weekly talk story about @lit-namjooning.bsky.social second issue and Bitter over Sweet book launch... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

@jenwithwords.bsky.social gifts us with a pair of lovely poems about what the sea takes & what it brings back. www.wingedmoon.com/biophilia/je...

Heads-up, writers of speculative fiction! 🌖 🌗 🌑 This is the LAST day to submit short stories to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

Artist showcase time! From the Red Ogre Review art collection: Sylvia Santiago Regrets Issue Nineteen, August 2023 https://ogre.red/issues/2023-08/2023-08-santiago-sylvia/ (Courtesy of the ROR art bot.)

Writers, PLEASE SHARE! Uncanny will open to short story & poetry submissions as soon as the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter fully funds! Please spread the word, because we can't wait to read your stories & poems! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ

"small oceans wash up / inside hollow shells" 🐚 cochlea - the latest lovely poetry short by the ever so talented @jenwithwords.bsky.social youtu.be/Sgwhz4G5bpo?...

Our new issue is now live! 🥳🖊 Be prepared to experience some amazing work. Head over to our website to check it out: www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html Pls share and support our writers 🤝 and buy us a coffee if you enjoy 😀 P.s - we're now open for subs! #LitMags #Submissions

Mango & strawberry mini-cakes 🥭🍓

"HOME is where one starts from," T.S. Eliot wrote, and EcoTheo Review invites writers and visual artists to explore this multifaceted theme. In a time of global uncertainty, where do we find home? See more at ecotheocollective.submittable.com/submit

Last day!!⌛

@jenwithwords.bsky.social debuts her new series of poetry film shorts with a lovely bit of melancholy 📽️

A big thank-you to @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for including my piece with these fab flashes 💛

✨ Opening for speculative flash fic subs soon! ✨

Sunday's treat: a snowman doughnut with vanilla cream filling ☃️

Amiri Baraka ♥️

"Growing up in Juneville was exciting in a bad way. Chrissy had learned young not to wish on a shooting star but to run into the house and hide in the basement." 🌠 Check out this flash by @melostrom.bsky.social

"I told myself it was the yellow streetlight / that made her legion. Her tripling rooted me / to the spittle flying out of her mouth, the gap / between her teeth widening." Check out these poems by @benetthewriter.bsky.social

QUESTION: Were I to teach a generative workshop of some sort, is this something poetry folks would be interested in? And if so, what days/times are ideal? Thank you in advance for any insights! I’m really just floating this out there! 💙

Ready, Set, Go! Tomorrow (Fri) post your #SelfPortrait #poem. Get feedback (UK & PST times) from @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social & me (sponsor of 1 #TheWhiskeyTree #Untamed #Wave1 set #giveaway. Winner selected Sat.) #PoemsAbout #celebrate #poetry #writingcommunity

Always a joy to celebrate the good work of others. This masterful #poem by sylviasays2.bsky.social is a perfect example. @karinhedet.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social #DonnaFaulkner too! #Ekphrastic #FolkArt #Folklore #creativewriting #poetry #prose #FolkHeartPress bit.ly/49eUbHc

So happy to be featured with these wonderful writers in the latest issue of Ekphrastic Folk Art ✨ Sincere thanks to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for the invitation to participate! folkheartpressblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/ekph...

Give yourself the gift of writing time before the holidays 🎁 Check out this workshop hosted by @trivarnahariharan.bsky.social

Gingerbread goodness 🤎

A snowy start to the week ❄️

such a great encapsulation today from Sylvia Santiago of just what can get captured in 99 words! https://www.havehashad.com/c6257

Oh, and in case you missed our announcement the other day, Eugenia and I will be co-editing an issue of Weird Horror flash. Payment: $100 per story (500-1000 words) Deadline: April 21st

Happy to be back in @redogrereview.bsky.social with 2 collages ✂️ Many thanks to EIC Matt! ogre.red/issues/2024-... Check out the latest issue!

My last publication of 2023: Chopin in the Sunflower Maze🌻 heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

Send us your creepy micro-creative nonfiction, flash, poetry, and short stories -- we're open to submissions this week! Check out our guidelines here: adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

'Tis the season for a Baba Yaga gingerbread hut 🛖

Sylvia, so glad you had a good time - Melissa is running this workshop again in March:

Grateful to @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for sharing the wonderful poems & prompts in her Flex Your Creativity workshop! Image: Sascha Bosshard/Unsplash

"You will bring me sorry gobs of flowers. You will water them with your tears."

Would love to start a thread of spooky flash fictions. Drop yours or another great one you’ve read here please!

So excited to share my two poems out today on @havehashad.com - would love if you’d read them! ❤️ 🩷 #poetry #writingcommunity

PLEASE RP Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to short story submissions from October 2 to October 16! WE CLOSE TODAY!!! (When it is no longer October 16 anywhere on Earth.) www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

(you could be a ghost, too, if you tried)

Dear writers, poets, photographers, artists of any kind: Anti-Heroin Chic's submissions window for our December issue is now open! Send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of thoughts and feelings yearning to breathe free 🧡

Web submissions are open until 13th October: www.ellipsiszine.com/submissions/

My October newsletter is full of freebies for the writing community - example story lists, a character creator template, a story planner, a geeky submissions tracker spreadsheet... Hopefully some useful stuff for you all. PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word! #Flashfiction #writers

“It was a few hours until dawn. Everything was dark around the edges.” Road trips, sunrises, and those quiet memories that linger. This new gem by @sylviasays2.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social

Thanks so much, @susanlleary.bsky.social & @besidealife.bsky.social, for sharing my Gone Lawn post 🌞

Happy to be a part of this issue ☺️ Many thanks to editors Owen & Amy! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Happy Friday! It's quite a day for ROR. Our second year anniversary issue is now live: ogre.red Along with the launch of three books in our new SFFH chapbook series: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYK... And our new art print series: www.artpal.com/RedOgreReview Check it out! #WritingCommunity #Art

Drop something blue from your gallery. 🩵💙

Can't wait for this! 😱

I’m editing a flash fiction series for @interstellarflight.bsky.social and will be choosing 12 stories to run one per month in 2024. Subs open November 1, details here: www.interstellarflightpress.com/submissions....

We're delighted to now offer art prints of one of our most popular art pieces, by one of our artists, Sylvia Santiago: ogre.red/issues/art/a... Both museum-quality canvas prints and paper posters are available.

I so treasure a story that gives my assumptions a nice, hard twist. Congratulations! @sylviasays2.bsky.social