Just saw this great idea. Staunch & consistent supporters of myself & others: @melostrom.bsky.social , @pdforan.bsky.social , @kathyfish.bsky.social 💛❤️💚

Helllooooo! Does anyone actually read this app? I have poetry, fiction, & memoir recommendations for your book lover gifting. Support independent press!

We are excited to share our nominees for Best Microfiction 2026: Margo Griffin & Amanda Ashworth! Best of luck & big hugs to these brilliant writers. See reckonreview.com/award-nomina... for links to their stories.

Virtual Reading on Monday 12/8/2025: Help raise funds to support the emergency response rooms in Sudan. Readers include Jericho Brown, Safia Elhillo, Lameese Badr, Natalie Shapero, Martha Collins, David Baker, Sandra Lim, Katie Peterson, and Ladan Osman. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/r...

Latest… charlottehamrick.substack.com/p/just-a-chat

“I use words like refinance, cold front, and energy efficient.” @ericscottryon.bsky.social in Whale Road Review 🙌 #flashfiction www.whaleroadreview.com/tryon/

Latest, featuring Beth Sherman in @fictivedream.bsky.social, @jamybond.bsky.social & Keith Woodruff in @bendinggenres.bsky.social, Pamela Painter in Milk Candy Rvw, Angelica Roman in @thecitronreview.bsky.social 🙌 + other stuff charlottehamrick.substack.com/p/small-bite...

Literal chills reading this piece. “Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor.”

SO good. 🙌 Idk this poet but wow. 1st pubbed poem in Rust & Moth is brilliant. Congrats @edithkrone.bsky.social

In case you’re interested - a wip. go.bsky.app/V5MfhyM

Gorgeous prose (as expected!) by @melostrom.bsky.social , a kind writer you should be following! 💛

Wonderful to see ELJ thriving!

Great news! All ELJ Editions books published after March 2025 are now available on Amazon, BN.com, and Bookshop.org, as well as ELJ’s website! Pick yourself up a book this Holiday season!

Latest… charlottehamrick.substack.com/p/book-news-...

“why borrow griefs from the future when the present horrors are more than enough.” @ronita.bsky.social 💛🙏 in FemAsia

“It’s been a long time since I stood in a Colorado river in a rainstorm skipping stones, certain I was in love with the man beside me instead of the man who lived states away. The Away Man’s voice on my answering machine—“ @jilltalbot.bsky.social in Sonora Review🙌 sonorareview.com/2025/11/04/s...

“… shuddering like a ghost rain in the leaves, like something lost and searching.” “If something similar happened to her, Nate — unlike Mr. Haskell — wouldn’t even try to protect Anna and her. Couldn’t. He was in Chicago.” @melostrom.bsky.social in Stone Canoe Journal

“…everybody shook their heads and tut-tutted and agreed she had always been trouble or a narcissist or too much of a goody-two-shoes…” Wow, so good - Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in ghost parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

“I dance like all of the cowards in cowboy movies. Caro Kennedy cries like all of the women who listen, from behind drawn curtains, to the gunfire from a duel in a dusty street.” 🙌 Gary Fincke in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

Today's new fiction, from Amelia Franz, will have your heart pounding.

An Extraordinary heart tug. Truly wonderful, Jen! @jenwithwords.bsky.social

New Wind & Root over at Reckon today from our columnist Brandy Renee McCann. I needed this one today.

New creative nonfiction at Reckon today from Cindy Sams. Come see!

“Writing has always been a way of understanding myself…” Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚

So good to talk with @ronita.bsky.social ! reckonreview.com/the-nitty-gr...

We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year. Read their stories here: reckonreview.com/award-nomina...

This issue is a treasure trove for flash fiction lovers. I’m savoring it! ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

We have new creative nonfiction from Katrina Ralbag over at Reckon. Come see.

“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...

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