‘…she’d just hung there with her hair sweeping the woodchips and eyes shut tight like she was sleeping.’ What a central image to this fantastic flash from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 🦇 fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

I have a micro in @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! Thank you so much to the editors for picking up "First, They Fall": fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

new issue of Cutleaf! Featuring short fiction by @ladiwoods.bsky.social, nonfiction from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social, and poetry courtesy of @taylorfthiel.bsky.social cutleafjournal.com/issue/5-19

Grateful to Cutleaf Journal for publishing my essay, "The Reunion," today! It was inspired by walks with my son on the Gettysburg battlefield and the impossible task of teaching a 5 year old about good and bad. cutleafjournal.com/content/the-...

This is a wonderful story.

‘Once, my father drove from New Jersey to California by siphoning gas from strangers’ cars…’ The Seafood Stand by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/sea...

The August issue of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social features one of my stories which I have been so excited to share for months! Grateful to Finn Cohen and all of the editors for helping me get this piece ready for publication. I'd be honored if you checked it out! www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/sea...

Huge thank you to our Blue Frog Guest Artist @jiksuncheung.bsky.social !! Each of these three pieces is absolutely stunning! 🙏🏼💙

Gulls of the Algarve - #fiction by UNCG Creative Writing alum Matt Barrett at Flash Frog buff.ly/TkIVd0t #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere @mfagreensboro.bsky.social

Carved this piece out of me, and I’m excited to finally share it. Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social @ericscottryon.bsky.social Gina Chung and @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for giving this the home of my dreams!

Only it didn’t have a broken wing, it was just too tired to fly, which happens sometimes, even to gulls who otherwise look okay, even when nothing seems wrong with their wings at all. Quiet, beautiful story of compassion 💙 @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social

A absolutely stunning, bittersweet piece by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Go read it now! So honored to contribute a watercolor to this story 🙏 The original painting will be on the way to you soon, Matt!

“which had been a goal of ours for years, to run so fast we actually caught one, only to realize we’d never get this close if things were actually right.” This one. A must-read. Congratulations to @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social for winning 3rd place in @flashfrog.bsky.social!

"So much of life is about waiting, I think, for what you know will happen next." My lord. This story! I love, love, love this story by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social (Congrats, Matt!) in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Huge congrats, Matt! Such a beautiful story!

My story, "Gulls of the Algarve," is live! Thank you so much to @flashfrog.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social, Gina Chung, and @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for helping make this piece special to me.

🚨EXCITING NEWS! The BLUE FROG 3rd place winner — “Gulls of the Algarve” by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social — will publish tomorrow!! 👀

Always an honor to have a story in The Forge -- some of the nicest people around! And thank you to Fiona McPhillips for helping me edit this piece and for the great interview questions!

Truly grateful to be on this list, and I can't wait to read the other stories!

First post on here and it’s a big one! Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social and Gina Chung for this honor. Big congrats to Alison Morretta and @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social too! I can’t wait to read all the stories 💙🐸

Excited to be on the list! Can't wait to read the winning stories!

I've been submitting to West Branch since 2012, so it is a true thrill to be included in the latest issue. I had to read the acceptance email about six times before I believed it. Thank you so much to the wonderful editors!

THE NEIGHBORS - #flash #fiction by UNCG Creative Writing alum Matt Barrett at Wigleaf https://buff.ly/4aemypF @mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere

So very happy to have a story up at Wigleaf -- thank you to Scott and the whole team!

Good stuff from the excellent @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social, he doesn't miss

“We’re at our best when we’re disruptors.” Barbara Kingsolver on artists, accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.