Hugs & thanks to the incredible team at @rfpress.bsky.social for supporting & publishing my little New Orleans-centric fiction. Y’all are the best! 💋

“… but today I’m tired of being told what I am …” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/we-are-not-r...

SO. GOOD.

I’ve got a tiny micro at the very cool @plaguecircus.bsky.social! plaguecircuspress.com/my-suitcase-...

“When it comes to micro memoir, it works for what I aim to achieve in much of my writing, which is to capture the emotional truth of an experience.” reckonreview.com/the-nitty-gr...

A huge, HUGE (!!!) thanks to @meaganlucas.bsky.social and the team at @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing my creepy-ass, lead-paint story, “Communion.” (Seriously, I owe them an insane amount of bourbon and brownies for this.) reckonreview.com/communion-fi...

This is awesome!

To celebrate 4 years (4 years!!) of THE NITTY GRITTY, our Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick interviewed the fabulous writer, Jamy Bond. Come see!

New fiction today! Bowlin is the author of the collection, Ghosts Caught on Film. His short fiction & essays appear in places like Best American Mystery & Suspense, TriQuarterly, Barrelhouse, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, & Salt Hill. He lives & teaches & rides trains in MA. @barrettbowlin.bsky.social

"We Had Something Beautiful," originally published by CRAFT is live at SugarSugarSalt! Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social for giving my piece about a workplace mutiny new life and thank you again, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social for believing in the story. 🙏 sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/we-had-som...

“The roller derby girls are sharp elbows and muscular thighs and tight spandex shorts.” 🙌 @chartsuyker.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💛 gooseberry-pie.com/when-youre-t...

It’s pub day for my (mostly) flash fiction collection Songs from the Blimp Ruins. Thank you @alkratz.bsky.social & Silverbacked Punk for bringing it to life. It's available here: qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Signed copies also available (message me) My heart is cheered here www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf22...

Coming June 14th! Stay tuned!!!

Honored to be the first in this new feature. Thanks, Gooseberry Pie!

June at sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com 💛 @tracieadams.bsky.social , @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social

new new: "Owen," by Jamy Bond: wigleaf.com @jamybond.bsky.social

I'm beyond thrilled to contribute to @reckonreview.bsky.social as a Wind & Root columnist. Many thanks to @meaganlucas.bsky.social and Charlotte Smith Hamrick for this opportunity! reckonreview.com/chronically-...

ICYMI in the weird non algorithm of BlueSky.

Love this book. You should read it!

“'Hi, camel,' I say, in the voice I use for animals, for those I need to calm down, for those I need to love me. I decide to give him a name. 'Chad, you sweetie.'” Chad, Vivian, Pete, the shout of the wind & @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/what-we-lost...

“Everything’s eerily quiet like this is the apocalypse, an apocalypse where we have to deal with a f—ing camel” in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/what-we-lost...

New Fiction today from Lori Sambol Brody. Lori Sambol Brody lives in the mountains of Southern California. Her short fiction has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Tin House Flash Fridays, the New Orleans Review, Craft, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

Today, SugarSugarSalt Lit Magazine re-published my bit of memoir, "Hospitality," a recollection of a family meal at a newly integrated Howard Johnson's in the early 1960s. sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/hospitalit.... #memoir #nonfiction #writing #sugarsugarsaltlit #jimcrow #southcarolina

Poignant @jenwithwords.bsky.social

"..so angelic are the days to lead me to keep walking, however if I stumble, nonetheless to keep leaning toward the duck here and the duck there.." There is this place in us all. Read this gorgeous, vulnerable, lyric CNF by Shome Dasgupta.

“Incessant taps—I know that familiar pattering, and I know to lift my tongue only to the knitted skies ahead.” sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/it-goes-li...

I was reading this today. Get on it!

😍🙌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"If you carve the words in sadness, know them like the ink you bury, like the veins that rise to the occasion." Undoing: The Book of Being Here by @jenlrouse.bsky.social in The Constant Hum of Elsewhere, published by Harbor Editions @smallharborpub.bsky.social (congrats, Jen! ♥️)

New nonfiction today from Lacey Rodriquez. reckonreview.com/i-know-now-w...

Flash fiction by @lmariharris.bsky.social is like a precious gem, rare & worth the wait. So good to read her again! theairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/d...

New Wind & Root from the brilliant Mary Thorson, come see.

I have both & they are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

In a very new experience (for me!) I participated in a panel discussion for Best Small Fictions with some really cool writers like Scott Garson and Meg Pokrass. About endings and short fiction. Watch or don't!! www.youtube.com/live/OTB7dxC...

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN APRIL 1 - 7 substack.com/@charlotteha...

Thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social & @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for including my CNF in their new issue. Love this journal! emergeliteraryjournal.com/storm-warnin...

New Nonfiction today from J.R. Welch reckonreview.com/sometimes-a-...

"One summer we played Workin’ Together time and again, Tina’s husky, soulful cries floating up to the bald sun" Great evocation of character and relationship in this one from @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

New fiction today from Noreen Graf!!

“If she had listened. If she had not done that thing. If she could slip through the keyhole like a ghost.” I‘m blown away by this… @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

Many thanks to Gooseberry Pie for accepting my micros. Love this journal!

New creative nonfiction today at Reckon. Come visit and read "Mothering, 21st Century Edition" by Alina Zollfrank @zollizen.bsky.social

A beautiful, lyrical micro memoir for you today. Submissions open 3/1/26! SugarSugarSalt Lit Magazine - Excavating words. @https://open.substack.com/pub/sugarsugarsaltlit/p/todays-special-by-heain-joung?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

“I’ve heard this episode at least five times, but Chauncey yells out possibilities anyway, not one of them the least bit matchable…” So funny! Karen Craigo in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/in-2025-my-h...

”We are already gone but we’re still here, still chasing an Intermezzo, a pleasant break, a quick fix before we get back to work and life…” Mileva Anastasiadou In @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🌟 gooseberry-pie.com/sign-of-the-...