Five Years of The Art of Flash Fiction: Reflections, a Prompt, and a Special Offer 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Five Years of The Art of Flash Fiction: Reflections, a Prompt, and a Special Offer 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

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Where are you going: to pout because of the mean lady Where have you been: ko'd by Joyce Carol Oates

"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"

It was a magical gathering. So great to see you and write with you again, Lauren! 💙

With advance praise from @kathyfish.bsky.social, we're thrilled to share that there's just 1 WEEK until the release of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social! Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL @susanschulman.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction up on #SoFloPoJo Gratitude to Ed @francinewitte.bsky.social and thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for original prompt from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social this year Yeehaw! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...

“… so I turn my head and read a poster about empowerment ...” “Empowerment means you know how to have fun, but you take absolutely no shit. I am thinking of the kid and how he’s not empowered.” this by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Need some writing inspiration? ✏️ Check out these notebooks by @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social featuring flash prompts from contributor @kathyfish.bsky.social! buff.ly/UpOj2s9

Thanks so much, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💙

Friday Links is UP! Feat @vincemancini.bsky.social @attackerman.bsky.social @tonia.thetriibe.com @mollydevore.bsky.social @tahmanbradley.bsky.social @katieprout.bsky.social @franciagarciah.bsky.social and honestly so much more Chicago reporting www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657780

An abundance of linked goodness from @thecorlew.bsky.social Really appreciate the shout out for my Ghost Parachute story! 💙

Thanks for the shout out @kathyfish.bsky.social 🩷🩷 artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/everything...

Flash fiction writers too, if we're being honest. 😂

Well done, Detroit! We shouldn’t have to accept her “Noem-enclature.”

picture of a drill that says THIS IS NOT A DRILL! NEW MAGRITTE EXHIBIT OPENING!

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What a wonderful prompt! Thank you, @kathyfish.bsky.social! Check this out, writing friends!💙

Just love this piece, @woodardwriter.bsky.social Congratulations! 🌟

⚡️Fast Flash Review: Wild Life by @kathyfish.bsky.social published by Matter Press.

I'm speechless. Thank you so much, Gillian! I am very eager to read your collection when it comes out. 💙

Would love to hear this one spoken/performed! Congratulations, @angelajoynes.bsky.social 💙

My October newsletter is live and I'd love for you to read it! 💙The Fleeting, Electric Moment: Ginsberg's American Sentence open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

From the title to the last sentence, this story by @kathyfish.bsky.social is delectable.

Thanks so much for taking part, @matthollingsworth.com ! That was such a powerful piece you wrote & shared!

"Empowerment means you know how to have fun, but you take absolutely no shit." Don't miss contributor Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social's THE SADDEST FUCKERS OF ALL in Ghost Parachute: buff.ly/vUgT2P3

Thanks so much, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💙

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Hey friends, if you become an annual subscriber to the Art of Flash Fiction newsletter you get a FREE workshop valued at more than the cost of the subscription! 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

💙 Heads up: Thanks to all who signed up for THIS Saturday's 3-in-90 workshop! You should have received your email w. session LINK today. Please check your inboxes (from Art of Flash / Webex) Sometimes these land in promo or spam folders. Please don't wait until the last minute to do this. Thanks! 💙

Timeline Cleanse ⚜️🎶⚜️💙⚜️🎶⚜️ Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt performing together (1976)

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020. $0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

💙 Heads up: Thanks to all who signed up for THIS Saturday's 3-in-90 workshop! You should have received your email w. session LINK today. Please check your inboxes (from Art of Flash / Webex) Sometimes these land in promo or spam folders. Please don't wait until the last minute to do this. Thanks! 💙

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

"Musical chairs and spherical stairs—up up up I go into lullabies and stories of cattails and bells, bedside lamps and picture books where legendary lions and mythical beasts play on seesaws and merry-go-rounds, humming in my head childhood daze of blankets and spoons." How beautiful. 💙

Unlike Musk, we are LGBTQ+ friendly and we feature many authors who identify as such. Visit us! You won't be sorry if you like interesting and good works. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

I still believe a better life is possible.

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Signed up for this so fast! It's exactly what I need. "All donations will go to SAFTA fellowships/residencies for trans, black and/or indigenous writers." Looking forward to this, @smokelong.bsky.social 💙

“The kid is always being a genius and he is always smiling and kind. One thing I know about people who are always smiling and kind is they’re the saddest fuckers of all.” @kathyfish.bsky.social | Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

My new favorite @dinalrelles.bsky.social piece." If you ask me about love, I’ll show you late winter light on the farmland—some liminal thing." Read it in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙

"The doctor is handing me a mirror like at the beauty salon when they spin you around to see what your hair looks like in the back. She is showing me how to tilt it so I can have a look at my vagina." Bittersweet brilliance from Kathy Fish.

Love this article from @kathyfish.bsky.social Aligns with so many of my own thoughts on flash as its own unique form

Our guru of prompts can entice the words out of writers in the most astonishing ways 🔥

"The kid is always being a genius and he is always smiling and kind. One thing I know about people who are always smiling and kind is they’re the saddest fuckers of all." So good!! I'm obsessed with the voice of this piece. 🔥@kathyfish.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

“One thing I know about people who are always smiling and kind is they’re the saddest fuckers of all.” Love this by @kathyfish.bsky.social!