Current resident of just over the moon @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social

Based on seeing these banners in my feed from some of my favorite writers, this is going to be an incredible collection! Thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social at Flash Boulevard for nominating "Seventeen" and to @megpokrass.bsky.social, Gary Fincke, and Diane Seuss for selecting it!

I heard such a great story in an interview with @smokelong.bsky.social, this person had submitted 152 times and on 153 they got accepted. All the editors were thrilled! It helped me a bunch to think of editors as people rooting for writers. (Also as squirrels.)

Matt's website is a TREASURE TROVE of links and information/analysis for both readers and writers and I am extremely grateful for this resource he's so generously provided us. Thanks, Matt!

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring From the Peak of Mount Mansplain by Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social, next in our #microfiction #MicroMonday series. Please click on the link below and enjoy

I just added @vesicapress.bsky.social and @pizamapress.bsky.social to my Hybrid Writing Starter Pack - few places still left for those who write or publish writing that can't be neatly labelled or boxed in! go.bsky.app/MswLLwc

Hey friends, have you used poetic forms or devices in your flash fiction? I'm writing about this now and I'd LOVE to include some more published examples. Thanks!

Thrilled to be in @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026, out on July 7. Huge gratitude to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social's @jhhwriter.bsky.social for nominating "Morning Stroll, to guest editor @dseuss.bsky.social for choosing it, & to amazing series editors @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke.

Huge thanks to @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for publishing and nominating “Feels Like Rain” for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, and to @megpokrass.bsky.social, Gary Fincke, and @dseuss.bsky.social for choosing this as one of the winners! You can grab a copy at www.bestmicrofiction.com

What a great honor to be included in this year's Best Microfiction. A giant thank you to Cathy Ulrich and Milk Candy Review for originally publishing my piece "Go Bag" and to editors Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Diane Seuss for selecting it. Full heart <3 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social

Delighted to have my flash "Modifications to a mid-Victorian terrace when a woolly mammoth lands on my doorstep" in Issue 23 of @stanchion.bsky.social Pre-order your copy for just $10 here - or DM me if you're in the UK. I'm gonna do a batch order. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Thanks to @anchalastudio.bsky.social for this beautiful artwork for The High Plateau! It’s just perfect 💛

"My mantra, as a writer and teacher has always been: 'Whatever gets you to the page.'" I love this piece by @kathyfish.bsky.social so much! 💙💙💙

#TheWelkinGenrePrize Entries open two weeks today!!! Spread the word. And get scribbling!! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Writer friends: if you consider any of your work hybrid, I’d love to hear from you for the sake of some MFA students. 😘

Very proud to have new flash up at Flash Boulevard! Thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction Long List is Live! Congratulations to everyone on the list and to everyone who entered this year! Anonymous judging ongoing! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Excited to have a new Micro published in @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social today! It’s about a family curse. #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory

It's somehow Sunday again - here's something devilishly fun from Karen Walker @kawalker.bsky.social 🦝 We loved the voice in this one, conveying delicious dark humour and enticing language, until the last revealing para. Great prompt use. Read here and sleep tight: trashcatlit.com/nightmare-of...

Thrilled to have made the shortlist of such a fun comp. Congratulations to all the winners. So many incredible micros here! Thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for giving "When the Aliens Come for Your Baby" a home! gooseberry-pie.com/when-the-ali...

Thank you eds @melruthwrites.bsky.social & @kristinwrites.bsky.social for this Righteous Rage issue, a sub call I felt in my bones. My story's a tribute to my Aunt Barb, a lifelong fighter for justice. 🙏🏽 my @smokelong.bsky.social buddies & editors for your feedback. epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

Read #NFFR Managing Ed Valerie Fox's review of VAN BOYLE by Nathan Leslie. Former professional baseball player Van is living rough, struggling & ill. Beginning here, at age 69, the novel proceeds backwards through his life. newflashfiction.com/brief-review...

Honorable Mentions D E Hardy @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @vallielynnwatson.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social Guy Biederman

"He didn’t say he was ashamed or anything like that. Just offered me a job back home in the restaurant, which was maybe worse." Brief yet exquisite new fiction from @thorntonforreal.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/lisa... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Lads, I have a piece I love dearly out at Bottle Rocket today. Give it a read if you were ever a horny teenager and you’d like to know how teenagers were horny in a Malaysian girls’ school: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/seq...

Wait, you haven’t submitted yet?! Even though we have free subs every month? Well, I guess we can forgive you… if you submit now at okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

Queer love, an expanding universe and a collapsing relationship - I've gone all cosmic in my new story, up today with Bottle Rocket 🚀 Thanks @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for the great Art & Flash session on Bhupen Khakhar that sparked this story. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/thi...

Thanks to all who submitted 🙌🏼 We're busy reading subs now, will be open again next quarter.

3 days and counting... send us your stories by 15 April.

There is a you who’s still twenty-two and sunburnt, sharp knees and elbows in drawstring trousers and washed-out T shirts. Who rides the Himalayan Queen from Chandigarh Junction with a gap-year backpacker you met in Calcutta. Oh man, check out @patiencemackarness.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social !

We are open! Send us your bold, weird, wonderful words. Wordcount - 500 max, we love 100 word stories Deadline - 15 April No previous pubs Sim subs are fine Read past issues & award noms to get a sense of what we like. Be brave! Submission Guidelines | NFFR share.google/iEJhTIUa1xIR...

"Chang’s prose lets us float on the idea, and for a moment, breathe the world in and dream. Sometimes—maybe—it’s enough to touch the possibility of something more." This review from Claudine Lit left me teary-eyed. Huge thanks to @claudineliterary.bsky.social ❤️ Off to read the rest of the issue!

It's sign-up time! If you'd like to start SmokeLong Fitness in April, we are inviting all new members to join the workshop on March 25th to do some onboarding. Come write with us! Monthly subscriptions are possible until the end of March, then again in August. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

Hard to beat the first line by Nadia Born in @nffr.bsky.social "The claw machine now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home." The claw machine by Nadia Born | New Flash Fiction Review share.google/1EMYxD70CKnB...

Delighted to see Train Man by @patiencemackarness.bsky.social from our last issue featured in @mattkendrick.bsky.social's #Mondettes newsletter. This month it was @mizuki-yama.bsky.social selecting the stories. Do subscribe for great flash, insights from top writers & a few writing prompts.

"On Monday a large stone crashes through the window. It is wrapped in an abusive letter. Eva doesn’t know what to do. She worries. Is it a neighbour? Young people? Old people?" An unexpected event goes in an unexpected direction in this story by Rob Walton. newflashfiction.com/rock-paper-s...

"I do understand the way my loving husband labels the bell jars, even though I can see through the glass what they are filled-with—salt, sugar, biscuits, and flour." Charming story about togetherness in grief and hope by @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social in Issue 40. newflashfiction.com/about-the-lo...

"Yai is praying. She recites a prayer book where the verses are laid out in large print, ancient Sanskrit language. Yai disagrees with the Oncology team and says that the chanting will make Apinya recover." Don't miss Bamboo Canes by Tarmo Rajasaari in Issue 40. newflashfiction.com/bamboo-canes...

"Who still looks out from a moving carriage on tea plantations, holy rivers, red-dust fields and red-haze sunsets, not yet believing in your future." Beautiful sweep through a life, nostalgia for India & all the what ifs, by @patiencemackarness.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/train-man-by...

"She tells him, real silk shimmers, warms in the hand. A shadow of cloud darkens the room’s margins, where earlier they’d cast-off their clothes." Bamboo Silk by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social deftly weaves in place, uses white space so well, doesn't waste a word. newflashfiction.com/bamboo-silk-...

"I heard the laughter of his drunk-at-noon buddies, and watched that cowboy, watched him straddle a turtle, the largest of those who’d flippered across the sand to drowse in the sun..." Great energy & rage in this story by Tess Kelly newflashfiction.com/rodeo-my-way...

“Beached means sick. Or hunted. Or lost. It means you drifted too far from home and couldn’t find the tide again." A powerful tale from @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in Issue 40. newflashfiction.com/beached-by-r...

"My family friend’s dog tugs on my white frilled cotton dress—saves me from falling down the stairs. I am four years old. My mom says that it didn’t happen." Effective use of fragments, mythology and an unverifiable past in this story by Sherry Duggal. newflashfiction.com/vishnus-nave...

"The night the sirens came, my mother was labeling leftovers. She used blue painter’s tape and a black marker that bled through plastic. Rice-Monday. Chicken-Tuesday." Brilliant use of external events and pauses in Exit Wounds by Bethany Bruno. newflashfiction.com/exit-wounds-...

"the claw machine now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home." Read The Claw Machine by @nadiaborn.com in Issue 40 of #NFFR. Wonderfully weird, beautifully written. newflashfiction.com/the-claw-mac...

It's here 🎉 Welcome to Issue 40, with brilliant stories from: @nadiaborn.com, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal, @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Tess Kelly, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Tarmo Rajasaari & Rob Walton newflashfiction.com/issue-40/

Excited to share this interview with Managing Editor Valerie Fox & @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, who judged our 2025 prize. He talks about his collab book w photographer Gail Butensky, and how aseries of linked short-shorts emerged once he began writing... newflashfiction.com/on-collabora...

Thank you to all the wonderful writers who have trusted us with your work. We are reading through the subs and will be in touch.

Send us your bold, imaginative, weird, wonderful stories - we are here for them. Just a reminder: 500 words max Free to enter We read anonymously Deadline 15 Jan newflashfiction.com/submit/

Join us in celebrating the two NFFR stories by @jackmmorris.bsky.social and @writesofkathryn.bsky.social chosen for Best Microfiction 2026! Links to their stories here: newflashfiction.com/ernst-is-com... newflashfiction.com/a-few-words-... Thanks to the editors @dseuss.bsky.social, Meg & Gary!