Exciting Frog week ahead: 1) We’ll be sharing our “Flash Frog by the numbers” for 2025. Even word lovers can appreciate a good stat or two!📈 2) The Blue Frog contest is in full swing! flash-frog.com/contest/ 🐸💙 3) We have a very special, exciting announcement on Tuesday… 👀

Last day for entries today. A reminder that the deadline is 3pm GMT! Don't get caught out!

weekly talk story about Ghost Parachute (@brettpribble.bsky.social), @prairie-schooner.bsky.social and plans (or not) for the new year... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

🚨The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest is now open!! flash-frog.com/submit/

Reading the 2025 @welkinprize.bsky.social shortlist, I can’t get over how perfectly suggestive ‘Mayday’ is: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Happy New Year! Our submissions are open for Issue 8 -Prose & Poetry / Art & Hybrids ​Optional theme: Wilderness ​Optional prompt: ‘Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.’ ― Edward Abbey rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

OKD is open again for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "Nine One One" by @sfreligh.bsky.social :

Ayo! About that time once again. Our 92nd issue is live, so tell that one cousin still giving their Midwestern goodbye at the family holiday party. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #writingcommunity

FYI!

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Dreams come true, y’all. Thank you Laura EIC for nominating my little story. And big thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social and @smokelong.bsky.social where this one was born and polished!

I've taken the reins for this month's #Mondettes - it's my end-of-year round-up of some of my favourites from 2025, also known as the MAFFIAS!!! mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...

We have winners! The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest was a bear this year. So many excellent micros. These are our top 7 and will be published Monday in Issue 90! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Delighted to have my Star Wars micro "Don't mistake a red lightsaber for love, and other life advice I've given my daughter" in this beautiful NUNUM anthology - Done in a Hundred. Workshopped in the wonderful @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. You can find it here: www.nunum.ca/anthologies....

Adding to my list of thoughts from reading entries, this morning I've been trying to whittle down the ones I've been clinging on to, and what I'm doing at this stage is looking for (a) memorability and (b) something new...

I'm thrilled my CNF "Potato Boy" is up @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Fun to take the accompanying photo in my granddaughter's doll house. Many thanks to EIC Olga Katsovskiy @theweightofaletter.bsky.social & the lovely @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/c... #flashfiction

We are excited to share our nominees for Best Microfiction 2026: Margo Griffin & Amanda Ashworth! Best of luck & big hugs to these brilliant writers. See reckonreview.com/award-nomina... for links to their stories.

Currently trying to pick my favourite 20 flash fiction pieces from the last 12 months. i.e. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - FLASH PROTOCOL 25 😬 And yes, that means the MAFFIAs are coming...

Thank you so much for giving my story a home. I am honored that you nominated my story, It Takes a Toll. ❤️❤️❤️ @reckonreview.bsky.social

HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2

Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

Congrats to all these fantastic writers! These were JAKE's favorite pieces of the year, the ones he kept coming back to again and again for one reason or another. Read all of JAKE's nominees here: jakethemag.com/tag/botn-26/

Open: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Bonjour! About that time. Eighty Seven is live right now. It's heaven. Tell your third closest unconvinced soul. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

Customer service is difficult. Don't let anyone tell you differently! Dealing with complaints. Having to balance pleasing the customer & towing the company line. Check out "From the Customer Love Department" by @lisakbuchanan.bsky.social & see how it's done! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/from-th...

While it may feel like the end of the world is nigh, at least there are no zombies in this timeline. But in case I'm wrong, read & bookmark this informative piece from @slashnburnett.bsky.social "Updated explainer: Composting during the zombie apocalypse"👇 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/updated...

I'm not sure I buy into the whole 5 stages of grief. Maybe everyone is different and has their own stages. Maybe grief is really a staircase. Maybe you should read "Five Flights" by Laura Ingram and revel in the beautiful language of heartbreak. www.roifaineantpress.com/post/five-fl...

We've all heard it before. Be careful what you wish for. This honest, yet heartbreaking flash from @67MGriffin.bsky.social explores the anguish that mental health & substance abuse issues can bring to entire families. This is "What You Wish For When in Pain" www.roifaineantpress.com/post/what-yo...

"Later that night in bed in the dark, Will asks, 'What did you wish for?' I lie there quietly in my shame, pretending to be asleep." This poignant, remarkable story by @67mgriffin.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Thanks to @rfpress.bsky.social for sharing my story. This one is fiction but close to the heart and hurts a bit💔. Check it out as well as the amazing other pieces selected for the issue!!! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/what-yo...

Thanks to @rfpress.bsky.social for sharing my story. This one is fiction but close to the heart and hurts a bit💔. Check it out as well as the amazing other pieces selected for the issue!!! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/what-yo...

It’s here - Issue 8: Amberfields is now available online and in print! Read it online at: buff.ly/add5xHm To order in print, head to: buff.ly/aMDGZbL

A story of mine sprung up from last Spring's @smokelong.bsky.social April Fitness. The prompt was using weird taste combos & thinking about what the tastes try to convey. In the final revisions, I used a bit of all five senses. Thank you FFM for sharing! flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/04...

@reckonreview.bsky.social got my treats today! Thanks for the thoughtful note 🥰♥️

New fiction today from G.A. Rivers. Enjoy this moody piece, "Song of the Confessor" over at Reckon Review. @garivers.bsky.social

So excited for you all to read this one! It's a tiny little heartbreaker 💔❤️‍🩹. Thanks to everyone at Reckon Review for sharing my story❤️. reckonreview.com/it-takes-a-t...

It's sign-up time for SmokeLong Fitness to start April 1. You can book annually (includes A SmokeLong Summer 25) or monthly until March 31 (or again August 1). Our workshop participants are passionate; some are SQRLheads. Come write with us. #notacult www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

Hey, great news…I have a shortie in the current issue of @mrbullbull.bsky.social and you can snag a copy w the link below! Stellar lineup, so honored to be included. 🎉🎉

Oof, like a punch in the gut

So excited for you all to read this one! It's a tiny little heartbreaker 💔❤️‍🩹. Thanks to everyone at Reckon Review for sharing my story❤️. reckonreview.com/it-takes-a-t...

Thank you @reckonreview.bsky.social for giving my story a home! Can't to read the other stories you have selected for March! ❤️

Two tinies in Peatsmoke Journal. Thank you, editors. www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2025-...

Oh, hello! Good for You 82 is now live. Best to inform your least favorite circus juggler. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

Totally stoked @publishedbyjake.bsky.social let this micro see the light! Started in last February's flash immersion w/ @kathyfish.bsky.social, tweaked after feedback from @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon 2024 group mates, here's A View of His Chevy. jakethemag.com/a-view-of-hi...

How many times does it take to "get the picture"? 💔

Love it! Love that last line, Margo! Congratulations! 🌟

How many times does it take to "get the picture"? 💔