“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)” A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

Taking a break from short poetry films to try something a little different… ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025. First episode drops October 15th! But in the meantime, a little teaser… youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs

It’s the weekend & we’re reading submissions in between cook-outs & zoo visits. Do we have your CNF or Fiction? 🤓 reckonreview.com/submissions/

“And maybe the last day on earth, before we go back to earth, either buried or ash, we wonder if anyone ever truly knew us.“ 🩷

If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump. Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks. dianegottlieb.com/conversation...

““We eat in the dim, dancing light of a taper candle placed in an empty wine bottle. The amethyst of your wedding ring glimmers.” 🙌❤️

“Angela’s mom suggests that I make a list of the things I am responsible for. It should be present tense.” "This was the last person to leave her, but I was still the last to fail her." @nathanwillis.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/working-titl...

ICYMI: my micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

“…I buried my face in your neck, asking, how will our story end? So damn happily, you said, tugging at the sheet dividing us…” ❤️ Kate Horsley in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/

An exceptional piece. 🙌

ICYMI today we're feat. Bog Body by Imogen Rae #MicroMonday #microfiction. Please just click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/15/m...

Check out what's happening at The Sunlight Press and find out who is judging our Fall Flash Fiction contest! bit.ly/3JE7Ejb

Pat, I appreciate your support! 💛❤️💚 @pdforan.bsky.social 🙏

Thrilled to have another microfiction in the exciting @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🙏🥧 gooseberry-pie.com/glinda-was-n...

"I stop to take photos of tiny red flowers and a smiling older couple passes behind me." On This Summer Morning by Louella Lester @louellalester.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/12/o...

“My hands too heavy with fear, my fingers made into fists against the reaching, until they held me down and put the hot paper to my lips,” “Summer Play” by Beth Konkoski gooseberry-pie.com/summer-play/

Another jewel for your pleasure from @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social & @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🙌

Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/

“…and after flirtations with pottery and weaving and wild-food foraging, and a couple of years when she came back from Glastonbury spaced-out and stinky, she left us…” So clever. 🙌 @patiencemackarness.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/skipping-gen...

Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations

SO proud to be part of @reckonreview.bsky.social with this CNF #FlashFiction piece, which I wrote as part of @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. It begins: "Maybe parallel universe me was born without a cleft palate. Maybe her philtrum is intact..." Read more: reckonreview.com/maybe-parall...

“Some kind of light started blasting in from outside, bursting in through every window and door and any small opening it could get through.” 🙌 @aaronburch.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...

“I watch from the bluff where the sky folds white into a tired napkin.” Gorgeous poetry by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social in Rattle. rattle.com/my-father-as...

“Moments earlier, the judge banged his gavel and said so be it, her mother did not have to live with her father anymore and the girl watched her mother’s shoulders release.” @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute 💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

So good. A must-read. 🙌

“He lets me lick his hand clean, the most contact my mouth has made with his body in months. I’m hopeful, though, that sex is on the table for tonight.” Nora Wagner in MonkeyBicycle 🙌 monkeybicycle.net/the-ocean-th...

Tia if you read! ⚜️🖤🌀20⚜️ charlottehamrick.substack.com/p/august-lis...

New Micro in MacQueen’s Quinterly - Tia if you read! “Even after the fading freneticism of those years, the whirling disco-ball-of-hell years, the woman occasionally still stalked the ectoplasm of his online life. Yes, stalked—as shameful as it was.” www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Hamri...

It was great talking to @armandauthor.bsky.social about WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN, though I spent much of the time talking about how amazing @pauljgarth.bsky.social, @coyhall.bsky.social, @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social, @libbycudmore.bsky.social, and @meaganlucas.bsky.social are 😎 youtu.be/RAolFA8NCZA

“A long time passed without the devil. We missed him terribly and felt incredibly foolish for thinking we could live without him. We went so far as to admit that we hadn’t had much of a life before him.” 🙌 @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in Monkeybicycle. monkeybicycle.net/little-devil/

We have a guest post from CNF Reader Olga Katsovskiy today for Wind & Root. Head over to Reckon for this take on content warnings in Creative Nonfiction.

This blew me away. Not to be missed!

“I see Chris, the quiet neighbour boy, slumped in his seat behind mine, tousled dusty hair unable to cover a fresh black eye.” @louellalester.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🩷🔥💛 gooseberry-pie.com/making-sure/

“time is suspended, the days taste bitter, and I can’t sleep.” Suzanne Martinez in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/american-pie/

New this month in STONE'S THROW: "#emotionallaborday" by Autumn Harrison. A story about a woman, family, and the intersection of all those unacknowledged things. Read it today:

Thank you for the reposts about our book @danbillyc.bsky.social & @samrasnake.bsky.social 💙💛❤️

This beautiful collection! Check it out!💙📚🩵

Sunday reading from Doric Literary. "Mae and Me" by @anniejowrites.bsky.social is a brilliant story about loss, & not quite loss, & unexpected people who can help you move on. If you've ever not understood a lover's departure, you'll feel this one in your bones. doric-literary.com/2025/08/15/m...

SUBS OPEN SEPT 1-4: For October, give us stories of haunted characters. Supernatural stories are okay, but above all else, make it character-driven, and make it noir. Details here: bit.ly/4fQLeGx

I’m a huge fan of @cwblackwell.bsky.social’s writing and this book is another reason why. Hold on to your gut while reading!

Really appreciate your support, Pat. 💛💙💚

Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social for asking the fab @swellspoken.bsky.social and the fab @meaganlucas.bsky.social and me the musical question “How does lived experience show up in your fiction?” in your fab The Hidden Hour: substack.com/@charlotteha...

I pre-ordered. Have you?

Finally get to hold a copy of the Grieving Hope anthology with my first microchapbook Preparing to be wrecked. And I share space with amazing writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social

I appreciate everyone who’s bought, supported, & shared this book in SM. I’m honored to be included with writers like Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kristina Tabor, and Janet Murie & would appreciate links to any interviews & reviews. Do you have one? elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/

In which I nod my head 850,000,000 times: Writing Short/Writing Flash with Kathy Fish and Darien Gee 💙https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/writing-shortwriting-flash-with-kathy?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web×tamp=74.4&showWelcomeOnShare=false

“I write pretty much only when I feel something. And lived things, experienced things, can make me feel something.” Loved reading @pdforan.bsky.social’s and other writers’ reflections in @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview. Check it out, friends!❤️

WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN is on Goodreads for those who want to follow along. Shelve it, rate it, review it—anything helps 😎 www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

“…they’d know his father was the head of that motorcycle gang with angels on their jackets, which is one reason we had to leave Vegas,” @jhhwriter.bsky.social in South Florida PoetryJournal www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-38-aug...