Happy to wrap up 2025 with micros in Cleaver Issue 52! www.cleavermagazine.com/issue-52-win...

A tiny work in Tiny Molecules. Thanks! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Flash in this fine journal published today. Super nice editors to work with. Many thanks!

This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. Is this cool or what? telephonegame.art And here I am in this vast web: telephonegame.art/artists/barb...

I'll be at hanging out at the Baltimore Review table at the Baltimore Book Festival most of this weekend, Sept. 13 and 14. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. Festival details: baltimorebookfest.com

Many thanks to Fictive Dream for publishing this dark little story.

As promised, here’s a roadmap for NFFD (Saturday 14 June). Read with us, write with us or join us in person in Bath! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

Happy to have some micro/flash works published in June. One today in Gooseberry Pie gooseberry-pie.com/issue-32/, one in Bright Flash on June 7, brightflash1000.com/2025/06/07/p..., and I'll be in the Flash Flood line-up on June 14. Great to be included with so many cool flash writers!

A big thanks to New World Writing Quarterly for publishing these four short works! An honor to be included with so many fine writers. @newworldwriting.bsky.social newworldwriting.net/barbara-west...

A throwback chat Chill Subs published on March 11: subclub.substack.com/p/on-fosteri...

Presented a session on "Concision and Precision in Flash Fiction" at the ESWA Bay to Ocean Writers Conference on March 8. Huge thanks to @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social and the other fine people at the Eastern Shore Writers Association for inviting me!

Thanks to Pithead Chapel for publishing one of my short "women with wings" pieces today.

Read "Or So She Thinks" written by @bdiehl.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "Whatever she is saying is clashing with the narrative. The assassin in the story needs silence while he prepares for this one last hit of his career." tinyurl.com/mp9undnc

Enjoyed being in the company of fellow flash writers yesterday! The www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgkw...

My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful! prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...

Haven’t stopped by here for a while. Since X has turned into such a train wreck, I’ll try posting more Baltimore Review updates here and see how it goes.

Super thrilled to have my work in Best Small Fictions among so many amazing writers. And a big thanks to @bdiehl.bsky.social at Baltimore Review for giving my story a home. altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Our spring issue is live! Hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue. And all submission categories are open until May 31. baltimorereview.org

Happy to have Kathy Flann as the final judge for Baltimore Review's summer contests (flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, prose poem)! www.kathyflann.com/bio

Our winter 2024 issue is live! Thanks to all these fine writers and everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org

Thanks to Poetry South for publishing my "bird app" poem. Fun to have apps for identifying birds and plants and constellations and other parts of the universe.

Congratulations to Baltimore Review fiction editor Lynn Stansbury, one of ten writers selected for the Poets & Writers 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors! And congratulations to all the writers in this cohort! Wishing them a wonderful experience.

The Baltimore Review's fall issue is live. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! baltimorereview.org

Downloaded The Best American Essays 2023 to my Kindle and spotted a Baltimore Review contributor in the list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022. Congratulations to Lucinda Cummings! baltimorereview.org/winter_2022/...

I'll be hanging out at the Baltimore Review table during the Baltimore Writers' Conference on Nov. 4. If you're there, stop by and say Hi. www.baltimorewritersconference.org