“Perhaps Amen lies in the hillside with all the waiting cicadas, their hushed breaths rasping through tiny spiracles.” @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social writing and ideas take my breath away. www.thimblelitmag.com/2026/04/18/m...

Happy to have a very very short flash in the lovely Thimble today! Big thanks to @thimblelitmag.bsky.social for publishing it - the whole issue is full of beautiful art and poetry and worth a read on a summer morning!

Late to post this due to vacation, but absolutely drop everything you’re doing and read Kellan Jensen’s story!! It will go in a whole bunch of directions you won’t anticipate and, even more impressive, it might just make you feel a little better about our world and the magic in it.

Our story of the week is The Great Glue Whale by Kellan Jensen. forgelitmag.com/2026/06/22/t...

Mark your calendars! You are cordially invited to the Zoom reading for my chapbook Survival Skills on July 2nd. There will be some kickass writers reading for it. Info 👇 www.sandandgravelpress.com/liz-rosen-ch...

Our nonfiction story of the week is Mother Mouth by Lisa Laughlin.

Reposting this flash essay today in memory of my grandmother, a paramedic who once ran out the door for an emergency call and forgot about a chicken roasting in the oven. She never got to read this version, but I think she’d approve.

“Gary used to bring his solitude home with him. I could feel it whishing in behind him. It was like a gentle autumn draught.” I love everything about this funny, sad, little-bit-nutty story about grief and false teeth - can’t recommend it enough! Jan makes it all look effortless, as always.

Love seeing Ex Partum out in the wild. Look how lovely it is, sitting there in the sunshine. Right before it rips out your faith in the system. Order yours! emmaburnett.carrd.co

What a lovely Sunday to read @slashnburnett.bsky.social’s new novel!! I love her work and I’m flying through this already. Unsettling stories of motherhood are my jam!

Excited to report I just signed a contract with Littoral Books to publish a short story collection! Scheduled for spring 2027 release. 🎉 If you’d like to know more, sign up for my newsletter, where I reflect on the writing process and give updates on my work, at www.willwilloughby.com. #AmWriting

Our story of the week is Impractical Choices by Raheem Omeiza.

“But a person cannot have a thousand hands, especially Mahdokht, who loved the winter and took daily afternoon walks during the season. It would take five hours or so to put one thousand gloves on one thousand hands.” - Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men

Our story of the week is Your Ad Here by Newton Holt.

My second editor's pick is up @theforge.bsky.social It's an excellent flash by Bethany Holmstrom: We're Not Monsters And so we didn't wish anything terrible on the boy. Only...

Our story of the week is We're Not Monsters by Bethany Holmstrom.

Working with @theforge.bsky.social was a delight. I'd recommend them to any author. They have a free submission window (put it on your calendar) and they pay contributors. Their editors closely read submissions and provide meaningful editorial services to accepted authors. forgelitmag.com/submit/

So excited to finally get to this!!!Lauren’s such a fantastic short story writer and this is just what my Sunday needs. @ladiwoods.bsky.social

Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Our story of the week is Things You Lose by Kelli Dianne Rule.

Our story of the week is Absolutes by Dina Dwyer.

Our story of the week is Possession by Brett Willis.

Broke out my Hungarian grandmother’s bear for the occasion!

From Telenovela, by Gonzalo C. Garcia “Why do I write? The boring answer - and honesty, we know as writers, my friends, is boring - well, the boring answer is that I've done it for far too long. Like a ghost I haunt the same places, attempt to recapture life, I'm often envious of the living.”

Our nonfiction story of the week is Gloved by Helena Guerin.

This is a wild ride!

Very excited to have a very weird little flash in the very cool Memezine! (I know, that’s a lot of very, but it’s true!) Thanks to @memezine for giving it a good home!

Whoo wee. Look at this latest one from @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social. The lyricism in it knocks me out. www.memezinelit.com/spring-2026/...

Very excited to have a very weird little flash in the very cool Memezine! (I know, that’s a lot of very, but it’s true!) Thanks to @memezine for giving it a good home!

Our story of the week is Wednesday Night Wiener Fights by Adam Straus.

PEOPLE!!! My loan was approved! I OWN A BOOKSTORE!!! TELL EVERYONE!! @bradyreadery.bsky.social

Our story of the week is Consider Richard M. Nixon Drinking Navy Grog at Trader Vic's, Capital Hilton, July-something, 1974, Washington, D.C. by Leslie Pietrzyk.

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Alright fabulous writer folks! If you have lit mag questions, we’ll do our best to give you some answers over the next hour! AMA! (That stands for Ask Managing-Editors-Sara-and-Sarah Anything.)

Tonight! To celebrate our tenth year, we want to answer your questions about all things lit mag @theforge.bsky.social ! Join me and @saracrowley.bsky.social and ask away! TONIGHT 7-8 pm EDT (11PM UK).

To celebrate 10 years of awesomeness, we want to answer your questions about the submission process, editorial decision-making, and all things lit mag. Our managing editors @saracrowley.bsky.social and @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social will be hosting an AMA here on 3/20, 7-8 pm EDT (11PM UK). Ask away!

As part of @theforge.bsky.social 10 year celebrations you can ask FLM managing editors questions about the submission process, editorial decision-making, and all things lit mag. @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social and I will be hosting an AMA tomorrow 7 - 8 pm EDT 11 - 12 GMT. #submissions #LitMags

We are really excited about this!! With a widespread, international staff we seldom get to do in-person events like AWP. We hope this makes us a little more accessible - swing by on your Friday night scrolling journey and ask us anything!

I wrote about how Trump's comments about learning disabilities reflect his larger desire to remove people with disabilities from public life, but how Gavin Newsom messed up by calling learning disabilities a "strength" rather than advocate for people's rights. www.ms.now/opinion/gavi...

Our story of the week is Manzanita by Vincent James Perrone.

In the 10th year of The Forge Literary Magazine we are excited to announce our Editor's Prize which will be awarded to a piece published in 2026 and voted for by the editors. Send us your brilliant words! #LitMag #Submissions #Prize #$500 #LiteraryExcellence #ADecadeofFLM

10 years of Forge! We’re very excited to celebrate this way!!

We are excited to announce that every piece we publish in 2026 (our 10th anniversary) will be considered for our first annual Forge Editors’ Prize voted by our editors as story of the year. The announcement will be made in December and the prize will be $500.

Our story of the week is Jesus Comes to Dinner by Chris Scott.

Psyched to have a new story at @theforge.bsky.social today, about hosting Jesus for dinner 🥣

Our story of the week is Fairy Tales by Amelia Borawski.

“To say of it ‘Here is a magnificent novel’ is rather like gazing into the Grand Canyon and remarking, ‘Well, well, well; quite a slice.’ Doubtless you have heard that this book is not pleasant. Neither, for that matter, is the Atlantic Ocean.” -Dorothy Parker

Our nonfiction story of the week is Cross Stitch by Valerie L. Egar.

“Thorgeir the Lawspeaker hailed from a deep river valley in northeast Iceland called Lightwater, and his relatives included Grim Hairy-Cheek and Hallbjorn Half-Troll.” I’m all for bringing back interesting epithets.