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Orchid Angel 👼

For the novel you can’t stop thinking about. The In-Person Novel Incubator at GrubStreet offers rigorous revision, craft deep-dives, and a true writing community who will read your full manuscript and show up for it. Deadline: February 18, 2026 ✨ tinyurl.com/mfa89ke5 GrubWriters #writingcommunity

Thanks to Kristen @brightflash1500.bsky.social for seeing something in this slice of life flash. Happy to start the year in Bright Flash! brightflash1000.com/2026/01/01/f...

I've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️ prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...

Thanks Claudia! Fun to be in This wonderful pub together.

Was traveling blissfully free of internet and missed the pub date of this. Thanks @thecitronreview.bsky.social for including me in an issue with such fantastic other writers! citronreview.com/2025/12/22/t...

Another wow from Claudia! And she even takes her own pictures!

@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @chiphouser.bsky.social thanks Matt for your great site! And everyone should check out these three writers I became friends with this year.

Who wants something nice for a weary Wednesday? Quote post this post & tag 1, 2 or 3 other writers who inspire you / support you / are amazing human beings. I'll pick a winner at random. Poster + nominees win a free recording of one one of my workshops: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec...

Anyone else find this annoying—you search Submittable for “no fee” submissions and you get to the end and there is required fee? First three mags that showed up today. Understand it’s a tough business, just don’t label it no fee. End of rant.

A beautiful many layered piece!

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...

The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...

“The last anything doesn’t announce itself.” Love this one Claudia, another stunner.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Love this Kathy!

make a little art today. read a story, enjoy a painting, appreciate and escape into a little art today. look back at something you've made and let yourself feel proud of it today. reach out and tell a few people how much you love something they made today...

Great episode; great podcast!

At the edge of Cambridge Commons, reminders from the resistance

This is a great reminder to send us your regret story if you didn’t get a chance to last month! #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Creative signs in Cambridge Common today as folks gather to say Fuck the Regime!

Motherfucking wind farms…

Happy to be in the top three for WestWord Folktale Flash competition with these fine flash writers. Thanks Amanda! #flashfiction westword.substack.com/p/folktale-f...

I **may** have started a new newsletter 🧐 This is for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with upcoming flash / short-fiction courses, workshops & events being offered by all your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags & awesome independents. fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/from-the-c...

It’s strange times when the headline “Marines will begin withdrawing from Los Angeles” is “below the fold” and sounds normal in the scheme of things.

WGBH building in Boston today

One of my tasks for the day is to create a list of historical and speculative prompts for my upcoming panel discussion with @mynachang.bsky.social and @sharontelfer.bsky.social and now I want to write half of these stories 😁🥸 (but must focus on novel, no short fiction for Matt!!!)

Why not treat yourself to a hump-day treat and book onto my Glorious Words course in September? Such a great group already signed up. Should be a lot of fun. Just six places left for anyone who wants to join us 👇

Well, that’s a nice surprise on a Wednesday morning! Thanks for tossing this one back out there @mattkendrick.bsky.social

Today I've got a new micro up at Ghost Parachute! Wrote this one in @neonpajamas.bsky.social's @bendinggenres.bsky.social workshop. And, holy fuck, am I obsessed with the art made to go with it! ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...

Honored to have a story on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 and one on the longlist. Thanks to Timber & @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving my work such amazing homes. 💙

“It is this court’s opinion that apparently everyone has their own ideas about how this court should operate and is not shy about sharing their views—even when no one asks,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote theonion.com/supreme...

Just read this! So good. I laughed out loud at “she must have fallen.” !! Think I’ll go grab a bite.

Tickled pink to be on the long list! Thanks to Eric Scott Tyson @flashfrog.bsky.social for publishing my work. Congratulations to the Wigleaf Top 50!

Yankee Fans welcome Ted Cruz to New York. Proud of my homies!

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

@mattkendrick.bsky.social this is an awesome bunch of resources! I’ll be digging into these for months, thanks so much!

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

@whipkclark.bsky.social uh, don’t mean to wake you so early, but did you happen to see Trump has sent MARINES to LA? Why aren’t you “whipping” some response? Our representatives showing some outrage would be nice. Seeing them protest would be better. Going to LA and standing with CA would be better

Cause some good trouble. 💚✊

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

Here's my latest in Ghost Parachute tinyurl.com/yx6c88w7

Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.

From M. Gessen in today’s NYT: “But while we are still capable of looking, we have to say what we see: The United States has become a secret-police state.”

🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that intended to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives, but she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!!