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Ali McGrane

@alimcg.bsky.social

Flash fiction in various places | Welkin win, Bath SLs | "The Listening Project" flash novella Ad Hoc Fiction bit.ly/3ohYf67 (Special Mention '22 Sab Awards) | South West UK🦻🌱🌊 alimcgrane.com

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Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 14h ago

"I realised I may never have said that name out loud before, only read it silently, the way some words exist without form in a reader’s mind" Brilliant micro from @alimcg.bsky.social, wonderfully contemplative and full of truth

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 5d ago

ICYMI today we're featuring "That dream where Marianne said she’d found a reference to one of my stories in a Roland Barthes essay" by @alimcg.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/08/31/m...

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our prose poetry call is open until the 10th. Some ideas that fit the theme of tenacity and difference... A plant surviving in a hostile environment 🌱 A spider whose web is repeatedly broken 🕸️ A street dog helps a lost child get home 🐕 trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro...

Call for Prose Poems

Jimothy, the Seattle trash cat with short spine syndrome, has taken the internet by storm. We obviously love how adorable he is with his squished-up body and cheeky scamper, but also how incredibly…

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Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 2d ago

“… or the link she’d sent to the essay with my unwritten story referenced, a story dealing with some difficult shapeless thing, my son perhaps, his name being another kind of ghost word we fear to say out loud …” @alimcg.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/08/31/m...

Microfiction #72

by Ali McGrane That dream where Marianne said she’d found a reference to one of my stories in a Roland Barthes essay and when I woke up, I told her about it, how real it seemed. Roland Barthes, for…

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The Village with All of the Flash Writers@heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 5d ago

@smokelong.bsky.social Do you know about The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest? It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations. We want it all. Deadline Nov 15. 250 words or fewer. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

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Maureen Langloss@maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey lit mag editors. We've been worried about AI companies scraping Split Lip's site to train their models. We just learned that our web host, SquareSpace, has a native feature that allows us to stop some of this. It was quick & easy for our web editor to put in place. I encourage you to do the same

Brian Bilston@brianbilston.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ten years ago, ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’ was published. It was my first collection of poetry and incredibly, it’s still going strong. To celebrate the anniversary, I thought I’d share a poem from it every day this month, starting with the title poem.

You Took the Last Bus Home    you took
the last bus home
don’t know how 
you got it through the door  you’re always doing amazing stuff  like the time you caught that train Brian BilstonA pic of the cover of ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’ featuring a red bus with the backdrop of a beautiful moonlit night.
Emma Harding@emmaharding.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very sorry to learn of the death of poet Wendell Berry. Such an important advocate for our relationship with the natural world, the beauty of wild things & the value of small, individual actions.

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Fiona McKay@fionamckay.bsky.social · 5d ago

🛑 Stop whatever you’re doing RIGHT NOW and read one of THE best micros I’ve ever read!! 🛑 Congratulations to @alimcg.bsky.social for this brilliant piece of writing 🎉🎉🎉

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 6d ago

"That dream where Marianne said she’d found a reference to one of my stories in a Roland Barthes essay" by Ali McGrane @alimcg.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/08/31/m...

Ali McGrane@alimcg.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thrilled that this story has found such a wonderful home 🎉. Huge thanks to Laura @fictivedream.bsky.social for accepting it, and for finding such evocative artwork to accompany it. 💙

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 6d ago

"That dream where Marianne said she’d found a reference to one of my stories in a Roland Barthes essay" by Ali McGrane @alimcg.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/08/31/m...

Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · last wk.

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · last wk.

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

Tracy Fells@theliterarypig.bsky.social · 3w ago

From hedgehogs and bats to butterflies and newts, the UK’s wildlife is disappearing fast – and our government is letting it happen. I’ve just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for urgent action. Add your name: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...

Tell the government: act for nature before it’s too late

Add my name Did you know the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world? There’s less wildlife today than in living memory − and it’s still disappearing before our eyes. From hedgeho...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · last mo.

@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is open for submissions: Artwork for our cover and/or to accompany published pieces of fiction. Fiction with 6 sentences and no more than 400 words. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Submissions Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...

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