Allison Field Bell
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY allisonfieldbell.com
Speaking of @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social!! awesome piece out in Bull today! “George believes in Hemingway’s one true sentence. He worships espresso and travel and his own version of Buddhism.”
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d ago“'Write a story that’s true,' George tells me. 'Write a story that isn’t as shit as your last story. No scratch that, write on this shit story until it’s less shit.'" - Allison Field Bell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
I’ve got a new piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social about writing, Greece, and Hemingway 💕
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d ago“'Write a story that’s true,' George tells me. 'Write a story that isn’t as shit as your last story. No scratch that, write on this shit story until it’s less shit.'" - Allison Field Bell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
“I want Artemis for my spirit, but she is aloof. She is all strength and stoicism where I am soft flesh and zero willpower. Artemis is like man to me. Like Hemingway.” Love these moments @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social captures here.
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d ago“'Write a story that’s true,' George tells me. 'Write a story that isn’t as shit as your last story. No scratch that, write on this shit story until it’s less shit.'" - Allison Field Bell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
ICYMI, this fall @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and I are co-instructing a banger of an intensive workshop! This is a great deep dive, especially for short form writers who want to play and experiment with their work. www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
Break the Rules — Field Works Writing
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Every Friday night on Discord, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social will host her Friday Happy Hour from 8–9 pm ET. These free, weekly 18+ happy hours are low stakes chances to chat & connect w/ other writers. Join at discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN. We hope to see you there! Every Friday at the same time.
My favorite thing to do when writing flash is whatever someone says we “can’t” or “shouldn’t” so this is gonna be so fun to co-teach with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social! It is in fact easier to obliterate a rule when you understand it really well - come find out!
Big news!!! @aniking.bsky.social & I are leading this amazing workshop together this fall! Sign up now & come break the rules with us!!! www.fieldworkswriting.com/breaktherules
this brief interview to go along with my flash published in Milk Candy Review: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/07/13/t...
Two Questions for Allison Field Bell
We recently published Allison Field Bell’s brilliant “Could Have Said No.” Here, we ask her two questions about her story: 1) This story is told as a series of “could haves,…
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new flash up at milk candy review! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/07/09/c...
COULD HAVE SAID NO ~ by Allison Field Bell
(CW: implied sexual assault) She could have said no. (She did eventually.) But she could have said no right away. Could have said no, I don’t want to leave the bar and go with you. Could have just …
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I've been enchanted with Waxwing's aesthetic ever since I read Dara Yen Elerath's The Tired Daughter. And now I have a story from my NIF up with them, too. ❤️ Thank you so much, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social.
Swifties | Dawn Tasaka Steffler
From the second David gets out of the Uber, Taylor Swift's music scents the air like perfume, and his head bobs to the beat. See? This is going to be fun, he pep-talks himself.
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Over the moon to have this flash in Waxwing alongside so many writers I admire. Thank you @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and other editors. waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
The Summers of Deep-Fried Fair Boys | Claudia Monpere
You meet the first one when you win a purple stuffed bunny at the ring toss and give it to his little cousin who is visiting from Georgia, up past bedtime.❡
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My new business website is live! Please share and give me a follow on Instagram! www.fieldworkswriting.com
"If they were here, there’d be three more leather jackets and two more motorcycles. At least 40 more tattoos. A handful of pills stashed in one purse. Three packs of cigarettes." READ @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social 's Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
Aunt Joy Dies and Not Even Her Living Children Show Up — Ghost Parachute
The best thing about Joy was her grief. Two children dead in the same car accident. A corvette, a tree. Bobby and Jules. Bobby at 22, Jules at 18. I wasn’t alive then. I didn’t know Joy in the peak of...
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Read "Aunt Joy Dies and Not Even Her Living Children Show Up" written by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The best thing about Joy was her grief." tinyurl.com/ynrejz72
Aunt Joy Dies and Not Even Her Living Children Show Up — Ghost Parachute
The best thing about Joy was her grief. Two children dead in the same car accident. A corvette, a tree. Bobby and Jules. Bobby at 22, Jules at 18. I wasn’t alive then. I didn’t know Joy in the peak of...
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This offering!!! Tips & tricks for taking your dialogue to the next level! 2 hour craft talk & generative workshop ON ZOOM July 12: 10am-12pm PST 70$ or pay what you can afford (this is ALWAYS true at Field Works) Email fieldbellwriter@gmail.com to sign up now!
New offering: deep dive into dialogue! July 12: 10am-12pm 💕
"...and for a moment—afternoon light streaming in through the large bay windows, flowers on the coffee table purple and green—I feel almost like I live here." I dig your postcard! Congrats Allison! 🎉
“He’s a man, a good poet, but today I’m tired of being told what I am by men and poets. Today, I want my skin scales.” — @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/we-are-not-r...
We Are Not Reptiles - Identity Theory
He’s a man, a good poet, but today I’m tired of being told what I am by men and poets.
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Tomorrow, our last-of-season goes up. Until then: revisit these top-shelf postcards, all finalists for the 2025/26 Mythic Picnic Postcard Prize 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"I don’t know how much weight I’ve lost since I began. I don’t weigh myself. I tell this to everyone who asks" Great use of tension to create an emotionally intense narrative build. @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...
The Word Disorder - SmokeLong Quarterly
I insist I need a corset for under my dress. A wedding. My cousin’s. A purple strapless with a layer of chiffon. My mother is outside the dressing room. She asks if anything fits. I stare down the mir...
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SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 2mo agoIssue 92 of SmokeLong Quarterly is live! Featuring the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 and the winners of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. All of it is gold. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...
New @smokelong.bsky.social! Kate Horsley, @travisflatt.bsky.social, and @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, L.A. Strycker, Ellen Garard, Kate Catinella, Christopher Lee Chilton, Audrey Obuobisa-Darko, Joshua Geller Schwartz, Lane Michael Stanley, Murray Dunsmore, and @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social.
Issue Ninety-Two - SmokeLong Quarterly
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Thrilled to have a piece in this @smokelong.bsky.social issue 💕
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 2mo agoIssue 92 of SmokeLong Quarterly is live! Featuring the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 and the winners of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. All of it is gold. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...
Last year, I published 35 pieces of writing across genres… some of it was luck, but some of it was my approach. Find out more next week!
Allison Field Bell@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 2mo agoa new offering! Please share!
Here's a couple from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ilanot Review: www.ilanotreview.com/a-formal-fee...
Flash Abecedarians by Allison Field Bell - Ilanot Review
Buried in the Backyard Cats. Dog. Every fish she couldn’t flush. Forget about the fish, girl, her mother says. Girls should not concern themselves with fish, almost a woman grown and still you measure...
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We’re so excited to announce a new community offering! Starting Friday, June 12, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social will host “Friday Happy Hours with AFB” every week at 7–9 pm ET in our Discord. These free, public 18+ events are low stakes chances to connect w/ other writers. We hope to see you there!
