Thanks for the shout-out, Kate, and congratulations! 🌟

Here is the story: It's about menorrhagia (heavy menstrual bleeding) and an aggressive surgeon and friendship and I'm grateful it was published. hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/

All right you lovely weirdos, it's July, which means it's the @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Open Reading Period! Full-length collections of poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and hybrid works — get them in this month! sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit

Takes one glance at Submittable from the editorial side to realize the importance of a good title.

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

The importance of a great title cannot be overstated

One thing I truly believe is that some brilliant stories don't get the recognition they deserve because they have a bad title.

Big congrats also to -ette past contributors @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @eileentomarchio.bsky.social for making the Top 50!

Love this story so much. Very well deserved and the first of many, I predict! Congratulations, Anna! 🌟

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

I'm honored to have made the list with my flash, "Wyoming," published in the debut issue of Hot Flash Literary. Thanks to @sudhab.bsky.social & the Top 50 team & huge thanks to Selecting Editor @andrewporter01.bsky.social Looks like a GREAT list & longlist. Congratulations to all! 💙

Love this! Congratulations, Bonnie!

Crossing my fingers re: the weather. This photo makes me so happy and excited though! Can't wait to see everyone again! 💙

I'm finishing a terrific collection I'm writing a blurb for today. There are three more in the queue. I have to turn down a lot of blurb requests. I know I'm missing out on some great ones, but I'm doing the best I can. The flash community is overflowing with greatness. It's wonderful to see. 💙

"The shortest essay I ever wrote, maybe the shortest essay anyone has ever written, was 'Little Essay on Form.' It went like this: 'We build the corral as we reinvent the horse.'” —Stephen Dunn

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Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

“[…] a family epic in flash form, masterfully and movingly distilled, both devastating and hopeful.” Kathy Fish on The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

SO GOOD! 💙

"But over time, my own preference has been for guidance over rules, suggestions over commandments." Love this post by @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Beautiful book mail: An exceptional collection by an extraordinary writer. Congratulations, @pdforan.bsky.social and to @alkratz.bsky.social for this wonderful debut title! 🌟

“Show me creativity run amok.” Inspiration and guidance, courtesy of the marvelous @kathyfish.bsky.social. Check this out, writing friends!❤️

See inside for writerly wisdom from @nickarvin.bsky.social @tacobellquarterly.org @melissabroder.bsky.social @zzdoublezz.bsky.social and more! open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Congratulations, Sabrina! I am LOVING Coyote Girl! 🌟

My June newsletter. Hope you enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Whoosh! That last paragraph....Congratulations, Myna! 🎉

One of my favorite artists has died... David Hockney. This is my homage to his work... such pure, simple lines that bring so much complexity with them.

Good morning, Blue Sky-ers! youtu.be/G8dsvclf3Tk?...

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See inside for info about upcoming "Write Together" sessions for paid subscribers, the first is THIS Friday. 💙 The Haibun, a True Literary Hybrid open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

"Her son’s vertebrae had already become fluent in the language of hospitality." Terrific micro by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social

Congratulations on creating such a gorgeous work of art, @pdforan.bsky.social Everyone, get it and read it. Songs from the Blimp Ruins qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy 💙

See inside for info about upcoming "Write Together" sessions for paid subscribers, the first is THIS Friday. 💙 The Haibun, a True Literary Hybrid open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

I'm rich in books! Excited to read / reread collections by Jared Yates Sexton, @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Leslie O'Connel, @luannecastle.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social & poems by @lesliearchibald.bsky.social 💙 Congratulations, all!

How cool is this! Listening now, @patforan.bsky.social 💙

Update: There are now just TWO spaces open for this November's residential workshop in gorgeous West Viriginia! I'd love for you to join @joybaglio.bsky.social & Sarah Freligh & me. You will write LOTS! 🍁🍂

Can’t wait! Details + grab your spot here: areasontowrite.com/workshops/ka...

We wanted to understand what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz. So we talked to five raw milk drinkers at an emergency room in Idaho.

Superb flash by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social from title to that long last sentence. Knocked me out.

can’t wait to go back! @kathyfish.bsky.social and @ellenweeren.bsky.social create such a magical space every year. happy to answer questions for folks considering as a 2x former participant ✨

Update: There are now just TWO spaces open for this November's residential workshop in gorgeous West Viriginia! I'd love for you to join @joybaglio.bsky.social & Sarah Freligh & me. You will write LOTS! 🍁🍂

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Wow. This is absolutely stunning, @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social You take a list story and elevate it to something profoundly moving. Congratulations.

Happy Friday! I don't know which AWP Hobart was giving these away, but I have had this shot glass a very long time. @aaronburch.bsky.social

Hey guys, who is publishing the best flash chapbooks these days? I was rereading Sara Levine's 2011 chapbook Short Dark Oracles today and missing the amazing Caketrain Press.

Hey guys, who is publishing the best flash chapbooks these days? I was rereading Sara Levine's 2011 chapbook Short Dark Oracles today and missing the amazing Caketrain Press.

Met a young person who can't find a job bc of AI. His elderly mom is sick and needs home care. He drives Uber to pay rent, but is barely getting by. I told him the White House pool is going to be longer than US skyscrapers and he burst out crying. "Thank you sir," he said, "I needed that."

This is the kind of nudge from an online retailer that I cannot abide...

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