍝 ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

“They hold onto each other. Their bodies in an embrace. How could they not? Soon, they might not be able to.” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

"They hold onto each other. Their bodies in an embrace. How could they not?" Wow, this powerful piece of writing by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social 💙💙💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

"What kind of world do we live in. What kind of country. What kind of state" Propulsive, urgent writing from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social. Love how despite of everything this still takes us to a note of hope: ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Our workshop participants keep amazing us! If you've participated in a SmokeLong workshop and have published something you started there, let us know! You might just win The SmokeLong Workshop Prize! Enter free through Submittable. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

“You want them to understand when you run through the train tunnel, you do and do not have something to prove.” To Think That I Could Be a Mother by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Without Woman or Body, from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Day 11 Archive Challenge!! @smokelong.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Read ‘Fruit Trees’ by Allison Field Bell a beautiful flash about desire and forbidden love. The symbolism and imagery are gorgeous. @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Huge congrats to Ryan Griffith whose Flash Frog story "The Laws of Tragedy" was selected as a Wigleaf Top 50! 🎉 And congrats to the SIX other Frog stories on the Longlist (our most ever!)

Send us something to READ!!

Thank you to the @wigleaf.bsky.social readers, @laughingyeti.bsky.social and @samanito.bsky.social for selecting "My mother's boyfriend is a liver fluke" in @nffr.bsky.social for your 2025 longlist. Can't imagine how many thousands of stories get read for the WIGLEAF TOP 50. Appreciate it so much 🙏🏼

Congrats @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social on being longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 with this scorcher of a story. "We remember a time before fire season. When the summer was just summer not a gathering of kindling, when the fall was just fall, without the waiting." flash-frog.com/2024/05/06/i...

Congratulations to @jackbedell.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @kristintenor.bsky.social @didiwood.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social top 50 Longlist 2026 gooseberry-pie.com/wigleaf-top-...

@okaydonkey.bsky.social is too kind to me!!! Please order my chapbook and support small presses 💙

Pre-order this amazing anthology from @mgliterary.bsky.social now! @amykdebellis.bsky.social @abbiedollwrites.bsky.social‬ @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social‬ @ElysiaRourke.bsky.social @cherlulu.bsky.social @perditastott.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #5amWritersClub #writerslift

Congratulations to the contributors of Harvest Moon V1! Available SEPT 23, 2025 @amykdebellis.bsky.social @abbiedollwrites.bsky.social‬ @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social‬ @ElysiaRourke.bsky.social @cherlulu.bsky.social @perditastott.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #5amWritersClub

The results are in! The winners of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 are... www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The Rumpus let me go today as the Multigenre Reviewer-at-Large as part of ongoing masthead changes under new ownership. I’m taking a beat off socials, but I want to express gratitude for the previous leadership, particularly Aram Mrjoian, who created my position.

The May SmokeLong Celebration is here! Help us congratulate the writers of these 40-something stories reported to us in May! Links to stories in thread! youtu.be/-37yzjLD5FQ?...

WOAH. Read this gorgeous / sad / furious flash story. Really. Read it. You will thank me.

“But I’m here now, and …” “I imagine my friend asking if I’m okay; she doesn’t, but I breathe in, steady, slow, and answer her anyway …” And “a layer cake of cloud and sky” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

The air inside the plane is vodka. Allison Field Bell writes some of the most gorgeous and powerful CNF out there @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @riverteeth.bsky.social

"But I’m here now, and my body is my body again." My lord. This. I love this piece so much by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social 💙💙💙 riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Love Allison Field Bell's writing, especially her flash cnf. So great to see her in @riverteeth.bsky.social's Beautiful Things this morning!

So thrilled to have a story on this list! @smokelong.bsky.social 💙

“Beyond him is the window, portal to the outside. A layer cake of cloud and sky—blue, pink, cream.” -from "Screwdriver," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Allison Field Bell Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

“Am I pretty? My body asks.” “My problem is: I know I want him. Not want but *want*.” “Later we …” “Later, I will …” “Later …” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/05/01/i...

"Later, we will tear through the hotel hallways in nothing but towels. I will eat a rib from a tray outside someone’s door." @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/05/01/i...

“I can’t keep track of time anymore. When which meds started and which meds stopped. When I drank this here or vomited there.” Medication by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social (p. 58) online.fliphtml5.com/ndtwa/qqlu/#...

I have 2 micros in this issue of @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social ! Thanks so much to the editors for including me 💙🥰

Some stories arrive fully fledged & others are a result of editing editing editing. 1st subbed this one in 2022 😆 Def the latter! Shout out to @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @pennypriddy.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @daniellezacc.bsky.social for helping me finesse it in #Smokelong Fitness!

Eeeek!!! So thrilled to be nominated by @pinchjournal.bsky.social for Best New Poets! My first ever nomination!!!

We're planning more events than ever this summer. Join the liveliest—prettiest, but we are partial—flash community around May 24-July 25. We're mixing it up this summer. What's your cocktail/mocktail? #notacult www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...