ICYMI: If you've ever been curious about the inner workings of FlashFlood, Ingrid Jendrzejewski answered some questions, including, recent trends in flash fiction. Here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/966681...

Ellen Garard has won second place in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 for the story "Fruit of Our Body!" Stay tuned for the first-place winner soon! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Announcing the third place winner of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, Kate Catinella for the story "Small Something"! Second and First places coming later today! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Vol. VII: “Flux” was a Best American Essays notable issue and features @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social winner @dango-ramen.bsky.social, as well as multi-genre pieces by @charlesjensen.bsky.social, @mariannelchan.bsky.social, @jessyrandall.bsky.social & many more: tinyurl.com/ExpoV7Flux.

📝🚨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Our Flash 405: “Loop” writing contest is open thru July 5. Send guest judge @crsutton.bsky.social your flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, and experimental writing. Winners receive cash prizes & publication: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlashLoop.

Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...

Special pub day for me. This CNF was workshopped in @smokelong.bsky.social (thanks peeps) and written in honor of my youngest daughter— we recovered from our eating disorders together. Thanks to Bright Flash Literary Review for publishing Rebirth. brightflash1000.com/2026/06/05/r...

Submissions OPEN! Until July 15. Send us what you love, as long as it's flash, micro or poetry. No theme, no AI, no hate. We like lots of different things so don't prejudge yourself out of consideration. Submit! Writing is happy and also changes the world. Win-win. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

"The sky is blue today, says the Computer, and it is." ☁️🛤️☀️ Congratulations to the 1st Place Winner of our PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION microfiction contest! 🎉 Read "Self-Correcting Code" by Amanda Trout, out now on the Apex blog!

A few thoughts on the entries received so far which might (or might not) be helpful for anyone scribbling micros this weekend... 1) You can send UP TO TWO micros - don't send TWENTY-TWO... 2) The word limit is 100 words - don't send your novel...

Our June contest, Gender Trouble, is now open, and we can't wait to read your submissions! Send us your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that explores the ways we resist gender conformity and finds power through that rebellion. 🚻✨ www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/ge...

"It has something to do with how my middle-aged husband has feathered our house with telephones..." Truth About Husbands (a tryptich) by @megpokrass.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #TenYears. Please click on the link below and enjoy

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Awards! Three awards of $1000, one each for fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Entry fee is $25, which includes a 1-yr subscription. Read more guidelines on the blog today! Link in thread.

👏 Don’t miss it: Former Flash Editor @eshanisurya.bsky.social's piece WRITING THE JOY OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE was published in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! buff.ly/eDpBqo1

FRESH FICTION FRIDAY! Check out our June issue opener — “FLEKKE” by Joshua Jones Lofflin. Top ten reasons to go on an IKEA date, and the meatballs are 1-9 😄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading

PSA! 10 more days in our free-submissions window. Registration for SmokeLong Fitness (starting in August), opens July 1st. Winners in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction coming very soon! And...you're adorable!

Gooseberry Pie's Jeff Harvey on his advice to submitters, whats sets a story apart for him and the downside to punchline endings. More here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/101494...

@littlefruitsmag.bsky.social seeks submissions on the theme of the summer solstice! Send in flash fiction, short fiction, and creative nonfiction “about your longest days or your wildest nights” by June 7. www.clmp.org/members/open...

Switch is open for submission until June 15th! Send us your intriguing, your enigmatic, your lovely microfiction. We publish stories up to 300 words. See submission requirements at switchonline.org

☀️ Summer Subs are Open! ☀️ Can you believe it? This issue will mark Lamp Lit's first Anniversary! In celebration, we'll be promoting previous work and contributors over the next weeks. 🥳 What are you waiting for? Submissions are open now! #poetry #fiction #essay #art #submisionsopen #lamplitmag

What harm is there in sending in your work for free? Exactly. Submit at buff.ly/chQ4jpz

new new: "Lovingkindness," by David Lerner Schwartz: wigleaf.com

Spotlight: 2026 shortlisted writers In the run up to our winners announcement on the 6th June, have a closer look at our amazing shortlisted writers for 2026! More spotlights will be coming out later this week. @hussani14.bsky.social

Watch the reading on the Flash Frontier YouTube channel youtu.be/AqnT-oQvMfY?...

Lithium. Cobalt. Helium. Rare earths. The materials shaping our future are also rich sources of stories. Our 2026 competition theme is inspired by @morethanadodo.bsky.social new exhibition 34: The Critical Raw Materials Shaping Our Future by Oxford EARTH. Find out: oxfordflashfictionprize.com

Not long to go till National Flash Fiction Day (Saturday 13 June). We will be publishing a flash every five or ten minutes for 24 hrs. Our write-in project will also be posting a prompt every hour on the hour! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

You really should make a plan to love this story.

ISSUE 13 - OUT NOW! 🌌🌌 All-new science fiction stories and poems. Free to read on our website: www.radonjournal.com/issue13

the 2026 pride microchapbook series starts NOW! ko-fi.com/fifthwheelpr...

Flash Fiction: Let’s Read This Picture Book by Sage Tyrtle Skip forward five pages. Skip past the toddlers with the rubber knives and toddlers with the cardboard handcuffs and the toddlers in their severe uniforms.

Our Adrift Contests close JULY 15TH! Use the link in our bio to submit for a chance to be paid to be published. #writingcontest

Are you a young #writer or #artist under eighteen? If so, we'd love to hear from you! We pay. Subs are open through July 1st. See our website to submit! ☀️

"The machines started to change us before we knew they were there." 🛠️🩸🧫 Our second 3rd place winning microfiction is live! Read "The Seed Place" by Myisha Mastersson NOW on the Apex blog ⬇️

ns is open and i’m going to start reading today! probably i will be caught up in a couple three four days so if you would like a pretty speedy response for your weirdest tiniest thing, please consider submitting!

"Just Desserts" by Cheryl Snell is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting

"Dying is an official act. Institutions insist on involvement." Profoundly moving and delicately surreal, don't miss these two short stories new from DIHP alum @eireneeleni.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eire... #fiction #flashfiction

Joining our tinted community is as simple as signing up for our newsletter 💌 Keep up with Tint Journal's latest news and more at tintjournal.com/about/newsle...

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader, packs an emotional punch, and has an important lesson on a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded. See details below: buff.ly/w8QCmMw #WritingCommunity

It's June, fam, so we need your LGBTQ+ reading recommendations! 🏳️‍🌈

Interested in the stories behind the stories in Issue 41? Prompts from @writershq.bsky.social, @smokelong.bsky.social, house refurbishment, a bulldozed cottage, Northern redbricks and an obsession with graphic novels all feature. newflashfiction.com/weaving-hope/

i love this 300 word story by Kate Catinella ! it's about a girl that goes on a date with a guy who piles his plate with shredded parmesan what a good ending ! the role reversal in 300 words is impressive & memorable & thoughtful - read this pronto xraylitmag.com/cheese-drawe...

This month’s newsletter features “How I turn a weird idea into flash fiction” by OKD Fiction Reader Andre'a Victorian. News includes the many achievements of our staff and readers! Read the full newsletter at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/turn-your-...

ICYMI…

We have the following competition categories open for entries: Quarterly #flashfiction Annual #shortstory Annual #novels More information here: flash500.com #writing #writers #writerslife

Yep we’re open for new stories! Until we reach our 1,000 cap. Can’t wait to read your stories 🤓 #writingcommunity

FFF Competition Thirty-Four!