Congratulations to our Jan ‘26 guest editor, Ai Jiang! What great news! @aijiang.bsky.social variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Did you know?

How much of flash writing is just stumbling across a cool word or fact and letting your imagination run wild with it for a few brief moments?

Here's a blast from the past... a micro of mine in @ellipsiszine.bsky.social

Friends—here are about 55 literary journals opening for submissions in July—some are open now or will close soon in June or July. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative & all these should be no-fee submissions. There are more resources out there, including on here. Wish y’all well.

🪿PRIDE OUT LOUD 🌈ART & PHOTOGRAPHY🪿 Happy Pride! We hope you enjoy this eye-catching, wry humor-ed, and oh so joyful collage by #Willy-O Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/pride-out-lo...

The Write-In: 'First Place' by Emily Hall #nffd2026

Flash fiction 250 words, judged by Meg Pokrass, first prize £2,000 (yes! two grand!) Deadline 31 August www.scottishartstrust.org/flash

ALERT

'my skin sloughs off, my own name silt in the riverbed' Absolute stunner from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social 🙌💜

👇👇 we can attest from the handful published.

If you're not familiar with the Aldous stories: Aldous is the main character of my novella-in-flash, "Aldous, the Legend," which was shortlisted for the 2026 Bath NIF Award. A handful of those stories have been published now. Are there any #indie publishers out there looking for something like this?

Subs open for flash micro poetry letters or a mix of all that, your tiny manifestos or whispered graffiti, a word we never remember how to spell but you might and we’re impressed, your shouts into wind and ocean, your grave concerns or vaulting triumphs etc. ETC! templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

FlashFlood: 2026 FlashFlood: The Complete List #nffd2026

Reposting this again cuz YES!!

What lies are crowding you this week? Perhaps some of them are just "Waiting to Become True" as in today's story by Samantha Murray:

Yay! I won Commuter Lit's 2026 flash contest! Nice news to wake up to ☺️ This is a reprint of "To My American Daughter-In-Law" which originally ran in The Sunlight Press a few years ago. (oh yuck, I hate that the preview makes my face so huge!)

👇👇 It’s hard to imagine all it would take to pull this off. Massive thanks is right.

There is SO much hard work behind a day like this. Massive thanks to everyone who helped make it happen ❤️

So delighted to have my tiny piece floating in Flash Flood this year! Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social editors. What a splendid celebration of the flash form.🙏

In the flood @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/befo...

Thanks to the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social editors for publishing “Lifetime.” Psyched to be in the flood! 🙏 🌊

we have a story by Rae Callahan ! it's about working on a fishing boat at night, looking for bluefish. great details, great mood <3 this is also the author's first published story ! always a happy thing to involved with. read it ! xraylitmag.com/night-blues-...

Great interview with @sfmontgomery.bsky.social about her new magazine NERVE TO WRITE www.newpages.com/blog/magazin...

I'm celebrating the UK’s National Flash Fiction Day! Thrilled to have my debut flash fiction "No One Will Know Unless It Takes" in FlashFlood. Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Shout out to SmokeLong Fitness' March Micro Marathon for sparking this story! @smokelong.bsky.social

'Athena crowning her daddy the big guy in her own mythology.' Oh, the unfulfilled life in this one. Beautifully done⬇️

FlashFlood: 'Three Cows: Midsummer Reflections in the Up-Meadow' by S A Greene #nffd2026

flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-br... Big thanks to @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for publishing this little slice of time 🕰️⏱️⏰

Huge thanks to the NFFD team for all their hard work. Here's my drop of water in the flood.

Thank you to everyone for reposting their favs!

the week we create a trillionaire in a world of so much human suffering, this tiny flash about a brave bird lands extra hard 👏👏👏 @mattjakubowski.bsky.social

So exciting to have a piece in the #FlashFlood again this year! Thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 🌲

Here’s my list flash in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social! Happy flash flood and happy pride everyone! 🌊🌊🌊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🧡🧡🧡

I owe this prompt to @epistemiclit.bsky.social I think it was @kristinwrites.bsky.social

It me!

Huge congratulations Ben Kline! It Was Never Supposed To Be is the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry!! @benkline.bsky.social

Thrilled to share I won the 2026 Vermont Writers’s Prize. It’s co-sponsored by Vermont Magazine and Green Mountain Power, & the coolest part is that Katherine Paterson was one of the judges. “Bridge to Terabithia” was the first novel I ever read when I was 8 years old. www.vtmag.com/post/vt-writ...

FlashFlood: 'At the Margin' by Andrea Damic #nffd2026

Many thanks to @passagesnorth.bsky.social for sharing my short piece, “At My Elementary School on the Air Force Base,” online! Read the full piece here! #flashprose #flashcnf #writersky #micro #booksky

ICYMI today we're feat. Storm by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social as part of our #TenYears celebrations. Please click on the link below and enjoy #flashfiction #readingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/06/12/s...

Getting ready for a flood of flash fiction. My story – Always the same ice-cream van will be making an appearance at 7.10am (BST). This is a great way to celebrate short fiction writers so do take a dip #nationalflashfictionday

I can tell you now - the news is out! I have received the Highly Commended award by the Federation of Writers (Scotland) in their 2026 competition. (For my short story ‘For Auld Lang Syne’.) Totally chuffed! 🥰 www.federationofwriters.scot

I love this www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/song-at-ha...

On the plus side, there’s so much to write about

Submit to 'em here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fsfw-j... Featuring: @barrelhouse.bsky.social @midnightandindigo.bsky.social @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @beestung.bsky.social @aothenmagazine.bsky.social @pleiadesmag.bsky.social @thefantasticother.bsky.social

I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

This takes only some seconds to read which of course means more time to read the rest of @dogthroat.com too! Bonus!

"Despite the accidents, passengers keep coming, believing the others died through insufficient grit.." - Eirene Gentle #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction @eireneeleni.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to have 2 poems in The Aftershock Review. What a great place to be! I love this mag. Thank you @maxwallis.bsky.social. Here’s Tigers 🙂🐯

I truly believe that if you want to write AND submit creative writing, you should make a point to read for a lit mag. It is illuminating, sometimes reassuring, sometimes damning. To get to do this alongside Burch, a lit mag vet, must be such a special experience. So thankful for these readers!