Short. Sharp. Unforgettable. Our Flash Fiction Award is open — just 250 words could win £1,000 and publication. Enter your story today: bridportprize.org.uk #FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritersLife #AmWriting

It’s never too late to share your story. The Never Too Late Award is open to writers aged 60+ — across poetry, short story, flash fiction and novel. If you’ve been writing for years, or you’re just starting out, this is your moment. Enter now: www.bridportprize.org.uk

Thank to recent followers and contributors! Some great #stories recently, thank you! And thanks for all your positive feedback to the author’s who’ve been featured.

Join us in raising money for The Okra Project. givebutter.com/100k-for-bla...

The new journal @bulbregion.bsky.social would be a great place to sub--can sub up to 3 under 400...

Thank you, @smokelong.bsky.social for including us!!! We’ll be re-opening for subs in June for our fall suffragette- themed issue (and for an unthemed issue too!)

"Pretty Pitty" by Deanna Davidson is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting #flashfiction

📣 If you missed this yesterday, dive in today! 🏊‍♀️ We've rounded up some great opportunities, events, residencies, retreats, and more. Don't miss out! 📣

Just a few hours left to enter! flash500.com/flash-fiction/

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 🥇The Blue Frog First Place Winner!🥇 “Leaving” by Wasima Khan is now up! Art by Ali McLafferty flash-frog.com/2026/03/30/l...

Mouth Matters by Abbie Doll @abbiedollwrites.bsky.social #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/mout...

A great pleasure, and thank you for sending your #story our way @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social‬

ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking fwd to reading your words...

Our final microfiction spotlight is from Emma @words-outwest.bsky.social 🦝 We loved that visceral title, the way the language seethes with righteous rage, the white space left for the reader to fill with their own anguish. Read and listen: trashcatlit.com/when-eve-rea...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fantasy Flash Fiction feat. @thecoloredlens.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com et al. https://duotrope.com...

Micro-fiction "I Met God in a Bookstore" by Tracie Adams “When I spotted the paper dolls among a display of children’s picture books, I felt my body shrink into itself. Suddenly, I was eight again, pulled to the carpeted floor in a crossed-leg position...” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/i-me...

Our latest Opportunities newsletter is out. Find inside: ✨️ Competitions ✨️ Residencies & retreats ✨️ Sub calls ✨️ Events ✨️ Listings & more Do forward on, and send us things for future newsletters. Our mailing list is huge and grows every day 🖤 europeanwriterssalon.substack.com/p/spring-opp...

Might be good to put out a call just for the micros soon!

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, we recommend you give a read to this stunning piece by our dear Claudia Monpere (@claudiamonpere.bsky.social). Be warned, though. This story gets me every time. Every. Single. Time. atlasandalice.com/2023/10/30/f...

It starts tomorrow peoples! Our spring prompted story challenge begins with Trashie selection (blindly choosing your prompts!). The link to select Trashies will open tomorrow at 9am (BST) until 6th April. We're getting the generator ready🦝 trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissioncalls

Thank you to our March authors for a month of top-class #fiction @kerryfiction.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social @annalisacrawford.bsky.social more to follow...To catch up please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/03/

And continuing our thanks to our March authors #MikkiAronoff @joannagarbutt.bsky.social @ddgwriter.bsky.social @ekmacdonald.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social #SusmitaMukherjee @writesofkathryn.bsky.social. To catch up please click on the link below and enjoy

We are open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Micro-fiction "In Turns" by Tanuja Viswanath “By the time our oldest siblings were married off, Amma’s hold on us had loosened…We scrounged, learned to boil rice and peel onions without crying, but the days of fresh murukku were gone.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/in-t...

Repost of worm moon issue (March 3) index since the changed image . . . this makes us ill, pulling a cover work, we've never done it before (willfully). But these are great writers with great works and check it out check it out, please! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

A little past the halfway mark for our spring submissions period, and we'd love to see what you've written, before we close on May 15. Celebrate spring!--as soon as the thermometer climbs above 50 degrees here. 🥶 www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

Need a story for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's story “The Periodic Father” (which ends her book, THE PERIODIC FAMILY, coming fall 2026!) was published in Ghost Parachute 💕

This is a #vss365 about the conduct of a president (it’s a loose translation of one I originally wrote in Latin to try out a particular form and to brush up on the language)

"...there's something wrong with the family..." Wyatt Bonikowski is our featured author this week. Read Ashley Jones's interview with the author at SmokeLong and then the troubling "Conflagration Kills Five". www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Friendly reminder, fam: if you used AI to write/create your piece, you must say so in your cover letter. Even if you used it in editing! Thank you. 🌸

ICYMI today we are thrilled to welcome back Kathryn Kulpa with Sober House @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/03/30/m...

You have exactly something like 42 days to enter. That feels like a portentous number, so we hope it's correct. It probably isn't. Deadline May 10th. You tell us. The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction in its sixth year. Nearly $5k in the prize pot. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

And a reminder that our submissions open April 1st: newworldwriting.net/submissions/

Congratulations to our workshop participants who reported publications to us in March! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

I say this all the time but @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is an absolute DREAM TEAM. Congratulations and thank you, Ayotola Tehingbola, Rebecca Kilroy, & @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social !

I'm currenlty drafting a post for @heyflashvillage.bsky.social to spotlight all the brilliant flashy things that are going on in the UK in the next few months & I'd love suggestions of what I should include. So far, I've got @flashficfestuk.bsky.social & @natflashfictionday.bsky.social as well as...

Last chance to start in April

ICYMI. Katherine Plumhoff shares an update from the European Writers Salon in The Village. We can't wait for Madrid! smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/hi-fro...

SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is entering the cool down phase with 125 writers preparing their work for the MMM competitions. We're thrilled to say that the marathon trousers collectively drafted almost 2000 micros and gave 3x that in terms of feedback. Now we're planning A SmokeLong Summer 26!

Author Interview/Reading with Timothy Boudreau, celebrating the collection Love You, Miss You, Goodby Forever, starting at 11am NYC today! Zoom link in The Village! smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/author...

@maureenlangloss.bsky.social talks everything @splitlipthemag.bsky.social in The Village. All the hearts to Split Lip! smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/intro-...

“You don’t have to be good at math or philosophy. But you have to be smart. Which I am. Very.” Don’t miss Claudia Monpere’s (@claudiamonpere.bsky.social) breathtaking short story, “Calculations,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Calculations...

Two more fabulous workshops to whet your festival appetite. Go deep in different ways with @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social More details and book at flashfictionfestival.com

The New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2026 is open for entries. Info: newwriters.org.uk/100-word-com... Deadline: 30th April 2026 Entry Fee: £10 Prizes: 1st: £1,000; 4x Runners-up: £100 each Word Limit: 100 words Charity: 10% of entry fee proceeds donated to Duchenne UK (duchenneuk.org)

Jennifer McMahon, Joint EIC of Frazzled Lit, gives a behind-the-scenes look of the journal in The Village. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/intro-...

Yay!!!!

I'm looking for readers for both @fracturedlit.bsky.social & @unchartedmag.bsky.social It's a laidback way to get involved with a literary magazine, and it will help level up your writing! We ask for 2-4 hours of volunteer reading each week, but I'm flexible with vacations and other commitments.

Also, the upcoming issue, Gone Lawn 65, has been moved up to May 1, the planter's moon. We're more than half-filled, still room for you! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

March subs open! (a little late 😬)

"The first thing my mother ever stole was coriander." Ledger Without Settlement by Susmita Mukherjee #flashfiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy