A lil’ bit of microfiction up on Nailpolish Stories. (A 25 word limit is such a good challenge! And I love the idea of titles inspired by the wild, endless world of nail polish names.) nailpolishstories.wordpress.com

The buck moon is a wild one, they say, with his proud antlers, coated in soft velvet. Do not mistake those long white ears & bushy white tail! Those ears have heard all of your songs & they just make him more wild. Just wait a bit and see how cute they are. GL66 is up! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Happy dancing to see my flash "If Mother's Grief Had Been a Dog" published in Thin Skin Magazine alongside one of my favorite flash writers @nomad-sw18.bsky.social . Check out Issue 8! My story was written in @smokelong.bsky.social (where else?) thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

If Mother’s Grief Had Been a Dog - Thin Skin

Mother’s grief unfurled slowly, like paint blistering and peeling from the shed out back. For months after the sirens, she locked herself inside with our photo albums. She taped pink-stickered pages o...

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"That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms..." 🔥 👀 from Lauren Kardos https://www.havehashad.com/mcqgx

It has been so wonderful to have these Welkin Genre Prize stories shared daily in my feed—100-word powerhouses, full of depth and often tenderness. Today’s shortlisted “Body” prize is no exception. (And very glad there are many more to read.)

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 7d ago

Shortlisted in the Body Prize, "Issue" by Jeffrey-Michael Kane www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Glen Hansard - The Parting Glass - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth

YouTube video by Paste Magazine

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Paste Magazine@pastemagazine.bsky.social · last wk.

According to the BBC, Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard was killed in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Dublin on Wednesday morning. He was 56. www.pastemagazine.com/music/glen-h...

My poem is included in this Haiku Dialogue selection about technology and the overload of information. I happened to see it just after news of Glen Hansard’s death came up in my “feed.” A brilliant artist. Music can make musicians feel like “friends,” but I’m especially thinking of his loved ones. 💔

The Haiku Foundation@haikufound.bsky.social · last wk.

Honoured to have a one-line poem featured on the latest Poetry Pea Podcast — in a wonderful episode that deepened my understanding of this intriguing form. Thanks, Patricia McGuire and @thepoetrypea.bsky.social team. poetrypea.com/s9e29-one-li...

First up in my @smokelong.bsky.social #blurbchallenge flash fiction recommendations: Widow Fantasies by Iranian 🇨🇦-ian Hollay Ghadery—an atmospheric collection about people grappling w/ regrets & longings. Wonderful concrete imagery throughout ( @hollay.bsky.social is also a poet/multi-genre writer).

Thanks to Haiku Dialogue Guest Editor Alex Fyffe for including my one-line haiku in this technology-themed selection and for offering such insightful commentary.

The Haiku Foundation@haikufound.bsky.social · 3w ago

My first time on a Welkin list! 🤩 So many fascinating story titles in this longlist — and I can’t wait to see the different takes on the genres. What a unique contest, @mattkendrick.bsky.social!

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

DRUM ROLL!!!! Announcing the longlists for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026. Congratulations to the writers of these 50 wonderful pieces. Please feel free to celebrate wildly but don't reveal which piece is yours as judging is still ongoing! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

A nice surprise to see I have another haiku up on @haikuniverse.bsky.social today. ✈️ haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-ade...

Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...

Sugars by Sumitra Singam

Your mother and brother don’t know what to do with your sugars. On a summer’s evening, the air heavy with your loss, they bring them to me in a box. Icing sugar in a Tupperware, as if you’d packed …

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Highly recommend having a friend like Kevin to cheer you on during writing sessions. 😉👋😸

This micro sprang to life in @smokelong.bsky.social’s amazing March Micro Madness!!! Thank you so much to the wonderful people at @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social for giving it such a lovely home!! ❤️

National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand@natflashficdaynz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Celebrating two 100-word story shortlist wins from @newwritersuk.bsky.social and tadpolepress.com. Contests aren’t my only focus, but I enjoy the schedule, guidelines, & community of these. Congrats, all! (And now to revisit/find homes for these micros, started in @smokelong.bsky.social workshops.)

New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2026 - Results - NewWriters.org.uk

New Writers 100-Word Writing 2026 winners plus the honourable mentions and shortlisted and longlisted entries.

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Thanks to Haiku Dialogue Guest Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for publishing my🍸 themed one-line haiku. It took me back to busting a move with loved ones at our NYE wedding over a decade (!) ago. 🪩

The Haiku Foundation@haikufound.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted to have my first haibun (prose + haiku) in the new issue of MacQueen's Quinterly. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ32/Gallo...

SO EXCITED to be back in JMWW with this hopeful flash fiction!

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Flash Fiction: Let’s Read This Picture Book by Sage Tyrtle Skip forward five pages. Skip past the toddlers with the rubber knives and toddlers with the cardboard handcuffs and the toddlers in their severe uniforms.

ANNOUNCEMENT #NationalPoetryMonth One-sentence Poetry Challenge Special Issue is out TODAY! Thank you to all the participants and winners, we had so much fun with this! Enjoy reading and sharing! epistemiclit.com/nationalpoet...

#NATIONALPOETRYMONTH Special Issue -

...is a disabled Canadian multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring embodiment and states of being.

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Issue #4 is now live! A heartfelt thank you to all our wonderful contributors for trusting us with their work and helping bring this issue to life. We’re grateful these poems and stories found their way to THN. www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issue 💫🙏🦉🌸🌿 #microfiction #shortpoetry #amreading

Current Issue

Spring has arrived, and with it, a brand new issue of The Hoolet’s Nook —our biggest one yet! While compiling the issue, it became evident how drawn we are to work that whispers and invites...

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Thanks to Haiku Dialogue Guest Editor Carole MacRury for selecting and commenting on my haiku—sparked by a Gage Park walk a few autumns ago. So many wonderful poems here.

The Haiku Foundation@haikufound.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I can't even tell you how much I love that this is being published today, on what would have been my dad's 87th birthday. Thank you to @templeinacity.bsky.social and to @smokelong.bsky.social , where this piece was born. #FlashInTheFeed

Temple in a city@templeinacity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‘I loved my father most during thunderstorms.’ A crackling flash of family, pain, wonder, love by @lmbayley.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Loved this, my first read this morning! Flash essay by Lina Lau (@linalau.bsky.social) via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/climbing-hig...

Climbing Higher

by Lina Lau | Learning to trust.

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Grateful to Flash the Court’s Court Harler for publishing my 2025 @bridportprize.bsky.social anthology flash fiction story—the first piece I workshopped in the @smokelong.bsky.social community. What a lovely second home. flashthecourt.com/2026/05/01/capsule-by-adele-gallogly/

“Capsule” by Adele Gallogly

“Capsule” by Adele Gallogly is a vividly depicted microfiction about mothers and daughters: their coded conversations, their unspoken understandings. Set at a local carnival, Gallogly activates the…

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Adele Gallogly@adelegallogly.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Absolutely thrilled to have a flash fiction story Highly Commended by judge @tobylitt.bsky.social for the Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social. Excited for the anthology, and I’ll share a more about my story then. Congrats, everyone! Also, thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social workshop mates!

Such an honour to win the 100-word story competition! The @smokelongg writing community is amazing. 🤩 Congrats, all!

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The winners of the 2026 March Micro Marathon competitions are here! This year's Marathoners drafted over 2,000 stories in just 24 days. They all deserve medals. 100-word story: Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 250-word story: Joyce Barton 400-word story: Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social

Another micro up on 50-Word Stories — drafted in the @smokelong.bsky.social Micro Marathon. fiftywordstories.com

"Wait a Day" by @adelegallogly.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writing #flashfiction #amwriting

I have a new story up on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social today — started in the @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon!