I did a thing! I love this weird little #scifi tale about the generational divide between mothers & daughters. Thank you @foofarawpress.bsky.social for the loving the story, too. And heckin' amazing visuals as well as audio narration! 😍 #amwriting #flashfiction

I'm so happy to share this good news—even happier to celebrate the win with a friend, again. My story, Some Things We Just Knew, won 1st place in the BWR Short Story Award. Congratulations Natalie (@nataliewriteson.bsky.social) for winning 2nd AND 3rd! 🎉🎉🎉 bwgwritersroundtable.com/short-story-...

A double story day for me! Happy Pride, y'all! 🏳️‍🌈

It's here!

Excited to be in Trash Cat Lit's summer issue!

Excited to have another story waiting in the wings at @intrepidusink.bsky.social. Watch this space!

Honored to be on Team Intrepidus!! Such a great magazine 💚

Book 2 of Stone & Flame is out! Stone Shadows is a slightly unhinged, Gothic-inspired modern day fantasy romance with a magic, stone monsters, and a Scottish manor. Grab Stone Shadows, e-book or paperback. books2read.com/u/3LWDLM

Why not celebrate the return of the wonderful Trampset by reading my story which they published a year and a half ago? (or, really, any story over there. They're all so good). www.trampset.org/post/margare...

Heartfelt story about why it means so much that Masters Review published Obedience. I love the story but also… 3 years ago MR saved me from quitting writing. Follow me from sickly child to precocious poet to ruinous alcoholic to -finally- writer. (Thank you for editing @coleameyer.bsky.social!)

"Women of the Weird West" (including a drabble from me) is out today! "In this bold reimagining of the Old West, dive into haunted canyons, frontier towns hiding cosmic horrors, vast deserts, and far-flung worlds where women take center stage." mybook.to/WomenOTWeird... @kcgrifant.bsky.social

“Pre-gen AI. Guaranteed correct.”

congratulations @sennara.bsky.social!

Thrilled to share my very short story "Everyone Drinks at Sunrise" published by @pseudopod.org today, alongside some other creepy tales. I especially love the host's commentary. Liberal guilt, it turns out, *is* delicious.

New story out today in the Writer’s Workout Magicfest Anthology. A little self-aware magical noir detective story for your Saturday. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H45LDRVN

In honor of the 82 anniversary of D-Day and Pride Month, here's something gay from me, via @crepuscularmag.bsky.social: "June 6, 1944"

What if each word you wrote was limited by the letter count? Read @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social powerful story exploring just that

Return your books!

Pleased to share my teeny tiny PNW-themed story, published by the ever-lovely Foofaraw Press and their microfic imprint.

"Red didn't stand a chance against her, a rocket of the sea." Read the rest of Whale and Red's story in WHALE FALL by Elysia Rourke on September 15, 2026. Ages 10+ PREORDER NOW! #bookquote #whalefall #amreading #booksforkids #middlegrade #2026debut #debutauthor #nancypaulsen #penguin #preordernow

I'm happy to announce my sweet RomCom (a meet-cute at a hotel in Upstate NY during a blizzard) is out today at Micromance Magazine. You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/microman... hope you enjoy it!

Kirkus Reviews calls WHALE FALL "Somber and uncompromising; a stark call to end animal cruelty." WHALE FALL by Elysia Rourke hits shelves September 15, 2026 from Nancy Paulsen Books. Ages 10+ #PREORDER NOW! #bookreviews #whalefall #amreading #booksforkids #middlegradebooks #2026debut #debutauthor

Do you delight in words and have climate anxiety? Me too. Me too.

Check out these great story reviews by Maria Haskins out at Locus. (And it's not just because she says nice things about my story "Stairs for Mermaids.") #amwriting #flashfiction

Congratulations on earning your skull @katherinegarrison.bsky.social!

Don’t ground me, Mom. I was only doing what the teachers asked! Congratulations @melissamaybe.bsky.social

You know it's going to be a good story when this is the first line: "Lawrence met the Sasquatch while peeing on a bush."

Hope you can make it to the end of this tense little drabble. Congratulations @nataliewriteson.bsky.social !

Some Stories We Tell Ourselves, Others We Don't is an emotional exploration on the "The things you find packing up an old house." Congrats @cuylermeade.bsky.social

So grateful FFF is again reprinting a slightly older story of mine - Notes For A Eulogy - especially as the ed had to recode his website to make the experimental formatting work! A short version of this came second in the Bridport Prize for flash, but I think it has twice the impact at 500 words.

Congratulations @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social!

Read this unexpected Dear John letter sent from the stars by our very own @mmschreier.bsky.social

🖤☠️MEET @corriehaldane.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD AWARD WINNER🖤☠️ In "Hivemind", a grieving father is encouraged to share the news of his young son's death with his bees, an old tradition that initially provides comfort. But the bond he forms with his hive has unexpected consequences. ⬇️

“🥖” The Family Collection https://qb.foofaraw.press/the-family-collection/

Bet you won't guess what happens next. "I spread the void across my lap..." Read the rest of @corriehaldane.bsky.social's beautifully weird story at @ratbaglit.bsky.social!

A little story taco for your Tuesday

HONK HONK. Check out this good news!

Volume 12.2 from Bear Review dropped on Friday, and I'm so grateful to have two poems in this beautiful issue. ❤︎ bearreview.com/br/v12-2-sar...

Congrats @corriehaldane.bsky.social !

So pleased to have a story in the flower moon issue of the incredible Gone Lawn Journal! Thank you Owen and team! Be sure to check out the full issue 🌼🌙 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Thank you Pithead Chapel, for publishing NO OBITS, inspired by a 1998 headline from the Bay Area Reporter to mark the first week since 1981 without new AIDS deaths. The new meds WORKED. Not a cure, but a reprieve. I try to capture that bittersweet moment in this tiny story bsky.app/profile/baya...

who else got a substack so i can start following urs especially @quillhollow.bsky.social buddies

Delighted to once again grace the pages of Sky Island Journal! Their attention to detail, love for what they do (postcards to all their contributors!!) and gorgeous design have rightly made them one of the leading lit mags in recent times. Read my flash horror “Tar” at: www.skyislandjournal.com

Wowsers! I’ve somehow found myself on the shortlist for the prestigious Dinesh Allirajah prize for short fiction. Fingers and toes crossed for the next week! @commapress.bsky.social

I spy me 🦝🎉

Beautiful work @corriehaldane.bsky.social

Who knew such a powerful punch could be delivered in so few words. Well done @corriehaldane.bsky.social!

Surprised and pleased to see my little sapphic lady knights story featured in Reactor's Short Fiction Spotlight. Never expected to see my name sharing a list with Stephen Graham Jones! 💀

Wrote a new Substack. mjhuntsgood.substack.com/p/the-pendul...

I’m so pleased that this poem found a home. Thank you to January House Literary Magazine for publishing it. 💚 If you like birds and wish you could fly sometimes you might like it! januaryhouselit.com/2026/04/17/b...