A new micro by Colleen Addison. Amid pain and rancour, a relieving reminder of the love we carry, that lifts us up. templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Thank you for giving this piece of my heart a safe place to fly, Eirene. Always a lovely time at the Temple.

Just a ‘lil reminder that April showers bring May flowers and also our next issue.

‘The road is no place for a snapping turtle.’ If you have a few minutes this little tale of caring can warm your day. The latest addition to our ongoing joy issue, with more coming soon. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

A beautiful flash by A.A. Loria reminding that the good we have in us is a kind a magic. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Thanks to you! I'm milking the micros I wrote in your workshop for everything they're worth. So far... acceptances in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social and now @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

A little more joy for your day in this Kendra Cardin micro that glitters and soars in the moments between pain. templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

More quiet joy, this time from the so talented Huina Zheng. ‘Look, spring comes and autumn goes, flowers bloom and fall. All liveliness belongs to them. But this pine tree stays the same.’ templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

@meanerharker.bsky.social brings a quiet, contemplative but ferociously alive poem to you. templeinacity.com/poetry-by-zo...

Our joy issue continues to grow with two new pieces this week and more coming throughout April. Always open for submissions, looking for many forms of joy. Be the moment of respite in someone day, or dig into the issue and find your moment of comfort and joy templeinacity.com/category/joy...

I can only fall asleep to the ticking of a clock.

Our joy issue continues to grow with two new pieces this week and more coming throughout April. Always open for submissions, looking for many forms of joy. Be the moment of respite in someone day, or dig into the issue and find your moment of comfort and joy templeinacity.com/category/joy...

@meanerharker.bsky.social brings a quiet, contemplative but ferociously alive poem to you. templeinacity.com/poetry-by-zo...

More quiet joy, this time from the so talented Huina Zheng. ‘Look, spring comes and autumn goes, flowers bloom and fall. All liveliness belongs to them. But this pine tree stays the same.’ templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

"I believe as another year passes, sweet bones slip between the ghost of a stair gate."

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My quiet little piece is up in @templeinacity.bsky.social today. Please do go check it out. I'm really proud of this one!

Who’s up for a little breathe of poetry that believes in life? *raises hand

A quiet slice of poetic joy via @meanerharker.bsky.social ‘I believe we only age in silence, that grains of sand run smooth in darkened rooms’ templeinacity.com/poetry-by-zo...

Got a little something coming up in @templeinacity.bsky.social started in @mattkendrick.bsky.social writing workshop.

My poem Post Vespers has been shortlisted for the Blake Prize 😱 I thoroughly recommend checking out all 8 shortlisted poems here: www.westwords.com.au/the-69th-bla... There are recorded readings as well as print. Thanks to @templeinacity.bsky.social for first publishing Post Vespers.

Featured: @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @ratbaglit.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @clereviewbooks.bsky.social @sawpalm.bsky.social @bloominonionlit.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social

EVERYONE!!!

Delighted to have an acceptance from @templeinacity.bsky.social for my quiet little piece 'A traveller’s litany' - can't wait to share this with you all x

after hours and hours of strenuous labor / bodies become statues

Personal favorites: @templeinacity.bsky.social @identitytheory.bsky.social @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Now that @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon is all wrapped up, let's get a list going of journals looking for micros! Anyone?

Hope you sport some fancy pants then. Bravo. Love the poem.🌟

This is amazing, congratulations!

Beautiful poem

Post-Vespers was originally published by @templeinacity.bsky.social & I’m so grateful it found such a perfect home. You can read it here, & go check out the whole Temple. It’s one of my favourite places 💚 templeinacity.com/poetry-kathr...

So very proud of @kathrynreese.bsky.social for this HUGE accolade for her brilliant poem Post-Vespers originally published in @templeinacity.bsky.social hope you’ll have a read and be awed 🙏🏾🧡🧡🧡 templeinacity.com/poetry-kathr...

You heard them! (And follow them too though you probably already do)

#FF It’s World Theatre Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications beginning with “T”! @tacobellquarterly.org @templeinacity.bsky.social @the-engine-idling.bsky.social @theallredline.bsky.social @theamazine.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

@trashcatlit.bsky.social @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social @thehooletsnook.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social

#IrishHeritageMonth #WomensHistoryMonth MELISSA FITZPATRICK @melissafitz.bsky.social was the cover artist for Issue 5: Resistance. See her artwork, “Speak Truth, Speak Fire” 1/ epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

Assigned reading:

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

The March 2026 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/y9cbkfs9

Monday Morning, 9:05am Outside Reproductive Choices, South London @madeleinewrite.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

The houses on Sixth Street are identical, white teeth in a jaw that never closes. @fadingbetty.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

…there is only one American & he is a boy in a failing man's body… templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...

So goooooood!!!!

Sweet hours left for last-second deadline folk.

Final day to submit for our spring issue. Flash micro poetry art, letters or mix and match any 3 of these. International authors welcome, new authors welcome, established authors welcome, angry despairing or joy-filled welcome. In other words, you are welcome. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

"Today, you’re urging me to eat soggy, cold, cheese-denuded pizza in my leaky car." @sudhab.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social with this righteous rage piece that isn't really about pizza 🧡🧡🔥

"The sting of his leaving has almost scabbed over now, crusted layers of hurt sloughing from shiny pink skin underneath." This fractured CNF in @templeinacity.bsky.social by @cake-girl.bsky.social is raw, tender, skilful 🧡🧡🧡

"She shakes my hand and I absorb the chalk dust deep inside her, powder-dry, stained with the smell of school dinners." We never really leave school, do we? @joycebingham.bsky.social with another amazing piece in @templeinacity.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

Subs for our ever-growing Joy issue are always open because Joy is vital sustenance for the work of being alive and tending to others. Joy is nutriment. Send us your defiant joy, learned joy, exuberant joy, escape joy, any kind of joy, you’re the boss here templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Final day to submit for our spring issue. Flash micro poetry art, letters or mix and match any 3 of these. International authors welcome, new authors welcome, established authors welcome, angry despairing or joy-filled welcome. In other words, you are welcome. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...