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.

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

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!

We love dark & gritty character driven stories. Is there one waiting in your files? (Pssst. We’ll be closed to subs in December.) reckonreview.com/submissions/

New Nitty Gritty today! Our Charlotte Hamrick interviews author Ronita Chattopadhyay. Head over to Reckon to read.

Thank you for this BotN nomination, @reckonreview.bsky.social! So glad to have a home in your stellar journal. 🥰🙏

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...

"People often mistake my humor for denial. They think I’m not feeling anything, when really, I’m feeling too much, just not where anyone can see it." reckonreview.com/i-think-ive-... Incredible essay 💔

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

I've been a big fan of Archer since we published her short story, "Somewhere, Something, Something" over at @reckonreview. Super excited to get to talk about her novel THE WITCH'S ORCHARD @malapropsbookstore on 10/14 at 6pm!! malaprops.com/event/2025-1...

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

New Wind and Root from columnist Susan Schirl Smith up at Reckon for your Monday pleasure.

So glad this piece landed with @reckonreview.bsky.social -- I've admired both their literary publications and their terrific Wind and Root columns for a while now.

An exceptional piece. 🙌

New fiction at Reckon this morning. Check out "Resurrection Drive" by Abigail Myers. @abigailmyers.bsky.social

I had a blast talking with @thejeremybjones.bsky.social about his new book, Cipher, with @blairpub.bsky.social. A huge thanks to Jeremy and @reckonreview.bsky.social for putting this conversation out into the world!

“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...

I just read this story. Stunning.

Head over to Reckon to read this fantastic interview by Jessica Cory of Jeremy B. Jones.

"Laughing at the girls no one invites, because she has never been a girl no one invites." I LOVE the way this turns, and the pride and ownership in this brilliant piece by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social 🧡

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...

Meagan here. Every piece that we post at Reckon is our favorite. Every piece is exceptional. This one though. Shoo. This one took the air out of my chest; left me staring at the wall a bit. Please head over to Reckon and read "Working Title No. 6" by Nathan Willis. @nathanwillis.bsky.social

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.

And a BIG shout out to @reckonreview.bsky.social and EIC @meaganlucas.bsky.social for giving SONG OF THE CONFESSOR a home!

New Creative Nonfiction up today. "Wanda, Briefly" is Ashworth's first publication. It's incredible. Come over and see.

New fiction at Reckon today from Catherine Parnell. Come over and read "When We Were Six."

Terrific new column by @barlowadams.bsky.social up at @reckonreview.bsky.social

"Losing Twitter wasn't just losing a platform, it was losing a sense of being surrounded by others who understood." @barlowadams.bsky.social has put into words what I've been struggling to say for months 💙 @reckonreview.bsky.social

“…the smallest act—one word, one line—is a victory. Writing, even in pieces, is proof that we are still here. Finding a way to share that is more than a victory: it’s a gift.” Thanks for this beautiful message, @barlowadams.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social ❤️❤️

"These people legitimately became my friends. It was indie. It was punk rock." And: "We can build slower, quieter communities that don’t vanish in a day." I really, really love this column by the amazing @barlowadams.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"Hard times shrink us, tell us to be quiet, to get through the day, to stop expecting more of ourselves. Putting down words—no matter how small—is a quiet act of rebellion against that voice." Such beauty & wisdom @barlowadams.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...

“….Twitter filled … a hole I didn’t realize was there. It was messy and chaotic, but ….You could celebrate a milestone—”Finished my draft!”—and strangers would cheer you on.” @barlowadams.bsky.social nails what we all loved, and miss, about OG Twitter in this new @reckonreview.bsky.social essay 💔

“I’ll look for you. Look for me.”

Please head over to Reckon to read this essay by our columnist Barlow Adams. It was exactly what I (Meg) needed to read today. Maybe you, too? @barlowadams.bsky.social

I have a new story out!! reckonreview.com/the-first-tr...

New fiction today from Jen Conley. Head over to Reckon to read: "The First True Love of Eddie Callahan" @jenconley45.bsky.social

Thanks to @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing February 44, written in the thick of grief.

Thanks so much to @jimalmo.bsky.social and @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing my piece February, 44. reckonreview.com/february-44-...

“The week you died, when I knew you were gone, I ran the trail where I last saw you.” A quiet glimpse into the things that pass through our lives which we cannot hang on to. Beautiful CNF by @melissacuisine.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social

This searing piece by a writer I love so much @melissacuisine.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social “The creek meandered, then rushed, through the curve between your childhood home and my adult one…”

“The week you died, I told no one how close I’d been to loving you.” Dont miss this 💔 @melissacuisine.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social 💔

The week you died, I told no one how close I’d been to loving you. That we’d circled around each other for years, looking for a gap in our paths..... this is beautiful @melissacuisine.bsky.social! @reckonreview.bsky.social

New Creative Nonfiction today from Melissa Flores Anderson. @melissacuisine.bsky.social

We've got new fiction for you today. Check out "Getting in the Spirit" by Emily Ver Steeg!