Amy Barnes
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The Shortlist is up! Eight stories about people barely holding it together, selected by @kdiannerule.bsky.social Flash fiction from: Miranda Manzano in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social in @susurrusmag.bsky.social Steve Lambert in @mrbullbull.bsky.social (...1/2)
The Shortlist for August 6, 2026 - Turn and Work
Fiction from Miranda Manzano, Amy Barnes, Steve Lambert, Cheyanne Mann, Mandy Lange, CL Glanzing, Anyu Ching and Leslie Pietrzyk
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"My father loved playing Battleship. When he wasn’t floating ships in the bathtub, he lined up and counted the battleships over and over and over again." Stunning story @amygcb.bsky.social www.susurrusthemagazine.com/potemkins-bo...
Potemkin's Boats — Susurrus
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L.A. Strycker is the winner of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026. Read @amygcb.bsky.social's interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with L.A. Strycker - SmokeLong Quarterly
I haven’t listened to Cuban frogs but have experienced Puerto Rican coqui frogs. It’s such a symphony of sounds. Eerie. Community. Seasons. Rhythmic. There’s a similar lyricism throughout your piece. ...
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"My father loved playing Battleship. When he wasn’t floating ships in the bathtub, he lined up and counted the battleships over and over and over again. One day, he dropped them in the kitchen sink he’d filled with water." "Potemkin's Boats" by @amygcb.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
Potemkin's Boats — Susurrus
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Made it to the shortlist with my tiny tale! What a wonderful list of titles! ❤️
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 4mo agoHere's the shortlist for Gooseberry Pie's annual writing competition. The winning entries will be announced in early May with stories published in a special issue which drop of May 14, 2026. Congratulations to everyone! gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...
I'm so honored to be part of this stellar group of writers at one of my favorite journals. Thank you to @tylermalone.bsky.social for my fitting artwork too! I've written very little in the last 18 months. This story bears more weight than usual. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/potemkins-bo...
Potemkin's Boats — Susurrus
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Susurrus@susurrusmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago🐴Welcome to Issue Fourteen! We hope you find something that makes you feel right at home.🐴 View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-fourteen 📸: Tyler Malone
It is both a joy and a sadness to have "Cinnamon and Sandalwood" included in the beautiful final issue of @literaryruby.bsky.social. Thank you @april-bradley.bsky.social for curating this gem of a magazine. Thank you @amygcb.bsky.social and Jessie Payne too. 💜💜💜 rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-...
ISSUE SEVEN
April 6, 2026 ISSUE SEVEN BACK TO TOP Mikki Aronoff Fiction At Sea’s Edge ❦ “Maybe the blood of a steak’ll do the trick?” Samuel shrugs to the day nurse, even though Polly’s vegetarian, even though…
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our new issue! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... SERGE LECOMTE MEGHAN PROULX MATT BARRETT @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social JENNA CROWDER ERIK KLASS TRACIE ADAMS @tracieadams.bsky.social SHERI VENEMA @sheriven.bsky.social HANNAH AHN RUSSELL BRAKEFIELD @russellbrakefield.bsky.social CHOISELLE JOSEPH
Ooh - I see my little story's title on this wonderful longlist! Congrats to all! Thank you to @theprideroars.bsky.social for including me! ❤️
The Pride Roars@theprideroars.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe're delighted to announce the Longlist for our inaugural Flash Competition. Thank you again to all who sent their beautiful work our way. Find the longlisted titles on our blog: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/03/flas...
Austin Grossman is doing something cool with “Stay” but the photos! the Boyfriend Book! in @amygcb.bsky.social’s Lee Ann Womack homage are also what @marchxness.bsky.social was made for.
Amy Barnes@amygcb.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy March Sadness essay on Lee Ann Womack's "A Little Past Little Rock" is up! Please vote for 90s me & 2026 me. ☑️ marchxness.com#/1stround-lo...
Perhaps biased as a Tennesseean who has fond Little Rock memories but @amygcb.bsky.social is BRINGING IT with "the boyfriend book" and all the pictures!
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoRound 1, day 5! Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/1stround-lo...
My March Sadness essay on Lee Ann Womack's "A Little Past Little Rock" is up! Please vote for 90s me & 2026 me. ☑️ marchxness.com#/1stround-lo...
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoMARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 4 FINAL SCORES Mineral 80, RHCP 60 No Doubt 90, Gillian Welch 82 Hootie 140, Morphine 134 Counting Crows 137, Savage Garden 33 New ones just tipped off: bote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com
It's the worm moon, and you know what that means: the new edition of @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thank you, @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social for including two of my weirdlings in this very special issue. 1/2
a full moon with a silhouette of a tree in front of it
Alt: a yellow full moon rising, with a silhouette of a tree in front of it
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Congrats to Liam Strong for winning in the Monarch awards for "the year of lost limbs," also Robert McDonald for inclusion in Best Microfiction for "Jane Goodall of the Mantid Kingdom!"
We are elated to announce the awardees and finalists for MONARCH 2026. Thank you to all of the organizations who nominated work for making our first anthology so stunning 🦋 and a special shoutout to @esichr.bsky.social and @bleatingthing.bsky.social for the beautiful cover photograph!
Here it's snowing, tonight it will be dark for all. But guess what will be bright? Gone Lawn 63 will be! This is the micro-excerpt issue, featuring thirteen brilliant authors. Enjoy! Art by BEE LB. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
I’m excited to have a micro-excerpt from my novel-in-progress in this issue. Thrilled to be in such great company! Finding an under 200-word, freestanding section to extract and submit was a difficult —but rewarding—challenge. Big thank you to eds. @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social !
Gone Lawn Journal@gonelawn.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere it's snowing, tonight it will be dark for all. But guess what will be bright? Gone Lawn 63 will be! This is the micro-excerpt issue, featuring thirteen brilliant authors. Enjoy! Art by BEE LB. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Delighted to have 2 stories in this amazing issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social What a treat to appear with so many stellar writers incl @elissafield.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social Letting go www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go Marie Kondo www.frazzledlit.com/p/and-now-i-...
And now I feel the benevolent light of Marie Kondo upon me
Flash fiction by Cole Beauchamp
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Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions*@frazzledlit.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnd just like that, issue 4 is live! We are indebted to all our contributors, our readers, and audience. Thanks to the amazing @jmcm.bsky.social for putting together another terrific and most gorgeous issue. www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
I have no idea what the response to this will be, but I have a three-part experimental / hybrid published today is FRiGG Magazine I would love for you to read. Fabulous issue, including flashes from @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross! 💙 friggmagazine.com
Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Issue 65, Winter 2025-2026 | Front Page
Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Fall/Winter 2025-26, Issue 65. Writers: Shane Allison, Ewan Downie, Kathy Fish, Adelaide Gifford, Samuel Goldsmith, Kim Magowan, Jasmine Melchor, Michael Meyer...
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"...the gray, the gray / flat windows unshined / a happenstance boy / growing, the boy the clicketten with turpentine ears / to gesture and aloud / to crowd and seem unseemly...." Extraordinary writing by the very talented @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 7mo agoI have no idea what the response to this will be, but I have a three-part experimental / hybrid published today is FRiGG Magazine I would love for you to read. Fabulous issue, including flashes from @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross! 💙 friggmagazine.com
"My routine was designed to be performed to *Highway to Hell* played on a crackly loud speaker. Across the same radio waves, I can still hear my mother praying, but she’s got the wrong idea for what I need." @amygcb.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/the-balanc...
The balance beam in purgatory is only 4 inches wide
Flash fiction by Amy Barnes
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@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Submissions are open. Send us a 6-sentence with no more than 400 words. Our response time is usually less than a week. 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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Some thoughts from the submissions queue this morning. I'm seeing a few pieces that would be sparkling but for another couple of edits. (1) Have you given the piece distance between writing and editing so you can approach it with a fresh set of eyes? (2) Have you given enough distance?
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 8mo agoAdding to my list of thoughts from reading entries, this morning I've been trying to whittle down the ones I've been clinging on to, and what I'm doing at this stage is looking for (a) memorability and (b) something new...
“I unwrap the candy bar my mom sent me for the holidays with its pictures of snow drifts on the wrapper, and think for a moment I’ve seen a glimpse of my family’s Christmas, but …” @amygcb.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/prisoner-no-...
Prisoner No 10 At The Hershey County Jail - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Khaled Ossama on Unsplash by Amy Barnes Christmas songs play on the exercise yard loud speakers because it is December, not because we’re allowed to celebrate in our chocolate prison that som...
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O, pale Moon, key to Sun, here you are! Can you see? #62 is here! New writing by 20 writers, and visual art by Andrea Damic. gonelawn.net
Classes are completely asynchronous and I offer them discounted if you don't want a writing critique at the end.
Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 9mo agoThese are not shopping deals but I am offering three upcoming writing classes and I spent a long time trying to figure out the lowest cost I could do for the amount of time I put in. First: flash fiction Then horror: forms.gle/yQ7Lo5PFzpAD... Then sci-fi: forms.gle/eNHR73KMNrQj...
Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
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