Yesssss...oh, was this an honor and a pleasure. Please click & read this curation of unforgettable new short fiction. Hope to do this every month on a loose theme so please, writers and editors, share your work so I can read and include! Thanks @turnandwork.com !

@dawnwriter.bsky.social scooped out my heart again, too. 100% recommend this satisfying, pleasurable piece of flash in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/f...

🥁🥁🥁 We’re hiring! The Narwhal is looking for a senior B.C. reporter and a senior national reporter to pursue ambitious journalism about the natural world in B.C. and Canada. More details threaded 🧶: thenarwhal.ca/work-with-us/

Check this out for my thoughts on story, collaborating, why stories need dogs, and more. Thanks so much to the @malahatreview.bsky.social for the interview and to Sarah Kilian for the inspiring questions. malahatreview.ca/interviews/b...

This arrived. Excited to dig in.

What a beautiful, soothing, generous piece of work about spaces and distance and story. And more. Loved "Little Boy Lost" by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in @nervetowrite.bsky.social.

Highly recommend this shortie. Heavy lifting for a tiny vessel.

"...but more importantly, her sister’s heart is hardening past the point of return, a fossilization in real-time." Gutted by this important tiny story by @emacnair.bsky.social. Highly recommend. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/03...

Submit to Stanchion on April 27. No fees, bit of cash. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

A reminder to all BC poets with books out between September 1st, 2023 and September 1st, 2026: submissions to have a poem included in the Poetry in Transit program are due by April 19th! Submissions must be made by your publisher. All the details are here:

Kelly, thanks so much for reading and sharing. Thanks also for taking the time to select this line. This is the exact moment, remembered later, that the main character will not be able to forgive herself for.

Excited this short piece found the perfect home. Thank so much to my fitness group at @smokelong.bsky.social for helping me revise it and to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for the edits that made it stronger. Feeling grateful. 🥰

Thanks so much for reading and sharing my story, Hugh, and for promoting short fiction in general. I love your music recommendations, too. Your newsletter is the bomb.

ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Please share: There's a new lit mag on the block accepting flash! HELD, run by MFA students at the University of Guelph, has reopened and we're accepting flash, poetry, fiction, and CNF! Our Issue 4 theme is Transit. We pay! heldmagazine.ca Subs are open until March 16.

Wow! Love this one. All the story bits + a tiny story container = ❤️❤️❤️.

"The filly was born perfect. Almost impossible to believe –..." This story. 🔥

It’s been a while since I shared this, but I’m sharing it again. Writing it was awful, but the replies I received in response made me feel less alone. I hope it makes someone else feel seen. Every release about Epstein makes me feel like this girl again. And there are millions out there like me.

Okay, okay, I'm an Ani King fangirl, so you might choose to ignore me, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this tiny little story! Delish. Wouldn't kill you to read it.

This semester has been one of the best teaching semesters of my life and it's almost entirely because of going 90%+ to pen and paper. My students are fully doing it, without complaint, and it's beautiful. They're actually reading. They're writing weird shit. They're being brave. They like this.

I cannot wait!

-->The Pride Roars - Flash Competition 2026<-- @theprideroars.bsky.social -Free to enter -Open to all women writers -1000 words max -Submissions via google form 14/2-28/2 or until we reach our cap. theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-comp...

Well, well, isn't this fun news to share. Thanks so much to the whole team @malahatreview.bsky.social and to judge H. Felix Chau Bradley. Feeling lucky (this time!) and grateful.

My writing advice? Find an activity that fully empties your skull, and make it a part of your daily routine. Exercise, art, video games, snowboarding, cooking; anything that leaves NO ROOM for intrusive thoughts or obsession. Brains need oil changes to maintain peak performance. Be stupid once a day

This newsletter is more than pretty good. It’s a smorgasbord of interesting music, stories, ideas. Highly recommend.

"She let herself think of Deepa in the shadows of a bamboo grove, her tongue flicking at Ruchi’s lip." Read an excerpt from “Every Happiness” by Reena Shah, recommended by Sindya Bhanoo.

Hey, Writers! brilliantflashfiction.com/2026/01/19/2...

@thetyee.ca is hiring a biodiversity reporter! We're looking for someone who can bring a good sense of curiosity & narrative to the role, and also do some investigative/accountability reporting. Deets here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

We are open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

We're always looking...

Canadians, a reminder that today's the last day to get 30% off the pre-order of my next novel, Mercutio, through Indigo's most anticipated books sale. A novel about what might have happened before Romeo met Juliet, sort of Umberto Eco meets Susanna Clarke. Thank you! www.indigo.ca/en-ca/mercut...

Oof. Love this story. Recommend.

Yay! What a fun, talented group. Congrats, all.

A look back at our first 12 stories (published in 2002, when subscriptions were $15) & the 12 stories we've published in 2025 (NOW ALSO $15). Take advantage of One Story's FLASHBACK sale to get a year-long subscription for yourself or your favorite reader for the holidays!

On a poet hunt. Any word welders up for online open-miking on 28th January? @saloneurope.bsky.social

Excited for this release event Nov 2.

Súper excited for the release party, and this is a great interview with Travis!

I also loved this piece by @fionamckay.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social for reasons below. That, and it nails that (unfortunately familiar) high alert feeling. Great ending (I'd be more specific, but spoiler). ❤️

Squeeee!! My book trailer is so cool❤️❤️❤️ @sfwp.bsky.social

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025 If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you. See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

I'd be grateful if you can send links for flash stories where climate change plays a role. I'd like my students to write these kinds of stories for an assignment, but I don't have many models. Thanks!

Attention! (Fun to write that, that’s all). Pleased and proud to share that my story made this fancy longlist. As you were.

Excited to share this. My feather of a story is in one of my fave journals.

Applications due in ten days!

the writing process

Hey all, if you're looking for editing and mentoring services, I've compiled this extensive list of recommendations. I can’t personally vouch for all of the writers/editors on this list, but you might find it handy. Also, let me know if you'd like to be included! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So excited to be included in this lineup. Thanks @psmokejournal.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ Looking forward to reading the other stories.